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One Piece LIVE ACTION: S01E01- Romance Dawn · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me covering one piece the
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live action Netflix series Season one, Episode one, Romance Dawn. In this
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episode, we're getting some of Loofy's origins, We're getting some of Roano's Oru's
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origins, We're getting some of Nami's origins, and very excitingly, we're getting
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our first glimpse of Buggy the Clown. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to
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the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you so much to Gabriella for
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commissioning this episode. Gabriella, I'm very very grateful to you for commissioning this
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show. I wanted to watch it so bad when it first came out,
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and I'm really grateful that I'm gonna be able to watch it and talk about
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it with everybody. And I'm really very interested to hear the opinions of UOG
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fans of this mini series and how it compares and how like, because you
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know, there are a lot of things that are done slightly differently and a
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lot of compressions of the overall story, but the spirit of it feels very
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much the same. It's just all been tightened up a lot, which is
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you know, really the main thing that one piece needs is tightening. So
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despite those changes and you know, the things that are necessary to alter for
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live action, a lot of things that are based on a particular existing,
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super popular property have like shots in them that are meant to be homages to
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specific moments, and I'm really just curious those of you who are super familiar
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either with the original episodes and like know them shot for shot, or with
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the manga, which I would guess if this was going to be paying homages
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it would be to manga panels specifically instead of like the show, the animated
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show. But also I am not entirely sure how much the animation from the
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show mimics what the manga panels have either, So you know, it's it's
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I'm just really curious for some side by side comparisons. And I'm sure that
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there are a bunch of like YouTube videos out there already doing that sort of
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like frame by frame analysis, But oh my god, I'm sorry. If
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you guys can hear that, I have Sam sitting beside me in an armchair
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during this recording, because today is his last day with me. Tomorrow,
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at two thirty I will be bringing him to his forever home, and I'm
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really glad for him and really excited, but I'm going to miss him so
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much. He's a big, sweet pie, and I just want to spend
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every second with him that I can so, and he's been really wanting a
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lot of affection today, so I decided to bring my armchair over and he's
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kind of resting his head on my desk a little bit. So I apologize
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if you hear some things, but there's a good likelihood that from today on
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I will rarely have a dog in my office again while I record, because
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I will only have Pip to take care of, and I don't think that
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he's going to want to be confined and hear that often. So anyway,
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that's what's going on. And if you hear some interruptions and weird noises,
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it's probably Sammy, so forgive me ahead of time. But anyway, all
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right, let's start this off, because you guys, I am so pleased
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with this first episode. I'm I don't recall. I assume that the way
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Netflix dropped it was the entire series at once. I could be wrong about
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that, because there are times where they'll release something one episode at a time,
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excuse me and others where they do you know, mostly they seem to
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do the like whole season drop and I have to imagine most people just binge
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this because it feels really, really bingeable. So let's start things off.
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I also want to mention, like, these episodes are about an hour long.
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This one was sixty four minutes, so it was really quite like in
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depth. It looks like a lot of the other episodes aren't as long,
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and it makes sense that they're setting the scene with a really long one.
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To me, that's a good move. So we start things off with a
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voiceover by Ian McShane. And I remember when Owen told me it was going
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to be Ian McShane doing the voiceover for this, how excited I got because
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that man is just so good. And yeah, he really brings something to
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this voiceover. It's very atmospheric, and the last line of it is you
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know that it was that it was becoming a land of pirates and he says
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it with this like growl in his voice, and it's really this man is
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really bringing it. I feel everybody seems to be giving one hundred percent,
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you know, everybody is hearts completely in it, which I really appreciate,
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because this is the sort of thing that if you don't come at it with
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the right attitude as an actor, if you feel silly about it, or
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you try and like dial it back, it's just going to seem wrong.
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The whole point of one piece is how over the top it is. You
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know, you need to be giving one hundred and ten. So I'm just
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seeing there's a comment from Florian that he left before I started. Can't be
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here today, but super excited to hear your thoughts, so I dropped this
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comment in advance. I'll try to be at the next one. I think
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they did a great job. And by the way, if you were worried
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about this, there are no spoilers for you in the live action for the
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anime. Yay. I wasn't worried. I figured if it had been commissioned,
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it was unlikely that there were spoilers to worry about. But I'm glad
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to have that confirmed. So we start off in Logtown twenty two years ago.
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And something else that I would be very interested in finding out is where
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they filmed a lot of these town shots. How many of these are straight
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up CGI? How many of them are actual towns? That have been altered
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a little bit to get rid of modern technology and whatnot, and how many
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of them are models things like that. I'm always really curious about that because
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Lowtown looks very much like a real place and it doesn't resemble in almost any
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way to me what it looked like in the show. But I really don't
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care. I want to be clear, like, that's not the sort of
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thing I'm going to be persnickety about. I am not a purist in that
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sense. So they, you know, you got to do what you've got
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to do. And I'm sure that the type of budget they were working with
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for this show did not lend itself to just like building an entire town set,
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you know. So there is this, uh, what seems to be
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sort of like a city hall, and it is That's the one that I
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think is cgi. Everything else looks real, and we have got the execution
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of gold d Roger, and y'all, this dude is eating this scenery up.
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It is a really interesting because, like when I first saw goldde Roger
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in the trailers, I was a little bit like, really because that dude
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did not to me seem to have that like lantern jaw sort of look,
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he's got a bit of a babyface, you know. And yet once I
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saw him in this scene and the swagger, I was convinced. I was
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like, okay, you know what, You've won me over again. And
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of course we're getting the execution at the top of that huge platform. It's
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all done really really close to the show, and I hadn't really put it
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together the way that this like how this worked out for the military here.
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But the point of what they were trying to do with this public execution of
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Goldie Roger, as he puts it in this scene, is they are trying
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to send a message to all pirates out there that it won't be tolerated.
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And yet the whole point of what Goldie Roger does is attempt to instigate even
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more piracy than they were performing before. So it's kind of delightful also knowing
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as we do now that spoilers for the show. By the way, those
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of you who are like, if there's anybody who has found this podcast and
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hasn't watched the One Piece animated series, I have been covering that for the
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past few years. I'm currently on episode I think four, like four forty
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something like that, So I'm gonna be referencing some spoilers from later on in
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the animated series, So if you don't want to get spoiled on that sort
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of thing, definitely wait until you've either watched up to the point that I'm
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at by now or read up on some of that stuff. But I just
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want to make it clear because I'm sure there are gonna be folks that are
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specifically searching like live action in the title and then come across my podcast and
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don't know. So those of you who haven't made it to the end and
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don't mind spoilers, gold d Roger had turned himself in, as it turns
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out, and you know, the world government attempted this parading of him to
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make it seem like they were really cracking down and you know, managing to
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have control, when in fact, this dude was dying already and was just
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like, I'm gonna go out with a bang. You know what I'm gonna
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fucking do. I'm gonna turn myself in and I'm gonna tell everybody about this
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shit I buried and they are going to go fucking bananas, and they do.
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He is correct. So this whole execution, the uh, there's somebody
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in the audience who yells pirate King, tell us where your treasure is and
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where you hit it? And it's not the person who says that line.
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But there is a guy out in the audience here in the crowd. I
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am trying to remember his name because he has those crazy sideburns. This man
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is Foign, by the way, and he looks so anime. I am
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loving this look. I cannot recall though he looks so familiar, like I
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can picture the animation in my head. I can't remember who this is,
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so if anybody wants to remind me of what character this is. But anyway,
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they ask where have you buried your treasure? And he starts laughing.
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He's got those fucking brown teeth. You want to know where my treasure is?
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And we have another like sweep of the camera over the whole crowd,
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zeroing in on some certain faces. In particular, there is a woman who
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has dark hair, dark skin, and this coppery lipstick and eye makeup and
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lots of gold jewelry, so cool. We see a very young Shanks and
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he has a much more mournful look than everybody else, which makes sense because
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you know, as it turns out, there's connection there, and he says,
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I found everything else the world has to offer. Free yourselves, take
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to the seas. My treasure is yours to find. And as he says
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this, he never says one piece. I just really want to point this
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out. It's a weird choice in light of the fact that Loofy later on
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uses the phrase one piece to describe this treasure over and over again. So
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I do think it's sort of weird that they didn't have him say it in
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his speech, because I know what it is Lufy's talking about. But I've
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got to be honest, I said this when I first started the show.
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One piece is a really, really weird term to begin with. You get
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used to it because the show goes on for so long using this term that
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you just accept it. But when you stop and think about, like the
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fact that gold Roger was supposed to have said, I left all of my
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treasure in one piece, that's a weird way to say that. So it
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feels like the show is sort of acknowledging that that's a weird thing to say
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by leaving it out of his speech. But they that's the name of the
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show, so they can't entirely leave it behind, and it is something that
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Lufy talks about enough that they decide they're not going to cut it from his
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dialogue. And I'm sort of like, look, either you keep it or
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you don't, Like I think if you have, if you've decided you're gonna
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have Lufy say it, you've got to keep it in his speech. So
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that's the only thing that I've finding really weird about the live action so far,
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is like you can't distance yourself from the thing and then like also try
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and hold on to the thing. That's not gonna work for me. I
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accept that it's just going to This is the probably only place that this is
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going to wind up being an issue, because when Lufy mentions the one piece
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later on to Kobe, Kobe knows what he's talking about. So I think
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we're all meant to accept that in the wider world, everybody refers to the
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treasure as the one piece. But I just really just I found it weird
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because I, you know, watching this speech again and I was watching the
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show the first time, thinking I swear he didn't actually say one piece,
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So Lufy's saying it and seeing it here, Yeah, exactly, he doesn't
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say it but yeah, the effect of his saying all of this, it's
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very clear how the craw is starting to react. So the man in charge
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his name, I'm forgetting just signals for the execution, and he is killed.
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But instead of everybody standing there somberly, they all just immediately begin to
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flee from the square in what's obviously a mad dash to get to their ships
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so that they can start the search. And this is when we go back
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to the narrator. His words change the world forever, A new age was
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born, the Great Pirate Era, setting off a race across the seas to
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find the Pirate King's hidden treasure. And he says the one piece, and
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I was just sort of like, okay, still sounds super weird, but
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I accept it. So that's the opening I don't feel like I quite grasped
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in then the animation when I watched that version of it, how this was
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supposed to be a suppression event for pirates and how Roger turned it completely on
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its head and used it to create a new Pirate era nightmare for the Marines.
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So I really liked this tightening up because I felt like, oh,
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I see he was really giving them the finger here, which I don't feel
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like I was quite grasping before. And I don't know if that's just me
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or there's a lot sort of when you're watching the animated series for the first
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time, it's very overwhelming. You know, there's a lot of strange character
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designs. There's turns of phrase, especially because I was watching the SUB.
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I've since switched to the dub, and I find that to be far superior
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in terms of conveying tone, especially jokes. But I was watching the sub
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to begin with, and I think that I was just struggling so much to
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like keep the overall plot together in my head and keep track of names and
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stuff that I wasn't able to let my brain relax enough to see the patterns.
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And this is solidifying some things for me in a way that I really
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appreciate. So then we go to East Blue present day, and we are
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with Loofy, who is wearing the straw hat and he is trying to shovel
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water out of this tiny, sad, little sailboat, and he is talking
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to someone about following his dream to find the one piece, and the way
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he looks at the camera, it feels like he's talking to us for just
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a second. But then it pulls back and it turns out that there is
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a seagull here, one of those like messengers seagulls listening to him, and
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I love that He's just it's one of the ones that has the the newspapers.
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I just love that gimmick, these fucking seabirds. But yeah, he
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says, so what do you say? And the bird just looks at him,
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tilts its head, and then flies away, and he says to himself,
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mutiny. And this was in the trailer, and I gotta admit that
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got a chuckle out of me in the trailer. Like I, I'm gonna
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talk about each actor individually as we go along, but we're gonna talk about
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Loufy first, and I want to look up the names of the actors.
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I'm a little afraid to do that, but I don't feel like it's you
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know, I am. How much can I really be spoiled for this?
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I'm guessing not that much. So I'm gonna IMDb the one piece live action
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and just see if I can pull that easily. And if it's too much
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of a you know, pain, I will just lay off. But I
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would like to give actual credit by name. Okay, so it looks like
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his name. Lufy's actor is in Yaki Godoy. I hope I'm saying that
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correctly. This kid is killing it what I love him. I can't get
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over the sheer sweetness that rolls off him. I feel like there is something
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about the loofy in the subs that missed for me so bad that when I
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accidentally watched with the dub and I was suddenly like, oh, I feel
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like I get Loufy a lot better now. I couldn't go back. And
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he feels like he's taking it one step further. There is a sunniness to
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him, and he's indefagotable, you know. I just completely unflagging in a
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way that doesn't feel silly or obnoxious, at least not yet. Lufy can
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be obnoxious, don't get me wrong, but is managing to seem pure and
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real, very genuine, and I just this is a difficult thing to pull
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off, and I just want to express how totally delighted I am by him
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already. We're one episode in this dude is loofy, and this is the
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sort of thing that I'm like, Good luck, kid, because if you
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decide you want to do literally anything else, You're gonna be lofy forever.
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This is like Daniel reha Cliff being Harry Potter. Like Daniel Radcliffe has gone
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on to do so many other things and act in so many other things,
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he will never shake that he was Harry Potter. That's immediately what everybody's going
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to think of every time they hear his name. And and Yaki, I
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don't think this is a bad thing because you are just killing it. Man.
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Oh canness is in the chat Yeah, hey, cannas saying he is
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so good, Yeah, he really really is. And the delivery of that
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line just saying mutiny that is that could so easily fall flat, that could
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fail so easily. And he mixed me. Even after the first time I
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actually laughed out loud when I saw the trailer, My lips still quirk.
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I still smirk a little like he still gets me because that's how good the
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delivery is on this very silly joke. And that is what he manages to
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keep doing, is just getting me to like laugh in spite myself, you
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know what I'm saying. So anyway, this is when he uh feels his
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ship beginning to genuinely sinc climbs into a barrel this is from the show,
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and winds up falling asleep in the barrel and getting picked up by a pirate
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ship that we all recognize, you guys when I tell you all how excited
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I was. So you know, there's a lot of things in this show
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that they're having to like really slow down on or do a lot more simply,
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but Alvida being in the first episode. I really wasn't sure when I
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first heard about the show if they were gonna do Alvida at all, because
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like, yes, that's how he meets Kobe, But you could have it
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be kind of anybody, and I would have understood the choice to have it
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be somebody of more overall significance. Now I say that with a full understanding
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that I haven't finished watching the animated show, so it's possible Alvida will have
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a much much bigger role to play in the animated one than she does currently.
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But she's kind of a side villain, she's not really a main player.
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But you guys know, I have such a soft spot for Alvida,
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Like she's so ridiculous. They really toned down her outfit for the show,
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and this was something I was extremely curious about because the costumes in one piece
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are banana pants, fucking bonkers and thinge the kind of shit. I could
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not see how you would have a person actually wear this and mebe able to
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take it at all seriously. And yet at the same time it was a
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big part of me that was sort of like, I don't want them to
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completely ignore what the costumes are either. And for the record, Alvida's costume
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like it's toned down. Really the overall thing that they they pull back on
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is the color scheme. The bright bright blues and pinks of her outfit are
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much more subdued. There's it's all sort of done like it's really been worn
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in the sun and in the weather and just over time has lost some of
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its luster. It's not like they're doing the make everything gray like the DC
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universe has done. I'm not trying to accuse it of that, but everything
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has a more weathered look, so to a degree, the outfit's going to
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be different because of that. But you know, Alvida in the in the
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show, she has like a navy blue with gold trim jacket. She's got
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white shorts. Like the whole thing is really really goofy looking, and in
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this they have her in a black sort of cowboy hat. She's got a
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brown leather jacket that's like this a similar style. It's I always think of
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this as like a marching band style because of the way the buttons go straight
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across. But I know that's not what it's called. It's just what I
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think of she is. The coat is like a sort of similar military look,
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but it doesn't have lapels. It's got a pretty different cut overall.
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It's just the effect is similar. And they have her in this like pink.
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It's like a pink blouse, but it also has either sleeves that come
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all the way down over her hands, or she's got gloves that are made
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out of a similar material. They leave her fingers free their fingerless gloves.
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But I really am so excited about her because she being a fat, curly
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haired girl. I mean, I have to cause player at some point,
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you know I do. It's just a fucking requirement. So someday, when
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I have actually finished the show and I can go to cons and not worry
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about spoilers and shit, I am going to be Elvida and nobody can stop
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me and I'm gonna have to decide whether I want to be show Elvida or
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well, they're both show. I guess do I want to be animation Alvida
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or live action Alvida? And part of me kind of wants to go the
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animation route because the costume is so crazy, But I'm I was really happy
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to see her, and I was really happy that she manages to carry off
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the vibe of somebody who is like, not, okay, this bitch is
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crazy. She swings across at one point while swinging a flail, and she
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looks so bad as she was truly scary, you know. And then there's
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a great moment about, like, you know, a few minutes after the
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whole taking of this other ship ends, they've loaded all kinds of stuff onto
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her ship, and one of them is the barrel that Lufy is in.
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She starts walking around talking about roanoa Zorro and the fact that he was definitely
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on their ship and she believes that they are hiding him. And one of
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these guys is not reading the fucking room. So when she says where is
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he and he's like, well, he went to six Island, She's like,
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that's definitely not true, because I'm out here, I don't know if
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you noticed, and I'm extremely dangerous and intimidating. There's nobody else he would
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chase. Why would he go to Six's That doesn't even make sense. And
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then he says something about how Zoro had a list of pirates and their bounties,
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and she said, and of course I was at the top. And
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this guy says, actually, your name wasn't on it, and I'm just
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like, kid, what why would you tell her that? Why would you
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tell her the truth? Just be like yeah, literally, what difference would
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it make if you just said, yeah, yeah, yeah, your name
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was definitely on it, just saying oh yeah, he heard a you know,
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a rumor you were on Six's Island, So that's why he went there,
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Like dude, But now he has to get his head bashed in with
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this duck flail is what would you call this just a I don't know the
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word a club? Is it just a club? Anyway? This is when
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we get our first look at Kobe, because she bashes this guy's head in
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and then she summons Kobe to clean up the blood, and he is so
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Kobe is so well cast. He's got that really anxious, nervous energy that
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Kobe has, but also you can see the sort of like desire to think
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better of the world and make it better in him. And there's something Kobe's
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face is so sweet and soft, like there's a femininity to his face.
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And I was just very struck by how familiar an actor he felt. And
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I looked into his IMDb eventually, and I could not find anything that I
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had seen him in. So the familiarity, I don't know where that's coming
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from, but they are reminding me of some other actor and I can't place
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it. Candice is saying, he's so earnest. Yes, that's the thing
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about the show in general, is how earnest it tends to be so.
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One other thing I want to touch on in terms of like the difference between
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the show here and the animation. The animation it's not like there's not blood
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in it, but there's really a sense that nobody ever actually dies, you
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know, like even people who whatever happened to them should definitely have killed them,
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even when they're on the ground with their eyes like white it out.
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Sometimes those people it jumps the scene and they're back and it's like it never
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happened. Sometimes they really are dead, you know, like there are big
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beads who I wasn't sure if we were going to go with the fact that
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they were really dead or not because of how the show is very indecisive about
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that. But then I would hear them reference that person later and be like,
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well you killed him, and I'd be like, okay, fine,
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we're gonna say he was dead then. And because of the way the live
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action works, it's so much more bloody and more obvious. And so the
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guy who's like head she bashes and this dude is dead, like you could
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see the brain matter on the deck that he's swabbing up. And later on
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when Zoro fights that guy and chops him into halves, that's pretty gruesome.
32:51
You know. It's not like over the top. I wouldn't call it.
32:53
It's not like the camera lingers on the you know, pulsing veins bleeding out
33:00
on the ground or anything. But it certainly feels like it's much much more
33:06
direct than some of the shows choices with the animation. So we go below
33:14
decks to Kobe, who is washing her her mallet keep forgetting the word I'm
33:22
looking for, and it's with this little spiked like mohawk and he's got a
33:28
toothbrush to scrub all of the brains out of the cracks. Ugh, what
33:32
a gross job. And this is when one of the barrels begins to move
33:39
and he goes and just as he gets up to the barrel, like Loofy
33:44
pops out of it and he starts screaming, and Lufy is telling him just
33:47
shit, because he's trying to figure out where he is, if there's food,
33:53
what he should do to like, you know, there's just trying to
33:57
establish the overall situation, and the whole vibe between these two is very,
34:05
very true to the show, with Kobe being kind of owed by Loofy and
34:10
Lufy being genuinely puzzled why Kobe's in this position with Alvida when he doesn't want
34:17
to be. There's just a real well then you just leave, and Kobe
34:22
says something like she would never let me leave, and you can almost hear
34:25
Lufy going let you, like, you just leave. I don't even understand
34:30
the relationship between what you're saying and what I'm saying. But obviously Kobe has
34:36
been like there have been very few options open to him and Alvida would take
34:44
it personally in a way that would be like, I'll I will find you,
34:46
just to punish you so that other people don't get the idea they can
34:50
just leave. So when Kobe mentions to him that Alvida is a pirate,
34:59
Luf He's like, oh great, I'm a pirate too, And Kobe's like,
35:04
you don't seem like a pirate because their pieces as shit, and Lufy
35:07
says, not the pirates I know, And then we get a flashback to
35:14
very young, adorable Loofy. This kid's quite good, and this is the
35:19
whole establishing of him and Shanks as friends that he wants to like emulate Shanks
35:25
so bad, and yet doesn't really fully understand what it is he's getting into.
35:32
And yet he doesn't have a lot of options open to him either.
35:36
So it's like, even if he knew what he was getting into, is
35:38
that going to change his plan? He's got exactly two options, throw himself
35:45
into piracy or stay on this god forsaken island. He doesn't have any family,
35:49
there's nobody like watching over him who would notice him gone, so there's
35:54
no motivation for him to stay here. And he's like talking about joining the
36:00
crew, but Shanks is not interested, and at one point somebody is like,
36:07
Shanks are being a little hard on him, and Shanks says, it's
36:10
better to have a kid now who's disappointed than a kid who's dead later,
36:16
which is pretty much the whole Like, that's what it comes down to.
36:22
Now, let's talk about Shanks. Shanks is the only like disappointment for me
36:31
so far. It's not that the actor isn't good, but Shanks had a
36:37
certain swagger to him that I don't feel this actor is quite bringing. And
36:45
also this fucking wig they have on him. Now, the show is littered
36:52
with bad, crazy wigs because the show, the fucking what are you supposed
36:58
to do? Anime? Is impossible most of the time, Like it has
37:01
to be a wig, so I get it, But this in particular looks
37:08
like it's just some strands that were ripped out of a wig, like a
37:14
couple of lefts that somebody sewed to the inside of the hat. It's bad.
37:20
I really really hate this look, and that look combined with this dude
37:27
just not quite packing the charisma I was hoping for. It's not a good
37:34
combination. I feel like he's just a little bit of a letdown, so
37:39
we'll see maybe he will grow on me, maybe there'll be a point which
37:44
I'm like, oh, okay, no, I see it now, But
37:47
I'll say by the end of this episode, I was just kind of like,
37:52
I guess, okay, I guess that's supposed to be Shanks like that
37:57
wig guys, I would swear I see natural hair poking out from underneath it
38:01
in the back, like it just doesn't even look like it's put on correctly.
38:05
So anyway, this is a moment where we get Loofy stabbing himself in
38:09
the face. He was aiming for his eye and missed, apparently because he's
38:15
a lunatic and I forgot about this whole thing and that he's like trying to
38:22
prove himself. So later on he's getting stitches and complaining and Shanks is like,
38:30
I thought you were supposed to be tough, and he's like, well,
38:31
yeah, I am, but you know, and he says, you're
38:36
lucky you didn't put out your eye, and he says, well, I
38:37
was aiming for it, but you know, sometimes she just doesn't work out
38:42
like you meant it to work out. So we go back to the present
38:49
and Lufy is talking about how he wants to be a pirate because that means
38:52
you're free, and Kobe is like, dude, that's not my life.
38:55
I'm told what to do every second of the day. And Lufi is genuinely
39:02
like, what you just don't let people tell you what to do. If
39:07
I listen to what people say, I would never have left to try and
39:12
find the one piece. And this is when Kobe is like, what are
39:17
is that what you're doing? Are you kidding me? No, everybody's looking
39:22
for that. You're not gonna go find it. I mean, there's like
39:25
there's simply no way. And they begin kind of like going back and forth
39:32
about dreams, and this comes up later on, but I'll address it now.
39:37
When Kobe finally admits his dream that he thinks is stupid is to become
39:44
a marine. So Loofy is like, all right, well let's make that
39:49
happen. I need a map to the Grand Line, and you want to
39:52
become a marine. So we'll just stop at a marine headquarters and I'll get
39:55
my map and you can join up, and it'll be good. We'll have
39:59
each got and what we wanted. For now we have the bit with Lufy
40:04
trying to get a a what do you call it? Life raft he's about
40:09
to take off. He picks up an oar and accidentally turns and hits something
40:15
metal and wakes up the entire ship, and Alvida thinks that Lufy is a
40:22
bounty hunter. So she's thinking here that Kobe betrayed her to him. But
40:30
once she finds out like that he wants to be king of the pirates,
40:34
she's just like, yeah, that's not going to happen. There's already a
40:38
most powerful pirate of the seas here and it's me, And of course they
40:44
all begin to chant for her. So then she brings out her huge mace
40:51
and says, oh, so weird, Kobe, I didn't hear you saying
40:55
anything, And Lufy is like, Kobe is his own man, it's fine,
41:04
he doesn't have to say it, and she says, no, no,
41:06
he's not, he's mine. And Lufy says, he said you were
41:12
mean and cruel and each of the things that he says here. Her smile
41:16
gets bigger. But then when he says and that you're as dumb as a
41:22
sea cow, that's when she loses it and she goes for Kobe, and
41:25
we get our first fight, getting to see what Lufy's power looks like.
41:31
Now, this is always going to be a really, really big question because
41:39
some of the Devil Fruit powers are completely bizarre, and I genuinely don't know
41:49
how you make them look like anything in a live action without it being like
41:54
so laughable that you could never you know what I'm saying. So Lufy's power,
42:00
I feel like, is one that's relatively easy in a lot of ways
42:07
to do. It has a very strong Roger Rabbit sort of feel to it,
42:13
and we see it the first time with him getting shot and the bullet
42:17
just like bouncing out of his chest into the other guy, and then she
42:23
slams him in the middle and he you know, bows outward and she says,
42:28
what kind of monster are you? And he says, the stretchy kind.
42:31
Long story short, She goes overboard and he looks around and says,
42:37
does anybody else have a problem with Kobe? And the place is on fire
42:44
at this point, and this is the moment that I really was like,
42:50
oh, Okay, yeah, here's Loofy. Because he's been sunshine, he's
42:54
been positivity, he's been following your dreams. But when he gets serious and
43:00
says, does anybody else have a problem with Kobe? He is genuinely intimidating,
43:07
like this is a dude. If I ran up on him on the
43:09
street, I would be like whatever, look at this string bean. He
43:15
comes at me with that kind of bass in his voice, and I'm going,
43:17
nah, I'm good, I don't want that smoke, thank you,
43:22
but no, I'll pass. Like there's just a whole energy shift when he's
43:30
getting like it's here, and also when she starts to really go after Kobe,
43:36
he stands in front of Kobe and says that's enough, and it's just
43:42
a complete like, yeah, I am not to be fucked with. I
43:46
will handle the situation. And I was like, all right, well there,
43:54
uh okay. Candace says there was something about the way he delivered that
44:01
line, the stretchy kind that absolutely killed me. I cackled. He gave
44:07
Lufy some depth and I really just love him definitely. And this is the
44:10
thing about Lufy in the anime as a character is that he is a complete
44:15
goofball. And then something we'll just like set him off because somebody went after
44:22
his friend. Somebody went after an innocent and all of a sudden smiling.
44:27
Lufy is gone, and there's just this like shadowed, gripped dude standing there,
44:34
going what did you just say? And You're like, oh, they
44:38
went after the wrong one, and I'm really glad that he's able to like
44:43
do that convincingly here. So anyway, I have to jump ahead here to
44:51
Roanoa's Oro, y'all. I really am so oh sorry, I apologize ahead
45:02
of time, but most of my coverage of this show is just going to
45:09
be me thirsting over Zoro. So just sorry, but I don't really know
45:19
what I'm supposed to do, Like, how am I not? You know
45:24
what I'm saying? I M so it says this actor's name is mken Yu
45:39
one name, no last. I can not with this guy. What's happening
45:52
here is he is at a sight that seems like it is of worship.
45:55
He's lighting a candle, and he is being approached by mister seven of the
46:02
Baroque Works. So they're bringing in the Baroque works really quick, because this
46:07
was not how early this all happened, unless I'm wrong and they were mentioned
46:12
real early, but I don't remember that. And he turns his back on
46:17
this guy and it's just like now thanks, I kind of got my own
46:21
thing going on. And when he turns this back, you really see the
46:24
shape of this man and the shoulders and the dip between his shoulders and the
46:32
way his shirt like he just turns his fully clothed back to this man,
46:42
and I was already going, oh my god, and it just got worse.
46:49
It just kept getting worse. Everything this dude does is hotter than the
46:55
thing he just did. I don't know how well I'm supposed to watch this
47:00
show. What am I? You know, Like, come on, so
47:07
we get a fucking dope ass sword fight, and forgive me, guys,
47:10
because I'm running out of time and I'm barely I'm not even halfway through,
47:15
but I'm gonna have to speed shit up this sword fight. I will say.
47:19
The fight coordinating and the editing I think is done really well. It's
47:24
not like it's not like we're at the levels of like John Wick or something.
47:30
Okay, there are certain things that I feel like have given me some
47:34
unrealistic expectations, but I think that they've done a pretty fucking impressive job with
47:42
the fight scenes here and then the one later in the navy yard and Zoro.
47:50
Really especially the fight in the bar when everything first begins to pop off,
47:55
where it just feels like he's strolling with very little need to like pay
48:04
attention to what's around him because everybody is so slow and predictable that he doesn't
48:09
have to worry. It's done excellently. There's just a very strong sense with
48:17
zoro of he simply has nothing to worry about because he is that good and
48:27
if he strolls in that shit's over already, you know. And I love
48:30
him going up against mister seven and this dude. There comes a point where
48:34
he really realizes, oh, this was a mistake, and then he gets
48:38
cut in half and his has go to different sides and it's just it's a
48:45
great, great moment. So this is when we have the flashback with Shanks
48:52
and the pirate who he gets in a fight with, and Loofy says that
48:55
he's not a man because he lets this guy walk all over him, and
49:00
that's when Shank says that he's not ready. And we cut then to Nami,
49:06
who does the thing where she pretends that she just escaped with her life
49:12
and this one chest of treasure and these two dudes, these guys are wearing
49:19
much much more one piece to me style outfits than anybody on the show so
49:25
far. They're absolutely out of pocket. The guy's wig, the black man
49:32
has a wig that's like combed parted in the center into these two lumps,
49:38
and the other dude has this weird hat on, and they're both wearing bright
49:43
colors that are like striped and patterned in ways that feel really silly. Overall
49:49
the fact that they I believe these two wind up being with Buggy later.
49:54
You can see that in their costuming here. But yeah, yeah, this
50:00
whole bit is very accurate to the anime, and I loved seeing her sail
50:07
away with their ship. Then let's go the bar scene with Zoro. Nami
50:13
is also at this bar and she is she tells one guy that he's too
50:16
tall and goes after this other dude, and it turns out this is because
50:21
she wants to steal the uniform, so she's looking for somebody who is going
50:23
to be a good fit. And we get a sequence that I just love
50:29
so much. So first we have uh, what is the name of this
50:32
the helmepo I think is his name. I just really want to give him
50:38
some props as well, So let's see if he's here in the IMDb Aiden
50:43
Scott Aiden Scott fucking amazing. I am into it. He does such a
50:52
good job with the weird mouth and laughter and the like. He's just really,
51:00
really, really great. There's a sequence later where he's naked in his
51:04
in his room, like practicing with the sword in front of the mirror,
51:07
and that was so it felt like so accurate to the type of person he
51:13
is. The whole way he carried himself. It was great. And yeah,
51:17
this fight between him and Zoro is of course when Loofy steps in and
51:24
well not steps in, it's sort of like he zeros in and sees,
51:29
oh, here's a guy who's like a really good fighter and also is standing
51:32
up for this little girl. And I just again can't handle it with Zoro,
51:42
y'all. How Mepo does not have the hair, and at first and
51:46
I was sort of like, that's weird. I mean, that's actually bad
51:52
hair. That would be pretty easy to carry off in without a wig,
51:58
you know. And then he had a later and I was like, oh,
52:00
that's a pretty good joke. Okay, I like that actually, but
52:05
yeah, this whole fight sequence, this is the sort of thing that I'm
52:08
planning to rewatch this with Owen, and I'm gonna be very much looking forward
52:15
to seeing Owen's reaction to this fight scene. It's just I mean, Zora's
52:21
like I said, strolling through it, He's practically one handed. There's no
52:25
weapon even drawn. Like It's very good. So let's jump ahead a little
52:31
bit here to the point where he meets axe hand iron Jaw. What the
52:37
fuck is his name? This guy is one of my least favorite antagonists in
52:45
the show. He just feels so one note to me in a lot of
52:49
ways. So I'm glad that he winds up sort of becoming less of a
52:53
thing. But for right now, I think this actor is doing a decent
53:00
job with what the character is, and you know what to expect from somebody
53:07
like this. And he gives Ro the option of becoming a marine and going
53:15
out into the yard for seven days, which I thought it was funny that
53:20
he assumes it's just seven days when I'm like, well, for striking a
53:23
marine, how many marines did you strike those? Orro? But that winds
53:28
up not being an issue later. So Zoro, who is constantly people are
53:32
trying to recruit him because he's such a fucking badass, is like, nah,
53:36
I have my own thing going on again, which is what he also
53:40
repeats to Loofy when he's out in the yard. He's talking tell him Epo
53:45
about how like, oh, you know, when I'm let out of here
53:46
and now I'm up, is like, dude, you're not getting out of
53:49
here. I can't believe you think my dad's letting you go. And he
53:52
seems to sort of realize, like, oh shit, maybe I should have
53:55
thought of that. And when Loofy comes in and it's just like you should
54:02
become one of my pirate crew, He's like, well I hunt you guys,
54:08
Like, no, I don't want to do that once again. I've
54:14
got my own thing going on. But what happens later is Loufy unties him
54:24
from the spot that he is being kept and then doesn't demand anything of him
54:32
in repayment. What Lufy says is, it just seems like a pretty big
54:37
waste of time for you to be here when there's something that you want out
54:43
there. What he says is, I made a promise to somebody a long
54:46
time ago that I would become the best swordsman in the world. And Lufy
54:52
is nothing but a sucker for a dream, so of course this is the
54:59
magic world to get him to help you, And you can tell that Zora's
55:02
genuinely sort of moved by the fact that Lufy's helping him just because he respects
55:07
his dream and not because he's trying to get something in return. So we
55:14
go then to Nami, who is you know, poking around wearing this uniform
55:17
trying to find the map. We have her and Lufy running into one another,
55:23
and the two of them eventually accidentally like they are walked right into axe
55:32
hand, and she manages to sweet talk him and give him just enough of
55:38
a compliment that he's flattered, but it doesn't seem totally over the top.
55:45
It's like it's a compliment but it's so subdued that it works for a guy
55:52
like this really well. And Lufy is getting extremely impressed with how she's handling
55:59
the situation. I love that, He's like, she's the best, and
56:01
then realizes, like best of the worst. I hate marines. Oh my
56:07
god. So eventually, by teaming up, they do indeed find the safe
56:15
where the map would be, but they can't get it open in time,
56:19
so Lufy has to use his wild powers to yank the uh safe out of
56:27
the floor, and what's the word I want? The like the force of
56:34
that pulls them through like the window and into the yard outside, where we
56:39
get the whole fight scene with all of these marines and Zoro is walking by
56:45
them, clearly intending to just fucking leave. But he turns around and he
56:50
sees Nami, and he sees Loofy, the dude who helped him, who's
56:54
kind of starting to get thrown around a little bit. It's clear they're holding
56:58
their own, but this might be too many people for the two of them,
57:01
and he's like, uh fine, and he just sails in there like
57:07
a goddamned force of nature and just takes all of them out. And this
57:15
whole thing is so like the posturing and everything is very very fun. We
57:22
have the mention of the Black Cat pirates here, and I'm just sort of
57:25
like there as defeated as this dude seems to think. I'm interested to see
57:30
how that's going to happen, what's gonna go on there? But yeah,
57:35
then we have the you know, one on one with I keep wanting to
57:42
call him axe Hand, but it's Morgan, right, It's ax Hand.
57:46
Morgan, I think, but yeah, they this whole thing is fun because
57:52
it's the first time you get to Cazoro using the three sword technique, and
57:55
Lucy says, so that's where it goes because he could not figure out what
58:00
the point of three swords was. And you see a moment where that third
58:05
sword does indeed seem to come in handy, which I appreciate because sometimes that
58:09
three sword technique is lost on me. You know, there are points where
58:14
I'm just sort of like that feels like it's more of a nuisance than a
58:17
help. But okay, and Loofy decks Morgan and he apparently gets knocked out.
58:27
I don't think he's dead if I'm not mistaken. And they're looking at
58:30
the safe and talking about how they're going to open it, and Zoro just
58:35
picks that shit up and begins to walk with it, and it looks like
58:39
it weighs like two hundred pounds. So they head over to the docks and
58:47
he drops it onto Nami's ship and she like, there was a big part
58:53
of me that was expecting her to be like, you guys aren't coming with
58:58
me, but for now she's like, I guess we're all in this together
59:02
and he's looking for his friend. Lufy is like, well, where's you
59:06
know? Where's my bro? I can't leave without Kobe. This is when
59:08
how Mepo shows up and he's got a gun because he got two guns.
59:15
I think it's two guns, and Lufy's pointing out his hair. Oh my
59:20
god, it's so good you guys. How Meppo tries to fire a shot
59:28
at Zoro but it's like way off and he starts talking about how if he
59:34
catches them, he's gonna get a medal, and then out of nowhere here
59:37
comes Kobe and he decks him in the face and it's a real moment of
59:45
triumph for Kobe. Good for you, Bud appreciates you. And when Lufy's
59:51
like all right, it's time for us to go, Kobe says I'm not
59:54
coming with you, and Lufy has like, oh shit, but he remembers
1:00:00
what his goal is and earlier, after seeing the way that Helmepo treated that
1:00:06
little girl, Kobe was like, this doesn't make any sense. They are
1:00:09
the Marines, they're supposed to be defending people like her. What is the
1:00:15
fucking deal? And Lufy has to be like they're good and bad people.
1:00:19
In the pirates and good and bad people in the Marines. You would be
1:00:22
one of the good ones. And Kobe says, here, I want to
1:00:27
help people who can't defend themselves. Next time we meet, we might be
1:00:30
enemies, and Lufy says, but for now we're friends. And it's really
1:00:37
sweet. I loved it. I love this so much. He just gives
1:00:42
Kobe a shove on the shoulder and it's just like, ah, right,
1:00:45
buddy, ever, like, you know, parting as friends. It's sweet.
1:00:50
I liked it. And they sail away on this little sailboat. I
1:00:55
really really like the look of the sailboat, the way that it's designed.
1:01:00
I just I don't know, there's something about it that feels really like warm
1:01:04
and cozy to me. And I sort of wish this was gonna be the
1:01:09
ship that they're on for the whole show, and it may be, like
1:01:15
I don't know how long it takes for them to meet Oosop, you know.
1:01:21
And then we get a moment here where there's a ship with like a
1:01:24
bulldog on the helm and we have got the guy who was in charge of
1:01:29
the execution of Roger. He's picking up the phone and it's Garp. You
1:01:35
guys, I had not put together that this dude was supposed to be Garp,
1:01:40
not until this very instant. That's weird. Huh okay, you know,
1:01:52
like spoilers again for the anime, Garp is Lufy's grandfather, so huh
1:02:04
okay, well this is surprising. I didn't think they were gonna loop him
1:02:09
in on things quite this early. But okay, but yeah, he hears
1:02:15
that there is a pirate in a straw hat that got a map to the
1:02:22
grand line and clearly this, you know, is very meaningful to him.
1:02:30
His face falls, he hangs up, and when he is talking to his
1:02:36
like second man in command, that guy brings up baroque works and he's like,
1:02:42
is that what this is about? And he's like, nope, it
1:02:44
is about somebody in a straw hat. And that is the end of the
1:02:50
episode. I think, is oh no, no, no, my bad.
1:02:52
The end of the episode. How could I forget? Is us getting
1:02:57
to see Buggy the clown and he is being reported to by I'm trying to
1:03:04
remember what this character's name is, but he's got the stripey hair and I
1:03:09
believe in the anime he has like a pet lion. Correct me if I'm
1:03:15
wrong, but this dude is probably like you know in the anime. He
1:03:25
has such a distinctive look that when I saw him in the bar as he
1:03:31
just like walks away to go to inform to his boss, I immediately recognized
1:03:38
who he was. And I there's just certain looks that they fucking nailed for
1:03:45
the live action, and he's really one of them. And yeah, we
1:03:52
get to see Buggy and he is so creepy. I'm very very excited.
1:03:58
I love Buggy then he is such a fun, weird character, and I
1:04:04
feel like they have really found an actor who is embracing the true bonker's nature
1:04:13
of this dude. So I'm looking forward to this a lot. Candace says,
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Garp is so hot. Yeah, I could see that. I'm really
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interested in how Sonji's going to be because I felt like in the preview I
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saw Sanji was really giving, So we'll see. I'm excited to meet the
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whole rest of the crew. And of course, you know, this season
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we don't have a Chopper, So if we're getting season two, I assume
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we have to have Chopper, and that is going to be a challenge because
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I don't know how you do Chopper. Are you going to do a puppet?
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Are you going to do CGI? Are you like gonna have somebody in
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a suit? Like? Genuinely, I don't know what I I would prefer
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they do. I feel like I would like a puppet more than I would
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like Cegi, But I can't even say that with total certainty, so we'll
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have to see. I'm over time, so I've got to wrap this up.
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But guys, I'm so excited. Thank you all for joining me.
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Thank you Gabby again for commissioning this, and until next week to lou motherfuckers,
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that was an unspoiled network podcast.