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Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 135
So, to recap, Freed just sacrificed himself for some dumbass kid he didn't even know, Judai's about how he'll rescue Johan and Freed's friends no matter what, and Judai's friends minus Jim and O'Brien get possessed by magical bad feeling balls that came out of nowhere. And yes, this will get worse. The writers will always find a way to make it worse.
TITLE SCREEN! JUDAI VS. BRRON, MAD KING OF DARK WORLD why don't the writers just marry judai if they love him so much?
So Judai's going into a tunnel in the mountains, or hills, whatever, and he finds a group of Dark World monsters that apparently didn't get the memo about Zure getting killed. He then duels all of them at they same time, while the rest of the group just sits outside with their thumbs up their asses. No, don't go and help him, you might be mildly injured, and only Judai is brave enough to face such terrible danger. Excuse me while I wretch. *Wretches*. That's better. Yeah, also, all Judai had to do was to summon Flame Wingman. They don't even bother showing the fight, it's just a given that Judai will win. Fubuki, meanwhile, tries to strum on his ukulele, but his heart, it's just not in it. Everyone else just whines as opposed to doing anything productive or in character, because if they were to do so, the carefully crafted plot and point of this entire would just fall apart. Oh, and this is rich, Asuka is saying that they're not "heroes", so they can't do these sorts of things. I'm going to keep bringing this up, because it bears being brought up; WHERE THE HELL IS THE ASUKA WHO CHALLENGED TITAN TO A DUEL OF DARKNESS TO GET HER BROTHER'S MEMORIES BACK? Oh, right, we can't acknowledge previous characterization or accomplishments. Because that would be dumb. Blah blah blah, there is mounting consent that Judai is oblivious to the consequences that his actions have on them, and apparently Jim and O'Brien find this alarming, or something. I've no idea why, it makes perfect sense for everyone to get fed up with Judai's bullshit. And now Judai's back. He's got a map and...a herd of giant green ducks with buckets on their heads. They are called Sonic Ducks, and I can confirm that they are a real card.
For all the many, many, MANY failings of this season in general, and this arc in particular, one thing that it has not failed at up to this point was a consistent mood and tone. This is a world of despair and darkness, where you could die at any given moment. And now they bring in giant green ducks with buckets on their heads. Thus, that consistent mood and tone has now been lost, and will never ever come back again. Judai wants everyone to ride them with him to the next fortress, and notice how chipper he is. Notice how he wants everyone to come with him, even though for the past three or four episodes he couldn't abandon them quickly enough. This is of course so that when Manjoume yells at him that they have no idea if Johan is even at the next fortress, Manjoume will look like the bad guy. How trite. Manjoume asks what the hell Judai plans to do if Johan isn't there either, and Judai, like the past dozen or so episodes didn't even happen, blithely declares that they'll just go to the next fortress until they do find Johan. After all, it's a very big world, so Johan HAS to be somewhere around here! That sound you just heard was Logic's corpse getting tossed into a dumpster. And then Judai just takes off, saying that he'll go on with or without them with a big stupid grin on his face. Our hero, ladies and gentleman; refusing to listen to or even acknowledge his supposed friends. Naturally, Jim and O'Brien are on their Sonic Ducks, saying that they need to move on anyway what with being in the middle of enemy territory, though where exactly they could hope to find territory that isn't enemy territory in this place is left unanswered. And then a Sonic Duck picks up Shou with its bill, and they start playing stupid comic relief music. Wow, this is even stupider than I could have imagined. Seriously, why the hell did that just happen? It makes no fucking sense!
And now everyone is riding the exceptionally stupid looking Sonic Ducks, and I have to wonder if someone was playing Final Fantasy when working on this episode, because that's the only way shoving in these random stupid ducks makes any sense, and even then, it doesn't. Now we're with Judai racing ahead, and he just knows that Johan is alive somewhere in this world, he just does. Shot of that stupid comet that will never make sense, and up on the cliffs is a silver monster, looking down at Judai as the one who killed Zure. He is joined by a golden monster, who exposits to the audience that Bronn the Mad King will deal with Judai, their targets are Judai's friends. Cut to stupid un-funny antics as the entire group manages to lose their Sonic Ducks. Except for Shou, who apparently got dragged off somewhere else by his Sonic Duck. Like I give a damn. Blah blah blah, everyone complains about how Judai's forgotten all about them and they also came to rescue Johan, and now the kanji for rage randomly appears on Manjoume's neck. Oh look, now he's enraged at Judai's epic selfishness. Kenzan's kanji of hatred also appears on his shoulder, and he is full of hate for Judai's asshattery. Fubuki's kanji of anguish appears on the back of his hand, and he just wishes that Judai would listen to them. Asuka's kanji of sadness appears on her arm, and does anyone else find it weird that no one is noticing how magical glowing text is appearing on their bodies? Anyway, she's just sad that Judai is saving Johan for the sake of his own heart or something, making him a hypocrite. That seems a rather obtuse thing to be sad about. What, Asuka doesn't have anything personal to be sad about? Okay, granted, it's not like anyone's having any thoughts that don't revolve around Judai, but even so...Manjoume declares that he wants to punch Judai in the face for being such an epic shithead, I fully agree with this plan, while Kenzan wonders how the hell they'll do that without their mounts. Meanwhile, Fubuki and Asuka have been reduced to sad sacks. You can tell they're my favorite characters, because they're getting screwed over even harder than everyone else.
And now those monsters from before are laughing, they leap down the cliff and declare that they'll be taking them to Mad King Brron's fortress. Manjoume steps forward to duel them, but Asuka is all "No, you can't, you might die!". Yes, because just standing there and doing nothing to defend yourselves from the vicious monsters before you makes so much more sense! Honestly, I know they're supposed to be under magically manipulated durress, but this is just fucking ridiculous. Seriously, it is just goddamned painful to see Asuka being made to act like this. Blah blah blah, Asuka and Fubuki identify them as Goldd and Silva, five-star monsters, so apparently they should be a tough challenge, and Kenzan says he's a duelist in any world, and it's horrifying that Kenzan is actually saying something sensible. Blah blah blah, Goldd and Silva are under orders to take them in alive, so they just knock the group out. Because only Judai has the plot power to force duels, apparently. Oh, but what is this? They were supposed to capture five people, but there are only four! Well, they'll just go ahead and take these five to Mad King Bronn, look for the fifth later. There is a 5Ds joke here that is beyond hilarious. Oh yeah, Shou is still being dragged along by his Sonic Duck. Blah blah blah, the kanji for doubt appears on his cheek, Shou realizes no one will come to save him, stupid high leap, and the Sonic Duck appears to be running in the direction of that damn comet. Why? I've no fucking clue.
EYECATCH!
So Judai's reached the next fortress, and for no discernible reason he has absolutely no difficulty getting his Sonic Duck to follow directions. Consistency? What the hell is that? He gets off, and now Jim and O'Brien have caught up to him, having somehow managed to have gotten there without running into Goldd and Silva. Jim says that the others are missing, something may have happened to them. Judai agrees that that would be bad, so could they go take care of them? Jim and O'Brien yell at Judai's short-sighted selfishness, even reminding him that the only reason he made it to this place was because everyone worked together to open that random portal back at Duel Academia. Then they get Judai to agree to wait for them while they go find out what happened to their friends, and then Judai immediately breaks his promise, going on about how he's never stopped to think before in his life, lots of stupid flashbacks, he needs to rescue Johan right away. Judai waltzes into the seemingly empty fortress, and now there are sconces and lots of monsters. And now we meet Brron the Mad King. He looks exactly like you'd imagine. Judai says he's here for Johan and Freed's friends, and Brron says it's possible that they've been brought here, humans from many worlds have been brought here, and then points to the sand at Judai's feet. He explains that the sand has absorbed many humans who were slaughtered by monsters for their amusement. Judai imagines Johan getting horribly killed, Brron says that if Judai wants to know more, he'll have to beat him and oh hey, here comes this episode's duel. For some reason Judai is reluctant about having to kill Brron, a courtesy he did not extend to any of the monster's he's killed up to this point, blah blah blah, Judai says he'll sacrifice everything to save Johan, and the duel begins.
Brron goes first and summons Broww Huntsman of Dark World in attack position, and then activates the permanent spell card Sacred Scriptures of Wickedness. Then Brron tosses a blank card up in the air, which floats above the Scriptures. But before Judai can find out what the hell that's all about, there's a rumbling in the ground, and four platforms rise, bearing Manjoume, Kenzan, Asuka, and Fubuki. Okay, how the fucking hell did Silva and Goldd get back to the fortress and set this up, before Judai did, or even without him noticing? Honestly, how is any of this being done? There's obviously some "greater plan" at work here, but the hows of how the hell this is all being coordinated are left utterly unexplained. Also, if Shou was supposed to be captured as well, shouldn't there be a fifth platform for him? Oh, wait, that would make sense. Granted, a similar such issue arises in the Death-T arc of the original manga, but you'd think that with experience, these people could avoid repeating that sort of mistake. You'd be wrong. Their magic kanji markers randomly appear again, Judai demands to know what Brron has planned for his friends, and Bronn says that Judai will soon find out, and ends his turn. Judai swears he'll save his friends, because they are truly his highest priority, honest, and summons Sparkman. He attacks Broww, destroying it for 200 points of damage, but now Bronn declares that he now gets to take Wicked Doctrine Rage from his deck, and send it to his grave. At this moment Manjoume comes to, and damn is he pissed. Not, you know, because of any stupid magic marker bullshit, but because he's been chained into place thanks to Judai's epic asshattery. He notices Asuka, Fubuki, and Kenzan in the same condition as himself, Judai yells to him, asking if he's "fine", and Manjoume yells at him for being such a colossal twit. He yells at him, saying that even though they all came here together to save Johan, Judai has ignored them all and been running off on his own without any concern for them. And now the rest of the group wakes up.
Judai tries to defend himself, but fails miserably on the grounds that Manjoume is absolutely right to call him out on all his bullshit. Manjoume declares that Judai was a selfish twit who only ever thought about himself, and that they were all fools to trust in their friendship with him. This apparently causes the magic marker kanji to lift off his neck and fly into the Sacred Scriptures of Wickedness. And then Manjoume, along with Ojamas Green and Black, die. Yellow survives. Wow. I can't believe they fucking went through with it. They just killed Manjoume. He's dead now. I mean, for all intents and purposes, he may as well have been dead since season two for all the difference and development he's gotten since then, but still...everyone's yelling now, and Manjoume appears in the scripture with his Kanji of Rage. Brron then tells Judai to go ahead, keep attacking, add more of his friends to the pages of the Sacred Scriptures of Wickedness. Blah blah blah, Fubuki realizes what's going on, Asuka continues to be painfully Out of Character, while Kenzan is the one who gets to yell at Judai for having gotten them all into this mess. Brron thinks to himself that it is good that they keep fighting, their negative emotions shall be the sacrifices to awaken "that card". Ah, that old bit of tripe. The blank card by the way now has blood vessels on it. That makes no sense. Judai falls to his knees in abject horror, Brron asks him if he has anything else he would like to do this turn, and takes Judai's silence as a "No". Blah blah blah, Brron notices that one of the sacrifices is missing, this entire plan is ludicrously convoluted, and now over to Shou. His Sonic Duck is getting a drink of water, I die a little inside every time I write "Sonic Duck", and Shou is moping.
Blah blah blah, even Shinji Ikari would think this was a bit much, and Goldd and Silva find him. They leap in, taunt him rather then just immediately knocking him out, and now we cut back to duel. The monsters in the stands are cheering, Judai apologizes to his monsters and not to his friends, and he just can't fight anymore. Brron takes his turn anyway, and summons Zure. Yes, this is supposed to be the same Zure that Judai killed. This makes absolutely no difference at all. Zure attacks Sparkman, destroying it for 200 points of damage, Kenzan then yells at Judai to hurry up and save them, as opposed to coddling the poor little prick like he would most assuredly do if his emotions were not being magically manipulated, honest. Judai, overwhelmed by the realization that dealing damage to Brron will kill his friends, knows that it would be better if he were to die instead, though for some reason he doesn't just surrender like he could. But Brron mocks him, saying that there will be no peaceful death for him, Judai's friends will be made to suffer sadness and hatred because of him, and just laughs at him. End Episode.
NEXT TIME! The duel continues, Shou is apparently rescued or something, and it appears that Asuka, Fubuki, and Kenzan shall be dead before long. EPISODE TITLE, ACTIVATE SACRED SCRIPTURES OF WICKEDNESS! REIGN, OVERLORD OF DARK WORLD card of the week is air hummingbird, though i've no idea why.
I am now reminded of Linkara's review of Countdown to Final Crisis, which would mean-spiritedly kill off lots of characters for shock value. Yeah, this season is going to be a bloodbath from this point on. And guess who doesn't die after all this? Go on, guess.
TITLE SCREEN! JUDAI VS. BRRON, MAD KING OF DARK WORLD why don't the writers just marry judai if they love him so much?
So Judai's going into a tunnel in the mountains, or hills, whatever, and he finds a group of Dark World monsters that apparently didn't get the memo about Zure getting killed. He then duels all of them at they same time, while the rest of the group just sits outside with their thumbs up their asses. No, don't go and help him, you might be mildly injured, and only Judai is brave enough to face such terrible danger. Excuse me while I wretch. *Wretches*. That's better. Yeah, also, all Judai had to do was to summon Flame Wingman. They don't even bother showing the fight, it's just a given that Judai will win. Fubuki, meanwhile, tries to strum on his ukulele, but his heart, it's just not in it. Everyone else just whines as opposed to doing anything productive or in character, because if they were to do so, the carefully crafted plot and point of this entire would just fall apart. Oh, and this is rich, Asuka is saying that they're not "heroes", so they can't do these sorts of things. I'm going to keep bringing this up, because it bears being brought up; WHERE THE HELL IS THE ASUKA WHO CHALLENGED TITAN TO A DUEL OF DARKNESS TO GET HER BROTHER'S MEMORIES BACK? Oh, right, we can't acknowledge previous characterization or accomplishments. Because that would be dumb. Blah blah blah, there is mounting consent that Judai is oblivious to the consequences that his actions have on them, and apparently Jim and O'Brien find this alarming, or something. I've no idea why, it makes perfect sense for everyone to get fed up with Judai's bullshit. And now Judai's back. He's got a map and...a herd of giant green ducks with buckets on their heads. They are called Sonic Ducks, and I can confirm that they are a real card.
For all the many, many, MANY failings of this season in general, and this arc in particular, one thing that it has not failed at up to this point was a consistent mood and tone. This is a world of despair and darkness, where you could die at any given moment. And now they bring in giant green ducks with buckets on their heads. Thus, that consistent mood and tone has now been lost, and will never ever come back again. Judai wants everyone to ride them with him to the next fortress, and notice how chipper he is. Notice how he wants everyone to come with him, even though for the past three or four episodes he couldn't abandon them quickly enough. This is of course so that when Manjoume yells at him that they have no idea if Johan is even at the next fortress, Manjoume will look like the bad guy. How trite. Manjoume asks what the hell Judai plans to do if Johan isn't there either, and Judai, like the past dozen or so episodes didn't even happen, blithely declares that they'll just go to the next fortress until they do find Johan. After all, it's a very big world, so Johan HAS to be somewhere around here! That sound you just heard was Logic's corpse getting tossed into a dumpster. And then Judai just takes off, saying that he'll go on with or without them with a big stupid grin on his face. Our hero, ladies and gentleman; refusing to listen to or even acknowledge his supposed friends. Naturally, Jim and O'Brien are on their Sonic Ducks, saying that they need to move on anyway what with being in the middle of enemy territory, though where exactly they could hope to find territory that isn't enemy territory in this place is left unanswered. And then a Sonic Duck picks up Shou with its bill, and they start playing stupid comic relief music. Wow, this is even stupider than I could have imagined. Seriously, why the hell did that just happen? It makes no fucking sense!
And now everyone is riding the exceptionally stupid looking Sonic Ducks, and I have to wonder if someone was playing Final Fantasy when working on this episode, because that's the only way shoving in these random stupid ducks makes any sense, and even then, it doesn't. Now we're with Judai racing ahead, and he just knows that Johan is alive somewhere in this world, he just does. Shot of that stupid comet that will never make sense, and up on the cliffs is a silver monster, looking down at Judai as the one who killed Zure. He is joined by a golden monster, who exposits to the audience that Bronn the Mad King will deal with Judai, their targets are Judai's friends. Cut to stupid un-funny antics as the entire group manages to lose their Sonic Ducks. Except for Shou, who apparently got dragged off somewhere else by his Sonic Duck. Like I give a damn. Blah blah blah, everyone complains about how Judai's forgotten all about them and they also came to rescue Johan, and now the kanji for rage randomly appears on Manjoume's neck. Oh look, now he's enraged at Judai's epic selfishness. Kenzan's kanji of hatred also appears on his shoulder, and he is full of hate for Judai's asshattery. Fubuki's kanji of anguish appears on the back of his hand, and he just wishes that Judai would listen to them. Asuka's kanji of sadness appears on her arm, and does anyone else find it weird that no one is noticing how magical glowing text is appearing on their bodies? Anyway, she's just sad that Judai is saving Johan for the sake of his own heart or something, making him a hypocrite. That seems a rather obtuse thing to be sad about. What, Asuka doesn't have anything personal to be sad about? Okay, granted, it's not like anyone's having any thoughts that don't revolve around Judai, but even so...Manjoume declares that he wants to punch Judai in the face for being such an epic shithead, I fully agree with this plan, while Kenzan wonders how the hell they'll do that without their mounts. Meanwhile, Fubuki and Asuka have been reduced to sad sacks. You can tell they're my favorite characters, because they're getting screwed over even harder than everyone else.
And now those monsters from before are laughing, they leap down the cliff and declare that they'll be taking them to Mad King Brron's fortress. Manjoume steps forward to duel them, but Asuka is all "No, you can't, you might die!". Yes, because just standing there and doing nothing to defend yourselves from the vicious monsters before you makes so much more sense! Honestly, I know they're supposed to be under magically manipulated durress, but this is just fucking ridiculous. Seriously, it is just goddamned painful to see Asuka being made to act like this. Blah blah blah, Asuka and Fubuki identify them as Goldd and Silva, five-star monsters, so apparently they should be a tough challenge, and Kenzan says he's a duelist in any world, and it's horrifying that Kenzan is actually saying something sensible. Blah blah blah, Goldd and Silva are under orders to take them in alive, so they just knock the group out. Because only Judai has the plot power to force duels, apparently. Oh, but what is this? They were supposed to capture five people, but there are only four! Well, they'll just go ahead and take these five to Mad King Bronn, look for the fifth later. There is a 5Ds joke here that is beyond hilarious. Oh yeah, Shou is still being dragged along by his Sonic Duck. Blah blah blah, the kanji for doubt appears on his cheek, Shou realizes no one will come to save him, stupid high leap, and the Sonic Duck appears to be running in the direction of that damn comet. Why? I've no fucking clue.
EYECATCH!
So Judai's reached the next fortress, and for no discernible reason he has absolutely no difficulty getting his Sonic Duck to follow directions. Consistency? What the hell is that? He gets off, and now Jim and O'Brien have caught up to him, having somehow managed to have gotten there without running into Goldd and Silva. Jim says that the others are missing, something may have happened to them. Judai agrees that that would be bad, so could they go take care of them? Jim and O'Brien yell at Judai's short-sighted selfishness, even reminding him that the only reason he made it to this place was because everyone worked together to open that random portal back at Duel Academia. Then they get Judai to agree to wait for them while they go find out what happened to their friends, and then Judai immediately breaks his promise, going on about how he's never stopped to think before in his life, lots of stupid flashbacks, he needs to rescue Johan right away. Judai waltzes into the seemingly empty fortress, and now there are sconces and lots of monsters. And now we meet Brron the Mad King. He looks exactly like you'd imagine. Judai says he's here for Johan and Freed's friends, and Brron says it's possible that they've been brought here, humans from many worlds have been brought here, and then points to the sand at Judai's feet. He explains that the sand has absorbed many humans who were slaughtered by monsters for their amusement. Judai imagines Johan getting horribly killed, Brron says that if Judai wants to know more, he'll have to beat him and oh hey, here comes this episode's duel. For some reason Judai is reluctant about having to kill Brron, a courtesy he did not extend to any of the monster's he's killed up to this point, blah blah blah, Judai says he'll sacrifice everything to save Johan, and the duel begins.
Brron goes first and summons Broww Huntsman of Dark World in attack position, and then activates the permanent spell card Sacred Scriptures of Wickedness. Then Brron tosses a blank card up in the air, which floats above the Scriptures. But before Judai can find out what the hell that's all about, there's a rumbling in the ground, and four platforms rise, bearing Manjoume, Kenzan, Asuka, and Fubuki. Okay, how the fucking hell did Silva and Goldd get back to the fortress and set this up, before Judai did, or even without him noticing? Honestly, how is any of this being done? There's obviously some "greater plan" at work here, but the hows of how the hell this is all being coordinated are left utterly unexplained. Also, if Shou was supposed to be captured as well, shouldn't there be a fifth platform for him? Oh, wait, that would make sense. Granted, a similar such issue arises in the Death-T arc of the original manga, but you'd think that with experience, these people could avoid repeating that sort of mistake. You'd be wrong. Their magic kanji markers randomly appear again, Judai demands to know what Brron has planned for his friends, and Bronn says that Judai will soon find out, and ends his turn. Judai swears he'll save his friends, because they are truly his highest priority, honest, and summons Sparkman. He attacks Broww, destroying it for 200 points of damage, but now Bronn declares that he now gets to take Wicked Doctrine Rage from his deck, and send it to his grave. At this moment Manjoume comes to, and damn is he pissed. Not, you know, because of any stupid magic marker bullshit, but because he's been chained into place thanks to Judai's epic asshattery. He notices Asuka, Fubuki, and Kenzan in the same condition as himself, Judai yells to him, asking if he's "fine", and Manjoume yells at him for being such a colossal twit. He yells at him, saying that even though they all came here together to save Johan, Judai has ignored them all and been running off on his own without any concern for them. And now the rest of the group wakes up.
Judai tries to defend himself, but fails miserably on the grounds that Manjoume is absolutely right to call him out on all his bullshit. Manjoume declares that Judai was a selfish twit who only ever thought about himself, and that they were all fools to trust in their friendship with him. This apparently causes the magic marker kanji to lift off his neck and fly into the Sacred Scriptures of Wickedness. And then Manjoume, along with Ojamas Green and Black, die. Yellow survives. Wow. I can't believe they fucking went through with it. They just killed Manjoume. He's dead now. I mean, for all intents and purposes, he may as well have been dead since season two for all the difference and development he's gotten since then, but still...everyone's yelling now, and Manjoume appears in the scripture with his Kanji of Rage. Brron then tells Judai to go ahead, keep attacking, add more of his friends to the pages of the Sacred Scriptures of Wickedness. Blah blah blah, Fubuki realizes what's going on, Asuka continues to be painfully Out of Character, while Kenzan is the one who gets to yell at Judai for having gotten them all into this mess. Brron thinks to himself that it is good that they keep fighting, their negative emotions shall be the sacrifices to awaken "that card". Ah, that old bit of tripe. The blank card by the way now has blood vessels on it. That makes no sense. Judai falls to his knees in abject horror, Brron asks him if he has anything else he would like to do this turn, and takes Judai's silence as a "No". Blah blah blah, Brron notices that one of the sacrifices is missing, this entire plan is ludicrously convoluted, and now over to Shou. His Sonic Duck is getting a drink of water, I die a little inside every time I write "Sonic Duck", and Shou is moping.
Blah blah blah, even Shinji Ikari would think this was a bit much, and Goldd and Silva find him. They leap in, taunt him rather then just immediately knocking him out, and now we cut back to duel. The monsters in the stands are cheering, Judai apologizes to his monsters and not to his friends, and he just can't fight anymore. Brron takes his turn anyway, and summons Zure. Yes, this is supposed to be the same Zure that Judai killed. This makes absolutely no difference at all. Zure attacks Sparkman, destroying it for 200 points of damage, Kenzan then yells at Judai to hurry up and save them, as opposed to coddling the poor little prick like he would most assuredly do if his emotions were not being magically manipulated, honest. Judai, overwhelmed by the realization that dealing damage to Brron will kill his friends, knows that it would be better if he were to die instead, though for some reason he doesn't just surrender like he could. But Brron mocks him, saying that there will be no peaceful death for him, Judai's friends will be made to suffer sadness and hatred because of him, and just laughs at him. End Episode.
NEXT TIME! The duel continues, Shou is apparently rescued or something, and it appears that Asuka, Fubuki, and Kenzan shall be dead before long. EPISODE TITLE, ACTIVATE SACRED SCRIPTURES OF WICKEDNESS! REIGN, OVERLORD OF DARK WORLD card of the week is air hummingbird, though i've no idea why.
I am now reminded of Linkara's review of Countdown to Final Crisis, which would mean-spiritedly kill off lots of characters for shock value. Yeah, this season is going to be a bloodbath from this point on. And guess who doesn't die after all this? Go on, guess.