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cypsiman2So, I thought episode 30, with the introduction Crow 'Gary Stu' Hogan, was the stupidest episode ever. Then I thought that episode 40, with its poorly written wangst-filled backstory for Aki 'Ms. Fanservice' Izayoi, was the stupidest episode ever. Then I thought that episode 57 with its blatant retcon and the introduction of Deus Ex Machina Dragon was the stupidest thing ever. Then I thought episode 61, with its 'Sakura Haruno caliber' assassination of Aki 'No Agency' Izayoi was the stupidest thing ever. Than I thought episode 64, with its narrative Crow fellatio, was the stupidest goddamn thing ever. Then there was episode 75, which managed to enrage me inside of 5 seconds, was the stupidest freaking thing ever. This was followed up by the Crashtown arc, which was seven episodes of complete and utterly pointless stupidity. Merely reading the summary of the immediate following episodes, 93 and 94, taught me to stop watching the show all together and just read the summaries if I needed to know what was going on that badly.
But as it turns out, none of those episodes, in all their banal and insulting glory, could not begin to be in the same league of sheer fucking stupidity as episode 102. I mean, lets face it, there have been some contrived victories in this franchise, questionable rules interpretations and just plain making up just the right card for just this situation which will never be played again, but at least these contrivances work within the story and the characters. Not so for episode 102. No, the writers decided to throw Yusei into such a desperate situation, completely decked out, so all his opponent has to do to win is to end his turn.
He does not.
What he does instead is to attack, even though this is completely unnecessary, allowing Yusei to discard a brand-new never before seen monster from his hand (And Yusei got a whole bunch of new cards in this episode, two of which were freaking cover cards for fuck's sake), raising the defense of his monster high enough to do the needed damage to defeat his opponent. And why does Yusei's opponent do such an infinitely stupid thing? Because he didn't want to win by deck out, because Yusei was 'the great opponent he was looking for all this time'. Even though he clearly had no problem making use of deck destruction not even five minutes ago.
And its not like Yusei had to win this duel. Nothing was at stake, not in terms of character, not in terms of plot, Yusei could have lost, gotten a black mark on his record and be none the worse for wear. But no, Yusei is never allowed to lose, ever.
To paraphrase and mangle an old meme a bit...
Nappa: Hey Vegeta, what's the stupidity level of episode 102 of 5D's?
Vegeta: ITS OVER 9000!!!!!111!!!111!!!!!!11!!!111!!11!
Seriously, its as though the writers are going to Jupiter to get more stupider!
*Ba-dum tish!*
And that's all from me.
But as it turns out, none of those episodes, in all their banal and insulting glory, could not begin to be in the same league of sheer fucking stupidity as episode 102. I mean, lets face it, there have been some contrived victories in this franchise, questionable rules interpretations and just plain making up just the right card for just this situation which will never be played again, but at least these contrivances work within the story and the characters. Not so for episode 102. No, the writers decided to throw Yusei into such a desperate situation, completely decked out, so all his opponent has to do to win is to end his turn.
He does not.
What he does instead is to attack, even though this is completely unnecessary, allowing Yusei to discard a brand-new never before seen monster from his hand (And Yusei got a whole bunch of new cards in this episode, two of which were freaking cover cards for fuck's sake), raising the defense of his monster high enough to do the needed damage to defeat his opponent. And why does Yusei's opponent do such an infinitely stupid thing? Because he didn't want to win by deck out, because Yusei was 'the great opponent he was looking for all this time'. Even though he clearly had no problem making use of deck destruction not even five minutes ago.
And its not like Yusei had to win this duel. Nothing was at stake, not in terms of character, not in terms of plot, Yusei could have lost, gotten a black mark on his record and be none the worse for wear. But no, Yusei is never allowed to lose, ever.
To paraphrase and mangle an old meme a bit...
Nappa: Hey Vegeta, what's the stupidity level of episode 102 of 5D's?
Vegeta: ITS OVER 9000!!!!!111!!!111!!!!!!11!!!111!!11!
Seriously, its as though the writers are going to Jupiter to get more stupider!
*Ba-dum tish!*
And that's all from me.
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Date: 2010-03-26 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-26 02:42 am (UTC)It's really, really difficult for me to convey my pain from this betrayal, when it became clear that Aki was not going to stay the badass that she was. Because when I try, the blood in my head begins to boil over, and I start seeing red, and I want the real Aki Izayoi to come and destroy that which angers me and wipe away from this earth her shallow clone.
But in the end, I'm going to write a fanfic, because that is what happens when I watch a terrible show; I write fanfic to fix it to my satisfaction.