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Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 138
Lightning flashes as we see some random old man and little boy with a duel disc on his arm sitting at the side of the road. Well, it's a wooden play duel disc, but whatever, it won't make any difference. Suddenly, two cloaked figures approach, the old man tells the boy, Nero, to stop what he's doing, and it's obvious that it's Jim and O'Brien, on account of Jim having his crocodile strapped to his back, wrapped in bandages. You know, for someone who says that Karen the Crocodile is his "Family", he sure doesn't treat it like family. Also, where the hell did they pick up those cloaks and bandages? For that matter, why pick them up in the first place? I mean, it's not like they bothered with them in the preceding six episodes they've been in this bullshit alternate dimension, so what the hell changed their minds? Also, for some reason Jim has a picture of Judai on his person. I've absolutely no idea why he would have such a thing, much less keep it his person at all times, but whatever, he shows it to the old man and kid, asking if they'd seen him anywhere. So let me get this straight...they leave Judai to his own devices on account of his grotesque asshat behavior, and now they want to find him again? In any event, the old man asks if Judai's a duelist, Jim says yes, and Old Man says they should give up, since all duelists these days are being hunted down like prey. And now that there are imporatant people on the scene, Old Man is allowed to tell Nero to stop messing with that play duel disc, lest people think that he's a real duelist, but Nero insists that he wants to protect his grandpa. Let me guess, he's going to be horribly killed? Suddenly, foot falls, and monster American Football players arrive, and the old man says that they're part of the Duelist Hunters of the Supreme King's army. Here's another thing that bothers me...how much time has passed, exactly? No, not even exactly, generally would suffice. I mean, has it been hours? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Okay, probably not years, but considering how this season has been covering pretty much every minute of everything that's been going on without any significant time gaps between episodes, the implicit passage of time is difficult to parse. Blah blah blah, Jim and O'Brien go to duel the two stupid monsters, abandoning the stupid and pointless cloaks for no particular reason. Lightning flashes, and we cut to a castle where many monsters are chanting in prayer for the Supreme King. At the top of the castle is an armored figure who I'd imagine to be the Supreme King that everyone's been talking about and there's no way the writers are being the least bit coy about his true identity or anything like that so don't bother guessing, his highest minions tell him that the North and East are completely under their heel, the West shall soon fall, only the South remains, what are your orders, Supreme King? In order for the logistics of this to even come close to working, something on the order of a month or two has to have passed since the last episode. So naturally, it will be revealed that it's been only a few hours. Just to piss me off. I mean, that does seem to be the guiding principal that the writing staff follows.
TITLE SCREEN! DESCENT OF THE SUPREME KING - THE DEATH DUELISTS if the writers had any sense of humor, these death duelists would really suck and would die even faster than usual.
Oh hey, Jim and O'Brien killed off the monsters off screen. What a shock. Why was it again that Asuka, Fubuki, Manjoume, Kenzan, and Shou were such cowards who steadfastly refused to duel even to save their own lives, while Jim and O'Brien have no such problem? Oh, right, because the writers hate all the characters from Season One and Two, except for Judai. Blah blah blah, the Old Man drops exposition about the Supreme King, who appeared out of nowhere and has been having his forces capture duelists and take them to his castle, and none have returned. Also, he's trying to take over the world. Jim wonders if Judai might be at the Supreme King's castle, the writers can barely restrain themselves from going DUM-DUM-DUMM, DRAMATIC REVERB! O'Brien is skeptical about the possibility that anyone could capture Judai, but Jim helpfully reminds us of how depressed Judai became after he'd gotten all his friends killed for no good reason, and now for shit which presumably happened while we were busy watching Shou whine and mope to no effect. Jim wakes up to see Judai visiting the graves of the friends who's lives he so callously snuffed out, and...what the hell is this? This is not showing what happened, this is a retcon, plain and simple. We saw Judai getting abandoned by everyone, there was no place for this scene. Jim, for no discernible reason, tries to assure Judai that the deaths of his friends wasn't his fault, which is not only false, but I've no idea why the hell Jim is even doing this. Fuck, Jim has demonstrated a closer and stronger bond to Asuka, referring to her as Tomorrow Girl and everything, and yet somehow he's not the least bit pissed at Judai for getting her killed or anything. Really, this is just another repetition of the writer's conviction that the only character who's feelings matters are Judai's. Thus, this retconnned in bullshit about Jim being worried about Judai's loss of spirit.
Back in the present, blah blah blah, we're all still good friends of Judai even though this makes absolutely no sense, a shot of that stupid comet again, Jim has another vision of it turning around and falling towards him, Jim says that it's coming for him and grips his bandaged right eye. O'Brien asks him about it, and Jim just says that his right eye is whispering to him. Okay...and now it's time for another flashback. Jim is a little kid wandering the wilderness without any sort of adult supervision, because that's how the people down in Australia roll, and he has both of his eyes. Jim uses a stick to trigger a trap left by poachers, and calls out to Karen. She comes, but oh noes, she's about to step right into a trap, whatever will little Jim do? Why, he jumps on her, which somehow results in them being tossed over the side of the conveniently located cliff and into the river. PHYSICS! Also, this is apparently how he lost his eye. You've got to love those global injuries that only result in very localized damage. And back in the present, Jim declares that he wants to save his friend Judai. You know, that kid he barely knows, and just the other day got damn near everyone killed? Jesus, Judai is such an epic Gary Stu, there is literally nothing he can do that will get people to stop loving him. And now we cut to Jim and O'Brien, along with Nero and the Old Man who clearly doesn't deserve a name, riding on some stupid fossil based vehicle. What, did Jim just summon that damn thing? And if he did...couldn't the others have summoned their own monsters and shit to useful effect? CONSISTENCY, THIS SHOW WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! Also, this is just really stupid looking, and would wreck the mood if the already piss poor writing hadn't already seen to that. Blah blah blah, they arrive at their destination village, and oh noes, it is under attack. But fear not, there is a guy with a ridiculously big shield and sword, Total Defense Shogun. Blah blah blah, he goes to fight the attacking monsters, and this is when Jim and company arrive. Total Defense Shogun, who's name is Burgundy, thinks that Jim and company are also here to attack the village, and before the Old Man can defuse the situation, Burgundy smacks Jim down with the flat of his giant sword. Umm, if Burgundy thought that Jim was an enemy, why didn't he strike with the cutting edge of his sword? Because, slapstick! Also, the evil monsters run away.
And now for more retcon action, as Jim dreams/remembers about the good times with Judai. Naturally, since no such scenes ever existed, the writers just make one up out of whole cloth. Jim is having memories of when he first arrived at Duel Academia...which if this were to be consistent, would be him standing on stage and shit in front of everyone. But since consistency is for losers, he's instead just randomly running into Judai outside of the Osiris Red dorm. Also, apparently Judai, Shou, and Kenzan are trying to feed Karen. You know, the crocodile that he's always carrying on his back, and never lets down except for specific plot related reasons? Yeah, that crocodile. Anyway, this whole scene is long, drawn-out, tedious, and is impossible to fit into the timeline established in this season. Really, what I think happened is that in the outline, the writers decided that Judai and Jim were supposed to become good friends, but they ended up focusing entirely on Judai's "friendship" with Johan, and so when they got to this point, they decided to forcefully insert what they'd totally meant to write all along. That, or they're just making this shit up as they go along without any clue how to work it into any sort of coherent plot line. I'll stick with the latter. Skipping over the rest of that inane bit of retcon, Jim wakes up in a cottage in the village. Also, someone is strumming a harp. Her name is Claret, subtle, and she is the Duel Monster Spirit Spirit of the Harp. Blah blah blah, Karen watched over him the whole time, Burgundy enters and apologizes for attacking Jim, saying he thought he was with the Supreme King. O'Brien enters as well, saying that no one in the village has any information about Judai, and now for exposition. This village is comprised of refuges who are fleeing the Supreme King, and Burgundy says that he'd prefer it if Jim and O'Brien stuck around to help defend the village, since if they leave they'll certainly be killed by the Supreme King. Claret says something to make Burgundy laugh, but Jim says that they'll have to go and rescue Judai, who's probably been captured by the Supreme King, Burgundy and Claret ask why on earth he would do something so suicidally stupid, and Jim says that it's because they're friends.
I roll my eyes like woah, and so they leave in the incredibly stupid fossil vehicle which I'm guessing runs off Fossil Fuels, ba-dum-tish, the little boy waves goodbye and hopes for the best, ensuring that he will be horribly killed, blah blah blah, and even Burgundy has gotten sick and tired of all those pointless shots of that stupid comet. Also, O'Brien doesn't like this plan, but he won't abandon Jim, unlike that asshole Judai.
EYECATCH!
Driving along, flashback to directions being provided by Burgundy which couldn't be shown at the time because...shut up, that's why. And now Jim and O'Brien have arrived at the Supreme King's castle. They come in closer, Jim is freaked by the complete absence of any guards, and O'Brien gives total discretionary control of the mission over to the white guy. Because there's no possibly way that could have any awkward subtext or anything like that. They go in, and there are molten pits with Duel Discs sticking out of them. I'm guessing that's what's left of all the captured duelists. And now for a monster who in no way resembles Hojo from Final Fantasy VII, Kozaky. He explains that this is where the Supreme King claimed the souls of many duelists to complete the ultimate card, blah blah blah, all the duelists are dead you dumb twit, and more boring blah blah blah as Kozaky formally introduces himself. O'Brien realizes this means Judai has to be dead, but Jim will hear none of it, on account of their super special awesome friendship that didn't exist until this episode. Also, this is still the same Judai who'd gotten nearly every last one of his friends killed out of sheer raging dumbassery, but as has been painstakingly established, we're only allowed to see that in terms of the effect it had on Judai, and not on anyone else. Blah blah blah, Kozaky can't stand to be ignored, and yells that the Supreme King has already gone to the south, where Burgundy and company are...and somehow Jim and O'Brien managed to pass right by the Supreme King and his army, neither of them aware of the other's presence. I've no idea how this could have happened. Jim and O'Brien agree that they need to get back to where they were five minutes ago, and Kozaky challenges them to a duel. Even though Jim openly acknowledges this as a pointless waste of time, he accepts the challenge, because going two episodes without a duel is verboten.
Jim goes first. He summons Weathering Soldier in defense and ends his turn. Kozaky is next, and he summons Chaosrider Gustaph, who rides a motorcycle. You know, if that got summoned during 5Ds, that would be all kinds of meta. Then he plays Dual Summon, allowing him to perform another normal summon, and so summons another Chaosrider Gustaph. Blah blah blah, and Kozaky plays the Ritual Spell card Revival of Dokuorider, sacrificing the sixth level Gadget Soldier from his hand to Ritual Summon the Level 6 Dokuorider with 1900 attack points. Next, he activates the effect of his first Chaosrider Gustoph, removing both spell cards in his grave from play to increase its attack power 600 points to 2000 until the end of Jim's next turn. Really stupid cheesy effect that I'm sure is supposed to be a reference to Kamen Rider and is just grossly out of place here, Kozaky attacks three times, destroying Weathering Soldier, and leaving Jim with just 100 life points. Oh, this is just fucking precious...Jim says that the pain he's feeling now is NOTHING compared to the pain that Judai's feeling in his heart...that's weird, my brain just exploded. Do I really need to go over why this is bullshit, AGAIN! Blah blah blah, Judai is such a brave and noble soul, I can feel the bones in my fingers breaking themselves in rage, and Jim takes his turn. He plays Fossil Fusion, removing Weathering Soldier in his grave and Gadget Soldier in Kozaky's to summon Mesozoic Fossil Machine Skullwagon. Next up, time stream, paying half his life points and sacrificing Skullwagon for Skullconvoy. It has 2100 attack points, and can attack up to three of the opponent's monsters, so it attacks and destroys all three of Kozaky's monsters, doing 1000 points of battle damage. And then Jim walks away. Kozaky's all 'what the hell, you can't quit the duel in the middle', and Jim explains that every time Skullconvoy destroys a monster, it deals 1000 damage to the opponent. So, yeah, Kozaky lost the duel. Big fucking woop.
So Jim and O'Brien are about to head out, but they can hear the Supreme King's forces approaching, and smoke rises in the distance, indicating that the village has already been destroyed. Oh noes, we'd formed such a powerful emotional attachment to it, how ever will we ever be able to forgive that horrible Supreme King? Apparently O'Brien thinks that it would be a good idea to run higher up into the Supreme King's castle to find a place to hide. And he's supposed to be the soldier of the group...yeah, BoukenPink would totally crush O'Brien beneath her heel. We are now shown still frames of Supreme King destroying the village, and apparently this is all being seen by Jim, who's apparently randomly developed Clairvoyance or some shit like that. And yep, that brat we met at the beginning of the episode is horribly dead. Who'd have thunk? Jim is shocked by the Supreme King's cruelty, who could possibly do such horrible things, and I'm about to have some delicious schadenfreude pie. Oh, and now Burgundy is crawling out of the village, and then he dies. That was pointless. Jim is well and truly pissed, declaring that he'll never forgive the Supreme King, gosh, I wonder if anything dramatically ironic is about to happen? Jim runs down to face the Supreme King, O'Brien yells at him to stop, and Jim yells his challenge for everyone to hear, getting the Supreme King's attention. FYI, the Supreme King is wearing a mask solely for contrived dramatic effect, as we will see in not too long a time. ZOMG, he lifted up his iron mask, and BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, IT IS JUDAI WITH THOSE STUPID GARY STU GOLD EYES, AND HE'S IN THIS STUPIDLY ELABORATE SUIT OF ARMOR, DESPERATELY TRYING TO COME OFF ALL DARK AND EVIL AND SHIT, AND FAILING SO MISERABLY, NOT EVEN EPIC FAIL CAN ENCOMPASS HOW STUPID THIS IS! In any event, Jim and O'Brien are totes shocked, and the episode ends.
NEXT TIME! Everyone is in shock that Judai's turned evil, Judai's minions smack Jim and O'Brien around, but Jim swears by his right eye that the real Judai's still in there, and he's going to rescue him. Also, apparently Jim calls Judai his "spiritual friend", which is beyond stupid. EPISODE TITLE, DARK FUSION! INFERNO WING card of the week is skullconvoy, which like the vast majority of jim's cards, was never released.
The sheer extent and intent of the retcons in this episode...this is depraved. Four people are dead, and all anyone can think about is how bad Judai's feeling about it. Fuck these fucking writers. And yes, it will get worse.
TITLE SCREEN! DESCENT OF THE SUPREME KING - THE DEATH DUELISTS if the writers had any sense of humor, these death duelists would really suck and would die even faster than usual.
Oh hey, Jim and O'Brien killed off the monsters off screen. What a shock. Why was it again that Asuka, Fubuki, Manjoume, Kenzan, and Shou were such cowards who steadfastly refused to duel even to save their own lives, while Jim and O'Brien have no such problem? Oh, right, because the writers hate all the characters from Season One and Two, except for Judai. Blah blah blah, the Old Man drops exposition about the Supreme King, who appeared out of nowhere and has been having his forces capture duelists and take them to his castle, and none have returned. Also, he's trying to take over the world. Jim wonders if Judai might be at the Supreme King's castle, the writers can barely restrain themselves from going DUM-DUM-DUMM, DRAMATIC REVERB! O'Brien is skeptical about the possibility that anyone could capture Judai, but Jim helpfully reminds us of how depressed Judai became after he'd gotten all his friends killed for no good reason, and now for shit which presumably happened while we were busy watching Shou whine and mope to no effect. Jim wakes up to see Judai visiting the graves of the friends who's lives he so callously snuffed out, and...what the hell is this? This is not showing what happened, this is a retcon, plain and simple. We saw Judai getting abandoned by everyone, there was no place for this scene. Jim, for no discernible reason, tries to assure Judai that the deaths of his friends wasn't his fault, which is not only false, but I've no idea why the hell Jim is even doing this. Fuck, Jim has demonstrated a closer and stronger bond to Asuka, referring to her as Tomorrow Girl and everything, and yet somehow he's not the least bit pissed at Judai for getting her killed or anything. Really, this is just another repetition of the writer's conviction that the only character who's feelings matters are Judai's. Thus, this retconnned in bullshit about Jim being worried about Judai's loss of spirit.
Back in the present, blah blah blah, we're all still good friends of Judai even though this makes absolutely no sense, a shot of that stupid comet again, Jim has another vision of it turning around and falling towards him, Jim says that it's coming for him and grips his bandaged right eye. O'Brien asks him about it, and Jim just says that his right eye is whispering to him. Okay...and now it's time for another flashback. Jim is a little kid wandering the wilderness without any sort of adult supervision, because that's how the people down in Australia roll, and he has both of his eyes. Jim uses a stick to trigger a trap left by poachers, and calls out to Karen. She comes, but oh noes, she's about to step right into a trap, whatever will little Jim do? Why, he jumps on her, which somehow results in them being tossed over the side of the conveniently located cliff and into the river. PHYSICS! Also, this is apparently how he lost his eye. You've got to love those global injuries that only result in very localized damage. And back in the present, Jim declares that he wants to save his friend Judai. You know, that kid he barely knows, and just the other day got damn near everyone killed? Jesus, Judai is such an epic Gary Stu, there is literally nothing he can do that will get people to stop loving him. And now we cut to Jim and O'Brien, along with Nero and the Old Man who clearly doesn't deserve a name, riding on some stupid fossil based vehicle. What, did Jim just summon that damn thing? And if he did...couldn't the others have summoned their own monsters and shit to useful effect? CONSISTENCY, THIS SHOW WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! Also, this is just really stupid looking, and would wreck the mood if the already piss poor writing hadn't already seen to that. Blah blah blah, they arrive at their destination village, and oh noes, it is under attack. But fear not, there is a guy with a ridiculously big shield and sword, Total Defense Shogun. Blah blah blah, he goes to fight the attacking monsters, and this is when Jim and company arrive. Total Defense Shogun, who's name is Burgundy, thinks that Jim and company are also here to attack the village, and before the Old Man can defuse the situation, Burgundy smacks Jim down with the flat of his giant sword. Umm, if Burgundy thought that Jim was an enemy, why didn't he strike with the cutting edge of his sword? Because, slapstick! Also, the evil monsters run away.
And now for more retcon action, as Jim dreams/remembers about the good times with Judai. Naturally, since no such scenes ever existed, the writers just make one up out of whole cloth. Jim is having memories of when he first arrived at Duel Academia...which if this were to be consistent, would be him standing on stage and shit in front of everyone. But since consistency is for losers, he's instead just randomly running into Judai outside of the Osiris Red dorm. Also, apparently Judai, Shou, and Kenzan are trying to feed Karen. You know, the crocodile that he's always carrying on his back, and never lets down except for specific plot related reasons? Yeah, that crocodile. Anyway, this whole scene is long, drawn-out, tedious, and is impossible to fit into the timeline established in this season. Really, what I think happened is that in the outline, the writers decided that Judai and Jim were supposed to become good friends, but they ended up focusing entirely on Judai's "friendship" with Johan, and so when they got to this point, they decided to forcefully insert what they'd totally meant to write all along. That, or they're just making this shit up as they go along without any clue how to work it into any sort of coherent plot line. I'll stick with the latter. Skipping over the rest of that inane bit of retcon, Jim wakes up in a cottage in the village. Also, someone is strumming a harp. Her name is Claret, subtle, and she is the Duel Monster Spirit Spirit of the Harp. Blah blah blah, Karen watched over him the whole time, Burgundy enters and apologizes for attacking Jim, saying he thought he was with the Supreme King. O'Brien enters as well, saying that no one in the village has any information about Judai, and now for exposition. This village is comprised of refuges who are fleeing the Supreme King, and Burgundy says that he'd prefer it if Jim and O'Brien stuck around to help defend the village, since if they leave they'll certainly be killed by the Supreme King. Claret says something to make Burgundy laugh, but Jim says that they'll have to go and rescue Judai, who's probably been captured by the Supreme King, Burgundy and Claret ask why on earth he would do something so suicidally stupid, and Jim says that it's because they're friends.
I roll my eyes like woah, and so they leave in the incredibly stupid fossil vehicle which I'm guessing runs off Fossil Fuels, ba-dum-tish, the little boy waves goodbye and hopes for the best, ensuring that he will be horribly killed, blah blah blah, and even Burgundy has gotten sick and tired of all those pointless shots of that stupid comet. Also, O'Brien doesn't like this plan, but he won't abandon Jim, unlike that asshole Judai.
EYECATCH!
Driving along, flashback to directions being provided by Burgundy which couldn't be shown at the time because...shut up, that's why. And now Jim and O'Brien have arrived at the Supreme King's castle. They come in closer, Jim is freaked by the complete absence of any guards, and O'Brien gives total discretionary control of the mission over to the white guy. Because there's no possibly way that could have any awkward subtext or anything like that. They go in, and there are molten pits with Duel Discs sticking out of them. I'm guessing that's what's left of all the captured duelists. And now for a monster who in no way resembles Hojo from Final Fantasy VII, Kozaky. He explains that this is where the Supreme King claimed the souls of many duelists to complete the ultimate card, blah blah blah, all the duelists are dead you dumb twit, and more boring blah blah blah as Kozaky formally introduces himself. O'Brien realizes this means Judai has to be dead, but Jim will hear none of it, on account of their super special awesome friendship that didn't exist until this episode. Also, this is still the same Judai who'd gotten nearly every last one of his friends killed out of sheer raging dumbassery, but as has been painstakingly established, we're only allowed to see that in terms of the effect it had on Judai, and not on anyone else. Blah blah blah, Kozaky can't stand to be ignored, and yells that the Supreme King has already gone to the south, where Burgundy and company are...and somehow Jim and O'Brien managed to pass right by the Supreme King and his army, neither of them aware of the other's presence. I've no idea how this could have happened. Jim and O'Brien agree that they need to get back to where they were five minutes ago, and Kozaky challenges them to a duel. Even though Jim openly acknowledges this as a pointless waste of time, he accepts the challenge, because going two episodes without a duel is verboten.
Jim goes first. He summons Weathering Soldier in defense and ends his turn. Kozaky is next, and he summons Chaosrider Gustaph, who rides a motorcycle. You know, if that got summoned during 5Ds, that would be all kinds of meta. Then he plays Dual Summon, allowing him to perform another normal summon, and so summons another Chaosrider Gustaph. Blah blah blah, and Kozaky plays the Ritual Spell card Revival of Dokuorider, sacrificing the sixth level Gadget Soldier from his hand to Ritual Summon the Level 6 Dokuorider with 1900 attack points. Next, he activates the effect of his first Chaosrider Gustoph, removing both spell cards in his grave from play to increase its attack power 600 points to 2000 until the end of Jim's next turn. Really stupid cheesy effect that I'm sure is supposed to be a reference to Kamen Rider and is just grossly out of place here, Kozaky attacks three times, destroying Weathering Soldier, and leaving Jim with just 100 life points. Oh, this is just fucking precious...Jim says that the pain he's feeling now is NOTHING compared to the pain that Judai's feeling in his heart...that's weird, my brain just exploded. Do I really need to go over why this is bullshit, AGAIN! Blah blah blah, Judai is such a brave and noble soul, I can feel the bones in my fingers breaking themselves in rage, and Jim takes his turn. He plays Fossil Fusion, removing Weathering Soldier in his grave and Gadget Soldier in Kozaky's to summon Mesozoic Fossil Machine Skullwagon. Next up, time stream, paying half his life points and sacrificing Skullwagon for Skullconvoy. It has 2100 attack points, and can attack up to three of the opponent's monsters, so it attacks and destroys all three of Kozaky's monsters, doing 1000 points of battle damage. And then Jim walks away. Kozaky's all 'what the hell, you can't quit the duel in the middle', and Jim explains that every time Skullconvoy destroys a monster, it deals 1000 damage to the opponent. So, yeah, Kozaky lost the duel. Big fucking woop.
So Jim and O'Brien are about to head out, but they can hear the Supreme King's forces approaching, and smoke rises in the distance, indicating that the village has already been destroyed. Oh noes, we'd formed such a powerful emotional attachment to it, how ever will we ever be able to forgive that horrible Supreme King? Apparently O'Brien thinks that it would be a good idea to run higher up into the Supreme King's castle to find a place to hide. And he's supposed to be the soldier of the group...yeah, BoukenPink would totally crush O'Brien beneath her heel. We are now shown still frames of Supreme King destroying the village, and apparently this is all being seen by Jim, who's apparently randomly developed Clairvoyance or some shit like that. And yep, that brat we met at the beginning of the episode is horribly dead. Who'd have thunk? Jim is shocked by the Supreme King's cruelty, who could possibly do such horrible things, and I'm about to have some delicious schadenfreude pie. Oh, and now Burgundy is crawling out of the village, and then he dies. That was pointless. Jim is well and truly pissed, declaring that he'll never forgive the Supreme King, gosh, I wonder if anything dramatically ironic is about to happen? Jim runs down to face the Supreme King, O'Brien yells at him to stop, and Jim yells his challenge for everyone to hear, getting the Supreme King's attention. FYI, the Supreme King is wearing a mask solely for contrived dramatic effect, as we will see in not too long a time. ZOMG, he lifted up his iron mask, and BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, IT IS JUDAI WITH THOSE STUPID GARY STU GOLD EYES, AND HE'S IN THIS STUPIDLY ELABORATE SUIT OF ARMOR, DESPERATELY TRYING TO COME OFF ALL DARK AND EVIL AND SHIT, AND FAILING SO MISERABLY, NOT EVEN EPIC FAIL CAN ENCOMPASS HOW STUPID THIS IS! In any event, Jim and O'Brien are totes shocked, and the episode ends.
NEXT TIME! Everyone is in shock that Judai's turned evil, Judai's minions smack Jim and O'Brien around, but Jim swears by his right eye that the real Judai's still in there, and he's going to rescue him. Also, apparently Jim calls Judai his "spiritual friend", which is beyond stupid. EPISODE TITLE, DARK FUSION! INFERNO WING card of the week is skullconvoy, which like the vast majority of jim's cards, was never released.
The sheer extent and intent of the retcons in this episode...this is depraved. Four people are dead, and all anyone can think about is how bad Judai's feeling about it. Fuck these fucking writers. And yes, it will get worse.