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Is the Faraway Paladin far enough away? - Anime Club · Anime Club Podcast

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Welcome to Anime club and we're pre recording this week because
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I am taking my lovely partner Molly out for some food and it
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is currently 9:00 PM the day before and we're both tired.
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Very, so very tired. We've we've both had really long
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days where we've both had to go to places and do things early in
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the morning. Yeah, I'm not.
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I'm not long in from work to be to be honest, I'm there.
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But anyway, how you doing, Phoebes?
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I'm all right tired. The dog keeps barking.
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It's fine. He normally does.
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I think he sees my face. Does it?
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I wish. I wish I could.
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Live up north. Eddie would hate being up north.
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It's too cold. He's a little desert dog.
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He wants to cook his tummy. Luckily in the year of 2026 we
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do actually have central heat up north now.
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What Next you're telling me you don't?
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Next, you're telling me you've got indoor plumbing.
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Not yet, but someday. One thing at a time, yeah.
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One can but dream. But yeah, this week it was
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sorry, last week it was my choice and I picked sorry, the
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category was monsters and I picked this far away at Paladin.
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I've never seen it. I'm getting that out there as a
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as an early excuse you've never seen.
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That How do you think about your choice, Chris?
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It's proud of yourself. We'll get into it, we'll get
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into it. But yeah, I'd saw wanted a bit
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of A twist on the the monster trope and I'd saw this for a
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while where it was a little boy. I think it's an Isaac I maybe
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it's not really explained in the first 3 episodes very much or I
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wasn't paying that much attention.
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No, it is explained in the first episode.
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Well, sort of. And his this is where I messaged
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you about the whole reincarnation thing.
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So Issachai does often have like have someone dies and then they
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wake up in another world. So they like get hit by a truck.
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In like the vending machine anime we watched, he gets hit by
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a truck by a vending machine truck.
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Deep irony, and then wakes up as a vending machine.
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His favorite thing. Life is great.
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That was. Out of me, wasn't it?
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That was great. I love that.
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And I do think there is something about in in Eastern
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religions, reincarnation is more of a thing, right.
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So I think that speaks to some of the prevalence of Issachar is
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in Japanese anime. But yeah, you see him like in an
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office and share like living his life kind of in shadow.
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Yeah. He just mentioned he was a
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disappointment to his parents and like, yeah, four people in
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the first of, sorry, five in the first 3 episodes.
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And it's like, what's he talking about?
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Who's his parents? He's like in another life.
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So in another life I have. And he's like, I have a secret,
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too. I haven't told her that.
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I remember everything from my former life.
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Yeah. I had that.
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Advantage. Yeah.
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So you see him like remembering being an office guy.
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Yeah, but we we would actually talk about this on the Discord
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because we were talking about why there's so many Issa guys.
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And I was like, well, it was really popular in the West in
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the 80s and 90s because you've got like, Jumanji Pagemaster.
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And yeah, because you threw out Pagemaster as a wild card and I
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was like, Pagemaster isn't in Issachar.
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And then I was like, no, Pagemaster is classic Issachar.
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You were 100% right, Jumanji. I would argue maybe not.
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Well it's a good debate for a non enemy.
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Because do you, do you think, do you think because Jumundi it
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kind of it's a blurring between the worlds, like some of some of
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the Jumanji world comes into the real world?
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You mean like a vendor machine has real world things that go
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into a dungeon? Can't let that.
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No, no, as in like as in the animals come out of the book
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into the real world as well as people going into into the
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Jumanji game. It's not a book, it's game.
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Maybe, but can you remember the old films and it was an old
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trope, even Language of the wardrobe, Yeah, kind of in this
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guy, even though they don't die or. 100 they actually they do
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die. That's that's the thing in the
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last. So in the, you know, as a good
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Christian child, I've read all of the books as a kid and the
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whole thing is that in in the air like so that so they go into
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to Narnia multiple times. But at the end of their story
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that you have this sense of the the reason that they get like
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evacuated to the house with the wardrobe is because it's the
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Second World War and you there's like this kind of ambiguous
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scene, but it's also not that ambiguous because he does.
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They talk about death openly. Like the whole last book is all
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about what happens to us after we die.
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And the implication is that they get caught in a bomb on when
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they're on a train. So like there is this question
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around like, because they then are like told they can't ever go
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back to their own life. I think that's it.
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After that they're like permanently in the place.
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But they also have like grow up in in the line, the witch and
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the wardrobe, which is the third book.
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They live a whole life and they they become old people together.
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And then they magically find their way back to the wardrobe
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and back to their own world where they become children
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again, but with a memory of having been kings and Queens of
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Narnia. It's fucking mental.
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Like if that happened, I know this wouldn't happen in real
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life, but if you had lived a whole life as a a normal person
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and then you went into that world as a child, it would be
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you. It would cause some sort of
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mental damage. Yeah, well, and there's this
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whole, there's a whole Superman comic about something very
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similar where Superman gets trapped in like a kind of
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fantasy world by one of the villains.
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And the whole comic deals with him like his mates trying to
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break him out of this fantasy world.
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And he's got a wife and children and a really happy life.
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So he's trapped in the happiness of and the fantasy.
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And so when they break him out, he's furious because they've
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taken away everything from him because he can still remember
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having, like, had a child and as if it was real.
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Like it's a truly horrifying concept.
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So he had experienced the dad's chair in the hospital for
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nothing. That's the hardest part.
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That is the hardest part and men, we don't talk about how bad
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men have it during labour. I know, I know I'm glad you
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recognize that FIEB because it is it is an issue, but before
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before I get consults. So we talk about the the plots
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to the faraway paladin. Do you want to do?
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That. Or.
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I don't mind. I think I've done, I've done.
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I went off on a massive tangent. You go for it.
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Yeah, no Butler. And so I'm doing this on me head
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because we're watching first 3 episodes and I don't think it
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gives you that much plot. A lot of stuff happens but none
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of it plot. This is a very little towards
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the end of what there's a there's a intro which talks
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about gods and undead kingdoms and stuff, but it basically it
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follows William or Young Will, who gets found in this land of
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the dead where there's there's no humans.
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There's just like little skellies with little bits of red
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on them, which I think is meant to be flesh, I don't know, or
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blood or magic, but it gets so little William, the baby gets
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found by three beings. One of them's called Blood, the
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skeleton. The other one's called Mary
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who's a mummy and there's another one called Augustus
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which who was a ghost and so the ghost Augustus is a quite a
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powerful and famous mage before he died Blood.
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The skeleton is an absolute beast of a bloke or was when he
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was alive. He's kind of like.
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A big old warrior. A fighter like the tank and Mary
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is the healer who is a mummy and she's got some kind of faith I
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should praise to. Like Clericy, isn't she?
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but they're all dead and
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they raise this so it's like 3 mystical entities and a baby.
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That old series and it. Basically just that.
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Yeah, 2 1/2 men. Yeah, which on paper sounds
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great. There are some weird moments.
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So the first 3 episodes go through him.
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William as a baby grown up and then he gets to like 12 year old
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and it's just kind of like you're going to become a man
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soon. Because I think 13 is the the
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transition from child to young adult in this place.
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Marked by. Oh no, let's not talk about that
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yet. So it goes from them when he's
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getting of age, they're like, oh, we're going to the skeleton.
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Blood is by I'm going to have to teach you to hunt and fend for
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yourself because they don't eat. They've been like doing
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everything for him, kind of like parents should.
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And he does view them as blood is the dad, Mary is the mom and
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Augustus, the old ghost is the granddad or grandpa.
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And so this is finding family elements to it.
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But so they basically want to teach him life skills, but in
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the runway. So Augusta starts teaching him
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magic, blood starts teaching him fighting skills and hunting and
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a bit like fitness. And Mary, she's there.
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Teaches him what it means to be a man.
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So she she's she's teaching him about the history and the
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religion of the world is what I think is her contribution.
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And actually, as much as I joke about it, she teaches him what
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it means to be a man. She's trying to teach him what
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it means to be human to the best of her ability.
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Like she's trying to make sure he doesn't grow up as like a
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magic wielding psychopath killer.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Kind of like that. Emotions and stuff.
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I didn't really get that part, but yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, if your dad's a big
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skeleton, why do you need emotions?
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But I digress. And so.
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My dad will bone your dad. Your dad's already a bone, me
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granddad. Anyway, me granddad ghost you
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going into this when you saw the title the faraway paladin and I
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said basically young child gets raised by monsters what we first
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thought. So my first thought was young
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child gets. I was more taken by your
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description than I was by the title if I'm honest.
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The faraway paladin felt weird. Paladin, I'm in faraway less no
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walk. That's just a lot of walking.
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I hate walking, famously hate going anywhere, especially the
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far away. Yeah, yeah, it was a the paladin
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who comes and gives you gives their mate a lift because she's
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lazy. I'm in.
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So I liked the idea of being raised by monsters, but I was a
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bit like, oh, not sure, but wanted to be open minded because
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I thought it's been a while since we've done like a fantasy
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anime. Yeah, yeah, probably.
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Actually Like I think it may be vending machine was the last
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one. Probably, yeah, I would agree.
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Yeah, I mean, but, and I do. So I think that like you say,
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there's not a lot happens in the first.
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You get a lot of setup I think in the first 3 episodes, which I
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found like I think I described, I described it to you earlier,
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is it feels like a rocky montage except for they've like just
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left in all the boring bits and like that.
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I feel like they could have montaged it and got an into a
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story much quicker and more effectively.
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Personally that's it just felt a bit like padded out.
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Yeah, I get that. I mean, there was moments where
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I thought, oh, something's going to happen, like where he goes
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into the like that that land before them.
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There is the the undead city and there is an underground city
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where all the the deep lower level demons who have been
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turned into skeletons or the humans who have been turned into
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skeletons or something. The go under there in the sea
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different there's a cobalt 1. There's a COBOL.
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There's also a bit where, like, his granddad's trying to kill
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him. And I was like, oh, this is
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getting good. And then it kind of just fell
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apart a little bit. Yeah, there.
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And there are a few. There are a few moments where
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you're like, oh, nearly. And I also, I did, you know
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what? Like, it's the DND player in me.
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I fucking love a fantasy pantheon of gods where every God
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has their own domain of something.
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Like when they started talking about there's the God of light
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and the God of the dead and all of that stuff, I was like,
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hello. So I like, I do think there's
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something to it, but it feels a bit, it just feels a bit fantasy
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by numbers. I think it doesn't have any of
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the grit or the conflict in it. And if you like it doesn't
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really have any of that in the first 3 episodes.
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It doesn't, but I'm so to be entirely honest, right this I
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picked the wrong enemy. Not like, not as in like a bad
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one is in like had an idea, an enemy in mind and saw clips of
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it and wanted to watch. That oh, I'd.
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Picked the wrong one. I thought this was it and but
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this kind of feels like it's a slow starter.
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I think I could get interesting. I've seen art for this which
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I'll probably put for the thumbnail where there's like a
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like AD and D party. There was a there was a dwarf by
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the looks of it or someone with an axe and in different races
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and I think it could build to something.
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It might be cobium from on my part.
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I felt I also there are elements of this that make me go, oh, is
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it going to turn into what a weird anime?
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Like is it going to turn into like suddenly he's collecting AD
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and D party and half of them are beautiful women who are in love
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with him and fight over him constantly.
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There was a touch of, there's a touch of that tone to it.
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Yeah. Well, do you want to?
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Do you want to explain that that moment where both of them?
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Why do I have to? You're the one who picked this
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out of it. But I don't want to.
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Because it's creepy if a man does.
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It's creepy. It's creepy if a woman does a
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bit. Might soften the blow in your
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accent. Oh, it's work for Prince Andrew.
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Well, until that's been fucked out and that's us, We're never
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getting knighted now. It's a good thing you're already
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a. Lord True LED.
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Actually it's up N 1. Oh, medieval sounding just like
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you're plumbing, Yeah. That wasn't I'm really dragging.
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This out because I don't really, because it made me really
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uncomfortable and I message you being like what the fuck?
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So you see him so we talk about it.
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So the whole of the first 3 episodes, and I mean, all of the
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first 3 episodes are dedicated to him becoming a man.
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Yeah, yeah. And he's the only human in this,
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like, place. And he has one woman who's
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raising him and he has his first wet dream and it's a wet dream
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about his mummy. And he even, I think says, Oh my
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God, my first wet dream about my mummy.
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And it's like, and I was like Dada and you see him like
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washing his bedclothes and stuff.
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And I was like that. No.
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Yeah, it's just a bit. It just felt a bit this is a 12
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year old kid. Like, I get that that's I get
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that that's natural and all of that stuff, but do we need to
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make it into entertainment? Like, and also it added, and
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this is where this is what this is the thing about some anime.
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And this is where, like we talk about like, why is it OK for
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Berserk and it's not OK for other things.
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And it's because in Berserk, it's integral to the plot.
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The the story is lesser if you take away those moments of like
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sexuality and sexual threat in this.
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It added nothing. We didn't need to sit like it.
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We really didn't need to see it. Yeah, Like, yeah, we didn't need
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to see a child have his first wet dream.
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Especially because like it is meant to symbolize him turn I
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think so anyway, him turning into a man or becoming like that
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age where he can start like learning for himself.
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He's on the. Cusp.
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Yeah, but why can't that the half like a like a not a
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graduation like a like a final Test at the end of episode 3?
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Why couldn't I just do that instead of having Kumi Kumi bed
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sheets? Well, that's what and but they
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also talk about it in lots of other ways.
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Like they say, Oh, you one day you're going to become a man
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like 400 times. Like we didn't need to see the
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didn't need to see the coming bed sheets.
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And I really wish you hadn't used the word coming.
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I'm not and I swear I'm not a prude, but this, you know, there
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has to be some limits to to our relationship, Chris.
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We've passed it. It happened.
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What are you going to do? So you you were saying it was
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giving you like D&D vibes with what did you think of the
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setting? Because the under you see the
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underground city, you see a little bit above ground and
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where they live in the castle place.
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I think it has. I think it has potential, but
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again, the the energy and I really don't want it.
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Like, I didn't actually hate this, right?
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And I actually even said if I had been in a mood for fantasy,
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I might have watched more of it. Like it is like the animations
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great, the settings really interesting.
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And I think the world is interesting.
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This idea of God's directly influencing mortal beings.
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Yeah, I is, is kind of cool. I kind of like that.
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And. So I do think the settings good,
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but it also felt a bit like, you know, when you're playing DND
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and you're all and we're all like, oh, we should record this.
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Like we're so interesting, but actually you, you forget that
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you are also recording like the moments where you're working out
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the maths and all of that stuff. And it felt like it just could
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have done. We're just tightening up in the
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story montage. Yeah, just, you know, we could
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have just tightened up a bit of the bit of the training, a bit
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of the like, seeing him grow up. Yeah, yeah.
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But from what you've seen, do you have a favorite character?
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Yeah, giant skeleton warrior blood.
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Blood. Yeah, I agree.
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Yeah, he's obviously the best. Also, both of us have like been
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plagued by the fact that he feels so familiar and we cannot
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work out what it is like. I.
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Yeah, I've seen him or some kind of anime character of a similar
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build. Might not be a skeleton in it's
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just on the tip, me, tongue and I.
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Can't part of me wonders is it like a One Piece or a Naruto
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character? That's the energy.
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It's definitely a Shonen Jump energy that I get from it, and
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I'm trying so hard. But yeah, it's been plaguing us.
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And but like, I went through his entire IMDb catalog just in case
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it was actually him. And another thing, because I was
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like, is there something like who is?
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Who is this character reminding me of?
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Yeah, it's, it's annoying. It's like, you know, when you
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don't know a celebrity's name and help you Google someone's
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face? But yeah I agree with you I love
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blood because I don't know why because I think he was the one
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with the most personality in this even out the main character
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Will, who was just a child. I know he's grown up but he's a
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bit, he's a bit blonde to be honest.
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In the first 3 episodes at least.
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Augustus the grumpy old wizard ghost, he was just a grumpy old
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man. Mary the mummy was just a mother
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figure. There was nothing like there
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wasn't any training with her or anything.
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It was she was just there. I know she, yeah, did stuff.
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But she's also a bit like it's I think it's ironic that they
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called her Mary because she's a bear Mary Suey.
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Like she's just like so noble and self sacrificing and shit.
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And whereas blood and the same with Augustus, like Augustus is
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very like severe classic wizard. Yeah, whereas blood is wild
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card. Yeah, wild card.
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Barbarian, of course, is going to be more interesting.
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Yeah, yeah, I get that. I get that.
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And episode 3 introduced the big buddy.
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I think you might be the big buddy or the because we've
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looked at what what's, what are they called again?
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Stagnate. She's stagnate.
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So that's a thing. It's male looks, male presenting
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in the anime, and I don't know if there's a difference between
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the manga and the anime or he or changes form or something like
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that. But anyway, they are a God, a
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God of stagnation. So they are the God of death,
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death. And what did you think of that
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as a big bad? I'm thinking because you've
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compared this to D&D, would you ever have a similar kind of big
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bad in your campaign? IA 100% would make a God the bad
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guy. I would never choose death.
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It's too obvious. Like so I can remember like for
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a while had a God who was a bad guy who was the God of storms
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Talos. Like like he's a chaotic evil
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God. One of the like the D&D pantheon
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have. I forget what they're called
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now, but they're like kind of gods of natural disasters.
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And it's like Talos humbly, the bitch queen is another one of
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them. And then there's a third one and
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they all kind of like wreak havoc through like nature.
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And, and I think so like, like gods are great because as
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protagonists, because they're so far above you, it feels like an
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impossible ask, but they have laws that they have to abide by.
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So there are ways that you can kind of load your party up ready
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to fight a God. And it's, and that's a cool
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thing to do, right, is to go fight a God.
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I do think fighting a God of death feels predictable and also
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like what? Like why not put death on the
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party side? So like if if it were me
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planning a campaign, I would make the God of death the person
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who is supporting them and trying to help them.
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Yeah, I get that. Yeah.
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Because I think death's an equalizer.
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It's, it's, it's not good or evil.
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It's a but not it's, it's benign in a way, because it's just a
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force that comes for everyone. It's the most natural thing in
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the world is to die. We start doing it from the
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moment we're born. I think I kind of did a good job
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because he didn't necessarily seem that evil.
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He was just matter of fact. He was truthful in what he was
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saying and even Will even said that.
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I don't think he's lying when he says all this stuff.
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I just think he's kind of just matter of factly, which I think
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they got nailed down good. So I'll give it Well, that's
26:01
due. But Speaking of gods, if you
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could create a God body or a big bad or a villain, what would you
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choose? Because me personally, I would
26:17
choose the God of that feeling you get when you go prepare for
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something with a card and it declines.
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Oh love that. That is like the God of
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misfortune and kind of energy. No, it's not even.
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It's not even that because it's like I've just been paid.
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What's happening? Yeah.
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The God of disfortune. Yeah, I love that idea.
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I think I would choose a God of. So I would have a God of, like,
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ill feeling. And it would be, you know, the
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feeling where you twat your elbow, but in a way that goes
26:58
right down into the nerves and it like travels through your
27:02
body. And for a moment you're like,
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this isn't a, this isn't a major injury.
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You know, it's not a major injury.
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You know, you're going to be fine in a couple of seconds.
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But for that horrible moment, you think I'm going to be sick.
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I would, I'd have a God of, of ill feeling.
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And that would be the feeling that you get when you're in the
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presence of this God. Do you know when you hurt
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yourself like that? What's your initial reaction to
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it? Because I I need to hit
27:27
something. To you it's always like
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cheerful, happy cheerful 1, isn't it?
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Yeah, I'm like. You know, my normal reaction is
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probably to make like, so there are certain noises that I make.
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There's one that's like when I fall over, I'm scared, which is
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like I can't do it. It has to come organically.
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But it is, it's pantomime Dame for sure.
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And I think that the noise that I normally make is and then I'll
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be like, and then I'll be fine. And then usually I laugh
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because, you know, hurting yourself is kind of funny when
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you're being super clumsy. Did you do that hurt laugh where
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you like? Please no one asked me if I'm OK
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because that will make it worse. Don't bring attention to it, it
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hurts more. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Just everyone act like it's normal and tell me how brave I
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am. Yeah.
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I proper, I proper stacked it. Did I tell you I stacked it?
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I like, split my lip open and everything, like cut it from the
28:39
inside, like slammed into the court.
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Like, you know, oh, you know, on the pavement where you've got
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like the lip of the pavement, the curb.
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That's the word thank you. So I like stacked it like this
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part of my face straight into the corner of the curb because I
28:56
was on my phone in the dark crossing the road.
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So like, I basically, like, dazzled myself with my phone
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screen and was being a twat, crapped it.
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And I like, rolled onto my back on the edge of the pavement.
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And for I had a moment where I was like, oh, I think I've
29:15
knocked my teeth out. And then some young man who had
29:18
been smoking in his doorway was like, oh, my God, are you OK,
29:21
ma'am? And I was like, please go away.
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Like, I just lie here. He caught, he mammed me.
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And I was like, I'm an old woman who's fallen.
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Leave me be. Don't.
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Add insult to injury. No, I think that's worse than
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fall at all. It did and it was often so I
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just like tried to like get up and walk off.
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I was in a lot of pain. I like really crapped my knees
29:53
up as well. I had proper scabs for the first
29:55
time in years. Kids get scabs all the time.
29:58
I haven't had I hadn't didn't have a good scab to pick for
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ages and I loved it. Take a fidget toy in your skin.
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But I like as I walked off, I was like just started like
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crying like a pathetic. So that's what happens when I
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when I injure myself is I usually am like, oh, an idiot.
30:20
So I, I normally injure myself, so I'm kind of used to it and
30:25
yeah, like at work. You've developed a violent
30:28
coping mechanism. Yeah, I just, I just lash out at
30:31
the world. There was an there's one time I
30:34
didn't though, and I was, I think it was gears going.
30:38
I was like 1213 or something and I'd stood on a snow shovel
30:42
because I was clearing me Grandma's like path and stuff.
30:45
Being the nice grandson I was. Are you?
30:47
Are you a cartoon Eric Tory, you Sideshow Bob?
30:50
What's going on? It did right and it knocked half
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of my tooth out and it was like an angle like that.
30:59
It's because that's fake. That's nice.
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Darker than the other ones and. Well, they didn't colour match
31:05
it. That's a bit unfair.
31:07
Probably use the smoke and stains it but Oh well.
31:13
There was a but because it was snowing in my head I thought,
31:17
well you can reattach your finger when it comes off so you
31:20
could probably do that with a tooth for some glue.
31:23
And no, obviously 12 or 13, but then.
31:29
You can reattach teeth and put them back in.
31:31
If you knock them out and they've got the root intact, you
31:34
can put them back in exactly like a finger, but you have to
31:38
get to an emergency dentist very quickly for it to happen.
31:41
And you they definitely don't use light super.
31:43
Glue. Well, try looking for a for a
31:46
tooth in a pile of snow. It's not fun.
31:50
Actually, I couldn't find it. I did go to the emergency
31:53
dentist and basically it was weird.
31:57
The the put some the melted some rubber, put that on the inside
32:01
and then capped it off with some putty in the that'll be fine.
32:04
Came off a week later. But I used to like toffee at the
32:07
time. So do you know the big bars of
32:10
toffee that are like proper taught that Yeah, yeah.
32:14
Hammers that you can take with. They're like a like a solid
32:17
block of where this original. Yeah, yeah.
32:20
But I just bite them and the tooth came off on when I bit
32:24
into it. But yeah.
32:25
It was only a matter of time, but do you know I ever remember?
32:29
Sorry, we've come completely off far away Paladins, but do you
32:32
like cinder toffee? You'd I never see a cinder
32:35
toffee anywhere, and it used to be a thing on Bonfire Night when
32:39
I was a kid. You'd get like a block of really
32:41
dark, sticky cinder toffee. They'd shove that in your mouth
32:46
while watching fireworks. And you need to go, you need to
32:49
go to more old people's shops and.
32:52
Classic. Well, I am an old lady who's
32:55
just fallen over so. Not Edinburgh Wool and Mill,
32:59
That's what I call it, Yorkshire trading.
33:02
OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:04
They have like I'm. Sure, go and pick up.
33:07
Pick up some cinder toffee and some What's that?
33:10
What Kendall mint cake? Kendall milk it, nor that.
33:15
The Strawberry. Strawberry Capri things the
33:18
little hob boiled sweets of strawberry.
33:20
That's the kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:22
Chubby Weathers Originals and we had assorted pink bonbons, that
33:27
kind of stuff, but they're in Kuya bags with no Brandon on.
33:31
You like who made this? I don't know.
33:32
It was cheap. I'll put it in a yeah like
33:36
crystal ball. Edith in her kitchen.
33:39
Yeah, with her 12 cats. Don't worry about the fluff in
33:44
it. That's fine, that's fine that
33:48
those kids for you to corpse one day, but so far away, Paladin.
33:53
Sorry if you got off track there.
33:56
Way off track. Or you do.
33:58
So I've said that I think this might be a slow burner and is
34:03
there anything you would want to happen besides less wet dreams?
34:11
I'd like it to be faster paced. I'd like there to be some
34:16
genuine threat by episode 2. I think it's OK to have like.
34:21
So here's the thing, there's a lot of world setup and world
34:24
building that happens in the first episode.
34:26
The first 3 episodes. I'm OK with that.
34:29
I think a fantasy world needs that.
34:31
I think they spoon feed. Look at Lord of the Rings.
34:34
I think they spoon feed it a bit too much in this because there
34:37
is some of the world building they could have done later by
34:41
just showing you what's going on.
34:43
Do you know what I mean? Like it was a bit like tell the
34:47
show and it should be the other way around.
34:50
So I like if they'd kind of shortened some of that
34:53
exposition and put some action in much sooner, I probably would
34:58
be like singing this show's praises because the animations
35:02
great. The the actual setting of the
35:06
world's pretty good. It's like classic fantasy.
35:09
I haven't got really got any complaints about it.
35:11
So yeah, I. Do kind of want to see what's in
35:14
the rest of the world where the other humans are.
35:18
I'm kind of interested in what they're not telling us more than
35:22
what they are telling us. But yeah, I kind of agree with
35:26
that. Would you, would you recommend
35:29
this to someone? No, no, no.
35:34
Yeah, but. And I'm not angry at you for
35:40
recommending it, I think it was an interesting watch it and it
35:43
wasn't unpleasant. It's mid.
35:46
It's a mid anime I think. I feel exactly the same way.
35:53
I don't think it's, I don't think it's bad, but I don't
35:56
think it's good. I probably won't go back.
36:01
I try. I did watch episode 4, as I was
36:03
telling you, and I was just like, done.
36:06
I'm about. I'm going to go back to watching
36:07
One Piece. Yeah.
36:12
Yeah, no, I don't. But I afterwards I was like, you
36:15
know, like tomorrow, because I've got a Friday night off.
36:18
I'm going to finish watching Cyberpunk.
36:20
I'm not going back to this. So you know, it's like, but it
36:24
was it was interesting. And I think if I was in the
36:26
right mood, this would be good background noise anime.
36:29
Like if I was like for if I was pottering around and I just
36:32
wanted some anime in the background while I did chores, I
36:36
this this would be 1 to pick. Yeah, but because it was so mid,
36:43
I'm taking away your right to choose.
36:45
Next week. We're not going to compete, but
36:49
also because it's LGBTQIA Plus History Month.
36:55
Yeah. So basically Alphabet Mafia,
37:00
which is what I like to call the LGBTQIA plus community, is.
37:10
And if we're talking about history, there is only one anime
37:14
that I can make you watch. No more classic, and I would
37:25
argue far more violent. It's not.
37:33
But like a vaporwave dream, We're going to watch Sailor
37:37
Moon. And what I've asked you to watch
37:39
is just one episode of any Sailor Moon.
37:43
I don't mind like if you want to watch one of the new versions or
37:46
if you want to watch classic Sailor Moon, that's grand.
37:49
If you want to watch 3 episodes, that'd be great because I
37:51
probably will go on a like a little Sailor Moon fantasy.
37:58
Although we are filming this on Sunday, so you know, there's
38:02
only so much time. But I've also found on YouTube
38:07
some people who have done so, some people think, but Phoebe,
38:12
why is Sailor me? Why are you doing Sailor Moon?
38:14
Sailor Moon is not a lesbian. She's in love with Tuxedo Mask.
38:17
She is. But canonically, I think it's
38:20
one of the gayest animes ever to grace our screens because there
38:25
are lesbians everywhere in it. So that's what we're watching.
38:28
And I'm going to show you the case for why Sailor Moon should
38:32
be reclassified from a shojo manga like manga anime to a
38:38
queer 1. Well, I for one, I've, I've
38:42
never really seen Sailor Moon because it didn't interest me
38:45
when I was a kid because I like put them on and Dragon Ball Z
38:49
and whatever. So I think that this is the
38:52
straightest anime in the world. So you need to change my mind.
38:57
Yeah, that's what we're doing. So it's basically I think what
39:00
next week's episode will be a competition in itself, And if at
39:05
the end I have convinced you that Sailor Moon is a queer
39:10
anime, then I think I get to pick the week after.
39:14
If you walk away from it and think, actually no, I think it's
39:17
too much of A reach, you're wrong, then you get to pick.
39:21
So what? What's gay about kissing
39:23
cousins? Well, that's part of the story
39:27
that I'm going to tell you, and we'll do it in next week's
39:31
episode. But also, it's in like from the
39:35
moment I watch it, I will be going around the flat, going
39:38
fighting Evil Bat Moonlight and doing all of the transformation
39:44
poses. It's the, it's the classic
39:47
magical girl anime. We've never watched one.
39:49
I've always been too afraid to put you through it because I
39:52
don't think it is. I do not think you are their
39:54
target audience. I'm I'm open to it and I don't
39:57
think I have ever watched one. Yeah.
40:00
So this will be a first. It will.
40:06
So, yeah. So that's what we're doing next
40:08
week. Look forward to it.
40:09
Chris becomes a magical girl. Is that what they do?
40:14
The ultimate transformation. So me so me blue tack play
40:18
fidget thing. But yeah, thanks for watching 3
40:25
episodes of Faraway Paladin. I know it wasn't great, but it
40:28
wasn't bad. It wasn't the worst.
40:31
Yeah, but till next week, yeah. Sailor Moon gay or not gay?
40:42
Oh, we're so getting cancelled.