Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 158
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cypsiman2Boiling lava. Yep, that's where this show belongs. And look! There's Judai, being backed over the side of a crumbling cliff, teetering on the brink of falling into that very same lava! And there's PVC leather man, laughing at Judai as he has a very big and very ugly, stupid looking dragon on the field. Apparently that's supposed to be Meteor Black Dragon. Riiiiiiight. Judai's got no monsters, two cards on the field, blah blah blah, PVC leather man attacks, and then Judai pulls the Yubel eyes just before the big explosion that will not kill him. Oh, and all this is taking place in the Duel Academia volcano. Just FYI.
TITLE SCREEN! FAREWELL, DUEL ACADEMIA! THE PATH JUDAI CHOOSES yeah, because the last time judai 'chose' his own path, it worked out sooooo well, didn't it?
And now we're back to the end of the previous episode, where Judai is confronting Seaweed Hair after he tried to mind whammy Judai, only to find that Judai no mind to whammy. So Seaweed Hair does the only reasonable thing, and releases a huge burst of light from his body to cover his escape. But, while he is gone, he appears to have left a single feather behind. Gosh, I wonder what it could possibly mean? Could there be a connection with the mysterious winged figure seen in the sky at the start of the previous episode? Anyway, Judai catches the feather, blah blah, calls up the person he talked to on his cell phone in the last episode, and tells them to research Seaweed Hair. Meanwhile, we cut to the other characters as they stand around among all the burned up cards, wondering WTF. Manjoume's feeling a bit foggy in his memory, Shou agrees, the others silently follow, and Shou defaults to depending on Judai to take care of everything, because that always works out so well. And now over to the Abandoned Dorm, and Seaweed Hair is in that place where Judai, and later Asuka, dueled Titan. He does his glowy eye routine, and manages to...trip something. Meanwhile, at the inhabited Obelisk Blue dorm, where Fubuki is nodding off to a static filled flat screen. Funny, that's not the sort of programming I would think Fubuki would nod off to, wink wink. And...now he's having a dream, where Seaweed Hair is wearing the "Darkness" mask in the middle of the area where Seaweed Hair presently is. Fubuki runs in, he's mumbling stop, what are you doing, and Seaweed Hair says he's found the ultimate power of "Darkness". Also, he cut himself, but only a little bit, probably because he's a wuss. Then he lets a drop of blood fall, he is enveloped in a cloud of darkness, and that's where Fubuki wakes up.
Clearly disturbed by his retcon dream, he then walks over to a hidden panel in his room, where he keeps the "Darkness" card encased. Yes, Fubuki keeps the devil in his room. Even I struggle to see how this would seem like a good idea in Fubuki's mind. Unfortunately, we must depart from Fubuki in favor of Judai, who's sitting in his room, all by himself, the only one in his entire dorm, looking at a feather. Riveting. Daitokuji tries to come out, but Pharaon swallows him back up right away. No, I really fucking don't get how the hell that is supposed to work! And then Judai decides, apropos of nothing at all, that he should just "leave this place". So when Shou and the others arrive at his room, he's nowhere to be found, and did he leave a note or anything to let his close personal friends know what he's doing? Of fucking course not! Wait, maybe he wanted Daitokuji to explain it to them...no, Pharaoh just swallows him again. Kenzan for some reason opens his noisehole, going on about how ever since everyone came back, Judai's been different and avoiding them, that's what his Dino DNA tells him. Yes, because your "Dino DNA" has proved sooooo fucking useful. Also, this firmly establishes that even though it's been over a month since the end of the last season, Judai still hasn't seen fit to fill in his friends on what the hell happened to him. Because as far the writers are concerned, Judai's "friends" are too far below him to be worth such respect. Anyway, Judai is in fact in Samejima's office, turning in his badge and gun...errr, I mean, submitting his withdrawl notice. Yes, that is what he is doing. Blah blah blah, Judai is convinced that if he stays it will bring trouble to Duel Academia...on what basis he made this decision, I've no fucking idea. I mean, the only reason PVC leather man dueled him was because Judai deliberately got in his way, otherwise Judai had no actual role in his plot. And then Judai just leaves in the middle of the conversation. Classy.
Samejima's then starts ringing, he answers, and whoever it is wants to meet up with Judai. Samejima says that Judai has to meet up with this person, otherwise he won't let Judai go through with his withdrawl notice. Now Judai's walking through the woods, now he's up on the volcano, blah blah, there is a helicopter, and out comes Saiou and Kagemaru. Ooh boy, I am so excited, you can just look at my face and see how damn excited I am. Blah blah blah, they have something important to tell Judai, he says it doesn't matter, he's leaving the island, but Kagemaru says that what's going this season isn't about him or his fault. Judai is gobsmacked at the notion of something happening that isn't about him or centered around him, and Saiou says he had a premonition. Flashback to Saiou in the hospital after the events of Season 2, he's reading a book when the wind knocks the window open...from the wrong side. And when he goes to close it, he sees one of his Tarot Cards caught in the window, and it is The Wheel of Fortune. Uh Yes, I'd like to buy a vowel. Anyway, for some reason this is disturbing to Saiou, and again for some reason he thinks consulting with Kagemaru would be a good idea. And, apparently Kagemaru also had a premonition, though we are not given a flashback for his. Ageism! Ageism, I say! Blah blah blah, and according to Kagemaru, his researchers have...how the hell does he have researchers? Shouldn't he, you know, not have ANYTHING!? Anyway, his "researchers", have determined that a huge power akin to an earthquake is trying to erupt on the island. Then Saiou pipes up, saying that he thinks that Kagemaru summoning the Mythic Demons, him being possessed by the Light of Destruction, and Judai's Yubel incident...WHAT?! HOW THE HELL DOES SAIOU KNOW ABOUT YUBEL? CHRIST ON A CRACKER, JUDAI'S SUPPOSED FRIENDS ARE COMPLETELY IN THE DARK ABOUT THAT, WHILE SAIOU KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT? Anyway, he thinks that these events have...built up to something on the island, some gobbledygook like that. Anyway, the point is that what's happening will do so with or without Judai.
Anyway, as he's delivering all this retcon exposition that's trying to sell us on the notion that the past three seasons haven't been an absolute crapshoot of random bullshit, a cloud of darkness begins to make its way across the rim of the volcano. A little more blah blah blah as Kagemaru says this is what comes of those who abuse Duel Monsters, but of course they are useless and helpless, so it's all up to Judai to take care of everything. Again. And then Saiou says that would break me if this show hadn't already done so; according to him, Judai has "become something beyond human intelligence". Yeah...blah blah blah, it all comes down to Judai being the only one who can do anything, so he can't just run away. And now PVC leather man has grown bored with all this exposition, and causes a tremor. A random suit says something of no interest whatsoever, and then...for some reason PVC Leather Man opens up a filament in the sky to make his appearance. Why he didn't just coalesce like last time, I've no idea.
EYECATCH!
Judai demands who the hell PVC Leather Man is, and he goes on a very awkward mode of speech where he decides to take the name "Trueman", "He who speaks the truth". But if you want to call him Mr. T, that's fine by him. Me? I am laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing. Seriously? They have a villain calling himself Mr. T, without any sense of irony whatsoever. Judai, who is without a sense of humor, is outraged that such a shifty figure could claim to be speaking the truth, blind to the hypocrisy of refusing to tell his friends anything about what's going on. Also, those are some real QUALITY jowls Mr. T has going on. See, you can't type a sentence like that, and not grin like a loon. Mr. T then declares that he's going to kill everyone now, so he psychically cuts away at the volcano in a very neat fashion, and lava begins to overflow. Judai yells at the others to get out, they get back on the helicopter, the volcano shoots a couple of fireballs at the helicopter after it takes off...that didn't seem to follow. But Judai just summons Neos and uses his Yubel powers to make it real so it can shoot down the fireballs. Mr. T is impressed, for this is what happens when you drink your drugs and stay in milk! Then Judai, being the rude prick that he is, has Neos take a shot at Mr. T. What a fiend! Naturally, this has no effect on Mr. T at all, and he wonders if Judai's gotten it out of his system so they can duel properly. Judai says yes, and the earth begins to crumble, giving way to lava all around them. One wonders why Mr. T doesn't just shove the fool right into the lava and get it over with. Pity, I suppose. And now the duel begins.
Judai goes first, summons Sparkman, and that's it for him. Wow, such truly epic and refined dueling skills. Truly the preceding three seasons haven't been a waste at all! Mr. T opens with the same move as last time, Dark Archetype. Yay, repetitive duel structure! Now he plays the quick spell card Power Gift; this lets Mr. T discard a monster from his hand to increase the attack power of an opponent's monster by the discarded monsters. So he discards Molten Zombie with 1600 attack points, Sparkman now has 3200 attack point, and he orders Dark Archetype to attack. Dark Archetype is destroyed for 1800 points of damage, Mr. T activates its effect to discard the level six Twin-Headed Beast to special summon Meteor Dragon with 1800 attack points, and now Power Gift's other effect kicks in, destroying the monster it targeted after the battle. So Sparkman goes boom, and Mr. T attacks directly for 1800 points of damage. Blah blah, Mr. T sets a card and ends his turn. Judai's turn, he plays Fusion, sending Bubbleman and Clayman to the grave for Mud Ball Man. Yeah...one wonders why he didn't go ahead and summon bubbleman first to get its bullshit "draw two cards" effect, because that's still in by the way, and since it barely has more attack power, it attacks. But Mr. T just activates Drain Shield, negating the attack and recovering life points equal to the attacking monster's attack power, or 1900. Judai responds with the equip spell Fusion Shot; this lets Judai remove a monster in a fusion this turn with 1000 attack or less in his grave from play, and deal that attack power as damage to the opponent. Clayman goes away, Mr. T gets shot for 800 points of damage, and then Judai sets one card to end his turn. Mr. T decides to fight Fusion with Fusion, and so he plays Fusion, using King of the Swamp's effect to have it substitute for Red-Eyes Black Dragon and summon Meteor Black Dragon with 3500 attack points.
He attacks, Mudball Man is destroyed, Judai has only 600 life points left, just like at the start of the episode, blah blah, Judai sets a card, Mr. T mocks Judai for being unable to summon a monster, and oh hey, we're exactly where the episode first started. So, what did we get for starting in the middle? Nothing at all. Though for some reason he doesn't do the Yubel eyes this time around, but instead activates A Hero Emerges, and gosh, what do you know, the only card in Judai's hand is Neos, how about that. Mr. T, being an idiot, thinks that this will change nothing, Meteor Black Dragon is still stronger, but Judai activates Soul Union, letting him increases his monster's attack power by that of a monster in his grave until the end of the turn. He chooses Mudballman, now Neos has 4400 attack points, and Meteor Black Dragon is destroyed. And then Judai attacks Mr. T directly to finish him off. This guy is seriously not working as a villlain, I mean, he's been defeated pretty easily twice now. And...apparently all the stuff with the lava and what have you was just an illusion, as it's all back to how it was before the duel. And now we're in another dimension or something as a a pair of Mr. Ts are looking down upon Judai, agreeing that he needs to be eliminated as quickly as possible so their vague and vaguely evil plan can go into motion. And now Judai gets another conveniently timed phone call on his cell phone, because that's the only time when phone calls are made on this show. And the writers stop being coy and reveal who's on the other end. It is O'Brien. I...guess he was super popular or something, as I've no idea why in the world he would be here otherwise. He's dug up some intel on Seaweed Hair; he used to be at Duel Academia, but disappeared years ago at the abandoned dorm.
Just for shits and giggles, go back to episode 22, and look at the pictures that one shot muckraker man brings up of all the missing students. You will not find Seaweed Hair among them. But hey, we've well established how little problem this show has with retconning things whenever it feels like. And now we've got Fubuki standing in the underground portion of the Abandoned Dorm, and he is confronted by Seaweed Hair. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Judai is going to duel Fubuki, and its most certainly not to advertise the latest variant on the Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon, nosiree Bob, we've got real storyline and character motive behind this turn, honest! Also, Asuka appears to slap Judai. She should do it more often, only with punches to the balls. EPISODE TITLE, THE TRUTH BEHIND DARKNESS! JUDAI VS. FUBUKI card of the week is meteor black dragon.
Well, this was just dumb. Oh sure, we have the ironic hilarity of naming a villain Mr. T, but then you've got all this retcon bullshit going on, trying to pretend that everything that's been going on has done so according to some grand master plan. Believe me, the more you learn of it, the less you know.
TITLE SCREEN! FAREWELL, DUEL ACADEMIA! THE PATH JUDAI CHOOSES yeah, because the last time judai 'chose' his own path, it worked out sooooo well, didn't it?
And now we're back to the end of the previous episode, where Judai is confronting Seaweed Hair after he tried to mind whammy Judai, only to find that Judai no mind to whammy. So Seaweed Hair does the only reasonable thing, and releases a huge burst of light from his body to cover his escape. But, while he is gone, he appears to have left a single feather behind. Gosh, I wonder what it could possibly mean? Could there be a connection with the mysterious winged figure seen in the sky at the start of the previous episode? Anyway, Judai catches the feather, blah blah, calls up the person he talked to on his cell phone in the last episode, and tells them to research Seaweed Hair. Meanwhile, we cut to the other characters as they stand around among all the burned up cards, wondering WTF. Manjoume's feeling a bit foggy in his memory, Shou agrees, the others silently follow, and Shou defaults to depending on Judai to take care of everything, because that always works out so well. And now over to the Abandoned Dorm, and Seaweed Hair is in that place where Judai, and later Asuka, dueled Titan. He does his glowy eye routine, and manages to...trip something. Meanwhile, at the inhabited Obelisk Blue dorm, where Fubuki is nodding off to a static filled flat screen. Funny, that's not the sort of programming I would think Fubuki would nod off to, wink wink. And...now he's having a dream, where Seaweed Hair is wearing the "Darkness" mask in the middle of the area where Seaweed Hair presently is. Fubuki runs in, he's mumbling stop, what are you doing, and Seaweed Hair says he's found the ultimate power of "Darkness". Also, he cut himself, but only a little bit, probably because he's a wuss. Then he lets a drop of blood fall, he is enveloped in a cloud of darkness, and that's where Fubuki wakes up.
Clearly disturbed by his retcon dream, he then walks over to a hidden panel in his room, where he keeps the "Darkness" card encased. Yes, Fubuki keeps the devil in his room. Even I struggle to see how this would seem like a good idea in Fubuki's mind. Unfortunately, we must depart from Fubuki in favor of Judai, who's sitting in his room, all by himself, the only one in his entire dorm, looking at a feather. Riveting. Daitokuji tries to come out, but Pharaon swallows him back up right away. No, I really fucking don't get how the hell that is supposed to work! And then Judai decides, apropos of nothing at all, that he should just "leave this place". So when Shou and the others arrive at his room, he's nowhere to be found, and did he leave a note or anything to let his close personal friends know what he's doing? Of fucking course not! Wait, maybe he wanted Daitokuji to explain it to them...no, Pharaoh just swallows him again. Kenzan for some reason opens his noisehole, going on about how ever since everyone came back, Judai's been different and avoiding them, that's what his Dino DNA tells him. Yes, because your "Dino DNA" has proved sooooo fucking useful. Also, this firmly establishes that even though it's been over a month since the end of the last season, Judai still hasn't seen fit to fill in his friends on what the hell happened to him. Because as far the writers are concerned, Judai's "friends" are too far below him to be worth such respect. Anyway, Judai is in fact in Samejima's office, turning in his badge and gun...errr, I mean, submitting his withdrawl notice. Yes, that is what he is doing. Blah blah blah, Judai is convinced that if he stays it will bring trouble to Duel Academia...on what basis he made this decision, I've no fucking idea. I mean, the only reason PVC leather man dueled him was because Judai deliberately got in his way, otherwise Judai had no actual role in his plot. And then Judai just leaves in the middle of the conversation. Classy.
Samejima's then starts ringing, he answers, and whoever it is wants to meet up with Judai. Samejima says that Judai has to meet up with this person, otherwise he won't let Judai go through with his withdrawl notice. Now Judai's walking through the woods, now he's up on the volcano, blah blah, there is a helicopter, and out comes Saiou and Kagemaru. Ooh boy, I am so excited, you can just look at my face and see how damn excited I am. Blah blah blah, they have something important to tell Judai, he says it doesn't matter, he's leaving the island, but Kagemaru says that what's going this season isn't about him or his fault. Judai is gobsmacked at the notion of something happening that isn't about him or centered around him, and Saiou says he had a premonition. Flashback to Saiou in the hospital after the events of Season 2, he's reading a book when the wind knocks the window open...from the wrong side. And when he goes to close it, he sees one of his Tarot Cards caught in the window, and it is The Wheel of Fortune. Uh Yes, I'd like to buy a vowel. Anyway, for some reason this is disturbing to Saiou, and again for some reason he thinks consulting with Kagemaru would be a good idea. And, apparently Kagemaru also had a premonition, though we are not given a flashback for his. Ageism! Ageism, I say! Blah blah blah, and according to Kagemaru, his researchers have...how the hell does he have researchers? Shouldn't he, you know, not have ANYTHING!? Anyway, his "researchers", have determined that a huge power akin to an earthquake is trying to erupt on the island. Then Saiou pipes up, saying that he thinks that Kagemaru summoning the Mythic Demons, him being possessed by the Light of Destruction, and Judai's Yubel incident...WHAT?! HOW THE HELL DOES SAIOU KNOW ABOUT YUBEL? CHRIST ON A CRACKER, JUDAI'S SUPPOSED FRIENDS ARE COMPLETELY IN THE DARK ABOUT THAT, WHILE SAIOU KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT? Anyway, he thinks that these events have...built up to something on the island, some gobbledygook like that. Anyway, the point is that what's happening will do so with or without Judai.
Anyway, as he's delivering all this retcon exposition that's trying to sell us on the notion that the past three seasons haven't been an absolute crapshoot of random bullshit, a cloud of darkness begins to make its way across the rim of the volcano. A little more blah blah blah as Kagemaru says this is what comes of those who abuse Duel Monsters, but of course they are useless and helpless, so it's all up to Judai to take care of everything. Again. And then Saiou says that would break me if this show hadn't already done so; according to him, Judai has "become something beyond human intelligence". Yeah...blah blah blah, it all comes down to Judai being the only one who can do anything, so he can't just run away. And now PVC leather man has grown bored with all this exposition, and causes a tremor. A random suit says something of no interest whatsoever, and then...for some reason PVC Leather Man opens up a filament in the sky to make his appearance. Why he didn't just coalesce like last time, I've no idea.
EYECATCH!
Judai demands who the hell PVC Leather Man is, and he goes on a very awkward mode of speech where he decides to take the name "Trueman", "He who speaks the truth". But if you want to call him Mr. T, that's fine by him. Me? I am laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing. Seriously? They have a villain calling himself Mr. T, without any sense of irony whatsoever. Judai, who is without a sense of humor, is outraged that such a shifty figure could claim to be speaking the truth, blind to the hypocrisy of refusing to tell his friends anything about what's going on. Also, those are some real QUALITY jowls Mr. T has going on. See, you can't type a sentence like that, and not grin like a loon. Mr. T then declares that he's going to kill everyone now, so he psychically cuts away at the volcano in a very neat fashion, and lava begins to overflow. Judai yells at the others to get out, they get back on the helicopter, the volcano shoots a couple of fireballs at the helicopter after it takes off...that didn't seem to follow. But Judai just summons Neos and uses his Yubel powers to make it real so it can shoot down the fireballs. Mr. T is impressed, for this is what happens when you drink your drugs and stay in milk! Then Judai, being the rude prick that he is, has Neos take a shot at Mr. T. What a fiend! Naturally, this has no effect on Mr. T at all, and he wonders if Judai's gotten it out of his system so they can duel properly. Judai says yes, and the earth begins to crumble, giving way to lava all around them. One wonders why Mr. T doesn't just shove the fool right into the lava and get it over with. Pity, I suppose. And now the duel begins.
Judai goes first, summons Sparkman, and that's it for him. Wow, such truly epic and refined dueling skills. Truly the preceding three seasons haven't been a waste at all! Mr. T opens with the same move as last time, Dark Archetype. Yay, repetitive duel structure! Now he plays the quick spell card Power Gift; this lets Mr. T discard a monster from his hand to increase the attack power of an opponent's monster by the discarded monsters. So he discards Molten Zombie with 1600 attack points, Sparkman now has 3200 attack point, and he orders Dark Archetype to attack. Dark Archetype is destroyed for 1800 points of damage, Mr. T activates its effect to discard the level six Twin-Headed Beast to special summon Meteor Dragon with 1800 attack points, and now Power Gift's other effect kicks in, destroying the monster it targeted after the battle. So Sparkman goes boom, and Mr. T attacks directly for 1800 points of damage. Blah blah, Mr. T sets a card and ends his turn. Judai's turn, he plays Fusion, sending Bubbleman and Clayman to the grave for Mud Ball Man. Yeah...one wonders why he didn't go ahead and summon bubbleman first to get its bullshit "draw two cards" effect, because that's still in by the way, and since it barely has more attack power, it attacks. But Mr. T just activates Drain Shield, negating the attack and recovering life points equal to the attacking monster's attack power, or 1900. Judai responds with the equip spell Fusion Shot; this lets Judai remove a monster in a fusion this turn with 1000 attack or less in his grave from play, and deal that attack power as damage to the opponent. Clayman goes away, Mr. T gets shot for 800 points of damage, and then Judai sets one card to end his turn. Mr. T decides to fight Fusion with Fusion, and so he plays Fusion, using King of the Swamp's effect to have it substitute for Red-Eyes Black Dragon and summon Meteor Black Dragon with 3500 attack points.
He attacks, Mudball Man is destroyed, Judai has only 600 life points left, just like at the start of the episode, blah blah, Judai sets a card, Mr. T mocks Judai for being unable to summon a monster, and oh hey, we're exactly where the episode first started. So, what did we get for starting in the middle? Nothing at all. Though for some reason he doesn't do the Yubel eyes this time around, but instead activates A Hero Emerges, and gosh, what do you know, the only card in Judai's hand is Neos, how about that. Mr. T, being an idiot, thinks that this will change nothing, Meteor Black Dragon is still stronger, but Judai activates Soul Union, letting him increases his monster's attack power by that of a monster in his grave until the end of the turn. He chooses Mudballman, now Neos has 4400 attack points, and Meteor Black Dragon is destroyed. And then Judai attacks Mr. T directly to finish him off. This guy is seriously not working as a villlain, I mean, he's been defeated pretty easily twice now. And...apparently all the stuff with the lava and what have you was just an illusion, as it's all back to how it was before the duel. And now we're in another dimension or something as a a pair of Mr. Ts are looking down upon Judai, agreeing that he needs to be eliminated as quickly as possible so their vague and vaguely evil plan can go into motion. And now Judai gets another conveniently timed phone call on his cell phone, because that's the only time when phone calls are made on this show. And the writers stop being coy and reveal who's on the other end. It is O'Brien. I...guess he was super popular or something, as I've no idea why in the world he would be here otherwise. He's dug up some intel on Seaweed Hair; he used to be at Duel Academia, but disappeared years ago at the abandoned dorm.
Just for shits and giggles, go back to episode 22, and look at the pictures that one shot muckraker man brings up of all the missing students. You will not find Seaweed Hair among them. But hey, we've well established how little problem this show has with retconning things whenever it feels like. And now we've got Fubuki standing in the underground portion of the Abandoned Dorm, and he is confronted by Seaweed Hair. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Judai is going to duel Fubuki, and its most certainly not to advertise the latest variant on the Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon, nosiree Bob, we've got real storyline and character motive behind this turn, honest! Also, Asuka appears to slap Judai. She should do it more often, only with punches to the balls. EPISODE TITLE, THE TRUTH BEHIND DARKNESS! JUDAI VS. FUBUKI card of the week is meteor black dragon.
Well, this was just dumb. Oh sure, we have the ironic hilarity of naming a villain Mr. T, but then you've got all this retcon bullshit going on, trying to pretend that everything that's been going on has done so according to some grand master plan. Believe me, the more you learn of it, the less you know.
