Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 131
Nov. 28th, 2010 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cypsiman2Recap of Rainbow Dragon using its super duper ultra bullshit powers to send everyone back to Earth, even though there's absolutely no basis of any sort for it to have that sort of power, not that there was ever any basis for Yubel to possess the sort of ludicrous power that sie possesses to begin with, or really, any basis for very nearly anything that has ever happened in the course of this inane show. And now everything's back to where its supposed to be...or is it?
TITLE SCREEN! GRAND GATHERING OF ACE CARDS! OPEN, DOOR OF THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION this will be the only time this season that anyone from the original cast who isn't judai will be of any use.
Students start waking up, and all the Duel Zombies are back to normal, and just like with so many elements from the Professor Cobra arc, this will never be mentioned again. Oh, and those Dis-Belts that no one could get off? They just start spontaneously breaking apart for no good reason. PLOT DEVICE! Oh, and now everyone is noticing that they're all back on Earth, so lots of cheering and hollering ensues. Ayukawa comes up to Martin and confirms that he's okay now, which cheers up Rei. Then Judai looks around, and realizes that his sparkle-friend Johan is not around. He remembers how Johan basically announced he was going to be a good Mary-Sue and sacrifice himself for everyone, and Judai cries out Johan's pain with all the pain and anguish of an episode of Barney the Dinosaur. Transition, and now everyone's at the Obelisk Blue dorm celebrating their return, and Chronos, Samejima, and Pegasus talk. Chronos tries to take credit for shit he didn't do, Pegasus would like to go to the Duel Monsters dimension himself but only in his capacity as card designer, and Amon is still missing. Also, they think that PROFESSOR COBRA is missing and not dead, and this will be the last time he'll be mentioned. Also, what about that one professor who tried to kill Judai? You know, what's-his-face? No one care about him, apparently. And now over to Einstein and Misawa, and they're just setting up the plot device that will facilitate the next arc, something about the singularity returning to the island...good lord, these people have no idea what words mean, do they? If a singularity were to appear on Earth, anywhere at all, that would be a disaster beyond the capacity of the meager imaginations that the writers employ. And now over to the Ra Yellow dorm, where Napoleon is down on his hands and knees, and says that he's sorry that his son got possessed by Yubel, if only he didn't fight with his ex-wife all the time where Martin could see them, such terrible darkness wouldn't have made its way into his heart...
Seriously? THAT'S THE TERRIBLE DARKNESS IN MARTIN'S HEART? HE SAW HIS PARENTS FIGHTING? Amon is abandoned by his family to die in the middle of nowhere, is miraculously rescued and promised greatness, only for that to be taken away from him, he contemplates murdering his baby brother to get it all back, but ultimately gives up all personal ambition and does everything for his younger brother...AND WE'RE EXPECTED TO BUY THAT MARTIN SEEING HIS PARENTS FIGHT AND GET DIVORCED IS SO MUCH WORSE? Mind you, there's still the fact that we're supposed to believe that Napoleon could ever get anyone to marry him, which, you know, absolute bullshit. Blah blah blah, Martin tells Napoleon that he's not alone anymore, Napoleon thinks Martin has grown up so much, and Rei is watching all this, and this will be her last scene this entire season. Good bye Rei! My theory is that when Asuka and Rei counted up all the profits from the Judai/Johan Yaoi Doujinshi they were able to sell, they only had enough to spare one of them from what was to come, so Asuka volunteered to bear the burden of continuing to be abused by the show, and Rei promised Asuka that she would never forget her sacrifice, and it was 1000 times more tender and meaningful than all this manpain bullshit.
Now over to Osiris Red and...FUBUKI? Where the hell did he come from? Where the hell has he been this entire season? Why did the writers decide to drag him back in now? Eh, who cares, we're going to be suffering a lot of manpain, so lets treasure the sight of Fubuki for as long as we can. Oh, also, Judai isn't around. Whoop di doo, who gives a shit about that emotionally stunted twit? Blah blah blah, everyone wonders about Judai and Yubel, and Asuka reveals a flashback to right after everyone got back, which would put it at the beginning of the episode. And the reason we couldn't see it when it happened was...anyway, it's just Judai whining and moaning about the terrible manpain of how its all his fault that Johan got left behind, and Asuka tries to soothe his emotional boo-boos, but it's all a waste of time, Judai's now almost as depressed as he was when he couldn't see his cards...heck, maybe as much! Oh, and also, it's all his fault. Cry me a river, manpain boy! And now Samejima shows up to drop off the next bit of exposition. He reveals that he's always had a special interest in Judai right from the beginning, all because of Judai's past strong connections to the Duel Monster Spirits, and Yubel in particular. Blah blah blah, his parents were workaholics, dueling was his only source for joy, and apparently random teenagers from the neighborhood were willing to duel Judai, and his parents saw no problem with this. Oh, and the Edo lookalike? His name is Osamu, for all the difference, which is none, so I'll just continue to call him Edo lookalike. Anyway, Judai draws Yubel and sacrifices his monsters to summon hir, which was apparently his favorite card at the time. Yes, the one that looks like a depraved lunatic's conception of what a hermaphrodite looks like, that was Judai's favorite. That is screwed up, and not in a good way. Anyway, Edo Lookalike activates a trap card to negate Yubel's summoning and destroy it, and then he attacks Judai directly for the win. Judai falls over in his chair, Judai apologizes to Yubel for not being able to summon hir again, and Edo Lookalike tells Judai that he's overreacting.
GASP, A NON-BELIEVER! He says that having a high-level monster is meaningless if you can't ever summon it, and Judai goes on about how Yubel is the precious card his dad bought for him, and he can hear the card telling him it wants to fight. Yubel then decides to thank Judai's belief in hir, by attacking Edo Lookalike. Back in the present, Samejima explained that this happened every time Judai dueled someone with Yubel in his deck, so kids no longer wanted to be around him at all. Then, Kaiba Corp started hosting its inane "Shoot cards into space" contest, and if Judai was all about Yubel, what the frick was he doing drawing up Neos and the rest of the Hippy-Space gang? Anyway, Judai requested that Yubel be shot up into space to, and I quote, "receive the energy of justice". As you can see, Judai was always an insipid moron, even as a little kid, and for no good reason, Kaiba Corp accepts, shooting Yubel off in a different rocket from the one used for Neos. Because that's a defensible use of corporate funds, am I right? Some drivel about Yubel getting exposed to the Light of Destruction or some shit like that, but the only one who knows the whole truth and somehow never mentioned it up to this point is Judai. Well, actually...for now, Edo is listening in on all this expositionary drivel, and then Hell Kaiser Ryou shows up. For no discernable reason they are interacting in spite of all expressly established facts of characterization in season 2, but then again, Season 3 has been all about ignoring the previous two seasons, which means we have over 104 episodes that don't really count. That's not good. Blah blah blah, fodder is given over to shallow shippers, and then Kaiser Ryou grips his chest in pain, says its nothing, and thinks to himself that Yubel would make a good final opponent. GOSH, I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD POSSIBLY MEAN? And now over to Judai, who's in his bed, blaming himself for what Yubel did after shooting her off into space...
I hate to do this, I really do...I hate Judai, I despise Judai, I feel that he is a blight upon the world...but this really, genuinely isn't his fault. Yubel was attacking people. Not even bad or dangerous people, not people who were threatening him or his friends, just people who could beat Judai in duels before his plot-armor could kick in. For all that everyone goes on and on about how dark and evil Atem was in the early chapters of the manga, Atem limited his harsh brand of justice to the people who'd hurt Yuugi's friends. Seriously, read the manga, it takes a lot to get Atem to come out if its for Yuugi, but if one of Yuugi's friends is hurt even a little? There's hell to pay, and even then, the degrees of hell vary, and only in a rare few cases are the outcomes fatal or permanent. To sum up, Yubel was from the very beginning, before Sie was even shot into space, attacking people on incredibly flimsy pretexts, which is both incomparable to what Atem did, and is no one's fault but hir own.
EYECATCH!
It is nighttime, and over in the woods, there is glowing. Winged Kuriboh appears in Judai's room to tell him about the glowing, and now back to the rest of the cast. Blah blah blah, Fubuki says that Yubel's stuck in the other dimension so there's no more need to think about the depraved little monster, and then Misawa bursts in to tell everyone that the Door between Dimensions is opening up again, for no particular reason! Blah blah blah, they all realize that Judai's going to try to go to the portal, they confirm that he's left his room, and if they don't go after him, the idiot's going to try and go rescue Johan all on his own. Mind you, I'm not sure about what's supposed to be so terrible about all this, since Judai is the only one that the writers will let be useful, but let's pretend that the genre-blindness makes sense here. And yeah, out in the woods, Judai is following Winged Kuriboh, vowing to rescue Johan no matter what, and now we cut to Echo on her submarine...I've no idea how she got back to it so quickly, but this sort of bullshit is commonplace on this show, so who even gives a damn at this point? Anyway, she's thinking about how since Amon didn't return from the Duel Monsters dimension, he can become the king she knew he could be and she'll be watching him. Also, her crew seems to have come back from that plot hole they fell into, not that this will matter at all. Also deep in the woods is Chronos, who has a chicken on his head and eggs in his arms. No one has any interest in finding out what the hell Chronos is doing in this scene. Anyway, Judai arrives at where the portal is supposed to appear, which is the same stupid place where Judai and the others got randomly sent to that Ancient Egypt pastiche that never amounted to anything at all. Also in the woods are Edo and Hell Kaiser Ryou, and what the hell they were doing out in the woods is something that lots of cheap, badly written and shallow fanfiction has no doubt been written about.
Blah blah blah, Hell Kaiser Ryou continues to give a damn about other people despite the whole point of his arc in season two being that he no longer did so, and everyone else catches up to Judai. Misawa tries to talk sense into Judai, pointing out that not only will going off on his own be incredibly dangerous, but there's a good chance that this portal won't take them to the dimension that they finally returned from. Judai doesn't care, he has to try, and this is his problem, he can't involve the others in it. Blah blah blah, everyone reminds Judai that they're all friends, comrades who've fought side-by-side through thick and thin and that this involves all of them. Also, Hell Kaiser Ryou and Edo go on about how where Judai goes, everyone automatically follows like ducks in a row, and Judai's the only one who doesn't realize this. No, Judai is not Monkey D. Luffy, he does not have the sort of charisma and leadership that the writers desperately wish he had and keep crowing on about, he's not that inspiring, period. Then Misawa says that to stabilize the portal, they must draw upon their duel energy by summoning all their ace monsters. Really, this is Misawa's job, to be the exposition fairy for everyone. The only pointworthy bit of this sequence is that they've apparently decided that Asuka's ace is Benten, even though Dakini is much more powerful and has a much more useful effect. But hey, we wouldn't want Asuka to summon a monster on par with what everyone else is summoning, that would imply that she was equal with them, and that can't be right, she has a vagina! Blah blah blah, Shou, Misawa, and Fubuki get over their arbitrary trepidation and summon their monsters, and really, one wonders why Rainbow Dragon was needed in the first place if summoning a bunch of Ace Monsters is all it takes. Hell Kaiser wonders what the power born of all this friendship will bring...hoo boy, wait till you find out the answer to that one. Light envelops Judai's group, then Edo and Hell Kaiser Ryou, and then Echo, who inexplicably somehow got there despite having no conceivable way of knowing to be there or even having anyway she could have gotten back onto the island after the stunts she kept trying to pull and failed at since the writers hate her and Amon, and Chronos also gets sucked in too. So, yep, only one episode back on Earth, and now we'll be spending the rest of the season in an alternate dimension. Joy. End Episode.
NEXT TIME! Judai awakens, only to find himself in a completely different place from the desert world that they'd just escaped from. Next, an underground city where Duel Monsters are being enslaved, oh noes, and this is such a transparent ripoff of Digimon, I don't even, and Judai duels some random monster. Joy. EPISODE TITLE, A LIFE OR DEATH DUEL card of the week is red-eyes black dragon, and i've no idea why.
Well, that was exceptionally painful; the only other time I've seen such a high concentration of manpain is in the first anime of Full Metal Alchemist, or Fakemetal Jerkamist, as it is more properly known as. And it will get worse. Believe me, it will get worse.
TITLE SCREEN! GRAND GATHERING OF ACE CARDS! OPEN, DOOR OF THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION this will be the only time this season that anyone from the original cast who isn't judai will be of any use.
Students start waking up, and all the Duel Zombies are back to normal, and just like with so many elements from the Professor Cobra arc, this will never be mentioned again. Oh, and those Dis-Belts that no one could get off? They just start spontaneously breaking apart for no good reason. PLOT DEVICE! Oh, and now everyone is noticing that they're all back on Earth, so lots of cheering and hollering ensues. Ayukawa comes up to Martin and confirms that he's okay now, which cheers up Rei. Then Judai looks around, and realizes that his sparkle-friend Johan is not around. He remembers how Johan basically announced he was going to be a good Mary-Sue and sacrifice himself for everyone, and Judai cries out Johan's pain with all the pain and anguish of an episode of Barney the Dinosaur. Transition, and now everyone's at the Obelisk Blue dorm celebrating their return, and Chronos, Samejima, and Pegasus talk. Chronos tries to take credit for shit he didn't do, Pegasus would like to go to the Duel Monsters dimension himself but only in his capacity as card designer, and Amon is still missing. Also, they think that PROFESSOR COBRA is missing and not dead, and this will be the last time he'll be mentioned. Also, what about that one professor who tried to kill Judai? You know, what's-his-face? No one care about him, apparently. And now over to Einstein and Misawa, and they're just setting up the plot device that will facilitate the next arc, something about the singularity returning to the island...good lord, these people have no idea what words mean, do they? If a singularity were to appear on Earth, anywhere at all, that would be a disaster beyond the capacity of the meager imaginations that the writers employ. And now over to the Ra Yellow dorm, where Napoleon is down on his hands and knees, and says that he's sorry that his son got possessed by Yubel, if only he didn't fight with his ex-wife all the time where Martin could see them, such terrible darkness wouldn't have made its way into his heart...
Seriously? THAT'S THE TERRIBLE DARKNESS IN MARTIN'S HEART? HE SAW HIS PARENTS FIGHTING? Amon is abandoned by his family to die in the middle of nowhere, is miraculously rescued and promised greatness, only for that to be taken away from him, he contemplates murdering his baby brother to get it all back, but ultimately gives up all personal ambition and does everything for his younger brother...AND WE'RE EXPECTED TO BUY THAT MARTIN SEEING HIS PARENTS FIGHT AND GET DIVORCED IS SO MUCH WORSE? Mind you, there's still the fact that we're supposed to believe that Napoleon could ever get anyone to marry him, which, you know, absolute bullshit. Blah blah blah, Martin tells Napoleon that he's not alone anymore, Napoleon thinks Martin has grown up so much, and Rei is watching all this, and this will be her last scene this entire season. Good bye Rei! My theory is that when Asuka and Rei counted up all the profits from the Judai/Johan Yaoi Doujinshi they were able to sell, they only had enough to spare one of them from what was to come, so Asuka volunteered to bear the burden of continuing to be abused by the show, and Rei promised Asuka that she would never forget her sacrifice, and it was 1000 times more tender and meaningful than all this manpain bullshit.
Now over to Osiris Red and...FUBUKI? Where the hell did he come from? Where the hell has he been this entire season? Why did the writers decide to drag him back in now? Eh, who cares, we're going to be suffering a lot of manpain, so lets treasure the sight of Fubuki for as long as we can. Oh, also, Judai isn't around. Whoop di doo, who gives a shit about that emotionally stunted twit? Blah blah blah, everyone wonders about Judai and Yubel, and Asuka reveals a flashback to right after everyone got back, which would put it at the beginning of the episode. And the reason we couldn't see it when it happened was...anyway, it's just Judai whining and moaning about the terrible manpain of how its all his fault that Johan got left behind, and Asuka tries to soothe his emotional boo-boos, but it's all a waste of time, Judai's now almost as depressed as he was when he couldn't see his cards...heck, maybe as much! Oh, and also, it's all his fault. Cry me a river, manpain boy! And now Samejima shows up to drop off the next bit of exposition. He reveals that he's always had a special interest in Judai right from the beginning, all because of Judai's past strong connections to the Duel Monster Spirits, and Yubel in particular. Blah blah blah, his parents were workaholics, dueling was his only source for joy, and apparently random teenagers from the neighborhood were willing to duel Judai, and his parents saw no problem with this. Oh, and the Edo lookalike? His name is Osamu, for all the difference, which is none, so I'll just continue to call him Edo lookalike. Anyway, Judai draws Yubel and sacrifices his monsters to summon hir, which was apparently his favorite card at the time. Yes, the one that looks like a depraved lunatic's conception of what a hermaphrodite looks like, that was Judai's favorite. That is screwed up, and not in a good way. Anyway, Edo Lookalike activates a trap card to negate Yubel's summoning and destroy it, and then he attacks Judai directly for the win. Judai falls over in his chair, Judai apologizes to Yubel for not being able to summon hir again, and Edo Lookalike tells Judai that he's overreacting.
GASP, A NON-BELIEVER! He says that having a high-level monster is meaningless if you can't ever summon it, and Judai goes on about how Yubel is the precious card his dad bought for him, and he can hear the card telling him it wants to fight. Yubel then decides to thank Judai's belief in hir, by attacking Edo Lookalike. Back in the present, Samejima explained that this happened every time Judai dueled someone with Yubel in his deck, so kids no longer wanted to be around him at all. Then, Kaiba Corp started hosting its inane "Shoot cards into space" contest, and if Judai was all about Yubel, what the frick was he doing drawing up Neos and the rest of the Hippy-Space gang? Anyway, Judai requested that Yubel be shot up into space to, and I quote, "receive the energy of justice". As you can see, Judai was always an insipid moron, even as a little kid, and for no good reason, Kaiba Corp accepts, shooting Yubel off in a different rocket from the one used for Neos. Because that's a defensible use of corporate funds, am I right? Some drivel about Yubel getting exposed to the Light of Destruction or some shit like that, but the only one who knows the whole truth and somehow never mentioned it up to this point is Judai. Well, actually...for now, Edo is listening in on all this expositionary drivel, and then Hell Kaiser Ryou shows up. For no discernable reason they are interacting in spite of all expressly established facts of characterization in season 2, but then again, Season 3 has been all about ignoring the previous two seasons, which means we have over 104 episodes that don't really count. That's not good. Blah blah blah, fodder is given over to shallow shippers, and then Kaiser Ryou grips his chest in pain, says its nothing, and thinks to himself that Yubel would make a good final opponent. GOSH, I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD POSSIBLY MEAN? And now over to Judai, who's in his bed, blaming himself for what Yubel did after shooting her off into space...
I hate to do this, I really do...I hate Judai, I despise Judai, I feel that he is a blight upon the world...but this really, genuinely isn't his fault. Yubel was attacking people. Not even bad or dangerous people, not people who were threatening him or his friends, just people who could beat Judai in duels before his plot-armor could kick in. For all that everyone goes on and on about how dark and evil Atem was in the early chapters of the manga, Atem limited his harsh brand of justice to the people who'd hurt Yuugi's friends. Seriously, read the manga, it takes a lot to get Atem to come out if its for Yuugi, but if one of Yuugi's friends is hurt even a little? There's hell to pay, and even then, the degrees of hell vary, and only in a rare few cases are the outcomes fatal or permanent. To sum up, Yubel was from the very beginning, before Sie was even shot into space, attacking people on incredibly flimsy pretexts, which is both incomparable to what Atem did, and is no one's fault but hir own.
EYECATCH!
It is nighttime, and over in the woods, there is glowing. Winged Kuriboh appears in Judai's room to tell him about the glowing, and now back to the rest of the cast. Blah blah blah, Fubuki says that Yubel's stuck in the other dimension so there's no more need to think about the depraved little monster, and then Misawa bursts in to tell everyone that the Door between Dimensions is opening up again, for no particular reason! Blah blah blah, they all realize that Judai's going to try to go to the portal, they confirm that he's left his room, and if they don't go after him, the idiot's going to try and go rescue Johan all on his own. Mind you, I'm not sure about what's supposed to be so terrible about all this, since Judai is the only one that the writers will let be useful, but let's pretend that the genre-blindness makes sense here. And yeah, out in the woods, Judai is following Winged Kuriboh, vowing to rescue Johan no matter what, and now we cut to Echo on her submarine...I've no idea how she got back to it so quickly, but this sort of bullshit is commonplace on this show, so who even gives a damn at this point? Anyway, she's thinking about how since Amon didn't return from the Duel Monsters dimension, he can become the king she knew he could be and she'll be watching him. Also, her crew seems to have come back from that plot hole they fell into, not that this will matter at all. Also deep in the woods is Chronos, who has a chicken on his head and eggs in his arms. No one has any interest in finding out what the hell Chronos is doing in this scene. Anyway, Judai arrives at where the portal is supposed to appear, which is the same stupid place where Judai and the others got randomly sent to that Ancient Egypt pastiche that never amounted to anything at all. Also in the woods are Edo and Hell Kaiser Ryou, and what the hell they were doing out in the woods is something that lots of cheap, badly written and shallow fanfiction has no doubt been written about.
Blah blah blah, Hell Kaiser Ryou continues to give a damn about other people despite the whole point of his arc in season two being that he no longer did so, and everyone else catches up to Judai. Misawa tries to talk sense into Judai, pointing out that not only will going off on his own be incredibly dangerous, but there's a good chance that this portal won't take them to the dimension that they finally returned from. Judai doesn't care, he has to try, and this is his problem, he can't involve the others in it. Blah blah blah, everyone reminds Judai that they're all friends, comrades who've fought side-by-side through thick and thin and that this involves all of them. Also, Hell Kaiser Ryou and Edo go on about how where Judai goes, everyone automatically follows like ducks in a row, and Judai's the only one who doesn't realize this. No, Judai is not Monkey D. Luffy, he does not have the sort of charisma and leadership that the writers desperately wish he had and keep crowing on about, he's not that inspiring, period. Then Misawa says that to stabilize the portal, they must draw upon their duel energy by summoning all their ace monsters. Really, this is Misawa's job, to be the exposition fairy for everyone. The only pointworthy bit of this sequence is that they've apparently decided that Asuka's ace is Benten, even though Dakini is much more powerful and has a much more useful effect. But hey, we wouldn't want Asuka to summon a monster on par with what everyone else is summoning, that would imply that she was equal with them, and that can't be right, she has a vagina! Blah blah blah, Shou, Misawa, and Fubuki get over their arbitrary trepidation and summon their monsters, and really, one wonders why Rainbow Dragon was needed in the first place if summoning a bunch of Ace Monsters is all it takes. Hell Kaiser wonders what the power born of all this friendship will bring...hoo boy, wait till you find out the answer to that one. Light envelops Judai's group, then Edo and Hell Kaiser Ryou, and then Echo, who inexplicably somehow got there despite having no conceivable way of knowing to be there or even having anyway she could have gotten back onto the island after the stunts she kept trying to pull and failed at since the writers hate her and Amon, and Chronos also gets sucked in too. So, yep, only one episode back on Earth, and now we'll be spending the rest of the season in an alternate dimension. Joy. End Episode.
NEXT TIME! Judai awakens, only to find himself in a completely different place from the desert world that they'd just escaped from. Next, an underground city where Duel Monsters are being enslaved, oh noes, and this is such a transparent ripoff of Digimon, I don't even, and Judai duels some random monster. Joy. EPISODE TITLE, A LIFE OR DEATH DUEL card of the week is red-eyes black dragon, and i've no idea why.
Well, that was exceptionally painful; the only other time I've seen such a high concentration of manpain is in the first anime of Full Metal Alchemist, or Fakemetal Jerkamist, as it is more properly known as. And it will get worse. Believe me, it will get worse.
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Date: 2010-11-29 11:40 am (UTC)I may be missing the context, but doesn't this:
Amon is abandoned by his family to die in the middle of nowhere, is miraculously rescued and promised greatness, only for that to be taken away from him, he contemplates murdering his baby brother to get it all back, but ultimately gives up all personal ambition and does everything for his younger brother...
sound an awful lot like Rishid's story?
If these were any other writers, I'd assume that they forgot about card levels and chose Benten since the card is based on a goddess they're probably much more familiar with (since dakini is a concept from Tibetan Buddhism and they fail at anything involving other cultures). And honestly, given a choice between the two, I'd choose Benten to associate Asuka with. But they're the GX writers, so they get no benefit of the doubt.
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Date: 2010-11-29 04:52 pm (UTC)...it does. And it's weird, because even though Amon is easily one of my most favorite characters in this entire show, which lets you know how badly he's going to be screwed over, it just never occurred to me to look at it like that. But at the same time, when you watch it, it doesn't FEEL like the writers are lazily copy-pasting superficial bits from the original series, like with so many other aspects of this show, which would mean that in this one case, they actually managed to draw effective inspiration from the original series. And instead, they focus their attention on Judai and Johan. Because they are dumb and smell funny.
Indeed, the writers are unworthy of the benefit of our doubt.