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This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is Spoil Me, covering One Piece. Episodes 694 through 696, Invincible, a gruesome army of headcracker dolls. Risking their lives, Luffy is the Trump card for victory and a tearful reunion, Rebecca and Kiros. In these episodes...
Well, Luffy and Bartolomeo's reunion was everything I could have wished for and more. I know that there's many other things that I should be more concerned about in these episodes, but frankly, Bartolomeo had his hopes up so high about what was going to happen when he saw Luffy. And it had me concerned that it wasn't going to be as good as he imagined. And then it wound up being better than he imagined. And honestly, I just love that for him. Welcome to spoil me.
Welcome to the show, everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode. And Florian, I don't know if you're hearing the chat today because it's a late recording so you maybe can't make it. But I just really appreciate you. I just want you to know because you've commissioned like the last 15 or so episodes. So that is a lot of commissions. And I think you might be my MVP. So...
These, these episodes, guys, again, really like keeping up the overall vibe. I've just, I keep being impressed by this arc and how invested I still am. Um, we find out that the headcracker dolls, as they are called, which, uh, It's sort of funny because, like, at first, when they said head cracker, I thought that maybe it was like a translational thing and that it was supposed to be that they were nut crackers.
And, you know, the way that nut crackers crack nuts is using their head, their jaw. So I thought maybe it was just sort of that. And then eventually we actually see them like. bite a horse's head, not off, but like, it's bad. And I was like, oh, no, no. They meant that as literally as it sounded, which is, honestly, what a bummer. I swear to God.
Sarah Phim would help out with those, but sadly money is tight right now. Remains been out of work with a messed up ankle. Oh, Serafim, I'm sorry. Look, I get it. I don't think money has been tighter for me since like 2015. Like, it's very, very bad lately, guys. So trust me, I get it. Oda loves his pun naming and Headcracker is right up his alley. Yeah.
So this revelation of the fact that sugar did indeed make these guys, here's my question to you all. Is sugar... like, able to decide what type of toy she turns somebody into. Like, because all of these guys are identical. And in the past, that's not how they have looked. They have always been very individual. And there has been, I had kind of felt like they didn't look like what they really look like in life.
But then once we get more of a tour of the, like, overall, turning back to human. I don't know what you would call that, the untoyoning. Once we see that, it seems like there was many more people who would turn into toys that sort of looked like them than how I was watching. And I just assumed that it was sort of a...
what's the word I want? That it was sort of like just a natural occurrence that like her ability, it made you into a toy, but it didn't really change your overall appearance in many other ways. And instead, it seems like we're getting, that she has a lot more control over this than I expected. And she...
I believe is able to make them identical and larger than average. So, oh, Serafim! Saraphim says she called that little black bears when turning half the tantatas into just that. You're right. I forgot about that. And Serafim says, so seems she can decide what to turn them into if she wants, but might just let it go on automatic usually. Thank you. Thank you for reminding me of that. I forgot all about it. Yeah, you're right.
So we have seen her kind of do a custom job before. So, so basically in the past, here's my, like going on automatic makes total sense. And also,
I could see maybe feeling like there is a need when you're making these people, these toys, for the overall population to like get along with because they live in and amongst the toys. I could see maybe being like, let me make them sort of
small and individual like cute kind of beings and that way people aren't threatened by them and
that now that we're about to like, you know, these guys are going to go to war with somebody like Luffy, who is such a high level fighter and also has backup and whatnot that she would go a lot harder in her overall design of them. So, okay, I like that. That's interesting.
I know I've talked a lot of shit about her ability being overpowered and I 100% stand by it, but there have been a couple things that I have felt like I wanted to poke a hole in and it's been addressed already. And I love when that happens. So... We have the executives continuing to fight against some of the people that are on Luffy's side.
And as they are fighting, Rebecca, Robin, and Bartolomeo are continuing their weird sort of like bouncy flight towards the fourth level because they think that's where Luffy is. And they are intending to give him the key to Trafalgar's handcuffs. And
I guess that it's kind of it's meant to be that like they assume Luffy is there because they don't realize how hung up he has been by these these monsters essentially, you know, like they really are. so much scarier than any of the other toys that we have come across.
So eventually, like, Robin gets knocked off of this area and she falls. And it turns out that she is now with Luffy. But unfortunately, she has already given the fucking key to Rebecca, which it's just... You guys, at this point, can we please make a copy of this key somebody?
You know, like, let's each shit get a copy and then we don't have to depend on just this one. I wonder if Bartolomeo could make a copy of the key out of the stuff that he makes a barrier with. I kind of get the impression that, like, the barrier has to be a much bigger, more simple object, but I don't know.
And the fantasy that Bartolomeo has about Luffy and how he's like, Luffy is saying, what is it that he says to him in this? Because Bartolomeo is imagining that he's swooping in and Luffy is standing in the flower field waiting for him. And then when he finally lands and says, sorry, I'm late, Luffy says, I knew you'd make it.
And I can't because I believe in my friends. And he starts crying and saying, I'm your friend. And then like later on, Luffy says you're the best, buddy, which I really think is better even than what he was imagining. And it was great. It made me very, very happy. Barton Lemo is so emotional. It's so funny. I love it so much. When he meets Libby later, he's just like, thank you. Thank you for being bored.
And I just fell out. I was laughing so hard, you guys. It was just so like, it was just so over the top, you know? Um, So then we have this thing with the location of the princess. So at the end of the last episode, we had finally found her. Viola had tracked her down to this room that had been in the weird back area of the castle.
And she's talking to the Tantata and Leo, who she's speaking with, remembers the room. They call it the naughty room.
Now, this is such a weird thing, you guys, because he gets very emotional himself here, and he's talking about how Princess Scarlet and us, like when we used to go visit the palace, Princess Viola and us would cause mischief, and King Riku would scold her, and we find out
that King Riku would basically, like, put his daughter in the dungeon when she acted up, which, uh, honestly, you guys? I just can't decide about this. It's just, it's like if you have a castle and you're going to put your kid in time out, I suppose that's not a completely unreasonable thing to do, especially, you know, like if you are...
If your kid is somewhere where you know they're going to be treated a certain way by everybody. And so if they just asked and looked like pitiful enough, they might be able to just get their way with any of the servants, maybe putting them in a place where they just don't have contact with anybody. It's what it's reminding me of a sort of the equivalent of being like... I'm taking your phone and your tablet away, and I'm changing the Wi-Fi password. Like, that's one that a friend of mine does.
When her kids act up, she changes her Wi-Fi password so that they can have all of their, like, little accessories, but nothing fucking connects anymore. which is, I think, kind of genius because it's very easy to overlook some of the ways that certain things connect with the internet, like a switch even, you know, like there's all kinds of different little things that are now Wi-Fi capable that you don't think about because everything fucking has that built in.
So it's very easy to kind of think, oh, yeah, I've sufficiently cut them off. And then you realize that they've been fucking tweeting off of the refrigerator, you know? Um, so anyway, it just, I was sort of caught off guard by the fact that there was a, that there's a dungeon that they are familiar with from like the fun times playing with Viola when they were kids. I just didn't expect.
The reaction that Leo has when he thinks about the naughty room and he starts, like, getting teary-eyed, I thought it was going to be, like, a really bad memory. And instead, it's sort of a heartwarming thing where apparently, like, Viola broke a plate. Eventually, she, so she's in there. She says that, like, oh, we have each other, so I'm not even sad, but I am hungry.
And then eventually she is joined by her sister who has brought a basket of apples. And Scarlett is like one for each of you and just trying to like be supportive. Oh, you rascals. And Viola says, I didn't even break the plate. They broke it. And they said, you told us to break it. And she said, I said you could touch it, you little dummies. And... I think I believe her.
The tantata are sort of, it's a weird thing with them because they're not super smart in certain ways. And then there are other ways that they really pull it out. And I'm like, oh, no, okay, I was underestimating them here. So my instinct was like, Did she say you guys can break that plate because she just kind of wanted to raise some hell and now she doesn't want to take responsibility?
Or was she just like honestly saying, yeah, of course you can touch it. And then they were like, oh, okay. And they thought that meant we can do whatever we want, you know? So anyway, I just... wasn't expecting it to become this sort of sweet nostalgia from Leo. I just really expected it to be sort of a terrible, like, I remember that room. It's horrible there, you know, that kind of thing.
And it's very funny because when we come back to the present, Leo says something like, sorry, I got, I like wandered off in my head there, you know, something that got sidetracked. And I was like, if this show apologized every time it got totally sidetracked, it would. Very, very little would get done. That's all I'm saying. So, okay, this is, okay, guys, this is so horrible.
Let's just get this over with talking about fucking Cavendish and his horse. Because he like, something happens. He's on the ground. Like, he says, like, we've put an end to those wretched things. Let's go. And he's got his back to it while Luffy, Keros, and Trafalgar are still on the back of his horse.
And then one of them comes up out of the mist and just fucking clamps its jaws over the horse's neck. And yes. Yanks. I really thought he was going to like pull that horse's head off and I was about to freak out a little bit. And poor Forul, I think he's likely going to be fine because nobody dies in this universe. I think there's been like one or two exceptions to that with animals where there has been an animal that is actually killed.
But I can't remember if that was like a flashback where the animal died in the flashback or if it was like in the present, but I do think that there was one time where I really was sanguine thinking they're gonna be fine and then they weren't. And that one time has got me a little bit paranoid. But for the most part, I am going to just trust that the animals that wind up getting taken out wind up okay.
But it was horrible. I really hated it just so you guys, like, I have to acknowledge it. And these fucking things, like... When they get taken apart and laid out, they just put them fucking selves back together again, which seems highly unfair to me. I don't know about you guys, but I just think that's really uncool.
I don't feel like getting to just reassemble yourself after death feels like it's something that should be allowed. On the other hand. These dudes who got turned into toys maybe don't deserve to die because they didn't want to be toys. On the other other hand, it does seem like they are working willingly with the Do Flamingo family. So maybe I don't care what happens to them.
But also the Do Flamingo family has so much power. Is it possible that we want to just like, give a pass to some of the people working with them because they didn't necessarily have that much of a choice? I don't know. I really can't decide. I'd be interested in hearing what you guys have to say about that. So, okay, I'm going to jump over to this scene for a second.
There's not that much forward progress over here with Usap and Kinamon and his friend, but there is a thing that irritated the fucking shit out of me, you guys. So when we go to the scene, what is his friend's name? He start, he's like yelling because Usap Conjaro is his friend. That's right.
Conjaro is getting beat over the head with, I think like Usup's using the quiver for his like slingshot thing or something like that. And He's saying that maybe I should have just killed myself. That would have been easier to deal with than this. And Usup says, stop being such a baby. You're going to cry about just getting hit a few times. And I just, I swear to God, you guys.
I hate knowing that this was an issue with developing a drawn-out version of the story because I know that this is an unintended side effect, but...
Usup has lost so much goodwill from me after that storyline and almost abandoning everybody that now he has come back, the fact that he has the nerve to call somebody else a baby, I was flabbergasted. I was so disgusted and irritated with him. I was like, you are calling him a baby. You avoid...
anything that would even bring you discomfort, never mind actual like physical pain and harm. And just the way he's, like, he's hitting him purely because this guy drew this net to allow their enemies to climb up. And like, the enemies haven't even actually gotten here yet. Nothing has even happened with that yet.
It's just that he is annoyed that it happened. So he is punishing this man for it. And I just... This scene just got under my skin. I know that I'm being too hard on him because, like I said, after what you guys have told me, it's very clear that they didn't mean for this to be what it has become for me in terms of like a change in Usopp's character. But...
I cannot help the way that it feels after having seen the way he behaved earlier. It just fucking, I, this is, I just wish. that when it came to drawing things out, that they would find a different way to do it.
It just seems like so often they choose a method that winds up hurting a part of the story that can't bear that brunt. And you could use it on something that's a lot less like, what's the word I want, a lot less central to our group of friends and the straw hats as a crew, and it would do less damage if it wasn't done well.
But here, it just feels to me like they have done some real harm to how I see Usup, and I hate that. And eventually it comes out that, like, sugar has... She is alive and awake again. And he starts screaming. And I love that he calls his like accidental knocking out of sugar, his like facial jack in the box technique.
Like he's trying to pretend that he managed to take her out on purpose. And then it wasn't simply like a circumstantial, you know, which that was funny. I thought that was pretty good. And when he makes his like bug-eyed frightful face, it transitions directly into her face making the same expression because there's a man with a long nose who has come up to her.
And they're trying to feed her now that she has woken up. And he's got a plate of sausages. And it's supposed to be that she is so traumatized after what she saw. from Usopp's face, that anything that's like long and skinny, like his nose is now triggering to her and she can't handle it. Which is kind of a fun bit, actually.
Like, if it turns out that this like, this kind of trauma latches on and he is able to use his own face as a kind of weapon. I wouldn't be mad at that. That might go some way toward me feeling better about this whole thing. But yeah, so she started screaming at these guys.
And it's sort of, I guess, like a flashback because we see her here reacting to these dudes and turning them into these headcrackers because she wants them out of her face. Like at one point she says, like, why don't you just go away or better yet drop dead? Right. She says drop dead very often, frequently. It's kind of funny. I have to admit, like, I'm not mad at it.
So this, I'm interested to see how this develops. But when we go back to Usup, his concern is that she might get her hands on Luffy. And if she does, what is that going to mean? Because when I forgot Robin... it was really messed up.
Like, you know, all of her, it's just everything about her disappeared and it was like she had never even existed. So that makes a lot of sense. Like, Luffy is their linchpin and the reason why they're doing this in a lot of ways. And I am really curious if something happened and they all forgot Luffy, how would they behave?
You know, like, I like to think that they would feel a moral obligation to continue fighting because doflamingo was obviously a bad man. But a part of me is sort of like, if they did wind up forgetting Luffy, would they remember that dofamingo is a bad man? Would that even, like, be a factor, you know? I don't know how much information...
They retain because the way that this like memory spell ability technique, I guess, the way that it works, it's really not delved into very much by the show for reasons that I think are obvious. It's that we...
don't like if you really get too specific about what people remember and don't remember, it makes everything much, much harder to like set rules around and it makes it so that you don't have as much freedom in parts of the way that you tell the story. So I can understand why maybe Oda wouldn't want to like back himself into a corner by really outlining the rules and how all of this works.
But I also can't help but kind of call bullshit on it because the whole memory thing is just so convoluted anyway. And there are just so many ways in which a person could still be like clues of their existence would still be around that nobody would be able to explain that haven't been touched on at all, you know? Um, sorry. Oh my gosh. And Seraphim is in the chat.
Um, on the other hand, Nami is totally beaten him worse than that at some point when him and Luffy pissed her off. Um, I don't know why that's on the other hand, but because like, yeah, but honestly, most of the time when Nami beats the hell out of him and Luffy, I feel like they both deserve it because they are not helpful. Serafimps has given most of what they'd know about Dofi came from the Tontatas and Kuros. I doubt they'd forget that.
Okay, so they might keep fighting anyway. It might be fine. So at this point, Usap is going to take aim at the palace. because he wants to hit sugar with his slingshot from the outside. And he's like, I'm going to need absolutely perfect precision on this shot.
So, Violet, I need you to find out exactly where she is with your clairvoyance and direct me on where to shoot. And he has it all like positioned on the edge of this like wall that they're leaning on. But then he turns around and he sees Conjaro's bird who has passed out. And he gets this expression on his face.
And honestly, I was very much like, don't you dare involve this bird. It is exhausted. Stop it. You know, I very much was just like, can we let this bird rest, please? Give it a second for Christ's sake. Oh, my God. I forgot about Baby Five.
And she is fighting this dude who says, give me your worst. Whatever you've got, I'll accept it with open arms. And she is about to turn herself into a bladed disc. And then she stops and hovers in midair and she just stares at this guy and gets this expression and goes... Did you say that you would accept me with open arms?
And I had forgotten about this aspect of her personality and how everybody, like, she'll accidentally see them as being these wonderful men with no real provocation. And I really, I still enjoy this greatly. So that was a fun development. Okay, we've got the guy with a drillhead and he's fighting against Lao G. They're arguing over who's the oldest, which is a weird thing.
We've got Gladius, who is coming after our guys in midair. And this is what eventually leads to both Robin and Bartolomeo getting knocked out of the sky. She uses her ability to make wings, and she, I think Bartolomeo just crashes, but she manages to land a little bit more gracefully. And Rebecca goes on without them to the flower field.
It was sort of funny to me because, like, Robin is plummeting, but she still manages to kind of, like, talk to Rebecca on the way down and is just yelling, it's up to you now. Take the key to law. I can take care of the rest. And I was just like, she should not be able to, like, have time to chit chat, but whatever. It's fine. So eventually we get Bartolomeo landing in and amongst Luffy and his buds fighting against these things.
And Robin shares that Rebecca is up there at the flower field. And Kuros, of course, is very agitated to hear this because she's all by herself in the midst of all of this. Now... I'm going to kind of jump ahead on the whole Rebecca thing because, I mean, I think you guys know how I'm going to feel about this. I...
want I wanted so much for her to have like any sort of moment. And it still hasn't happened. And it's just I can't seem to let go of this hope. Even as I get disappointed repeatedly, it's still.
there and I feel like a dumbass but I also am still hoping a little bit so she goes up to this flower field and this is really the first part of this arc so far that I have really been like okay can we please move this the fuck along because she gets up there
And it's this long, drawn out pause after she arrives of her looking around the flower field. Anybody with a lick of sense is going to know somebody is here hidden and everything is about to go very badly wrong. But like, I don't have a problem with knowing that we're getting this trope. I have a problem with taking so long to reveal it. It's just ages.
before she finally like sees this guy and he pops out. And I was already starting to like, my mind was wandering. I'm picking up my phone. He pops out and it's Diamante. And of course, he has to say some shit about how, like, I'm so glad that you're here all by yourself because I get to continue to torment you. And it's so, like, played, honestly.
Like, it's just the way that he comes at her is so... utterly by the numbers and just being like, because I can continue to torment her. When I tell you guys that it's drawn out, let me give you a little moment here. He says, I didn't think you'd make it. Beep. Be. Be. Be. Be. Be.
Rebecca. That is how long it takes for him to finish the fucking sentence and say her name. Why did we need that long pause at all? Like, we know what her name is, and he has already announced himself when we know he's a bad guy. All of the, like, tension is in that part. So him, like, taking forever to say her name, it just feels like the most pointless garbage. And then, of course...
For a moment, I get filled with this like false hope that she's going to get to go up against the guy who killed her mother. Finally, it's going to be the confrontation that I have been, I don't want to say that I've been waiting for because honestly, I have mostly checked out of what's going on with her. So I haven't really cared. But I have been just like, all right, if we're going to do something with her, let's get it going. Maybe she's going to finally get to fight this guy.
No, no, it's fucking Kiros. He is going to swoop in and do the fighting because he's a fighter. And it's just so annoying. It's just so boring. Kiros, I like, I have really... like been fine with the storyline involving him so far. I want to be clear that I'm not here like, oh, who gives a shit about him? As a toy soldier, he was particularly fun.
His like one-legged thing is, it feels to me kind of tacked on, honestly. It feels like we just wanted to do something dramatic with him, but we never really wanted to cope with what that really means because it hasn't slowed his ass down one little bit. So for me, it just feels like this guy is superhuman in a way that is... uninteresting.
If you have one leg and you have to deal with that as a change because of how you fight, I want to see how you cope with that. And ultimately, it seems to have done absolutely nothing to change the way that he moves through the world. So, you know, and also just the fact that like, this dude is just standing over her, like, just trying to menace her. And he doesn't take a swipe.
He doesn't really like do almost anything before Keros steps in. So Rebecca, it just feels like she's a prop. You know, it's, I know that I'm supposed to feel like Keros is going to defend his daughter who he hasn't seen and oh, they're reunited. And what a moment. I just don't feel like that because the whole atmosphere with the two of them, it's like.
One of them actually has some agency and the other one is literal wallpaper. So overall, this whole thing is a complete bust for me and I really couldn't give a shit. And I feel bad that I feel that way. But, you know, this arc has been very solid. I feel like we could do a lot worse if we were going to have a part of it that I don't care about. There have been more than one in the past.
And this is pretty solid overall when you step back and look at it, big picture style. You know? So, oh my God. Jumping back to Bartolomeo, and he uses a... barrier to protect from these balls that, like, Luffy is about to try and bounce back. And he says it's because they were going to explode.
They would have exploded before you could even hit them. So he wants to, like, keep Luffy from getting hurt. And when he does this, Luffy says that was cool. And Bartolomeo gets all red in the face and just says, it was nothing. You're too kind. And it's very adorable.
And then Luffy does Gum Gum Jetwhip and Bartolomeo, I got front seats to a jet whip straight to that thing's face. What a day. I just can't get enough of it, you guys. Law is off to the side being like, can we fucking speed this up, please? And Bartolomeo was like, hey, how about you shut the fuck up? He's so irritated with law. It's extremely funny.
So this is when Bartolomeo is like, oh, so you need to get up to that level here. And he makes a whole set of stairs using this barrier. which his barrier looks like kind of a smoked glass. That barrier goes so hard. I cannot believe how high.
That's got to be like at least a hundred yards, like more, right? It's huge this staircase. And, uh, This is when Luffy says, thanks, pal, you're the best. And Bartolomeo, literally, the way that this is animated when he says you're the best, we have a real quick cut between a... First, his eyes go to pinpricks, like...
he just stared into the sun. Then a, like, smeared sort of electric-colored background with his hair standing on end. And then he's standing on the top of, like, a peak with lightning flashing in the background. And then it's sort of like this simplified cartoon drawing, almost like a Picasso cartoon with his, like, eyes streaming. And then him smeared in a way that's supposed to indicate, like,
speed of movement. And then it's like dark and there's just the slow growth of this golden light. And then eventually it backs up and it's Bartolomeo watching the sunrise. And his eyes are like... white, his knees are shaking, his mouth is hanging open, and he just keeps hearing Luffy in his head over and over again saying, the best, the best, the best. And this is when he says, no, you're the best. And thank you.
Thank you for being born. So, uh, Luffy picks Traffy up and he begins to head up that staircase. And Bartolomeo is like, he's on the ground and, and it's just him and, uh, what is his face? Oh my God. I keep wanting to say cabbage because that's what Luffy keeps saying, um, Cavendish. And his.
Eventually, when they fire something else, he winds up sort of like taking the hit with his defense, but not using a barrier. And Cavendish is like, dude, why didn't you just use a barrier, you idiot? And he has to explain. I can only make so much barrier. And I used it all up making that staircase. So now I got to figure out a different way. And he's very quick to be like, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I made that for Mr. Luffy. He's the only one that matters. So I'm just doing my part. And I really liked Robin once again being like, I understand how you feel, dude. And I am 100% there with you. Like he is the most important part of this. We briefly go back over to Sabo and his fight with, oh my God, what's his name? I keep wanting to say Fandango.
I don't know where I'm getting that from. But he eventually stops and is like, hold on, what are you trying to do here? Because I know you're stronger than this and it really seems like you're pulling your punches. Fujita, that's his name. And Fujitaura says, you're quite the odd one. Weren't you trying to stall us? It doesn't seem like you should be complaining.
And Sabo kind of pushes it a little bit, calls him old man. And he's like, well, yeah, I am an old man. And I'm fucking blind. So I'll be honest, I'm just like kind of trying to take it easy a little bit. And
he says, I guess you didn't get where you got by being kind to the elderly, which is a hell of a like, I don't know if he's really trying to manipulate him or if that's just a sort of side effect to the banter, but it felt like he was trying to manipulate him. And I couldn't help but be like, Would that work? Is Sabo, like, soft-hearted enough? And then it goes to Sabo with just the flames erupting. And I was like, okay, no, it won't work.
He doesn't seem to have any, like, softness in him towards this guy at all. So then he does Gravity Blade. And he slams the blade of his sword into the ground. It creates all of these fissures around them. And then he yells raging tiger.
And he sends this like, wind does not feel like an adequate word. It's like a wave of force like a bullet train coming at him. And it's It doesn't really do anything. Like, Sabo is just standing there holding his hat in place, but his whole body seems to be utterly unaffected by it. And it definitely had a moment of like, is, is this it?
Or is there supposed to be some other effect that's like, you know, or like what is going on? And, uh, Not to mention the fact that Fujita Taurus seems like so unbothered by the buildings around him that he is crushing. Like after that whole thing with the meteor, I really kind of felt like, Sabo, I don't want you to ask him to let it all out.
I feel like you guys should be holding back because you're surrounded by people who haven't gotten to like completely vacate this area. And what you're doing is affecting all of the people around you. Instead, this fight just gets bigger and bigger until even like all of the Marines around them are getting like engulfed in flames and they have to run for their lives.
All I'm saying is I just don't think much of people who are. Like, they have this fight that is between the two of them, and they are willing to allow all of these other, like, bystanders to be collateral damage. And I don't like the fact that Sabo is encouraging Fujitaura to go harder after already kind of, like, berating him a few episodes ago for being...
for going overboard with the meteor thing. If you really feel like that was too much, then maybe you guys should just like, I don't know, take this somewhere else, maybe go down to the beach and not in the center of the city or just like... dial it back a little bit? I don't know. But I just, this whole time, I think I'm like meant to feel impressed with the level on the, upon which they are fighting.
And I just found myself really distracted by like, this isn't responsible of any of you. I don't, I don't like this part of the fight. And I don't. I wanted to like both of them more, and this is just bothering me at this point. So, all right, let's see.
The end of the episode, oh, right, Bartolomeo and his whole thing, Luffy climbing the stairs, and Robin using her floor power to grip up all of these headcracker toys. And it's, she like pushes them out of the way. And what's his face is here? Gladius.
And I, he is such a weird little character. I enjoy him like just for his design a lot. But, uh, he notices that Rebecca isn't here and realizes that she got away. And he's like, oh, well, whatever. She's just one person. She's not even going to be able to like do anything. And it's so unfortunate that it seems like he's precisely right pretty much. She sure doesn't. Um,
So the third of these episodes, a tearful reunion, I've pretty much talked about Rebecca and her father already and like how I'm feeling about the two of them. But it's, like I said, Diamante just like, he comes at her like for a split second and there's just this one little moment. And her defending, there's no like fighting back in her.
It just feels like she's trying to absorb his blows without getting hurt. And like she hasn't even been knocked down. But she's still when the camera is lifted and it's supposed to be that we're seeing from her perspective. It's blurred.
Like she has been so affected by the blows that it's messing with her vision, which I really don't think much of, to be perfectly honest, you know? Um, So, and also she has like dropped the key off to the side. And that is just like in the bushes.
So this is when Diamante, like the two of them, we have like a cutaway of her as a little girl. And Diamante is laughing and saying like we had some really good. moments in the Coliseum, didn't we? And he starts laughing because Rebecca literally turns to flee. And look,
Far be it from me to criticize somebody for running away from an enemy they know they can't beat. I really honestly don't have a problem with that in a vacuum. But it's because it's Rebecca. She's the only one that we have seen literally run away, other than Usopp, and the whole thing was supposed to be how shameful that was for him. And eventually, he is convinced to come back.
So her fleeing just feels really, really different. And I was so fucking irritated by it. It was just, it sucked. So... This is when he uses his, like, weird bending of his blade power and he slices through the air. Her, like, you see her yell and there's blood and she goes down, but you don't really actually see an injury.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to have been like, he got her on her back or what? And of course, he is like standing over her and she's crying. And then all of a sudden here is Keros and he says, you've taken enough from me. And he throws this guy like a hundred yards with his sword. And Rebecca has all of her flashbacks realizing that this is her father. And he squares up with Diamante.
Um, I'm not sure, like, I guess he saw Diamante kill his wife because he was like a toy at that point and he was standing there when it happened. So, like, Rebecca hasn't been aware who was responsible for her mom's death, but he knew the whole time, I guess. I am kind of curious why he never told her, but I guess he just figured, like, what's the point? And finally...
Moofy is getting up to this same level and eventually is able to unlock Trafalgar's cuffs. It's just taken so long for Trafalgar to be able to fight. And I guess it's sort of for the best because like we've been told about how Trafalgar needs time to like get his energy back up after using a lot of his abilities.
So he's had a good long rest and hopefully his battery is on full right now. And, uh, Diamante starts like screaming at Luffy and Kiros has to tell both of them like I am going to take care of this fucking guy. So kill the, kill the doflamingo in my stead.
I would rather handle the guy who killed my wife. And they're just like, all right, let's get out of here. And I have to say that as Rebecca is watching Luffy run away and she yells out Lucy, I definitely had a moment of like, girl, you know that is not his fucking name by now. Why do you keep calling him that?
Everybody around you has been like, I know that's how you first met him. But at this point, I need you to just like get up to speed with everybody else. Rebecca just feels like she is, ugh. She is streets behind. That's a community reference for anybody who doesn't understand. But yeah, she calls him Lucy and is like, are you sure you can kill Do Flamingo? And he turns around.
And I was laughing so hard because he just says, I'm not Lucy. And I was like, oh, my God. I was so annoyed. And then he just addressed it right away. Thank you. Appreciate it. And he says, I'm Luffy. I'm going to be King of the Pirates one day. So there's no need to worry. And he takes off and leaves her there. I swear to God, Rebecca is the most useless character of this whole show, I think.
I, like, very, very little about this arc would be different if she didn't exist. You could really work it so that... Keros and his whole thing still happened, but that she, like, didn't survive, and it wouldn't matter because she has just been so nothing. So anyway...
Law uses his dope-ass shambles power to get him and Luffy right in front of the palace and Diamante just winds up slicing a barrel in half instead of Law. And then we have this very funny moment when they're like in the courtyard of the palace. And they're like him and Luffy are arguing about how they're going to handle things now.
And law is like, well, doing this like shambles thing takes a toll on my power. Between that, what is it that he says, between that and the sea prism stone cuffs and you carrying my ass all the way over here, I conserved enough strength to pull it off. And then he does, he touches his abdomen and he says scalpel.
And he pulls out a bullet that is still in his torso. There's three of them. And he says, like, trust do flamingo, basically, to have used real bullets, lead bullets, twisted jerk. What is it about lead?
Because, like, I know that lead is actually poisonous, but I didn't really feel like that's what he meant here. Was he trying to say, like, is that what he meant? I just, I was, I was sort of confused here because it just felt like he was pointing something out that I was missing. So I don't know, but it's just,
Any bullets would be bad, I would think. I don't know. So, Luffy is like, all right, let's head in and deliver an ass kicking and loss stops it and says, Do Flamingo isn't just someone you can pummel with sheer will alone. You need to keep a level head. And I was cracking up here because I... The two of them are just such different operators.
And I should have seen it coming that they would reach a point where they're arguing. And they miss the fact that they have been spotted. So at one point, like, dole, let me go. Trafalgar is saying, like, we need to get this done and be really careful about it. And then there's some fucking guy who's just watching them and reporting to Sugar. I have eyes on Luffy and Trafalgar law. And Sugar says, Roger that.
And we see her with her bowl of grapes walking down the hall, heading out to meet them. And it is, she gets this monologue, you guys. First of all, I don't feel like I have given enough weight to how good the voice actress who is doing Sugar's voice is. But she is really unnerving because she makes her voice sound super young.
So when, uh, when Sugar is like making threats, She just sounds so creepy because she sounds like this whispery voice little girl. Thousands of slaves at our disposal. Ten years wasted. And her fucking creepy eyes. And, you know, I had been saying earlier, maybe she doesn't even want to be doing this, you know.
Maybe I am... blaming her when she's a little kid and doesn't get it. And then to find out that she's like been totally into this the whole time. And she yells about Usap that imbecile destroyed years of my hard work in an instant. And
The whole way that she is talking like, I'm just going to brush my hand over him and pow, farewell, straw hat in that split second. It'll be as though you never existed. Everyone will forget you. You trash. You guys, the fact that it ended with you trash, that was the part that really got me.
I don't know why, but like, that felt particularly funny in a way. There was just something about it that was so, like, aggressive, you know? And yet... No, no yet. You know what?
That's what, like, I know that she's talking about, like, turning him into a toy and destroying him, but usually when she does that, it's very much alike, oh, I'm just doing this because this is what it takes to win. And it's gotten to the very much, like, now it's personal kind of thing, you know? And calling somebody trash just feels like a particular kind of insult. And
She is so young seeming still that that superiority complex you would have to have to call somebody that just doesn't feel appropriate on her shoulders. You know what I mean? So, like, that I think is why it kind of caught me off guard and made me feel away. But yeah, Sugar is just like, she's a pretty creepy villain. I really have to hand it to her. She, like, maybe her power is kind of absurd.
But the way that she has played it so far, I have really liked because the more I find out about her, the more upsetting she is. So, all right, I am going to have to wrap this up. But thank you very much to everybody for listening. Thank you to Sarah Pham for hanging out with me. Thank you to Florian for commissioning this episode. I hope you all are enjoying the coverage. And until next time, Tittaloo, motherfuckas.
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