Las Noches Ep. 24

Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Episode: 24 "Too Early to Win, Too Late to Know".

Transcript

Giovani 0:18

Welcome. I am your host, Giovanni.

Track 1 0:24

Hi, and I'm your host Danielle.

Giovani 0:27

Dan? Yeah. How are you?

Track 1 0:31

Hello.

Giovani 0:33

Hello?

Track 1 0:33

I'm doing, I'm doing well

Giovani 0:36

Oh, we're hyped tonight. We're hyped. Yes. Merry Christmas everyone.

Track 1 0:42

Merry Christmas.

Giovani 0:43

Merry Christmas. And this is, this is a, it's really fun to do because I always wanted to do a New Year's Eve episode. A Christmas episode just to have to, to give a treat to the audience.

Track 1 0:57

You are feeling like this is your Christmas special, as you say,

Giovani 1:02

y right? This is my Christmas special, and when I,

Track 1 1:05

very doctor who like with the Christmas special.

Giovani 1:08

right when I had a, I had a video game podcast and uh, it's me and a couple of my friends. That was our thing. We used to do like all night sessions on New Year's Eve going into New Year's Day. So we would go, we would spend the New Year's not in the club and not at a party. We would all be on our Xboxes playing Destiny or Halo all night. It was really fun. So you don't seem impressed.

Track 1 1:40

Very nerd like of you guys. I mean,

Giovani 1:47

Okay.

Track 1 1:47

uh,

Giovani 1:48

It was fun. It was really fun. I mean, I

Track 1 1:50

but No, no, No, no, I'm not hating. That's, I mean, that sounds fun. That sounds fun. Yeah. Like you got the snacks, you got the drinks, you're having a good time and you're not spending a bunch of money, so.

Giovani 2:01

right.

Track 1 2:02

I mean, I could dig it.

Giovani 2:04

Yeah, it was really fun.

Track 1 2:05

with it.

Giovani 2:06

It was. It was so much fun. Uh,

Track 1 2:09

Yeah.

Giovani 2:10

podcast is over and we're doing our Snows our Bleach podcast. So I just wanted to do something fun. So I don't know how fun it is on Christmas Day, but you know, I'm happy.

Track 1 2:23

Well, all the food is in my belly, so I'm ready to go.

Giovani 2:27

you have the itis You, you gonna go. to

Track 1 2:30

yet, but I, I got the food and I'm nice and full and I'm, I'm ready to go.

Giovani 2:36

Okay, what have you. I've been playing, uh, candy Cane Lane. I see you all day, and the jingle's still in my head.

Track 1 2:45

Is that your new, um, Christmas Jam?

Giovani 2:48

I have a few new Christmas jams, but uh, that one is just so catchy. I love it, and I, I have to redo my Christmas playlist. Now, I have discovered Sia.

Track 1 3:05

Well, no. Well, I've, I've discovered Sia, but, um, yeah, I, I don't think I was her, um, Christmas song, the candy cane lane that, that wasn't on my rotation of, of Christmas music. But, you know, I can add It

Giovani 3:19

You're just playing where I carry. Right? You just got.

Track 1 3:22

Pretty, pretty much all the, all the soul type, um, Christmas music. But you know what I, I, um, I stumbled over and I think I just heard it randomly on a radio station one day, and I'm, I was like, what is that? It's like a version of Carol of the Bells, which I love, but. It was from, um, this artist, this, um, called John Tesh,

Giovani 3:50

John, he is not.

Track 1 3:51

know, but he's not,

Giovani 3:52

He's not a I guess he is kind of an artist.

Track 1 3:54

yeah, I mean, you're, you're a musician. You call, you know, a musician, you're a artist. So, um, but yeah, he is known mostly for just playing the piano or whatever. But it was, this version was just like a. Very Spanish guitar, heavy version of Carol of the Bells, and I loved it. It's, it's fantastic church. Look that up if you get a chance.'cause that's on my new, that's also on my, um, rotation now that John Tesh, Carol of the Bells

Giovani 4:27

Tesh. believe you said John Tesh.

Track 1 4:30

I know, but it's good. It's so good.

Giovani 4:32

I mean, I.

Track 1 4:32

It's, it's like a, it's acoustic, it's an acoustic version, but it was, it's really good. So.

Giovani 4:38

Okay. Now

Track 1 4:39

Add that my tip of the

Giovani 4:41

is talented,

Track 1 4:42

Yeah.

Giovani 4:42

so I say Sia Candy Cane Lane, and you said. John Teh. Carol the Bell.

Track 1 4:49

Yes. Very Spanish guitar heavy, like I said. Very good.

Giovani 4:53

That's, that's all you got for the people.

Track 1 4:55

Well that, I mean, we were talking, uh, Christmas song, so That's, my Christmas song

Giovani 4:59

are you. Okay. I gave one. You gave one. I can tell you something else I've been doing.

Track 1 5:04

What.

Giovani 5:05

I've been binging on Classic Doctor Who like the old school stuff. I'm talking Tom Baker, uh, Colin Baker. He's the doctor who no one really likes, uh, just throughout the classic series and love it. I love it. I used to watch it growing up and Tom Baker was my guy.

Track 1 5:32

Okay.

Giovani 5:33

I've watched the second, third, fourth, and fifth doctor who, and I did skip to the sixth one too, Colin Baker. It was terrible. It was so bad. I don't know. It was a combination of writing and trying to make him more edgier. It was just really bad.

Track 1 5:51

Yeah. Well, I feel like Christmas time or just the holiday time is always a good time to, to get into the, the binge watching

Giovani 6:01

right?

Track 1 6:02

because I, I mean, I don't like Dr. Who, so that's a good one to binge watch.

Giovani 6:05

The classic, not the one they have today, which is still good. I like the new one too.

Track 1 6:10

yeah, I mean, the, that. Last one that they had when, um, they changed the doctor to um, the woman.

Giovani 6:18

Jody Whitaker,

Track 1 6:19

yeah, you know, I have to finish it'cause um, I heard it got better, but it was a little disappointing in the beginning'cause I was very excited that, you know, she was gonna be the doctor. But I don't know what happened with the writing

Giovani 6:36

It was, they didn't know what to do with her, like the, her first two seasons, or maybe she only had, I think she had three. But that third season was really good. I enjoyed it. Now my favorite was the one before that, I cannot think of his name. It was the older guy who was a lot more edgier, who played the guitar.

Track 1 6:57

uh, yeah, he was good too. I liked him.

Giovani 6:59

Um. Peter. Peter. Was it Peter something? Oh.

Track 1 7:04

uh, I have to look it up. I don't remember. Um.

Giovani 7:07

So, yeah, Capaldi Capaldi.

Track 1 7:11

Okay.

Giovani 7:12

So that is my favorite, like it's Tom Baker and it's Capaldi.

Track 1 7:16

Yeah, he, he was really good. He, um, you know,'cause up until, um, him, I guess for a few seasons, they had the doctor as kind of, wonky, kooky, awkward, you know.

Giovani 7:31

Matt Smith,

Track 1 7:33

A SA smidge, like very smart, but still a smidge bumbly. But um, yeah, they went in another direction with him, kind of dark and edgy, very gray line feeling, you know, I love a gray line,

Giovani 7:48

I know you do, but most of his, most of his episodes that he were in, like hell, Ben and Heaven sent those episodes were really good. wAtch it if you're not into Dr. Who but I would say this just in general, since it is British. Sometime it lands a little different on the American ears. Like we don't get their wits so much. So that's the only

Track 1 8:17

Yeah. I, I, I do though I, I like a lot of their shows, but I've been

Giovani 8:23

But you have British, family, so Yeah,

Track 1 8:25

you Well, and I've been immersed in British television for a long time. I, I watch a lot of things on BBC America, so,

Giovani 8:32

I do too, but you know.

Track 1 8:34

yeah.

Giovani 8:36

Okay.

Track 1 8:37

No.

Giovani 8:39

Okay. Okay. You are, you're so cultural. I guess you're international. Danny International.

Track 1 8:46

I get the, I get the jokes, you know,

Giovani 8:49

Okay. So are you ready to start into bleach?

Track 1 8:53

I am,

Giovani 8:54

Are you excited?

Track 1 8:57

Well, yes I am, because I felt like we're making some progress., It felt very slow moving with all this, previous, like the last couple episodes felt there was things happening, but it felt filler ish a little with all this focus on characters that we, not, that we don't care about, but we don't care about. And so,you know, we kind of got back to like the meat and

Giovani 9:27

What's it all about?

Track 1 9:28

of Right. What it's all, what it's all about. So.

Giovani 9:31

so from the jump when the title was announced, too Early to win, too Late to know, I knew that there's gonna be some kind of deception going on here, right? Too early to win. That means there's gonna be some kind of upper hand, but it's not gonna be actual. So, I don't know. I don't, that's why I was taking from the title.

Track 1 9:53

Um, well, we jump into what looks like a flashback, so it's like a black and white flashback of, um, Yuha and ibe.

Giovani 10:06

at the old

Track 1 10:06

Um, yeah, seated at, uh, a table and it seems like, well, it's, they're discussing, guess, the treaty. Or any kind of like agreement that the Quincy and Sole PERS have had.

Giovani 10:25

Right, And what stands out to me in this episode? Well, this part right here is Ichiba and Yuha. They're having this conversation. They're not strangers to each other. They've had conversations before. They know each other.

Track 1 10:40

Yeah.

Giovani 10:41

ichi Bay was going to have an agreement, a non-aggressive pact. Between the soul Reapers and the lake fight and saying, okay, Yuha, I know you're trying to unify the Quincy. You can do that with your, your squad. It's okay. The soul Reapers won't touch you. And to me that was just so heavy because now it's saying that Yha has an empire of acquaintances. He's kinda like Alexander the Great, he's going around conquering other Quincy and adding them to their fold like he's Alexander the Great. Ichi Bay is, you know, he's like, okay, I'm gonna work this out. He think he has a plan until you ha ask him this question.

Track 1 11:29

u unifying all the conquest under one flag, essentially.

Giovani 11:35

So that was pretty big.

Track 1 11:37

Well, I feel like we learned a few things from this conversation. I. One of'em being that the Soul King is Yuhas father,

Giovani 11:46

Right.

Track 1 11:46

which I was like, Hmm.

Giovani 11:49

casually dropped that, huh?

Track 1 11:51

I know. I'm like, wait a minute now. And we also figured out that Yuha has the Soul King's hand.

Giovani 11:59

Well, now he has it. Because that happened during that attack. Right? Because, oh, it's just so much to unpack here. Uh, because you, as HEA was talking, each, uh, U-Haul was saying, who presides, who presided over the entire world when there was one and Ipe was like soaking.

Track 1 12:23

He separated. So it is like, they had eternal life. Everybody, the, the three worlds were, one seemed like everybody wore mor mortals, and then the soul king is the one that separated life from death,

Giovani 12:37

Right. And he added fear. That's the thing. First he separated life from death. Then he added fear of death.

Track 1 12:46

Right,

Giovani 12:47

And as he's talking, you host looking at him like, I don't believe the soaking did that. That's what I'm getting. And that's what kind of the rage came in.

Track 1 12:59

Right? Just big displays of power going back And forth. Yeah.

Giovani 13:04

And that's when Ichiba was holding the So King's hand, the entire time I guess he held, he had it, uh, mixed with his hand. So he actually used the So King's hand, which had the eyes to it, and he sealed. Yu ha's power. So King's hand. In fact, that's when you ha took the hand. So, and you know, that same hand turned to Perilla per, I can't even say his name. The, um, the dude with the cloak. The compulsory, yeah. The same hand turned to the compulsory. Who's with Yaha right now? How cool is that?

Track 1 13:49

It's very complicated.

Giovani 13:50

It was so much to it.

Track 1 13:52

yeah. It's, it's a lot.

Giovani 13:54

I know, I, I noticed Ichiba was so upset with Yuha using his name.

Track 1 14:01

He did harp on that a lot. So, um, but we don't know what the reason is for him to be. Do or do we, I, I, I don't think we know like why he is upset about that.

Giovani 14:13

Everybody else calls him Osho. Nobody calls him Ichiba

Track 1 14:17

Nobody calls him Itchy babe.

Giovani 14:19

Yuha. So he's, uh, Ichiba used the soaking his hand to seal his eyes. I noticed the eyes kind of look like each of those eyes from the episodes before it had light. Couples in there had like three three pupils per eye or whatever. The so king still that and said it will stay that, way until you die. Until you're dead. So you know, that's pretty

Track 1 14:46

But before he, did that, he, or during the process of doing that, it seemed like he had a vision into the, or,

Giovani 14:56

Oh yes, yes,

Track 1 14:57

Ichigo has been having with like, he got insight into the current state of the Soul King and whatever he saw.

Giovani 15:05

Do you see?

Track 1 15:06

Had him very

Giovani 15:07

Oh, I know, I know. This is what he saw. This I, I didn't see every image. I'm so glad you saw that. Thanks for bringing that up. He saw the images that Ichigo saw, remember with the Lich pen and the pool and standing in water,

Track 1 15:21

uh, right.

Giovani 15:22

but he also saw a vision. Of Ichiba holding the Soul King.

Track 1 15:29

Yes, that's, that's exactly what it looked like. And so how do you interpret that?

Giovani 15:34

I'm I, well, that's the thing. It seems like all the things that Ichiba was saying, like the Soul King did this and the Soul King did that. That's not the case.

Track 1 15:44

So does that give us a feeling like whatever the issues are between Quincy's and. Sole repairs. It's the sole repairs fault.

Giovani 15:55

We maybe, sometimes I feel like this is deeper than the Soul Reapers. I feel like this is maybe each eBay is doing or maybe before if, if Soul Reaper is a race Yes. It's the so Reapers that are doing it, but I don't think it was the 13 court squad or anything like that. The so King State is because of what the so Reapers did to him and through that vision, I think you have realized, okay. This is sinister. This is unholy. This is not how my father wanted it. And people will pay

Track 1 16:35

Well, yeah, that's kind of what he said. And you know, we, we don't really know His intentions for, for, um. The Soul King, or even just getting to the Soul Palace or anything like that. But he did say in this flashback that he wants the Soul King to be the grave of the three worlds. So what do you make of that?

Giovani 17:02

Well, it's gonna be a lot of killing right? it sounds like UJA wants to merge the three worlds, Waco, Mundo world, the living and so society.

Track 1 17:16

Well, yeah, I got that because he, he keeps talking, this whole time. It's, it's all about, okay, peace. Peace or his version of peace, whatever that means, you know, and

Giovani 17:27

His personal piece means death, so

Track 1 17:30

But that's, that's what he keeps talking about. Peace. Peace. And you know, to now find out that, all the three worlds were one in like this immortal state of being before everything broke apart. I'm like, okay, is that where we're going? Or that's what the intention is to get back there somehow. So. I dunno. But that was a very, um, insightful flashback that they hit us

Giovani 17:56

It was so much to it.

Track 1 17:57

at the start of this episode. And, um, so we jump into present day and we have, um, asphalt, um, Yuha and Uru facing off against Sheara of the, of Squad Zero and. Additional minions on both sides.

Giovani 18:18

Right. So additional minions though, they're called uh, what? The Soul King's Blade in the Soul King Shield and asphalt releases the so dot. I guess to help Ravage the Soul Palace and send you, send you Maru Maru she summons the Soul King's blades to walk them off. And it's not even a contest, right? It, they're just wiped out. But who are these guys? Are they soul Reapers? Are they acci, are they, um, modified souls?

Track 1 18:56

Right.

Giovani 18:58

So well, who do you think they are?

Track 1 19:00

Uh, that wasn't very clear. Um, yeah, I, you know, she seemed like she just kind of conjured them, but it wasn't clear as to whether, um, I. These are like former beings of some kind or a what exactly.

Giovani 19:18

Because of, tsu, I was saying But, um,

Track 1 19:23

uh, they could be, but if he, but he, wasn't on the scene, um, at that time. So, uh, is, or do, can she consult con Control? Ucci? I thought he was

Giovani 19:35

Well, but

Track 1 19:36

could do that.

Giovani 19:37

the, what's, what's the other girl name? Uh, ke, not ey, uh, Kerio. She does the modified souls, so that's why I said that. Also, we don't know. Hopefully Maybe they'll dive into it. I don't think they're even big enough characters to even make a difference. It was just my curiosity.

Track 1 19:56

yeah. Okay, so we got a glimpse, um, of Ichigo. Heime, Chad and Um, and, and the addition now of, of Ganju and, uh, everybody is in this, kike modified tenture,

Giovani 20:17

Right. It

Track 1 20:18

uh, heading to the Soul Palace.

Giovani 20:21

And

Track 1 20:22

So we know. Go ahead.

Giovani 20:24

I was saying, I thought it was funny how when it's launched. BIA stairs and the rest of its crew stairs. Man, URI looks, it's like, did the key skate really put this crap together? It's flying so weird. you know, and it was,

Track 1 20:42

Yeah, I mean, it was a bit of comedic relief. Of course, he was gonna come with with the sarcastic remarks,

Giovani 20:48

They haven't touched the fact that Ganju and Ichigo are cousins. They're not really talking about that.

Track 1 20:56

Well, No. How does it, how does it go?

Giovani 20:59

they're,

Track 1 21:00

His mother? I don't remember.

Giovani 21:03

Easton ghost's father is their uncle,

Track 1 21:06

Right. But I was coming at it from the other direction, so I was trying to sort that out. All right, so we have a battle beginning. We, the battle begins and we get stern rta W goes by the wind. Is it the wind?

Giovani 21:24

The wine

Track 1 21:24

The wind.

Giovani 21:27

we,

Track 1 21:28

Yeah. And so he can wind and wind bend, warp, twist his enemies.

Giovani 21:36

It's a very niche ability. Don't you think?

Track 1 21:39

Yes.

Giovani 21:40

It's like maybe just for this fight right here.

Track 1 21:44

But I, I find it interesting that he is up there to begin with so. Because I mean, we've seen that Yuha seems to just be bringing his, like top hitters up to the soul palace with him. Do you, do you

Giovani 21:59

Zo Well, he, well, we, we see Al and, um,

Track 1 22:06

Yeah.

Giovani 22:06

Zo. I almost feel like, uh, Yuha is saying, I need some extra. Souls. Why? No, I send Wise here so he can get killed and I could just absorb his soul from more power

Track 1 22:19

Okay,

Giovani 22:20

because I mean,

Track 1 22:21

so

Giovani 22:22

he, has the quickest appearance.

Track 1 22:24

he's not expending, he is not, you know, sending in his hot pitters yet. He's sending in the father

Giovani 22:30

Anybody would be better than Neander.

Track 1 22:34

Well, uh, she jamara makes quick work of him and. Essentially unleashes her power and you know,'cause she does the,

Giovani 22:45

the sewing.

Track 1 22:46

sewing. So she tailors him a new cloak that includes needles that stab him to death.

Giovani 22:52

Right. That was cool. I like her. I like her because as they were talking, her other hands, her mechanical hands were just doing the sewing, and

Track 1 23:04

Yeah.

Giovani 23:05

that was the quickest fight so far because nso Nansel falls to the ground and he experienced the The sharp pain and I guess death of the needles.

Track 1 23:18

Yeah. Okay. So, uh. We flash back to Ichigo and crew again, and we doing a lot of this back and forth a lot, but we get Ichigo and crew again, and as they're on their way into the Royal Palace and the tenuring, they're essentially speculating on what they think Uhhas intentions are. What does he want? They think maybe he could be after replacing the Solk King. Um, whether ORU will rejoin their side of the fight

Giovani 23:55

Right.

Track 1 23:56

they're hoping that he will.

Giovani 23:58

Yeah. A lot of reminiscing going on, I just appreciated that it was saying that we haven't forgot about you, URI you, you're one of us still. And, uh, yeah. Yeah, it was, uh,

Track 1 24:08

And did we say that, um, you, Richie was in there? I did think I did say

Giovani 24:11

think so. I

Track 1 24:13

Okay.

Giovani 24:13

was she there?

Track 1 24:15

Yeah, she's in there with them.

Giovani 24:17

Okay.

Track 1 24:18

so, um, so Back at the Royal Palace, all the Stern River heavy hitters are making the entrances we see.

Giovani 24:28

Nil IL's body's falling I thought that was funny. She kicks his body from the platform.

Track 1 24:33

She made quick work of him. So we have entrances from, uh, Lily Barrow stern with ex

Giovani 24:41

The House Royal Guard. Yeah. go

Track 1 24:44

Yeah.

Giovani 24:45

Go, go, go,

Track 1 24:45

saying it wrong? Okay. Yeah. Stern wither. C we have, um,

Giovani 24:49

The compulsory

Track 1 24:51

Nita, the compulsory pernita, we have m.

Giovani 24:57

Gerald

Track 1 24:58

Gerard Valkyrie. Yeah. So we, we just have a, a slew of, of some of his top guys making the entrance and so we kind of get the impression that okay, things are about to get serious.

Giovani 25:11

It seems like Lee j Barrow and Pernita, you said Pernita

Track 1 25:17

Yeah.

Giovani 25:18

and Gerald Rie. I. The main three in n LeVar is the new guy because immediately Joe Valkyrie threatens him, like, you better show what you can do, or I'm going to kill you. I think that's what he said. So it's a little threatening there that he's not part of the crew yet. He has to earn his stripes.

Track 1 25:43

Yeah. So, um,

Giovani 25:45

What do you think of this?

Track 1 25:47

what? The stern rollout?

Giovani 25:49

yeah, the elite

Track 1 25:51

yeah, the entrance was pretty, um, pretty cool. I, I do like, uh, Barrow and his, um,

Giovani 26:02

Gun

Track 1 26:03

I guess it's his shift.

Giovani 26:04

Yeah.

Track 1 26:05

You know? Right. And, and what he can do. It, it's very interesting. And, um, I, I don't know, I don't know if these guys are gonna be a match for Squad zero in its entirety. It just doesn't seem like they would be

Giovani 26:22

Right. We don't know, but, but this is Yuhas crew, like his guard, It's those four and it's also asphalt in I mean, so we have six of his elite guard. He has so much faith in these go and these guys that he feels like these six and my plan, we should be able to take the royal palace. So more to come, as you would say.

Track 1 26:56

Some more to come.

Giovani 26:58

dId you catch that? That was his hand? that, what? Padilla is the hand of the So king. Did you catch that

Track 1 27:04

Yeah, we just talked about that, but I didn't catch it then. That, that he was the hand, but yeah, I didn't, I didn't catch it at, when I was looking at it then

Giovani 27:14

Okay. Tele fourth.

Track 1 27:18

All right, so, um, she jamara unleashes what she calls the Soul King Shield.

Giovani 27:27

Right. He says Huge, giant.

Track 1 27:30

right, this, this huge giant wielding, um, a sword. And, but in the process of that, she, we get a big shot. Um, Barro gives her basically a headshot and looks like he takes her out immediately. I was like, wait a minute, what's going on

Giovani 27:51

Yeah. it was so drastic. It was so shocking.

Track 1 27:56

Yeah. And then, we have the headshot and then she is like crushed by,

Giovani 28:03

the compulsory.

Track 1 28:03

porn? Yeah. Nita just crushed. So she is immediately taken out and I'm like, this can't be it. Not already. Like if, if she is defeated already, I don't know what we're doing. This is about to wrap up a lot quicker than I think it is

Giovani 28:20

Too early to win. Right? Too early to win

Track 1 28:23

but I guess, you know, I should know better then, right? Like it's not, it's not done yet. So see.

Giovani 28:31

That was, that was shocking though. That was really

Track 1 28:33

was the way they, put that together, worked really well.

Giovani 28:37

She has a big hole in her head and blood pores from the empty space. because it's no fracture. It is just what used to be matter. That's nothing there anymore.

Track 1 28:52

Right.

Giovani 28:52

Very visual.

Track 1 28:53

Yeah.

Giovani 28:54

But he doesn't stop there.

Track 1 28:56

No, it doesn't.

Giovani 28:57

begins to shoot. All five holdings and have they come crashing

Track 1 29:03

all you Yep. All you see is that they come, they fall to the ground and it looks like it. They made very quick work,

Giovani 29:12

Yes.

Track 1 29:14

of squad zero and, the the so palace. But, uh, of course that, that was too easy, too quick. We should have known better.

Giovani 29:24

Yes,

Track 1 29:24

So we discovered ta-da. It was just a ruse. And they're not even in the Royal Palace yet. They're in a cage built by curio.

Giovani 29:36

Why didn't you know Yuha know better?

Track 1 29:38

You think he did it or he You? Do You? think he did or

Giovani 29:41

had, well, I don't think he knew. I don't, I think he suspected something was happening, but he didn't exactly know what was

Track 1 29:47

No. What it was yeah.

Giovani 29:49

And he uses his people like pawns, so he was gonna let them figure it out.

Track 1 29:54

Right. Hmm. Yeah, that's a good point. So we get an entrance from all of Squad Zero

Giovani 30:02

The real squad. Zero. Right.

Track 1 30:03

the rural squad zero every, everybody shows up and makes their entrance and, uh. Last being, last but not least being, uh, miah. And he proceeds to cut down all of the stern ritters that you have brought with him.

Giovani 30:27

Now is this before, uh, did they do that before they was put in the cage The um, because they call it the bird cage or the

Track 1 30:35

No, they were in the bird cage first and then he cut them down with his not so great Octo that he, his, his, um,

Giovani 30:45

in jail.

Track 1 30:45

Yeah.

Giovani 30:47

I thought the womb was really creative because this is a, uh, it's almost like a living jail that eats rei. That's why when it was created by not, is it curio? Curio, she was saying that you can shoot your reci bullets, but it's just feeding

Track 1 31:07

just absorb

Giovani 31:08

it, absorbs it and makes it grow stronger and, and wider, faster, essentially. I just thought, wow, this was a superior plan. this is great. They're stuck in, they're stuck in the cage with these guys

Track 1 31:21

Yeah.

Giovani 31:22

just to go forward or it's to pretty much killed everyone in drastic fashion. He slices through Li Legi Barrow. Hits him and slices his barrel. So his gun's broken, kills draw Valkyrie, throws his sword and pierces, per skull and they are dead. I think they, it's no doubt about it, they're dead. oh, yeah. And, and, um, this, the one guy var, I can't think of his full, his full name.

Track 1 31:53

he, oh, he yelled. Did you like how he pretended to get.

Giovani 31:58

Oh, I love that. That's, that's me right there. Pretending then get caught then get cut while you're on the ground Defense list.

Track 1 32:05

All right. He pretended that, uh, um, OSU got him. So, you know, he did one of those NBA, flops threw himself to the ground.

Giovani 32:13

You said NBA fly. Not soccer, but

Track 1 32:18

they?

Giovani 32:18

NBA

Track 1 32:19

I'm saying, well, it's soccer too, but, um, you know, the nmb, those NBA guys are always throwing themselves to the ground, like somebody hit them too hard,

Giovani 32:27

you saying LeBron James does that? I I

Track 1 32:29

One of those, NBA, I didn't say any

Giovani 32:31

Okay. Okay.

Track 1 32:32

go. Uh, one of those soccer slash NBA flops. And, but OSU knew what he did, so he rolled up on him and cut him again just to, just for good measure, make sure he was down all the way.

Giovani 32:48

Thele is down and,

Track 1 32:50

Yeah,

Giovani 32:51

and.

Track 1 32:52

but we thought that they were all, you know, locked into this cage. But then we see Yuha and he just kind of flings what looks like a coin.

Giovani 33:05

Right.

Track 1 33:06

Out of the cage through the space in the cage and manages to free himself from this cage. So I don't know what happened

Giovani 33:15

So what looks like it's happened is he tossed the coin or the object and he and the object switched places.

Track 1 33:23

Oh, Okay.

Giovani 33:24

So the coin is now back in the cage or the

Track 1 33:27

the cage. Okay.

Giovani 33:28

and yha is where the coin used to be. And, uh, no one seemed, they seemed kind of shocked. Not overwhelming. Like, oh my God, he escaped. He was like, oh, okay, you found, found a way to get out. So squad zero, they realize this is going to be a fight. Well you, how's harder than harder to kill.

Track 1 33:49

seemed like a one use trick though, so

Giovani 33:53

It's a

Track 1 33:54

I don't know if the rest of them, yeah. I don't know if the rest of them, if they're not dead, which they look dead, but if they're not, I don't know if they can follow suit, but, um,

Giovani 34:04

If they're not dead by that sword, I don't know what else can kill them.

Track 1 34:09

yeah,'cause they, he got them. pretty

Giovani 34:11

Yeah.

Track 1 34:12

So. All right. So, um, that was it,

Giovani 34:16

This, wait. Yeah, this is it. I just wanna say that the meeting,'cause we're to the end now and. Osho and u ha or Eye to Eye. And this is their first meeting since that meeting. From the beginning of the

Track 1 34:31

From the flashback. Yeah.

Giovani 34:33

this is the first time and it seems like Yuha UV has not learned his lesson. cause he's still referring to him as Ichi Bay and at Osho.

Track 1 34:46

Hmm.

Giovani 34:47

And Osho lets him know that. I don't like that you're using my name way too freely. And then he makes that, that comment that you only have yourself to blame if you lose your voice, and is that actually losing his voice or loose his head?

Track 1 35:08

Right.

Giovani 35:08

I don't know. But they're gonna fight next episode.

Track 1 35:10

Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it looks good. So we are, um, yeah, there's like, what, two episodes left,

Giovani 35:17

two episodes Yes. 25, 26.

Track 1 35:21

I know. And end of season two, two episodes left. And so the next episode is, um. Well, before they got to the title sequence of the next episode, we heard you ha saying, um, the future is black and upside down is, is that, did I get that right?

Giovani 35:40

I have no idea.

Track 1 35:41

I think that's what he said. The future is black and upside down, so who, who knows what that means? But the next episode is called the master.

Giovani 35:49

Hmm. Okay.

Track 1 35:50

Yeah.

Giovani 35:50

I'm so glad we started to see new characters, uh, new powers, and really the fight between the two elites. Have squad zero who's the sole King's elite guard, and we have the fel, who's Yuhas Elite Guard, and they are about to throw down and let's, let's just see. Let's go.

Track 1 36:16

Yeah. Everybody seems very formidable right now, so what are we doing best

Giovani 36:22

We're about to rate, uh, well, I'll go first because I've already said it was a good episode. This is a nine episode, 9.0. Really good. We got to see fighting people fight that we've never seen before. Oh, so in, uh, century Maru, we got to see the fel in action. Oh man, I like, I want more. That's my only complaint. I want more, more fighting.

Track 1 36:49

Yeah, I agree. I, uh, I think my rating is gonna be a nine too. I'm glad to be, um, finished with all the, I guess the side characters. And, um, getting back to the, core conflict. So, yeah, and just to see Squad Zero unveil a lot of their, um, powers and, you know, see them in action. I like this episode

Giovani 37:14

okay, you ready to give your best and worst the episode.

Track 1 37:19

Uh, sure. So, um, my best was, I was like ohsu,

Giovani 37:25

Okay.

Track 1 37:27

um, him showing up and, and just kind of taking everybody out the way that he did in all his flair was very entertaining. So, um,

Giovani 37:37

What

Track 1 37:38

that, and I'll do a slash like that and the surprise of the, um. I have a lot of slashes. I feel like I'm about to say like two more things that could have been the best

Giovani 37:50

Wow.

Track 1 37:51

the headshot, um, of, of, um, she jamara. That was surprising. That came outta nowhere. I like how they edited that whole thing. It made it very exciting. Um, and then the, all the revelations we got in the opening sequence of the flashback. So I guess I have a few Bes

Giovani 38:12

Yes. I don't I have

Track 1 38:14

don't have any? You don't have any

Giovani 38:16

no, I have, I narrow it down to one. I didn't do like you, I played by the rules

Track 1 38:21

ah.

Giovani 38:23

and my best I have is squad zero. Squad zero. Like you said, they showed up. Not only did, and I gotta say I love Cji Maru. Her threading was the star. Every, everything that happened here, she did it. Whether it's the tapestry she put around that hid the actual soul palace from Yuha and his crew,

Track 1 38:52

Yeah.

Giovani 38:54

she actually hid the birdcages, the uh, the womb. Her tapestry was so good. They was fighting. A fake send send you Maru. Right?

Track 1 39:05

Right?

Giovani 39:06

She did so much there, but her needle and thread, she made me want to take sewing up That's how, that's how impressive that was.

Track 1 39:14

Yeah.

Giovani 39:15

And then Oht su with his blade. Jail that was so sharp that a sheath could not hold it.

Track 1 39:25

So are you basically just saying all the same things that I just said?

Giovani 39:29

Well, I said my best was squad zero,

Track 1 39:33

Okay. Well, my best was squad zero

Giovani 39:35

and somebody getting shot in the head and something else too.

Track 1 39:40

Yeah. Well, you know,

Giovani 39:42

why is your worst?

Track 1 39:44

uh, whew. Um,

Giovani 39:47

This was hard for me'cause I didn't have a

Track 1 39:49

yeah, well, um, yeah, I don't think it, I feel like there was nothing that was really bad. Um, maybe kind of just finding out it's not really a worse, um. That whatever's going on with the Soul King is

Giovani 40:07

More diabolical than we think.

Track 1 40:09

Very di yeah. Than we think it is. You know, every, we keep getting these little clues that, um, it's worse than we think it is, or it's not what we think it is. So yeah, maybe that little bit of insight, uh, I'll put in that category, but that's not really a worse, it's just kind of like.

Giovani 40:27

Disappointing maybe,

Track 1 40:29

disappointed and, and, you know, informational but disappointing in a, in, in that way.

Giovani 40:34

Well, I do have a worst. It is not a great words'cause this was a good episode and my note is as I'm looking at it, fake Thor. So that is Draw Valkyrie, the fake Thor. YOu got beat twice. And you know, we saw that the hand is crushing things and.

Track 1 40:55

Without much effort. Right.

Giovani 40:58

Right. Uh, Lee, Jay is, is

Track 1 41:01

Taken down.

Giovani 41:02

He's, he's doing amazing things and we didn't see much of LaVar, the death, the death blow or death dealer, but this guy with a sword and shield that looks like a Valkyrie. I mean, he looks like he can, he can get cut real good. He can get beat real good. That's

Track 1 41:21

we didn't really see much for him. We saw him get taken out very easily, more than once,

Giovani 41:26

Right.

Track 1 41:27

we haven't seen much from him. I am assuming he, he has more to give. Just off of the fact that he's there to begin with, but,

Giovani 41:38

I agreed. Agreed.

Track 1 41:39

is, we, we haven't seen it yet.

Giovani 41:42

But, as of now, he's very disappointing. And Joe Rie, am I saying this name right?

Track 1 41:49

Gerard?

Giovani 41:50

Is my worst.

Track 1 41:53

Okay.

Giovani 41:54

And that's All I have.

Track 1 41:55

Yeah. All right. So I thought, I thought it was a pretty good episode. And um, I'm excited to see what they bring, uh, for the next one.

Giovani 42:07

Okay.

Track 1 42:07

We'll see. I think it'll be fun. So we'll

Giovani 42:10

It will be fun. And you know, my, my hope was to finish up before the new year, part two of least thousand year blood war. We didn't get to do it because it was just a lot going on with both of us, but you know, we're still here. We're still making these things, and it's more to come.

Track 1 42:28

Yeah. So, I mean, I'm, I'm enjoying, uh, doing the podcast so far. I've, I've enjoyed it a lot. So, um, and yeah, I mean, I know we're a little behind, um, with the end of season two. I mean, we're, we're gonna wrap it up soon, but we will be on top of things at the start of season three.

Giovani 42:48

you got it. No excuses.

Track 1 42:51

Yeah. So, um, yeah, we're, I'm enjoying enjoying myself so far. So, um, next episode, uh, hopefully according to you, it'll be a New Year's Eve episode

Giovani 43:06

There we go.

Track 1 43:07

There we go. So, all right folks, you can, um, always catch us. At the Facebook page, we're always over there doing our thing.

Giovani 43:18

Yep.

Track 1 43:19

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Giovani 43:23

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Track 1 43:24

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Giovani 43:27

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Track 1 43:32

Ah, yeah, we, we love to hear the feedback. So. All right guys. We'll see you next time. Bye.

Giovani 43:41

Bye.