Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 103
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cypsiman2Recap of the last time, and it still really, really, REALLY bothers me how blatantly Prince Prince is brought in as a plot device here. But now we transition to the episode proper; Edo wakes up, Judai is counting on Kenzan, and Saiou resumes his turn, explaining that the upright effect of the Lovers lets it count as two sacrifices for the summon of a high level Arcana Force monster, so he sacrifices The Lovers to summon The World. Also, The Light Barrier lets Saiou choose the upright effect, rather then cheating through fate, and then he declares his attack, destroying Shining Flare Wingman for 600 damage. Now Light Barrier's third effect is activated, restoring Saiou's life points by the original attack power of the monster he just destroyed by battle, so now Saiou has 2800 life points. And now Saiou sets a card to end his turn, and everyone realizes that Judai has to figure out a way to destroy The Light Barrier or else he'll never win.
TITLE SCREEN! JUDAI'S PINCH! THE FIELD SPELL (LIGHT BARRIER) oh please, if it's judai, it's not a pinch.
So Prince Prince runs into a room, presses a panel, and retrieves the Briefcase of Doom. Then he runs outside, and Kenzan and Lynd follow shortly thereafter. Suddenly, Kenzan stops and grips his leg in pain; Lynd asks if he hurt himself rescuing Edo, but Kenzan just goes on some tangent about how the dinosaur fossil in his leg gives him strength, which doesn't address the fact that you...why am I questioning this? Prince Prince goes deep into the woods, escaping pursuit thanks to Kenzan's Dino DNA slowing him down, and then inserts the keys, activating the satellite. But enough of that tedious drivel, let's watch some of the duel between Rei and Manjoume! Rei goes first, and summons Mystic Egg in defense. Manjoume wonders what Rei plans to do with a zero-defense monster, but Rei isn't saying, and she ends her turn. Manjoume banters a bit, and then summons Beetron-1. Then he plays Frontline Base, letting him special summon Beetron-2. Then Quick Summon to bring out Beetron-3. He attacks with all three monsters, destroying Mystic Egg and dealing 3200 points of damage to Rei. Asuka thinks that Manjoume's being a little too harsh on the girl who just got out of grade school, and Manjoume openly declares that he'll not be going easy on her, and then fuses the three Beetron monsters into Assault Cannon Beetle, and oh hey, they play that wretched track. What a shock. Manjoume says that Rei's only hanging by a thread, but Rei declares that the beloved Maiden is still strong, and the broken fragments of Mystic Egg begin to glow. Rei says something about how the beloved maiden has an unknown power, and what is born of the Mystic Egg is also unknown, and so she special summons Mystic Baby Dragon from her deck. Basically, during the end phase of a turn where Mystic Egg is destroyed, you get to special summon Mystic Baby Dragon from your hand or deck. It is a cute little dragon, but it only has 1200 attack points.
Manjoume acts like a prat and ends his turn, Rei takes hers, activating Mystic Revolution, sacrificing Mystic Baby Dragon to special summon Mystic Dragon from her deck, and Mystic Dragon has 3600 attack points! So she attacks and destroys Assault Cannon Beetle for 1200 damage, and Manjoume realizes that Rei is actually quite strong, considering that she's managed to bring out a 3600 attack power monster and she still has five cards left in her hand. Unfortunately, we shift away from the interesting duel to the boring one. Saiou laughs like a loon, and foresees Judai summoning Aqua Dolphin, but Judai insists that you can't know the future of a duel. And now I just realized; if Judai had summoned Aqua Dolphin earlier instead of Air Hummingbird, he could have used Aqua Dolphin's effect to destroy The World while it was in Saiou's hand and deal 500 damage, winning the duel right then and there. Judai, you redefine what it is to be stupid. Anyway, Judai plays R-Righteous Justice to try and destroy Light Barrier, but Saiou already knew this was coming, and activates his trap card Hierophant's Wand, preventing any of Saiou's cards from being destroyed this turn, but Judai gets to draw one card. And so Judai summons Aqua Dolphin just like Saiou foresaw, and Aqua Dolphin proceeds to whine about how the Light Barrier is weakening him. You know, none of Yuugi's monsters yapped on like this, and they were much better for it. Blah blah blah, Edo says something incredibly stupid about how the Light Barrier is proof that the future can't really be read, because it has the effect that restores life points, which shows that the Light of Destruction is afraid of the Hippyn Space Animal Friends. Which doesn't even vaguely begin to make sense, but hey, if Edo says it, it must be true!
Brief cut back to the Rei vs. Manjoume duel, Rei has just blown up Ojamas Green and Black, and cut away to Kenzan and Lynd. They finally find Prince Prince, Kenzan tackles Prince Prince, and then because he's a raging moron, proceeds to smash the briefcase console into a million pieces. Kenzan is all proud of himself for breaking it, until Lynd points out that the keys were already inserted, which means there is no longer any way to deactivate the satellite. Well Kenzan, anymore drivel about your Dino DNA now, hmm? And the satellite finally fires, shooting a laser into the ocean. And back to the Judai vs. Saiou duel! Judai ends his turn, Saiou takes his, mocks the Hippy Space Animal Friends and Judai, Light Barrier rotates, and it lands upright again. Saiou then summons The Emperor, goes for its upright effect, and attacks and destroys Air Hummingbird and Bubbleman, his life points rise to 4400.
EYECATCH!
Judai takes his turn, and sets one card to end his turn. Saiou's turn, Light Barrier is upright again, plays Cup of Ace, and has it land upright to draw two cards. Now he plays Aracantic Deathscythe; he sends Arcana Force VIII strength from his deck to his grave, and this turn when he destroys a monster by battle, that monster's attack is dealt to the opponent as damage. The Emperor destroys Aqua Dolphin, Judai's life points get knocked down to 3800 while Saiou's reach 5000. Saiou declares a direct attack with The World, but Judai activates Hero Signal to special summon Clayman in defense, Clayman is destroyed, Judai takes 800 damage while Saiou recovers 800 life points. Edo opens his noise hole, Judai whines, and Saiou proclaims that Judai can't win. He then shows everyone that the Satellite's already been activated and its only a matter of time before everything gets burned up. Judai says he won't let him, like there's anything he can do about it now, especially since Kenzan made sure that the Satellite couldn't be stopped, and Saiou declares that he'll show Judai his destiny so that he may wallow in despair before his imminent death. Suddenly, Judai finds himself in a dessert wasteland, and in that empty field of death, Duel Academia stands alone. And then Judai is attacked by a giant monster that rises up out of the sand. Back to reality, Saiou wonders how Judai liked his last hours, and now Judai is grinning. Saiou demands to know WTF, do you find your horrible death to be funny? Judai agrees it was a terrible end, but what he saw wasn't the destruction that Saiou sought, and so he decides that this means that destiny can be changed after all.
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It is truly rare to witness a fuckup of this caliber. It really, truly, is. And yet, these writers, these writers...they've managed to outdo themselves in the field of fucking things up. All season long, the writers have been emphatically stressing that Judai is special, that Judai is the golden child, that he possesses the special capacity to defy fate, which is otherwise absolute for regular humans, which horribly contradicts multiple aspects of the original Yugioh manga, but that's nothing new. But now, now? In having Judai foresee that he'll win this duel and go on to have even more horrible things happen to him, the writers manage to contradict themselves royally; now, rather then Judai's victory being an affirmation of human willpower, it is in fact a confirmation of the absolute power of fate. I mean, there's a reason why in the Isis Ishtar vs. Seto Kaiba duel that Isis's visions of the future where Seto gets blown up and dies doesn't change, and why Seto's vision is of the distant past, rather then the future. And considering how much of Saiou and Mizuchi's characterization and role in everything is a pale shadow of Malik and Isis Ishtar, for the writers to fail like this...it boggles the mind.
Anyway, Saiou is already calling bullshit on Judai's drivel, and Judai blathers on about how all his cards are miracles, which makes me think of that one Onion Article, "Miracle of Birth Happens For 83 Billionth Time". Seriously, Judai? There's nothing miraculous about your card draws, you're just writer's golden child. Seriously, the sooner Judai shuts up about fun and miracles and interesting things, the better. Judai takes his turn, plays Pot of Greed, plays O Oversoul to summon back Sparkman, and then activates H-Heated Heart to give Sparkman an additional 500 attack points this turn, so he attacks and destroys The Emperor for 200 damage, and somehow Judai gets to take advantage of Light Barrier's effect to recover 1400 life points, and then Judai sets a card to end his turn. Blah blah blah, unmei unmei unmei, Saiou takes his turn, and Light Barrier quite arbitrarily stops in reverse, ending its effect for this turn. Which, you know...why the hell that sort of thing couldn't have happened during Edo's duel, I don't know. Oh, right, because Edo isn't as sparkly as Judai. Blah blah blah, Saiou's starting to get nervous, and Judai's still the most annoying prick to ever live. Seriously, wipe that smug smirk off your face this instant, you goddamn prick. Calm down, calm down, no need to swear so much...never fucking mind, Judai's going on about duels being fun, so fuck him. Honestly, the laser satellite is still firing you raging dumbass; less 'gawrsh, dueling sure is fun', more 'I can't forgive you'. Edo wonders WTF is wrong with Judai, Shou still believes Judai will win, and Saiou tells Judai to shut the hell up. Saiou attacks Sparkman with The World, blowing it up for 1500 damage, and Judai activates his trap card, Hero Counterattack; when an Elemental Hero is destroyed by battle, the opponent picks a random card from your hand, and if that card is an Elemental Hero, you get to special summon it and destroy one monster on the field. Judai has only one card in his hand, and shock of shocks, it's Neos. So Judai destroys The World and summons Neos.
Neos starts talking without a mouth again, telling Judai to win the duel so that Neos can go off to stop the satellite, and one seriously wonders why Neos didn't go do that first, before Saiou even got hold of the keys. Oh, right, because that would make sense. Blah blah blah, you can't stop me, yes I can, and even though Saiou has like three cards in his hand, he doesn't play any of them, and Judai takes his turn, summoning Glow Moss. Contact Fusion, Glow Neos uses its effect to destroy Light Barrier, he attacks directly, and...that's the end of the episode.
NEXT TIME! The duel continues to drag on, and the stupidest event in an entire season of stupid takes place. EPISODE TITLE, WHERE IS VICTORY? JUDAI VS. SAIOU card of the week is hero counterattack.
Once again, you need to be a special kind of stupid to so horribly screw up what is allegedly the main theme of the season. These writers, are just that kind of stupid.
TITLE SCREEN! JUDAI'S PINCH! THE FIELD SPELL (LIGHT BARRIER) oh please, if it's judai, it's not a pinch.
So Prince Prince runs into a room, presses a panel, and retrieves the Briefcase of Doom. Then he runs outside, and Kenzan and Lynd follow shortly thereafter. Suddenly, Kenzan stops and grips his leg in pain; Lynd asks if he hurt himself rescuing Edo, but Kenzan just goes on some tangent about how the dinosaur fossil in his leg gives him strength, which doesn't address the fact that you...why am I questioning this? Prince Prince goes deep into the woods, escaping pursuit thanks to Kenzan's Dino DNA slowing him down, and then inserts the keys, activating the satellite. But enough of that tedious drivel, let's watch some of the duel between Rei and Manjoume! Rei goes first, and summons Mystic Egg in defense. Manjoume wonders what Rei plans to do with a zero-defense monster, but Rei isn't saying, and she ends her turn. Manjoume banters a bit, and then summons Beetron-1. Then he plays Frontline Base, letting him special summon Beetron-2. Then Quick Summon to bring out Beetron-3. He attacks with all three monsters, destroying Mystic Egg and dealing 3200 points of damage to Rei. Asuka thinks that Manjoume's being a little too harsh on the girl who just got out of grade school, and Manjoume openly declares that he'll not be going easy on her, and then fuses the three Beetron monsters into Assault Cannon Beetle, and oh hey, they play that wretched track. What a shock. Manjoume says that Rei's only hanging by a thread, but Rei declares that the beloved Maiden is still strong, and the broken fragments of Mystic Egg begin to glow. Rei says something about how the beloved maiden has an unknown power, and what is born of the Mystic Egg is also unknown, and so she special summons Mystic Baby Dragon from her deck. Basically, during the end phase of a turn where Mystic Egg is destroyed, you get to special summon Mystic Baby Dragon from your hand or deck. It is a cute little dragon, but it only has 1200 attack points.
Manjoume acts like a prat and ends his turn, Rei takes hers, activating Mystic Revolution, sacrificing Mystic Baby Dragon to special summon Mystic Dragon from her deck, and Mystic Dragon has 3600 attack points! So she attacks and destroys Assault Cannon Beetle for 1200 damage, and Manjoume realizes that Rei is actually quite strong, considering that she's managed to bring out a 3600 attack power monster and she still has five cards left in her hand. Unfortunately, we shift away from the interesting duel to the boring one. Saiou laughs like a loon, and foresees Judai summoning Aqua Dolphin, but Judai insists that you can't know the future of a duel. And now I just realized; if Judai had summoned Aqua Dolphin earlier instead of Air Hummingbird, he could have used Aqua Dolphin's effect to destroy The World while it was in Saiou's hand and deal 500 damage, winning the duel right then and there. Judai, you redefine what it is to be stupid. Anyway, Judai plays R-Righteous Justice to try and destroy Light Barrier, but Saiou already knew this was coming, and activates his trap card Hierophant's Wand, preventing any of Saiou's cards from being destroyed this turn, but Judai gets to draw one card. And so Judai summons Aqua Dolphin just like Saiou foresaw, and Aqua Dolphin proceeds to whine about how the Light Barrier is weakening him. You know, none of Yuugi's monsters yapped on like this, and they were much better for it. Blah blah blah, Edo says something incredibly stupid about how the Light Barrier is proof that the future can't really be read, because it has the effect that restores life points, which shows that the Light of Destruction is afraid of the Hippyn Space Animal Friends. Which doesn't even vaguely begin to make sense, but hey, if Edo says it, it must be true!
Brief cut back to the Rei vs. Manjoume duel, Rei has just blown up Ojamas Green and Black, and cut away to Kenzan and Lynd. They finally find Prince Prince, Kenzan tackles Prince Prince, and then because he's a raging moron, proceeds to smash the briefcase console into a million pieces. Kenzan is all proud of himself for breaking it, until Lynd points out that the keys were already inserted, which means there is no longer any way to deactivate the satellite. Well Kenzan, anymore drivel about your Dino DNA now, hmm? And the satellite finally fires, shooting a laser into the ocean. And back to the Judai vs. Saiou duel! Judai ends his turn, Saiou takes his, mocks the Hippy Space Animal Friends and Judai, Light Barrier rotates, and it lands upright again. Saiou then summons The Emperor, goes for its upright effect, and attacks and destroys Air Hummingbird and Bubbleman, his life points rise to 4400.
EYECATCH!
Judai takes his turn, and sets one card to end his turn. Saiou's turn, Light Barrier is upright again, plays Cup of Ace, and has it land upright to draw two cards. Now he plays Aracantic Deathscythe; he sends Arcana Force VIII strength from his deck to his grave, and this turn when he destroys a monster by battle, that monster's attack is dealt to the opponent as damage. The Emperor destroys Aqua Dolphin, Judai's life points get knocked down to 3800 while Saiou's reach 5000. Saiou declares a direct attack with The World, but Judai activates Hero Signal to special summon Clayman in defense, Clayman is destroyed, Judai takes 800 damage while Saiou recovers 800 life points. Edo opens his noise hole, Judai whines, and Saiou proclaims that Judai can't win. He then shows everyone that the Satellite's already been activated and its only a matter of time before everything gets burned up. Judai says he won't let him, like there's anything he can do about it now, especially since Kenzan made sure that the Satellite couldn't be stopped, and Saiou declares that he'll show Judai his destiny so that he may wallow in despair before his imminent death. Suddenly, Judai finds himself in a dessert wasteland, and in that empty field of death, Duel Academia stands alone. And then Judai is attacked by a giant monster that rises up out of the sand. Back to reality, Saiou wonders how Judai liked his last hours, and now Judai is grinning. Saiou demands to know WTF, do you find your horrible death to be funny? Judai agrees it was a terrible end, but what he saw wasn't the destruction that Saiou sought, and so he decides that this means that destiny can be changed after all.
...
...
...
It is truly rare to witness a fuckup of this caliber. It really, truly, is. And yet, these writers, these writers...they've managed to outdo themselves in the field of fucking things up. All season long, the writers have been emphatically stressing that Judai is special, that Judai is the golden child, that he possesses the special capacity to defy fate, which is otherwise absolute for regular humans, which horribly contradicts multiple aspects of the original Yugioh manga, but that's nothing new. But now, now? In having Judai foresee that he'll win this duel and go on to have even more horrible things happen to him, the writers manage to contradict themselves royally; now, rather then Judai's victory being an affirmation of human willpower, it is in fact a confirmation of the absolute power of fate. I mean, there's a reason why in the Isis Ishtar vs. Seto Kaiba duel that Isis's visions of the future where Seto gets blown up and dies doesn't change, and why Seto's vision is of the distant past, rather then the future. And considering how much of Saiou and Mizuchi's characterization and role in everything is a pale shadow of Malik and Isis Ishtar, for the writers to fail like this...it boggles the mind.
Anyway, Saiou is already calling bullshit on Judai's drivel, and Judai blathers on about how all his cards are miracles, which makes me think of that one Onion Article, "Miracle of Birth Happens For 83 Billionth Time". Seriously, Judai? There's nothing miraculous about your card draws, you're just writer's golden child. Seriously, the sooner Judai shuts up about fun and miracles and interesting things, the better. Judai takes his turn, plays Pot of Greed, plays O Oversoul to summon back Sparkman, and then activates H-Heated Heart to give Sparkman an additional 500 attack points this turn, so he attacks and destroys The Emperor for 200 damage, and somehow Judai gets to take advantage of Light Barrier's effect to recover 1400 life points, and then Judai sets a card to end his turn. Blah blah blah, unmei unmei unmei, Saiou takes his turn, and Light Barrier quite arbitrarily stops in reverse, ending its effect for this turn. Which, you know...why the hell that sort of thing couldn't have happened during Edo's duel, I don't know. Oh, right, because Edo isn't as sparkly as Judai. Blah blah blah, Saiou's starting to get nervous, and Judai's still the most annoying prick to ever live. Seriously, wipe that smug smirk off your face this instant, you goddamn prick. Calm down, calm down, no need to swear so much...never fucking mind, Judai's going on about duels being fun, so fuck him. Honestly, the laser satellite is still firing you raging dumbass; less 'gawrsh, dueling sure is fun', more 'I can't forgive you'. Edo wonders WTF is wrong with Judai, Shou still believes Judai will win, and Saiou tells Judai to shut the hell up. Saiou attacks Sparkman with The World, blowing it up for 1500 damage, and Judai activates his trap card, Hero Counterattack; when an Elemental Hero is destroyed by battle, the opponent picks a random card from your hand, and if that card is an Elemental Hero, you get to special summon it and destroy one monster on the field. Judai has only one card in his hand, and shock of shocks, it's Neos. So Judai destroys The World and summons Neos.
Neos starts talking without a mouth again, telling Judai to win the duel so that Neos can go off to stop the satellite, and one seriously wonders why Neos didn't go do that first, before Saiou even got hold of the keys. Oh, right, because that would make sense. Blah blah blah, you can't stop me, yes I can, and even though Saiou has like three cards in his hand, he doesn't play any of them, and Judai takes his turn, summoning Glow Moss. Contact Fusion, Glow Neos uses its effect to destroy Light Barrier, he attacks directly, and...that's the end of the episode.
NEXT TIME! The duel continues to drag on, and the stupidest event in an entire season of stupid takes place. EPISODE TITLE, WHERE IS VICTORY? JUDAI VS. SAIOU card of the week is hero counterattack.
Once again, you need to be a special kind of stupid to so horribly screw up what is allegedly the main theme of the season. These writers, are just that kind of stupid.
