Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 140
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cypsiman2So Jim is dueling Supreme King Judai, and now he no longer feels the need to hide the incredibly stupid Eye of Orichalcum. Also, inane attempt at a Hope Spot, and Judai spouts some inane blather. So for all the surface differences from previous seasons, it really is as stupid as it always has been.
TITLE SCREEN! FIRST AND LAST, SUPER FUSION seriously, you're going to make THAT comparison? no sense of scale or shame for these twits, it would seem.
Inane plot device comet is inane, Supreme King Judai pulls out that lame cheesy dark wind effect, and takes his turn. He plays Oversoul to bring back Featherman, and then he sacrifices him for Evil Hero Malicious Edge, who is exactly like Bladeedge, except that it can be summoned with one tribute if the opponent controls a monster on their side of the field. Judai attacks and destroys Jim's monster for 200 points of damage, and he screams like a wuss as another redundant shot of the comet serves no purpose. And now transition away from the duel to break any potential mounting tension. A woman and child are running through the woods, and the little girl trips, of course. They are of course fleeing the forces of the Supreme King, and...what the hell is this shit? What the fuck is the point of trying to pull a scary eyeglasses/face in shadow bit with Shou? Also, where the hell did he get that cloak? I asked the same question about Edo and Ryou, and I feel fully justified in asking it again here. Blah blah blah, Shou tells them to be quiet, we see a bunch of monsters scouting the woods for people to kill, going on about how the Supreme King is dueling someone at his castle, I've no idea how they heard all this when they're out in the middle of the woods, people on this show just magically know what's going on everywhere, except when they don't. Shou points out a safer direction, how he would have made this determination I've no idea, and he goes on about that stupid "I must watch over Judai and do absolutely nothing because that's what REAL friends do! Also, real friends don't get mad at their friends for getting their mutual friends killed." drivel from a few episodes ago. And if we were to be doing a drinking game based on the comet being pointlessly shown off, I would be dead by now.
And now back to the duel. Judai's minions engage in blather and trash talk, blah blah blah, and Jim recovers, getting back to his feet. More blah blah blah, Judai says he won't let Jim die easily and makes his eyes glow. Ooooh, scary! And now O'Brien is going on about how he's been on battlefields all his life but never has he felt like this, as though his soul had been frozen! Yeah, writers, you can knock it off, there is no way to convincingly present Judai as threatening villain. Jim finally takes his turn, and then plays the field spell The Holy Ground's Guarding Bounds. Change of scenery, and then Jim summons Guardian of Uluru with 2300 defense points, which activates his field spell's effect, putting a Protection Counter onto the Rock monster Jim just normal summoned. When the monster would be destroyed, remove the counter instead. And that's it for Jim, so Judai takes his turn. He has Malicious Edge attack, and even though it doesn't destroy Jim's monster, it still does damage with its effect, leaving Jim with just 450 life points. And Jim goes on again about how he's doing all this for his super bestest best friend in the whole wide world, are you listening, Judai in the darkness of your heart, Jim believes in this battle of friend. You know what? I just realized something. This is supposed to be like what happened in the original series...with Malik. Of course, in saying that, one instantly highlights everything that is insane and ludicrous about that comparison, what with Malik possessing genuine character depth even before the emergence of Yami Malik, while Judai is still nothing more than a shallow, brainless git. But back to the show, Jim sets a card and ends his turn. Blah blah blah, one of these days I'm going to look up what a crocodile actually sounds like so I know how badly these guys are getting it wrong, and now Judai takes his turn.
He summons Evil Hero Hell Gainer, with 1600 attack points. More trash talk from the minions, Malicious Edge attacks and destroys Jim's monster for another 300 points of damage, but before Judai can attack with Hell Gainer, Jim activates his permanent trap card Guardian Spirit Uluru; with Guardian of Uluru in the grave, this trap becomes a 2500 defense monster that the opponent must attack. More noise from the minions, and Judai activates Hell Gainer's effect, removing it from play to give Malicious Edge the ability to attack twice during the battle phase, and it will return to the field on his second standby phase. So Malicious Edge attacks again, destroys Jim's trap-monster, and leaves him with just 50 life points. And once again, Jim's face is in the dirt.
EYECATCH!
Comet, and Shou has arrived at the castle, not that this makes any difference since he's expressly stated that he has no intention of actually doing anything, making any and all attention to him a complete waste of time beyond the waste that it already is. Also, since Ojama Yellow is now hanging around Shou, this becomes annoying in addition to being pointless. And now back to the minions engaging in pointless trash talk. Then they start mocking O'Brien and Karen, blah blah blah about this supposed intimidating pressure that Judai is emanating, and while Jim is passed out, he has another retcon flashback of friendship. It is nothing more than a stupid excuse for a painfully stretched metaphor about how Judai is like a fossil, buried under layers of evil Supreme King, so let's just move on. Jim gets back up, hears Old Man P. Lot Device's voice in his head, and says that the time has come. Which has been said something on the order of three times in the past two episodes. Yes, that utterly pointless comet is still there, what the hell is the connection between it and the Eye of Orichalcum, and why the hell should I care? Blah blah blah, Jim is glowing red now, because god knows the original series was definitely lacking in cheesy battle auras to remind us of how special and sparkly the heroes are so that we know that they're better than regular people, and stupid effect of stupidity as Jim does a really slow flash step up to Judai, I think it's supposed to be metaphorical but I don't care, and then Judai growls. It is unbelievably hilarious. And then Jim realizes that so long as the Supreme King has life points left, his voice can't reach Judai, and then Jim takes his turn. He plays Fossil Hammer, destroying Malicious Edge but Judai must then special summon a lower level monster from his grave in attack position. Judai brings back Featherman, and Jim then normal summons Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo, which is completely different from its real world counterpart; in the real card game, it prevents either player from special summoning monsters, and if it gets flipped face-up, all special summoned monsters are immediately destroyed.
Here, in the show? When it attacks, it is switched to defense, and it gains defense power equal to the attack power of the monster it just destroyed until the opponent's end phase. Anyway, it gets a protection counter from Jim's field spell, attacks and destroys Featherman for 300 points of damage, lots of blathering on and on, and then Jim uses his monster's effect to switch into defense with 2300 defense points. Judai's turn, he plays Dark Fusion, combining Sparkman and Clayman into Evil Hero Lightning Golem, who once per turn can destroy one monster on the field, period. He uses this to get rid of the Protection Counter on Jim's monster, and then attacks it to destroy it. And Shou is watching all this, not that anyone would ever care. Jim blathers on about his damn Eye of Orichalcum and how he'll save Judai no matter what, more stupid glowing, and now Jim plays Perforation of Miracle, letting him send a Rock monster from his deck to the grave, and then draw one card. Blah blah blah, will Jim's feelings of "friendship" be able to reach Judai, can he make a miracle, or will it be the miracle that never happen? This is all really ridiculously overdramatic, these writers have never heard the phrase "sometimes less is more", Jim finally draws his card, and then removes Skullpawn and Skullknight in his grave from play to special summon Earth Giant Gaia Plate, with 2800 attack points. Furthermore, when it battles with a monster, that monster's attack and defense power is cut in half. So Jim attacks, Thunder Giant's attack power is reduced to 1200, and Gaia plate does 1600 points of damage, leaving Judai with just 50 life points.
Now, recall that in the last episode, there was a very peculiar math error, whereby Judai ended up having 100 more life points than he should have at the end of that episode? Now you see why. If the writers were to have performed basic arithmetic, the kind they do all the time, Judai would have lost. But Judai can't lose, not yet; there are more Evil Hero cards to advertise, so they just sneak in an extra 100 life points to Judai's total, as though to taunt the viewers with how little respect they have for them. Not to mention, you have all these people watching this duel, and not one of them is able to defy the writers to point this shit out. It's just pathetic. In any event, Jim calls out to Judai once more, but Judai still can't hear him, the Supreme King's grip is still firm. Yes, the stupid comet is glowing red, but it won't bring the miracle that basic math says it should have. Blah blah blah, Supreme King Judai takes his turn, oblivious to how the writers have blatantly cheated to make this move possible, Hell Gainer returns to his side of the field, Jim yells out to Judai, but he's too busy wallowing in his manpain to care, and the magic plot device comet of incoherence disappears. I seriously have no idea what the hell is up with that thing. Supreme King Judai says he'll show them all the supreme power created by the darkness of the heart, and no, it's not a keyblade. It's that stupid Super Fusion card. Judai has to discard one card to activate it, that card is Fake Hero (SYMBOLISM!!!), and by the way, Super Fusion is a quick spell. O'Brien is aghast, Judai has no other monsters in his hand or on his field, how can he possibly perform a fusion summon? Jim is thinking the same thing, and then realizes that Super Fusion is going to use HIS monster as the other material monster. Yes, that's right, the unprecedented ability to use your opponent's monster as a sacrifice to bring out a higher level monster...except that Soul Exchange beat it to the punch.
Also, Jim has been using Fossil Fusion to raid his opponent's grave for material monsters in all his duels, so why is he so aghast about this? This is something he should be familiar with. In any event, Supreme King Judai says that not only does Super Fusion use monsters from either side of the field, it can't be countered by any effect, making it the ultimate symbol of complete victory, so says the guy who's only winning by virtue of the most blatant cheating in the history of ever. Anyway, Hell Gainer and Gaia Plate are fused into Evil Hero Dark Gaia, who's attack power is equal to the sum of the attack power of the monsters used for its fusion summon. This gives it 4400 attack points, more than sufficient to obliterate Jim's life points many times over. O'Brien falls on his ass in terror as he realizes that Jim has nothing on his field to protect himself, Dark Gaia rains a meteor shower onto Jim, Karen crawls up on Jim to try and shield him, blah blah blah, big smoke and explosion, Jim yells out to Judai as his life points hit zero, and Emo Judai watches as Jim's mirror shatters. Now that the duel is over, Karen dies, because apparently death is contagious or something, I don't know, the same thing happened with Ojama Green and Ojama Black, and Jim says "the darkness in Judai's heart is beyond imagining", and I just roll my eyes so goddamn hard. No, no it's not. And now Jim is dead, leaving behind only his duel disc and his Eye of Orichalcum. I really don't know how this is supposed to work, how does this world know what to take and what to leave behind? Oh who gives a shit, the episode is almost over. O'Brien is in shock as he picks up Jim's Eye of Orichalcum, Supreme King Judai asks if O'Brien wants to be next, the magical McGuffin eye begins to glow in O'Brien's hand as he hears Jim's voice begging him to save Judai, and O'Brien, the guy who's been brought up to be a soldier all his life, runs away, screaming and crying in terror. Wow, I'm sure it was just a random coincidence that he just HAPPENED to have the darkest skin tone of anyone in the cast! And does any of this motivate Shou to do a goddamn thing? FUCK NO! Also, that stupid comet is still there, I've no idea why. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Watch and cringe as O'Brien acts like a racist stereotype in complete opposition to every bit of characterization he's received up to this point. Also, Shou wanders around a lot. EPISODE TITLE, THE SUPREME KING OF TERROR! THE WANDERING O'BRIEN card of the week is evil hero dark gaia
What is there to say at this point? Everything about this show is so farcical, so ludicrous, so contrived and forced, that it is impossible to take any of this shit seriously. And yes, it will get worse.
TITLE SCREEN! FIRST AND LAST, SUPER FUSION seriously, you're going to make THAT comparison? no sense of scale or shame for these twits, it would seem.
Inane plot device comet is inane, Supreme King Judai pulls out that lame cheesy dark wind effect, and takes his turn. He plays Oversoul to bring back Featherman, and then he sacrifices him for Evil Hero Malicious Edge, who is exactly like Bladeedge, except that it can be summoned with one tribute if the opponent controls a monster on their side of the field. Judai attacks and destroys Jim's monster for 200 points of damage, and he screams like a wuss as another redundant shot of the comet serves no purpose. And now transition away from the duel to break any potential mounting tension. A woman and child are running through the woods, and the little girl trips, of course. They are of course fleeing the forces of the Supreme King, and...what the hell is this shit? What the fuck is the point of trying to pull a scary eyeglasses/face in shadow bit with Shou? Also, where the hell did he get that cloak? I asked the same question about Edo and Ryou, and I feel fully justified in asking it again here. Blah blah blah, Shou tells them to be quiet, we see a bunch of monsters scouting the woods for people to kill, going on about how the Supreme King is dueling someone at his castle, I've no idea how they heard all this when they're out in the middle of the woods, people on this show just magically know what's going on everywhere, except when they don't. Shou points out a safer direction, how he would have made this determination I've no idea, and he goes on about that stupid "I must watch over Judai and do absolutely nothing because that's what REAL friends do! Also, real friends don't get mad at their friends for getting their mutual friends killed." drivel from a few episodes ago. And if we were to be doing a drinking game based on the comet being pointlessly shown off, I would be dead by now.
And now back to the duel. Judai's minions engage in blather and trash talk, blah blah blah, and Jim recovers, getting back to his feet. More blah blah blah, Judai says he won't let Jim die easily and makes his eyes glow. Ooooh, scary! And now O'Brien is going on about how he's been on battlefields all his life but never has he felt like this, as though his soul had been frozen! Yeah, writers, you can knock it off, there is no way to convincingly present Judai as threatening villain. Jim finally takes his turn, and then plays the field spell The Holy Ground's Guarding Bounds. Change of scenery, and then Jim summons Guardian of Uluru with 2300 defense points, which activates his field spell's effect, putting a Protection Counter onto the Rock monster Jim just normal summoned. When the monster would be destroyed, remove the counter instead. And that's it for Jim, so Judai takes his turn. He has Malicious Edge attack, and even though it doesn't destroy Jim's monster, it still does damage with its effect, leaving Jim with just 450 life points. And Jim goes on again about how he's doing all this for his super bestest best friend in the whole wide world, are you listening, Judai in the darkness of your heart, Jim believes in this battle of friend. You know what? I just realized something. This is supposed to be like what happened in the original series...with Malik. Of course, in saying that, one instantly highlights everything that is insane and ludicrous about that comparison, what with Malik possessing genuine character depth even before the emergence of Yami Malik, while Judai is still nothing more than a shallow, brainless git. But back to the show, Jim sets a card and ends his turn. Blah blah blah, one of these days I'm going to look up what a crocodile actually sounds like so I know how badly these guys are getting it wrong, and now Judai takes his turn.
He summons Evil Hero Hell Gainer, with 1600 attack points. More trash talk from the minions, Malicious Edge attacks and destroys Jim's monster for another 300 points of damage, but before Judai can attack with Hell Gainer, Jim activates his permanent trap card Guardian Spirit Uluru; with Guardian of Uluru in the grave, this trap becomes a 2500 defense monster that the opponent must attack. More noise from the minions, and Judai activates Hell Gainer's effect, removing it from play to give Malicious Edge the ability to attack twice during the battle phase, and it will return to the field on his second standby phase. So Malicious Edge attacks again, destroys Jim's trap-monster, and leaves him with just 50 life points. And once again, Jim's face is in the dirt.
EYECATCH!
Comet, and Shou has arrived at the castle, not that this makes any difference since he's expressly stated that he has no intention of actually doing anything, making any and all attention to him a complete waste of time beyond the waste that it already is. Also, since Ojama Yellow is now hanging around Shou, this becomes annoying in addition to being pointless. And now back to the minions engaging in pointless trash talk. Then they start mocking O'Brien and Karen, blah blah blah about this supposed intimidating pressure that Judai is emanating, and while Jim is passed out, he has another retcon flashback of friendship. It is nothing more than a stupid excuse for a painfully stretched metaphor about how Judai is like a fossil, buried under layers of evil Supreme King, so let's just move on. Jim gets back up, hears Old Man P. Lot Device's voice in his head, and says that the time has come. Which has been said something on the order of three times in the past two episodes. Yes, that utterly pointless comet is still there, what the hell is the connection between it and the Eye of Orichalcum, and why the hell should I care? Blah blah blah, Jim is glowing red now, because god knows the original series was definitely lacking in cheesy battle auras to remind us of how special and sparkly the heroes are so that we know that they're better than regular people, and stupid effect of stupidity as Jim does a really slow flash step up to Judai, I think it's supposed to be metaphorical but I don't care, and then Judai growls. It is unbelievably hilarious. And then Jim realizes that so long as the Supreme King has life points left, his voice can't reach Judai, and then Jim takes his turn. He plays Fossil Hammer, destroying Malicious Edge but Judai must then special summon a lower level monster from his grave in attack position. Judai brings back Featherman, and Jim then normal summons Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo, which is completely different from its real world counterpart; in the real card game, it prevents either player from special summoning monsters, and if it gets flipped face-up, all special summoned monsters are immediately destroyed.
Here, in the show? When it attacks, it is switched to defense, and it gains defense power equal to the attack power of the monster it just destroyed until the opponent's end phase. Anyway, it gets a protection counter from Jim's field spell, attacks and destroys Featherman for 300 points of damage, lots of blathering on and on, and then Jim uses his monster's effect to switch into defense with 2300 defense points. Judai's turn, he plays Dark Fusion, combining Sparkman and Clayman into Evil Hero Lightning Golem, who once per turn can destroy one monster on the field, period. He uses this to get rid of the Protection Counter on Jim's monster, and then attacks it to destroy it. And Shou is watching all this, not that anyone would ever care. Jim blathers on about his damn Eye of Orichalcum and how he'll save Judai no matter what, more stupid glowing, and now Jim plays Perforation of Miracle, letting him send a Rock monster from his deck to the grave, and then draw one card. Blah blah blah, will Jim's feelings of "friendship" be able to reach Judai, can he make a miracle, or will it be the miracle that never happen? This is all really ridiculously overdramatic, these writers have never heard the phrase "sometimes less is more", Jim finally draws his card, and then removes Skullpawn and Skullknight in his grave from play to special summon Earth Giant Gaia Plate, with 2800 attack points. Furthermore, when it battles with a monster, that monster's attack and defense power is cut in half. So Jim attacks, Thunder Giant's attack power is reduced to 1200, and Gaia plate does 1600 points of damage, leaving Judai with just 50 life points.
Now, recall that in the last episode, there was a very peculiar math error, whereby Judai ended up having 100 more life points than he should have at the end of that episode? Now you see why. If the writers were to have performed basic arithmetic, the kind they do all the time, Judai would have lost. But Judai can't lose, not yet; there are more Evil Hero cards to advertise, so they just sneak in an extra 100 life points to Judai's total, as though to taunt the viewers with how little respect they have for them. Not to mention, you have all these people watching this duel, and not one of them is able to defy the writers to point this shit out. It's just pathetic. In any event, Jim calls out to Judai once more, but Judai still can't hear him, the Supreme King's grip is still firm. Yes, the stupid comet is glowing red, but it won't bring the miracle that basic math says it should have. Blah blah blah, Supreme King Judai takes his turn, oblivious to how the writers have blatantly cheated to make this move possible, Hell Gainer returns to his side of the field, Jim yells out to Judai, but he's too busy wallowing in his manpain to care, and the magic plot device comet of incoherence disappears. I seriously have no idea what the hell is up with that thing. Supreme King Judai says he'll show them all the supreme power created by the darkness of the heart, and no, it's not a keyblade. It's that stupid Super Fusion card. Judai has to discard one card to activate it, that card is Fake Hero (SYMBOLISM!!!), and by the way, Super Fusion is a quick spell. O'Brien is aghast, Judai has no other monsters in his hand or on his field, how can he possibly perform a fusion summon? Jim is thinking the same thing, and then realizes that Super Fusion is going to use HIS monster as the other material monster. Yes, that's right, the unprecedented ability to use your opponent's monster as a sacrifice to bring out a higher level monster...except that Soul Exchange beat it to the punch.
Also, Jim has been using Fossil Fusion to raid his opponent's grave for material monsters in all his duels, so why is he so aghast about this? This is something he should be familiar with. In any event, Supreme King Judai says that not only does Super Fusion use monsters from either side of the field, it can't be countered by any effect, making it the ultimate symbol of complete victory, so says the guy who's only winning by virtue of the most blatant cheating in the history of ever. Anyway, Hell Gainer and Gaia Plate are fused into Evil Hero Dark Gaia, who's attack power is equal to the sum of the attack power of the monsters used for its fusion summon. This gives it 4400 attack points, more than sufficient to obliterate Jim's life points many times over. O'Brien falls on his ass in terror as he realizes that Jim has nothing on his field to protect himself, Dark Gaia rains a meteor shower onto Jim, Karen crawls up on Jim to try and shield him, blah blah blah, big smoke and explosion, Jim yells out to Judai as his life points hit zero, and Emo Judai watches as Jim's mirror shatters. Now that the duel is over, Karen dies, because apparently death is contagious or something, I don't know, the same thing happened with Ojama Green and Ojama Black, and Jim says "the darkness in Judai's heart is beyond imagining", and I just roll my eyes so goddamn hard. No, no it's not. And now Jim is dead, leaving behind only his duel disc and his Eye of Orichalcum. I really don't know how this is supposed to work, how does this world know what to take and what to leave behind? Oh who gives a shit, the episode is almost over. O'Brien is in shock as he picks up Jim's Eye of Orichalcum, Supreme King Judai asks if O'Brien wants to be next, the magical McGuffin eye begins to glow in O'Brien's hand as he hears Jim's voice begging him to save Judai, and O'Brien, the guy who's been brought up to be a soldier all his life, runs away, screaming and crying in terror. Wow, I'm sure it was just a random coincidence that he just HAPPENED to have the darkest skin tone of anyone in the cast! And does any of this motivate Shou to do a goddamn thing? FUCK NO! Also, that stupid comet is still there, I've no idea why. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Watch and cringe as O'Brien acts like a racist stereotype in complete opposition to every bit of characterization he's received up to this point. Also, Shou wanders around a lot. EPISODE TITLE, THE SUPREME KING OF TERROR! THE WANDERING O'BRIEN card of the week is evil hero dark gaia
What is there to say at this point? Everything about this show is so farcical, so ludicrous, so contrived and forced, that it is impossible to take any of this shit seriously. And yes, it will get worse.
