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steve0discusses · 3 years

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S5 Ep6: Joey Wheeler is on Fire, Yet Again

Came down with a little sickness-not the biggie, just a little sly guy. But I took some meds, I’m a little floaty, I’ve only been listening to baroque music all morning for some reason? And I hate baroque music usually? But I’ll leave it to bro to tell me if this is fluid enough.

Just so you know, these caps were kind of a hot mess for a while and some of them read like that Garfield in of hot eat the food comic until...today. So pls don’t judge me, Judge my damn DMV where no one was following Covid regulations because I’m pretty sure that’s where I got this damn cold.

We start off with Roland getting more attention than he ever has in his entire life. Like honestly, I don’t know what Roland’s job really is...but he’s got a very diverse set of very useless skills. One of which, is knowing how to announce sports games that aren’t really a sport, while those games he’s announcing slowly fall into chaos.

Anyway, Roland’s taking so long cherishing his sweet time before everything goes to hell, that he’s boring Joey, who’s kinda turned into a ball of stress in the waiting room.

A lot of this episode is us watching them watching Joey having a break down moment by moment, TBH.

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Yugi telling Joey to study his cards and straight up--what?

Like at this point they know what’s on the cards, right? Like there comes a point where even Yugioh cards have a finite amount of words and I’m just going to assume that like...Joey probably knows them all in his own deck, right?

(bro note: they have no limit on what they will put on a card)

Then again, maybe Yugi doesn’t know what “study” means?

Also, appreciate how some artist crosshatched the hell on Joey’s nose there and I zoomed out and ruined it.

Now for some reason every duelist is hanging out in the duel lodge, including our current arch-villain guy who’s brought a book. I want to know what book this guy even reads so no one could suspect he’s actually a hacker who uses computers. He’s reading romance, right? And I don’t think he’d even be into Twilight, I think he’s straight up into hard core Mom romance like a lame ass Nicholas Sparks over there reading “Dear John” for the millionth time because he is completely un-phased by anything else happening in this room.

Joey, our hero, just out there being an asshole for no reason.

After Tea is pushed into a locker or something screaming about her need for female friends (which she screamed in earshot of Rebecca again, who I figured was on friends terms with her after last episode...but I guess not) Leon hops up to remind us that we should be caring about the fact that his character exists.

And like, I love Leon’s hair color--that’s a good choice, and legit that is the color I tried to dye my hair at the beginning of the epidemic (it didn’t work PS, my hair cannot take dye for the life of it) but also like...he just kinda feels like a weak Rebecca as far as characters go. He’s young, he’s good at cards...I think he goes to a private school? That’s all I can think of about Leon.

He mostly just reminds us that the big prize of this tourney is to duel Yugi, who anyone could have dueled at any point even without the tournament.

On the way out of the...duel room? lounge? Area? Joey decides to like...make peace with Zigfried, and I gotta tell you, I kinda have to side with Zigfried, because Joey spent the last ten minutes being a freak in the dressing room/lounge/bathroom and at one point looked like he was going to hold the entire locker room in a stranglehold.

I would also want some space from Joey Wheeler, is what I’m saying.

After insulting Joey’s style (which honestly, Joey...has a style? He pops his collar, that’s his entire style.) Zigfried assures us that Joey’s gonna lose and like...

...probably, right? Just looking at the plausible direction this season will go.

Anyway, Joey is such a mess (which is the theme of the episode, that Joey needs to learn to chill in order to win at card games) that Rebecca is like “I understand if all of you leave me to go help our poor baby Joey.” And no one felt bad for her.

Mokuba comes over to tell everyone all of the Kaiba family secrets because Mokuba has no filter.

Seto has devoted himself to staring at a computer screen for the rest of this episode. I guess he’ll put their names into Google, realize that social media hasn’t been invented yet, and then just lie his head down on the desk and take a power nap until the tournament is over. Much like I did after taking Dayquil this afternoon.

I like how Seto dressed for success and then locked himself in the server room for most of this arc so far. Maybe he’s just...really tired, I dunno. I don’t really blame the guy, he’s had a hard time.

And then Yugi was like “DAMN IT MOKUBA, JUST ONCE CAN YOU NOT INVITE THE ILLUMINATI???”

And we had a weird scene where Yugi just started talking to the ghost and it was while he was talking to everyone else, and the show didn’t treat it like that’s a weird thing to do...but it was a weird thing to do.

This show does that sometimes, where I guess they imply that Yugi’s Pharaoh conversations are split second conversations but...they’re not, right?

Also this chick ain’t gone yet, and Mokuba is just failing at his entire job for not zeroing in on vibes coming off this chick like stinky cheeseman.

So listen.

Did the Kaibas make like 3 types of Blue Eyes Caboose to one up Noah? Because Noah made one choo choo dragon, and then Mokuba and Seto were like “how dare” and then made sure that everyone ride every single version of the blue eyes caboose just to see how proud of them they were.

How many months of troubleshooting was the train? Like how long in development did Seto and Mokuba spend on these? A lot right? Like most of the time?

I did not check the subs to see if Roland said Jumping or Champion but I like to believe that Roland thought it was a cool new name he gave him.

Then these guys all showed up.

Hey so...can we talk seating arrangements?

Tea decided not to sit next to Yugi after complaining about not spending time with him for like how many episodes? Or was it too awkward to sit on top of what was probably Pharaoh?

Or did Mokuba go like “please, Tea, I cannot sit next to the others because I’m pretty sure one is a mole that is about to go cray” and was Tea like “Good, I need female friends, these ones are driving me crazy!” and then was Mokuba like peering desperately over the edge of his self made dragon train prison realizing he has to listen to Tea complain about boys for the rest of his ride across molten lava?

Headcanons abound about this weird seating arrangement that the animators drew for the reasons they did...but reasons I cannot fully understand. That and the Dayquil is making me overfixate on random stuff.

And also, Tea is kind of the Kaiba’s security’s understudy. Just there to always protect Mokuba with her ass because she’s the strongest woman alive.

PS I missed the tumblr wars because at the time I was trying to like...run a proper business on blogger. When Blogger died and I jumped over here it was like a weird ruin where everyone was like “tumblr is the most toxic place alive” and...I’ve had a really nice time here, actually. Completely missed that civil war period and I have no regrets.

Now I was there for the Petz wars (warz, I guess) where people were very militant about Petz abuse (abuze?) where apparently people were using the spray bottle on their catz too much and people were very, very upset about it to the point that they were like campaigning about it on their angelfire websites with the most bizarre grassroots campaigns that I still recall, to this day because they were like...well they looked like this:

PLAPA. Not only am I 100% positive that only this one guy ever called this movement PLAPA, but I’m 100% positive that not only are Catz not real people, but also this wasn’t actually happening and we never had any proof that it was. Either way, if people knew or suspected that you hadn’t deleted the spray bottle from your game (which at the time I had no idea how to do because I was a wee child) they would basically assume you were on a one way road to being a mass murderer in real life.

In real life we were 7 years old so like...thanks?

But that’s the closest I got to toxicity and at the time I was too young to make an email account and actually converse with these people. I was just there to download their Petz hexes, and I already made a post about how wonderful and incredible Petz Hexing was.

And y’all, I heard, just now after a little deep dive into the Petz Abuse debacle (which yes, is on the wiki), that apparently, like gardening, Petz Hexing came back in a big way during the epidemic--and I have found an active Petz forum in this the year 2021. The only problem is that I no longer remember how to use old timey forums...and I think I’m locked out of seeing most of these threads (and like this forum is so old I think I have to send them a letter in the physical mail to apply). But, I’m pretty sure they’re hosting a picture contest for who’s dogz poses the best. And I’m pretty sure someone created a hexxed Pickle Rick. Or it’s a photoshop that was made to look like a hexxed Pickle Rick.

Dammit why did it have to be Pickle Rick? That’s not worth re-installing Petz and getting it to run on Windows 10...

Guys is this the Dayquil? Is this really happening? I feel like I’m losing my mind for so many reasons...

Anyway, speaking about useless hexing it’s about time that our villain did something that was actually dangerous, so Zigfried decided to install a new virus that does more than turn off the lights. (it still turns off lights)

the Spreadsheet Virus!

Confounded by the spreadsheet software, it...um...it does this:

Straight up how does Excel make a volcano erupt? Is that why I have to pay for Microsoft office now?

All this because Joey made fun of Zigfried’s naturally pink hair? Which is the most normal hair on this series outside of like...Tristan?

Hey guys...Joey’s fine, right? Like how many times has Joey been on fire? And once in an iron cage next to like...a Fire Golem?

Joey’s fine.

MAN I miss Fire Golem. He had a good mug.

And then we just kinda watch chaos go across the park, chaos that includes: Too many ghosts in the haunted mansion (which honestly--you’ll get your money’s worth, sounds great!), the Ferris wheel goes kinda fast and thus might accidentally be fun, the lights turn off at some concert stage that only had 2 people on it (so it might just be motion detector lights and not even a virus), and um...literal fire and magma are going to set Joey Wheeler on fire.

Just...one of these events does not seem like the others. In fact most of these things sound like good improvements to the park and they should just hire Zigfried at this point.

Roland puts down his microphone and jogs across the stage, about a mile through the audience bleachers, and into the staff lounge, to go and bother Seto Kaiba, who is in a room that has a hi-def classical painting copy-pasted on the wall and I can’t look away from it.

I almost did a Google search on this painting but then thought better about it. There’s like...a billion classical paintings that look exactly like this, and they wouldn’t use like a Monet, they would have to do something that’s harder to catch to avoid copyright issues (because yes, even old ass paintings have copyright issues, but no one tell NFT’s which are going to be so freakin screwed and was such a bad idea, that I can’t even start).

Anyway, I have no idea who it is and it is legitimately driving me up a wall, but I’m on too much meds to do the effort of putting it in a reverse google image search.

Plus, a reverse google image search would only pull up Seto Kaiba.

So Kaiba takes us on a little flashback to his weird ass past, a weird ass past that just...doesn’t follow any of the established timelines, but I assume was shortly after adoption but before Seto got into a phase where he wore his school outfit everywhere and tried to shove his MMO off onto his Dad as a business model.

Seto is like 8 for some reason. I don’t know why, they kinda drew him younger this season anyway, like maybe they got a lot of fan mail and realized “Hey I think we made the 16 yo boy too sexy?” And they just toned Seto the hell down. That, and it’s a different animation team, and maybe they looked at Seto’s character design and were like “we don’t get paid enough to draw this well.” So...since Seto actually looks like a teen again, I guess his 12 year old self has to look like he’s in Elementary school.

Also, I only recognized this, because at some point in S3 as I was roasting Noah Kaiba’s weird fashion:

I remember distinctly roasting that little bow tie. I don’t remember when I wrote it, I think there was a version of this outfit that was in color...but I don’t remember where.

Anyway, it’s not the same jacket...but man that’s kind of awkward, ya? Like the maid who dressed Mokuba deffo got fired?

He um.

Turned the lights off a little bit.

Guys this villain is like...

...why does he think lights are scary? Like look at little Seto here. The boy is already bored. Seto duels on the edges of cliffs...he doesn’t care about the freakin dark.

We had a guy who killed everyone on the planet last season, and this season we have a little fashion gremlin standing in the corner and flicking the light switch going “wooooo you never catch me!” and it’s like...

...I’m starting to think this guy isn’t a witch.

Like we’re at Episode 6, there’s still time for this guy to be a witch...but I really am starting to think this guy is just...straight up not a witch. It’s everything Seto wanted, a rival who isn’t a freakin magic person...and sets Joey only fake on fire instead literally on fire like last time...

and Seto is just completely unhinged by it.

Anyway, I’m off to go drink a bowl of soup and pass out. If you’re new here, this is a link to read these in chrono order.

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

#yugioh #yu gi oh #ygo #S5 #Ep6 #Yugi Muto #Seto Kaiba #Joey Wheeler #Tea Gardner #Tristan Taylor #Mokuba Kaiba #zigfried von schroeder #rebecca hawkins #I talked about catz again #leon #but not the kings of leon guy #I mean he could be

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dimples-of-discontent · 6 years

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Castiel: “It's not blame that falls on you, Dean, it's fate. The righteous man who begins it is the only one who can finish it. You have to stop it.“ (4x16, “Head of a Pin”)

Is the apocalypse still going on? Hear me out. I know that TFW has now (apparently) averted more than one apocalypse, first by trapping Lucifer in his cage at the end of S5 then by stopping Amara at the end of S11. But that’s on a fairly small time scale, especially for divine beings. What if it’s part of a larger, ongoing narrative in which Dean--and Dean specifically--still needs to stop what he started in Hell all those years ago? This season has been full of mirrors and bookends and has been emphasizing duality. What if the endgame mytharc plot is a bookend/mirror of S4 and S5?

(**Disclaimer: this is me kicking around ideas in a highly speculative manner. It’s for entertainment value only.**)

I spent a lot of the evening on the Superwiki collecting together all the dialogue in S4 episodes that refer to seals. I’ll share the Google doc link if you want it (you can message me), but there’s a fairly notable trend which is that discussions of seals are also iconic Dean/Cas scenes. Not too surprising since the breaking of the seals is the mytharc for S4. But Cas’s desperate desire to prevent seals from breaking so that a portal doesn’t open up would contrast with his desperate desire to open a portal to the AU and break at least one seal (the Seal of Solomon) in the process. The seals brought Dean and Cas together and bonded them...what if the mirroring that’s happening means the spell ingredients are going to tear them apart? Hums “Love Will Tear Us Apart” under my breath. (I have a “Seal of Solomon” tag which I think has people’s meta in it for more on that specifically.) Or maybe, instead, it is that Dean and Cas form a seal instead of breaking one, as I was chatting about with @sactownbrowns3 who had this amazing stuff to say:

“It could work quite well IF Dean and Cas both are the Seal. When Cas came into their lives he brought Dean back to Sam from another realm when massively important Seals were beginning to break...releasing Luci from his cage. It would perfectly bookend the eras that have followed and be incredible symbolism by them FORMING/mending a Seal which may temporarily bring more great chaos but eventually settle and bring balance to the universe. If they are going for pos/neg day/night black/white polarities and mirrors galore(which I have been screaming about since the first black & white promo pic for s13 came out and upon watching 13x1and made my smoke signals post)-Cas saving a Righteous Man from Hell who broke the first seal as HE broke shedding blood in Hell.....what IF another angel or just somebody else period were to save an abomination in HEAVEN...Deans soul would be a bright light in hell, Luci's darkness a stain in an otherwise light-filled heaven? Could him taking Anaels grace be a type of communion which may slowly absolve him of sins...bringing his humanity back and redeeming him? Blood of a most holy man...And it would be somehow Sam ultimately saving him?”

Personally, I’m on the same Speculation Train with a lot of this too now that I’ve gone through the S4 dialogue so carefully. Cas’s first major disobedience was to tell Dean that Lilith was the final seal, banishing Zachariah and freeing Dean from Heaven’s Hotel Suite. He effectively stopped the angels’ plan to have Dean be possessed by Michael, kill Lucifer, and bring about Paradise on earth. Interestingly, "Paradise on Earth" is exactly the phrase that kept being used about what Jack showed Cas. (I actually love the idea that’s floating around that the AU could be made into Paradise if Jack stays there.) If Cas wants Paradise, he may need to do “whatever it takes to get there” which, as we should remember, was a huge-ass heavenly battle starring Sam and Dean.

Cas tells Dean in no uncertain terms that only the righteous man can finish what he set in motion. What if balance has to be restored by Dean actually doing something along the lines of what the angels intended in S4, being possessed by Michael (or another angel?) and defeating Lucifer. What if to get there Dean does have to be possessed by Michael and/or kill Lucifer? (For poetic justice I want Sam to kill Lucifer but I will entertain other ideas too.)

Again, I'm just kicking things around at this point, but Dabb is so interested in using and subverting past canon that it feels like this mention of the Seal of Solomon must connected us back to S4. There's also Anael as a Ruby parallel, with Lucifer as Sam in the kind of inside-out version...what if Lucifer is accidentally getting stronger to seal himself away just as Sam was accidentally getting stronger to free Lucifer? As @sactownbrowns3 said, he could be becoming “a most Holy man” by imbibing angel grace.

One thing I'm sure of is that "most holy man" of the episode title isn't going to be whomever we first think of; it's going to be someone surprising. I you can’t put too much stock in episode titles or PR, I think we were all inclined to assume that it’s going to be someone on TFW because, well, they are the Good Guys and also it sounds a lot like being the righteous man (I have spec to that effect too). But with the “Find the good in everyone” / “find the evil in everyone” posters and our season-long meditation on nurture vs. nature and the significance of using your free will to choose good, I think we are being invited (as others have pointed out) to imagine our boys not as much as the Good Guys. They’ve been warned not to mess with other worlds, to knock down a house of cards, and they will not hesitate to do it anyway. Not Good. They keep people, even people they care about, around mainly for how useful they are (you can read @charlie-minion on this) and after that dispose of them. Not Good. They are the the ones who do “whatever it takes” <ominous music> because a war is coming.

That’s a dark note to end on, but it’s angst o’clock here in the midseason with already heavy episodes. Heck, I’m gonna have to go rewatch “Tombstone” just to make sure my heart can take more pain tomorrow. As always, happy to hear from other spec writers @naruhearts @elizabethrobertajones @tinkdw @sactownbrowns3 @woahthisguy @amwritingmeta and anyone else. Also, apologies if I missed some relevant posts that are out there already. I haven’t been able to read quite as many posts this week so feel free to comment with links and references.

#13x15 speculation #a most holy man #season 13 speculation #past canon #narrative parallels #doubles and mirrors #seal of solomon #sword and shield #my spec

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