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Toonami |Oct14| A Place for Manly Souls
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I love this so much
Imperial Bishop
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Doctor Decimate
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My god, it’s full of stars on episode 59 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka are sent to investigate a mysterious distress signal far beyond the Outer Rim, the kind that hasn’t been used in 2000 years, when Yoda was middle-aged. At the location of the distress signal, they encounter a Giant Magical Space Bipyramid. As is expected of these things, it sucks the ship inside and the Jedi black out.
When everyone wakes up, they realize that the surrounding environment is not what they picture when they hear “Giant Magical Space Bipyramid.” Everything is actually quite green, with grass and trees. And massive floating rocks. Upon exiting the ship, Anakin hears a voice that asks if he’s the “one.” He’s the only one who can hear this voice, but soon its owner appears: this Palutena-looking girl (Obi-Wan’s flirtatious “hello” to her is pretty great.) She introduces herself as “Daughter” but I’m going to call her Palutena. Palutena is about as cryptic as you’d expect someone called “Daughter” to be and says she’ll lead the Jedi to “Father” because he’s the only one who can help them and they need shelter by nightfall.
As they travel along a cliff, a falling rock separates them into two groups: Anakin with Palutena, and Obi-Wan with Ahsoka. Palutena says that this is her brother’s fault and leaves, telling everyone to stay put. So Obi-Wan and Ahsoka head back to the ship, where they encounter everyone’s mental image of “Average Star Wars Villain” as night falls and vegetation around them dies. He proves to be just as cryptic as his sister and asks about Anakin. Obi-Wan and Ahsoka fire up their lightsabers (Ahsoka apparently uses two now), but with a wave of the Force the man shuts them off. Then he points out that they should seek shelter, morphs into a crazy bat monster, and leaves. Meanwhile, Anakin enters a monastery on top of a mountain and encounters a man who looks like Evil Dumbledore. This is presumably Father, and he invites Anakin to stay the night.
Holed up in a cave with Ahsoka, Obi-Wan hears the voice of a familiar Irishman. It’s Force Ghost Qui-Gonn Jinn, voiced by Liam Neeson! He doesn’t have much to do other than reiterate the “Anakin is the Chosen One” stuff and act ominous. Then we cut to Anakin. He gets a visit from his mother, who isn’t a Force Ghost and is also voiced by the original actress. She talks to Anakin about his guilt and fears. After some unfortunate lines like “What kind of black arts is this?” and “I tasted only vengeance when I slaughtered so many to avenge your death.” and “The only love I feel in my heart is haunted by what should happen if I let go,” Anakin realizes that this definitely isn’t his mother when she starts freaking out as he talks about Padme. After a quick flash to the crazy bat monster, she disappears. Ahsoka, as a lowly created-for-TV person, does not get a visit from a past character. Instead, she has a vision of her future self, who warns that Anakin has planted seeds of the Dark Side within her and that she needs to get off the planet.
Because visits in the middle of the night from your dead-mother-who’s-actually-a-crazy-bat-monster are not common, Anakin confronts Father with his lightsaber drawn. Father grabs it like it won’t totally mutilate his hand and shuts it off, saying that he and his “family” are ancient, forgotten people called Force Users and that the bat monster was probably his son. He goes on about how they were too dangerous to live in normal society and exiled themselves. He watches over his children, who embody the light and the darkness, and keeps them in balance. But when he heard of the Chosen One, he wanted to see for himself and…sent out a distress signal that he had no way of knowing Anakin would investigate. Anyway, Anakin says that the Chosen One is a myth, but Father begs to differ and proposes that he administer one test before the Jedi are allowed to leave. Cut to Obi-Wan and Ahsoka, who are promptly kidnapped by Palutena and the Son.
You never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice, and Father is just such a lunatic. Anakin must free his guilt by choosing to save either Ahsoka or Obi-Wan. He takes the third option: use the planet’s strong connection with the Force to attack the monsters and free his friends. Then he forces (heh) Father’s children on their knees before him. And of course, no one’s allowed to leave just yet. Father wants Anakin to replace him. Anakin refuses. He can’t stay, he’s the main character! Father warns that if he leaves, his selfishness will haunt him and the galaxy forever. Then Anakin leaves.
This episode is...ok. It tries to deal with the idea of Anakin's guilt over murdering many fools to avenge his mother, but it never feels earned because it's something we probably haven't even thought about over the course of nearly 60 episodes. The episode itself is a cool concept with a lot of nice visuals, but it feels like an excuse to have the characters just explain things directly to the audience more than anything else, which is a pretty wide-reaching problem when shows get all symbolic and metaphysical and stuff. Also, good lord did they waste Liam Neeson's return. There's actually a part two and three to this, so maybe he'll continue to show up.
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Schadenfreude
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Happy birthday, Bass!
Doctor Decimate
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dammit where's that InuYasha gif when i need it. happy birthday, Bass!
Again, someone make a google doc
We werent going to add you anyways! *hmph*
Doctor Decimate
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so, i added the opening quote and attempted to make the review shorter. i'm thinking of just going with normal font for the title cards instead of the Star Wars font
Imperial Bishop
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If you see him getting hurt by Nami's punches, then it's only just a gag.
Or is it?! Hmmmmm....
Cool. I'm in.
okay so that's why Commodore what's-his-face's bullets were able to make him bleed, because they were made differently
okay
also explosions kind of hurt him a little? I guess?
I mean the spear he was getting attacked with basically had explode-on-hit on it, and Luffy was okay enough to punch the spear tip to pieces.
i've noticed that Comedy Girl Punches in anime basically ignore all defense
SparksterMeta0
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happy birthday bass.
BassForever
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Thanks everyone for the b-day wishes. 25 years today oh my goodness where has the time gone lol
TheAbsolution
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:lol amazing.
Happy Birthday Bass!
Fake Edit: What are you doing for your birthday?
Was gonna post this as a reaction, but glad to see someone else did. Got a good laugh out of that pic.
Happy 25th b-day.
I hope we get a video game review tonight. Just feels like the right time.
So how about that latest One Piece chapter huh?
Yes, I seem to remember that date.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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In 6 weeks/episodes,
WE AREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Probably will reconfirm DBZ Kai's date/time. Maybe we'll get another surprise show reveal like with Gurren Lagann.
Cross promotion for Bayonetta 2! Game review AND movie showing!
I'd be up for the movie being shown. Not to mention Funimation has the rights, so that might up its chances.
lazybones18
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Maybe the game will actually sell thanks to that >.>
I doubt we will get any show reveals until november.
I hope we get some movie announcements
Doctor Decimate
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I doubt we will get any show reveals until november.
I hope we get some movie announcements
"OMG WUT HAPPEN TO HELLSANG ULTIMATES."
"Don't worry, we had to give Hellsing a break to make room for the Batman marathon. It's back this week at 2am!"
chicagocubsfan
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King of Thorn could be a movie they show on Toonami. Nothing worse than what has been in Hellsing so far.
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