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Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 127
So, over in what we can only charitably refer to as the "real world", we get a recap of the inane, nonsensical, inexplicable story about Julius Ceaser wanting a bunch of gemstones to show off how awesome he was, and still no good reason is provided for why Rainbow Dragon would have the power to get everyone back to their home dimension. So, despite being comprised entirely of new animation, this segment was a complete waste of time.
TITLE SCREEN! THE ONE WHO RELEASES THE SEAL, MARTIN the one who condemns this show, cypsiman2
Wait...did they really just fly from an island in the South Pacific, to Italy, in less then a day...in helicopters? Also, why exactly were these ruins so damn hard to find? PLOT HOLE! Half buried lithograph, and Pegasus spots Echo hiding around a corner. This is even more confounding, how the hell did Echo get there without them noticing? The only way she could have gotten there is if they took her with them, and that's plainly not what happened. Blah blah blah, inane attempt at corporate intrigue fails to intrigue, and Echo threatens to blow everything up. Yes, because not only did she somehow get here ahead of them, she managed to do so with sufficient time to set up all kinds of bombs. And now over in the other dimension, the one that's still stupid but in different ways, the confrontation between Amon Garam and Demon Martin. Blah blah blah, Amon wants to know what Demon Martin intends to do with the Legendary Demon cards, Demon Martin says he'll duel Amon for them, blah blah blah, and the duel begins. Demon Martin goes first and summons Mad Reloader in defense, with zero defense power, and sets one card to end his turn. And now we cut away to watch Judai run around like an idiot, the Duel Zombies following very slowly behind him. And somehow Zombie Shou got ahead of him. Okay, how the hell are all these people getting around like this? Is the Starship Enterprise just floating in orbit, transporting people to where they need to be so that this pathetic excuse for a plot can go the way the writers want it to? And now Shou is hugging Judai, and it's really creepy. Also, the rest of the zombies have caught up, for all the difference that makes.
And now we cut over to the school proper, where everyone else is running to the arbitrarily designated Tennis Court, because there was a quota on running that the writers had to fulfill. Johan can't stop going on about how great it'll be once he's got his precious Rainbow Dragon, and Misawa needlessly reminds everyone of their objectives. The group encounters a couple of Duel Zombies, and rather then just trampling over them, a couple of O'Brien's grunts go to duel them. Two more drop from the ceiling, two more poorly drawn grunts are sacrificed, blah blah blah, and now there's a whole swarm up ahead. You know, a consistent figuring of how many students there are in total wouldn't go amiss. Very long, drawn out blah blah blah as Professor Chronos makes what I can only imagine is supposed to be a heroic last stand, and the Duel Zombies are very polite and willing to just stand around as all this supposedly noble speechifying is going on. It fails to be dramatically effecting for the exact same reason that this entire tedious trek into the Duel Monsters World has failed; the Duel Zombies are not threatening. And now to the excavation site, where one of Pegasus's goons tries to sneak up on Echo in plain sight, and fails, even though he's wearing dark colors. Maybe if he'd been wearing bright orange...anyway, Echo threatens to blow up the lithograph, Pegasus says it's the only way Amon can get back, and Echo responds that even if Amon comes back, there's no way for him to become King in this world. Pegasus is confused, as am I.
And now back to the duel between Amon and Demon Martin. Amon takes his turn and plays Summon Cloud, allowing him to special summon Sheep Cloud from his hand. Then he plays Destruction Cloud to destroy it and take damage equal to its attack power. Sheep Cloud has zero attack, so he takes no damage, and now it's effect is activated, letting Amon special summon two Sheep Cloud Tokens. He then sacrifices both tokens to summon Eye of the Typhoon, the card he used to defeat Manjoume. He attacks, switches Mad Reloader to attack, and it has zero attack points, so it is destroyed for 3000 points of damage. This however triggers Mad Reloader's effect, letting Demon Martin discard two cards to draw two new ones. Amon's end phase, and Eye of the Typhoon loses 500 attack points, which is not part of it's real world effect. I've no idea why the anime bothered with that nerf. Oh, and Amon sets a card to end his turn. Demon Martin then goes on about how Amon's dueling is a perfect reflection of how he sacrifices everything for his little brother who took everything from him just by being born, and a recap of how Amon wanted to kill his baby brother, but Echo stopped him just by believing in him and understanding him. Skip ahead to when Amon's baby brother is no longer a baby, and apparently his name is Shido. He and Amon mess around with tennis rackets, and back to the present, where Demon Martin says something about how Amon's will is his god, and like Amon, I don't understand what the hell that's supposed to mean. Is it...that Amon is full of himself? That he worships himself? That he thinks he's better than everyone else? The problem is that while he is better than just about everyone on the show, he's most decidedly not the sort to aggrandize himself like that. Hell, that was the whole point of his duel against Manjoume, that he's been humbled by what he's been through and knows that he's not all that special. Fuck, he even uses "Boku" instead of "Ore"! Yes, Demon Martin, laugh at your own inane drivel, pretend like you have a clue when you don't. That'll impress ANYONE!
EYECATCH!
Now back to the Excavation Site, where Echo shares Amon's life story with a bunch of strangers she does not know nor trust. CLUMSY EXPOSITION IS CLUMSY! Anyway, Echo goes on about how Amon has had to subordinate all of his own desires to better serve Garam Finance in general and Shido in particular, and that while she admires this selflessness in Amon, she believes that he deserves, that he's a person of such singular willpower, that he is the one who can unite the world and become its king! Pegasus, who never ran a tournament called Duelist Kingdom with the intent to obtain exclusive control over Solid Vision technology so that he could forever stare at a perfect holographic recreation of his lost love, asks if Echo doesn't think she's going a bit far with all this. She disagrees, saying that she's born the pain of Amon's one moment of hatred for Shido, and that so long as Shido and Amon are in the same world, Amon can't become the person that she knows he can be. Everyone is given pause, and Echo continues, saying that not long ago, Shido fell deathly ill, and Amon was determined to do whatever it took to save Shido's life, even though he could have easily stood aside and done nothing, and no one would have thought anything of it. Thus, Amon crushed all his hopes and dreams with his own hands. Also, for some reason Amon's methods involve going to see a Chinese Medicine Man. And with that, we've achieved a good crack against stupid inferior western medicine.
And now back to the duel. Demon Martin sets a card, and ends his turn. Then he blathers on about the opposite perfect will of God and how Amon should look more closely at this world, or something, I've no idea. Cut to the excavation site, where Echo says she doesn't want Amon to come back to this world where he can't be king and says that she'll destroy the Lithograph, and because she's been dithering all this time and just stands there like an idiot, Pegasus's goons are able to take her down effortlessly. In a way, it's nice that the writers are so inept that they're incapable of disguising their grossly exorbitant sexism. Seriously, there was no reason why she couldn't have destroyed the Lithograph first, and then spilled Amon's backstory. Plus, if you think about it, it's not like they needed the Rainbow Dragon to get everyone back anyway, all they need to do is defeat the Demon that sent them to the alternate world, and make it send them back. But with all those plot holes away, let's finish off the duel. Amon's turn, he doesn't pay Summon Cloud's cost and so it goes away, announces that he has no use for Demon Martin's drivel, and will eliminate all threats to the Garam Finance Group, regardless of what their true form may be. Also, what is that Millennium Eye symbol doing on Demon Martin's duel disc? KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF! Amon declares his direct attack, Demon Martin blathers on about Amon destroying his own god, and then activates his trap cards, Break the Seal; by sending this, and another face-up Break the Seal you control, you can add one monster that has "The Forbidden One" in its name from your deck to your hand.
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Exodia? Seriously? Demon Martin just...randomly has Exodia? Of course he does. Really, I take back what I said before; Echo getting effortlessly smacked around wasn't about sexism...well, not just about sexism. It's about the writers expressing their contempt for Amon, having realized that like Misawa before him, Amon is a much better and more interesting character than Judai, and so they screw him over every chance they can get. Why must I always like the characters that the writers hate?
In any event, before Martin can complete Exodia, the Legendary Demons just...randomly manifest. And then Demon Martin starts dominating them, which would mean something if the Legendary Demons were the least bit impressive. Since they were all effortlessly destroyed by Judai, back before he even had Neos, they are not. More blah blah blah about wills and gods that never goes anywhere, Amon grabs Demon Martin's Demon Arm, causing Demon Martin to drop his arm and confirm that, yes, Demon Martin had the arms and legs of Exodia, we'd just established that, there's no need to be so ridiculously dramatic about it. Blah blah blah, and Demon Martin calls the Legendary Demon cards to his hand. And Amon looks randomly excited. Makes no sense, and now we move on back to Judai. Zombie Ahou and all the other Duel Zombies summon a bunch of monsters, Winged Kuriboh summons itself from Judai's deck and blinds all the monsters in a garbled reference to its monster card effect that makes no goddamn sense. And of course, the Duel Zombies are never more than mildly annoying. And back over at the school itself, everyone's made it over to the Tennis Court, and...somehow some manner of Duel Communication System or something, that's what Misawa calls it, has been set up. Napoleon claims that they borrowed it from Kaiba Corp for the situation...and do I need to say how little sense this makes? And how the fact that this has been placed in the tennis court is the least inexplicable aspect of it? Also, there is a console, which Misawa runs to and tells everyone to get the Duel System to the center court, because apparently that makes a difference. Misawa presses a button, and contacts Einstein. And now the whole of the Tennis Court is opening up. That makes no sense. Johan gets into position, the system turns on, and Edo says that if they're to get the hundreds of billions of joules of Duel Energy they need, which still isn't an impressive number at all, they need a real bloodthirtsty opponent for Johan to duel.
Yep, you guessed it, they're bringing in Hell Kaiser Ryou. You know, the guy who's last major action in the series as far as anyone knows was to nearly kill his little brother in front of everyone, and mock everything that he'd ever believed in in the first place? That Hell Kaiser Ryou? Yeah, everyone's all excited to see him, not the least bit horrified that they need to deal with him again. This must be some of that there psychological realism that Yugioh GX is all about, he said as his eyes rolled right out of his skull. Also, why the hell would Hell Kaiser Ryou even agree to participate in this in the first place? Wouldn't he just tell everyone to piss off, he doesn't give a shit about saving everyone? Ah, of course, he wants to duel Johan "Mary Sue" Anderson and destroy his Gem Beasts. Of course. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Judai engages in stupid face-faults, O'Brien and Kenzan team up to fend off Duel Zombies and try to pull off a Back-To-Back Badass moment and fail miserably, Pegasus puts on a really stupid suit to make the Rainbow Dragon, and Johan duels Hell Kaiser Ryou. EPISODE TITLE, GEM BEASTS VS. CYBER END DRAGON card of the week is Exodia.
While most of the episode was shit, the parts involving Amon and Echo's mutual backstory is just gold. Why we couldn't be watching that show, I've no idea.
TITLE SCREEN! THE ONE WHO RELEASES THE SEAL, MARTIN the one who condemns this show, cypsiman2
Wait...did they really just fly from an island in the South Pacific, to Italy, in less then a day...in helicopters? Also, why exactly were these ruins so damn hard to find? PLOT HOLE! Half buried lithograph, and Pegasus spots Echo hiding around a corner. This is even more confounding, how the hell did Echo get there without them noticing? The only way she could have gotten there is if they took her with them, and that's plainly not what happened. Blah blah blah, inane attempt at corporate intrigue fails to intrigue, and Echo threatens to blow everything up. Yes, because not only did she somehow get here ahead of them, she managed to do so with sufficient time to set up all kinds of bombs. And now over in the other dimension, the one that's still stupid but in different ways, the confrontation between Amon Garam and Demon Martin. Blah blah blah, Amon wants to know what Demon Martin intends to do with the Legendary Demon cards, Demon Martin says he'll duel Amon for them, blah blah blah, and the duel begins. Demon Martin goes first and summons Mad Reloader in defense, with zero defense power, and sets one card to end his turn. And now we cut away to watch Judai run around like an idiot, the Duel Zombies following very slowly behind him. And somehow Zombie Shou got ahead of him. Okay, how the hell are all these people getting around like this? Is the Starship Enterprise just floating in orbit, transporting people to where they need to be so that this pathetic excuse for a plot can go the way the writers want it to? And now Shou is hugging Judai, and it's really creepy. Also, the rest of the zombies have caught up, for all the difference that makes.
And now we cut over to the school proper, where everyone else is running to the arbitrarily designated Tennis Court, because there was a quota on running that the writers had to fulfill. Johan can't stop going on about how great it'll be once he's got his precious Rainbow Dragon, and Misawa needlessly reminds everyone of their objectives. The group encounters a couple of Duel Zombies, and rather then just trampling over them, a couple of O'Brien's grunts go to duel them. Two more drop from the ceiling, two more poorly drawn grunts are sacrificed, blah blah blah, and now there's a whole swarm up ahead. You know, a consistent figuring of how many students there are in total wouldn't go amiss. Very long, drawn out blah blah blah as Professor Chronos makes what I can only imagine is supposed to be a heroic last stand, and the Duel Zombies are very polite and willing to just stand around as all this supposedly noble speechifying is going on. It fails to be dramatically effecting for the exact same reason that this entire tedious trek into the Duel Monsters World has failed; the Duel Zombies are not threatening. And now to the excavation site, where one of Pegasus's goons tries to sneak up on Echo in plain sight, and fails, even though he's wearing dark colors. Maybe if he'd been wearing bright orange...anyway, Echo threatens to blow up the lithograph, Pegasus says it's the only way Amon can get back, and Echo responds that even if Amon comes back, there's no way for him to become King in this world. Pegasus is confused, as am I.
And now back to the duel between Amon and Demon Martin. Amon takes his turn and plays Summon Cloud, allowing him to special summon Sheep Cloud from his hand. Then he plays Destruction Cloud to destroy it and take damage equal to its attack power. Sheep Cloud has zero attack, so he takes no damage, and now it's effect is activated, letting Amon special summon two Sheep Cloud Tokens. He then sacrifices both tokens to summon Eye of the Typhoon, the card he used to defeat Manjoume. He attacks, switches Mad Reloader to attack, and it has zero attack points, so it is destroyed for 3000 points of damage. This however triggers Mad Reloader's effect, letting Demon Martin discard two cards to draw two new ones. Amon's end phase, and Eye of the Typhoon loses 500 attack points, which is not part of it's real world effect. I've no idea why the anime bothered with that nerf. Oh, and Amon sets a card to end his turn. Demon Martin then goes on about how Amon's dueling is a perfect reflection of how he sacrifices everything for his little brother who took everything from him just by being born, and a recap of how Amon wanted to kill his baby brother, but Echo stopped him just by believing in him and understanding him. Skip ahead to when Amon's baby brother is no longer a baby, and apparently his name is Shido. He and Amon mess around with tennis rackets, and back to the present, where Demon Martin says something about how Amon's will is his god, and like Amon, I don't understand what the hell that's supposed to mean. Is it...that Amon is full of himself? That he worships himself? That he thinks he's better than everyone else? The problem is that while he is better than just about everyone on the show, he's most decidedly not the sort to aggrandize himself like that. Hell, that was the whole point of his duel against Manjoume, that he's been humbled by what he's been through and knows that he's not all that special. Fuck, he even uses "Boku" instead of "Ore"! Yes, Demon Martin, laugh at your own inane drivel, pretend like you have a clue when you don't. That'll impress ANYONE!
EYECATCH!
Now back to the Excavation Site, where Echo shares Amon's life story with a bunch of strangers she does not know nor trust. CLUMSY EXPOSITION IS CLUMSY! Anyway, Echo goes on about how Amon has had to subordinate all of his own desires to better serve Garam Finance in general and Shido in particular, and that while she admires this selflessness in Amon, she believes that he deserves, that he's a person of such singular willpower, that he is the one who can unite the world and become its king! Pegasus, who never ran a tournament called Duelist Kingdom with the intent to obtain exclusive control over Solid Vision technology so that he could forever stare at a perfect holographic recreation of his lost love, asks if Echo doesn't think she's going a bit far with all this. She disagrees, saying that she's born the pain of Amon's one moment of hatred for Shido, and that so long as Shido and Amon are in the same world, Amon can't become the person that she knows he can be. Everyone is given pause, and Echo continues, saying that not long ago, Shido fell deathly ill, and Amon was determined to do whatever it took to save Shido's life, even though he could have easily stood aside and done nothing, and no one would have thought anything of it. Thus, Amon crushed all his hopes and dreams with his own hands. Also, for some reason Amon's methods involve going to see a Chinese Medicine Man. And with that, we've achieved a good crack against stupid inferior western medicine.
And now back to the duel. Demon Martin sets a card, and ends his turn. Then he blathers on about the opposite perfect will of God and how Amon should look more closely at this world, or something, I've no idea. Cut to the excavation site, where Echo says she doesn't want Amon to come back to this world where he can't be king and says that she'll destroy the Lithograph, and because she's been dithering all this time and just stands there like an idiot, Pegasus's goons are able to take her down effortlessly. In a way, it's nice that the writers are so inept that they're incapable of disguising their grossly exorbitant sexism. Seriously, there was no reason why she couldn't have destroyed the Lithograph first, and then spilled Amon's backstory. Plus, if you think about it, it's not like they needed the Rainbow Dragon to get everyone back anyway, all they need to do is defeat the Demon that sent them to the alternate world, and make it send them back. But with all those plot holes away, let's finish off the duel. Amon's turn, he doesn't pay Summon Cloud's cost and so it goes away, announces that he has no use for Demon Martin's drivel, and will eliminate all threats to the Garam Finance Group, regardless of what their true form may be. Also, what is that Millennium Eye symbol doing on Demon Martin's duel disc? KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF! Amon declares his direct attack, Demon Martin blathers on about Amon destroying his own god, and then activates his trap cards, Break the Seal; by sending this, and another face-up Break the Seal you control, you can add one monster that has "The Forbidden One" in its name from your deck to your hand.
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Exodia? Seriously? Demon Martin just...randomly has Exodia? Of course he does. Really, I take back what I said before; Echo getting effortlessly smacked around wasn't about sexism...well, not just about sexism. It's about the writers expressing their contempt for Amon, having realized that like Misawa before him, Amon is a much better and more interesting character than Judai, and so they screw him over every chance they can get. Why must I always like the characters that the writers hate?
In any event, before Martin can complete Exodia, the Legendary Demons just...randomly manifest. And then Demon Martin starts dominating them, which would mean something if the Legendary Demons were the least bit impressive. Since they were all effortlessly destroyed by Judai, back before he even had Neos, they are not. More blah blah blah about wills and gods that never goes anywhere, Amon grabs Demon Martin's Demon Arm, causing Demon Martin to drop his arm and confirm that, yes, Demon Martin had the arms and legs of Exodia, we'd just established that, there's no need to be so ridiculously dramatic about it. Blah blah blah, and Demon Martin calls the Legendary Demon cards to his hand. And Amon looks randomly excited. Makes no sense, and now we move on back to Judai. Zombie Ahou and all the other Duel Zombies summon a bunch of monsters, Winged Kuriboh summons itself from Judai's deck and blinds all the monsters in a garbled reference to its monster card effect that makes no goddamn sense. And of course, the Duel Zombies are never more than mildly annoying. And back over at the school itself, everyone's made it over to the Tennis Court, and...somehow some manner of Duel Communication System or something, that's what Misawa calls it, has been set up. Napoleon claims that they borrowed it from Kaiba Corp for the situation...and do I need to say how little sense this makes? And how the fact that this has been placed in the tennis court is the least inexplicable aspect of it? Also, there is a console, which Misawa runs to and tells everyone to get the Duel System to the center court, because apparently that makes a difference. Misawa presses a button, and contacts Einstein. And now the whole of the Tennis Court is opening up. That makes no sense. Johan gets into position, the system turns on, and Edo says that if they're to get the hundreds of billions of joules of Duel Energy they need, which still isn't an impressive number at all, they need a real bloodthirtsty opponent for Johan to duel.
Yep, you guessed it, they're bringing in Hell Kaiser Ryou. You know, the guy who's last major action in the series as far as anyone knows was to nearly kill his little brother in front of everyone, and mock everything that he'd ever believed in in the first place? That Hell Kaiser Ryou? Yeah, everyone's all excited to see him, not the least bit horrified that they need to deal with him again. This must be some of that there psychological realism that Yugioh GX is all about, he said as his eyes rolled right out of his skull. Also, why the hell would Hell Kaiser Ryou even agree to participate in this in the first place? Wouldn't he just tell everyone to piss off, he doesn't give a shit about saving everyone? Ah, of course, he wants to duel Johan "Mary Sue" Anderson and destroy his Gem Beasts. Of course. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Judai engages in stupid face-faults, O'Brien and Kenzan team up to fend off Duel Zombies and try to pull off a Back-To-Back Badass moment and fail miserably, Pegasus puts on a really stupid suit to make the Rainbow Dragon, and Johan duels Hell Kaiser Ryou. EPISODE TITLE, GEM BEASTS VS. CYBER END DRAGON card of the week is Exodia.
While most of the episode was shit, the parts involving Amon and Echo's mutual backstory is just gold. Why we couldn't be watching that show, I've no idea.