Therey, no telling where they'll go. It's nothing short of when they should
be UH and Welcome back to Adventures show a discussion of different UH shows in
theory. But right now we're just testing it. So it's just mashal it's
just mash episodes one, two, and three so far. We wanted to
watch a cartoon and we needed to justify to doing so here we are.
This is all just really a giant thing to get Steve to watch the cartoon,
That's all it was. Ever, that's fine. So okay, I
have to say I didn't really pick this robot for the psychopath tendencies. Um,
but boy, his little natural frown and twitchy eyes, along with the
blood splider pattern, it paints a picture he's twitching along too well. I
also I added a baseball bat, but it looked a little bit uncool for
YouTube. So yeah, yeah, yeah, we couldn't. It's drifting in
and out of frame. My own brand from Natchell Stranger to extreme physical violence.
Yeah, it's extreme physical anything really very true. So for those who
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up. Yeah, and I write books such as the totally legend of Brandon
Firemaster quite relevant because maybe the closest matching character to Matchell in many ways.
So if you like what you're seeing in this insane cartoon, do you go
check out the Brandon Firemasters series of Muscles and Magic ridiculousness. I mean,
yeah, truly. I think we mentioned this last one, but the first
time I saw an episode of Matshell, my initial it was, oh shit,
Brandon thyme Master would love that. It's like, not even just Steve,
like the concept of character he has created. Would love that. He
would, Yeah, he would. He would not be baffled by anything that
Mashell does. It would all make a fact sense to him and in his
world. A reminder for those who are just starting to tune into the showdo
what is the world of Matchell. It's basically Harry Potter if he decided magic
was for nerds and just absolutely crushed familiar Hogwarts bigotry. Yeah, if you're
not magic in this world of not Hogwarts, forget what it's called, but
for legal reasons, probably not Hogwarts. Then they basically murder you as a
baby. So thanks a hi. I don't know if they murder you or
they cast you out or something, because I don't remember the specifics, but
I know there's a character in the series later on who wants to take whatever
they're doing a step further, and I feel like, if they're killing him
his baby, there's not a lot of room to grow on that one.
I don't know, Drue. I mean, when retro Marshall's guardian finds him
as a baby, someone has just left that baby out in the middle of
nowhere. Yeah, I'm not a legal expert. Yeah you know what happens
to having but you know it's not a not a targeted campaign indifference. Did
yeah God killed that baby? Meet him? Oh well, yeah, we
certainly bought that to a depressing place. But that is the world he's living,
and he's got to guess become was it the distinct division to high visionary,
the divine visionary, vine visionary in a world that is entirely run by
magic, where he has none, just has to power being super athletic.
Yeah, I mean balls to the wall strong we talked about last time.
We don't really know for sure if this is a thing that everybody could do
and only Mashell tries, or if Matchell is special in some capacity, but
the fact remains that he is a jock in a world of nerves. He
is. Maybe they could will be doing this if they weren't so lazy and
weak. We'll find out as we go through, I guess. Yeah.
So we open on Matchell having to do his exam, his magical exam,
because he oh, go ahead. We're first We're first introduced to Claude Lucy,
which again is just seems like a white guy named Generator. But Claude
Lucy, who is? I think it's the snape of this Harry Potter world.
He's very impressed with himself. He's very he enjoys the power he has
over students. And I immediately thought, because this is an anime and it's
gonna prop up at some point, usually probably a pedophile I'm just I'm getting
a very strong nonsfied from this guy. I don't know what I guess.
I guess in fairness, this is a British boarding school exactly, and you
have expounded many times your your opinions on British boarding school. So it's not
just an anime some sort of pedophile joke. He's gonna crop up. I
don't care how wholesome it is. Otherwise it's practically mandatory. But this is
also an anime about a British boarding school. So yeah, I don't have
high hopes for Claude Lucy Wow. I get you know. He's a real
prick in the show, but not nearly as bad as he could have.
Yeah, well, I'm calling it checked that man's hard drive. I mean,
if it was gonna be anyone, I feel like the turn of Not
Dumbledore would be more of more of a twist. We're getting ahead of ourselves
though, yet I really enjoyed. I was kind of I think we speculated
last time, would Mashall just solve all of his problems with brute strength and
extreme intimidation? Yes he does. Yeah, he was not disappointed by this
episode, That's all I mean there's a lot of a lot of fun moments.
The lifting the stone with the thumb um, the uh what do you
call it? The um man. I can't remember the other the smaller one.
But the one that stuck out to me the most that I loved was
the the magical writing test he had to take where everyone's trying to like make
their all the letters and stuff are enchanted to move around as squiggles, uh,
and mattional selection is first to ask nicely and then to shatter the pen
above the page and ask nicely again, and it works. That's the thing
about this this world. Everyone's got magic, but everybody is still susceptible to
getting this shit cake by everybody knows what side of the you know. Yeah,
that paper. That paper made a very real time assessment of whether it
cared enough or not, and it made a choice well about dying today.
He was supposed to be a test. Yeah, it's like how much do
I give a shit? Kind of It raises some points about Matchell to me,
because he's a very kind of low key, kind of uh calm dude.
He's that kind of anime hero. It seems to be very aware of
what he is like The episode starts with Lord Lucy doing a monolog about yes,
the students come from all over the world too, are taken this extremely
difficult, challenging test and only three percent of him? Or is that guy
doing the invisible chair while meeting a bodybuild a magazine that does exactly what he's
doing, And I don't know if he's at least he's not even reading a
badging. But I don't know if he purposely trying to annoy everyone or just
he's got that kind of Goku wholesomeness to him. But I still worked out.
I honestly had a thought when I was watching Mashell this time. It
didn't occur to me the first time. I kind of just took a lot
of his behavior as classic anime tropes. But um, watching it this round,
I was struck. I was like, is there a any chance they
wrote this character to intentionally be a neurodivergent because a little some of his behaviors,
like the taking everything completely literally, like calling out the efficiency issues of
like the test thing, the absolute sense of like right and wrong, Like
yeah, I was like, you could make a case for it. I
don't know that it was intentional. It's like the fread from mystery ink thing.
But he functions within that range well enough that it's interesting because he's consistent.
You know, you get a very a sense that Mashell is always acting
with intent, even if that intent feels obscured. That's true, And there
are kind of there are instances throughout these episodes are kind of backed up a
little bit. We'll get into them. The second test is the maze.
This episode is called Mashburnstead and the Mysterious Maze. There is no mystery in
this maze for Mashell at all. He's a very straightforward. He does meet
a new character, um Lemon Irvine I forgot her last name was Irvine yet
who who's trapped to the maze with him, and just immediately runs into every
single trap that a maze has. Um Mashill eventually kind of well, this
clearly incompetent student is slowing me down. I'll leave her. Then up pops
the sinks from the famous Riddler. The Spinks about to destroy this woman now
not we do the riddle answer. We do also find out something about Lemon
right before the Sphinx attacks, and that is that she has been fucking up
on purpose. Um I don't know if we get the exact reason quite yet,
but we find out that Lemon was intentionally slowing mash All down. Um
oh, surprise cat for the quick viewers. So she was intentionally slowing him
down to hurt his chances of passing. And when she's about to get cut
down by the Sphinx, kind of feels so bad about what she did that
she doesn't even call for help. Yeah, and that would be Claude Lucy
grooming a child to two say, not within the realms of morality. So
again, I gotta put another little mark on the chalkboard there for Claude.
Yeah, the Mighty Sphinx comes with its riddle. It looks like Lemon is
doomed til Mashall just John wayns him straight in the jewel. I also love
the way he answers the Sphinxes riddle because it's the classic what walks on four
legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in
the evening, which I think we've all heard into the goddamn ground at this
point, and Mashall's already in today responses to punch the snake in the John
y'all such a creature couldn't possibly exist. Again, very Brandon, Fine,
he's got to real do no harm, but take no shit energy going on.
Yes, that's true, and he said he does not. It's a
wonderful lot of charity. He has no truck with magic whatsoever. He doesn't
just not have magic. He thinks it's dumb, even though he's talking to
like a fifteen foot tall sphinx. I mean, but I fifteen solid man,
fifteen foot tall sphinx that couldn't even take one punch. Yeah, well
from right, but from Mashall's perspective, you know, just not that interesting.
That interesting about that week of a Funit like I've got a riddle for
you, man? Do you even lift? Yeah? Very impressed with it.
I was. They didn't. They could have just had him punched that
out. They didn't have to add it was a nice time. Just fuck
your stupid bullshit. If his battlecry was just fuck magic, it wouldn't be
surprised. I'd be worried. That's very close to the thing I have in
a book coming out. I will not say that's the most matial part of
these tests. To me. It was how he escaped the maze. He
just basically picks up lemon and punches his way through the walls, which is
kind of like, yeah, you can see that coming, but when you
see the walls, there are certain walls he's punched. If he had just
moved a couple of feet to the left, he could have just went round,
and he's just punched a direct as the crow flies line out of the
maze and wonderfully straightforward. Yeah, I forgot about the ones where he very
clearly it was much slower you would think, but no, Yeah, any
doubts I had Mashall would abandon his very straightforward approach to winning the day,
and the very straightforward conceit of the entire show is I don't think he's going
to evolve from it. I think the challenge for the show is going to
be how can he subvert everything we try to do in this world of magic
in the most humorously blunt way possible. I'm looking forward today. Yeah,
well, and I actually I think that the end of this episode, which
we'll get to with a not Dumbledore, hints that there is room from Ashell
to grow, even as incredible as he is. I bet we do see
that in the series. My assumption as he just will grow through learning physical
techniques. Yeah, he'll just get bigger and bigger. Yeah. Oh,
if I just work out hard or I can do this, like, I
definitely think we'll seem ashall level up. I just don't think it'll be with
magic if he's saying that, God, I can I can give even less
of a ship about magic if I just believe in myself. But um,
yeah, we were at the part where where Mashell has punched his way out
of the maize. Lemon admits that the professor groomed her her into assisting,
and the Professor's like, oh, well, what the fuck are you gonna
do about it? He is not apologetic at all, he says. He
just starts laying into hers. What's he says, stupidity and harriet from your
parents? Oh no, no, wonder you have a miserable life? Oh
man, so not good teacher, No, no, he is not.
We're a great one who knows I might be proved ro And so he he
challenges, let me, says, if you have a problem with it,
you know, come at me, bro more or less? What are you
we gonna do? And Mashell, again showing his he does have a talent,
for I guess finding the most efficient way to fix a problem. Much
like the Labyrinth, he just grabs the guy's one and shatters. Yeah,
which, from the way everyone looks on feels like, I guess that's this
society is equivalent of a surprise kick to the penuts. Yeah, I guess.
I mean it'd be luck if you're in the Old West a gun duel
high and he just grabs his gun throw away and just not only does it
win the duel, it just it makes everyone look stupid. It should be
noted that a retro and Brad Brad infiltrating spy from the Bureau of Magic,
are both watching in on this. I'm going to call it, I reckon.
Brad's going to be redeemed villain of this this series. Yeah, they're
setting up him in and the Dad in a real buddy comedy angle. Yeah,
I think it. Marshall is inherited a an evil uncle um, some
kind of a getas scenario. I don't know, we'll see. I did.
I did love the it was Brad Brad is the the bad guy with
retro Yeah, yeah, I did. Like when you know they're early on,
Brad's like, trust me, trust me, this is definitely gonna work.
I've got a plan. And then as soon as they get like the
test papers with those scrumming letters, Brad's immediately like, why did I think
this would work? Magical? This is a dumb fucking But I will say
in in watching this one, I think they did this really well and more
than I appreciate it because the cutting off that fight in that way, not
only is it a very funny, cool national moment, but it sort of
to to think of it in wrestling terms, it protects the teacher because we
haven't seen the teacher get his ass kicked like full on with Magic versus Mashell.
Magic or Mashell pulled a quick move that ended the fight very effectively and
was impressive. But you also don't get the sense that you've seen everything that
Lucio has to throw. So they did it was really good. It made
it seem smart, but it didn't establish that mashells so strong he can kick
the shit out of a professor, which is pretty important for the rest of
the series. Yeah, that's true, you don't want to you don't want
to burn you bad guys too soon. Well, well, also, if
he's supposed to be going up against students for the rest like for you know,
interacting with and competing with other students. If he's already so strong that
he can squash the professors without effort, that it's hard to build any stakes
there. That's true, But I've seen animals where areno stakes and it still
works. It seems to be something it can be done, Oh can be
But this the way this one likes to go fucking heavy on you. Yeah,
speaking of some kind Yeah. In the next challenge, it does get
a bit heavy. Not Dumbledore, the headmaster, who is very legally close
to dumbledoreets he gets pulled up against on the on the council of you know
which is that definitely didn't feature in the Harry Potter film, and Dumbledore lays
down a challenge kind of get the impression at this point in the cartoon that
Dumbledore is supposed to be a kind of neutral figure. He immediately summons the
most horrifying demon we've seen so far, who use some kind of press torture
device fair enough on a doll. Is unbeknownst to Mashell, he has taken
the soul of his nearest loved one and put it in this doll, so
oh it is. It is, but known she tells Mashell. That's why
Mashell gives a shit. Yeah. So yeah, it's just like, oh,
there's a little test. I will have this hideous demon crush the soul
of your loved one, which seems a tad extreme. Well, the context
of it was, um, what will you do when you're overpowering strength isn't
enough? You know, you think the point was starting to put him in
a hopeless situation to see what his reaction would be. And Mashell's reaction is
to sprint forward, slam his hands below the blade and paling himself on him
and pointing out that it's got to take a lot of monit to hold that
thing out. So now this is an endurance contest. Yeah, it's basically
I think this is going to be a recurring theme. They just say,
well, what are you going to do when physical strength isn't enough? And
Maschell is going to say, well, physical strength, yeah, but we'll
have you tried more physical strength. The physical strength visn't enough, You're not
doing it correctly. I mean, yeah, bachel, what will you do
a physical strength isn't enough? Try? Yeah, he doesn't seem to and
again maybe it's the neurodivergency thing, or maybe it's just as I don't give
a shit attitude. But he does seem almost baffled that anyone would think that
physical strength isn't enough. That said, given his level of physical strength,
I get that. Yeah, yeah, it's he's got that going on for
him. Yeah, I could understand how his worldview might be somewhat skewed.
If we were as strong as Manstel, I don't think we would see that
strength couldn't solve a problem. No, I'd never think about anything again except
which way the door goes. Yeah, I'll just leave that to muscle memory.
It seems to work for him. Yeah, so he beats the test.
He he confounds not Dumbledore. Do you like His last line to Toupledoor
is kind of like what would have done if if it carried on? He's
like, I would have just beat the ship out of you, And then
surprisingly not Dumbledore is like hitter, like your style security, get this psycho
out of my school. I mean, he's a guy who dropped a giant
soul killing murder machine as like as a test. This guy's not Dumbledore is
keeping up the tradition of giving no fucks. Yes, that's true. He
does have d in common with his legally distinct counterpart, and so very much
the end of it. But we meet. Um. This contains one of
my favorite lines. Have a little kind of wrap up session where Mashell he's
allowed in school. He's joining the classes. Um, his first classes on
magically, I'm picking a lock. He just crushes the lock. Not happy
with him. Um, the teacher just starts yelling him, saying, it's
like, no, you're supposed to be here to learn magic and the things
you can't do with magic with muscle and Finn Amis, who is I think
destined to be the reluctant best friend is kind of listening in on this and
doing a little monologue about how weird this new student is. And then this
monologue is interrupted by Matchell saying God is dead to this teacher. I don't
even know where it came from because you don't really hear the monologue, but
Mail, whatever she was saying to him, matche was just like, yes,
but God is dead and possibly I killed him. Oh we do we
find out. I mean, we can pretty much transition from this one to
the next episode because we find out that Finn is indeed going to be Mashell's
roommates, much to his chagrin. Last Sea it is Finn walk into his
room going, man, I hope that that door smashing weirdo isn't my roommate,
Like wait, where's my fucking door gun? And then Matchell's like surprise
when I've watched me name my muscles. So yeah, Finn is doomed now
to be Mashell's best friends. Yeah. The minute he started introducing his muscles
by name, I was like, god, this this truly was a show
made for Brandon Thimemaster. Yeah. Episode three Mash Burnstead and a pailful Bully.
Yeah, this is where we do learn a little bit about what kind
of friends mashes. He's continuing his quest to be the divine visionary. It's
funny the narrator is saying all this like mash birds they're born about magic on
his quest to be a divine visionary, and the narrator calls out Mash for
not listening. Match is just eating cream puffs. He's right. He's like,
yeah, I wasn't listening. I don't care. Um. Yeah,
this was a weird one because he needs to borrow Finn's um okay, because
he bought a burdock rout. Yeah, he just bought the nearest thing that
he thought looked like. I don't know if that's just to illustrate how little
he actually cares about magic. It could have been an understanding thing or or
a lack of caring thing, but yeah, it definitely Mashall does not give
a shit about magic. That becomes clearer and clearer. Yeah, maybe maybe
it is like an intentional disrespect thing. Like you say, It's like,
I don't think I don't give a shit fucking this is a broom, right,
did he bring your broom? Well, no, I bought. I
bought the nearest thing I had to hand. It's like like a broom.
It's it's as good, it's as good. Right, this is the same
fine. Well, even his um his performance in making do with what he
has in a world of magic, the broom illustration turns out to breathe pretty
good, because again he's with the frustrated teacher. They're all learning to make
their their brooms float so they can ride on him like other magical franchises.
Of course, Mashell can't make broom why because he has no magic. Even
he forgets that sometimes. Yeah, it's just like he tries. Yeah,
but he's like, oh yeah, that's right, fair enough. Yeah.
Um, so some kind of what we think is going to be the Bully
comes along. He's got Bully minion written all over him now, so that
the true Bully reveal isn't really a isn't really a reveal. But this Minion
give him a hard time, saying he can't make his broom float. The
Mashell just stumps his foot and the shock wave sends the broom into his hands.
He's like, see it fluid and the thing the Minian says, well,
that's cheating, and Mashell looks genuinely confused. He's like, what do
you want I made to he's kind of right, yeah, it's just like
you didn't use magic. Lord, well, what is magic going? And
explained it to me? Yeah. You could definitely argue that Mashell has crossed
into magic with many of his feats. Yeah, it's just magically ripped.
Oh. He challenges to a broom race, and again the same thing.
We don't see him doing it because he does it so fast. He froze
the broom like a javelin and then jumps onto it and he he's flying on
a broom I care you know, you wanted an outcome, and that's what
happened. Yeah, I think if And it's we get to see it in
slow now because Finn actually saw what happened. Yeah, he was looking for
it. Yeah, he was about to go up. It's before he won
the race. And he did win the race. Oh yeah. He wins
so fast that no one registers the movement. It's just a blur of dust
and Marshall standing at the other end. Here's the thing about this cartoon.
If magic is only like describable by its results, which by necessity it must,
because if you could explain magic, be able to do magic, and
no one can. And yeah, they're basically saying, well you use magic,
who make the broom fly? Is Unwell, I made the broom fly.
I wrote the magic. The broom moved through the air at high velocities,
and I wrote upon it. Yeah, yeah, this was This anime
is almost a lesson in technically correct, the best kind of correct, only
kind of good. Yeah. Well, when it comes to winning the race,
I mean he technically won the race, so yeah, you can keep
you or yeah, I mean he also just won the race. He said,
we're gonna race with brooms the broom. You'd say it's about taking part
all you want, but technically Mashaal won that race, and yeah, the
bully's not not happy about it. It's when the bully Prime comes over.
He's immediately the bully Prime. Lloyd Cavill again, just random English name generator.
Definitely, this World's Malfoy comes along, offering smiles and friendship. It's
obviously a trap, but I don't think Ashal kind of has any inclination to
think that he's dealing with someone powerful. I don't know, actually, because
later on he's talking to Finn and he says, oh, I noticed everyone
was scared of that guy. So he does seem to kind of notice things
in the brief times he's not shoving cream puffs into his face or lifting weights.
But I think it does go back to what you said, like,
does he understand that the guy is powerful? Because he specifically asked, why
is everybody scared of that guy? But they definitely do not think mash Line
was scary. Yeah, he definitely did not understand the fait. So why
is everybody scared of a guy? I didn't lift? I didn't see him
lift a single way, Yeah, punch a single demon. Did they not
see his calves? They were so small of this? I suppose this is
when we're introduced to kind of a new threat, the mashal, which is
social political power of not Todd Quartz, not just the magic he's got to
worry about. It's a mac of faliens. Yeah, of those who are
connected, those who are higher in the social ranking. That's a Lloyd's father
works at the Bureau of Magic, and the Bureau of Magic is based only
the king of this world more or less. Yeah. Yeah, the high
visionaries all whatever they're called, divine visionary, divine visionaries, the blazed up
visionary, primo visionary dudes are They all go on to work there. They
become the ruling elites. They end up moving babies into the street. You
want magic and yeah, So obstensibly, Cavil kind of reaches out to Marshall
and says, hey, you know, let's be friends. I can put
in a good word for you. All you've got to do is carry my
ship and shine my shoes and be my lackey. Mashall, who is here
for a very specific reason. If he doesn't do this his granddad and him
are probably going to be hounded out of the kingdom. He does all this
without complaint at all, even when his like textbooks keep getting torn up,
and so we know that he's having a piss taken out of him. Immashall
either doesn't though or doesn't care. Yeah, it definitely seems he plays it
as if he does not notice. It's kind of it is debatable if it's
more that he is simply refusing to acknowledge it because he all. I don't
know, there's a common there's a thread in this where they refer to him
as dim but like Mashell seems to pick up on a lot of shit.
There is a point where Cavill just pours a glass of water on the floor
and it's like, why don't you clean it up? And we think,
oh, he's humiliating, but Mashall is like cleaning it up, and he
cleans up so well. He's shining and he's like satisfied with his job.
I don't know if he's just like his self esteem is so rock solid,
he just does not care. It's like, oh, carrying my books,
It's like, yeah, I can bench the moon. This does not affect
my self worth. For those who have not followed all of the authors in
Draggins at the movie stuff. We have an award do we give out sometimes
on a movie called the Jeremy Irons Shit Sandwich Award, And it sounds derogatory,
but it's actually pretty positive. We named it after seeing his performance in
the Dungeons and Dragons movie, in which he just he crushes it. I
mean, he's fucking going all out. He came to work and he goddamn
did and I think I can't remember how, but we likened it to as
if you had shit in a sandwich and handed it to him as a prank
and he ate the whole thing without breaking eye contact with you. Like just
just complete power move reversal. And that's that's kind of what that reminds me
of with the with the sharing of the years, it's just like the en
this up, all right, I'm gonna clean this up and show you how
pathetic you are. Could it could be as far as that, yeah,
or it could be again just another system the Marshall does not give a shit
about. He's just got to succeed in it because he has to succeed in
it. That very well could be it too. We do have kind of
like his moment of getting to be Finn's friend, because Finn's kind of trying
to distance for him from himself, but Marshall's textbooks keep on getting taught up.
So he just says to Finn, how can I see your textbook?
And fince no, and Mashell, just like six next to him, goes,
yeah, thanks, you're a really great friend. Here's some cream puffs.
I'm going to look at your textbook. Finns evil like I think he's
both obviously terrified because he's seen what this guy can do. We later learn
it he's obviously a bit ashamed as well. He's distancing himself from a reason.
Dun dun du and dun dun dun Yeah, Cavill, Well, were
probably guess the Cavil's real. Cavil's been a prick. He's putting pressure on
Finn to fuck with Mashell, and we hear this confession and Finn just says,
like he's a nice guy. He didn't tear my arms off when I
said he can't read my textbook, and he gave him some green buffs.
I'm refusing to fuck with him anymore. Cavill just starts legitimately fucking him up,
pinning him down with magic, and beating the crap out of him.
Marshall sees this as what's going on. It breaks down as a very emotional
a moment of shame while he apologizes to Marshall. At this point, I
don't know if Cavill is very dumb or very arrogant, or some mixture of
both, because he's definitely been found out Ashell now knows that Cavill's been tearing
up his textbooks and is beating the crap out of his friend, and he
just starts talking about the kind of like a inevitability of the system, and
you know, I'll take you to meet the vice principle and I'll put in
a good word for you, like he still has power. Well, I
do think it's probably relevant that while Finn realized what Mashell was doing earlier,
no one else did At this point. I don't think anybody outside of Finn
is fully aware of just how insanely strong. Yeah, like who they're fucking
with and very quickly. Yeah, and this guy has also been insulated from
consequences his entire life. We get a backstory from Finn, who went to
like middle school with Lloyd, Like if you crossed him or stood up,
they would get you expelled. So yeah, he has never had a problem
that wouldn't be backed down or cast away. And so it feels very believable
that he is, you know, so cocky, especially not knowing who he's
mouthing off to. Yeah, I don't think anyone's grabbed him by the hair
and smashed his face into the He looked surprised when it happens to him.
Um, well, it looks unconscious, way as as we all would be,
if not dead, probably dead, probably dead. If it's possible to
look both surprised and unconscious, I think careful. Does it very well?
He masters that one. Yeah, yeah, and again we kind of get
he was kind of doing this speech like you know the way this is gonna
work out, there's nothing you can do, and Matchell's like accept this and
smashes his face. But then the vice principle, who's kind of Cavill's ward,
comes along and starts doing the exact same thing, like, oh,
yeah, you may think you can get by a violence, but I have
political power and I'm going to expel you. Match'll just punch a bit of
face. Oh yeah, he needs him. The guy still doesn't get a
message. He's like, I've got to expel you for kneeing me in the
nose. So this is like in some coal esque Tarantino. Yeah, oh
god. Yeah. The guy gets dirt flog on his face and turns to
find Maghall digging a hole. He's literally digging his grave in front of him.
His bands. He jams the fucking guy into it. We gotta find
what he did. It's like, yeah, you can't expel me. I
can bury you alive whatever I want. He doesn't say alive. I can
bury you. That's true. Yeah, that that. I thought that the
first time I thought we watched. I was like, oh no, he
does not say a live. It's like, just like you can expel me
at any time, I can bury you at any time. And then he
proceeds to bury the guy past his face. I get it is fitting with
everything he's done. It's like everything he comes up across, I see you
have this system doesn't account for the fact that I can murder you with my
bands whatever I want. It. Yep, it's a it's a very fun
reminder of like there's a lot of different forms of power, but power power
often wins. Yeah, so obviously he's dragged up to see the headmaster after
this, you would be it's kind of vided. Not Dumbledore saying do you
know why you're here? He's like, Oh, is it because I made
cream puffs without permission? Or because I buried that teacher at all? It's
it's definitely the second one. It's burying the teacher at all. So the
Bureau of Magic is calling for Marshall's expulsion. Kind of understandable, maybe not
Dumbledore now seems to be again a little bit anti status quote. I don't
know if this is kind of in pulling an actual Dumbledore and realizing you can
use this kid to kind of fathers own ends, or if he just thinks
that Mashall should have the chance to kind of destroy everything on his own terms.
But there was a point where it's like he said, after its latter,
we had no choice but to excel you, except and I legitimately fought.
Not Dumbledore was going to say, except we talked about it and we
all thought it was really funny. But no, I think he says,
like you should not expel people who care for caring or something like that,
and Mashall does carry to seem whatever kind of I guess art approach he has
to the world, his heart is in the right place. Yeah. I
do like the line not Dumbledore gives what's more unforgivable than what you did?
As a world where the caring or at a disadvantage. Yeah, so it
seems that that Mashell has an ally in the current was of power is good.
But then none double Dooor starts explaining to him how he's going to have
to become the divine visionary and all the little house points and coins you'll do,
and again Mashall just zones out. I've got to a bear. I
zoned out a little. I feel like, right at the point where I
was starting to glaze over, that's when they popped in. They time to
that one. Well yeah, yeah, I wasn't listening. I really don't
care. I feel like there's two interpretations of not Dumbledore right now. Either
there's the benevolent one where he genuinely believes that mash can make the world a
better place, or he's just a chaos goblin and he recognizes that this is
the equivalent of throwing a lit string of black cats into a dog show,
and he's just like, this is gonna be fucking hilarious. Yeah, I
mean either way, Yeah, it's correct, just like, oh man,
imagine the ship this guy's gonna start. What we know now is that Mashaal
can friend to murder a teacher with impunity, providing the teacher deserves it.
So as long as he's kind of no, not just doing it because he
hasn't done his homework or something, he can use his special power of implied
murder impliable firmly in his court. I believe that's a sets him on a
strong standing for his school year. It's like, wait a minute, he's
allowed to murder. As he's like, yeah, but you could do magic.
You can try to murder him back. Good luck. I wouldn't.
I would not do that. I think he might be right about magic sucking.
Anyway, I gotta go hit the Yeah. By the end of the
year, all the students are lifting waist gain He's right, his magic magic
is bullshit. That would be a twist I'd like. The up shot of
the encounter is Matshell seems to be a little bit more and a little bit
more of a reputation for himself in Wizards Society makes fun with Tom Knowles emost
generic names so far, And that's a Wizard version of a jock. Oh,
I forgot. That's how we end is the nart Quidditch game. They
take him to play Knark Quiditch. He's like, I can't ride a broom.
This guy this for this time guy just speaks entirely in positive affirmation slogans.
Um is screaming at them. But no that's not enough, because yeah,
he can't actually fly fly broom. He is just He ends this episode
just sitting on the floor while everybody plays not a quick with the crowd growing
things in. It's a bit anti climactic, but they like to They like
to lead with a little hook in for the next Yeah, oh ma'am,
all right? Do we have any closing thoughts for episodes two and three?
Um, I'll throw it. We forgot to touch on it, but we
do learn after Mashell has saved her that Lemon is also kind of a weird
out. Oh yeah, that's right again. That does happen in anime quite
a lot, just the sort of weirdly obsessive, I guess, anti love
interest woman who can't take a hint of thing. I really it's more often
like a sound you from one piece thing. But yeah, we definitely we
get the female version with Lemon having decided that Mashell is her bow and uh
not not expressing it in the most emotionally healthy way. No, no,
very so emotional health going on there, but um, I'm sure she has
some horrible reasons, but we'll find out. I'm looking forward to. I
guess he's going to get his crews soon, and I'm quite looking forward to
seeing how that sort of plays out. Um, it's just like again one
punch Man. He's got his crew, he doesn't really need him, but
it's nice to have him around. You gotta have a B team so that
there can be someone to swoop in and say, yeah that's true. I
have a cryllon just to stand there. Well, well you be go.
It's for scale. It's like when put like people put a banana next the
thing in photos. Yeah. I started on Dragon Ball Z and it wasn't
until I watched Dragon Ball later on when I was adult and I had like
access to it, and I was so fucking baffled. I was like Krillin
was his rival. It's like my yamcha beat him in a fight, yam
cha. Yeah, like the crill. I was like the disrespect this character
god in Z my god. Oh yeah. I think everybody was kind of
like on tier Adventure character and Dragon Ball as soon as Dragon Ball Z,
they just spent all that time sort of in quietly aghast about how they were
about to die. It's just what Krilla is good at. Yeah, yeah,
he's got a talent, alright, everybody. Oh no, you know
it's over. I know nine thousands the classic, but it goes a lot
higher than that. All right. That has been National episodes two and three.
Thank you for joining us for Adventure Showdio. Episode two probably could have
strung that phrasing altogether in a less confusing way, but fuck it. Here
we are. Thank y'all. I hope you have all have enjoyed our format
test pilot. As we are traveling a lot through June, there might be
more of it to come in August because I have two cons in August,
so well, I might have to miss more ship we'll see, but one
of them is Authors and Dragons cons. So hopefully you all will be out
there with us in Portland August eleventh to thirteenth. Get your tickets now while
you can, because I mean, holy shit, not much time left at
this point. Yeah. I put up the schedule on our discord yesterday.
It's gonna go on our website fairly soon here too, Yeah, keep an
eye for tonight. It's gonna be fun, all right, everybody. We
will see you next time. Until then, bye, no telling whether good
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