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rwby-sk · 3 years

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My ship thoughts

This will be a long post, so I’m putting it under a ‘keep reading”

Bumbleby - Until Vol.4 I wasn’t sure if the Bees liked each other. Like yeah, we’ve had solid evidence since, like, their Vol.1 trailers. But still. I wasn’t sure CRWBY would do it. But wow was I impressed. - Probably my favorite well-known ship - Their EYES are the colors of each others SOULS what more do you want??? - I wish my gf would throw a motorcycle at my abusive ex...

Nuts and Dolts - I tried pushing this ship out of my mind for so long. I did. I wasn’t ready for it - I appreciated the things people made for the ship. I knew it had potential - But wow. Vol.8 really said “Nuts and Dolts rights” and I respect that - They’re so cute together. It’s like if Pyrrha came back to life and could be with Jaune again. - But healthier this way (see Arkos)

Renora - Wholesome - Cute - ‘Boop’ is one of my favorite songs - We all saw it coming. But how we got there was the fun part - That Vol. 4 finale though...

Arkos - First off, Arkos is my favorite ship from Vol.1-3 - Himbo is taught how to drink his respect women juice by an Amazon? Sign me up - The character development, the mutual respect, the CARE - ForeverFall still fucks me up. I cry when I listen to it - I love Pyrrha, she’s my girl, but... She really betrayed Jaune’s trust at the very end. He told her specifically he never wanted to be helpless and watch his friends fight for their lives again. And she did exactly that to him. Making him wonder if he could have made a difference had he been able to fight by her side with her in the end. - But it’s not really even Pyrrha’s fault. Ozpin’s expectations and Cinder’s plan are more to blame - Still high tier - It’s just so tragic

WhiteKnight - Cute in theory - But it’d have to be done so carefully to be a good romantic pairing - As friends? I LOVE IT. Make these two best friends right now! - But Jaune moved past his feelings for Weiss in Vol.2 when he finally realized she meant it when she told him she didn’t like him - I’m shocked though that so few people pick up on Ep.3 Vol.1 when Weiss is making fun of Jaune and mockingly calls him a “cute boy”. I think Jaune just thought Weiss liked him already, and went from there. He hits on Pyrrha pretty quick in Ep.4 too - I think it could work with who they are now, but I think they’re better as friends

WhiteRose - The sole reason I didn’t ship Nuts and Dolts sooner - Vol. 6 messed me up okay? That red scarf really threw me for a loop - Chasing each other in the Argus Limited? - Weiss sassing Ruby non-stop Vol.1-3? - It also completes the RW BY JP NR pairings. I like to joke that the Emerald forest is actually “true love” forest. And whoever you lock eyes with first you fall in love with them. But that only works sometimes - Also that part where they call out each others names when Jinn shows them Ozpin’s past

Ladybug - Cute and interesting - I’m not against it. I would just need more of it to ship it myself - They just have such solid connections with other characters - I do love Blake’s introduction to the main cast though, and how much Blake looks up to Ruby

Freezerburn - Similar to LadyBug - Cute, but I just ship them more with other people - That hug in Vol.5 was a bit sus though - Yang does seem to open up the most with Weiss - And Weiss defended Yang so quickly after the Mercury fight - It’s not unfounded, I’ll say that - Analyzing it has opened my eyes

Crosshares - Yes - Just - Yes - High femme fashion ICON Coco Adel - With fan-fave Velvet Scarlatina - WLW powercouple - I wish I was Coco and Velvet is cute, not much to understand here, keep scrolling

RoseGarden - I have my concerns - Oscar is a wonderful kid - He probably has a crush on Ruby - And he is a wholesome boy who deserves all the happiness - But he also has a manipulative immortal Wizard in his head - So - You know

Lancaster - I never saw Lancaster. Jaune is the first boy Ruby meets. And Jaune calls her cute and quirky once, but... - I love Ruby’s talk with Jaune about failure in Vol. 1, then his return to that speech in Vol. 4 in return. - I think they lean on each other as leaders - But I don’t see it going further - Cute though. I’ve seen nice fanart

BlackSun - I read an analysis a long time ago that really sat with me - Blake asked for space (not out loud, but in action) when she ran away - Yang gave her what she wanted. She didn’t like it. But she gave Blake what she asked for. - Sun on the other hand, didn’t. He followed and helped her anyway. (Believe me, Blake could have used all the help she could get in Vol. 4-5) But in doing so, he kinda took himself out of the running as love interest. - He’s and excellent Foil for Blake though, so I love him

SeaMonkies - Two bros, chilling in a hot tub... - Is it gay to become junior detectives with your best friend and only hang out with him for like 3 seasons? - These two are just - So fucking stupid - Apart, they are fine. Very competent. - Together though - They are just so dumb I think its cute as hell

JNR - Wholesome - I could see it in Argus. In front of Pyrrha’s statue - They love each other - Maybe its not 100% romantic - But they love each other - I could be happy here

JNR+Neo - CRIME + Ren - The pure chaos of Nora and Neo - The exhausted mom-friend energy from Ren and Jaune - The power polycule that could take on Salem alone and maybe win? - I think it’d be cute, but I personally ship them in the two pairs a bit more.

Bees Schnees - We add Blake and Yang’s angst, Yang and Weiss’ trust, and Weiss and Blake’s mutual understanding and growth - Wow okay - I have to give it to you, I kinda like it

Neo x Jaune x Ruby - Based on my response to Lancaster, you might be able to guess my answer here - I think a lot of the ship’s points lie in “What’s better than one short girl dating the tallest guy in the cast? Two short girls dating the tallest guy in the cast!” - Cute though, I think it’d be chaotic and wholesome - But poor Jaune would be exhausted trying to make sure the house doesn;t burn down every five minutes

May x Winter - Look - If I hadn’t made a Neo x Jaune side blog - I would have made a May x Winter side blog - The comparisons - The family legacies - The pure amount of how attracted I am to both characters - What happens when two tops date each other? - What if they were partners in Atlas? - What if May was Winter’s first crush. And after May came out, Winter was like “Oh thank the gods, I was worried I liked all women and only one guy for some reason. Cool, crisis adverted. So anyway, Marigold, here’s how you do your makeup” - I could go on - Haha don’t tempt me - I’m serious - Please let them sass each other at some point

GuardDogs - Marrow = Just doing his best - Jaune = Just doing his best - Marrow and Jaune = two himbos just vibing in this world - If we don’t get Silentknight, I’d be proud to get GuardDogs - Marrow sure has been worried about “Juan” this whole time, huh?

Emercury - The sass - The pure sass - Mercury’s unearned confidence paired with Emerald’s quick temper - Wow, I hope Em can turn him away from murdering people. - If Em gets 1 friend, I hope its Mercury and not Cinder - At least Mercury cares about her (But he’s too cool to admit that outright) - Mercury is going to see Em on RWBY’s team and just immediately walk over and join up. No questions asked. “I guess we’re good now. Sorry Tyrian, its been cool, not really”

Happy Huntresses - Yes - Look at that HUG - Ladies, is it gay to go off into the tundra and form a rebellion against the fascist government with three of your hottest gal pals?

#Rwby #ships #im not tagging them all

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potahun · 4 years

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Personal top 5 in Wo Men De Ge / Our Songs, Season 1

After finishing all 12 eps of the 1st season of “Wo Men De Ge” / “Our Songs”, I am listing my personal top 5 pairs of “Young Singer x Old but Gold Singer” teams in the show, mostly just to have an excuse to gush and recommend some of my favourite performances from this beautiful, beautiful music show.

5. Xiao Zhan x Na Ying (and Angela Chang) - Team: Na Zhan Dui

What I really liked about them: The fact that they challenged many styles! Perhaps it’s because Xiao Zhan is currently an actor and not specialised in any music type, but their performances were among the most diverse. They did rock, disco, old Chinese classics...Singing-wise, Xiao Zhan does nice switches to falsetto, Na Ying’s voice is broad and with its own feel, and Angela Chang who replaced NY for a few eps has such a special and beautiful voice ugh. But what I liked most about them is probably Na Ying herself. Her outspoken personality and sense rly got to me and she was my favourite “Model Singer” in Group B. She was also so open to accompanying XZ in trying new styles and to put an emphasis on performance (as in, the visual aspect of it) to help XZ out. I think for someone who’s not currently a singer, he got very lucky she was his partner.

What I found to be a pity: Xiao Zhan sings pretty nicely, but it’s true that when you have Ayanga and Zhou Shen next door, it’s pretty hard for his voice to stand out. A few times, I found myself feeling like Na Ying or Angela was carrying the song single-handedly and couldn’t rly notice his voice anymore. Angela’s voice especially stands out, so sometimes, it feels like what I remember most from Na Zhan Dui performances is Angela’s great voice and the visual effects. Also, maybe it’s because he has to manage his image a bit more than the other young artists, but Xiao Zhan did come across as quite nervous during the entire show, including during many of the performances. If you only watch him based on this show, he comes across as just a very polite young person (with a pleasant voice).

Favorite performance(s) from them:

Gen Zhe Gan Jue Zou / Going with the Feeling (not rly a performance but the song with which NY and XZ got “blindly” paired up, and somehow the song in which he was the most relaxed imo)

Jun Gang Zhi Ye / A Night at the Naval Port (classic lovely song. Imo it was the song in which their voices matched up most seamlessly)

4. Xiao Gui x Luo Qi - Team: Wang Zha

What I really liked about them: I knew neither of them before the show, but felt like this team truly tried to make a new sound each time and to mix modern elements into old songs (which fits perfectly with the show’s theme). Luo Qi is so open to Xiao Gui’s suggestions and so humble about trying things outside her comfort zone, even though she is the senior. They also had a really nice old sister-little brother relationship, full of mutual respect, and it was kind of refreshing to have the young artist be like ‘it’s ok, it’s ok’ and being the encouraging or optimistic one in the team. Among the younger artists, Xiao Gui is the only rapper, so being on this show could be pretty challenging but Luo Qi being so open to trying new things made it work. She really went outside her comfort zone, and I loved this team for it. They are also both really pleasant - mostly quiet but polite and comfortable. All-round lovely pair.

What I found to be a pity: In a way, because Luo Qi was so accommodating and humble, sometimes it felt like Xiao Gui might have overpushed her a bit? Perhaps he could have been a tad more considerate, but we don’t see much of their interactions and overall they do seem like they have a good relationship.

Favorite performance(s) from them: Hui Lai / Come Back (the way the rap got mixed into this song feels so very natural)

3. Ayanga x Fei Yuqing - Team: (God Xiao Ge team names are hard to remember) Yun Dan Feng Qing

What I really liked about them: Well of course, the voices and the singing technique. haha I did not know Ayanga before this show, but HOLY SHIT. Not a musical actor for nothing. HE CAN SING. And he can sing so many styles, too. He is GOOD. Watching them, I thought, shit, among all the young artists we saw, only he could have been paired up with a senior like Fei Yuqing (and perhaps Zhou Shen, but we’ll come to him later). Their voices are distinctive, but the style in which they sing have certain similarities, so they match quite well. Basically, this is a team based on talent, skills and experience. They only sing songs that sound like classics but holy fucking shit, I loved the way they sang them. Other than the singing - and this is not a team thing - but I was rly surprised to find out that Fei Yuqing was quite funny. Individually speaking, both he and Ayanga were entertaining while remaining ever so pleasant. They were real pleasures to watch.

What I found to be a pity: I thought there was a lack of team chemistry, which could be in part due to how they got paired up, but yeah, they just never really felt like a team, more like two very polite and courteous singers who decided to work together for a few performances. Also, I am absolutely not surprised by it, but I guess, since it’s the Fei Yuqing, both young artists were fully accommodating him and not the other way round. It is not a bad thing in FYQ’s case because his singing is beautifully amazing and hey its his last show anyway, but it would have been fun to see more sparks here and there.

Favorite performance(s) from them:

Juan Zhu Lian / Rolling up the Beaded Curtain (haha are you ready for pure skills to fuck you up? I liked Juan Zhu Lian before, but this version is incredible)

Xin Yuan Yang . Hu Die Meng / New Mandarin Duck. Butterfly Dream (again pure skills but also the harmonising. a+++)

2. Liu Yuning x Ren Xianqi - Team: Jie Tou Pai Dang

What I really liked about them: This team is one of the teams that felt the most like a team. They have similar past experiences and I liked that they had a chill older brother + reserved younger brother chemistry. I also liked that they both seem to be people who are passionate about different aspects of music (like singing yes, but also music arrangement overall). Ren Xianqi was so open to letting Liu Yuning express what he wanted / add in the elements he wanted to each performance, or have LYN’s band be in charge of re-arranging the songs. Before this show, all I knew from Ren Xianqi was his “Xin Tai Ruan”, but I found him so lovely and nice during the whole show! He only had kind praise for all the other artists, was positive throughout, and well, Group A only had lovely "Model Singers”, but RXQ stood out in this respect. He and Liu Yuning had such a comfortable dynamics and many of the songs they sang happen to be all-time favourites of mine so of course bonus points. Singing-wise, I love Liu Yuning’s voice. It’s not like he can hit super high notes or anything, but this guy rly gets the right feeling out of each song through his voice. All in all, I loved the team.

What I found to be a pity: Literally, the only thing I find to be a limiting factor for this team is Ren Xianqi’s voice aaaaa TT. It felt like he struggled a bit at times, and compared to other senior singers, his voice doesn’t have as much of a distinctive feel, which I thought was a pity... Some of his uh...moves during some of the performances also felt a bit old-fashioned, but I think I can live with that.

Favorite performance(s) from them:

Tian Ya (the song...the arrangement...the spirit...the LYN’s singing...)

Ai Jiang Shan Geng Ai Mei Ren (mainly because this song is one of my all-time favourites and you cant go wrong with it, but this is not my favorite rendition of it either)

1. Zhou Shen x Li Keqin - Team: Qin Shen Shen

What I really liked about them: EVERYTHING FUCK HAHA. ok so. I started this show with pretty even feelings for all the teams, but if one team really grabbed my heart from ep. 1 onwards and threw it into the fire pit, it’s these two. GOD Can I even talk about them neutrally?? Chemistry-wise...where did they even get all this chemistry? No one knows. On stage, I don’t know if I’ve heard two voices that match as well as theirs when they harmonise before, but if I did, I don’t remember. Zhou Shen’s voice is high and floating like some kind of ethereal mermaid’s, while Li Keqin’s voice is so stable, so warm it’s the perfect match. But the chemistry off-stage?? It’s even more incredible??? If Liu Yuning and Ren Xianqi are like a pair of older and younger brothers, what are Zhou Shen and Li Keqin? No one knows, and certainly not them. All the terms have been thrown in: match made in heaven, perfect match, a couple that separated and had a child (thanks LKQ) but also father and son, ‘someone who likes music’ (what?)....but basically, everyone on the show agrees that their chemistry is uncanny and it’s not stopping them from continuing with whatever they’re doing. This team basically has it all and they know it: Singing skills and technique? they both have it. Passion for singing? They both have it. Perfect chemistry? They have it. Stellar and complementary sense of comedy and humour? They have it. Theatrical smoke as their only visual effect on stage? They have it (jk). Every episode that they’re on, I am laughing and smiling from ears to ears and thanking the heavens that they got paired up. Why are they like this.

What I found to be a pity: The fact that I can’t buy an album from them as a duo? hahaha OK, perhaps just the fact that they stuck mostly with ballads (except for Ye Lang Disco) and so I would have loved to see more sparks from them. But this complaint is also very empty because it’s not like I didn’t thoroughly enjoy every single ballad they sang...haha haha....Ah, one thing I found to be a veeerrrry slight pity is that, as ZS himself says, he’s quite insecure. In contrast, LKQ is quite optimistic, so it makes for a lot of comedic clashes in this respect (annnnd it becomes a thing I like about them again). OK ok one thing is perhaps that ZS’s jokes can be a little bit borderline, but honestly, they receive each others’ jokes so well it becomes part of their charm and chemistry.........I guess I’m biased....ok....I'll shut up

Favorite performance(s) from them:

Tian Xia You Qing Ren / All the Lovers in the World (oh my God oh my God oh my God thank you Zhou Shen for choosing this song)

Ye Lang Disco / Wild Wolf Disco (?) (BECAUSE THIS IS Qin Shen Shen AT THEIR FINEST: ABSOLUTE DORKS WHO SLAY AT PERFORMING. Na Ying mentioned this as the inspiration for her and Xiao Zhan’s disco challenge, and that’s for a GOOD reason.)

Honestly I thought Zhou Hua Jian should be there somewhere, because I am a HUGE fan of Zhou Hua Jian songs, but I did feel like his performances were a bit...slapdash in this show haha. And Yi Qiao seems very nice but most of the time, I didn’t feel her presence as much, and it felt like I was enjoying the performance because no matter what, ZHJ’s voice is fucking good. I also found it to be a pity that he had to constantly remind the audience about points and voting - in the beginning it was funny, but by the end it felt a little repetitive - and that some of his comments could be a little bit borderline and clumsy. So not in the top 5, but his team’s performance of “Qi Shi Bu Xiang Zou / In truth, I don’t want to leave” did make me cry. A lot.

Anyways, overall, I rate this show 10 / 10 and would encourage anyone who likes music to watch it! I know many people who watched the show are international Xiao Zhan fans, well, if so, you’ll see a lot of him at least! (and your attention might get snatched by some others if you’re not careful)

#wo men de ge #xiao zhan #na ying #zhou shen #li keqin #zhou hua jian #fei yuqing #ayanga #wang linkai #luo qi #liu yuning #ren xianqi #our songs #long post

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tfw-no-tennis · 4 years

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hunty x hunty we back bitches!!!!

ok so tbh we’ve BEEN back ive just been slacking on posting my liveblogs. n e ways

ok so ngl we DID watch these eps like a month ago so bear w/me here as i try to remember things hvbhdkjfhsk

ok so they show up at heavens arena and i CALLED IT its that building thats in the opening (thats probs p obvs but still lol)

killua casually mentioning that he was here for TWO YEARS previously like jesus kid ur life is wild

ruth and i spent like this whole time trying to guess if killua knows what nen is lmao and i was like ok im sure theres nen at heavens arena how could he NOT have come across it but also WHO KNOWS

i love how easy is is for 2 twelve year olds to join Death Tower Fight Club lmao

i mean tbf killua was here when he was literally 6

seeing killua and gon dunk on people by 1 hit koing them was great lmao

the fact that killua spent all his previous earnings on snacks....king

ZUSHIIIIII hes baby and hes so precious i love him already. baby boy baby. theres like a 0% chance hes evil or something bc hes so baby and hes named ZUSHI it reminds me of zucchini for some reason

ok when zushi uses nen (im assuming?) and killua was like oh shit illumi can do that....bro i CALLED it illumi totally has nen and its MIND CONTROL NEN or something. i still dk how nen works tbh

wing is slightly sus and im worried he might be evil. but also probably not mostly cause i dont thnk this arc is that long but WHO KNOWS

wing when zushi starts nen-ing it up during Fight Club: HEY NONE OF THAT NOW [spray bottles him]

i love that gon and killua are both like well that was weird. ok guess we’ll just str8 up ask zushi abt it lmao

when the subs popped up as Ren ruth and i were like nooooo freakin way the subs mistranslated nen. but it TURNS OUT that nen has OTHER components like ten and ren and uhhh the other ones too. jesus

i mean i knew this shit was gonna b detailed but Still

ok but ren is literally just weaponized vibes. vibe check

[vibes rlly hard] GET REN’D ON

as i was watching wings explanation i was like hmmm this seems incomplete. and then immediately killua said that same thing...vindication!!

ok when wing uses nen on that book page and slices the soda and gives a big explanation abt why he wasnt totally truthful w/gon and killua and zushi is just like .....ok but that was my soda :( and i was gonna read that book :( :( or w/e hvsjdfuahbsjjfdnka i love him SO MUCH....BABYYYY

totally off-topic but lemme talk transformers rl quick ok so in the tf idw comics drift is all edgy and then he meets a guy named Wing who shows him all the spiritual/religious stuff and drift becomes a space hippy (its been a while okay) and now im like yo is that guy a hxh ref? cause wing is kind of a weird name for a transformer and the spiritual ‘aura’ stuff is similar. idk if that has any basis lmao i just made that connection. anyways moving on

i love how it took killua 2 yrs to get to the 200th floor and now he and gon get there in like 3 days or w/e

200th floor time! uhm is that receptionist lady like. Good

as soon as the rancid aura appeared i was like UUUUAHGHHGHGHGHHHH I KNOW WHO THAT IS!!!!!!!!!! TRASH CAN ASS HISOKA

i kinda figured he’d be here...im curious if gon will succeed in doin the Big Punchy here

hisoka using his rancid vibes to drive them back....fuck on outta here nasty ass

i love how gon just. loses his domestication whenever hisoka is around. gon is literally so nice to EVERYONE he meets EXCEPT for hisoka (and illumi). god i love him best boy. he has a gr8 vibe detector and can tell that hisoka is nasty and evil

wing: ok FINE ill teach you The Real Deal Nen

ITS NEN TIME BABEYYYYYY

the fact that 8 yr old killua just peaced out at floor 199 or w/e and was like Fuq the 200th floor im out. and of COURSE the 200th floor is The Nen Zone(tm) so he just left, blissfully unaware of nen LMAOOO

and now he HAS to register to fight or he’ll be banned from heavens arena...Ls

i keep wanting to call it the tower of heaven....get out of my BRAIN f*iry t*il

ok uhhhh lets stop here

PREDICTION CORNER

actally i cant rlly do this part bc its been so long so ider what i thought of ripppp. im gonna try to stay up to date on my liveblogs (we’re on like ep 45 now lol)

1 idea: so gon is gonna successfully punch hisoka and then hisoka will unfortunately NOT go away for whatever reason and will become a nuisance (even moreso than he already is) rather than an Actual Threat

tune in next time for more HUNTY x HUNTY

#lj watches hxh #im gonna skim over the next few eps to get a better idea of what happened lmao #that way my next liveblog will be more detailed #hxh

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fisticuffs-lesbian · 4 years

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the rwby rewatch continues!!!!!!!! now with the first 6 eps of volume 1

ok like when characters use the recoil of their weapons firing as momentum for maneuvering.....PEAK

as much as i hate to admit it. torchwick’s VA is doing a pretty good job i think

OOH DANG start of the second ep, i forgot how they used to shorten the openings!!! honestly it kinda slaps, though maybe it’s just that the first op is That Good

i am literally unable to look at Yang without thinking “wife” on repeat

hhhhh oh GOD i wish i could permanently forget about the part in episode 2 where ruby turns into a chibi and it’s SUPER awkward and out of place

ok literally WHERE did ruby’s passion for weapons go!!!!!!! i love that trait of hers but i feel like it got forgotten after volume 1 :(

weiss calm down challenge

AHH BLAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE...

honestly i can’t decide if i love weiss or strongly dislike her lmao

HHGKFSGDH RUBY CALLED HER ‘PRINCESS’ I’M DYING

LMAOOO BLAKE RLLY CAME FOR WEISS LIKE THAT HUH. GOD I LOVE HER

ruby just lying on the fucking ground....same bro, it b like that sometimes

OH SHIT ITS WHITE BITCHBOY.... at least she roasts him immediately

good lord i hate early-rwby jaune

IT’S ALSO A GUN.... ILY

ok their banter at the end of the ep was cute... tbh i LOVE ruby and jaune’s friendship, it’s very good

(sees yang) AGHH SHE!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

“where am i supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?” jaune i Will beat you to death myself

AHHHHHHHH PYRRHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOBBING

i love yang so Fucking MUCh

“OH GOD ITS HAPPENING AGAIN” IM GONNA DIE THATWAS SO FUNNY

“oh my god you really exploded.” HER DELIVERY WAS SO GOOD... YANG ILY

HGKDJSGHDH WEISS W/ THE DISCLAIMERS IM DYING. ILY WEISS

love how weiss turned down ruby and yet still stuck near her for the opening speech thing... girl i see u. ALSO nice jaune roast, i am content (for now...)

yang and ruby commenting on oz’s weirdness... i wonder what that’s all about

also i fucking love how oz is like “you all came here to be huntsmen and huntresses? well y’know what, i look at you guys and all i see are losers. goodbye.”

HHHH JAUNE FUCK OFF I HATE YOU. DIE.

yang don’t pretend to be into dudes u are a lesbian..god bless

ruby’s lil grimm sleep mask...ough...so cute....

and then there’s jaune’s fuckin onesie fgjdhsdjjkfsdh i hate him.

wait ruby had friends at signal??? we ever gonna come back to that or...?

another jaune roast!! yang ily

i fucking LOVE the idea that blake brought that candelabra herself so she could read her book with it mysteriously in a corner

yang’s face when she first sees blake i’m hhgjdkhsf she’s a whole lesbian y’all

hhfjdskfh yang..attractive....not 2 sound like a literal anime fucker on main but

YANG’S AWFUL FLIRTING I’M GONNA DIEEE I LOVE HER!!!!!!!

yang rlly b like “aight she’s not responding to my flirting let’s bounce”

MAN WITH TWO SOULS AUUUHGHHH

OOH HAIR DOWN WEISS

“OH NOT YOU AGAIN” HHFJKDJFSH

AH!!!!!!!!! NORA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok time to be sad for a sec: do u think ren and nora slept in their day clothes because they don’t have pajamas on account of being poor orphans. i mean crwby probably just didn’t want to go to the trouble of making them character models that they’d use for all of ten seconds but still....STILL.........

nora wants to bribe OZ im hhfjdkhsjfdh

“i drink milk” BABY GIRL ILY

UGH yang is such a good sister let’s just take a moment to remember that

weiss b like hey what if i had a crush on pyrrha... haha jk... unless...?

nah but forreal i think weiss lowkey had a crush on pyrrha before coming to beacon but she didn’t know how to express it in like a normal way, so she just compliments pyrrha and asks her if she’d like to be her partner for the next four years... love that!

weiss: we’ll be popular!! we’ll get perfect grades!!! we’ll be inseparable!!!! we’ll trust each other implicitly and hold hands and go out and spend all of our time together and wait what-

HHHH JAUNE FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK OFF

JAUNE RLLY JUST CALLED PYRRHA “HOT STUFF” I’M GONNA PERISH ON THE SPOT.

pyrrha so Focking tall... also i am in love with her and she deserves better than jaune.

oh boy i’m gonna get REAL tired of typing those exact words aren’t i

PYRRHA PINNING JAUNE WITH HER JAVELIN WHEN HE GOT TOO CLOSE TO WEISS AND MADE HER UNCOMFORTABLE UM PLEASE DO THAT ALL THE TIME. GOD I LOVE HER

ooohh pyrrha used her semblance to call back her javelin there... that’s so dope

jaune and ruby friendship Good... also it just occurred to me that he probably never hits on her cause she’s younger than him by like two years?? which is good and stuff

oh ew cardin, i forgot he exists

oz b like “destroy everything in your path or you Will die” and nora’s just like :D

HAHA get fucked jaune

LANDING STRATEGY

YANG’S SUNGLASSES AHHHH WIFE

“BIRDIE NO!!!” I’M GONNA CHOKE

love the landing strats, esp yang (“nailed it!”), and also pyrrha just, plowing through trees, god, marry me

her constant apologizing im. i love her but also who hurt u...

LMAOO WEISS AND RUBY

pyrrha u deserve better

love the casual use of ruby’s semblance

ruby did u rlly ditch weiss Just for the dramatic cliffhanger LMAO

“nnnnope” WIFE

is it just me or does it Mean something that blake still wants to be partners with yang even after seeing her get irrationally angry about something - y’know, the same kind of thing she probably saw from adam far too often? she probably saw that yang was a good person regardless UGH i love them so much

weiss and ruby arguing is so fun to watch! except it isn’t!

jaune doesn’t fucking know what aura is....... jesus christ.

“ITS LIKE A FORCE FIELD” I MEAN. YEAH.

REN RLLY EXPLODED THAT GRIMM SNAKE’S HEAD BY SMACKING IT HUH.

pyrrha don’t waste ur aura on him smh

bitchboy has a lot of aura huh??? use it to SUPPORT ur FRIENDS you loser

AWW NORA ILY... the boop was so cute

OK ALRIGHT i’m about to fall asleep on my laptop so thats that for today. i gotta rlly jam on watching this now that i’m on a time limit of sorts SO i’m gonna get back on this tomorrow. yeah.

#rwby #yin rewatches rwby #my posts #none of this is well articulated but them's the breaks when ur exhausted

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so i watched tlj

i’m just gonna ramble in long bullet points bc aint no way i’m forming coherent thoughts right now. spoilers ahead, duh.

one of my fav parts about the experience was how the movie theater was packed full of people just as crazy and excited about this as me & alex. we literally either held hands or hugged tight during the entire movie bc i don’t think we’d survive otherwise lmao. get you a friend who’s not afraid to show support through physical contact. also it was 8 pm so there weren’t that many kids. people clapped several times and when kylo & rey blew up luke’s lightsaber someone yelled “FUCK” super loudly and everyone else agreed

speaking about kylo and rey.....yeah lucasfilm....this is what we’re not gonna do. it scares me SO. MUCH. that even as an avid anti r*ylo i couldn’t help seeing it, and i’m TERRIFIED of ep 9 for that exact reason. the hand touching was disgusting. like all these moments would’ve been absolutely precious if only there was a way to see them as purely platonic, but after these two long years there sadly is not. i really wanted them to work together as PLATONIC PARTNERS and possibly later FRIENDS but i guess not. :( also i hated her parentage so much? like i hope he was just lying to her bc they HAVE to be related. i refuse to believe they aren’t. and if they aren’t, rey better be obi wan’s or qui gonn’s or pure force spawn or some shit, foh with that scavenger bullshit.

speaking of kylo! these segways are really working out great so far. yeah my boy dumb as shit. like every time i think he can’t possibly do anything stupider he goes and fuckin does it. i guess that’s what the mix of skywalker tomfoolery, solo stupidity and the fact that a powerful dark entity has been fucking your head up since your early childhood does to you, but i honestly can’t with him jesus. supreme leader??? deceiving & YELLING at rey? really kyle??? go to your fucking room boy you got some serious nerve behaving like this after seemingly making all that progress. at least he looked amazing (that cloak moment at the end? come thru!) and i loved that he wasn’t wearing his mask and cloak most of the movie. i love his resting sad puppy face and his gorgeous fridge body. don’t come for me

we talked about kylo so naturally it’s time to talk about hux. can we please take a moment to thank the writers for making fanon hux canon in the best possible way? and in the first five fucking minutes of the movie, too? i was so happy i couldn’t believe my eyes OR ears. seriously, it almost feels as if they went through all of our best fics and fanarts ( @kyleauxwren ‘s ICONIC wine mom hux comes to mind) and decided to just give the gays what they want, and it was a. ma. zing. and what a wonderful surprise it was bc they didn’t give him even a second in the trailer but in the movie we got T O N S of perfectly written, sassy, undereye circles, fed up with all this shit hux. i’m in love. would’ve preferred him slightly more rugged, with some stubble and possibly sipping from a flask, but that’s just me getting cocky.

you already know. i fucken hate kylux. we didn’t get as much direct face-to-face communication and sadly no catchphrase to top “careful, ren”, but i thoroughly enjoyed the little moments in which they (mostly hux) tried to cooperate? like ngl it was mostly hux trying to make the best out of the situation he’d find himself in and negotiate with kyle and then kyle would just lash out and start banging him around and tbh i felt kinda sorry for him, but i guess that’s life when your boyfriend is an unhinged nearly all-powerful manchild. part of me still hopes kylo calms down at least a little bit and starts appreciating/respecting hux for putting up with so much of his shit (again.......supreme leader is dead long live the supreme leader???? the only thing you are is supreme idiot you stinky) lmao. but that’s irrelevant to the actual canon so imma stop. i gotta point out though, the choking scene does look like a hardcore kylucc shipper wrote it..........i immediately remembered those gifs from crash pad you know which ones.........

luke. can’t say i’m overly surprised/saddened by his death bc it was built up thoroughly and what rey said describes it quite nicely, but i was extemely shocked to find out the whole ben incident. i truly didn’t think luke was capable of that under any circumstances, the dark side or snoke or whatever must’ve gotten to him in that moment. and this knowledge makes me even more uncomfortably sympathetic to kylo, call me a dirty apologist (even though i don’t CONDONE his actions, i just understand his motives and wish for him to get better), see if i care. i do feel incredibly sorry that luke didn’t find it in him to forgive himself and lived with that horrible thought for so long, but idk man, as it’s already been said it’s not like leia wasn’t even more affected? idk how i feel about the whole exile thing. probably same as with everything kylo does - i kind of understand where he’s coming from but it’s not the right thing to do.

leia. tbh i feel incredibly sad for the entire resistance and i can’t even imagine how one would feel in her place. carrie was brilliant as always, and although i didn’t cry my eyes out every time she came on screen, i felt it in my heart. the scene in the beginning got me hard and i’d really thought we’d lost her, which would’ve been kinda....not really approppriate imo, but then we got to see her use the force, and to which extent! it was a scene we waited for for years and it did not disappoint. her mom moments with poe were also extremely cute. i was kinda bummed out when she didn’t go out to talk with kylo. i wonder why she didn’t, did she really give up on him completely in that moment? i wonder how they’re gonna do ep9 without carrie :(

poe. and finn. and rose. i enjoyed all their scenes immensely but the big hoof kitty chase on that casino planet and finn’s face off with phasma are definitely highlights. poe just kept being poe throughout the movie which is always a raging success in itself but as i said, i enjoyed his mother-son moments with leia so much i was almost moved to tears. not quite, but almost. finn looking for rey as soon as he woke up was amazing, of course. as well as his interactions with rose. i’ve heard people say finnrey is dead bc of that lil kiss but i honestly don’t see it? i didn’t see any romantic interest from finn, the only way i interpret this as is rose having an innocent crush on a hero and deciding to take her chance before she thought she would’ve died. about that, too, i love my son with my entire heart but what was he thinking flying directly into that thing :( please don’t ever do that again oh my god.

overall, i liked the movie, even though it left me with some EXTREMELY mixed feelings and shattered perceptions. imma have to watch it a couple more times to take everything i can in properly but i liked it a lot, and not only because it’s star wars and it’s what i’ve been living for for the past 2 years. one of the things i loved about it was the comedy. it was just the perfect amount, at the right time, in the right places, perfect. although if i hadn’t watched th/or 3 before this i would’ve been taken aback lmao, i wasn’t used to humor in sci-fi/fantasy before. the plotlines i feel like were a bit scattered and hard to keep track of sometimes. tfa remains my favourite star wars movie but if anything, tlj was completely original plot wise (you can’t pick a clear match for it out of the rest of the movies the way you can with anh and tfa), even if it led to some confusion and scattering.

i probably meant to mention something else but it’s 4 am and i gotta go to bed at some point. please talk to me about this movie if you’ve seen it as well, and if you read this far i hope you have the most wonderful day.

#star wars #sw:tlj #the last jedi #movies #sw spoilers #personal

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as a b1a4 supremacist, what do you think one should do to get to know them? i only recently kind of got into them because i didnt really know them until sandeul released his solo album

that’s CNU, btw, used to invent long hair before nuest ren or seventeen jeonghan.

also used to rock hipster glasses before it was cool. kang daniel the shoulder gangster? idk her. it’s CNU.

anyway.

where should i start? BUT a major note to take about B1A4 is they went from this:

(RIP FASHUN)

to this:

hallelujah. read more here.

listen, friend, i go way back with B1A4. i literally cried watching this subbed video lmaooo skip to 43:40.

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it’s from MTV MATCH UP B1A4 X BLOCK B eps 8. rip me wyd. let’s talk about B1A4 and block b. they were the shits back then yo. 2011 was their debut year; two boy groups from unknown agencies tackling two different genres and images and MTV GOD BLESS MTV GAVE THEM A MATCHING VARIETY SHOW. you can watch B1A4 cuts here and you will see the legendary dread!zico tryna to win over gentle jinyoung-hyung and FAILED BIG TIME who’s crying with me.

block b will always hold a place in my heart. do you know who invented hep hap? it’s block b. their “new kids on the block”, “welcome to the block”, and “blockbuster” albums have no fault. none. but then they’re hep hap no more and i lost them.

B1A4 KOREAN DISCOGRAPHY + PERSONAL SONG REC, from latest to newest. i believe you can find the newest albums on SPOTIFY JFC why can’t day6.

LET’S FLY (2011): please listen to “only one” lmao. “only learned the bad things” was so, so, so sweet for my skinny freshman ass. i love it.

IT B1A4 (2011): lbr “beautiful target” was the best. watch them grow from you zoom zoom my heart like a rocket to CNU’s iconic everybody say la la. also “chu chu chu” was super chill. “fooool”? you’d find yourself singing along upon first listen.

IGNITION (2012): EVERYTHING IN THIS ALBUM BUT THE TITLE TRACK AKA MY HYUNG JUNG JINYOUNG’S FIRST TACKLE ON PRODUCING GEMS. also sandeul has a solo track here TITLED “CRUSH” GO FIND IT NOW.

IGNITION SPECIAL EDITION (2012): “baby goodnight” is so iconic i’m still side-eyeing newer idols who aren’t singing it to the camera while they’re preparing to go to sleep LMAOOOOOOOOO.

IN THE WIND (2012): yes they graced us BANA with 3 albums back in 2012. “TRIED TO WALK” HANDS DOWN ONE OF THEIR BEST SONGS. TOP 5. i’m the president of na honja ireoke opening line. i have a shrine for that line. the most impactful opening line of all songs, korean or not. amen. listen to all tracks please please. you’ll find the B1A4 distinct flavor on “what do you want to do”. like. go. now.

WHAT’S HAPPENING (2013): B1A4 wore fancy stuffs during this promotion. me ghosta. but DO YOU LIKE BALLAD? “good love” had me on the floor. then i read the translation and i died.

WHO AM I (2014): jesus lord and savior. this album. jesus f christ man THIS ALBUM. LISTEN TO EVERY SINGLE THING HERE PLEASE. “baby” further wow me about baro’s voice. “too much” WHICH IS SANDEUL + GONGCHAN’S DUET? fuck lmao we’re talking about heartbreak here and mine’s bleeding whenever i listen to “too much”. “DRUNK WITH MUSIC” tho. wow CNU-hyung. killed. this. concept. i can’t. you’re lying if your shoulders aren’t moving along and if your head isn’t nodding along. it’s THAT good. you’ll feel the swag. seriously.

SOLO DAY (2014): summer means “solo day”. period. it’s my summer jam. it should be YOURS. “drive” is so so so good. it has asphalt in the lyric. honestly do listen. also if you’re JYP stan do realize B1A4 had collaboration with min and suzy and in this album, sunmi. awesome.

SWEET GIRL (2015): oh my girl visual slash vocal slash handsome girl jiho is in the music video for the title track “sweet girl”. life’s good. in “wait” BARO IS SINGING I REPEAT BARO IS SINGING AND BANA prolly cried everywhere. and jinyoung wailing i can’t stop thinking about you girl everyday, everyday? LMAO BYE.

GOOD TIMING (2016): “a lie”, undoubtedly quenched BANA’s thirst after one whole year. have you watched “a lie” live on music shows? if the ‘touch my cheek tell me i’m not lying’ isn’t the best point of all dance point then idk what to trust. yes, i’m that supremacist LMAO. “crushing on you again” is so sweet, so very winter season love song aka B1A4’s very own color. they should be dubbed as winter season kings because their releases during fall/winter (in the wind, who am i, good timing) are the be(a)sts. “nightmare” paved the road for winner’s “really really” LMAO i’m joking. but not really. i mean baro and mino are practically brothers. “in dreams” sounds so fucking dreamy, like i said, totally winter season love song. “i’ll find you” makes me long for someone it shall inspire y’all. “together” is the one last song that leaves you wonder if these singing strangers are really worth our money and time and dedication and the answer is YES BECAUSE B1A4 RECORDED THIS SONG WITH KOREAN BANAS. jesus.

okay.

it’s july 2017. my bro baro is acting in a drama now. sandeul, your man, has collab with a starship kid. does it mean we’re going to have another winter season album? i’d say amen.

bonus: this is my fave pic of them.

if you’ve heard of it jinyoung is a composer. he’s well noted by other idols and important people in the industry lmao. he also acts. wow. i don’t follow girl groups, but LMAO THIS SONG? “AT THE SAME PLACE” MADE BY JINYOUNG HELPED B1A4 TO GET MORE RECOGNITION. this time i gotta thank mnet for the opportunity. and for the girls who were so sweet fangirling towards my hyung jung jinyoung.

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listen to my ult oh my girl’s “one step two step” here and say yes that you can hear jinyoung’s magic there. i’ll just link to the BEST FANCAM EVER.

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HERE’S THEM SINGING THE LEGENDARY SONG THEMSELVES:

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AND JINYOUNG COMPOSED THE NEWEST GIRL GROUP BOP “DEEP BLUE EYES” wow my hyung shall be crowned as THE PRINCE OF GIRL GROUP BOPS. like.

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i cry a lot. but promise this is the last time. i cried watching sandeul’s music video for his solo debut “stay as you are” but y kno it already. help my bro reach 1 million views before a year please.

fun fact: been with them since 2011. never got into shipping business, just here purely for the music and the people. they’re like friends that i’ve known for a long time; we don’t necessarily stay in touch but i always think of them fondly, y feel? i find new friends as i get older every year, yet i’ll always be the first to congratulate them if they reach another milestone in their respective lives y kno? moral of this story: don’t ship for a long lasting stanning TROOLOLOLOLLOLOLO.

this is comprehensive.

i hope i helped.

everyone please have a good weekend.

#B1A4 #you bet i spent 3 hours compiling this #bana #jung jinyoung #baro #sandeul #CNU #gongchan #jinyoung #recommendation #k-pop idol #oh my girl #WM entertainment #* answered thank you #* le post

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BASICALLY 101 comments/thoughts/things on Produce 101 S2E2

So we are BACK TOPOFTHEMORNINGTOYALADDIES AND WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF p101 live commentary

1. The kids are watching the last ep

2. The first vote results, Bae Jinyoung first, Wang Minhyuk last. Poor kid. Stop naming kids Minhyuk theres 6 of them on the field already it’s like Michael in America lol

3. Back to the evaluations

4. Woojin goes up, Daniel is like ’He’s rly cute I hugged him already’ tbh everyone call him cute lol

5. Does JB Baby, what a classic lol. Got a B and praised for his pronunciation

6. Aaahahahah lmao he asked for water and has to choose between two judges. Chooses Cheetah and she looks blessed af

7. Kid has problems with opening stickers lol

8. YGk+ performance, everyone are shook about their legs

9. Their performance isn’t that good though, poor dudes. One D, other three F

10. Roll yet ANOTHER compilation of the hottest kids this season

11. Yongbin aka the dude with a nose bridge straighter and higher than my will to live

12. Dongsoo and Namhyung from S.How do an AMAZING self composed song, are cute and talented as fuck. Namhyung got an A and Dongsoo got a B. Cheetah loves them ME TOO ME TOO

13. Compilation of rappers, the overall comment on teachers is ‘Cheetah is cute omg but Dunmill is scary’

14. Editing: aw cheetah is cute now with longer hair

15. Cheetah: does the snoop dogg dance yno the smoke weed everyday one

16. ‘Boys are calmer’ no they are more desperate and scared of failure

17. Jung Jungji prepared a SHITTON for EXO Growl, a bajillion vids of it. But sadly I guess his nerves got to him, he didn’t do well aaaaaaaaaaaand got an F. Stop fucking laughing at him. Most of the audience is dancing along though such an iconic song

18. He looks dead inside but says “I’m glad because I made BoA laugh”

19. HOTSHOT HOTSHOT HOTSHOT SUNGWOON TAEHYUN SUNGWOON TAEHYUN

20. Do Block B Very Good, MURDER IT IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE, AMAZING energy, everyone love it, first and only all company A rank

21. Who am I fooling I actually watched their performance like 4 times before this on youtube just because of how much I love it the energy is so good

22. Taehyun’s freestyle krump was on POINT tru kid monster right there. His expressions are soooooo good

23. Now the kids are writing their future wishes or something like that to a huge whiteboard

24. Kim Dongbin from kiwi ent looks sooooo nervous save that kid

25. He’s doing chewing gum and stopped in the middle for some x reason?

26. He stopped bc one of the judges pulled out his in-ear in a weird way and he thought that meant he needs to stop

27. HES CRYING OUT OF NERVES RESCUE THAT POOR KID OMG

28. Everyone are cheering for him to continue THIS IS SO SWEET AAAHHHHHH EVEN JINWOO MOVED HIS HANDS AND CLAPPED

29. And he finished his performance w a cute smile and………. got an F

30. ’My level should be lower than F. I’m grateful for F’

31. FNC Hwiseung comes out DOES SHINEE REPLAY GOT MY VOTE

32. JELLY HEESEOK DOES CHAINED UP ALSO GOT MY VOTE

33. Judges don’t like either and say both feel rushed… Hwiseung got a D and Heeseok got an F… damn

34. Starship Sewoon and Kwanghyun come in, everyone get hype. One of them hates dancing and individ. trainee Jaehwan went to the same school as Sewoon. They Maroon 5 Sugar, everyone loves it

35. Sewoon plays guitar and composes, everyone STILL loves it and for a very good reason

36. BoA: So do u wanna be an idol or a singer?

Sewoon: CEO

37. Starship gets a double B

38. RYTHM TA COVER, amazing vocals, acrobatics, taekwondo (is this the K-Tiger trainee?) basically just a compilation of the coolest kids this season

39. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Jang Moonbok clip again

40. He’s doing BTS Boy In Luv and…. It isn’t too good poor dude

41. Seriously Mnet’s son bc his singing isn’t good yet the only reactions they are showing from crowd are the most positive ones

42. He got an F

43. Brand New come up, roll clip of the absolute snake team San E and Jint ent company lol kids are cute tho

44. Do a song composed by Daehwi, choreo made by Woojin that sounds eerily like a GOT7 Hard Carry

45. Daehwi's vocals are good but his range isn’t too high rip. One of the kids did a bboy pose thing on one hand. Someone in the crowd dabbed

46. Daehwi and Woojin got an A, Youngmin and Donghyun got B’s

47. End of the evaluation, 7 A rank trainees, 17 B rank, 21 C rank, 25 D rank and 31 F rank. Last season there was like….. 20 something A rank holy shit

48. Revealing the high pitched as hell song and the difficult ass choreo

49. The best can go to M Countdown with it, A gets center and the ult center gets a solo part

50. The one who has an A rank is basically a god and the one who gets the center position is literally the definition of ’what’s a god to a non-believer’

51. They’re moving in now and get their ugly colour coded sweaters lol

52. F rank trying to cope ’I actually rly like gray clothes… Still want pink tho’

53. Why is korea so obsessed with ages lol

54. Sungwoon took like an air humidifier and candles and an electric mat and whatnot lmaoooo

55. Goblin parody ensue. Some trainee, Yoo Jinwon looks just like male Eun Tak (The female lead of goblin)

56. Group practice is soooooo unbalanced holy SHIT

57. The song is so high pitched they are all dying inside

58. JINWOO IS TALKING my dude…. In F rank…. Depressing

59. Daehwi is a sad boy bc the entire B team belted out the high notes like no joke

60. Two dance black holes make slow mo eye contact if im not incorrect its the Cube F rank and one of the YGk+ F ones with a haircut idk how to describe.. like… its black… sure is black

61. Within 10 minutes A rank fucking aces the dance as a whole, sure its not perfect but it looks GREAT

62. F is a… Mess sighs. At least that’s how they’re portrayed. In group shots at least half of the kids can do the dance just GREAT but sure obvs mnet isnt gonna show them

63. Daehwi has problems with the high notes poor lil kid

64. Namhyun, Sungwoo and Sungwoon have no problems hitting it though

65. I fucking hate this system because rappers need to excel in vocals too which is fucking unfair and they just humiliated BNM Woojin who cant reach the notes and the trainer is NO FUCKING HELP and doesn’t guide him or anything just looks at him judgingly just fuck off dude seriously

66. Sungwoo is just like Sejeong, got everyone shook during first evaluation, sings like an angel and CAN actually dance but has small problems while adapting to the choreo

67. Now to the D group training KAHI MY MOTHER

68. Baekho has problems concentrating to the dance and they only show him obviously thanks Mnet for nothing like he is not the type of person for p101 hes literally the furthest away from the p101 type why did pledis force them there Im so fucking angry dude

69. Another poor black hole cutie is Cube Guanlin ugh im so sad about him DON’T CRY

70. But others are helping him which makes me happy thank god for that

71. C group get compared to chicks and vitamin C lol

72. The C group vocal trainer is pretty af and everyone are in love including me

73. ‘Age is just a number’ BOI

74. Bae Jinyoung keeps looking at the ground SHY BOY but he also messed up his singing poor kiddo

75. B team has the same vocal coach as A and I think D has the same dude

76. Honestly I fucking hate that dude he’s so rude to rapper kids and doesn’t even help him and Mnet tries to play it off like ‘haha tsundere’ but no he’s just an asshole

77. One of the rappers does adlibs lol

78. But everyone else are just in pain I fucking hate this system so much

79. Woojin is a small baby but sings like gold

80. AND D TEAM HAS THE SAME ASSHOLE COACH

81. He picks out NU’EST right away ugh but MY DUDE REN DOES SO WELL

82. RBW GUNHEE MY B O I HOLY HELL SINGS SO WELL WHYS HE IN D even the coach said he did the best out of the grades he coaches ( A B and D)

83. That coach is so much nicer in D

84. I take everything back he just fucking destroyed my baby Hyungseob I’m so fucking done with everything

85. B team dance class que

86. Kang Daniel feels a bit full of himself but tbh he is literally perfect at everything and has the dance clean already

87. Kim Jaehwan has problems with dance this is like with Juna last season lol

88. JAEHWAN IS PRACTICING ALONE AS THE LAST ONE THERE POOR KID

89. The dorm clips, everyone are practicing

90. Aaaaaaaaand now they’re doing the reevaluation filming

91. B grade Kim Sangbin danced really well and even sang well even though hes a rapper and then dabbed lmao hope lost

92. MY LIL JUSTIN KIDDO IS UP but holy shit his singing is really bad I’m sad

93. Everyone are saying they are anticipating Minhyun to move up by a rank but his clip is awful I’m so fucking sad dude I don’t have any words to express my absolute misery he looks so beaten up and other trainees are trying to console him I’m so fucking sad

94. Now it’s Baekho’s turn, he doesn’t do too well either but it def isn’t THAT bad and mnet is just trying to make NU’EST look bad because they aren’t showing JR’s clip even though he was good enough to move up to B grade

95. The dude with the best singing voice, Gunhee, his singing voice broke rip

96. Moonbok’s clip wasn’t good and everyone are sad bc he practiced a lot

97. Kwon Hyunbin from YGk+ does really shit and I feel soooooooooooo sorry because he isn’t doing good and people aren’t vvoting for him either but it just won’t come out right and im SO SORRY FOR HIM AAAAAAAGHHHHHH and like YGk+ is a modelling company so he wont debut and then theres this kid Ha Minho who I like too and his rank is like what 94 rn hes gonna fucking die. I hate this show why is it so addicting

98. Calls to family ft. a lot of tears from everyone but Jisung’s sister has the same sense of humor as Jisung does its gr8 why isn’t he in top 11 vote for him jesus fuck

99. Judges are gonna watch the reevaluation things now time to Get Sad Bois

100. Daehwi and Samuel get praised and JAEHWAN MY LIL BOY FIXED HIS DANCE IM SO PROUD

101. Oh no now theyre gonna watch Minhyuns catastrophe clip I want to fucking die

102. Kahi said that Min gets pressured when competing with other people I’m so fucking sad my boy is so stable and talented if anyone wants good NU’EST lives just fucking hit me up he is sooooo high quality stop bullying him @mnet @pledis

103. Why do they only show bad clips I’m so sad and the trainers all laugh at them this just… it’s so ugly leave the kids alone they are under such immense pressure with such a difficult song and choreo

104. Finally they are showing the good trainees I’m so glad give them that ATTENTION and MY KID HYUNGSEOB IS THERE WITH A PEACE SIGN

105. And to end it now they’re getting the reevaluation grades and a bunch of kids are moving up I’m glad but they aren’t showing anyone’s new grades

And now, also good screencaps that didn’t make it into the top 9, some funny, some depressing, Also I’m ready to stab anyone who came up with the goddamn food and bathroom break ration they’re doing by rank like what is this u cant dance u cant eat?? well hello there stalin

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theboywhocan11 · 7 years

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“The one simple theory to explain everything (Rey, Snoke, Luke, Kylo Ren and more)”

Credit to: Thor Skywalker (YouTube)

Summary: This youtube video by Thor Skywalker goes over his theory that explains everything about who is Snoke, who is Rey, and what's going on with everything within Ep VIII and IX.

The premise behind this video's theory: * Thor Skywalker stated: most theories out there only covers one detail or aspect of the sequel trilogy. But, there is not one that answered everything in one swoop. * This theory goes over a simple explanation on what's going on so a casual star wars fan who never read the books, comics, or watch the TV shows (the canon only) would understand.

Highlights of this theory: * Who/What is Snoke: Snoke here is an ancient being who is possibly the founder of the original Sith Order a long time ago. He is the new threat to this galaxy because he is dying and needs a new physical host to reside in. He is possibly found by the members of the remaining Empire's forces in the Unknown Regions. Snoke wants Ben Solo so he can have a body to inhabit in. A body that is both dark and light. How Snoke know about rise of the Empire and it's fall? He was watching from a far.

* Who is / what is Knights of Ren: Dark side worshippers wearing the masks of ancient sith to honor them and continue their "legacy."

* Who/what is Rey: Rey could be Luke's daughter. But, there are some problems. For instance, if Rey is Luke's daughter then that leads to a butt load of questions that Ep VIII and IX can't answer. For instance, who is Rey's mother/Luke's wife? Why Rey was abandoned on Jakku? Okay, so Rey died...but why Luke not sense she is alive this whole time and rescue her? Luke abandoning her child...would that make Luke a bad man?

Does it have to be another Skywalker to save the Skywalker family when Obi-Wan Kenobi (a non-skywalker) save the Skywalker family, starting in the prequels leading through the original trilogy?

So, is Rey a descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Maybe. But, what if Rey is a person who is defined by who she is going forward and not going back to where she came from. It could be likely that Rey's parents were just people who did not understand her and abandon her on Jakku. Also, Rey is the one ends up adopting the Skywalker last name and sees the Skywalker as her own family.

Also, Rey was on Jakku, a planet that is housing a light side nexsus (as claimed by Thor Skywalker)

* The ending of Ep IX: It may not be Reylo, but it can be Reylo. Or, just a something in between. But it would be an emotional bond between Kylo Ren and Rey where either: Rey and Kylo fought Snoke together. Or, Rey and Kylo fought each other and Rey forgives Kylo Ren. Or, Rey kills Kylo Ren, the last Skywalker. Thus, ending the Skywalker family in Ep IX, but only for Rey to continue on the Skywalker legacy by continuing the name as a way to honor them. So, if this is the scenario, Luke Skywalker dies probably at the hands of Snoke.

My thoughts on this video: * It is a simple theory that does a good job explaining everything that may happened in order for casual audience to understand.

* My disagreements though: (1) Snoke is not the original founder of the orignal Sith Order. In fact, I see Snoke as an ancient entity. Like, he's a Rogue God. A rogue force wielder. He is separate from any dark side order in the galaxy. He is something that is above any Dark Side order made by mortal beings. He pre-dates any dark side order. (2) I think Snoke wants to be a true strong immortal by absorbing the powers of both Kylo and Rey. One dark/light and the other light/dark. Kind of in a way that Old Sith Emperor of Knights of the Old Republic Era, Darth Vitiate did to live a much much longer time.

Other things this simple theory did not consider: (1) the possibility that Rey's parents were either dark side followers. Or, there was actual non-biologically related guardians who saved Rey from her dark side family and dropped her off on Jakku temporarily. These guardians were meant to come back and get her to Luke, but they got killed. [Legends Source material for this part: The Jedi Prince novel series where someone told "Male!Rey" name Ken on why he was left on some Jedi City on Yavin IV so the good side in him overcomes the dark side of his ancestors.] (2) Other Imperial Remnant Factions that are Anti-First Order and Anti-New Republic at the same time. This is known as the Wrath of the Third Party Factions.

(3) What happens to the Jedi Order? Is there going to be a new one that replaces the old and just keep the Jedi name?How would Poe and Finn and Kellie Marie Tran's character fit into the Rey's life once this war is over? Where would they go? Is Poe and Finn and Rey work together to create a new Jedi Order?

(4) Kylo Ren’s redemption in the light of Carrie Fisher’s death and what would happen to Leia? Like would Leia die too in order to get Kylo ren back to the light.

#thor skywalker #ep viii #rey #kylo ren #snoke #luke skywalker #the last jedi #tlj

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Star Wars Episode 8: a rediscovery

The latest Star Wars installation is all of 3 months old, so it’s hard to call it “a rediscovery,” but here we are. I watched Episode 8 again, and again I was disappointed, maybe even moreso the second time around.

This movie has lots of good, even great, in it - although for everything it does well, it completely botches at least one other thing. To use the “cooking” analogy that went so well in my Ep1 review: it’s like there are half amazing ingredients, half just straight Crisco, and the instructions, steps, and timing are all off. Instead of a cake (or an Ep1 Jar Jar Shit Cake), you end up with a nasty soup with delicious chunks of gourmet chocolate swimming around in there.

It’s sloppy, is what I’m trying to say. Not inspiring. It felt like a fairly hollow installation. The magic was gone.

One reason? Cut scenes. Every scene felt *too* fast-paced. Cut, cut, cut. I could barely keep up with my note-taking, and had to pause many times. I reviewed 68 scenes or set pieces in Ep8, far more than the rest:

R1: 25 Ep4: 29 Ep5: 31 Ep1: 39 Ep2: 42 Ep3: 41 Ep6: 41 Ep7: 46 Ep8: 68

(Yes, there was an upward trend - maybe I just took more discrete notes as I went on - but still, Ep8 is a clear outlier).

This cut-scening gives a frantic pace and no time to emotionally settle into the storyline. It’s almost too much to process. The movie finally settles in when Rey is trying to learn from Luke, but for the majority of the film, we’re brutally bashed between scenes and set pieces such that we become numb.

The other structural problem with this film is one which you can’t necessarily see in the histogram or the “journey” chart. This is my belief: the glittering veins of the film are the Jedi-Sith struggle, the blurring between the two... the genuine, moving, and perplexing connection between Kylo Ren and Rey. An orthogonalization (is that a word?) of the Jedi-Sith struggle into a young-old struggle (sounds kind of similar......... #trump).

This is truly some inspired stuff. Some great scenes. many 9′s, a 10. But these veins of value are set in a truly worthless plot substrate. We have a horrifyingly re-treaded and cheesy and just generally infuriating attack on some ship called a “dreadnought,” and then we have a Battlestar Galactica simulacrum for the remainder of the film, a wretched and unnecessary and heavy-handed side-excursion to a cantina v3 (this time rich and black-tie, not a grungy bar!), we have Hux over-acting, and we have a god-awful Snoke, whose cancerous presence from Ep7 metastasized and was mercifully destroyed in Ep8 but not before causing lasting damage to the story arc. We have so many moments of “this will never happen now... oh wait, it happened!” both on the good swing, and the bad. It’s as if in trying so hard to subvert the old tropes, the movie itself was simply an inverse image of the same old tropes.

The other problem this movie has is that everyone... I mean pretty much everyone, except Kylo, Luke, and Rey, are mediocre at best. They’re caricatures of themselves, or someone/thing else. They have no depth and nuance. It’s extremely off-putting.

You can see I have a lot to say about this movie, which maybe is not surprising since it prompted me to undertake this entire exercise. Without further ado...

Average score: 6.31 Standard deviation: 1.89

SCROLL. 6. Really lacking nuance. Everything is "heroic" vs "tyranny". And then... "But the Resistance is exposed!” How did they get exposed? I just don't get any of this. Why do they hope Luke will save them? This scroll is a total shit show. And it sets up another desperate escape from another rebel base... You know what? It seems like a bot got trained on all the other scrolls, and this is the output.

Rebel base discovered. 6. Umm, intense walking and stilted dialogue and "oh no..." as the First Order arrives... mmm ok? This is at least a cool shot, where you can see the Star Destroyers from Earth.

Hux. 5. Dialogue is so bad. "I have orders from Supreme Leader Snoke himself... this is where we snuff out the Resistance once and for all." Incinerate Obliterate blah blah blah. Dreadnought.... meh. Burned out on superweapons.

Dreadnought and Poe’s Joke. 5. Are we supposed to be afraid of another Mega-Star Destroyer after seeing so many destroyed by single ships in the past? And this is like a Death Star Lite with ground assault capabilities. I mean this just feels kind of uncreative and bland. Maybe a bit like Star Trek sorta showed up in Star Wars... REALLY bad cheesy joking with Poe. "Can you hear me now” joke? Your mother joke? Come on. Meh.

Attack the Dreadnought. 4. Like I said... another single ship beats a huge ship... another “droid fixes shit in the middle of battle” shot... another hot shit pilot disobeys orders... and the worst part of all, Fuckin' gravity in space! If the bombers’ bombs are so dangerous, why do multiple bombers fly in such tight formation? Why not put them on oh, I dunno, missiles? Anyway, it's all down to one bomber... one person has to save everyone, of course. Of course the trigger falls below the deck but OH WAIT! she catches it with a backhand grab. Of course the bomb doors are open and she's not sucked out into space... Of course one bomber can take down the whole ship but they had like 10 at the beginning all tightly clumped. This is pure spectacle with no thinking at all. This is Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3. This is Michael Bay level shit, and not The Rock Michael Bay.

Snoke angry. 5. Snoke sucks. He can do Force shit that nobody else can to the extent that it’s diminishing, kind of like back to Eps 1-2 treatment of the Force. Slaps Hux from across the galaxy. OK.

Finn wakes up. 5. Why was he in a coma again? Because he got back-sabered by Kylo on the Death Star 3? I guess. And he wakes up: “I’m sure you have a ton of questions...” “Where’s Rey?” Laying it on preeeeeettty thick here with the whole “hey, guys, this guy really cares about Rey!” unrequited love thing. (By the way, this unidimensional Finn shit will continue).

Rey meets Luke. 8. ... and Luke throws the lightsaber over his shoulder. Some have criticized this for being a “try too hard to be different” moment but the first time I watched, I laughed genuinely and appreciatively, and the second time, I still liked it. What’s with this Rey hair of three-loop-ponytail? It’s trying too hard. Leia’s earbuns were truly singular.

Porgs+Lightsaber. 8. I liked this near-Porg-death joke. And Rey sees the X-wing. OK.

Chewy and Luke. 7. Luke starts putting it all together... but if he abandoned his family, the Jedi, and everyone else so many years ago, why does he care “Where’s Han?” Shouldn’t he be totally resigned to the inevitable decay and death of the universe and everything?

Throne Room Snoke. 6. Meh. “We have them tied on a string.” Meh. Snoke is being a dick to Kylo. I am distinctly aware of Serkis overacting. Maybe Serkis Saturation is a thing... March of the Empire music is hokey here, rather than good. Snoke says "HOPE lives in the galaxy" Meh. The former evil empire wasn’t so like, blatantly and caricature-evil. “You're just a child in a mask.” Fine. Snoke sucks.

Kylo kills his mask. 8. Another “Reject Ep7″ moment, but I still liked it. Fits well with the character also.

Rey and Luke. 7. "Within weeks, the First Order will control all the systems." "You think i'm going to walk out with a laser sword and face down the whole First Order?" Three thoughts here: 1) yeah good point Luke, actually. 2) Wait, how does Luke even know what the First Order is? 3) Wait... this is the first of many “I’ll/we’ll never X” and then (spoiler) X happens later. Anyway, the island is beautiful. I don't know how I feel about the milking the weird animal. OK I guess? It's different at least. Flying across a pole to a cliff to stab a fish? It's OK. I guess this is a decent sequence.

The Jedi Tree. 8. Rey is called to the tree, Luke figures out she has force sensitivity (why didn't he sense it before? wasn't listening for it?) and she explains she feels the Force after he confronts her. I liked this scene fine. “It's time for the Jedi to end, i came to this island to die.” All good.

Leia on the ship. 6. Cloaked binary beacon connecting Leia to Rey... mehhhhhh. Poe demoted - good, what an idiot. The Dreadnought thing was a disaster. Finn sucks here. Just not greatly acted. Probably not his fault - script problem. So overly focused on Rey. Now they need a new base for asking for help from outer rim.... wonder where we’ve heard this kind of thing before...

Snoke’s ship shows up. 5. Snoke's ship is like 1,000x the volume of regular enormous Star Destroyers? Mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. And Poe “permission to get into an X-wing and blow something up,” with Leia’s “permission granted”... meehhhhhh. and then Kylo Ren fucks up the entire hangar bay anyway. Just doesn’t feel right. And this is where the “poor man’s Battlestar Galactica” really starts to set in.

Kylo attacks the cruiser. 6. Another "one ship destroys the fuck out of an enormous ship"... but I liked the conflict in Kylo, can’t fire on his mother.

Keeping out of range of shields. 3. It was at this point I realized there were a lot of cutscenes in this movie. Like we had been been cutting and cutting and cutting for the first 30 minutes. I wrote: “I can barely keep up. and what the fuck? a smaller, lighter ship in space can keep out of range? what kind of bullshit physics is this? SPACE! FRICTIONLESS!”

Leia survives. 3. I wrote: “ OH dear god. that was atrocious.”

Chewy and Porgs, Luke. 6. "Nothing can make me change my mind." OH REALLY? I BET SOMETHING WILL! R2D2 Plays Leia’s old message to Obi Wan. Mind Changed! Luke: "Tomorrow at dawn. 3 lessons."

Battlestar Galactica Laura Linney. 5. Back to trying to escape the Cylons. Akbar dies offscreen, all Resistance leaders are dead. Bridge dead. Laura Linney comes in as the so-blatantly-queer leader of all. "The downtrodden and oppressed"... Hollywood laying it on a little thick, here. They are the spark that will light the fire, fine I guess. But even as a pretty left-leaning person, this scene broke my fourth wall.

Holdo slaps Poe silly. 8. Very good scene. Finally, someone puts Poe in his place. This was the kind of feminist “resist toxic masculinity” thing that regardless of whether you like the message or not, had some subtlety to it rather than being ham-handed.

Finn escapes, meets Rose. 4. Finn the idiot trying to find Rey for really no good reason. No depth of character - really obvious. He’s just the "GOTTA FIND REY!" guy this movie. Rose overacts. Finn running away again... Good, this makes sense! Finn and Rose are smart enough to talk jibberish at each other and solve the whole situation! Yeah, let's shut down the Destroyer! Yea let's sneak on board the Destroyer and disable the tracker! Also... how did Rose not already know they could be tracked through lightspeed? that obviously already happened literally hours ago, and there’s no way she didn’t know about the attack...

Poe and Finn stupid mission. 3. Poe: "It’s a need to know plan and she doesn't." Ughhhhhhh booooooooo. Worst fucking plan. This is truly painful... another ragtag small group mission against the odds and against the wishes of leadership. Sure, this movie (spoiler) subverts the trope eventually, but in such a clear and blatant way that it still feels like the trope.

Maz Kanata in union negotiations. 3. You can just imagine the writer’s room... “well, Kathleen Kennedy / JJ Abrams says we need to have Maz in Ep8 so she can return in Ep9. So how are we gonna get her in there? Hmm... well, let’s make it a hologram cameo so we don’t have to change script or design set. And maybe, hey, here’s an idea, a fun cameo! Something funny and unexpected! Like let’s have her be in the middle of a gunbattle! With who though? Nothing too serious... Oh! What about like Union negotiations? haha, that’s great! But let’s make sure it has some plot relevance... I got it, she can be the one who tips them off to the master codebreaker! Let’s make sure she says ‘find the master codebreaker’ twice so everyone is clear what’s happening.” fin

Rey-Kylo mind bridge. 8. Pretty interesting scene. Kylo is good again, here as in most scenes. "You can't be here... the effort would kill you." Foreshaadowwwwwwingggg. Rey fires her blaster at the wall and the Nuns are pissed. Why didn't Rey tell Luke? Caretakers of the island. nice.

Luke trains Rey. 9. It's a bit too fast how Rey just "gets it" ... like can't we warm up into that please? Kind of OK with the joking around with her when she reaches out, literally... OK and then the balance point is pretty cool, and Luke's lesson is pretty good. Although I don't love the seaweed anus (you know what I’m talking about), I do think that was a pretty cool scene. Luke is scared of Rey.

Back to Battlestar Galactica. 4. Getting frustrated, I wrote: “fuck i mean why are they so dead set on dumb ass missions?”

Chewy and Porgs. 7. Still too many scenes! I’m fine with porgs, I guess. I dunno. Not loving them, but also don't hate them like I hate the plot.

Rey and Kylo bridge 2. 9. Pretty great bridge scenes. Kylo more nuanced and mature than Rey. Kylo has water on him from the rain... should have been a foreshadowing to transportation in the galaxy or something awesome like that.

Canto Bight intro. 6. “Worst people in the galaxy.” Of course this would also be Hollywood ham-handed... The worst people are fancy richers. Stupid Western accent on big monster. It’s basically Monte Carlo. And it’s a New Cantina... but with bowties and cocktails this time! meh.

Canto Bight reveal. 4. It's bad people! Heavy-handed. BB8 full of coins, ha, ha.... ha. Codebreaker plot gamut is over, good (sort of).

Rey training. 7. Rey knocks over some rocks with her lightsaber. Funny. Decent. Although I wasn’t really impressed with her lightsaber wielding, to be honest. It seemed like they were trying to make it impressive.

Luke and Rey lesson 2. 7. “The Jedi legacy is failure, hypocrisy, hubris.” I NOW KNOW THIS IS TRUE! Kylo takes a couple students and kills the rest... fine. Leia blamed Snoke... boooooO!!! Snoke is so dumb.

More BSG - fleet dying. 4. Current fuel at 6 hours. How does this square with the Luke/Rey pacing? Are we on two different timescales, like the great movie Dunkirk? Hux is lame.

Back on Canto Bight Benicio. 3. Benicio del Toro is fine. The stutter tick is a bit overwrought. I wrote: “BB8 shoots coins like a fuckin’ bullshit idiot” so you know I was enjoying myself. I continue: “They escaped and left the fuckin' grate open?! now they're with the big dumb animals. show kids they're with the resistance. yay rebel logo. now they're riding the big dumb animals. on a track. now they're bulldozing a casino. now they're destroying cars. now the ship is destroyed. now they run up cliffs. and of course there's a cliff they almost fall down. ‘It was worth it to tear up that town and make'em hurt’ BOOOOOOO. Free the animal! ‘Now it's worth it...’ booooooo.”

Benicio saves the day. 4. ddddddddd need a lift? what kind of stutter is this, anyway?

Kylo-Rey and Luke-Leia bridge. 9. “Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. it's the only way to become who we're meant to be.” In addition to being a fantastic @EmoKyloRen tweet, this line and scene was pretty great.

Rey goes to the dark hole (seaweed anus). 9. She opens up to Kylo. so cool. Really like this complexity. They fall in love halfway between light and dark, kinda? Luke blows up the cabin and Rey confronts him.

Rey and Luke fight! 8. “ This is not going to go the way you think!” “I saw Kylo's future as solid as I'm seeing you. Ben Solo will turn.” Seen this before! It's cool but it's also a bit of a rehash. Luke won't take the saber. she leaves.

Luke and Yoda. 9. Yoda, laughing, burns the tree. “Skywalker. teach the failure. always looking to the horizon, not here, the need in front of your nose.” “Failure the greatest teacher is.” “We are what they grow beyond, that is the true burden of all masters.” I guess Yoda is just an amazing character because the lines writers write for him are almost universally great.

Finn, Rose, and Benicio. 7. Selling weapons to the bad and good... military industrial complex. "It's all a machine. Live free, don't join." OK... I like the different take, at least.

BSG Again. 7. Poe confronts Holdo. Meh.

Rey goes to Snoke’s ship, Poe mutinies, Finn and Rey slip through shields. 6. Who cares.

Robots ironing joke. 8. I liked this!

More sneaking around. 6. Is the hacker a good guy!? they get caught trying to shut down the tracker. I wrote: “Now stupid chrome Captain Phasma is dumb.”

Rey and Kylo in throne room. 9. “My good and faithful apprentice, my faith in you is restored.” Snoke still sucks but this scene is good.

Poe and Leia. 6. Poe stunned by Leia. He's a dumbass.

Leia and holdo bye. 7. Didn't feel that much emotion here either. Rebels "escape" sneaking out the back.

Throne room again. 7. Snoke is super all powerful mehhh. "I bridged your minds, I baited you all." Emperor 2. Just like Luke, Emperor, and Vader. Tired.

Crait rebel base. 6. Send a signal to allies in Outer Rim. Holdo knew to get transports out. Hide until First Order passes. Poe: "that could work" mehhhhh.

Benicio Betrayal. 3. How did he know that the transports were happening? nobody else did. Ridiculous. Why are the bombs arcing!?!!?! TOO MUCH GRAVITY. THIS IS SPACE.

Throne room again. 7. Snoke super all amazingly powerful evil amazing omg. so dumb. Andy Serkis overacting is not good. Kylo "turns" against Snoke. Snoke really ruins this scene.

Transports getting domo’d. 5. Still meh!

Post-Snoke throne room battle. 10. It's fine. So much action. Not sure why Red Guards are scary really. Rey and Kylo kill all the red guards. TWIST! Kylo didn't actually turn! Old v New, not Light v Dark! Great stuff here. "Your parents sold you off for drinking money. They’re dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You don't have a place in this story. You're nothing. But not to me. Join me. Please." I mean this is really interesting!!! This like light-dark love mixing here! The Rey-Kylo interactions in both movies have been great.

Holdo’s sacrifice. 9. I mean OK holy shit, but why had nobody ever done it before? Beautifully shot, total quiet was very impactful as well. Good job on this, although potentially problematic for the greater Star Wars universe.

Finn vs. Phasma. 6. BB8 in an ATST? meh. Finn: "Let's go, chromedome." Phasma: "you're a bug in the system." Matrix callback! Bleh. another villain falls down a large chasm. Good riddance, Phasma.

The New Supreme Leader. 6. The supreme leader is dead, long live the supreme leader, mehhhhhhhh.

The New Hoth. 5. Rey and Rose sneak under the door, of course :( Miniaturized Death Star Tech. Battering ram cannon. Siiiiiiiiiigh. Ice foxes are cool I guess. We have now had a Death Star or a Death Star-like superweapon in all films except Episode 1.

Battle of Salt Hoth. 6. Trench warfare. It’s salt, so it's OK that it looks just like Hoth! Everyone drive in straight lines right at the enemy, Yeah that's the ticket. Monoski, yea that's the ticket. It's pretty, at least. Remember at the beginning of the movie when they said it was “A dreadnought,” not the last one? Why not just bring a dreadnought to this situation and destroy the whole planet? Falcon + Chewie + Porg + Rey having fun again. The falcon goes into a mine that looks exactly like the Death Star 2 scaffolding and tie fighters follow...... sigh.

Finn tries to sacrifice. 3. Rose saves him from himself.... booooooo. And in the process basically kills herself... to save each other from .... the evil? By love? We're gonna win by not fighting what we hate but saving what we love! As the Death Star tech punches thru the door and she passes out. dumb dumb dumb. Could have given Finn a non-unidimensional redemption!

Luke and Leia. 6. “The galaxy has lost all its hope. The spark is out." I BET IT’S NOT! mehhhh. How many times do we have to do this in this movie? "nothing can change my mind." "it's over." the spark is out." Just kidding! Something Can/It's Not/No it isn’t! Here's Luke! zomg!

Luke faces down the First Order. 9. Very pretty. intense. Hux "do you think you got him?" is funny. Kylo's anger is good. Very pretty shots. Luke brushing dirt off his shoulder is good. Hux getting crushed to the wall is a good and funny joke.

Luke vs. Kylo. 9. Luke no footprints on second viewing, hey, nice job guys! “Every word of what you just said, is wrong.” Good Luke line. Second time in the movie he’s said it to good effect. I like that.

Escape! 7. Why wouldn't Luke have just told them, "Hey, I'm stalling, you escape?" Why make Poe figure it out? Rey lifts the rocks. Hooray Force.

Luke was projecting!! He dies. 9. That was an emotional end. Well done. Sun setting. Good callback.

Resistance escapes. 7. Luke is gone, Rey and Leia talk, Finn and Rose, how do rebuild Rebellion from this, we have everything we need right here. Meh. Aaaaaand we're back where we started 9 movies ago.

Little kid has Force. 6. ...and Rose’s rebellion ring. Hooooookey. "The masses will rise up.” Once again... It's been 70 years and we're back where we started.

VERDICT:

Given the score distribution, I was surprised to see that the stdev was not the highest of all the films - but I suppose Ep1 had both Jar-Jar and Darth Maul. With the sheer scene count, our histogram starts to approximate a normal distribution around 6. Which is sad. The outlier 9′s come to us because of the good Force-centric scenes with Kylo, Luke, and Rey (but not Snoke). The outlier 3′s come to us because of Dreadnoughts, Canto Bight, Poe, and Finn (bad storylines).

Which brings us back to what I said before about this movie being great in its Force thread and bad everywhere else. When you calculate the scores for all scenes with any of Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren, but nobody else, the average score is an 8.42. All other scenes average a 5.52. This movie had a very good story vein, set into a very bad plot structure.

Perhaps the most damning verdict of all, however, is that I just don’t really care what happens next. I read one review which made the point that by this movie, the struggle between the Empire and the Rebellion has been going on openly for 70 years, and so little has changed. I noticed that, too. Death Stars have been built and destroyed and built again, destroying planets, narrowly missing the chance to destroy planets, and so on. Rebel forces have been against the wall and overwhelmed all odds to defeat an evil menace, only to find themselves under the menace’s thumb once again with historically instantaneous speed. Why is Leia still fighting? Maybe beyond the botox, this weariness is what kept me from connecting with her character or struggle at all. And no wonder nobody answered the call for help at the end of the film.

Yes, Ep9 will have some inspiring uprising by a bunch of nobody’s, just like the climax of V for Vendetta, but how predictable, how uninspiring. Episode 9 - take it or leave it. And that’s the saddest realization of them all.

REVIEW LINKS:

Introduction: Star Wars, a rediscovery.

Rogue One: 6.92 / 10.00 (stdev 2.06).

Episode 4: A New Hope. 8.00 / 10.00 (stdev 1.34).

Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back. 8.00 / 10.00 (stdev 1.29).

Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. 5.00 / 10.00 (stdev 2.08). But probably worse than that, actually.

Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. 5.48 / 10.00 (stdev 2.07).

Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. 7.00 / 10.00 (stdev 1.77).

Episode 6: Return of the Jedi. 7.90 / 10.00 (stdev 1.91).

Episode 7: The Force Awakens. 6.57 / 10.00 (stdev 2.01).

Episode 8: The Last Jedi. 6.31 / 10.00 (stdev 1.89).

Verdict: Star Wars, A rediscovery.

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The Eleventh Hour Arc - TK Reacts

So aside from the ones I couldn’t help but post as their own thing (some of which may repeat in here) this is my reactions to the different parts in this arc of TAZ.

Also, side note: I will from now on be hugging every Magnus cosplayer I see. Every.Single.One. As tight as I can.

Ep 42- I love that the two brothers just do not accept certain people dying. Them saying horseshit in pure denial is so fucking great. (IE. Taako with Hurley & Magnus with Roswell.) -Holy. Fucking. SHIT! (In response to the dying and looping first time) -I want to be in one of Griffins campaigns.

Ep 43- I mean, I could have told you the diamonds would be gone. Taako, give up your umbra staff once.

Ep 44- -Before I get too far into this episode can I just say I like the new leaf for Magnus. -This never works Magnus. And you are only on your second loop. Too early to lose your mind about this. Roswall won’t remember it next loop. (Holy shit. It worked) -Well that was a short loop. lawl. -Magnus Rushes In is starting to get a little heartbreaking in this Arc. -This is clever of Griffin. And smart of the boys to catch on. -10 letters, D start, ends with N (2 words). Damn son. -Magnus is being kinda adorable in this arc. He is trying so hard. -”This smoke seems unnatural” “yeah” “touch it.” -Oh god no! The Vashta Nerada! FUCK!! -Oh! The bugs are eating them. -I was thinking time card too. (Added later: How did Issac get there without this stuff killing him if his time card is with the others?) -”I know we usually act but how about this time we dont.” -I KNEW THOSE WORMS WERE IMPORTANT!

Ep 45- -I love the wands as guns in this old west village! -McDuff! -GDFH Fucking Zone of truth. -OH! SHIT! It’s Mama trying to get to her babies. -No nibbling. As far as I can tell this is the first time I’ve gotten to eat in 2 years. (Not true. Sandwich.) -I really love Magnus and Taako so much. (Though as Mags chases a scrap of fabric) -I love the references in this series. -The skeletons in this series are getting kinda freaky -Suck my butt Justin/Taako! -“Good news is I’ll be dead soon.” -Magnus is trying so hard to reach the old lady somehow and it’s killing me.

Ep 46- -I’ve got a theory - I know that’s not my norm. -To Griffin: “You don’t know!” “...” “I guess you do.” -I mean, yeah, fate brough you the guys ‘today’. Today just took like 27 tries. -”Yeah, fuck it. What’s the plan?” -Also in love with the music. -STOP KILLING ELVEN (OR HALF) WOMEN!!!! -Poor Taako :( -This break in attempt is great. -”Taako gets the gold!: -Oh...you have to fight Roswell...ouch. -”Taako, what the fuck?!” -”Anything we can do to help?” “Stay alive.” -Poor Magnus (And Travis) -I love that Clint keeps asking about the time. -HELL NO CLINT!!!DO NOT DISPELL ROSWELL!! -Oh thank god! -HELL YES TAAKO!!! -NO!!!! Fuck! -The old woman is June -Junebug --Heartbreak!!! “What would you like me to do?” Not fucking this! Not rip my heart out! *bursts into tears*

Ep 47- -Oh! OH! June is on the other side of the door! -If you don’t use your character voice, the apocalypse happens. -Taako is not okay out here. -This is not going to make Kravitz happy. -Weekly godly poker night. -Fate knits. I love it. -I don’t think griffin knows what knitting is. -”Is there anything else you could edit in our past. -Oh.Oh no. Magnus please stop. You are literally killing me with this arc. I can’t. I will drown in my tears with all this coming from you. -”Gotta respect the fiction.” -”The short version is we need the cup.” -You sure you don’t desire that cup Mags? Really sure? -That was cold Magnus! Stone fucking cold! -Taako saying ‘Partner’...please never again (Then said another 3 times) -Fuck yes Wand-guns again!!! -Issac is a fucking quick-draw! Damn! -“Fuck if I know.” -She’s the cup?! WHAT! -Woah, woah. WOAH. WHaT?! -(After a very impassioned speech by the Chalice) Merle: So you’re the cup? -”I know kung-fu.” (Wait, we never went back and revisited that, Taako.)

Ep 48- -You’re right. They will fuck this up. But it isn’t their fault. -Oh fuck no! Doing this one on one is not fair! -Good choice for Merle. But how does that help anyone else but him? -Taako’s turn. Shit. Saving the saddest one for last. -Oh fuck you! Making Taako remember Hurley/Sloane’s end! -Oh...Poor Taako. -(And it only gets worse as he explains it more.) -30 clove garlic chicken...wow. -Taako didn’t kill everyone...Poor Taako (I seem to say that alot) -Oh god. I can’t. I can’t do Magnus. It’s going to be too hard. Taako’s is bad enough. Magnus will kill me. -Yep. Nope. Travis just said he was going to get emotional. Now I know I will too. -I see exactly where this is going. Fuck! -Yep. Dying slowly. -”Magnus, you earned this happy ending. You worked so hard for it. It should’ve been yours.” Just kill me now! Give Magnus his happy ending! -Nope. -Nooope. Nope. no, nope, nope, nope,nope. -I cannot listen to this in public. I will cry. -Someone please tell me I am not the only one SCREAMING at Magnus to just take the Chalice and go be happy. -Griffin, you sure know how to cut in and kill a mood. -You are a strong boy Magnus. I wanted you to take it. -STOP KILLING HALFING WOMEN TOO!!!! -I love Taako (”Not going to take it for something only one third my fault)

Ep 49- -You go Roswell! Be sheriff! -Issac, stfu. You stuked. They can do better. -June to Issac. Fuck yeah! -Stop Mags. You are killing me. -Travis is about to die because of Justin (*Muffled screams of turn right!* My daughter is asleep!) -”What do you want, this is not a great time.” -Followed shortly by “This is a shitty shit, shit plan.” -I love too many NPCs in this story. -Travis’ sound effects are great. -“This is a shit idea, are you sure?” -”Super cool.” -Brace your asses -GDI GRIFFIN!!!! Stop killing the NPCS I love! -Magnus is doing his best to save EVERYONE this arc. -FUCK RED LIGHT! -Chorus of Nos and Hell nos to do you trust me (Including from me) -Oh....Oh SHIT! LUP! AHHHH (Things I know from spoilers has just told me who this is!) -Magnus asking if he made the right choice (*dies**just fucking dies*) -Magnus wanting to see June. This boy is killing me! -”Ren” “Yeah” “I’ve been watching the whole time” Now Taako is trying to kill me too! -You hear a voice on the wind go “Yuck” -No more elevators for Taako 2k17! -It’s Kravitz? It’s Kravitz. It’s Kravitz! YES! -(Calling it just before I get to that part because I have been wondering since the start if just maybe) The Red Robe is Magnus! (CALLED IT BITCHES!)

#Tk listens to TAZ #Tk liveblogs #(Kinda)#Eleventh hour arc #TAZ #Reaction post #Q do not read until after you finish this arc #it has some huge ass spoilers up in here!

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S.IV - Ep. 9: Inner Corruption

Written by Metal Man X

{Ep. 9 cover}

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EXT. ABEL CITY – Alleyway - DAY

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Victor shows up to an Alleyway with a thick, heavy armored duffel case in his hand and a worried face.

As he walks down the narrow alleyway between buildings, he spots a large bear amidst the shadows, waiting for him. The tips of his sharp claws shine from his large metal arm, which is folded over the other.

Victor gulps.

VICTOR: (timid, afraid) Are you the buyer…? G-g..Grizzly Slash??

He grins in the shade.

GRIZZLY SLASH: That’s me. In the flesh!

His large grin scares Victor even more amidst the darkness.

VICTOR: I uh... have your order.

He slowly presents the duffel case to Grizzly Slash, who doesn’t move an inch.

GRIZZLY SLASH: Show me.

VICTOR: Um..

He places the case down and slowly opens it. Inside, the Vaporizor Gun he's been working on is revealed amongst a series of other high powered weapons.

GRIZZLY SLASH: Nice. Why did he send you…? Why couldn’t he come?

VICTOR: He's been busy with.. Other matters.

GRIZZLY SLASH: Hmph. The inventor invents, huh?

VICTOR: (shrugging, nervous) I guess. Heheh..

The giant bear finally pushes himself off the wall and fumbles through his compartment belt for Credits. He eventually pulls out a stacked wad of Credit Chips and places it firmly in his hand.

GRIZZLY SLASH: There’s your scratch. Tell Flea-bag I said, “Keep up the good work.”

VICTOR: (flabbergasted) Y-yes sir!

He stares at the wad of credits in awe. This is enough money to fund a whole new Department.

Grizzly Slash closes the Duffel Case and lifts it with ease, while pulling out a cell-com with his other hand. He walks away as he makes a call.

GRIZZLY SLASH: Hey Dino-Rex. I've got your stuff and this batch is good!

BURN DINO-REX: (o.s, filtered, faint) Excellent. Better meet me at Sunhouse Mountain this time. I can’t afford to take any more risks.

GRIZZLY SLASH: You got it, boss. But it’s gonna cost extra…

BURN DINO-REX: (o.s, filtered) Yeah, yeah. Just do it!

He abruptly hangs up.

Victor stares at him with wide eyes, surprised and nervous that he was just on speakerphone with Repliforce.

Grizzly Slash turns around and almost twitches upon seeing Victor again.

GRIZZLY SLASH: You’re still here…?

VICTOR: Er.. Yeah… Sorry. Couldn’t help but overhear… Was that.. Burn Dino-Rex on the phone??

GRIZZLY SLASH: Heh.. You should mind your own business, kid. Before you get hurt.

He gulps again.

VICTOR: Sorry. Forget I asked.

He turns around and starts to walk away.

GRIZZLY SLASH: AAHAHAHHAH. I like that, Kid. You know your place. Come back here. I'll tell ya.

Victor freezes in place genuinely not knowing what to do.

GRIZZLY SLASH: C'mon, c'mon. I won't hurt ya.

Victor slowly turns around and winces.

VICTOR: Uhhh…

GRIZZLY SLASH: Relax, kid. I'm a Weapons Broker. You get yours, and I get mine for twice the price.

VICTOR: (somewhat relieved) Oh. So you’re reselling those!?

GRIZZLY SLASH: Sure am. And for the moment, Dino-Boy is the highest bidder.

VICTOR:

But.. What about.. The War??

GRIZZLY SLASH:

Fuck the War, kid. I don’t care about Mavericks, Hunters, Repliforce or any of it. I just care about me. And you know what? Nerds like you and Infini-Flea know that’s just the way it should be, too.

Victor looks at him, stunned. Then he slowly nods in agreement.

Grizzly Slash bends down to one knee and looks Victor right in the face. Victor can’t help but stare at his scarred eye.

GRIZZLY SLASH:

You’re one of the smart ones, Kid. Never forget that.

He swiftly pulls something out that makes a swift sound in the wind. Its enough to make Victor wince.

GRIZZLY SLASH:

Here’s my card. Call me next time you want to do business, directly. Why should Infini-Fool get all of the money if you’re doing the work. Right??

His evil grin is contagious as Victor finally smiles.

VICTOR:

(nervous, confused)

Uh-ha. Haha!

GRIZZLY SLASH:

Hahaha. HAHAHAH!!!

The two laugh as the camera pans out from the Alley Way swiftly into a dizzying effect.

- Fade to White -

[Insert Title Card – Inner Corruption]

------------------------------------------------ INT. CYBER SPACE – Server Entry – DAY ------------------------------------------------

The white screen fades inside the Data Network as X takes in his new surroundings.

X: Oh my God. What has he done to this place?

X stares in awe at the architecture Cyber Peacock has created within the Network. The mechanical plating and the walls around him resemble nothing like what he's seen before.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) It seems that you are residing in his Domain at the moment. He has actually been here long enough to create his own Home World, if you will.

X: Wait. Gear-Rig? How are you communicating with me??

GEAR-RIG: (O.s, filtered) I'm overriding his signal blockers for the moment. It’s a lot of counter-hacking. Best not get into it.

X: (smirking) Heh.. Alright.

X lightly runs ahead on the hexagonal tiles up a small set of steps.

Suddenly two yellow spheres head towards him and X notices a computerized target locked around his body.

X: What the-? Whats going on??

-pan to-

------------------------------------------------------------------ INT. MAVERICK HUNTER BASE – R & D Lab – DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------

On the other side of the screen, Gear-Rig can read the words “HURRY UP” underneath X's locked on target.

GEAR-RIG: (gasping) Wait a minute! That’s him. I think he's testing you…

X: (filtered) Huh?

GEAR-RIG: It says “Hurry Up!” Better get a move on before it’s too late.

X: (filtered, determined) Right!

-pan to-

------------------------------------------------------------------ INT. CYBER SPACE – Server Entry - DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------

Inside the screen, X air dashes in between the two spheres. Then he does so again in between another set. He races to a short wall and climbs it with kick-jumps.

Spotting two more spheres close by, he jumps over both of them and air-dashes ahead.

When he drops to the ground, two floating triangles spin rapidly. He shoots them away with level 1 shots before they can attack. Then, he rushes ahead to the next short wall, as a yellow sphere rapidly approaches him.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Watch out!

X: Yep.

X immediately ducks as it passes him by. He quickly rushes past a longer set of walls with kick-jumps and carefully timed dashes as he avoids a couple of more spheres and spots a portal at the end of the corridor.

X: (curious) Huh! I don’t even want to know what’s waiting for me next.

As he runs over to the portal, the target surrounding his body seems to relinquish itself and pull itself into the portal ahead of him.

The purple material ripples for a moment and analyzes the data it retrieved. Then, it reads 'RANK' in red with a large vibrant 'S' in gold underneath it.

X: Hm?

GEAR-RIG: (O.s, filtered surprised, amazed) Rank S! You are being tested. Congratulations, X. It looks like you passed.

X: Hm.

X’s concerned look turns into a slight smile as he swiftly walks inside the portal.

-pan to-

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On the other side of the portal, X spots a purple heart fragment waiting for him in the middle of the hexagonal tiling.

X: What the-!?

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Whoa! Look at that. He's rewarding you!!

X: …This must be a trap.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) No. It’s the real thing. I analyzed it. Go ahead and grab it.

X: (surprised, cautious) Hmmm.. I dunno about this. After all this trouble, why would he help me…?

GEAR-RIG: Perhaps he is analyzing more than just, skill. It is possible that he is studying your growth-potential.

X walks up to the item with a light grimace and picks it up from the floor.

X: Well whatever this is, I don’t like it.

He feels the warm power of the purple aura flow in his hand for a moment before he places it in his compartment belt.

X: (v.o, thinking) I'm playing into the enemy's hand. Again…!

Then, he moves on to the next portal.

- Cut to –

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EXT. OCEAN PORT – Gang Fight - DAY

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Zero, Tau, Venzo, Takuma, Stone Rook, Rayven, Burn Bishop and Ren fearlessly run into Spiral Pegasus’ forces. Both forces clash heavily, causing a light spark amongst the Reploids.

Zero and Venzo are both knocked down by Spiral Pegasus' heavy winds.

A Raiden Armor Soldier catches Tau's blade with his Mech's hands.

Takuma successfully knocks a soldier out of his Raiden armor, while Stone Rook lays waste to a Hornet Rider.

Rayven is knocked down by a third Raiden soldier, while Burn Bishop burns a fourth one alive.

Ren is struck by King Poseidon's spikes, which brings him to the ground. Then, another Hornet Rider and a few Poseidon Clones surround him.

From the ground, Rayven watches her leader’s plight and immediately opens her blaster.

RAYVEN: Back off!!

While getting up, she blasts the small flock of Posiedons into nothingness. Then, she is backhanded by the Raiden Armor soldier before her.

RAIDEN 3: Foolish girl. Focus on what’s in front of you.

- Cut To -

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INT. CYBER SPACE - 2nd Test – DAY

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X steps out of the second portal and bears witness to another unknown room with obstacles.

X: Its official. I don’t understand Cyber Space.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Hm?

He proceeds to receive a lock-on analyzer, which blips for him to 'Hurry Up' once again.

He focusses on dashing through an obstacle course ahead filled with yellow spheres and three platforms to navigate around.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) What do you mean, X?

A small portal opens up and materializes a Spike Marl mechaniloid, which interrupts his progress, but he quickly shoots it down.

X: This place is completely different from what I remember.

He dashes ahead.

X: When the Shadow Hunters hacked us 2 years ago, they used our Data to mirror the real world. It was all a giant mind game. But this is different. Peacock undid all that. But why? What is he after???

He dashes around and skillfully avoids more spheres as he makes it past the second obstacle course.

GEAR-RIG:

(o.s, filtered)

I'm not sure, but it looks like you passed another test.

As X makes it to a third Portal, his target analyzer retracts and submits his data inside the receiver. Once again, he is declared a Rank S for his quick work.

Hmph.

-pan to-

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X swiftly runs through the hexagonal tiled corridor as he spots a Sub-tank waiting for him. He narrows his eyes and grabs it as he moves on.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) And to the victor, the spoils.

X runs through a fourth portal.

- Cut to –

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EXT. OCEAN PORT – Gang Fight – DAY

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Zero and Venzo get up from the ground and glare at Spiral Pegasus.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: It was foolish to come here on your own and think that you’d make it out alive.

With narrowed eyes, Zero lifts up his saber and doesn’t say a word.

He high-jumps and air dashes after Spiral Pegasus only to be overtaken by his swift flying. Spiral Pegasus rams into Zero, knocking him far against the rigging by the gate.

ZERO: Augh!!

SPIRAL PEGASUS: Hahahaha.

ZERO: (v.o, thinking) Damn. He’s too fast!

Venzo throws a V-hanger boomerang at him, but it is easily blown away.

The boomerang passes by Tau, who raises his hammer and crushes the soldier that was once manning the Raiden Armor.

TAKUMA: (violent) Kaaagh!!!

He quickly steals the Raiden Ride Armor, while Tau continues his struggle with a Raiden Soldier before him. Takuma assists him, by shooting the soldier down with the Ride Armor’s powerful buster.

RAIDEN 1: (dying) Aaauugh.

Tau turns to Takuma, surprised and smiles. He follows up by stealing the Raiden Armor as well.

The third Raiden Soldier kicks Rayven while she is down and //blasts her with a couple of buster shots.

RAYVEN: (hurt) /Oooh, /uuggh.

STONE ROOK: HaaaaaaaaH!!!

Stone Rook bashes the Raiden Soldier from behind and grabs the soldier manning the Ride Armor. Lifting him out of the cockpit, Stone Rook goes airborne with the soldier to deal with him personally.

STONE ROOK: You think you can hurt my friend like that and get away with it?? Taaake Thiiis!!!

In mid-air, Stone Rook pummels him with his rocky fists until the Soldier explodes from the neck up, in his hands.

Rayven looks up at him, surprised as he lands by her feet.

STONE ROOK: You okay?

RAYVEN: I will be.

She offers him a soft smile as he helps her up.

To their right, Ren is engaged in a battle with King Poseidon as Burn Bishop smiles, looming right behind the enemy.

KING POSEIDON: Come now, Maverick Hunter. Your time has come to an end.

BURN BISHOP: Actually.. I think it’s your turn.

KING POSEIDON: Hm??

Burn Bishop flame chops him at the neck with both hands.

KING POSEIDON: Ghaaagh.

Gripping him tightly at the shoulders, Burn Bishop burns King Poseidon alive.

KING POSEIDON: AAAAGHHHH!!!!!

Ren looks around and grins.

REN: Heh. Looks like we might make it out of this one alive after all.

- cut to -

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INT. CYBER SPACE – Third Obstacle Course – DAY

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X steps into the next room as another large camera eye ominously watches him from the far wall.

A target analyzer is attached to him yet again, and X dash-jumps over a yellow sphere below him once the analyzer blips for him to 'Hurry Up'.

X: (v.o, thinking) Let’s go, X. Show him what you’re made of.

Ahead of him, another yellow sphere blocks his path, so he rapidly fires level 1 shots at it, making it shift away beyond the short wall in front of him.

With the path clear, X dash-jumps up the wall. As Spike Marls teleport in from their portal, X swiftly dashes under them and moves ahead, wasting no time.

He drops down into a lower corridor, which leads to another open room. Quickly dashing under another teleport portal, X runs to the far wall, looks up to the ceiling and kick-dash jumps from platform to platform.

X: (grunting, focused) Hmph, hm. Huh. Huh!

He stylishly makes his way to the top of the room, avoiding sets of yellow spheres that would have slowed him down otherwise.

At the top of the room he runs and shoots another sphere in his way. A TriScan triangle spins after him, but he instinctively shoots it as it gets to his face.

As he runs further ahead, 2 more spheres lay vertically on top one another, blocking X's path.

He looks at the ceiling and studies the obstacle before him. Then, he carefully dash jumps at the wall above the spheres. He successfully kick-jumps and hurdles over the wall, making it to the other side of the spheres, rapidly unscathed.

He reaches another sphere, which he chooses to fire at rapidly as he runs on towards a ladder. Naturally, a sphere waits for him at the bottom of the ladder. Rather than climb it, he dash-jumps over the sphere and rapidly kick-jumps up the nearby wall to save time.

Once reaching the top of the room, he spots the portal and makes a mad dash for it. He is so swift that his target analyzer has trouble keeping up with him.

At the foot of the portal, his score is analyzed by the once again: Rank S.

GEAR-RIG: (O.s, filtered) Wow, X! That was incredible!!

X smirks as he runs inside.

- Pan to –

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The moment X walks in, his does a double take.

X: What the-!? No waay.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered, gasping) Is that a…

X: Capsule?? Yeah… There were a few here before written in by the Shadow Hunters, so I guess that doesn’t surprise me.

X walks up to the Capsule somewhat wary of what could be inside, but then he is happy to see Dr. Light’s warm face appear within the teal hologram.

DR. LIGHT: Ahhh. There you are, X.

X: Doctor Light? …What is happening???

DR. LIGHT: That crazy bug… He is trying to corrupt the entire Network. But I won’t let him take me down. I’ve sealed myself and other items away in secret rooms, so that I may still be of use to you.

X: Well, I think he found them and decided to go along with it anyway, using your items as a prize to test my abilities.

Dr. Light looks at X, flabbergasted.

DR. LIGHT: What!? How dare, he??

X: Why is he doing this??

DR. LIGHT: That is a good question… I'm giving you a new head module, X. This module will improve your special weapons abilities. It should reduce your special weapon energy requirements to near zero. You may now use your special weapons as often as you want. Go and give him what-for.

X: (smiling) Heh. Thanks, Doc.

Doctor Light smiles and fades away.

X jumps in the capsule and receives his new upgrade.

Vibrant beams of light reformat the lids of his helmet to white pointed edges. His ears now bear two golden winged tips, which make him look more heroic.

X: Alright, Peacock. Prepare yourself.

X clenches a fist with a confident smile as he dashes toward the next portal.

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Spiral Pegasus, proceeds to rush against Zero, knocking him down /back and /forth with swift dashes against his frame.

ZERO: (v.o, thinking) /Agh. /Damn it! He’s too fast. I can’t even see him!!!

Venzo notices an open Ride Armor nearby and grabs it. From further away, Ren grins as he catches on to Venzo’s idea.

Tau and Takuma fly upwards in their acquired Raiden Armor. Venzo and Ren do the same.

As they ascend to Spiral Pegasus’ position, they charge their Raiden Armor’s busters and point at their foe. Then they all collectively fire at him.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: Hm??

He is attacked at all sides with no way of evading the blast.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: G/aaaaghh!!

He falls to the ground, slightly damaged and scuffed from the attack.

ZERO: Hahahahaha. You were so focused on our battle that you didn’t even notice what was going on around you. We’re gonna take you down Pegasus. And then we’re gonna get out of here.

Spiral Pegasus narrows his eyes.

- cut to -

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Beyond the portal X is brought to a new room where counter machines are consistently analyzing his data.

As he walks up a couple of steps, he is surprised that no target analyzers have locked onto him yet.

X: Hmph. He must've found out everything he wanted…

He comes upon a curious floor switch, which lies just before a large solid purple Protection sphere.

The moment he touches it, the layout of the room changes.

Suddenly, he is on the ceiling and the Protection Sphere has fallen to a wall corner, where he can now explore the rest of the area.

Two TriScans and a hover gunner attack him. X swiftly dodges their attacks and fires back with level 1 shots.

He spots another floor switch and decides to press it.

Reverting the room to it’s proper position, a sphere fall’s to the ground out of X's way, as he finds he is standing on raised platform’s near the ceiling.

X: Whoa. This stuff is freaky.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) He keeps inverting the room with those switches, but it seems like they’re the only way to progress through his test.

X: Hmph. I’m tired of this.

He jumps from one platform to the next.

He makes it down to the ground as he fires upon two more triangles.

A small ramp leads up to another switch as a purple sphere awaits him. He is interrupted by a teleporting Spike Marl, which he shoots down.

Upon nearing the Protection Sphere, it rolls down towards him and creates electrical currents as it does so.

X: Whoa!

X jumps and hovers over the ball with his thrusters. Then, he hits the switch.

The ball rolls back to him on the inverted ramp, but X jumps ahead to a raised platform as he studies the next obstacle.

A series of Protection Spheres seem to be loading and reloading amidst two machines above and below him.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Careful, X. Those Protection Spheres can be lethal.

X ducks and aims at the top one with Twin Slasher, but it doesn’t seem to work.

X: Hmm… I'm just gonna have to go through it. I gotta be careful.

He cautiously walks up to the edge of the landing. He watches the balls constantly appear and disappear between both machines. Then, he times his drop.

He falls with a ball, grips the wall and quickly air-dashes between that and the next one as he makes it to the other side.

X: Phew…

Two Spike Marls appear before him as he makes his way down a ramp. He blasts them both with charge shots.

As he passes a switch, the ramp reverts to an upward slope. He shoots down two TriScans, then climbs up a short wall to hit another switch.

Inverting the room causes the ceiling to drop a Protection Sphere on top of a purple set of tiles, which disintegrate the moment they touch.

X: Hm?

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Ooh! Those Protection Spheres can be useful after all. They seem to unlock those barriers.

X smiles as he drops down into the opening and watches the sphere disappear into a machine.

He passes it by and studies his next test.

A switch lies before a sphere on and upward sloping ramp.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Oh wow. I see what you need to do. You have to get the Protection Sphere over to the barrier at the end of the corridor, but the ramps don’t make sense. There’s probably a lot of inversion switches you need to step on.

X: (nodding) Okay, here goes.

He hits the first switch, inverting the ramp to downward slope, which makes the sphere dip down as X follows it.

He dashes to another switch, which reverts the next portion of the ramp into a downward slope as well.

The purple sphere continues to barrel down the ramp ahead of him at a dangerously fast speed.

X spots a purple tiled lock at the end and hits a final switch at the right time.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Aaaand, Got it!

The Protection Sphere appears above the barrier and freefalls intoit, which unlocks his path.

DAVID & LUCAS: (o.s, far echo) Yes!!

Their voices are faint, but he can hear the other Techs cheering from the real world.

X: (smiling) Damn… Physics..

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) I know! Isn’t it great??

X: No..!

He drops past the disappearing sphere, and is thrilled to see a portal at the end of the room.

X: (continuing) ..but that is.

- Cut To –

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EXT. OCEAN PORTS – Gang Fight - DAY

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SPIRAL PEGASUS: You fools… I’m going to destroy you all!

He sets off a heavy twister from his buster, which only rises.

Zero quickly air-dashes away from it and continuously ground dashes away from the whirlwind.

ZERO: Whoa!! Get out of his way, guys!

He makes his way over to a Hornet Ride Chaser and hops on.

All four Hunters in the Raiden Armor, back-dash as they charge up and fire at him once again.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: Haagh. That’s the LAST TIME You will disgrace me!!!

BURN BISHOP: Nooo!!!

Burn Bishop flies in the middle and air-tackles the enraged Pegasus, charging up his flaming hands.

BURN BISHOP: Get OUT OF HERE, Guys!!! This is your only chance!!

The 4 Hunters in Raiden Armor look at Burn Bishop stunned and taken aback.

TAU: No way. We can all do this together if we-

BURN BISHOP: (passionate, protective) Your Ride Armors get shot with one of those things and you’re all fried, and you know it! The Mission will have been for nothing. Is that what you want!!?

Zero looks up at Burn Bishop with a grimace.

ZERO: Shit. He’s right…

Stone Rook sets the injured Rayven down on a Ride Chaser.

STONE ROOK: Head back. I’ll take care of him.

RAYVEN: (hurt) What??

Stone Rook focuses on what’s ahead of him while answering her.

STONE ROOK: MOVE!!! Bishop and I can fly home any time. But you guys gotta get home!!!!

The 4 Hunters in Ride Armor instantly respond, by turning around and fleeing the area.

TAU: Damn it.

REN: He’s right.

TAKUMA: Don’t have to tell me twice.

VENZO: Shhiiiiiiit.

Zero reluctantly revs up the Hornet Ride Chaser and Rayven follows suit.

ZERO: (v.o, thinking) We’ve gotta get out of here. But this wasn’t what I wanted at all…

He rides away from the battle, as he tries his coms once again.

-Khhh-

ZERO: (reacting) SHIT! Still, nothing!

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INT. CYBER SPACE – Core Lair – DAY

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X runs through a small room into a gateway.

X: (v.o, thinking) Finally, I made it.

X clenches his fist as he runs and dashes through the next gateway and enters into Cyber Peacock’s lair.

The magnificent Peacock appears in Cyber-grid form before solidifying himself, before X. Standing in mid-air, slightly airborne, he looms over X with confidence.

CYBER PEACOCK: (noting) His potential… is limitless?! …not possible.

X: Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?

CYBER PEACOCK: I was ordered to test your abilities. It's quite simple.

X: What!?

CYBER PEACOCK: Prepare yourself!

He lets out his tails as he powers up.

X narrows his eyes.

X: Fine!

His armor shifts to black and yellow as he raises his buster.

He fires Twin Slasher at him, but the blasts ricochet off of his armor, completely ineffective.

CYBER PEACOCK: (laughing) Hmhmhmhm.

He puts his hands out and creates a target screen, that locks onto X.

X: (reacting) Oh mann.

Cyber Peacock fires a piercing arrow missile that resembles one of his feathers.

X dashes away from it as he charges up his X-Buster and wall-jumps.

The arrow missile homes in on his position and blasts him at the chest.

X: Aughh.

He falls to the ground and lets out an X-Buster, which catches him.

CYBER PEACOCK: Hmpph.

He teleports away, and then re-teleports right in his face.

X: Ah!

CYBER PEACOCK: Hah!!

He gracefully attacks X with his 8 tail feathers, as he briskly passes him by.

X: (v.o, thinking) Damn it. He’s toying with me. Well let’s see him try this!

X’s armor flashes to yellow and black.

When Cyber Peacock appears again it is right behind him. X dashes away, turns around and fires an Electric Web at him. The shot and web appear, but they have no effect on Cyber Peacock.

CYBER PEACOCK: Hehehe. That tickled.

X: What!?

CYBER PEACOCK: Perhaps.. This Mega Man X, does have his limits after all.

X narrows his eyes, angrily.

X: Whoever you Mavericks are working for, I had it!! I’m not here to play Games!!!

X’s armor flashes into a new aura of auburn as he sets off his newest attack – the Soul Body.

He fires a powerful source of light energy, which duplicates a copy of himself similar to that of Split Mushroom’s light attacks.

X’s eyes widen, then narrow in mid-battle as he dashes after him.

X: (v.o, thinking) If this doesn’t work, at least I can tackle him to the ground.

Much to his surprise, the Soul Body pierces through Cyber Peacock’s frame, and causes him to disintegrate into static.

X: Whoa…

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EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN – Ocean Ports - DAY

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Zero drives further away with his Shinobi Unit, Ren and Rayven, until he abruptly turns to the side and stops.

ZERO: Shit. That’s what I get for not planning ahead.

Suddenly Tau and the rest of the Hunters in Raiden Armor’s stop short and float in mid-air.

TAU: What is it, boss?

ZERO: This isn’t right. We have to go back and get them.

His Shinobi look at him with large, understanding eyes.

ZERO: It’s a brave thing that they’re doing, but.. That’s not what this is about. We either go home together or we Die together.

Ren’s eyes widen.

REN: …If those weren’t my guys out there, I’d tell you that your nuts. But I agree. Let’s go back and get ‘em.

TAKUMA: (scared) Do you think we can win, sir?

ZERO: It’s not about winning any more Takuma. It’s about Surviving. Together.

Zero turns his Ride Chaser around and heads towards the battle ahead. So does Rayven.

Tau smiles and turns his Raiden Armor around.

TAU: Heh. Together!

Venzo, Takuma and Ren follow suit.

ALL: TOGETHER!!!

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Cyber Peacock, reappears before X, affected.

CYBER PEACOCK: What the-

-fshhh-

He is attacked by the Soul Body and disintegrated once again. Reappearing nearby, he attempts to uppercut X, who simply puts his hands up in a block and creates another Soul Body, which disintegrates him once again.

CYBER PEACOCK: Gaaaah!

X: Looks like I figured out your weakness.

CYBER PEACOCK: Hmph… Lucky shot. /YAH!!!!

Cyber Peacock lets out all of his tail feathers into a huge strike, which harms X greatly.

X: Wuaaagghh!!!

X falls down as he is cut open in the stomach.

CYBER PEACOCK: But I have my tricks too…

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EXT. OCEAN PORT – Gang Fight - DAY

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Spiral Pegasus blasts Burn Bishop down to the rigging with a heavy whirlwind, while Stone Rook punches him across the face.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: HmpH!!

He rolls with the punch and swiftly flies around. He re-asserts himself into a dash after Stone Rook and passes him by with a swift cut across the chest with his wind velocity.

STONE ROOK: Aghh!!

He falls down to the rigging, hard. Then he looks at his winged companion.

BURN BISHOP: Stone… I don’t know how much more I can take.

STONE ROOK: I know… But at least… they’ll get home… I hope.

ZERO: (shouting, from afar) HEY Horse-Shit!!

Suddenly a charged blast from the Raiden Armors strike against Spiral Pegasus again.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: Euughh!!

ZERO: We’re not Done Yet!!!!

Burn Bishop and Stone Rook widen their eyes surprised and annoyed.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: You fools… DIE!!!!

He lets out a massive Whirlwind that destroys each of their Raiden Ride Armors.

Zero rides around it and hops onto the rigging with wide, sad eyes.

ZERO: (brave) This is IT!!!!

The Shinobi Hunters and Ren all fall out of their Ride Armors. Ren uses his jet pack once again and flies over by Rayven, whose Ride Chaser has blown away and into the water.

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Cyber Peacock teleports into X’s position and passes him by with his back feathers once again.

X is more annoyed than hurt by the attack as he raises his buster and shoots him in the back with a level 2 shot.

CYBER PEACOCK: Agh.

He falls to the ground as X charges up again, and fires a Level 3 shot at his back.

CYBER PEACOCK: Ogh!!!

X: Tell me Peacock!! Did you tamper with our system just to distract me!?? While Countless Innocents in the Repliforce die by our hand???

CYBER PEACOCK: Hahahah… You think you have it all figured out, but that isn’t even half of it.

He teleports away and reappears behind X, giving him a hard punch from the back of the neck.

X: Agh!!

CYBER PEACOCK: Get it through your head. The Maverick Hunters and the Repliforce will all be Dead soon. No matter what happens with your Precious Repliforce War…

X: What!?

CYBER PEACOCK: Muahahahahahhh!!!!! /GAH!!

X narrows his eyes and /fires another Soul Body at him.

X: Something bigger is going on. And I’m gonna find out what!! YOU HEAR ME!!!

When Cyber Peacock reappears, X grabs him by the neck and punches him in the face.

CYBER PEACOCK: Kaughh..

X: Where did you come from!!? WHO BUILT YOU!?

CYBER PEACOCK: ughh… The Doctor…

X: Hm?

CYBER PEACOCK: D-Doppler.

X’s eyes widen.

X: (thinking outloud) Doppler! No way... Is it possible..? Could he…? No. I saw him die!

CYBER PEACOCK: The Doctor is dead, but his last act lives on. Just in case he failed, he created me to attack your base from the inside.

X’s eyes widen in anger.

X: Then… you have nothing to do with the Mechaniloid attack at Sky Lagoon??

Cyber Peacock smiles, mischievously.

CYBER PEACOCK: ..n-Nope.

X grimaces shoves him to the ground, hard.

CYBER PEACOCK: Ahhh..

X: You’ve corrupted the Network and made it nearly impossible for me to get home. I wish there was a way for us to reformat you, but you’ve left me with no other choice. We need our coms back. Now!

CYBER PEACOCK: (fearful) Huh??

X: Good BYE!!!!

X fires another Soul Body which breaks through his body and completely ruptures his core.

CYBER PEACOCK: Aaaaagh, NoooO!!!!!!

His body begins to explode as he loses control of the Network.

He reaches out to X and places his Weapon Chip in his hand.

CYBER PEACOCK: You were a formidable foe… Doppler would have wanted it.. this way…

X stares at the weapon chip as Cyber Peacock explodes at his feet. It reads: Aiming Laser.

X: Hmph.

He absorbs the chip’s power as his armor recolors itself into Purple and Green.

An aiming target appears before his eyes, as suddenly a familiar voice is heard.

[RADAR]: Ahhh. Finally, a Weapon Upgrade. Now I can really be of use!

X: (surprised) …Eh.. Internal Tracer?? Is that.. you??

[RADAR]: Greetings, X. Glad to be of service, once again.

GEAR-RIG: (o.s, filtered) Uh, hey… We just picked up a bunch of outside activity. We’ve gotta get you out of here.

X: (gasping) Right!

GEAR-RIG: Just close your eyes, and we’ll begin the disconnecting procedures.

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EXT. OCEAN PORTS – Gang Fight – DAY

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Zero runs after Spiral Pegasus and swings his Saber, but he is blown away in to the ground, hard against the rest of his companions.

ZERO: God.. damn it! Why is this guy so Damn untouchable!!?

He struggles to get up with Tau and Venzo by his side. Takuma stays down to protect Ren, while Stone Rook and Burn Bishop huddle with Rayven, hurt and wounded.

ZERO: Come on, guys!

The three run after Spiral Pegasus, but once again, they’re knocked down, hard against the rigging.

ALL: Aaaaghhh!!!!

Spiral Pegasus dashes after them.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: And now… YOU DIE!!!!

X: (o.s, filtered) ZERO!!!

ZERO: (gasping) Huh?

Spiral Pegasus rushes over to Zero and punches him just as his body turns into a stream of red light and he teleports out of there.

The rest of his team is force teleported to safety as well.

SPIRAL PEGASUS: Hmph. So they finally had enough…

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INT. MAVERICK HUNTER BASE – R & D Lab – DAY

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Zero, Tau, Venzo, Takuma, Ren, Burn Bishop, Stone Rook and Rayven are all force teleported into the R & D Lab.

ZERO: (surprised, humble) We’re home…

X, Gear-Rig, Zarrick, Skid, David, Lucas, Alecto, Castor, Pollux, Juno, Aeson, Xanthe and Zephyr all look at them with surprised and worried faces.

Zero looks at X with a sorry face. X walks up to him and helps him up.

X: Hey, man.

ZERO: Hey…

CAPTAIN: (o.s, loudspeaker) Commanders X and Zero, report to the Command Deck, now!

They both gasp with wide eyes.

-freeze frame. Grainy effect-

NARRATOR: (o.s, v.o) At last, the Maverick Hunters have come home to safety. But while X was fixing the inner turmoil of their Cyber Network, what long-term damage has Zero and his group done to the Repliforce? Is their relationship even salvageable at this point?? I can only hope so.

-Fade to Black-

#MMX FanFics #Season IV #Episode 9 #Inner Corruption #X vs Cyber Peacock #Zero vs. Skiver #Maverick Hunters #Repliforce #War #Grizzly Slash #cameo

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