Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 99
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cypsiman2A recap of the ending of episode 94, with the addition of Lynd watching the duel at the very end. Because the past four episodes were just quick wrap-ups of various character's side-plots (Hell Kaiser Ryou, Misawa, and Edo Phoenix), which never meaningfully intersected with the main plot, because integrated plotlines are for good writers, and GX will have nothing to do with them.
TITLE SCREEN! JUDAI VS. THE TERROR OF THE LASER SATELLITE oh hey, yet another rip-off of akira. woo.
Seriously? This is how we're going to open the episode? With Judai, Shou, and Kenzan celebrating? Celebrating what, the fact that they're all morons? That none of them have the slightest clue what's going on? The fact that Judai is such a lazy jackass that he never even got around to rescuing Misawa so he had to do it all on his own? Seriously, if someone could just wipe that inane smile off of Judai's face, that person would become my favorite character ever. Oh hey, knocking at the door. Gosh, I wonder who it could be? What do you know, it's Lynd, and she has something very important to tell Judai. She comes in, Shou gives her a glass of OJ, and she says that if Prince Prince had friends like this, this could all have been avoided. Clearly she has not been watching the same show that I or anyone else have been watching, or else she would not have said something so astronomically stupid. Oh, and even though Judai isn't using honorifics when talking about Prince Prince, Lynd has yet to smack him upside the head for his presumptuous rudeness. And now it's retcon time! At the end of episode 96, Prince Prince volunteered to go deal with Judai and recover the Satellite Key so that they can destroy the world, but now Lynd says that she listened in on Saiou brainwashing Prince Prince and ordering him to get the Key back. In a better show this would be a case of unreliable narrator, but this is GX, so we're just supposed to accept the retcon at face value. Oh, and fifteen episodes after the fact, Judai finally has it spelled out to him what the keys are for. Criminy, you'd think that he could have made some inferences back in episode 84, between Saiou's clear determination to get ahold of the keys no matter what and Lynd's steadfast but ineffectual refusal to turn them over, but this is Judai, the child who's yet to take initiative on anything this entire season.
Blah blah blah, Judai flashes back to Mizuchi spelling everything about Saiou out to him to no effect, and even though everything's been explained to him a dozen times, Judai still needs to be led by the hand and told that he needs to duel Prince Prince. Also, Lynd says that Prince Prince is just being mind-controlled by Saiou, that he's really a good person and would never destroy the world...which is why he would constantly flaunt his ability to do exactly that at every opportunity. Because he's a good person. Well, this is the show that insists that Judai is the hero despite the overwhelming lack of any sort of heroic traits on his part, so why shouldn't it insist that Prince Prince is a good person despite all the evidence to the contrary?
Oh hey, backstory time! Chibi Prince Prince is being put to bed, and aw, see, he was a nice boy, he doesn't want his mother to catch cold. Then not-quite Chibi Lynd if he feels lonely on account of sleeping all by himself, and I raise an eyebrow. Prince Prince assures her that he's fine, too young yet to read between the lines, and says that she should get to bed too, since she must be really tired as well. But, once she's out of the room, she can hear him crying...because he doesn't have anyone in his bed with him? I...find that incredibly difficult to relate to. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that in the USA, Japan, and Europe, it is pretty much normal for kids to sleep in their own beds. Really, of all the ways to express how lonely and isolated Prince Prince apparently is, this is one of the most confounding. Back to the present, Judai says he may not be able to save the whole world, and this act of humility causes Shou and Kenzan to facefault because they are pricks, but he does swear that he'll rescue Prince Prince. Cut to Obelisk White, and just as Prince Prince steps out, Judai meets him at the front door, which still doesn't count as initiative since Judai needed everything redundantly spelled out for him. Prince Prince recognizes Lynd's handiwork, cut to the Duel Stadium, and oh hey, Asuka randomly shows up, well after she could have done anything in the Hell Kaiser Ryou plotline. Apparently they just needed her to be able to use the Duel Stadium, and no one's filled her in on the Laser Satellite that can destroy the entire world. Also, because they are assholes, Shou and Kenzan whisper to each other about how they're not going to tell Asuka what's really going on, since she has a vagina and thus does not deserve to know the truth of what's going on. I'm sure the writers didn't think that that's what they were writing, but that's what they did write, so they're stuck with it.
Blah blah blah, Judai asks why Prince Prince is so loyal to Saiou, Prince Prince says that Saiou is his only friend in the whole wide world, the only one to ever understand him. Because Lynd does not count, on account of her vagina I suppose. Judai says he's got lots of friends, which is a total load considering his complete and utter lack of respect or regard for them, blah blah blah, Saiou is looking at The Fool and The Emperor, that was pointless, and now the duel begins. Judai goes first, summons Sparkman in attack position, and sets a card to end his turn. Prince Prince goes next, he sets a card and activates Trap Booster, discarding his Satellite Cannon to activate Call of the Living Dead from his head, allowing him to special summon it from the grave. This lets him activate Inferno Reckless Summon, letting him special summon two more Satellite Cannons from his deck, and Judai doesn't get to summon anything on account of only running one Sparkman in his deck. And now Prince Prince plays his last remaining card, Charge, increasing the attack of his Satellite Cannons by 2000. He attacks, Judai takes 400 damage, Satellite Cannon's attack power drops back to zero, attacks directly for 2000 damage with the second Satellite Cannon, it drops to zero, and now Prince Prince attacks with his final Satellite Cannon, and so the moment is dragged out in an inane bit of false tension.
EYECATCH!
The smoke clears, and of course Judai is fine, for he activated Hero Spirits, which allowed him to reduced the damage from a single attack to zero when an Elemental Hero had been destroyed that turn. Blah blah blah, nakama kizuna, Satellite Canon drops to zero attack points, and during Prince Prince's end phase, each Satellite Cannon gains 1000 attack points. Judai's turn, Fusion, and wow, what a shock, he summons Flame Wingman. He attacks one Satellite Cannon for 1100 points of damage, but Satellite Cannon can only be destroyed in battle by level seven or higher monsters, so the level six Flame Wingman doesn't get to make Satellite Cannon go boom. Noise from the peanut gallery, and Judai sets a card to end his turn. Prince Prince draws and plays Union Attack; one monster gains attack power equal to all the other monsters he controls, but only that monster can attack and the battle damage it does is reduced to zero. So he attacks and destroys Flame Wingman for zero damage, Satellite Cannon drops back to zero, and during the end phase all of Prince Prince's Cannons gain 1000 attack points, which means he has two with 2000 and one with 1000. Judai...takes a deep breath for some reason, and takes his turn. How convenient, he draws Miracle Fusion, so he gets to remove Flame Wingman and Sparkman from play to summon Shining Flare Wingman, who gains 600 attack from Featherman and Burstlady in the grave for a total of 3100 attack points. Furthermore, since Shining Flare Wingman is level eight, it can blow up the Satellite Cannons no problem. It attacks, and I become seriously confused as to why the duel is still going on; I mean, he went for the 1000 attack point Satellite Cannon, so that's 2100 points of battle damage, leaving Prince Prince with only 800 life points, and since Shining Flare Wingman destroyed a monster with 1000 attack points, it should deal 1000 damage with its effect, which would win the game for Judai. I'm...honestly confused as to how Prince Prince still has life points left.
Just as Judai is talking to the imaginary furball who lives in his deck, Prince Prince starts hearing his imaginary friend Saiou in his head. No, wait, Saiou's just using the big screen TV Phone to talk to them all. Nevermind. Saiou assures Prince Prince that he's totally behind him all the way, and Prince Prince is stupid enough to believe him. Then Prince Prince activates his trap card, Debris Station; when Satellite Cannon is destroyed, he can send his other two Satellite Cannons to the grave to summon Satelite Laser Balsam from the fusion deck. When summoned in this fashion, Balsam gains 3000 attack points. Judai ends his turn, noise from the peanut gallery, and this time Saiou opts to speak directly to Prince Prince's mind, and Prince Prince really likes it when Saiou is inside him. Just saying. Prince Prince takes his turn, draws and plays Book of Moon, allowing him to switch Shining Flare Wingman to face-down defense position, and Balsam penetrates defense when it attacks, so it's going to do 900 points of damage to Judai. I'll give them that Balsam has a nice attack animation, but given the foregone nature of this duel, it's all wasted. Shining Flare Wingman is destroyed, Judai drops to 700 life points, blah blah blah, and Judai swears by his nakama, by which he means his cards and not his human friends, and for no apparent reason the spirits of Flame Wingman and Sparkman appear. Yes, Judai's activated another one episode wonder, Change of Hero - Reflector Ray. When a Fusion E-Hero is destroyed, Judai gets to inflict damage to the opponent equal to that monster's level times 300. Judai blathers on about how he trusts his monsters and they trust him in return and this is why he won, even though Prince Prince's confidence and faith in his Satellite Cannons is absolute and so he deserves to win just as much by that inane metric.
Prince Prince collapses, Saiou abandons him, and oh hey, Lynd is suddenly there. Prince Prince whines that Saiou's abandoned him and he's all alone again, Judai tells the emo kid to cheer up, he was never alone to begin with. Lynd comes down and spells out to the idiot Prince Prince that she's always been with him and will always be with him, because even though he is a whiner, one can't control who the heart falls for. Okay, they don't say it like that, but when has this show ever been subtle with the subtext? Suddenly, and without any sort of prompt, Judai starts thinking about how Edo has the other key and runs off. That...was rather awkward. Of course, neither Prince Prince nor Lynd have any time to waste on the idiot boy, and just gaze into each others eyes. So yeah, Judai's FINALLY taking some initiative, and it's only the end of episode 99. What a lazy prick. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Edo is apparently under the mistaken impression that he is an action movie star, and goes to duel Saiou. EPISODE TITLE, THE ULTIMATE ARCANA (THE WORLD) card of the week is balsam, never released.
Seriously, am I the only one who was totally weirded out about Prince Prince's problem being that he had to sleep in his own bed? Seriously? I don't think I'm conveying just how serious this is to me.
TITLE SCREEN! JUDAI VS. THE TERROR OF THE LASER SATELLITE oh hey, yet another rip-off of akira. woo.
Seriously? This is how we're going to open the episode? With Judai, Shou, and Kenzan celebrating? Celebrating what, the fact that they're all morons? That none of them have the slightest clue what's going on? The fact that Judai is such a lazy jackass that he never even got around to rescuing Misawa so he had to do it all on his own? Seriously, if someone could just wipe that inane smile off of Judai's face, that person would become my favorite character ever. Oh hey, knocking at the door. Gosh, I wonder who it could be? What do you know, it's Lynd, and she has something very important to tell Judai. She comes in, Shou gives her a glass of OJ, and she says that if Prince Prince had friends like this, this could all have been avoided. Clearly she has not been watching the same show that I or anyone else have been watching, or else she would not have said something so astronomically stupid. Oh, and even though Judai isn't using honorifics when talking about Prince Prince, Lynd has yet to smack him upside the head for his presumptuous rudeness. And now it's retcon time! At the end of episode 96, Prince Prince volunteered to go deal with Judai and recover the Satellite Key so that they can destroy the world, but now Lynd says that she listened in on Saiou brainwashing Prince Prince and ordering him to get the Key back. In a better show this would be a case of unreliable narrator, but this is GX, so we're just supposed to accept the retcon at face value. Oh, and fifteen episodes after the fact, Judai finally has it spelled out to him what the keys are for. Criminy, you'd think that he could have made some inferences back in episode 84, between Saiou's clear determination to get ahold of the keys no matter what and Lynd's steadfast but ineffectual refusal to turn them over, but this is Judai, the child who's yet to take initiative on anything this entire season.
Blah blah blah, Judai flashes back to Mizuchi spelling everything about Saiou out to him to no effect, and even though everything's been explained to him a dozen times, Judai still needs to be led by the hand and told that he needs to duel Prince Prince. Also, Lynd says that Prince Prince is just being mind-controlled by Saiou, that he's really a good person and would never destroy the world...which is why he would constantly flaunt his ability to do exactly that at every opportunity. Because he's a good person. Well, this is the show that insists that Judai is the hero despite the overwhelming lack of any sort of heroic traits on his part, so why shouldn't it insist that Prince Prince is a good person despite all the evidence to the contrary?
Oh hey, backstory time! Chibi Prince Prince is being put to bed, and aw, see, he was a nice boy, he doesn't want his mother to catch cold. Then not-quite Chibi Lynd if he feels lonely on account of sleeping all by himself, and I raise an eyebrow. Prince Prince assures her that he's fine, too young yet to read between the lines, and says that she should get to bed too, since she must be really tired as well. But, once she's out of the room, she can hear him crying...because he doesn't have anyone in his bed with him? I...find that incredibly difficult to relate to. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that in the USA, Japan, and Europe, it is pretty much normal for kids to sleep in their own beds. Really, of all the ways to express how lonely and isolated Prince Prince apparently is, this is one of the most confounding. Back to the present, Judai says he may not be able to save the whole world, and this act of humility causes Shou and Kenzan to facefault because they are pricks, but he does swear that he'll rescue Prince Prince. Cut to Obelisk White, and just as Prince Prince steps out, Judai meets him at the front door, which still doesn't count as initiative since Judai needed everything redundantly spelled out for him. Prince Prince recognizes Lynd's handiwork, cut to the Duel Stadium, and oh hey, Asuka randomly shows up, well after she could have done anything in the Hell Kaiser Ryou plotline. Apparently they just needed her to be able to use the Duel Stadium, and no one's filled her in on the Laser Satellite that can destroy the entire world. Also, because they are assholes, Shou and Kenzan whisper to each other about how they're not going to tell Asuka what's really going on, since she has a vagina and thus does not deserve to know the truth of what's going on. I'm sure the writers didn't think that that's what they were writing, but that's what they did write, so they're stuck with it.
Blah blah blah, Judai asks why Prince Prince is so loyal to Saiou, Prince Prince says that Saiou is his only friend in the whole wide world, the only one to ever understand him. Because Lynd does not count, on account of her vagina I suppose. Judai says he's got lots of friends, which is a total load considering his complete and utter lack of respect or regard for them, blah blah blah, Saiou is looking at The Fool and The Emperor, that was pointless, and now the duel begins. Judai goes first, summons Sparkman in attack position, and sets a card to end his turn. Prince Prince goes next, he sets a card and activates Trap Booster, discarding his Satellite Cannon to activate Call of the Living Dead from his head, allowing him to special summon it from the grave. This lets him activate Inferno Reckless Summon, letting him special summon two more Satellite Cannons from his deck, and Judai doesn't get to summon anything on account of only running one Sparkman in his deck. And now Prince Prince plays his last remaining card, Charge, increasing the attack of his Satellite Cannons by 2000. He attacks, Judai takes 400 damage, Satellite Cannon's attack power drops back to zero, attacks directly for 2000 damage with the second Satellite Cannon, it drops to zero, and now Prince Prince attacks with his final Satellite Cannon, and so the moment is dragged out in an inane bit of false tension.
EYECATCH!
The smoke clears, and of course Judai is fine, for he activated Hero Spirits, which allowed him to reduced the damage from a single attack to zero when an Elemental Hero had been destroyed that turn. Blah blah blah, nakama kizuna, Satellite Canon drops to zero attack points, and during Prince Prince's end phase, each Satellite Cannon gains 1000 attack points. Judai's turn, Fusion, and wow, what a shock, he summons Flame Wingman. He attacks one Satellite Cannon for 1100 points of damage, but Satellite Cannon can only be destroyed in battle by level seven or higher monsters, so the level six Flame Wingman doesn't get to make Satellite Cannon go boom. Noise from the peanut gallery, and Judai sets a card to end his turn. Prince Prince draws and plays Union Attack; one monster gains attack power equal to all the other monsters he controls, but only that monster can attack and the battle damage it does is reduced to zero. So he attacks and destroys Flame Wingman for zero damage, Satellite Cannon drops back to zero, and during the end phase all of Prince Prince's Cannons gain 1000 attack points, which means he has two with 2000 and one with 1000. Judai...takes a deep breath for some reason, and takes his turn. How convenient, he draws Miracle Fusion, so he gets to remove Flame Wingman and Sparkman from play to summon Shining Flare Wingman, who gains 600 attack from Featherman and Burstlady in the grave for a total of 3100 attack points. Furthermore, since Shining Flare Wingman is level eight, it can blow up the Satellite Cannons no problem. It attacks, and I become seriously confused as to why the duel is still going on; I mean, he went for the 1000 attack point Satellite Cannon, so that's 2100 points of battle damage, leaving Prince Prince with only 800 life points, and since Shining Flare Wingman destroyed a monster with 1000 attack points, it should deal 1000 damage with its effect, which would win the game for Judai. I'm...honestly confused as to how Prince Prince still has life points left.
Just as Judai is talking to the imaginary furball who lives in his deck, Prince Prince starts hearing his imaginary friend Saiou in his head. No, wait, Saiou's just using the big screen TV Phone to talk to them all. Nevermind. Saiou assures Prince Prince that he's totally behind him all the way, and Prince Prince is stupid enough to believe him. Then Prince Prince activates his trap card, Debris Station; when Satellite Cannon is destroyed, he can send his other two Satellite Cannons to the grave to summon Satelite Laser Balsam from the fusion deck. When summoned in this fashion, Balsam gains 3000 attack points. Judai ends his turn, noise from the peanut gallery, and this time Saiou opts to speak directly to Prince Prince's mind, and Prince Prince really likes it when Saiou is inside him. Just saying. Prince Prince takes his turn, draws and plays Book of Moon, allowing him to switch Shining Flare Wingman to face-down defense position, and Balsam penetrates defense when it attacks, so it's going to do 900 points of damage to Judai. I'll give them that Balsam has a nice attack animation, but given the foregone nature of this duel, it's all wasted. Shining Flare Wingman is destroyed, Judai drops to 700 life points, blah blah blah, and Judai swears by his nakama, by which he means his cards and not his human friends, and for no apparent reason the spirits of Flame Wingman and Sparkman appear. Yes, Judai's activated another one episode wonder, Change of Hero - Reflector Ray. When a Fusion E-Hero is destroyed, Judai gets to inflict damage to the opponent equal to that monster's level times 300. Judai blathers on about how he trusts his monsters and they trust him in return and this is why he won, even though Prince Prince's confidence and faith in his Satellite Cannons is absolute and so he deserves to win just as much by that inane metric.
Prince Prince collapses, Saiou abandons him, and oh hey, Lynd is suddenly there. Prince Prince whines that Saiou's abandoned him and he's all alone again, Judai tells the emo kid to cheer up, he was never alone to begin with. Lynd comes down and spells out to the idiot Prince Prince that she's always been with him and will always be with him, because even though he is a whiner, one can't control who the heart falls for. Okay, they don't say it like that, but when has this show ever been subtle with the subtext? Suddenly, and without any sort of prompt, Judai starts thinking about how Edo has the other key and runs off. That...was rather awkward. Of course, neither Prince Prince nor Lynd have any time to waste on the idiot boy, and just gaze into each others eyes. So yeah, Judai's FINALLY taking some initiative, and it's only the end of episode 99. What a lazy prick. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Edo is apparently under the mistaken impression that he is an action movie star, and goes to duel Saiou. EPISODE TITLE, THE ULTIMATE ARCANA (THE WORLD) card of the week is balsam, never released.
Seriously, am I the only one who was totally weirded out about Prince Prince's problem being that he had to sleep in his own bed? Seriously? I don't think I'm conveying just how serious this is to me.
