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Welcome back to show Joe, your favorite anime podcast. Hopefully totally mine, but we've

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got me, Sarah, introducing Joe to show Joe anime. I'm your guys's guide and the veteran

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viewer of show Joe anime and Joe is a newcomer to the genre, not having been the targeted

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demographic at the time that a lot of these came out. So but here we are introducing him

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and hence showing Joe show Joe. What's up, Joe? Not much. How's it going for you? Good.

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Let's see. What have I feel like? Try and think of I feel like I've been more work mode

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this week. Try and think of anything I've done in my free time. I beat Star Wars Outlaws

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and. Oh, OK. So it was fine. I think I don't know if you get this way, but like when I

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start a game, I'm in the midst of it and I know there's a lot more game to come. I'm

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like a lot more like high opinion of it. And then once I know it's coming to an end, I'm

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like, OK, this is the entirety of the experience. Then it's like my perception of it changes

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a little like that definitely happened with Dragon Age, Fail Guard. But like, I know this

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is all the game has to offer versus earlier in the game, it's like, oh, it could get better.

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Or I'm imagining what's going to happen. And then when it doesn't meet those expectations,

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then it's like, OK, it was good. But not only, you know, could have been better kind of.

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OK, nothing blew you away. Well, like, right, there's the faction management elements,

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which in the end don't really amount to much. Like they don't really have an impact at all.

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I didn't watch the marketing for this game, but I'm assuming they were like really hyping

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up that aspect probably. And so people who were like more tuned in with what the game

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was going to be probably had more disappointment. But I enjoyed it. You know, it wasn't like

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overwhelming open world stuff, which is better for me. See, watching some more insecure, which

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I think I mentioned in the past, but it's like a HBO show with Issa Rae kind of depicting

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like, I think just, you know, being an adult woman or black woman in LA and kind of managing

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relationships and work and just life satisfaction and stuff like that. And she's pretty funny.

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I haven't seen her in anything up to this point. So I've been enjoying that show. It

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kind of is like it's almost like the doom scroll where you get stuck watching it and

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you just are like so entranced that I don't realize how much time has passed.

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Let's see. Doom scroll. I know you're calling it a doom scroll. That assumes that like things

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are getting worse. You're like spiraling. Basically, it just means you're like stuck

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in that like you can't get out. You know, you just get like entranced by the, I don't

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know, the reels or whatever of a social media app. And it's just kind of the like where

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I'm not I'm just so zoned out watching it that I'm not paying attention to anything

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else really. Yeah. So I can like steal your time away if you get snared. And yeah, I think

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I'm going to play Life is Strange double exposure, which I dropped once Dragon Age came out.

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So get back to that. And oh, I tried to watch the high Q movie because that's like they

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didn't make another season, but they made like a movie to end the story. But like the

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art style is different. It's like that. It like I was like, oh, I can't do that. Well,

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it like doesn't look like I can tell the characters are the same. You know, I can tell who's who.

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But like the art style is very different. And I don't think it's in a better way. Like

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maybe it's smoother or something by like the style of the show more than what they did

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with the movie. It's like, is it called? Wait, I'm sorry. Is it called the high Q the dumpster

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battle? Yeah. Okay.

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Uh huh. Um, it just I don't like it distinctly different. And I don't like it. I mean, it's

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it. Yeah, it definitely looks different. I'm trying to like everything was a little too

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crisp. Maybe. Yeah. It's I don't know. I think it's like there's more line work or something.

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Yeah. I just I'm so particular. I don't know. Cause I just binge basically all of the show

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and then to jump to that it's jarring. Um, so we'll see if I ever get back to that. But

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that always is kind of weird. Yeah. When like a show does a movie, but like because it's

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a movie, they have a bigger budget. So they like do different animation stuff, but it

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looks off because you're so used to seeing it in a certain way. Yeah. I guess for example,

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with Demon Slayer, you said that production studio like dumps a bunch into the first season.

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It makes it look good. So after the first season, they had a movie. So it felt more

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seamless between the two. But yeah, this one, there is a big gap of time between the show

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ending in this. And I don't know why they didn't because it's like also like a weird

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jump because the season or the show ends at like, oh, we're going to nationals or something.

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Um, you know, we just beat the big dog in our prelim thing. But then the movie starts

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immediately to like being in a match with like this team that's been kind of your rival,

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but you've never played an official match against. So we like didn't get the like intro

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to the whole new tournament and like any build up. And like, I don't know if this is like

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just a match or this is the last match or anything like that. So just okay. Strange.

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I mean, I did not watch enough to like see if they explain it after the fact, but uh-huh.

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Um, yeah. So yeah, it's kind of weird. Yeah. How about you though, Joe? What have you been

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up to? I've finished several anime series. Um, yesterday I finished watching Ron Mo one

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half the remake, the 12 episode remake. 12 episodes. That's it. That's all they have

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so far. It's so weird that shows like that's the older show. So like the old format I'm

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thinking and so I mean, there's like 300 episodes or something in the old one. Yeah. What does

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it end on? It ends on shampoo like leaves or something. Like they kind of deal with like

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the first round of that of her. I remember. Is Goose a character introduced yet? No. Okay.

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Nope. Never mind. Uh, what'd you think of her? Shampoo. Um, I don't like her very much.

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She's kind of annoying. Yeah. I, I, yeah, she is a lot. She has a cool design though.

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Yeah. I feel like I like, I try to think if I watched, I must have watched it and subbed

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when I first watched it in middle school, but like, I don't know. I think I remember liking

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how she said Ron Mo like Ron Mo. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause she's, she's uh, extra. Supposed

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to be Chinese. Uh huh. Uh, supposed to pronounce things with a Chinese accent. Although the

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Chinese, which he speaks Chinese, my friend was like, this is really bad. Oh yeah. You

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know how like they'll speak English and it's really like not good. It's like that. But

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yeah, yeah. So it was funny. Um, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I like, I tended to like Ron Mo.

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sports and I don't like later. Yeah. Like you do like an ice skater. You do like a floor

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gymnastics fight into some kind of martial art. Yeah. Yeah. That part is pretty goofy.

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I do like that part. Um, I wish Akane got more to do. She kind of doesn't get anything

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to do like later in those last couple of episodes, which is a bummer. Uh, yeah. No, it's pretty

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good. I tend to like it pretty well. Um, I could see how you could easily make this

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into like a long running series by just having more of those kinds of things, which is pretty

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goofy and fun. No, that's my thoughts about Ron Mo.

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Ron Mo is so many characters come and go right like the ice skating where it's like, if I

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remember correctly, each of the other pairs slightly interested in Ron Mo and Akane. Yeah.

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So it's like almost kind of always happens. There's a lot of that, uh, just repeatedly.

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throughout. Does he like Rio ga? Um, I appreciate how they do nothing to make this guy more

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likeable. Like they don't try to do any, they just like do the Vegeta thing with him or

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just like, he's just going to hang around and we're going to like him, even though he

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doesn't do anything different. He gets lost a lot. He gets lost a lot. He's got the Zorro

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problem. Um, yeah, he's fine. I like him. Okay. I guess this would have come out before

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one piece. Uh, when did the monger come out?

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Uh, I don't know, but maybe it's the Rio ga thing that Zorro took. Let me think. Uh,

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well, I'm assuming getting lost is not like, that's probably predates it. Uh, yeah.

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Ron Mo one half came out in 1987. If started the original run, one piece has been around

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for quite some time though. One piece. First chapter was released in 1970 or 1997. Okay.

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So, okay. So Ron, I came first. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Uh, although I feel like they

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would get old. I feel like the formula could get crazy how much one encounters hot and

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cold water. Don't you think like, oh yeah, that part's goofy. I guess if you don't know

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what Ron Mo one half is, uh, the premise is that there's a guy who is like a mart, who's

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like the, a mixed martial artist guy, just like doing whatever. And he is supposed to

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get engaged to this girl, Akane to like save her dojo somehow. It's like kind of hand waved

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away. Why that needs to happen. I don't really remember.

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It's basically just like, and Akane's dad or like bros. And so they're like, let's just

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like maintain the bro-ness by promising our kids are going to get married before they're

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even born. Maybe just so we still have a reason to meet up. Even if one of us has a dojo and

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the others just randomly training in places. Um, yeah. Uh, anyway, the thing with Ron Mo

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is that him and his dad went to like some weird cursed pools in China somewhere while

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they were training in China and they fell into it and you fall into the pool. You become

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the thing that died in that pool. If you get submerged in cold water and then you turn

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back into yourself if it's warm water. So his dad falls into one that makes him a panda

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and he falls into one that makes him a girl. And so that's the, that's the joke comedy thing

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is that you splash with cold water. It's, he becomes a girl and anytime he gets splashed

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with hot water, he turns back into being a guy.

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It'd be a fun class play to do where you're both Ron Mo and then all like a giant panda.

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And well, what, you know, well, like two people together, like if one guy wants a girl and

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you're each, I see. Well, you're, yeah. Um, yeah. It'd be fun. Yeah. So I watched that.

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I also watched. Yeah. It's pretty creepy. I had a good time with it. Um, I also watched

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aim for the ACE to die buster, the sequel to gun buster. The thing I talked about last

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time, six episode OVA made by Guy Max has their like 20 year anniversary of the studio thing.

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Um, made by people who are the different people than who made the first one because it was

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like 15 years later or something. It's made by the fully, fully people, which if you look

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at any images of die buster is immediately obvious. Um, it's also way more like out there

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anime, like, oh, the world is, um, in like chaos and we're like flying around in these

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big mechs, which are actually just people, robot things and like stuff is just kind of

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not making it. Like, you know, gun buster is much more of like a sci-fi thing where like

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people are riding around in ships that like make logical sense. You know what I mean?

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Like this is the mech you're in. It moves like this because you pulled out like the arms

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and stuff like that. And you know, you're traveling in space. So space travel, if you

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travel really fast, it deludes time and space and all of those stuff. It's like really about

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that stuff in a much more sci-fi way. Uh, die buster is way more anime just being like,

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oh yeah, you're in a big mech and you can shoot a beam that like freezes the air in

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space to negative 9000 degrees or something. Like it's really goofy. Um, I don't like it

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as much. I don't think like somatically really pulls off the same thing that gun buster does.

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I think gun buster is like better thought out and looks better. Um, it's also way hornier

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because it came later on. This is like an early 2000s show. So the fan service is there

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because we are in a bad age of anime. I've decided, uh, based on that stuff, but it still

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looks pretty fun. I like it. Like it does the stuff that fully coolly does, but it also

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doesn't have all of the stuff with fully coolly. I don't like as much. So I tend to like it

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pretty well. Um, there's like cool scenes. It's also like, it feels a lot like Gurren

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log on. If you've ever watched that, um, in terms of like that one. Yeah. Like it's doing

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a lot of that. Like people are striking these big poses. They're just like saying how you

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should believe in yourself while like things explode. You know what I mean? Like it's very

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much that's what's going on. Um, which, you know, I tend to like, um, this came out in

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2000, 2004 to 2006. When did Gurren log on? Gurren logon came out after then.

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In 2007. So this, I feel like this inspired some of that stuff, maybe anyway, six episodes.

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Easy to watch. Like when I think of fan service and anime, it's always like the purvy stuff,

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but is there like other methods of fan service that would try to think of fans and other

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medians that I'm into. So yeah. So I usually think of like horny stuff as fans. Like I

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want to talk about anime fan service specifically because they do a lot of that stuff, you know,

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like really male gazey camera shots. Um, just like pointless nudity, that kind of thing.

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one. Isn't that cool? And it's like, not really. So like anything that just like appeals

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to fans in a shallow way. I also consider fan service. Um, the new Star Wars movies

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do this a lot, right? When they're like, Oh, here you like Lando Calrissian's here for

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no reason. And service like that's the other kind of fan service. So mostly like no one

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who does like fan service is for a very specific person who, because I feel like fan service

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never really like makes things better. Uh, I feel like it's derogatory as a term, right?

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Like you wouldn't, if something was good, you wouldn't call it fan service, right?

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Yeah. You just think it's just targeting a very, maybe it's just like, I don't know

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the, like why target those people versus other people, but I guess I don't know, maybe they

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just saw a lot of body pillows and like, I mean, that's exactly why they put the horny

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stuff in there is cause like they, this is who they sell to and you know, men will buy

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stuff if there is naked girls in it. Like that's the calculus. It's very not complicated.

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This is not a complicated thought process. Yeah. I don't even know if that's true. Like

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that's the assumption. I don't know if that actually pans out all that much to be perfectly

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honest with you. Um, but that is the, you know, I configure the executive saying that

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that's kind of like what was with Game of Thrones though, right? Same thing happened

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there where it's like, you have to put a certain amount of violence and nudity in there. Like

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each season that was like mandated by the people above. So they did that.

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Yeah. Oh yeah. I guess stuff gets made. Yeah. Something I just remember to mention that

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we'll look forward to in the future is that me and Jenny, friend of the pod who was on

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for a couple episodes of Kimi Nii to doke coverage are going to see Stailer Moon live.

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Oh, I guess like a musical or a play or something. Is it the 2.5 D musical?

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I don't know. But I'm like, I've watched like the first season of Stailer Moon, just the

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normal one. So it'll be interesting. I'm sure it'll be fun. I'll definitely wear my Sojo

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shirt. The word out to the, the very people. Yep. But yeah, so look, me and Jenny hanging

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out. Friends to do stuff with. Also, I'm not done. I watched one more anime. Sorry. I'm

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just letting you know. I finished Mobile Suit Gundam, the Oh, wait, the mess team, a 12 episode

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OVA from 1996 to 1999 about what if we put Gundams in a Vietnam war setting and it wasn't

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that good? That's crazy. So far, the Gundam OVA is really followed this thing where it's

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like it looks great. Like you want to see the next do some next up. There's like an incredible

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mech fight in this one with a goof. There's a mech called a goof and it's really fucking

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cool and it's incredible. And so the action and like the aesthetics are really good. And

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like you want to see like how it's like, oh man, saying it's getting caught at the gears

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of this mech and it's like slowing us down, like all that kind of stuff, you know, cool,

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cool stuff like that. But when it comes to like characters or stakes or, you know, relationships,

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the OVA is don't do a very good job with exception to War in the Pocket. And I feel like the

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answer is War in the Pocket is six episodes and Oh, wait, the mess team and like Stardust

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Memory are like 12. And that's too many episodes. Yeah. Like what is the longest OVA ever?

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disclaimer, it's not full show. So if it sucks, it's fine. Or well, OVA is just like

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a different. You just buy it like so long for 12 episodes.

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12 episodes is like a weird, it's like kind of a weird length for an OVA. I feel like normally

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they're pretty short. Like normally they're like six or like eight or something or like

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four, right? Yeah.

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It's kind of long, but I guess you could do that for a certain franchise. I mean, Gundam's

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huge at this point. So I guess you could do that. Yeah.

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That being said, it's like, I think 12 episodes is actually a bad length for a show I've decided.

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Well, and that's the new format. So I wonder what happened to me because it used to be

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26 was the number and now it's cut in half. Is that like a like airing thing in Japan?

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Like they wanted to reduce or free up the airway.

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I just assume it's some corporate bullshit. Like in how Netflix doesn't renew things because

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if you renew something, you have to renegotiate your union contracts and you have to pay people

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more and stuff like that. So they just cancel everything after like one or two seasons. You

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know what I mean? Like I think it's probably just some bullshit like that because that's

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just kind of the world we live in now. But that being said, I think 12 episodes is bad

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because it's not enough to do any of like it's too long to do something really tight,

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right? Like six episodes is about the length of a movie, you know, so it's probably like

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two hours. And in two hours, you kind of have an idea of what kind of story you can tell.

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things, right? And you can have a couple of bad episodes in there, but it's fine because

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there's so much other stuff. You have so much time to like play with other things that there's

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normally some stuff in there. 12 episodes is like I watched these OVA's and it feels

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like four or five of the episodes are just kind of like filling time. And then they're

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just kind of rushing to do the story at the beginning of the end. It's like slightly too

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long for like a really condensed thing and not long enough to do like a more long form

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thing, right? Or you can like set things up week to week. So I think it's a bad number.

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I think 12 is a bad number to have an OVA series. At least that's been true so far in

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Gundam. Yeah, I try to think if I don't think I've ever watched OVA. I know there's like

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one show that we'll cover at some point, which I guess we can. Fushigi Yu-Gi has OVA's,

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so maybe we'll watch that. But I guess I've always just dismissed it.

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Some of them are really good. Like the OVA's and the bottoms are incredible. They're like,

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they add so much to like my like read of the show. But a lot of the time, I don't know.

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Are they harder to, I imagine OVA's would be harder to get a physical copy of.

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movies and stuff. But yeah, they're usually harder to get like stream and stuff like that

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because they're licensed differently. But they can be good. I mean, sometimes they're

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really good, you know? Maybe I will know at some point. Yeah.

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Once I watch one. I don't think there has been like any stuff so far that we would have

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watched that would have like that would have come up. But we also haven't watched any series

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that have like movies or anything yet. So no, once we get to Cardcaptor's soccer.

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That's what I've been watching stuff. Nice. Good. Watching the anime is good. If you haven't

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anime podcast. It is. Yeah. Yeah. I'm now moving on to Gundam X. Good Lord. Is there

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an end or by the time you catch up so many more Gundam shows will have come out? I mean,

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there will be an end. Eventually I'll catch up to present day. There's so many. They definitely

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can't make Gundam as fast as I can watch them. So I will catch up. At one point, this podcast

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will not be half Gundam. It's not half Gundam. I barely talk about it.

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Oh, goodness. Speaking of the podcast, do we want to get to our coverage today? Yes.

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This show, I'm glad we did two episodes because it's like the number of notes I'm taking is

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a lot. Oh, yeah. I'm like, oh, we can move on. I have to watch these two episodes. I'm

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like, I really want to watch the next one. So maybe we can move up to three and I'm

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taking the summaries and I'm like, oh, yes, I've hit 22, like 100 words. Okay. Maybe not.

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Yes. Yeah. I'm excited to talk about it. Yes. So this time we watched episode three

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and four of the roses of Versailles. I'm going to start off with voice actors, which is kind

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of disappointing. So the voice actor for Oscar, Francis DJ, GJ's with her whole ass name,

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the only character that has a whole ass name is Rico Tajima, who is Queen Emerald is in

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Galaxy Express 999, a show I've heard of, but don't know anything about. I know it's

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the one with the space train. I saw the ads for it on Funimation DVDs. Yeah. It's like

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one of those like, I guess they printed a lot of like disc copies of it because like

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they always have it and I see it. It looks pretty and it's probably good. I just have

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never watched it. She's also the voice of Sandra in Space Adventure Cobra, which is another

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old thing that I think I've seen clips from that seem cool. And that's basically it. I

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mean, she's in some other stuff, but I couldn't recognize any of it. What it was. So this

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is her biggest role in a show, it seems like. Okay. Do you think because when I I'm watching

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it on Zoom, oh play and the full name is like Lady Oscar, the Rosa Frisci. Do you think

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they just like change is that like the full full name of the show or they just like change

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it to be more identifiable or something? So there's a movie. The thing that gets messed

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up is that I don't know when stuff got released in the West because there's a movie that's

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directed by a French director that I think did get released in like the West or like

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France or something like that. That's called Lady Oscar. And then maybe the show got ported

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over. You know what I mean? It's like, I don't actually know the sequence of because then

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it would have made sense to call this lady off the Rosa Versailles. It's like people

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already know what that is. So I don't I don't actually know. And that's what makes it complicated.

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But the it's called Rosa Versailles. Like the, I mean, you know, the first title card

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thing. That's what it says. Cool. Yeah. It's also called Lady Oscar. We got to do the narrators

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voice actress to Oh, yeah. Her lines are so dramatic. Hell yeah. Dude, the line read so

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good. The voice of Andre, who's just Andre. No last name is Tarot Shigaki, who plays the

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prince in the 1975 anime, the Little Mermaid, who was directed by the guy who directed the

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fist of the North Star, which is very funny. They're like extremely violent. Yeah, very

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different ends of the spectrum of what you could be directing. Yes. Andre or no. Tarot

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Shigaki is also the prince in the 1981 anime Swan Lake. He plays princes. That's about

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it. There's some other stuff. We're just doing a lot of Disney versions of things. Yeah,

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like I know everything. Yeah. Mm hmm. Although I don't think Disney ever did a Swan Lake.

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Yeah. Well, I don't. What was it? Disney? There's one. No. I'm talking about the Swan

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Princess. Oh, debt. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That is not a Disney. Okay. I think

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that's a punk and I hate him. I think that's a Tom Luth. No. Yeah, she was so pretty. Who

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did that? And he was insufferable. It is New Line Cinema distribution. I don't know. It

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was made by somebody else. It's not a Disney thing. Gotcha. Never mind then continue. Oh,

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but it's made by a former Disney animator. That's why it kind of looks the same. I think

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gotcha. Anyway, the Rose of Versailles episode three is called Sparks fly at Versailles.

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We open on May 16 1770. Marie and Louis are getting married when signing the marriage contract.

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Marie's quill drips some ink and everybody's horrified that there's a stain on the marriage

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contract as that's a horrible omen as the OP plays. This is probably the best opening

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we've had. It's so good. It's very good. They're just at this thing and then she drips ink and

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everyone's like, oh, no, this is a horrible open. They have like the jarring sound in

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case something bad has happened. And then we see why everyone is I feel like it's like,

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we'll see you later where she like sees someone and she's like, and you have any misgivings

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of who's reacting to really? Yeah. Yeah. The drama is really good. Yeah. I like how they

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do that scene, especially over something so like kind of mundane. Let's see. So when

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we jump back in, we cut to Granny telling Oscar to mind her manners today as it will

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be Marie's first appearance at court. Andre is like, chill out. Grandma Oscar is going

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to be fine. And Granny yells at him to call her Lady Oscar. Andre and Oscar mount their

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horses and Andre jokes that Oscar has become very popular at court after rescuing Marie,

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especially among the ladies. You know what I don't love is that she's just ignoring poor

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Granny and Granny's old, but she's running after her. And so she's having to exert her

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old body and Oscar can't be bothered to just like listen to what she has to say and go.

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She just ignores her. I mean, it's not her granny. Well, she's well. Probably the person

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who raised her the most. I would assume are very involved in her childhood. I don't know,

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because we get an appearance by somebody who I thought was dead in this episode.

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No, we'll get to it. Oh, my God. Okay. Yeah. That's crazy. Palace where several ladies

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are admiring Oscar. They try to flirt with her, but she brushes them off and they lament

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that they wish she was a man. Wait, jump to Marie. Yep. I was going to say once I saw

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that I like was googling what was like the at the time of the French Revolution, the

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like mindset of like sexuality in France at the time. And it seems like they are pretty.

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They're a lot more open minded than other places at the time. So I feel like, yeah,

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because they seem all very much more open with like voicing attraction to same sex and

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stuff that last for me somewhere else. You know, they're definitely getting at it. We

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jumped to Marie Antoinette. She learns that since she's married to the crown prince and

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that the current queen is dead, she's now the highest ranking lady at court. As such,

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it's custom that she must greet all of the women before they can speak to her. Marie

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is amazed that she's top dog now. I'm very confused by what it is she want. Or like

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because she seems so like, you know, Lala land at some points, but then she's like,

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oh, man, I'm the best. This is awesome. Like everybody bow down to me. I guess maybe just

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growing up royal. You just. Yeah. I mean, she's like, she's like, oh, I am like the

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the top dog at court, which is crazy because like before it would have been her mom, who's

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the Empress and then all of her sisters. So she's probably pretty low down before.

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That's true. It just seems like she's such a space cadet that she wouldn't care about

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that stuff. But I guess. No, I think this is the only thing she cares about because she

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is. She does not come across very good in these episodes. The cat. Oh, this cat. She's

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like a tiny kid. And it's so cute. Could it be the cutest cat ever? Maybe it's so cute.

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Oh, the maid or whatever scruffs that little guy and then chucks it for the cat. Yeah.

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He's a tiny kitten. Let's see. Marie makes her appearance. Also. Sorry. No, when she's

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like thinking about this stuff and then like the camera angles like from the ground and

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then she looks like an Amazon woman. Like she looks so tall in this shot. I guess she's

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on top of the world. She's the big dog. They have to make her look. She's a little late.

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So tall. It's pretty funny. Sorry. Oh, by the way, like at this time, the Queen's been

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dead for two years. Yeah, two years. See, Marie makes her appearance at court. Everybody

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admires Maria as she is eating it up. The party starts and Marie asks Louis the 16th

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to dance. He says he doesn't dance though and then tells her that she's free to find

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another partner, which is like, I don't know. Yeah, that seems like is she going to. Is

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it going to be frowned upon if she goes dance with someone else that isn't or at least not

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after dancing with him first? Yeah, I don't know. It's just like I'm not going to do it.

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And it's like, OK, but like, could she find who would she that seems like as we're going

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to find out everything she does is going to be extremely political or interpreted as

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political? You I would think like he would have been taught like, oh, it doesn't matter

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if that's what you want or not. But like, you have to give this to her. This is like

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all she has at least like at least dance with her. It's like a sad sack of a man.

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Yeah, he he comes across as a total loser. Yeah, we learn about his hobbies later. Yeah,

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we learn about how weird he is a little bit. Marie scans the room and sees Oscar and Andre.

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She walks over to Oscar, but on the way notices a woman glaring at her. Maria is like, hmm,

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who could this be as several other court ladies notice the interaction? Marie ignores her.

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Lady. Sorry. I was like, she's hot. Oh, I'm in a fan myself over here. Yeah. Marie ignores

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her and walks over to Oscar. She greets Oscar in the court ladies gossip about how Marie

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greeted Oscar before anyone else. Marie asks Oscar, who that woman who is glaring at her

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is an Oscar tells her that that's Madame Dewberry and Marie shouldn't get involved with her.

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Marie doesn't like her attitude, though, and storms off in a huff and she's followed by

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several women. Oscar leans over to Andre and is like, oh, look, Marie's aunt and laws

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are here. Who hate Madame Dewberry going to go talk to her. And Andre is like, hmm, I

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don't think this is going to go well. Yeah, I like seeing. I kind of like seeing her in

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this more like, because she doesn't talk very much. So I feel like it's nice to hear her

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like giving her opinion on people. Yeah. Like I feel like we don't get very much from her.

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So like hearing that she does have thoughts on the going on and stuff is nice. Oscar is

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great. She's talked to Maria a little nicer and now she's like the past. As we find out,

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I don't think Oscar likes anybody in this room. No. It's great. Yeah. She's great. Something

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else. Love that. We cut to Marie talking with her aunts. She learns that Madame Dewberry

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was a former prostitute who worked her way into the mobility by marrying a noble and

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then killing him the next day. She now has to do the king himself with her beauty. The

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answer like, yeah. And now our brother does whatever she wants. It sucks. She won't listen

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to like our daughters or anything. Marie, you should teach her a lesson by not acknowledging

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her at court. I like there's a line where she's like, what is a whore? Yeah. Like, oh,

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gosh. Yeah. She's like, what does that mean? And they're like, um, she like, I was like

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a line for a show, Joe. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. Scandalize. Yeah. You could definitely

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tell it. They just like don't like her. And that's why they're doing this. They don't really

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care that like the thing that's funny about this is that nobody really cares that she

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was like, uh, like a countess or whatever the hell, like a former prostitute, like an

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escort basically. Um, they just don't like her. Yeah. She's not very likable, but I

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can see why the emperor was into it. Uh huh. See. We see Madame Dewberry angrily knocking

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over some fruit. This is the first of many things she'll be knocking over in these next

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two episodes. Yeah. Temper tantrums. She's pissed that that Brad Murray wouldn't acknowledge

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00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,920
you're at court and smashes a mirror. King Louis walks in and is like, Hey, good party,

376
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,160
right? And Dewberry complains about Marie, but King Louis is like, it's been one day.

377
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,960
All right. She probably didn't know who you were or whatever. Um, Dewberry commands her

378
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,600
ladies and waiting to bring her every single one of Paris's top designers. And they're

379
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,920
like every single one. And she's like, yes, every single one, because she's going to look

380
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,040
so dazzling at court that Marie can't ignore her. It's the next day and Dewberry is wearing

381
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:03,680
an enormous dress and all the other ladies are impressed. It's like ridiculous. I'm

382
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:08,200
like, this doesn't look that different than what anyone else is wearing. Um, no, but it's

383
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:14,560
got more like lace. It's got more like color scheme. The color scheme is pretty good. Um,

384
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,560
it's just like really big and gaudy. Uh, all the other ladies are like, Oh, it's so pretty,

385
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:23,040
but Marie isn't there yet. Dewberry instead notices Oscar walking around. The ladies

386
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:28,360
comment that Oscar is so dashing, but so cold and never talks to them. Oscar walks up to

387
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,720
the now arrived Maria and Maria is like, or asks her why she doesn't, uh, why, why she

388
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:36,720
doesn't talk to anybody or dance. Like she didn't dance at the party at all. Um, then

389
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:42,280
Marie invites Oscar to come to her salon later with her and Oscar tells her that she's a military

390
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,160
officer and her job isn't to converse. It's to protect the royal family of France. And

391
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:52,200
then she walks off. Uh, Maria is disappointed as, uh, as they leave while walking away.

392
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,400
And she's like, Hey, Oscar, why'd you refuse to hang out with Marie? If you become friends

393
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,800
with her, like you'll definitely get promoted soon. And Oscar is in sense that Andre would

394
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,640
even suggest that she do something so corrupt and it's gold.

395
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,000
Yeah. She definitely doesn't seem to like Oscar or, uh, Andre either.

396
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,400
I know she likes Andre. I think she just like hates being, she hates the nepotism thing.

397
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,240
And so she's like, how dare you even suggest I do that because I'm about honor. And he's

398
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:21,680
like, well, bad news. We're in Versailles, but she's not learned this yet. This is where

399
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:29,320
Andre is allowed to accompany. Like what maybe is he ranked within the military as well?

400
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,600
And that's why he gets to go to these fancy events.

401
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,440
He's probably like whatever counts as like her squire or something.

402
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,440
Yeah.

403
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,840
Like her personal assistant, basically.

404
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,560
Hmm. I guess so. He's cute.

405
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,520
Oh yeah. He's great. He's the only one who's like, you, you understand that all of this

406
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:51,960
is corrupt. Right? Like you can't not be corrupt here, Oscar. We're at Versailles, but no,

407
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,440
she does not understand that yet.

408
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,160
Dewberry sees Marie. She tries to tell herself that Marie just didn't know who she was last

409
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,000
time and it wasn't anything personal. She tries to get everybody's attention, but Marie

410
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,520
notices and draws them all back to her. Dewberry is incensed and decides that Marie is intentionally

411
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,760
ignoring her.

412
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,040
We cut to King Louis meeting with Dewberry. Dewberry complains that Marie is deliberately

413
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,400
ignoring her. He's like, come on. She's like 14. Like I'm sure this is nothing. Like don't

414
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,960
worry about it. You can't get into a fight with a 14 year old. But Dewberry is like,

415
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:26,040
no, this is like actually a serious thing because if she doesn't acknowledge me, I can't

416
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,560
like talk to her or do any courtly things.

417
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,680
But King Louis just laughs is Dewberry decides that she has to do something herself.

418
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:42,040
Can we talk about, is this the part where she like sees Marie just laughing like the

419
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:43,040
laugh is so great.

420
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,680
And I'm like, oh my God, I feel the same way. Like I'd be wanted by.

421
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:48,680
She's like that.

422
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:49,680
Just laughing at me.

423
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,680
Yeah.

424
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:56,160
Okay. And then also, does she like try to insult her by calling her a redhead?

425
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,160
Yes.

426
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,160
What is that?

427
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,600
I think this is something about like.

428
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:06,160
Blonde being blonde is like a virtue or something like a desirable thing.

429
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,920
Well, I'm more blonde than you. You're not even blonde. You're like redheaded.

430
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,920
But she's not. I should.

431
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,360
Okay. Even King Louis is like, this is this doesn't even make sense.

432
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:17,360
Stop saying this.

433
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:22,360
Then yeah, it's what I was like, what do we hate redheads?

434
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:27,560
Like, I was like, this is such a weird insult.

435
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,200
By the way, I looked all this up.

436
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:34,000
Everything in these last two episodes appears to have actually happened in real life.

437
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Anyway,

438
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:43,280
the like showdown between the ambassador from Austria showing up is also real in next

439
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,280
episode.

440
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,280
Like,

441
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,280
historically accurate.

442
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,880
Yeah, which is fascinating.

443
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,760
Anyway, I guess this is the part of the manga that's supposed to be biographical.

444
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:54,760
Right.

445
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,000
So let's see in the gardens of Versailles, Maria's greeting everybody, including Doric

446
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,480
or Duke early on, which I thought was funny.

447
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,240
Like, oh yeah, he's just hanging out.

448
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:07,440
Yeah, she has no idea.

449
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,080
We see her again, blatantly ignore Dewberry.

450
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,280
Dewberry rushes off smashing several busts on the way.

451
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,280
We get some gossip that explains the power dynamics at play.

452
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:20,040
Madame Dewberry is powerful right now because she controls the king, right?

453
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,240
So she can like complain to him and get him to do stuff.

454
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:24,720
However, Marie is going to be the future queen.

455
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:27,040
So everybody has to pick the side and hedge their bets.

456
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,000
Like are you going to ally with the powerful person right now or the person that's going

457
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,120
to be powerful in a couple of years?

458
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,720
And everybody also wonders which side Oscar is going to take.

459
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,520
We got to Oscar and Andre.

460
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,720
Oscar is like, seems like all these nobles are freaking out over this.

461
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:41,880
And Andre is like, yeah, it seems like it's a big deal.

462
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,200
Who's side are you going to pick Oscar?

463
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,640
And Oscar tells him that she's just going to sit back and watch the fireworks.

464
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,120
She's like, I'm just going to watch this all play out.

465
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,640
We cut back to Dewberry, who has destroyed another room.

466
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,840
The property damage is a shame.

467
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,600
It's like smashing up every thing.

468
00:41:58,600 --> 00:41:59,600
It's so funny.

469
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,480
From a dark doorway enters Duke Orleon.

470
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:04,480
She's like, what do you want?

471
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:10,160
And he tells her that he thinks Marie's behavior has been irreprehensible.

472
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,560
And he would like to see Dewberry outdo her because he has a plan.

473
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,920
We got to Andre rushing on horseback to the Jarge estate.

474
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:23,080
He is here to deliver news that Madame Dewberry is going to make Oscar's mom, who's not dead,

475
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:24,880
her lady in waiting.

476
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:29,280
Oscar is like, shit, she's trying to force me to join her side.

477
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:30,280
Sucks.

478
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,600
I don't want my mom involved in all this stuff.

479
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,440
Just like tell her no, just tell her to refuse that job.

480
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,080
But then General Jarge's enters and tells Oscar that this is an order directly from

481
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,800
the king so they can't refuse.

482
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,360
Oscar is horrified as we cut to credits.

483
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:45,360
Okay.

484
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:51,080
This is a crazy introduction to the status of her mom.

485
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,800
We thought she was dead.

486
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,400
Probably died in childbirth.

487
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,920
It's not like when she was born that she was thrown at all.

488
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:03,480
And then she was like gazing at a portrait like she was dead.

489
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:04,480
Yeah.

490
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,000
She really is like a fake out.

491
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,560
Like I really thought she was dead.

492
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,560
Yeah.

493
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,680
But then she's like, oh, your mom's going to be made Madame Dewberry's personal assistant.

494
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,680
And she's like, what?

495
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,680
And then she's like, okay.

496
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,480
And then like she was just like, cool.

497
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,600
It's raised our daughter.

498
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,680
She seems very passive.

499
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,400
She seems super chill.

500
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,240
She doesn't allow her to be anything but that.

501
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:34,240
But it's crazy.

502
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:40,200
Also like, surely she's too old to be a lady in waiting.

503
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,720
Isn't that like for women like before they get married that are in high status, I would

504
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:45,720
assume?

505
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,240
She's like a family to run.

506
00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:51,200
She doesn't have time to be hanging out with this lady.

507
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,200
Yeah.

508
00:43:52,200 --> 00:44:00,560
Madame Dewberry lives in the palace and the Charger's live in their own estate.

509
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,280
So she like having to not live with her family anymore.

510
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,280
Yeah.

511
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,280
I mean, this seems like, okay.

512
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,080
So I'm looking at Lady in Waiting Wikipedia page.

513
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,480
Historically in Europe, a lady in waiting is often a noble woman, but of lower rank

514
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,080
than of the woman who she's attending.

515
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:17,120
So she may either have or received a retainer or may not have received compensation for

516
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,120
the services rendered.

517
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:23,080
A lady in waiting was considered more of a secretary, or a companion to her mistress

518
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:24,080
and a servant.

519
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,080
So I guess it's just like your crew.

520
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,480
Because I've always said, like, oh, I wish I had a lady in waiting because I just want

521
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,960
someone to brush my hair for me all the time.

522
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,800
It'd be so relaxing.

523
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:35,800
Yeah.

524
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:41,360
So it seems like this is an informal, well, I mean, this one, it's a formal position here,

525
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,080
but it is a formal position for other court ladies.

526
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,520
So it doesn't seem so much as.

527
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,920
Like, I assume the ones that are unmarried and the younger ones have to actually do like

528
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:50,920
work.

529
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:55,120
Whereas the older ones are just ones you hang out with is my guess.

530
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:56,120
But I don't know.

531
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,440
I had a few other notes for this episode.

532
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:03,800
I forgot to mention, because there's like a scene where Madam Dewberry is like looking

533
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,240
in the mirror and it's like tinted red.

534
00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:08,640
And I was like, look who's the redhead now?

535
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,840
Like you look like you have red hair here.

536
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,680
And then also she's like, oh, I just have to control the emperor.

537
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,240
But I'm like, he literally just dismissed all your concerns.

538
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,360
Do you have control over him?

539
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:25,840
Like he just keeps like laughing off everything she's presenting to him.

540
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:26,840
Uh-huh.

541
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,840
Actually, she has about as much control of him as any as anybody else does though.

542
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:31,840
So yeah.

543
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:32,840
Oh man.

544
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:33,840
Yeah.

545
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:34,840
So this is.

546
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,080
But yeah, biggest, craziest thing.

547
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,080
Mom is alive.

548
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,080
Yeah.

549
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,080
It's like a really funny review.

550
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,880
I want to roll into the next episode.

551
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,520
I really like the episode titles.

552
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,080
They're very dramatic to dig in it.

553
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,080
Yeah.

554
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,960
Episode four is called Rose's Wine and the Conspiracy.

555
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:02,360
We open on a dramatic shot of like demonic crumbling statues.

556
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,400
Then we jump to Marie and her aunts.

557
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,480
They talk about how Dewberry is trying to make Asda's mom her lady in waiting.

558
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,680
And they're like, well, you just can't take this lying down, Marie Antoinette.

559
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,520
And Marie is like, you're right.

560
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:19,480
I'm going to ask the prince to make Oscar's mom my way lady and waiting instead as the

561
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,880
OP plays afterwards.

562
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,920
I was like, there's no way.

563
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:26,560
Oscar's gonna be cool with this.

564
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,960
She's gonna be like, you're no better than her.

565
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,680
You don't like playing tug of war with her mom.

566
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,040
No, I don't think she's gonna like that.

567
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,840
And Maria wants Oscar to like her.

568
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:37,960
So I don't know what she is.

569
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,640
She's a pop it for these aunties.

570
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,600
I don't think she really nobody like knows Oscar.

571
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,000
It seems like it because they'll be like, oh, it's great.

572
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,000
Well, it's very funny.

573
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,000
This next.

574
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,400
I just assume Oscar hates everything.

575
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,280
Yeah, you're safe.

576
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,200
After the OP plays, we cut back to a distraught Oscar.

577
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,120
Granny is like, this is a good thing, actually.

578
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,040
Like your mom got a request from both Dewberry and Marie and she gets to pick.

579
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,760
Like your mom's getting a huge promotion no matter what.

580
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,080
And Oscar is like, yeah, but this isn't about my mom.

581
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,320
This is about making me pick a side.

582
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,040
And Marie tells her that she's gonna have to pick a side eventually anyway.

583
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,440
So she might as well do it now.

584
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,000
But Oscar doesn't want to hear it.

585
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,160
Her mom, who we see for the first time, who is not even blonde.

586
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,000
I mean, I guess she's older now.

587
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,440
So maybe she could have been blonde.

588
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,360
But like Lady Oscar is so blonde.

589
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:31,160
And her portrait that she gazed at was blonde.

590
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,160
Maybe she's older.

591
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:39,720
So like, well, normally it's like either when you're tired, your hair super blonde,

592
00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:45,160
it fades by the time you're like 12 or just stays blonde forever.

593
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,520
And I feel like that portrait, she was much older.

594
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,520
So I don't know.

595
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,120
Biological mom, right?

596
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,120
Like maybe her mom did die and this is like a second mom or something.

597
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,160
Well, I'm assuming we won't learn about that.

598
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:56,840
Yeah, we may not.

599
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,840
It may not matter.

600
00:47:58,840 --> 00:47:59,560
That's my guess.

601
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,120
My guess is that this isn't her biological mom.

602
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:03,840
That's my guess.

603
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,400
Oh, yeah, we see her mom and her mom's like, listen, I'll go along with whoever you pick, dear.

604
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,920
It's all the same to me because she's just like so chill about this.

605
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,440
Oscar is like, no, I'm not going to pick a side and then she storms off and her parents

606
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,280
are like, we're just going to let her cool her head.

607
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:22,280
We cut to the palace in Vienna in Austria.

608
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,560
Empress Maria Teresa is like, I'm getting a bad feeling that my daughter might be screwing

609
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,560
thing everything up in France.

610
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:33,920
And she decides to send account mercy, a man with an enormous mustache to France to advise.

611
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:40,040
Yeah, I thought we saw her talking directly to her daughter.

612
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,360
I imagine she doesn't have very much faith in her daughter's political shabby.

613
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:46,600
It's just very funny that she's like staring out the window.

614
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,920
She's like, I felt a disturbance in the force that my daughter is screwing everything up.

615
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,360
Yes, it's very funny.

616
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:56,240
She knows what's up.

617
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:57,640
Yeah, she's totally right.

618
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,000
I can see why she's Empress.

619
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,320
Yes, we jump back to Oscar who's sulking.

620
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,440
Andre shows up and offers to spar with her while sparring.

621
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,440
Andre is like, you know, Oscar, you're lucky that you have a mom to even fret over unlike

622
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:11,760
me, whose mom is dead.

623
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,240
And he's like, just make a decision already.

624
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:22,440
Like you being like, obstinate is like causing problems for everybody.

625
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,080
And Oscar is like, yeah, but no matter who I pick, my mom's going to suffer.

626
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,160
I'm not doing that.

627
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,880
And Andre retorts that like, listen, the king ordered this man.

628
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:31,440
You can't.

629
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:32,640
There's no getting out of it.

630
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,200
You can't run away from this.

631
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,920
He even like gave you a sweet deal where you could pick who she goes to.

632
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,760
Like you're being pretty ungrateful here and your stubbornness is causing more

633
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,040
problems for everybody.

634
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:48,520
Yeah, it's she's very like self centered.

635
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,360
Oscar like doesn't even.

636
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,320
Yeah, it's it's.

637
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,080
Well, she's a weird one.

638
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,040
The thing I like about this is that it's very clear Oscar believes in like merit

639
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,920
and like doing things like a proper way.

640
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:04,840
You know what I mean?

641
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,960
And Andre is basically like, listen, this guy is the king and we just have to

642
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,440
do whatever he says, whether it's stupid or not.

643
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,600
Like I don't think you like you need to understand that we are being ruled by these people.

644
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:19,720
Well, yeah, I mean, merit is nice and all, but like by dragging her heels on things

645
00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:22,440
like that, it just makes it worse for everyone.

646
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,480
For the people she supposedly is concerned about.

647
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,680
It's like it just be better for everyone.

648
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,240
If you just.

649
00:50:30,240 --> 00:50:32,400
But with the flow every once in a while.

650
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,960
Yeah, I mean, this is Andre's whole thing where he's like, listen, I know you want

651
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,600
to like be virtuous and not pick any sides, but you can't do that here.

652
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,320
Like, that's not how this works.

653
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,600
You can't just try to be a political here.

654
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:45,240
Yeah, we're on episode four and already twice.

655
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:47,360
She's like on the brink of being a traitor.

656
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,160
So it's like tumultuous.

657
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:52,640
Yeah, it's good.

658
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,960
Having someone like that be the head of your military crazy.

659
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,800
Yeah, well, she's just the head of the Royal Guard.

660
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,080
Not the whole.

661
00:50:59,080 --> 00:50:59,600
There you go.

662
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:00,680
Well, OK, that's true.

663
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,480
Yeah, which is why she can still get promoted in the future.

664
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,440
Oscar disarms him and thinks to herself that between the two,

665
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,840
Dewberry is deceitful and Marie is at least from a proper lineage.

666
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,320
So I guess she'd rather go with her.

667
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,000
We get a voiceover saying that Oscar chose Marie and we see Marie and Oscar's

668
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,200
mom walking together with Oscar close and heel.

669
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,720
Dewberry is pissed and rips apart her pearl necklace and runs away.

670
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:25,400
OK, I thought for a second that her being like, oh, you're going to regret that.

671
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,120
Your mom's in danger now.

672
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,560
I thought she was like pulling her necklace apart.

673
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,760
So her mom would like flip on her.

674
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,120
I thought I was like, this is so funny.

675
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,120
We did not. It was just goofy.

676
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,960
It's insane that she's acting like this in front of everyone,

677
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,400
not just her meltdown in her room, but like in front of everyone.

678
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,880
It's so good. I like how set like so pissed off.

679
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,720
She is.

680
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:53,560
While walking around, Marie recognizes Count Mercy.

681
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:55,960
She fills a bit on how cool it is to be the princess.

682
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,920
And he's like, well, where's the prince?

683
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,720
And she tells him that he's in his forge making locks.

684
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:05,040
And Mercy is like locks like the thing you open with the key.

685
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:06,720
And she's like, yeah, it's his hobby.

686
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:09,720
And he's like, oh, OK. Oh, my God.

687
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:15,280
So. I mean, listen, that's kind of a cool hobby to be honest.

688
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,960
Like that is like a cool thing.

689
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:18,880
But this is what he does.

690
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:23,520
And I like his job ever presented the opportunity to like work

691
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:27,080
in a forge and stuff like I feel like that's something that would be

692
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,400
so far removed from what they're doing at the palace.

693
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,000
I don't know. I mean, I think they're going to.

694
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,600
This is like the prelude to like getting across the point that Louis the 16th

695
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,040
was like absentee King.

696
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:39,880
Yeah, he was not there.

697
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,760
He was not the guy up for the chair.

698
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,560
Terrible match for both.

699
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,400
So both him and Marie are both like clueless

700
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:49,640
in there. They're supposed to be the head of the country soon.

701
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,360
That's troubling. Yeah.

702
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,120
Mercy overhears some gossip about what's what's really going on in the palace

703
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,000
and is horrified to learn that Marie has picked a fight with the most powerful

704
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,680
woman in France.

705
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,560
He's like, if this goes bad, this can lead to war between Austria and France.

706
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,000
We got to do very smash and more stuff up.

707
00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:08,800
She goes to the king who's feeding himself grapes.

708
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,680
He's like, you're here to complain about Marie again.

709
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,680
This is nothing. I don't want to hear this.

710
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,480
And then do very tells him that by ignoring her,

711
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:19,680
she can't be recognized at court.

712
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:23,040
And she follows him around as he grimaces, trying to get away from his

713
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,280
like bad journey life. It's very funny.

714
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,480
This is incredible. Yeah.

715
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:32,280
I'm like, are you even getting any like seems like she's

716
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,440
more trouble than she's worth.

717
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,680
I mean, we can't speak for the part that he brought her on board for.

718
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,720
But it's so funny. She is so much.

719
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,160
She's just so hot, man.

720
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,080
And he's been so lonely.

721
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,800
It's been two years since his wife died.

722
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,240
Surely. Well.

723
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,080
Don't tell us that the lady who just murdered her husband a day later.

724
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,480
He got away with it. He did. She did that.

725
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,600
Yeah. There's no way he doesn't know that.

726
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,600
It's so funny.

727
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:08,800
Yeah. So he's like trying to leave,

728
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,400
but she tells him that by ignoring somebody in his inner circle,

729
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,200
Marie is basically insulting the king himself.

730
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:15,920
And King Louis is like, what?

731
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,040
Insulting me. That's outrageous.

732
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,040
And he sends a warning to Marie because he's an idiot.

733
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,640
He's so easily manipulated.

734
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,600
I totally see how do you bury it's like a charge of everything.

735
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,720
Oh, my God.

736
00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:31,840
Marie, the ants and Mercy all receive the warning.

737
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,080
The answer like, oh, you've got to stand your ground, Marie.

738
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,560
While Mercy is like, dear God, this petty rival he was going to lead to war.

739
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:41,160
We cut to emperors.

740
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,280
And are.

741
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,080
They are actually her sister in law.

742
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,520
They're King Louis.

743
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,640
They're King Louis sisters. OK.

744
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,240
Yeah. I guess they never talked to him.

745
00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:54,600
And this is like their only outlet to.

746
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:56,200
Get at him.

747
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,640
It's. Bizarre.

748
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,200
Like I wonder what they behave like when his life is still around.

749
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,120
Yeah, because they don't they don't hold a lot of sway necessarily, right?

750
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:09,440
Yeah. And they're all they all like I'm like, are they triplet?

751
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,160
They all like the same.

752
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,280
Are any of them married?

753
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:14,720
Like what's happening?

754
00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:16,720
I'm sure they are.

755
00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:18,480
It's kind of surprising that they're all here, though,

756
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,880
because you think they get married somewhere else and have to go there.

757
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:21,480
Yeah. Yeah.

758
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,640
So for like alliances with other countries, maybe they got married

759
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,520
to like other nobles in France or something.

760
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,560
Maybe there's even more sisters.

761
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,400
Yeah. There was a lot of their father was cursed with daughters,

762
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:32,560
just like Oscar.

763
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:37,400
That does tend to happen with royalty, I've noticed, which is very funny.

764
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,160
Yeah.

765
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,920
Yeah. Oh, well, OK, apparently.

766
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:50,080
I feel like when I was researching stuff that like there were two others.

767
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,520
No, I'm thinking of something else.

768
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:58,840
I think that like maybe some sons passed in infancy or something.

769
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:00,560
So there were sons.

770
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:01,880
They just didn't make. Yes.

771
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:02,760
Yeah, that also happens.

772
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,880
Like kids like, you know, the mortality rate for children was pretty high.

773
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,920
Mm hmm. Because, you know, they didn't have any kind of.

774
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:10,800
We're stronger.

775
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:13,800
Superior.

776
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,360
Let's go outside.

777
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,600
If you don't go outside, you can't get smallpox.

778
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:21,520
Yeah, let's see.

779
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:22,800
It's true.

780
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,040
We cut to Empress Maria Teresa getting a report from Mercy.

781
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,800
Maria remembers that she was very clear when she taught her daughter

782
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,800
about the decency of prostitution and she can't backtrack on that now.

783
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,560
Or Maria might think she's like a hypocrite and not listen to her.

784
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,600
But also, this is like a really serious political matter,

785
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,920
and she needs Maria to back down.

786
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:46,760
So she orders Prime Minister Cunitz, Cunitz, Cunitz,

787
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,280
I'm going to say, Cunitz to write the letter instead.

788
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,520
She figures that if the letter comes from the prime minister,

789
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,640
then Marie probably will listen to it, right?

790
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,640
There's no way she would just totally ignore it.

791
00:56:55,640 --> 00:57:01,360
I guess she'll just ignore her queen, but this dude somehow has more slay over her.

792
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:02,360
Yeah.

793
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:05,320
We jump back to Versailles, where Mercy is reading

794
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,560
Marie, the letter from Cunitz.

795
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,120
Maria is like, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand God.

796
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,040
The prime minister is such a grouchy old man.

797
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:14,320
Why don't I listen to this guy?

798
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,200
I didn't even know any of this stuff was happening because she's an idiot.

799
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,160
How did they know?

800
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,240
Mercy, how did they know what was happening?

801
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:23,400
No.

802
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,040
This guy from your country shows up and now people in your country

803
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,240
somehow know these things are happening.

804
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:31,920
You're such an idiot.

805
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,920
It's the next day and everybody is gossiping about the king's warning.

806
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:37,320
They think that this is it.

807
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,520
No, there's no way Marie will deny the warning and she's going to acknowledge

808
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:41,560
Dewberry today.

809
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,520
Dewberry thinks to herself that she was a commoner that rose to the ranks.

810
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,440
So there's no way she's going to lose to some brat.

811
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,280
She knows how to win political fights and the riches of France will be hers.

812
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,960
She also declares Marie thinks to herself that if she addressed Dewberry,

813
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,800
then she's acknowledging prostitutes and mistresses at court

814
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,720
and her morals cannot allow that.

815
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,240
Marie and Dewberry meet face to face and Dewberry waits for Marie to acknowledge her.

816
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,960
But after a few moments, it becomes clear that Marie is not going to do that.

817
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:06,200
She just stares at her.

818
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,480
Everybody is horrified and in a rage, Dewberry snaps her fan in half and runs off.

819
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:15,880
Dewberry rushes into a room and tears some bedsheets from the shadowy doorway.

820
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,000
The Duke early on appears again and he tells her to calm down.

821
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:23,320
He's brought a gift, some wine, and she's like, what is this normal ass wine you have?

822
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,600
And he says, yes, it is normal ass wine.

823
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,520
However, it is laced with a deadly, undetectable poison.

824
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,960
Surely somebody of Madame Dewberry's caliber could find some use for it.

825
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,000
We got to Oscar's mom reading a book.

826
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,360
She gets a visit from another lady in waiting who tells her that Marie has ordered

827
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:43,520
her to bring her some wine to Madame Dewberry's quarters for her and Madame Dewberry.

828
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,160
And Oscar's mom is like, well, that makes no sense.

829
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,160
This is incredibly suspicious.

830
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,080
But the woman tells her that it's an order from the king, so she has to do it.

831
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:56,440
She needs to rat this made out after the fact.

832
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:01,600
This plan is so funny because it's so obvious to everybody, but they just have to do it anyway.

833
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,760
Her mom is just like, well, that is like doesn't make any sense.

834
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,040
Oscar's mom brings the wine to Dewberry.

835
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,160
Her mom is like, oh, where's Marie Antoinette?

836
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:16,440
We brought glasses for both of you and Dewberry very dramatically and like way overacting

837
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,680
tells her that Marie is left.

838
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:22,640
We got to Andre rushing over to Oscar to tell her that her mother has gone to Dewberry's

839
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:23,880
apartment to bring her wine.

840
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,960
And Oscar is like, well, this is obviously a trap and rushes off.

841
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,880
Back in Dewberry's apartment, she's like, well, we shouldn't let this second glass

842
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,560
of wine go to waste and tells another one of her ladies that she can have it.

843
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,880
The girl is excited and takes the glass.

844
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,480
She takes a swig and dies immediately.

845
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,640
Dewberry is like poison.

846
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,640
You poisoned this glass.

847
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,360
Why have you tried to poison me, ladies?

848
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:48,840
Are days?

849
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,160
Oh, it's ridiculous.

850
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,040
Acting is phenomenal.

851
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:53,440
Yeah.

852
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,640
And just then Lady Oscar burst into the room and sees the dead woman.

853
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:58,240
Oscar is like, are you serious?

854
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,600
You killed your own servant for this obvious setup.

855
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,480
And Dewberry is like, I don't know what you're talking about.

856
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,480
And Oscar says that this is the most obvious trap.

857
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,160
You've clearly poisoned this to yourself to like set my mother up.

858
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,040
She throws the glass through the window and then she draws her sword

859
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:18,960
and points to that Dewberry saying that everyone here just going to forget

860
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,320
what happened. And as long as she's here,

861
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,920
Dewberry is not going to lay a finger on her mother or Maria Antoinette.

862
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:29,920
Man, she's like forcing Oscar's hand to be against her.

863
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:31,720
She just chilled the hell out.

864
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,320
It wouldn't be this bad.

865
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,680
Dewberry collapses defeated while Oscar and her mom leave as we cut the credits.

866
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,040
This is so funny.

867
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:43,280
Oscar is like, listen, you might have the king's ear, but I have a sword right now.

868
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,320
Yeah, I mean, yeah.

869
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:47,800
I try to think.

870
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,560
I mean, it seems like he doesn't care that much much about madam Dewberry.

871
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:55,600
I feel like if she just killed her, you know, like it'd be like.

872
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:57,600
Oh, this thing.

873
01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:58,600
No, I feel like he cares.

874
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:02,200
I feel like so many people would be fine to like dismiss it.

875
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,440
Yeah, because this whole thing is stupid, right?

876
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,760
I mean, the thing that is great about this episode

877
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:11,760
and like these episodes, which are great, is that like this shows off so well,

878
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,680
how like petty nonsense fights that ordinarily just like wouldn't matter

879
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:20,920
in real life amongst like powerful nobility become massive problems

880
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,280
for everybody beneath them.

881
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:23,960
Yeah. Right.

882
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,360
Like the king doesn't give a shit about this.

883
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:30,640
This dispute in the same way that Oscar doesn't at the beginning,

884
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:34,120
except the king can continue not to care because it will never affect him.

885
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,960
Well, Oscar suddenly has to care because she's getting dragged into it.

886
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,080
Yeah. And it's great.

887
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:45,720
Can we talk about whenever she's sparring with Andre,

888
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:50,440
the like speed at which they're dashing around like they're moving so fast,

889
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:54,000
they got to be traveling miles of how much they're like they're into it.

890
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,000
Running the little running scenes where there's

891
01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,720
just the stills with the running sound.

892
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,080
I'm like, oh, my God.

893
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,240
Yeah, I feel like it's pretty crazy.

894
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:08,160
I feel like the way Oscar fights very often is to get pushed back

895
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,240
and then counter because usually she's getting pushed back, right?

896
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:13,640
But it seems like she's doing that on purpose.

897
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:14,760
Good strategy.

898
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,960
Yeah, because that's what the dude would assume that would happen

899
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:19,360
if they were fighting anyway.

900
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,680
So just use that to her advantage.

901
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,400
Yeah. So I just noticed that that's the way she fights, which is interesting.

902
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,240
Yeah. I like these episodes a lot.

903
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,160
Yeah. It was.

904
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,480
Wasn't as much about Oscar at first.

905
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:37,560
And I guess learning more about Marie

906
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:46,840
Antoinette and how susceptible to persuasion and pressure she is.

907
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:50,120
Oh, yeah. I feel like Marie comes off very poorly in these episodes.

908
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:55,360
Yeah. And Madame D'Berry is like on hinge like

909
01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:01,800
anything you say to her is going to result in like damage to something.

910
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,840
I mean, the thing is, is that like, yeah, she's like a Madame D'Berry is on hinge

911
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,040
where she's constantly breaking shit all the time, right?

912
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,760
But on the other hand, like not being acknowledged at court is a big deal for her.

913
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,640
Like this isn't a like I'm saying this whole thing is petty,

914
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:17,240
but it is there are actual stakes for her not being acknowledged at court, right?

915
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,200
And that's the thing she tries to tell King Louis about.

916
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,240
And he just ignores basically because he's like, yeah, whatever.

917
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:26,080
But that is like a real consequence for her that I think is interesting.

918
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:31,680
I feel like she should just be grateful for what, how much,

919
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,120
how far she's come and like not care.

920
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,040
I don't know.

921
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,720
Yeah. I mean, you know, it's all about each other's egos and stuff, right?

922
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,720
I mean, this is where it's like, I mean, this is the thing that comes along.

923
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,000
And the thing that I'm happy about with this show is that like,

924
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:49,240
I was kind of worried that this where we were going to be like fawning over the

925
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,640
like luxury of the nobility. You know what I mean?

926
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,200
Like, I didn't know like what this position of the show was going to take

927
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:59,960
in terms of like what Marie Antoinette is like, what are the royals of?

928
01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:02,240
And, you know, I know that the author is like from the new left or whatever,

929
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:06,040
but it's like, you know, this is supposed to be a biography or biographical

930
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,040
in some ways, right?

931
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:12,320
And I think it comes off very negative about all of these guys.

932
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:16,840
Well, yeah, basically, it's like these petty things between.

933
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:22,920
Royals just has an impact that it wouldn't for that affects everyone.

934
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:23,920
Yeah.

935
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:29,360
Can you explain the left wing movement?

936
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:32,240
I guess like the new left in Japan from a while ago.

937
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,560
Yeah. I don't know any details about it.

938
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,240
You want just like a I mean, they're going to be leftist, right?

939
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,160
So they're going to not like the nobility.

940
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,720
Yeah, I guess. I mean, I wasn't sure.

941
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,880
Like at that point in time, how influential

942
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:53,440
like Japanese royalty would have.

943
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,200
So like you mean like the emperor of Japan and that kind of stuff?

944
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:04,080
Yeah. I mean, it was very powerful during Imperial Japan got basically

945
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:08,120
completely neutered after the U.S. reforms, the Japanese government.

946
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,600
I mean, it's still around and there is like, you know,

947
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:14,720
this more figurehead now.

948
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,560
Yeah, it's basically a figurehead now,

949
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:19,440
kind of the ways that most remaining monarchs are.

950
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:22,920
Yeah.

951
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,840
I assume the new left has something to do more with like communism

952
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:28,200
and being close with the USSR or something.

953
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:30,600
Because that's what it that's like, it would have been the 60s.

954
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,760
So that would have been like the player in the gotcha.

955
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,440
But yeah, but like I do like how it's not going to be

956
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:38,720
awning over.

957
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:43,720
The royalty here, it's going to portray these guys like like assholes

958
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,040
who create problems for everybody. Yes.

959
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,920
And like don't realize they create problems for everybody,

960
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:50,800
but think they're doing something really important, right?

961
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,800
Like the whole thing with Marie-Anne Zonette is she's just like,

962
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:59,000
oh, well, we can't acknowledge is like a prostitutes and mistresses

963
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,240
because I was taught that those are bad.

964
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,240
And like everybody around her being like, listen, you were supposed to

965
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,320
like, yeah, you were taught this stuff is bad, but you're supposed to not care.

966
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:09,880
We're supposed to all be hypocrites here.

967
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:15,200
OK, you can't be going around actually doing things with morality

968
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:16,520
or like following your morals.

969
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:20,320
You're supposed to be doing Machiavellian power politics here.

970
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:22,200
Oh, which is.

971
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:23,400
Yeah.

972
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,480
Well, also like girls, this is a different country

973
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:29,600
and the rules have been set before you got here.

974
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,400
And I guess you're not technically queen yet.

975
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,560
Oh, yeah. Well, she's like, I bet if the Queen's dead,

976
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:37,680
I'm basically the Queen of France.

977
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:39,040
It's like, no, you're not.

978
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:40,880
Yeah. Hold your horses.

979
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:43,320
So yeah. Yeah.

980
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:44,640
I think it's great.

981
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,320
I like how the Queen of France is like, no, you're not.

982
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:47,240
Yeah.

983
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:52,080
Yeah, I think it's great. I like how Oscar is like, well, this is stupid.

984
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,120
And then she gets involved and she's like, well, this is the worst thing

985
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:55,560
that's ever happened to me.

986
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,960
I'm mostly just interested to see if like the show at some point

987
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:03,960
like makes Maria more likeable and like a friend of Oscars

988
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,520
or she's just continue to be like a thorn in Oscar's side.

989
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,760
The Oscar has to learn to navigate the relationship with. Yeah.

990
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:18,320
And like how much will be politics versus like if we start getting into.

991
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:24,840
The French Revolution, how much will be focused on like managing that?

992
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:32,080
Yeah. So yeah, I am interested to see where we go with this show

993
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:36,200
and like the whenever we do get like what will happen.

994
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,320
And then we cut to a time skip.

995
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:40,000
Yeah.

996
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:43,160
It will be interesting to see. Also, I just want to say,

997
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,040
I think Madame du Barry rules. I think it's incredibly funny.

998
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:51,120
She's like, she's like, yeah, I was just like like a cool

999
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:55,960
court is on and then I married a guy and killed him.

1000
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,120
And then I became like, she's like, I'm just a commoner.

1001
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,520
I made my way up here. I should rule everything.

1002
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,240
And I'm like, well, you know, you are more qualified than everybody else here.

1003
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,240
You're more qualified than Marie Antoinette. That's for sure. Yeah.

1004
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:11,160
And I feel like she's just going to be the cartoony villain.

1005
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:12,360
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

1006
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,960
Imagine the show is going to explore her. No, no, no, no.

1007
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,720
I mean, she's setting up to get owned, right?

1008
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:20,880
Like because I mean, even even duke Orleon gave her that wine

1009
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,400
and she executed the worst plan of all time.

1010
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:25,840
He probably knew that he probably knew that she's an idiot.

1011
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,120
I'm trying to see like, what is the do trying to do?

1012
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:30,440
It's she's so obvious.

1013
01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:34,600
I wouldn't like want to associate with her with my name.

1014
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,200
Like if she gets caught, she's just going to throw me under the bus immediately.

1015
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:42,520
Like she seems like a liability to incorporate into your plans.

1016
01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:45,080
Well, or at least through yourself.

1017
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:47,080
Well, your face and name.

1018
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:52,080
I think the difference here is that she doesn't have an official position, right?

1019
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:56,920
So it would be her word against Duke Orleon's a guy who has actual power.

1020
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,800
So I don't think he risks very much by teaming up with her, right?

1021
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:01,560
Because he could just dismiss her immediately.

1022
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,880
Yeah, I guess so.

1023
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:05,760
Which I think is pretty good.

1024
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:06,760
And.

1025
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:09,760
Is he in the military or the?

1026
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:11,520
No. Royal.

1027
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:12,560
Yeah. Yeah.

1028
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:14,160
Yeah. Yeah. He's the he's the cousin.

1029
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:15,160
He's so.

1030
01:09:16,480 --> 01:09:18,320
Oscar is his superior.

1031
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:19,480
No. No.

1032
01:09:19,480 --> 01:09:20,920
You go early on the Duke.

1033
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:25,800
Well, I mean, like within the military, he's not in the military or within the.

1034
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,320
Sorry, I keep saying that the royal guard.

1035
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,800
The royal guard, she's.

1036
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,240
You've got to be honest with the royal guard within that.

1037
01:09:34,480 --> 01:09:36,840
I just said I thought I just asked if he was.

1038
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:37,560
And you said no.

1039
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,000
I said he's royalty.

1040
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:42,280
OK, he's not in.

1041
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:43,240
No, no, no. OK.

1042
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,040
He's the Duke of a of a place.

1043
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:46,560
He's like that's his job.

1044
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:50,120
The emperor or sorry, the king and like.

1045
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,480
His son, they don't carry weapons on them.

1046
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:54,000
Do they?

1047
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:54,800
No. OK.

1048
01:09:54,800 --> 01:10:03,680
Because like Duke Orleon just immediately like killed that person disguised as Marie.

1049
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,080
So I thought that was.

1050
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:10,600
Yeah. I mean, so like what often happens is like upper class people or like, you know,

1051
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:16,320
nobility will buy positions in the military, like officer positions.

1052
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,200
And they usually won't actually serve anywhere important

1053
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:21,640
because they're just buying ceremonial stuff.

1054
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:25,200
And maybe like that wouldn't surprise me if Duke Orleon did that, but he would have

1055
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:28,000
bought that in the military, not the royal guard, because that would be weird

1056
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:31,320
if you signed up to guard yourself. That's true. OK.

1057
01:10:31,480 --> 01:10:32,560
So they sometimes do that.

1058
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:37,440
I don't know. I don't know if he did that and because he's like kind of isn't a real guy.

1059
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,960
Yeah. OK. Well, yeah.

1060
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:45,000
I guess he's the main main bad bad guy.

1061
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:50,120
So yes. Or like the stakes of him being bad versus mad and do barrier different.

1062
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:51,920
Yeah. Well, it seems like this arc is not over.

1063
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,480
Right. It seems like the next episodes are still going to be dealing with this.

1064
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:58,480
Yeah. And so I I'll be interested to see what he gets away with.

1065
01:10:58,480 --> 01:10:59,920
Like what was his real plan here?

1066
01:10:59,920 --> 01:11:02,120
Because obviously it wasn't this, right?

1067
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:04,840
And also like he doesn't really care about Marie Antoinette.

1068
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:08,440
I mean, that's not really he was trying to stop the wedding before to like

1069
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:11,640
cause a stir. It seems like he's just trying to stir things up.

1070
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:13,520
So we'll see. Yeah.

1071
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,640
Having to adapt the game plan

1072
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:20,960
and because I'm assuming it's going to be a lot of like Oscar foiling his plans

1073
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,880
and how long will it take Oscar to put the pieces together?

1074
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:25,720
Oscar seems sharp.

1075
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:29,080
Is she going to be able to realize and then it's just going to be a debate of like,

1076
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:33,320
oh, he's, you know, in a higher position so I can't just make accusations.

1077
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:35,240
And like, how would they actually go about like?

1078
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,520
Exposing him. Yeah.

1079
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:40,880
Kind of thing. Yeah.

1080
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,600
Yeah, that's going to be difficult for Oscar to do.

1081
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:43,960
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

1082
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,800
I'm like, I get a lot good cricket.

1083
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:50,040
Stop with the squeak toy girl.

1084
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,040
We're almost done here.

1085
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,800
Oh, OK. Well, yeah.

1086
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:59,680
So I guess that's what we've got this week with the show.

1087
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:05,640
I did want to say thank you because I know on Spotify, at least we've gotten

1088
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:08,400
a few more ratings.

1089
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:09,200
Oh, yeah.

1090
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,200
You can't leave a written review, but we have gotten a few more ratings.

1091
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:15,040
I did want to shout out those folks who did that.

1092
01:12:15,440 --> 01:12:18,440
Much appreciated.

1093
01:12:18,440 --> 01:12:23,440
Gives us a good pep in our step that people are listening and,

1094
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:28,640
you know, listening engaged enough to to leave a rating.

1095
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:30,520
So yes, we appreciate that.

1096
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:31,560
Thank you.

1097
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:34,640
And anybody else listening who hasn't done that yet, you can rate us five stars

1098
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,360
on your podcast platform of choice.

1099
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:39,040
You can do it in Spotify.

1100
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:40,240
That's great.

1101
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:41,400
You can do it in Apple Podcasts.

1102
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:46,840
And if you do it there, you can leave a review which helps us for the algorithm

1103
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:49,720
that helps discoverability and other things like that.

1104
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:53,520
And another thing that helps us out is you can post about us on social media.

1105
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,720
State of social media.

1106
01:12:57,720 --> 01:12:58,920
There are some good ones out there.

1107
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:00,120
You can post about us there.

1108
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,200
You can also tell your friends and people you know to please listen to us.

1109
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:04,800
It really helps us out.

1110
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:10,920
We like making this show and we want to engage more people in it and convince

1111
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:14,800
more people to watch the Rosa Versailles show that we are liking pretty well so far.

1112
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,080
So please do that.

1113
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,480
Yeah. All right.

1114
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:21,840
Let's see.

1115
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,360
Did we what have we learned?

1116
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,480
What have we learned?

1117
01:13:27,480 --> 01:13:33,440
Don't put fragile objects in the room of a temperamental person.

1118
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:35,960
Don't have anything.

1119
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,360
Don't have anything.

1120
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,120
Don't have. What did we learn here?

1121
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:41,480
They'll just get destroyed by others.

1122
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,960
You should go the first.

1123
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,080
No, I don't know who learned something.

1124
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:49,000
I mean, we should have learned.

1125
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:50,080
I don't think she learned anything.

1126
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:51,280
I don't think anybody learned anything.

1127
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,280
She said it was a pretty dumbass.

1128
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,200
Let's see. If you're going to execute a.

1129
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:57,680
You know what?

1130
01:13:58,160 --> 01:13:59,040
Nope, you go.

1131
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,160
You go to try to set up somebody poisoning you.

1132
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:07,240
Maybe like think about your setup a little bit more and not make it so obvious

1133
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:08,480
that this is what's going to happen.

1134
01:14:08,480 --> 01:14:10,640
And also don't involve as many people.

1135
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:15,400
If everyone already talks about you having poisoned someone in the past,

1136
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:16,800
maybe change it up.

1137
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:20,800
That I know the woman's weapon, blah, blah, blah.

1138
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,560
But like, you know, it's too too easy.

1139
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:26,200
Yeah, that's that's that's too much.

1140
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:27,800
You're right. I didn't even think about that.

1141
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:29,360
It's so obvious.

1142
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,000
Everybody clocks it immediately.

1143
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,560
And if you make keys as a hobby and you just got married,

1144
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:39,520
like make a cute little key and lock for your new wifey.

1145
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:40,880
Is that cute?

1146
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:44,360
That's like for her heart and you have the key to her.

1147
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:46,200
There's something.

1148
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:49,800
Uh-huh. I don't know if that's all he's got going on.

1149
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:54,320
He's got he's got to make it work more than just be hidden away from.

1150
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,640
He does not see as much of anything going on.

1151
01:14:57,680 --> 01:14:59,960
You think they've constantly made their marriage?

1152
01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:02,280
Probably. I doubt it.

1153
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:03,560
You think they're supposed to.

1154
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:05,360
You have to get on your wedding day or whatever.

1155
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:08,320
Well, yeah, I don't know what the French did the whole like,

1156
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:10,000
let's everyone watch them do it.

1157
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,960
I don't think that is not a show like I would.

1158
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:16,200
I would think Maria had been would have like been not.

1159
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:18,560
I feel like we would have seen something about it.

1160
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,600
But maybe we're just not going to address that those things happen.

1161
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:25,840
Hey, you're probably not in this like kind of Oscar without a mother.

1162
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:27,440
Yeah. Yeah.

1163
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:30,240
OK.

1164
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:31,440
All right.

1165
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:34,840
Uh-uh, on that note.

1166
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:38,760
Thank you all for listening and supporting us.

1167
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:43,760
And we will catch you guys next time with more coverage

1168
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:47,120
of the super dramatic show.

1169
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:49,000
Yeah. So.

1170
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:50,280
Yeah. Bye.

1171
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:51,680
Two more apps.

1172
01:15:51,680 --> 01:16:10,440
Next time on show Joe.