Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 117
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cypsiman2Well, the 4Kids crackdown after over two years of peaceful coexistence is rather annoying, especially since its even targeting the raw episodes, but fortunately, veoh.com is still able to provide what I need, so the rewatching of this shitty series can continue! ...Wait...In any event, the subs I'm using for this episode are the big yellow ugly kind, and whoever's doing it likes to cram all of a characters dialogue on the screen all at once, until they've finished speaking. This is pretty bad, but not as bad as this show. BA-ZING!
Anyway, we recap with Johan beating the most pathetic opponent in the history of the franchise, Giese falls into a plot hole, and PROFESSOR COBRA declares that now he will duel to provide the last of the energy for the lava lamp of PURE EVIL.
TITLE SCREEN! A DECISIVE BATTLE! JUDAI VS. PROFESSOR COBRA unless this duel decides that judai dies, i don't care.
Shot of the outside, shot of the jungle, and Kenzan and Karen are being stupid again. Considering how this whole "Electromagnetic waves interfere with reptile brains" deal never goes anywhere, all the time wasted on it is just stupid. Blah blah blah, and O'Brien is chipping away at the wall of the pit. It took him that damn long to figure that one out? And then he throws the pick at the camera that is watching him. PROFESSOR COBRA is still confident that O'Brien can't escape, and then O'Brien stumbles upon a section of floor that is dirt covered brick, so he starts chipping away at that. Time passes, he uncovers a metal plate, which is incredibly flimsy, needing only a few kicks to get rid off. This however triggers a chain reaction as the entirety of the floor gives way, revealing that it is the ceiling of the underground jungle. Some quick thinking allows O'Brien to not go splat on the ground below, though that mostly owes to Anime Physics. Elsewhere, Asuka and the others come upon the bridge where the villainous Judai dueled the tragic hero Professor Satou, and find that Judai is no longer there. Further inside, Judai tells Johan how much he admires him, dueling for his Duel Spirits, having such soft hair, such enticing lips...No, I just checked, my Yaoi Goggles are safely in my cupboard. Johan assures Judai that he must have the support of someone's heart, or something like that, and Judai remembers what Professor Satou said to him before he gutlessly killed him. And now the others have finally caught up. Woo. Blah blah blah, Judai thanks Shou for the water, and now Judai and Johan are being helped back to their feet. And now they're headed off towards PROFESSOR COBRA, following the magic Electromagnetic Waves. Meanwhile, PROFESSOR COBRA'S evil gloating is interrupted by Amon Garam! Yay! Amon divulges that Judai and the others were just distractions to keep PROFESSOR COBRA occupied, and says that PROFESSOR COBRA has "that card", doesn't he? And then the Demon Eye appears in the lava lamp of PURE EVIL, and it looks at Amon with intense interest.
PROFESSOR COBRA is all 'and if I do?', Amon says that PROFESSOR COBRA will give it to him. PROFESSOR COBRA has no intention of dueling Amon, as he obviously wants to duel the sparkliest of sparkliest, Judai. Amon however says that Judai and the others won't be making it this far, and triggers all the card bombs he'd set. This prompts the partitions to start dropping down, one at a time and not all at once like in reality. Amon says that since all the interruptions are out of the way, he'll go ahead and duel PROFESSOR COBRA...or not, seeing as they've all still got the Dis-Belts on, so he'll just beat up PROFESSOR COBRA and take his stuff. The eye appears again, PROFESSOR COBRA says there's no way he'd lose to someone like Amon, taking off his coat and shirt to reveal his HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES! Amon then takes his shirt off, revealing that his baggy clothes conceal HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES as well. Quite frankly I don't know why he didn't bring a stun-gun or the likes with him. They fight for a bit, PROFESSOR COBRA has the upper hand, and says that while he'd heard that the Garam Finance Group had a great spy, he'd no idea that it was the eldest son, Amon Garam. Oh ho, eldest son? That means that Amon has a little brother. Hmm...
EYECATCH!
Judai and company continue to run from the surprisingly accommodating partition walls, and they make it to a big empty room with an elevator in the middle. Who's door is only now closing off. But, faster than you can say "Deus Ex Machina", O'Brien comes down through the glass ceiling, and despite having no idea what's going on, immediately stops the door from coming all the way down with his hiking gear. Yeah. Blah blah blah, O'Brien behind to keep the door open so that Judai can stop PROFESSOR COBRA. Oh, by the way, Judai and Johan have fully recovered now. Blah blah blah, Judai keeps asking stupid questions and O'Brien wastes time answering them, and then physically improbable stunts are pulled. And, apropos of nothing, Judai reiterates that he can't forgive PROFESSOR COBRA. I mean, sure, there was what just happened with O'Brien, but that hardly seems like enough. Back to the fisticuffs, PROFESSOR COBRA and Amon banter a bit, Amon gets the upper hand, but then the lava lamp of PURE EVIL begins to glow, and gives PROFESSOR COBRA a demonic hand. This apparently lets PROFESSOR COBRA generate force fields, or something. The lava lamp glows again, sending Amon flying into the wall and holding him in place. PROFESSOR COBRA is all "You've no idea the power you've been searching for", Amon is aghast that this power is from 'that card', and PROFESSOR COBRA sees that Judai and the others have Deus Ex Machina'd there way through, so he'll be taking off to duel Judai and leave Amon in the hands of 'that person'. And then he puts his coat back on. I guess only Amon deserves to see those HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES or something. Back to Judai and the others, blah blah blah, and PROFESSOR COBRA rises in the central elevator. And then the spirit of a naked boy passes in front of PROFESSOR COBRA. That was pretty random. And there he is again, you'd think that if this were PROFESSOR COBRA'S son, he'd insist that he put on some goddamn clothes.
Speaking of clothes, PROFESSOR COBRA now puts on an absurd looking Duel Coat that looks like a snake. TOO SUBTLE! Blah blah blah, and back to Amon. The eye appears again, and Amon fears that he's underestimated the power of the spirit that was rumored to dwell within the card. And now a child's voice speaks to Amon's mind. As the eye gazes at him, the child tells Amon about how great power falls to those with darkness in their heart, something about puss and injured hearts, the point of which is that the eye can see Amon's darkness of the heart. And now the child voice begins to alternate with the man's voice. Weird. Also, Amon is apparently some manner of Death Seeker, at least according to the Demonic Eye. The child-voice takes noticeable pleasure in finding Amon's deeply hidden, stagnant darkness of the heart, and now a flashback. Young Amon has just arrived at the Garam household, and there is a girl there. Mr. Garam says that she will be Amon's playmate, and will look after Amon in many ways. Uh huh. Oh, and Amon is to go into literary and military arts for the Garam Finance Group. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Garam's faces are kept in shadow, which really plays to this being Amon's memory. HOLY SHIT, THE SUBS ARE TAKING UP HALF THE SCREEN! Anyhow, Amon worked hard at everything to repay Mr. Garam for taking him in, Echo with him at all times, but one day, something very unfortunate happened; the Garams had a biological son. Amon, being intelligent, realized what this meant and became very upset. He stands over the baby's crib, puts his hand out, and then asks "Ekou" the girl, why doesn't she stop him? She says that it is because she knows his pain, and that he isn't a bad person. Hearing this gives Amon pause, and then the baby wakes up and takes hold of Amon's hand. Amon walks away...wait, that's not a crib, that's a bed! What the hell is a baby doing in a bed, he could roll off and crack his soft baby skull!
Sloppiness aside, Amon walks away in tears, and it was then that Amon vowed that he would sacrifice anything for his little brother. Damn, that is quite the dark story, now isn't it? Again, I really wish we'd been watching Amon Garam all this time, instead of that twit Judai. And now the child-voice switches with the male-voice, saying that they understand Amon's darkness. Unfortunately, we now cut away to Judai and company running around like idiots, for they are stupid. They reach PROFESSOR COBRA, blah blah blah, they want him to stop what he's doing, he says it's too late for that, and now the platform they're on is rising up, until all the laws of physics and engineering are broken. Also, when the hell was this put in place? I can't imagine all this elaborateness back when it was run by a bunch of twits teaching monkeys how to duel, and there's no goddamn way Amon could have set all this up in the short time he's been around, not even with the help of Demon Eye. So yeah, if anyone wants to be able to get back down, Judai has to defeat PROFESSOR COBRA, and once again I roll my eyes at how Judai is arbitrarily elevated above all others for no good reason. Blah blah blah, Shou and Kenzan offer to substitute for Judai, but PROFESSOR COBRA says that he has no interest in trash like them, only Judai. Wait, I'm confused; Judai is the biggest piece of trash of all, so he should be wanting to duel Asuka, who is the only one who isn't trash. Oh, right, I'm using logic again. Also, no one seems to notice the demon hand. I guess they think it's just a glove. Judai accepts, blah blah blah, and Judai hopes this duel will be a fun one. Is there nothing that can overcome Judai's pathology? I don't think so. More blah blah blah, and the duel begins. Judai goes first, summons Clayman in defense, and ends his turn. PROFESSOR COBRA draws, and summons Venom Snake.
Huh, with a name like PROFESSOR COBRA, I would have figured he'd be running a puppy deck. Anyway, Venom Snake only has 1200 attack points, but once per turn it can add a Venom Counter to an opponent's monster, so it spits a snake-shaped glob of poison at Clayman, which bites down on it, infecting it. Venom Snake can't attack on the turn it activates this effect, so Professor Cobra sets two cards, and activates the Field Spell card, Venom Swamp. Noise from the peanut gallery, and PROFESSOR COBRA says that during the end phase, a Venom Counter will be placed on every monster that doesn't have "Venom" in it's name. Furthermore, for every Venom Counter on a monster, Venom Swamp will reduce that monster's attack power by 500, and if this reduces the monster's attack power to zero, it is destroyed. And since Clayman has two venom counters on it, and only 800 attack points, it goes boom. PROFESSOR COBRA proclaims that in this field all of Judai's heroes will be poisoned, laughs evilly, and end episode.
NEXT TIME! The duel continues, and we find out what PROFESSOR COBRA'S motivation is. It is pretty lame. EPISODE TITLE, THE TERROR! VENOMINOM THE POISONOUS SERPENT KING card of the week is venom swamp.
Well, the bright spot of the episode, ironically enough, was finding out more about Amon's dark backstory. Funny that.
Anyway, we recap with Johan beating the most pathetic opponent in the history of the franchise, Giese falls into a plot hole, and PROFESSOR COBRA declares that now he will duel to provide the last of the energy for the lava lamp of PURE EVIL.
TITLE SCREEN! A DECISIVE BATTLE! JUDAI VS. PROFESSOR COBRA unless this duel decides that judai dies, i don't care.
Shot of the outside, shot of the jungle, and Kenzan and Karen are being stupid again. Considering how this whole "Electromagnetic waves interfere with reptile brains" deal never goes anywhere, all the time wasted on it is just stupid. Blah blah blah, and O'Brien is chipping away at the wall of the pit. It took him that damn long to figure that one out? And then he throws the pick at the camera that is watching him. PROFESSOR COBRA is still confident that O'Brien can't escape, and then O'Brien stumbles upon a section of floor that is dirt covered brick, so he starts chipping away at that. Time passes, he uncovers a metal plate, which is incredibly flimsy, needing only a few kicks to get rid off. This however triggers a chain reaction as the entirety of the floor gives way, revealing that it is the ceiling of the underground jungle. Some quick thinking allows O'Brien to not go splat on the ground below, though that mostly owes to Anime Physics. Elsewhere, Asuka and the others come upon the bridge where the villainous Judai dueled the tragic hero Professor Satou, and find that Judai is no longer there. Further inside, Judai tells Johan how much he admires him, dueling for his Duel Spirits, having such soft hair, such enticing lips...No, I just checked, my Yaoi Goggles are safely in my cupboard. Johan assures Judai that he must have the support of someone's heart, or something like that, and Judai remembers what Professor Satou said to him before he gutlessly killed him. And now the others have finally caught up. Woo. Blah blah blah, Judai thanks Shou for the water, and now Judai and Johan are being helped back to their feet. And now they're headed off towards PROFESSOR COBRA, following the magic Electromagnetic Waves. Meanwhile, PROFESSOR COBRA'S evil gloating is interrupted by Amon Garam! Yay! Amon divulges that Judai and the others were just distractions to keep PROFESSOR COBRA occupied, and says that PROFESSOR COBRA has "that card", doesn't he? And then the Demon Eye appears in the lava lamp of PURE EVIL, and it looks at Amon with intense interest.
PROFESSOR COBRA is all 'and if I do?', Amon says that PROFESSOR COBRA will give it to him. PROFESSOR COBRA has no intention of dueling Amon, as he obviously wants to duel the sparkliest of sparkliest, Judai. Amon however says that Judai and the others won't be making it this far, and triggers all the card bombs he'd set. This prompts the partitions to start dropping down, one at a time and not all at once like in reality. Amon says that since all the interruptions are out of the way, he'll go ahead and duel PROFESSOR COBRA...or not, seeing as they've all still got the Dis-Belts on, so he'll just beat up PROFESSOR COBRA and take his stuff. The eye appears again, PROFESSOR COBRA says there's no way he'd lose to someone like Amon, taking off his coat and shirt to reveal his HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES! Amon then takes his shirt off, revealing that his baggy clothes conceal HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES as well. Quite frankly I don't know why he didn't bring a stun-gun or the likes with him. They fight for a bit, PROFESSOR COBRA has the upper hand, and says that while he'd heard that the Garam Finance Group had a great spy, he'd no idea that it was the eldest son, Amon Garam. Oh ho, eldest son? That means that Amon has a little brother. Hmm...
EYECATCH!
Judai and company continue to run from the surprisingly accommodating partition walls, and they make it to a big empty room with an elevator in the middle. Who's door is only now closing off. But, faster than you can say "Deus Ex Machina", O'Brien comes down through the glass ceiling, and despite having no idea what's going on, immediately stops the door from coming all the way down with his hiking gear. Yeah. Blah blah blah, O'Brien behind to keep the door open so that Judai can stop PROFESSOR COBRA. Oh, by the way, Judai and Johan have fully recovered now. Blah blah blah, Judai keeps asking stupid questions and O'Brien wastes time answering them, and then physically improbable stunts are pulled. And, apropos of nothing, Judai reiterates that he can't forgive PROFESSOR COBRA. I mean, sure, there was what just happened with O'Brien, but that hardly seems like enough. Back to the fisticuffs, PROFESSOR COBRA and Amon banter a bit, Amon gets the upper hand, but then the lava lamp of PURE EVIL begins to glow, and gives PROFESSOR COBRA a demonic hand. This apparently lets PROFESSOR COBRA generate force fields, or something. The lava lamp glows again, sending Amon flying into the wall and holding him in place. PROFESSOR COBRA is all "You've no idea the power you've been searching for", Amon is aghast that this power is from 'that card', and PROFESSOR COBRA sees that Judai and the others have Deus Ex Machina'd there way through, so he'll be taking off to duel Judai and leave Amon in the hands of 'that person'. And then he puts his coat back on. I guess only Amon deserves to see those HUGE PECTORAL MUSCLES or something. Back to Judai and the others, blah blah blah, and PROFESSOR COBRA rises in the central elevator. And then the spirit of a naked boy passes in front of PROFESSOR COBRA. That was pretty random. And there he is again, you'd think that if this were PROFESSOR COBRA'S son, he'd insist that he put on some goddamn clothes.
Speaking of clothes, PROFESSOR COBRA now puts on an absurd looking Duel Coat that looks like a snake. TOO SUBTLE! Blah blah blah, and back to Amon. The eye appears again, and Amon fears that he's underestimated the power of the spirit that was rumored to dwell within the card. And now a child's voice speaks to Amon's mind. As the eye gazes at him, the child tells Amon about how great power falls to those with darkness in their heart, something about puss and injured hearts, the point of which is that the eye can see Amon's darkness of the heart. And now the child voice begins to alternate with the man's voice. Weird. Also, Amon is apparently some manner of Death Seeker, at least according to the Demonic Eye. The child-voice takes noticeable pleasure in finding Amon's deeply hidden, stagnant darkness of the heart, and now a flashback. Young Amon has just arrived at the Garam household, and there is a girl there. Mr. Garam says that she will be Amon's playmate, and will look after Amon in many ways. Uh huh. Oh, and Amon is to go into literary and military arts for the Garam Finance Group. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Garam's faces are kept in shadow, which really plays to this being Amon's memory. HOLY SHIT, THE SUBS ARE TAKING UP HALF THE SCREEN! Anyhow, Amon worked hard at everything to repay Mr. Garam for taking him in, Echo with him at all times, but one day, something very unfortunate happened; the Garams had a biological son. Amon, being intelligent, realized what this meant and became very upset. He stands over the baby's crib, puts his hand out, and then asks "Ekou" the girl, why doesn't she stop him? She says that it is because she knows his pain, and that he isn't a bad person. Hearing this gives Amon pause, and then the baby wakes up and takes hold of Amon's hand. Amon walks away...wait, that's not a crib, that's a bed! What the hell is a baby doing in a bed, he could roll off and crack his soft baby skull!
Sloppiness aside, Amon walks away in tears, and it was then that Amon vowed that he would sacrifice anything for his little brother. Damn, that is quite the dark story, now isn't it? Again, I really wish we'd been watching Amon Garam all this time, instead of that twit Judai. And now the child-voice switches with the male-voice, saying that they understand Amon's darkness. Unfortunately, we now cut away to Judai and company running around like idiots, for they are stupid. They reach PROFESSOR COBRA, blah blah blah, they want him to stop what he's doing, he says it's too late for that, and now the platform they're on is rising up, until all the laws of physics and engineering are broken. Also, when the hell was this put in place? I can't imagine all this elaborateness back when it was run by a bunch of twits teaching monkeys how to duel, and there's no goddamn way Amon could have set all this up in the short time he's been around, not even with the help of Demon Eye. So yeah, if anyone wants to be able to get back down, Judai has to defeat PROFESSOR COBRA, and once again I roll my eyes at how Judai is arbitrarily elevated above all others for no good reason. Blah blah blah, Shou and Kenzan offer to substitute for Judai, but PROFESSOR COBRA says that he has no interest in trash like them, only Judai. Wait, I'm confused; Judai is the biggest piece of trash of all, so he should be wanting to duel Asuka, who is the only one who isn't trash. Oh, right, I'm using logic again. Also, no one seems to notice the demon hand. I guess they think it's just a glove. Judai accepts, blah blah blah, and Judai hopes this duel will be a fun one. Is there nothing that can overcome Judai's pathology? I don't think so. More blah blah blah, and the duel begins. Judai goes first, summons Clayman in defense, and ends his turn. PROFESSOR COBRA draws, and summons Venom Snake.
Huh, with a name like PROFESSOR COBRA, I would have figured he'd be running a puppy deck. Anyway, Venom Snake only has 1200 attack points, but once per turn it can add a Venom Counter to an opponent's monster, so it spits a snake-shaped glob of poison at Clayman, which bites down on it, infecting it. Venom Snake can't attack on the turn it activates this effect, so Professor Cobra sets two cards, and activates the Field Spell card, Venom Swamp. Noise from the peanut gallery, and PROFESSOR COBRA says that during the end phase, a Venom Counter will be placed on every monster that doesn't have "Venom" in it's name. Furthermore, for every Venom Counter on a monster, Venom Swamp will reduce that monster's attack power by 500, and if this reduces the monster's attack power to zero, it is destroyed. And since Clayman has two venom counters on it, and only 800 attack points, it goes boom. PROFESSOR COBRA proclaims that in this field all of Judai's heroes will be poisoned, laughs evilly, and end episode.
NEXT TIME! The duel continues, and we find out what PROFESSOR COBRA'S motivation is. It is pretty lame. EPISODE TITLE, THE TERROR! VENOMINOM THE POISONOUS SERPENT KING card of the week is venom swamp.
Well, the bright spot of the episode, ironically enough, was finding out more about Amon's dark backstory. Funny that.
