#yes it's disingenuous and not fair to Stone Monkey
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Monkey King 2009 Episode 5
NO.
GENERALS!!!
I JUST STARTED TO BELIEVE IN YOU
a lot - and I mean a lot - happened this episode. but I'm mad about THIS.
#mhw09 personal#these absolute rat bastards#they nearly incited an actual mob against him what the hell#blaming stone monkey for literally everything from their OWN terrible preparations and lack of fortifications#to the MONKEY KING'S own tactical decisions#these GUYS#one kid is a sacrificial lamb the other is a scapegoat#NONE of you deserve EITHER of them#look I totally recognize that this episode was supposed to sort of be six ears's 'start of darkness'#highlight the frailties of his character or whatever#but look. the kids aren't getting blamed for a single thing until the adults get knocked down about twenty pegs.#six ears has been trained to 'prove himself'#but has been given poorly defined and ever-shifting expectations for a vaguely-dangled-but-never-stated 'goal' (of monkey king)#of course he leaps at any sign of approval#he's hungry to know what the hell he's supposed to be doing and that he's doing whatever that is right#he tries to set the record straight multiple times and eventually gives up#and yeah he enjoys the praise but he's also anxious he hasn't earned it so he immediately jumps at being the one to bring in the NEXT batch#make it 'real' or 'fair' so that him taking FALSE credit never happened actually it was just a little early#yes it's disingenuous and not fair to Stone Monkey#but he's being a kid#I wonder (if he hadn't FALLEN OFF A CLIFF what the hell six ears) if he might have had an attack of conscience#if he HAD found reishi mushrooms and shoved them angrily at stone monkey and made him take them back#I can see that in him#I feel that's a distinct possibility for his character - HE knows he did a bad and it's bothering him severely even if he doesn't admit it#(his angry grumbling while he tries to find the mushrooms)#so I feel like the guilt would eat him alive eventually#even if he didn't he'd probably crack and confess the whole thing to Stone Monkey within a week#also also stone monkey was SO CUTE we finally had a ton of dialogue from him and everyone else! but he was also! so sad!#seeing him happy by himself when he first set off on his own to find the reishi mushrooms was so bittersweet#stone monkey prior to the troop was lonely sure but he wasn't unhappy. no excuse for how he was treated this episode.
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