1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:02,957 This is a Dynamike Network podcast. 2 00:00:24,494 --> 00:00:29,536 Welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we review superhero films and debate 3 00:00:29,596 --> 00:00:35,478 the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing their characters in stat-based battle simulations. 4 00:00:35,979 --> 00:00:42,762 I'm Johnny DC. And I'm his twin brother, Marvelous Joe. And welcome to episode 400. Normally, 5 00:00:42,822 --> 00:00:48,144 we would be doing a team duel on an anniversary episode such as this, but Marvel 6 00:00:51,198 --> 00:00:55,799 all at once at the end of summer. So we're getting caught up on some reviews, one of them being 7 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:03,342 Suicide Squad Isekai. Yeah, our next episode is gonna be the Outsiders versus X-Force. That'll 8 00:01:03,362 --> 00:01:09,585 be our team duel. But first we get to talk anime with our good buddy Zach Hepburn from the Senjou 9 00:01:09,605 --> 00:01:13,607 World Podcast, which is part of the Dynamite Podcast Network. We'll get him on the line 10 00:01:13,807 --> 00:01:18,188 later on this episode. Right, he's gonna help us review Suicide Squad Isekai. It's a pretty 11 00:01:18,228 --> 00:01:22,380 fun anime, and we're gonna talk all about it later on. There's no comic book movie news 12 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,186 to break down this week. As always, we list our segment times in our episode description, 13 00:01:26,246 --> 00:01:30,132 so feel free to check out the show notes if you want to skip ahead to a particular topic. 14 00:01:30,533 --> 00:01:35,000 Our artificially intelligent dual simulator AJ9K has a quick message for our listeners, 15 00:01:35,241 --> 00:01:41,887 so listen up. Why hello there, do you want even more from this podcast? 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Be sure to tune into the other shows in the 24 00:02:25,530 --> 00:02:31,013 Dynamite Podcast Network this week, including Max Destruction, which pits your favorite action 25 00:02:31,033 --> 00:02:36,367 heroes. from film and television against each other. This week, hosts Scotty and Gilly are 26 00:02:36,407 --> 00:02:42,088 pitting Tallahassee from Zombieland against Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. That is 27 00:02:42,128 --> 00:02:46,630 going to be a great episode, I can't wait for that. On the Syndrome World podcast, host Zachary 28 00:02:46,670 --> 00:02:51,591 Hepburn speculates on fights between fan favorite anime and manga characters. This Thursday, 29 00:02:51,951 --> 00:02:56,152 Zach will be finding out who would win in a fight between Trunks Brief from Dragon Ball 30 00:02:56,212 --> 00:03:04,083 Z and Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon. Sailor you're what? Shut up. On the console combat 31 00:03:04,123 --> 00:03:09,585 podcast hosts John and Dean find out who would win in fights between popular video game characters. 32 00:03:09,945 --> 00:03:15,108 In yesterday's episode, Joseph guest hosted and he and John determined who would win between 33 00:03:15,188 --> 00:03:22,351 James Bond 007 and Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell. And that I got to say was a blast. Definitely 34 00:03:22,391 --> 00:03:26,052 check out that episode guys after you listen to this episode, especially if you like video 35 00:03:26,072 --> 00:03:31,995 games. If you like James Bond, it's a whole lot of fun. Visit dynamicpodcasts.com or click 36 00:03:32,015 --> 00:03:37,518 the link in our show notes to listen to all of the shows in the Dynamike Podcast Network. 37 00:03:37,998 --> 00:03:44,422 But with that out of the way, quick to the No Prize! A No Prize is an award Marvel used to 38 00:03:44,442 --> 00:03:49,664 give out to fans. Our version, the Dynamic Duel No Prize, is a digital award we post on Instagram 39 00:03:49,684 --> 00:03:54,507 for the person that we feel gave the best answer to our question of the week. Last week we asked, 40 00:03:54,627 --> 00:04:00,090 who do you think was the best cast Marvel or DC villain of all time? And of course, this 41 00:04:00,110 --> 00:04:05,154 was coming off the news that James Spader is returning to voice Ultron for the upcoming 42 00:04:05,214 --> 00:04:10,318 Disney Plus Vision television series. We got a whole lot of answers this time, nine answers 43 00:04:10,358 --> 00:04:14,822 total. So it's always heartbreaking when that happens because I feel like we let so many 44 00:04:14,842 --> 00:04:19,186 people down by not choosing their answer for an honorable mention. But you guys all gave 45 00:04:19,226 --> 00:04:23,449 great answers. Let's go ahead and break down this week's honorable mentions before revealing 46 00:04:23,509 --> 00:04:30,730 the no prize winner. Our first honorable mention goes to Scott Camacho. Who said? On the DC 47 00:04:30,770 --> 00:04:35,713 side of things, it's easy. Heath Ledger's Joker cannot be beat. I mean, you, if you look at 48 00:04:35,813 --> 00:04:42,197 every other Joker iteration, all of them are still trying to get a piece of Heath Ledger's 49 00:04:42,217 --> 00:04:48,901 shadow, but for the Marvel side of things, nothing can be Tom Hiddleston's Loki. What RDJ was 50 00:04:48,941 --> 00:04:55,644 for Iron Man, Tom Hiddleston was for Loki. Everyone else, every villain can be replaced, but Tom's 51 00:04:55,684 --> 00:05:01,396 Loki remains the And he got caught off at the end right there. But yeah, Tom Hiddleston's 52 00:05:01,436 --> 00:05:06,500 Loki, I think, is the best villain in terms of casting for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 53 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,744 He had such a good story leading from the first Thor film all the way through Loki season two. 54 00:05:12,065 --> 00:05:16,348 And I hope it's not done. I hope Tom Hiddleston comes back to the role and we see him in future 55 00:05:16,388 --> 00:05:22,093 Marvel stories. You better because he's a great actor and he's perfect in the role. As was 56 00:05:22,133 --> 00:05:28,590 Heath Ledger as the Joker. It was a ground so much. I'm sorry. What? Not really. Shut the 57 00:05:28,630 --> 00:05:35,157 hell up. His performance was groundbreaking. It was a tour de force, playing one of the 58 00:05:35,197 --> 00:05:40,502 most iconic villains of all time. He won an Oscar for the role. And even with Joaquin Phoenix 59 00:05:40,642 --> 00:05:46,128 also winning an Oscar for playing the Joker, Heath Ledger arguably is still the best actor 60 00:05:46,168 --> 00:05:52,134 to do it. So great answer Scotty. Our next honorable mention goes to Kat Stevenson. Who said? Hi 61 00:05:52,174 --> 00:05:57,919 guys, it's Kat again, and I think the most legendary casting for a villain in Marvel or DC is Josh 62 00:05:57,940 --> 00:06:03,986 Brolin as Thanos. Nobody else would be able to bring the gravitas and might needed for 63 00:06:04,006 --> 00:06:10,232 a character such as Thanos. His delivery of lines is so powerful and moving, there's nobody 64 00:06:10,352 --> 00:06:16,382 else that could do it. Even if the character is entirely CGI, he is the character. Yeah, 65 00:06:16,442 --> 00:06:22,924 Josh Brolin's performance as Thanos was exemplary, particularly in the world of motion capture 66 00:06:22,964 --> 00:06:29,467 animation. Yes, the character of Thanos was an all CG character in the movies, but so much 67 00:06:29,527 --> 00:06:35,429 of Brolin's performance showed through, which made Thanos feel so lifelike and real. And 68 00:06:35,709 --> 00:06:41,412 the visual effects team did a great job. Obviously, so did Josh Brolin, and he will always be remembered 69 00:06:41,592 --> 00:06:46,910 as that character of Thanos. Yeah, I'm still surprised by how he played the character. Like 70 00:06:47,390 --> 00:06:52,112 I remember reading comics with Thanos in it and I always thought he was much more maniacal. 71 00:06:52,152 --> 00:06:57,794 But Josh Brolin played a much more subdued version of the character to his benefit, I think, because 72 00:06:57,834 --> 00:07:03,417 I think he made him sympathetic in a way that I never really found Thanos to be. And in that 73 00:07:03,477 --> 00:07:07,878 sense, I think he kind of elevated the character with his performance. For sure. He made him 74 00:07:07,899 --> 00:07:13,961 believable. He made him feel real. Great answer, Kat. Our next honorable mention goes to Caleb 75 00:07:14,001 --> 00:07:22,076 Falk, who said, Hey guys, Caleb Volk here and I think the best casting for a Marvel or DC 76 00:07:22,096 --> 00:07:28,702 villain has to be Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin, not only in the original Spider-Man trilogy, 77 00:07:28,762 --> 00:07:37,471 but also coming back 20 years later and playing the same character just as well, if not better 78 00:07:38,312 --> 00:07:42,890 in the Spider-Man No Way Home movie. I think I've said this a few times in our reviews of 79 00:07:42,911 --> 00:07:48,133 the Spider-Man films, Willem Dafoe is perfect casting as the Green Goblin because he has 80 00:07:48,173 --> 00:07:53,975 a natural goblin face. I mean, not only that, the guy is a fantastic actor, not the best 81 00:07:54,075 --> 00:08:00,358 looking, but appropriately so for a character like the Green Goblin. I'm so glad that Kevin 82 00:08:00,398 --> 00:08:05,680 Feige did not try and recast the character for the MCU because, yeah, you cannot do better 83 00:08:05,981 --> 00:08:12,179 than Willem Dafoe for Norman Osborn. He's so unbelievably sinister and maniacal. He was 84 00:08:12,239 --> 00:08:17,400 born to play the role. For sure, for sure. So good answer, Caleb. We want to give a huge 85 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:23,662 shout out to Cyrus Moore, Jacob Bell, John Storosky, Mickey Manteghian, and Waldo for taking the 86 00:08:23,682 --> 00:08:28,383 time to visit our website and leave us an answer. But the winner of this week's snow prize is 87 00:08:28,943 --> 00:08:33,445 Travis Bailey, who said, Travis Bailey here. What's going on, fella? Shout out to my good 88 00:08:33,465 --> 00:08:38,742 twin. Man, it's been too long. All right, look. You're going to get like four or five different 89 00:08:38,762 --> 00:08:43,945 jokers. You're going to get Kingpin. I hope you'll get a Scarlet Witch for sure. Let's 90 00:08:43,965 --> 00:08:50,568 talk about it. But it's Ian McKellen. It's Magneto Ian McKellen. Iconic. I mean, unassailable 91 00:08:50,608 --> 00:08:57,291 casting. Him and Professor X. Look, that whole franchise was just hot toilet water. But they 92 00:08:57,331 --> 00:09:03,182 got those two right. For sure. For sure. I think Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. can largely 93 00:09:03,222 --> 00:09:08,968 be credited with giving validity to the whole superhero genre, as they did back in the year 94 00:09:09,008 --> 00:09:14,072 2000 with the movie X-Men. I think before their casting, superhero movies were largely seen 95 00:09:14,212 --> 00:09:21,879 as juvenile stuff, kids' fair, blade notwithstanding, but when X-Men suddenly cast these two Shakespearean 96 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:28,265 actors who so perfectly embodied their roles and manifested them in such a way that elevated 97 00:09:28,325 --> 00:09:33,409 it. from the page. I think a lot of people stood up and took notice and the genre owes a big 98 00:09:33,429 --> 00:09:38,293 debt to Ian McKellen, I think, for helping get this whole thing started really. Yeah, I mean, 99 00:09:38,313 --> 00:09:44,719 you could say that Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito were amazing as, you know, Joker and 100 00:09:44,739 --> 00:09:49,242 the Penguin and you would be right, but they also had a degree of comic book camp to their 101 00:09:49,282 --> 00:09:55,327 performances. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart played their roles, like you mentioned, as 102 00:09:55,387 --> 00:10:02,129 if they were basically Shakespearean When they first made the movie, they were master thespians 103 00:10:02,329 --> 00:10:07,954 at the top of their craft, and they'll always be remembered, at least to me, as those characters 104 00:10:08,114 --> 00:10:12,278 in those iconic roles. So congrats to Travis Bailey for winning this week's No Prize. If 105 00:10:12,318 --> 00:10:16,202 you the listener want a shot at winning your own No Prize, stay tuned to later on this episode 106 00:10:16,222 --> 00:10:21,126 when we'll be asking another Question of the Week. And now that that's done, NOT ON TO THE 107 00:10:21,166 --> 00:10:24,629 NEWS, because there's no news. So we're just gonna go on to the Question of the Week. 108 00:10:29,206 --> 00:10:35,228 Out of the 400 episodes we've done on this podcast, what has been your favorite episode of Dynamic 109 00:10:35,268 --> 00:10:41,130 Duel and why? Record your answer at dynamicduel.com by clicking on the red microphone button in 110 00:10:41,150 --> 00:10:45,012 the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, which will prompt you to leave us a voicemail. 111 00:10:45,392 --> 00:10:49,234 Your message could be up to 30 seconds long, and don't forget to leave your name in case 112 00:10:49,254 --> 00:10:54,336 we include you on the podcast. We'll pick our favorite answer and award that person a Dynamic 113 00:10:54,376 --> 00:10:59,561 Duel No Prize that we'll post to Instagram. Be sure to answer before September 7th. 114 00:11:06,862 --> 00:11:11,264 So with that out of the way, now let's move on to the main event of this episode and get 115 00:11:11,404 --> 00:11:18,229 Senjoworld's Zachary Hepburn on the line to help us review the DC animated series, Suicide 116 00:11:18,269 --> 00:11:18,929 Squad Isekai. 117 00:11:34,666 --> 00:11:41,349 Alright, Suicide Squad Isekai is a 10 episode anime series produced by Wit Studio, the same 118 00:11:41,409 --> 00:11:47,272 anime studio that produced the first three seasons of Attack on Titan, which I have not seen but 119 00:11:47,352 --> 00:11:53,916 I hear is incredible. Joseph and I are definitely not as well versed in anime as we are in comics, 120 00:11:54,396 --> 00:12:00,359 so to help us out in our spoiler review, we've enlisted our resident anime guru and the host 121 00:12:00,419 --> 00:12:00,579 of the 122 00:12:04,758 --> 00:12:10,302 Zachary Hepburn. How's it going, Zach? Good, good. It's it's good to be back. It's good 123 00:12:10,322 --> 00:12:14,105 to be back and finally doing a review with you guys. Yeah, we haven't had you on the show 124 00:12:14,205 --> 00:12:19,269 since you and John reviewed Spider-Man, the amazing Spider-Man with us. Yeah, that was 125 00:12:19,289 --> 00:12:23,573 a couple of years ago. So, yeah, I'm excited to be back. I love being part of the group, 126 00:12:23,713 --> 00:12:27,896 part of the family. Yeah, it's great to have you as a part of that family, especially for 127 00:12:27,936 --> 00:12:33,581 this episode, because I know you love anime. You, like I said, are the expert in it in our 128 00:12:33,741 --> 00:12:38,599 group. I have to ask, when you first learned that they were going to make a Suicide Squad 129 00:12:38,759 --> 00:12:45,282 anime, what did you think? When they first announced it, I was like, really? Suicide Squad? Because 130 00:12:45,683 --> 00:12:51,745 at that time, it was everything was Suicide Squad, right? So the video game? Yeah, I was 131 00:12:51,785 --> 00:12:58,048 just like, the video game let us down. But this, I don't know, I found this redeemed it for 132 00:12:58,068 --> 00:13:03,834 me, redeem the Suicide Squad. Really? That's pretty cool. So in regards to Wit Studio, the 133 00:13:03,954 --> 00:13:09,076 producers of Suicide Squad, Isakai, they did the first three seasons of Attack on Titan. 134 00:13:09,436 --> 00:13:13,497 Have you seen those seasons? Like, are you familiar with Wit Studio? And did their involvement 135 00:13:13,517 --> 00:13:19,738 get you excited at all for Suicide Squad? To be honest, I'm not really a guy who pays attention 136 00:13:19,778 --> 00:13:27,120 to what studio is doing what. I just enjoy anime, but I am familiar with Attack on Titan. I never 137 00:13:27,161 --> 00:13:31,934 finished it, but I watched like the second last movie they put out. So I just have to go and 138 00:13:31,954 --> 00:13:37,179 finish it. So I am pretty well-versed in the world of Attack on Titan. I'm not the biggest 139 00:13:37,199 --> 00:13:41,982 fan, which hence why I haven't finished it. But it is good. It has a kind of a messed up 140 00:13:42,002 --> 00:13:46,686 story. So I don't know. It's kind of dark. And if you're into that kind of thing, then... 141 00:13:47,127 --> 00:13:51,610 There's a few animes that I've been meaning to check out, especially since you started 142 00:13:51,650 --> 00:13:57,175 your show. Attack on Titan is one of those. Yeah, it's just so hard with having this podcast 143 00:13:57,195 --> 00:14:00,537 and having to watch all the stuff that we're currently in the middle of having to watch. 144 00:14:00,958 --> 00:14:04,941 including this one. Although I was looking forward to this one. Like when I first learned that 145 00:14:04,961 --> 00:14:10,747 they were making a Suicide Squad anime series, I was pretty pumped because like the idea of 146 00:14:10,787 --> 00:14:16,051 the Suicide Squad, these super powered prisoners forced to carry out these impossible missions 147 00:14:16,512 --> 00:14:23,458 lends itself to a very like pulpy and formulaic format like anime where the goal isn't marketability 148 00:14:23,518 --> 00:14:29,551 so much as cheaply giving the audiences what they want. The almost Tarantino-esque approach 149 00:14:29,571 --> 00:14:35,934 that James Gunn took with 2021's The Suicide Squad film, after successful DC animes like 150 00:14:35,974 --> 00:14:43,038 Batman Ninja and My Adventures with Superman, I was so ready for a hard-edged Suicide Squad 151 00:14:43,078 --> 00:14:48,521 series that could up the maturity level to match some of my favorite anime series like Neon 152 00:14:48,561 --> 00:14:58,371 Genesis Evangelion or Sword Art Online, which I believe fits within the Sword Art? Yes, technically, 153 00:14:58,611 --> 00:15:04,034 but that one was all virtual and it was a video game. And Isekai's literally people are sucked 154 00:15:04,154 --> 00:15:10,018 into another world. Yeah, if the listeners are not familiar with Isekai, the word literally 155 00:15:10,058 --> 00:15:15,961 means another world in Japanese and refers to like the new, often fantastical world that 156 00:15:15,981 --> 00:15:20,324 the story's main characters find themselves in and have to learn to navigate. The only 157 00:15:20,364 --> 00:15:26,527 Isekai I think I've seen is Sword Art. but I've heard the most popular is Re Zero, which was 158 00:15:26,587 --> 00:15:33,270 written by Tape Nagusuki, I'm mispronouncing that I'm sure, but he was the lead writer on 159 00:15:33,331 --> 00:15:39,053 Suicide Squad, Isekai as well. Now, the premise of the Suicide Squad operating in a fantasy 160 00:15:39,213 --> 00:15:44,216 Isekai land is pretty absurd, but that didn't really bother me because I feel like the concept 161 00:15:44,236 --> 00:15:49,822 of the Suicide Squad thrives in absurdity. And it's not like we haven't seen other comic book 162 00:15:49,862 --> 00:15:54,484 characters like Batman or Captain America in medieval fantasy settings before. The fantasy 163 00:15:54,504 --> 00:16:00,267 world this series sets up is kind of confusing, I think, but it's essentially one where a kingdom 164 00:16:00,307 --> 00:16:07,129 of humans is warring against an empire of orcs and human animal hybrids known as demi humans. 165 00:16:07,490 --> 00:16:13,292 There are elves and dragons. It's basically World of Warcraft, I feel. Yes, it's definitely 166 00:16:13,392 --> 00:16:20,331 fantasy magic and not just kind of like medieval. Yeah, this was definitely my thing. Like I 167 00:16:20,371 --> 00:16:26,213 love swords. Give me swords magic all day. Yeah, like swords and sorcery adventures. Those are 168 00:16:26,273 --> 00:16:31,635 awesome. I love those, too. And you put anime with it. It's just like the best thing ever 169 00:16:31,655 --> 00:16:36,578 for me. So it's always cool to see like familiar characters in a new setting like that, like 170 00:16:36,958 --> 00:16:42,180 Dark Knights of Steel, that comic series that's going on right now for D.C. seeing what Roman 171 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:48,718 and Batman in these magical swords and sorcery settings. I love that. There are certain things 172 00:16:48,758 --> 00:16:53,821 that draw me in. And if the characters are badass, if the fights are badass, if the power sets 173 00:16:54,221 --> 00:16:59,003 are badass, I'm all for it. Which they definitely had a lot of that here. I thought it was pretty 174 00:16:59,023 --> 00:17:04,365 interesting what they did with a lot of the characters. But the story for this series is 175 00:17:04,405 --> 00:17:09,567 essentially that Amanda Waller wants to plunder the Isekai's resources on behalf of the US 176 00:17:09,587 --> 00:17:15,549 government. So she sends suicide squads in to establish a framework with which to do that. 177 00:17:16,086 --> 00:17:21,109 The first squad she sent ended up defecting and helping the Empire. So she sent a second 178 00:17:21,249 --> 00:17:25,972 one to do the first one's job. But they ended up siding with the kingdom against the Empire 179 00:17:26,092 --> 00:17:31,816 and the other squad. It's actually a pretty cool Suicide Squad versus Suicide Squad premise 180 00:17:32,296 --> 00:17:36,999 and one that allows us to see an expanded roster of DC supervillains that I didn't think we 181 00:17:37,019 --> 00:17:42,786 were going to get to see in the show. Yes, I love the cast. Like I always want most of those 182 00:17:42,826 --> 00:17:48,167 characters that were in this to be on one team with each other. So just to even just have 183 00:17:48,187 --> 00:17:53,329 them face off, just be in the same series. I loved it. I loved it. Yeah. Like there's been 184 00:17:53,669 --> 00:17:57,790 times in the comics where like the Suicide Squad goes up against the Justice League. But to 185 00:17:57,830 --> 00:18:02,031 have a Suicide Squad go up against another one is just a really cool concept. I thought there 186 00:18:02,051 --> 00:18:08,953 were going to be more deaths on one side, but it was pretty much all on the first squad. 187 00:18:09,494 --> 00:18:14,695 But the characters were awesome. I think the coolest thing about the show was the designs 188 00:18:14,715 --> 00:18:19,056 that came up with for the DC characters. And this was something like we noticed even from 189 00:18:19,076 --> 00:18:24,938 the trailers. Like Harley Quinn was a character tailor made to be in anime. She looked fantastic 190 00:18:25,318 --> 00:18:30,759 and very much like an amalgam of Margot Robbie's looks from the two Suicide Squad films. Yeah, 191 00:18:31,020 --> 00:18:36,681 I have to say, Isakai Harley is probably my favorite version of Harley Quinn ever. I agree. 192 00:18:36,721 --> 00:18:41,174 The way she talks like... Oh, here's the question for you guys. Did you watch it in English or 193 00:18:41,194 --> 00:18:47,496 did you watch it in Japanese? I started to watch in English, but I had a hard time getting through 194 00:18:47,576 --> 00:18:52,518 some of the line deliveries. For some reason, I just think sometimes things sound better 195 00:18:52,738 --> 00:18:57,880 in Japanese. So I switched over to Japanese within the first few minutes, and I stayed 196 00:18:58,180 --> 00:19:02,561 with that the rest of the way through. I thought the voice performances were great in Japanese. 197 00:19:02,961 --> 00:19:09,990 No, they were amazing. Same, I started the first 10 minutes in English and some of the translations 198 00:19:10,030 --> 00:19:15,994 from Japanese to English don't always work that well. I find that I can much easier accept 199 00:19:16,034 --> 00:19:20,637 the dialogue when it's being read in the native language it was written because I think it 200 00:19:20,657 --> 00:19:25,961 just carries a slightly different context language to language. And yeah, it's just more digestible 201 00:19:26,001 --> 00:19:31,765 I think in Japanese. I agree, totally. There are some very good English voice actors, but... 202 00:19:32,194 --> 00:19:36,736 When it comes down to it, I find they just can't beat the Japanese ones because there's so much 203 00:19:36,776 --> 00:19:41,818 passion. They love what they do. Yeah, and it's not even just the acting. It's also the writing. 204 00:19:42,038 --> 00:19:47,060 Like a voice actor can only do so much if the translator didn't do a good job of translating, 205 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:51,902 you know, and so then all of a sudden they're being fed corny lines. For sure. And so the 206 00:19:51,922 --> 00:19:56,785 reason I was asking that, I was curious if there was swearing in the English version because 207 00:19:57,105 --> 00:20:01,371 I didn't watch the English either. There was swearing, yeah. Sometimes, I don't know why, 208 00:20:01,511 --> 00:20:06,754 I'd go to a next episode and HBO Max would default to English. So I'd hear part of the episode 209 00:20:06,774 --> 00:20:11,537 before I managed to switch over, and yeah, there was cussing. Okay, okay. I just wanted to make 210 00:20:11,557 --> 00:20:15,940 sure because I was like, this show, like, I love the way Harley Quinn talks, and if they 211 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:20,923 didn't kind of do it the same in English, it's just not justice. So if you watch it in English, 212 00:20:21,183 --> 00:20:26,650 watch it again in Japanese. It's so much better. Absolutely. For sure, yeah. I have to say though, 213 00:20:26,690 --> 00:20:31,352 the versions of these characters are definitely my favorite versions of them. I think it's 214 00:20:31,372 --> 00:20:36,974 because they borrowed the best parts from the two Suicide Squad films. Even in the roster, 215 00:20:37,214 --> 00:20:42,616 mixing them from both versions. You had Deadshot, Katana, Enchantress Killer Croc, and Joker 216 00:20:42,636 --> 00:20:46,897 from the first film. And then you had King Shark, Peacemaker, Ratcatcher, and the Thinker from 217 00:20:46,937 --> 00:20:52,088 the second. Clayface was really the only original one in this show, though you could say he was 218 00:20:52,128 --> 00:20:57,112 borrowed from his supporting role in the Harley Quinn animated series. He's very much a thespian 219 00:20:57,132 --> 00:21:01,836 with delusions of grandeur in that show. And in this series, they kind of ran with that 220 00:21:01,876 --> 00:21:08,681 while adding a bit of otaku fanboy for expository purposes and a more hip aesthetic. Yeah, for 221 00:21:08,721 --> 00:21:13,324 sure. I do want to talk about the animation quality. I thought it kept pace with the character 222 00:21:13,344 --> 00:21:19,118 designs. I think this is... probably the best animated work DC has put out this year for 223 00:21:19,158 --> 00:21:25,380 sure. And it may be the best animated project DC has ever put out in terms of animation quality. 224 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,602 I thought it was better than Batman Ninja. I agree. Yeah, because Batman Ninja was computer 225 00:21:30,642 --> 00:21:35,083 animated. It wasn't hand drawn. And I believe the show was hand drawn. It looked great, I 226 00:21:35,123 --> 00:21:41,685 thought. This show had amazing choreography when it came to the fights. Like some of the 227 00:21:41,725 --> 00:21:50,588 fights, I was just like, holy crap, DC, like You can do this? Like, what? Like, oh my God. 228 00:21:50,928 --> 00:21:56,510 Did you have a favorite fight? It was definitely Harley Quinn when she was going to fight the 229 00:21:56,590 --> 00:22:01,672 Thinker. Yes, that was mine too. That was cool. And against Katana too, right after that. That 230 00:22:01,792 --> 00:22:06,474 was pretty good. Oh my God, that's what I mean. She is my favorite version. Like, she can like 231 00:22:06,554 --> 00:22:12,316 fight. Like, that's the crazy thing, yeah. I gotta say, Zach, hearing from you that you 232 00:22:12,336 --> 00:22:17,659 thought the choreography in this show was good, knowing how big of a fan of anime you are and 233 00:22:17,679 --> 00:22:22,121 how much you watch and also having a martial arts background yourself. That is high, high 234 00:22:22,161 --> 00:22:27,683 praise, I gotta say. It does its thing. Like, it is so good. I was just blown away by it. 235 00:22:27,723 --> 00:22:32,486 I was just like, I can't believe DC's putting out this kind of quality martial arts. And 236 00:22:32,546 --> 00:22:38,368 I was just like, yes, finally, we have DC anime that clearly surpasses the Marvel anime. Let's 237 00:22:38,428 --> 00:22:43,239 do this, DC. We got this. Even better than the animation and the show itself, I thought the 238 00:22:43,379 --> 00:22:49,742 animation for the opening sequence was insanely good. Like I rarely skipped it. There were 239 00:22:49,762 --> 00:22:53,784 a few times I did, but I just enjoyed watching it, paired with the music that they chose and 240 00:22:53,804 --> 00:22:57,626 everything like that. It really got me pumped for every episode, for sure. Yeah, the music 241 00:22:57,747 --> 00:23:01,549 was, oh my God, like I don't know what it is, but when I'm watching something, I always kind 242 00:23:01,569 --> 00:23:07,692 of zone out and I just don't hear the music, right? As I stated in, you know, my Sailor 243 00:23:07,712 --> 00:23:12,798 Moon review, if it's not good, I just don't notice it. And every time the songs were on, 244 00:23:12,998 --> 00:23:17,560 I was just like, yes, this is perfect. And I'm like bopping out and everything about it. I 245 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:23,083 am actually blown away by how good DC did with this project. Yeah, I didn't skip any of the 246 00:23:23,123 --> 00:23:27,484 intros either when I was watching it, partly because of the music. But I would say I stayed 247 00:23:27,525 --> 00:23:33,247 for the end credits even more so for the end music, because that's Maury Kaliope song is 248 00:23:33,287 --> 00:23:38,269 not bad. I'm not really familiar with her work. I know she's like a YouTube thing, whatever. 249 00:23:38,689 --> 00:23:44,974 But. Yeah, I thought it was pretty good. Now, Mendo Waller gave me creepy vibes in the end 250 00:23:45,015 --> 00:23:48,838 music video every time. No, I loved it. When she's grabbing her crotch and she's like, yeah, 251 00:23:48,878 --> 00:23:53,102 loosen my lips, loosen my lips. And we're like, whoa, that's obscene. But I was like, that's 252 00:23:53,182 --> 00:23:58,707 perfect for a Suicide Squad. It's perfect. It is. Right? But it's also perfect anime. I loved 253 00:23:58,807 --> 00:24:06,098 it. Yeah, it was absurd in the best way possible. Like meme worthy. Now, I do have to say. despite 254 00:24:06,138 --> 00:24:11,163 the show's top-notch animation and character designs and intriguing premise. The show itself, 255 00:24:11,323 --> 00:24:19,230 to me, was kind of lackluster and boring story-wise. Like, I thought that's partly probably to do 256 00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:24,215 with the lack of stakes. Like, Suicide Squad as a premise is supposed to contain a degree 257 00:24:24,255 --> 00:24:28,739 of, like, macabre interest in finding out, you know, who's going to die and how. But that 258 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:34,258 was completely stripped from this series. The 72 hour time limit never really felt like a 259 00:24:34,298 --> 00:24:38,779 real threat because time itself was kind of all over the place in this show. And when Amanda 260 00:24:38,819 --> 00:24:43,681 Waller did trigger one of the neck bombs to go off, of course, it was going to be Clayface, 261 00:24:43,701 --> 00:24:48,562 a character that wouldn't be affected, which I saw coming a mile away. And that wasn't the 262 00:24:48,762 --> 00:24:53,763 only obvious thing that I noticed. Princess Fiona being confused for Harley Quinn was something 263 00:24:53,844 --> 00:24:58,905 I figured would happen as early as the trailers for this series. I do think that this season 264 00:24:59,225 --> 00:25:03,278 probably didn't need to be 10 episodes. But you know, as I've heard you mentioned before, 265 00:25:03,318 --> 00:25:08,421 Zach, anime is kind of known for drawn out seasons and filler episodes. So I guess the show is 266 00:25:08,461 --> 00:25:14,844 par for the course in that regard. Most anime actually now are doing just 12 episodes and 267 00:25:14,864 --> 00:25:20,426 the season. So I'm not gonna lie, I was a little upset. I didn't have a little bit more, but 268 00:25:20,846 --> 00:25:24,908 I don't know. I think that's the thing with us anime fans is we just, we want to see the 269 00:25:24,988 --> 00:25:30,767 sick animation. Like we love all the like. Like we watch anime and like we'll go on YouTube 270 00:25:30,807 --> 00:25:35,048 and watch it slow down. That's like how like kind of invested we are and that's how much 271 00:25:35,088 --> 00:25:40,671 we enjoy these fights that we see in anime. It's cool that the passionate fan base exists 272 00:25:40,751 --> 00:25:45,513 out there. Cause the animators do put a lot of like thoughts into this. You could tell 273 00:25:45,553 --> 00:25:50,335 when they do. It just looks so much better and it's so much more fluid. Well, what it is too 274 00:25:50,435 --> 00:25:57,738 is item placement or like hand placement, right? They do such a good job of conveying actual 275 00:25:57,798 --> 00:26:02,841 martial arts and actual strikes. And, you know, when Harley Quinn hits with the baseball bat, 276 00:26:02,901 --> 00:26:07,683 it's very realistic. It's not cartoony. It looks like, you know what I mean? Somebody's actually 277 00:26:07,703 --> 00:26:12,786 hitting somebody. Yeah. They do a very good job of that in this for sure. Now, I'm not 278 00:26:12,826 --> 00:26:16,929 sure if Warner Brothers is planning on doing more seasons of the show, but it definitely 279 00:26:16,989 --> 00:26:23,372 feels like WIT Studio is in it for the long call, which I also feel is like a risky move 280 00:26:23,412 --> 00:26:28,483 because, you know, we as comic book movie fans. are well aware of how often superhero projects 281 00:26:28,563 --> 00:26:33,365 get cancelled or just scrapped altogether. Like, I'll be pissed if this gets cancelled because 282 00:26:33,505 --> 00:26:38,667 the number of unanswered questions in this season is kind of ridiculous. Like, we don't know 283 00:26:38,947 --> 00:26:44,050 how Amanda Waller learned about the isekai or who she used to open the portal to it. I mean, 284 00:26:44,350 --> 00:26:49,352 my guess was Enchantress, but they never followed up on that later. We don't know exactly what 285 00:26:49,432 --> 00:26:55,135 resources Amanda Waller is after. or why she would send the Joker in her first squad if 286 00:26:55,155 --> 00:27:00,759 she knew how chaotic he was. There's just a ton of stuff that I want answers to that I 287 00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:05,062 thought we were gonna get more insights on before the season wrapped up, but that just wasn't 288 00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:10,106 the case. I think they're just trying to draw it out. Like, come back. If you want the answers, 289 00:27:10,166 --> 00:27:15,390 come back. Watch season two. Yeah. Right? I mean, the Joker did say in episode one, like 290 00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:21,722 this was prelude to a very long story. So maybe it is a really long story. I might be talking 291 00:27:21,742 --> 00:27:25,904 out of my ass here because I haven't watched a whole lot of anime, but in the anime that 292 00:27:26,004 --> 00:27:33,647 I have seen, usually I found that the end of it is a little bit anticlimactic actually and 293 00:27:33,987 --> 00:27:39,269 it almost appears as if Japanese storytelling is more about the journey than the destination, 294 00:27:39,610 --> 00:27:45,252 I would say. So even if this is the only season we got, I think it's really less about the 295 00:27:45,472 --> 00:27:50,422 end and more about everything that happened along the way. You're absolutely right. I was 296 00:27:50,602 --> 00:27:55,345 watching a YouTube video recently that was sort of explaining how Eastern storytelling differs 297 00:27:55,405 --> 00:27:59,988 from Western in that it doesn't have a three act structure. It actually has a four act structure. 298 00:28:00,468 --> 00:28:07,972 Their fourth act kind of is an extension of the denouement after the climax, where it kind 299 00:28:08,012 --> 00:28:13,295 of tells a little bit more about the life of these characters. And it does feel anticlimactic 300 00:28:13,335 --> 00:28:18,210 because it doesn't end with a climax, which, you know, Western stories typically do. or 301 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:23,091 shortly after it. So I can see how that would be the case for a lot of anime. Yes, no, that's 302 00:28:23,151 --> 00:28:28,773 exactly what they do. Whenever they end a series, it's always, boom, you have this big fight, 303 00:28:28,993 --> 00:28:35,615 and then there's one final episode that will wrap it up and even jump into the future and 304 00:28:35,655 --> 00:28:40,757 show you, no, hey, this is what they're up to now that evil has been defeated, right? That 305 00:28:40,777 --> 00:28:46,090 is always how it ends. But they space it out, right? So throughout their journey, it's multiple 306 00:28:46,130 --> 00:28:52,313 kind of climaxes, I guess you can say. Yeah, for sure. Now, I feel like all of the intriguing 307 00:28:52,373 --> 00:28:56,855 story stuff came sort of in the last seconds of the show with the reveal that the Joker 308 00:28:57,075 --> 00:29:02,477 had just killed the emperor and taken his place for a majority of the show. The audience is 309 00:29:02,777 --> 00:29:06,999 pretty much just as lost as the squad itself, trying to figure out what to do and what's 310 00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:12,121 going on. But that kind of makes sense, I guess. But maybe not for five hours. I felt like. 311 00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:18,194 for a majority of the show, the characters are sort of just quipping, not stop. And I mean, 312 00:29:18,255 --> 00:29:23,379 I think that's kind of just Suicide Squad in a nutshell. I guess you could say that they 313 00:29:23,399 --> 00:29:28,764 did the same thing in the movies. It is a very comedic concept. So I could see where they 314 00:29:28,784 --> 00:29:34,328 would want to run with that for this anime series. Did you guys have a favorite like joke throughout 315 00:29:34,349 --> 00:29:39,573 the show? I wouldn't have one per se, but I love the character of Clayface, how he was 316 00:29:39,613 --> 00:29:44,938 just like, We're in an isekai and he would just point out everything. And so to me, that was 317 00:29:44,978 --> 00:29:52,264 kind of like my favorite joke, like him. Yeah. Clayface. Yeah. I really liked the bar fight 318 00:29:52,304 --> 00:29:56,627 scene that they did, I think, in the eighth episode or something like that. Really? It 319 00:29:56,667 --> 00:30:02,172 wasn't just one joke per se, but just them starting a fight while this jester is trying to sing 320 00:30:02,212 --> 00:30:05,895 their praises about being a hero was pretty hilarious, I thought. Then all of a sudden, 321 00:30:06,035 --> 00:30:10,466 peacemakers gets his pants off. It's like, what? Yeah, I have no idea what was going on there. 322 00:30:10,606 --> 00:30:16,189 Yeah, I rewound it because I was like, when did he lose his pants? They were never on. 323 00:30:16,229 --> 00:30:22,071 Of course, they have to show some ass in a DC. Of course, it's the requisite DC nudity and 324 00:30:22,171 --> 00:30:29,754 animation. Now, to say my favorite part, I think, was the relationship between Deadshot and Ratcatcher, 325 00:30:30,274 --> 00:30:35,316 how Deadshot thought they were like the best of friends, homies. And then it turns out that 326 00:30:35,336 --> 00:30:39,600 he just really made Ratcatcher's life a living hell. I thought that was hilarious. That was 327 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:39,781 good. 328 00:30:46,958 --> 00:30:52,625 Our fantasies collide and heroes clash. One podcast network rises above the rest. Prepare 329 00:30:52,645 --> 00:30:58,373 yourself for the ultimate showdowns in comic books, video games, movies, and anime. The 330 00:30:58,433 --> 00:31:04,120 Dynamike Podcast Network presents Console Combat, where video game legends brawl every Monday. 331 00:31:07,162 --> 00:31:12,865 Smash every Tuesday, Max Destruction, where TV and action heroes battle every Wednesday, 332 00:31:13,425 --> 00:31:19,348 and Sendro World, where anime champions clash every Thursday. 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Now, even though she pines 339 00:31:54,531 --> 00:31:59,053 for him throughout the series, you know, unaware that he's disguised as Katana in the Isekai, 340 00:31:59,562 --> 00:32:05,324 She proves herself to be an accomplished tactician without him, even concocting the plan that 341 00:32:05,364 --> 00:32:10,726 defeated the Skeleton Queen in the climax of the show. Like I said, man, favorite version 342 00:32:10,766 --> 00:32:15,869 of Harley Quinn. She's something else. I love this version. I love her. Did you have a favorite 343 00:32:16,069 --> 00:32:21,291 moment from the series with her? I think when she kind of put the princess in her place, 344 00:32:21,311 --> 00:32:28,030 I was like, yeah, you tell her, you tell her. Yeah, I liked her cute. attitude. Like she 345 00:32:28,070 --> 00:32:33,552 always called King Shark Nana-chan. Nana-chan, yeah. I love that too. Yeah, and she had the 346 00:32:33,592 --> 00:32:38,214 pet dragon that she adopted taking it on as its surrogate mother. She kind of became like 347 00:32:38,234 --> 00:32:41,936 the queen of dragons from Game of Thrones in that way. That's true. That's an interesting 348 00:32:42,036 --> 00:32:48,539 aspect. That's so Isekai though too, because the protagonist always gets a little pet. It's 349 00:32:48,579 --> 00:32:53,661 rare that you see like the motherly nurturing side of Harley Quinn, but it was an interesting 350 00:32:53,701 --> 00:32:57,530 facet to the character displayed in this show. Yeah, absolutely. Like I mentioned, she was 351 00:32:57,550 --> 00:33:02,212 definitely the heart of the team. If I had to pick my favorite moment from her in the series, 352 00:33:02,692 --> 00:33:07,114 I'd have to say it was probably her sword fight against Katana. Like after they defeated the 353 00:33:07,154 --> 00:33:12,376 Thinker, I loved how Clayface all of a sudden became a sword. And then she just battled against 354 00:33:12,396 --> 00:33:16,518 Katana. That was so cool. Such a great fight scene. Probably one of my favorites in the 355 00:33:16,538 --> 00:33:21,480 entire series. Oh, for sure. Especially how you would see the sword get destroyed. And 356 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,461 because it's Clayface, he would just re like, he would, you would see them pick up dirt. 357 00:33:25,706 --> 00:33:30,709 to reform the sword. And so I thought it was so good. That was really cool. Moving on to 358 00:33:30,789 --> 00:33:35,192 Deadshot, you know, the other members of the squad, they don't really have arcs. They're 359 00:33:35,212 --> 00:33:40,295 pretty static and they're simply there to, I would say, fill out the five man band trope 360 00:33:40,395 --> 00:33:46,019 common to anime. As I mentioned, Harley was the heart of the team. Deadshot was probably 361 00:33:46,339 --> 00:33:51,046 the leader. He filled that kind of archetype since he often directed the team on. where 362 00:33:51,066 --> 00:33:55,810 they would go, such as leaving to collect ammo or instructing the team to put on magic armor. 363 00:33:56,310 --> 00:34:02,776 My favorite moment with him in the series was how he ended the battle against Rattcatcher 364 00:34:03,136 --> 00:34:06,980 and his army with one bullet. I didn't see that coming. I thought we were gonna have like an 365 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:12,744 all out army brawl, but for it just to end in that manner, I thought it was great. That was 366 00:34:12,825 --> 00:34:17,469 a quintessential Deadshot moment. Yeah, no, I totally agree. For me, it was just, yeah, 367 00:34:17,509 --> 00:34:21,994 just how he got on. throughout the series, I was like, yeah, you're cool. I'd hang out with 368 00:34:22,014 --> 00:34:26,876 you, Deadshot. He was the coolest one. Yeah. Alongside Peacemaker, I would say, Peacemaker, 369 00:34:27,116 --> 00:34:32,378 he's the team lancer or like the skilled rebel of the group. Someone who often clashes with 370 00:34:32,398 --> 00:34:37,479 the leader. And you definitely saw that in this series with him clashing with Deadshot. Now, 371 00:34:37,499 --> 00:34:43,401 I didn't love Peacemaker in this series. I thought he was kind of weird, like too stoic and very 372 00:34:43,441 --> 00:34:48,327 different from John Cena's take, but I guess. They needed him to be a foil to the short fused 373 00:34:48,427 --> 00:34:53,371 dead shot. I loved Peacemaker in this season. Yeah, he was my favorite character, actually. 374 00:34:53,771 --> 00:34:57,073 I remember I was watching the show with my wife and she was like, I thought the Peacemaker 375 00:34:57,113 --> 00:35:01,777 is supposed to be like funny. I'm like, maybe John Cena, you know, as written by James Gunn. 376 00:35:01,837 --> 00:35:05,479 But from what I know of him in the comics, you know, he's not that funny. He's actually a 377 00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:11,564 lot more stoic and serious of a character. So I like how they went that route with him and 378 00:35:11,604 --> 00:35:17,179 just how like dedicated to his cause he was. He was funny in that sense. Yeah, I think that 379 00:35:17,219 --> 00:35:22,523 worked for him. I have to say I prefer this one over the John Cena one. Really? I would 380 00:35:22,543 --> 00:35:29,027 agree. Yeah. Really? Yeah, I'm sorry, John Cena. That's fair. Moving on to King Shark. He was 381 00:35:29,067 --> 00:35:33,590 the big guy or the muscle of the group. If I had to pick a favorite moment with him, it 382 00:35:33,610 --> 00:35:38,513 was probably his battles with Killer Croc, only because I was surprised to see Killer Croc. 383 00:35:39,006 --> 00:35:43,207 I always figured that King Shark would have been like more than a match against Killer 384 00:35:43,247 --> 00:35:47,188 Kroc, especially with the healing factor that they gave King Shark in the show. But the show 385 00:35:47,228 --> 00:35:51,809 definitely upped Killer Kroc's fighting skill, I would say. He was like a boxer, so it kind 386 00:35:51,829 --> 00:35:56,470 of worked. Let's talk about that healing factor though, because some of the characters seems 387 00:35:56,530 --> 00:36:01,132 to get power upgrades while some of the characters did not. Now, King Shark, he got a healing 388 00:36:01,172 --> 00:36:07,373 factor. Clayface, he got geokinesis. And I guess Harley Quinn, I don't know. Sometimes she was 389 00:36:07,413 --> 00:36:11,460 able to. someone's super strength or something like that. But what did the other guys get? 390 00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:17,424 It was not quite clear what happened to the other characters and like why their abilities 391 00:36:17,444 --> 00:36:21,907 were enhanced. Yeah, I don't think they unlocked any special abilities. I don't think so. It's 392 00:36:21,947 --> 00:36:26,190 just those three. Like even the guys on the other side, the other suicide squad members, 393 00:36:26,230 --> 00:36:30,573 they didn't really have powers either. Well, Ratcatcher was upgraded. Yeah, he was able 394 00:36:30,593 --> 00:36:36,157 to control wolves. But that was because of the crystal, right? Like it wasn't his power. I 395 00:36:36,177 --> 00:36:40,780 wasn't sure about that. I thought that was unclear. In the comics, you know, he has a device that 396 00:36:40,820 --> 00:36:46,144 controls rats as well. So I wasn't sure if he just got an upgraded device in this world or 397 00:36:46,164 --> 00:36:50,467 what happened. But I also thought Killer Croc got an upgrade because he was able to control 398 00:36:50,487 --> 00:36:56,091 that underwater leviathan. Yeah. Who was that guy? Where did he come from? The Isekai. That 399 00:36:56,111 --> 00:37:00,675 thing pissed me off when he first showed up, because I was like, oh, sweet. We get Croc 400 00:37:00,695 --> 00:37:05,874 versus shark. And then all of a sudden, two seconds later, stupid. octopus fish thing, 401 00:37:06,174 --> 00:37:14,458 grab shark and there's no fight. I was like, man, fuck that fish. It didn't make sense. 402 00:37:14,778 --> 00:37:19,720 Maybe it was kind of like a dragon type situation where one of the bad Suicide Squad members 403 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,882 had adopted a small fish as a pet or something like that and then it grew. I don't know. That 404 00:37:23,902 --> 00:37:31,325 makes sense. But I guess if the good guys got the dragon, then yeah. They did call it a Leviathan, 405 00:37:31,525 --> 00:37:37,873 right? So. I believe so, yeah. And Kroc called it his little bro. Yeah. So you could be onto 406 00:37:37,913 --> 00:37:42,035 something there. But I think the other characters would develop powers and everything. I think 407 00:37:42,075 --> 00:37:46,078 if they do bring it back, then I think some of those characters will start developing powers, 408 00:37:46,298 --> 00:37:49,881 which I think would be pretty cool. Although now that they have the armor that they got 409 00:37:49,921 --> 00:37:55,245 at the end, the magic armor, maybe some of them don't even need those just innate upgrades, 410 00:37:55,385 --> 00:37:59,948 magic upgrades, and they could just use the armor. Man, I know we'll get there, but that 411 00:38:00,068 --> 00:38:05,596 armor was incredible. I loved it. how it turned the entire show into like a Dynasty Warriors 412 00:38:05,656 --> 00:38:10,860 video game. I was pumped. I watched that scene twice. That whole thing. It was great. It was 413 00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:16,966 good. That is your typical like going super say in moment. Yeah. Oh, for sure. We would 414 00:38:16,986 --> 00:38:22,090 call it. Yeah. No, it was so good. They even had like the transformation scenes. I thought 415 00:38:22,130 --> 00:38:26,554 those were good. Those are funny. Power Rangers, sailor moon type transformations. Love it. 416 00:38:27,034 --> 00:38:33,782 Love it. Moving on to Clayface. He was. the absolute standout character of the show for 417 00:38:33,822 --> 00:38:39,324 me, probably because I've never seen the character done this way before. His alter ego, Basil 418 00:38:39,344 --> 00:38:44,785 Carlo, was an actor, and he's a diva on the Harley Quinn show, but he's never been like 419 00:38:45,145 --> 00:38:52,187 cool before, like he was in this show, or maybe like ironically so. He also provided exposition 420 00:38:52,227 --> 00:38:55,888 for the team, as well as the audience who may not have been familiar with the tropes from 421 00:38:55,988 --> 00:39:01,703 anime and Hollywood cinema. And that strangely made him the team's quote unquote smart guy 422 00:39:01,983 --> 00:39:06,627 while also being the comedic relief. Every time you spoke, I was like, this guy's a dumb ass. 423 00:39:06,847 --> 00:39:13,513 I love it. Right. So yeah, no, Clayface is cool. I really liked Clayface in this. He was definitely 424 00:39:13,533 --> 00:39:19,418 that kind of vain pretty boy type character, but it did make me wonder why the Clayface 425 00:39:19,438 --> 00:39:25,363 from the comics is such a tragic figure. If he can shape shift into a beautiful form, whatever 426 00:39:25,424 --> 00:39:30,864 he wants to, he just like chooses not to. I don't understand why he doesn't do that because 427 00:39:31,004 --> 00:39:36,388 this version of Clayface had no problem altering his appearance in that way and he wasn't nearly 428 00:39:36,428 --> 00:39:41,753 the tragic character that he is in the comics. You know, he had trouble maintaining his prior 429 00:39:41,773 --> 00:39:46,857 form. This show kind of did away with that. They made it so that he was a pretty seamless 430 00:39:47,077 --> 00:39:50,820 shapeshifter, but he's not always like that in the comics. He can't maintain it for very 431 00:39:50,860 --> 00:39:56,905 long. Okay, that makes sense. Now, I totally thought Clayface was El Diablo from the trailers. 432 00:39:57,522 --> 00:40:02,545 I was way wrong. It turned out Clayface just had expanded control over Clay in the isekai 433 00:40:02,906 --> 00:40:08,390 and that was visualized in this like glowy fiery kind of way. But I was happily surprised to 434 00:40:08,430 --> 00:40:13,313 find out it was Clayface. I was like, what? OK. I didn't fully know it was him until the 435 00:40:13,353 --> 00:40:18,617 end of the first episode when they did those character roll call title cards, kind of. Oh, 436 00:40:18,797 --> 00:40:23,381 yeah. Where each character got to showcase their ability in the fight when they first got into 437 00:40:23,401 --> 00:40:28,111 the isekai. That was pretty dope. My favorite moment from Clayface was probably when he brought 438 00:40:28,131 --> 00:40:33,354 down the fortress. Like not only was it a great feat for the character, but I also thought 439 00:40:33,374 --> 00:40:37,377 it was just hilarious that the fortress ended up belonging to the kingdom. Oh, you're talking 440 00:40:37,397 --> 00:40:42,440 about in the fight against Ratcatcher? Yeah. Yeah, that was a great showcase of his kind 441 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,303 of intellect, how he was kind of the smart guy of the group because in this weird meta way, 442 00:40:47,383 --> 00:40:52,718 he had an understanding of the situation that they were in being an Isekai fan himself. But 443 00:40:52,778 --> 00:40:57,661 yeah, it was his idea to bring down the water towers and to make the stone that they were 444 00:40:57,701 --> 00:41:03,084 standing on a little bit more malleable. Yeah, no, he was definitely a lot more intelligent 445 00:41:03,304 --> 00:41:07,967 than he's ever really been portrayed. But it totally made sense the way they did it though, 446 00:41:08,047 --> 00:41:12,189 too, because, you know, being a fan of movies and just like culture and stuff like that, 447 00:41:12,410 --> 00:41:18,813 he was the geek of the group. Moving on to Princess Fiona or Fiona? Fiona. She was the literal... 448 00:41:19,074 --> 00:41:25,279 damsel in distress, this demure royal with a traumatic childhood in which her friend as 449 00:41:25,299 --> 00:41:30,403 a kid was killed after she told him how much food soldiers in the war had. She made it her 450 00:41:30,443 --> 00:41:35,407 life's purpose to end the war, partly out of guilt, but she was too timid to confront her 451 00:41:35,447 --> 00:41:40,811 mother, Queen Aldora, even when the Queen's behavior became more and more erratic and harsh. 452 00:41:41,352 --> 00:41:46,756 Eventually, she was inspired by Harley Quinn, her doppelganger, and to becoming more independent 453 00:41:46,936 --> 00:41:51,358 and confrontational. for the sake of her kingdom. Yeah, I guess I don't have too much to say 454 00:41:51,398 --> 00:41:55,620 about her. I think her twist at the end was something that we all kind of saw coming. And 455 00:41:55,780 --> 00:42:00,581 they set it up pretty well, I thought. I wouldn't say I seen it coming. Like I had an inkling 456 00:42:00,641 --> 00:42:04,042 of it. I was like, why does she look so much like Harley Quinn? I was like, there must be 457 00:42:04,102 --> 00:42:07,743 something going on there. And I thought like, oh, maybe we're gonna find, you know, this 458 00:42:07,823 --> 00:42:12,744 medieval version of Deadshot and the rest of the characters. So that kind of threw me a 459 00:42:12,764 --> 00:42:16,925 little bit for a loop. But like, I have to say my favorite moment with the princess was when 460 00:42:17,510 --> 00:42:22,411 She turns around and she's wearing the makeup. Yes. And she's like, I am sick and tired of 461 00:42:22,451 --> 00:42:28,093 this fucking shit. And just the guy with the baseball bat. I was like, yes. I was like, 462 00:42:28,113 --> 00:42:33,534 do your thing, girl. That was great. The last character I do want to talk about is the Joker. 463 00:42:33,834 --> 00:42:38,996 He's a pretty mysterious character throughout the show, which kind of works for the character 464 00:42:39,076 --> 00:42:44,077 in that he should always be unpredictable. And while I do feel like he was shoehorned into 465 00:42:44,097 --> 00:42:48,808 the show's final minutes. and that the reveal wasn't as shocking or as satisfying as it should 466 00:42:48,848 --> 00:42:54,153 have been, the more I've dwelt on it, the more I'm glad that he's being positioned as the 467 00:42:54,193 --> 00:42:59,677 series' main antagonist. I like the concept of the Suicide Squad versus the Joker, especially 468 00:42:59,697 --> 00:43:04,762 when Harley Quinn is positioned as one of the team leads. Yeah, I definitely think that sets 469 00:43:04,822 --> 00:43:10,306 up something pretty cool down the line, because you know, once Harley Quinn finds out, she's 470 00:43:10,346 --> 00:43:14,714 going to obviously switch sides, and that's going to cause a whole bunch of drama. but 471 00:43:14,774 --> 00:43:20,338 then something's gonna lead to her rejoining the Suicide Squad, so I'm very interested in 472 00:43:20,378 --> 00:43:24,542 how that whole thing would play out. Oh yeah, it's gonna bring great conflict to season two 473 00:43:24,582 --> 00:43:29,846 if there is a season two. I really liked this version of the Joker. I liked how philosophical 474 00:43:29,886 --> 00:43:36,371 he was. He was like this wise, chaotic, anarchist. And really his whole motivation for doing everything 475 00:43:36,391 --> 00:43:42,957 that he did was to provide a more interesting life, I guess, for Harley Quinn and everybody 476 00:43:43,017 --> 00:43:48,876 else in the squad. Yeah, which is fascinating. Like he's such a wild card in that sense. And 477 00:43:48,916 --> 00:43:55,199 yeah, because it's hard to empathize with that type of thinking, it does make him very mysterious. 478 00:43:55,559 --> 00:43:59,961 And I thought it was actually a really damn good twist. My jaw dropped in the final minutes 479 00:44:00,001 --> 00:44:05,363 of the last episode. Yeah, I did not see that coming at all. Like I was like, oh shit, okay. 480 00:44:05,664 --> 00:44:11,006 The Joker can scrap too. I was like, I love it. Right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, at the beginning 481 00:44:11,026 --> 00:44:15,847 of the series, Joker theorizes that everyone longs to be part of a new world where things 482 00:44:15,867 --> 00:44:20,869 are more fantastical and free. You know, part of his motivation for causing havoc is to make 483 00:44:20,889 --> 00:44:26,430 the world a more fantastical place. And when he enters a literal fantasy world, he takes 484 00:44:26,550 --> 00:44:31,332 on the role of the mysterious wild card, like you mentioned, Joseph, you know, seemingly 485 00:44:31,592 --> 00:44:36,293 neither friend nor foe. Up until the final moments when he decides to take charge of things and 486 00:44:36,313 --> 00:44:41,668 kill the emperor. because the Skeleton Queen's plan to unleash death on the entire world would 487 00:44:41,688 --> 00:44:46,851 have led to peace and quiet, and the Joker doesn't want that. He wants to see everyone live on 488 00:44:46,871 --> 00:44:52,294 the edge, as he says in his own words. It's a fantastic setup for season two. It was a 489 00:44:52,334 --> 00:44:58,777 fantastic take on the Joker, I agree. So much so that I can't think of a recent version of 490 00:44:58,797 --> 00:45:04,240 the Joker that I think is as well done as this. As little as screen time as he had, I still 491 00:45:04,260 --> 00:45:10,320 think that he was done remarkably well. I like how this version of the Joker took heavily 492 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,622 from the characterization of Heath Ledger's Joker even though they kind of made him look 493 00:45:13,642 --> 00:45:18,565 a little bit more like Jared Leto's. Jared Leto could only wish that they would have had like 494 00:45:18,605 --> 00:45:23,408 the design insight they had for this Joker with like the tattoo of the smile. That was sick. 495 00:45:23,428 --> 00:45:27,911 I like that. That was awesome. Yeah, no, I was just going to ask you guys what did you think 496 00:45:27,971 --> 00:45:33,714 of the Joker's design? And yeah, probably one of my favorites. I wonder why they didn't go 497 00:45:33,754 --> 00:45:38,918 this route in the 2016 Suicide Squad movie with Jared Leto. They had did the thing where he 498 00:45:38,978 --> 00:45:43,462 tattooed a smile on his hand, but he had tattoos on his face already, so you would think that 499 00:45:43,482 --> 00:45:48,326 he would just put a smile on his face like they did in this anime. You'd think. I feel like 500 00:45:48,386 --> 00:45:53,049 if they did that, it would have been some big goofy red smile and it would have looked even 501 00:45:53,129 --> 00:45:58,153 worse. But what if it had sharp teeth and everything? I don't know. I would have to see it in action, 502 00:45:58,353 --> 00:46:03,047 I think. before I totally sign off on it. But conceptually, I feel like it's there. I feel 503 00:46:03,067 --> 00:46:03,629 like it makes sense. 504 00:46:10,958 --> 00:46:16,539 Moving on to the story highlights, in episode one, as the Joker and Harley Quinn wreak havoc 505 00:46:16,559 --> 00:46:22,281 in Gotham City, they are attacked by Argus agents. The Joker escapes, but Harley is defeated and 506 00:46:22,321 --> 00:46:28,182 captured by Katana. Meanwhile, Argus's director Amanda Waller oversees the opening of a portal 507 00:46:28,222 --> 00:46:34,484 to another world. Six months later, she tasks Belriiv and mates Harley, Deadshot Clayface 508 00:46:34,524 --> 00:46:40,070 Peacemaker, and King Shark with entering the Isekai to collect resources. and implants time 509 00:46:40,090 --> 00:46:44,813 bombs on their necks that will explode in 72 hours unless they receive a radio signal from 510 00:46:44,853 --> 00:46:51,097 her regularly to discourage any escape attempts. Additionally, she blackmails Deadshot by threatening 511 00:46:51,137 --> 00:46:57,101 his daughter. As the squad enters the portal, their helicopter crashes in a world that Clayfist 512 00:46:57,121 --> 00:47:02,224 calls an isekai before they are ambushed by orcs and an army of knights, neither of whom 513 00:47:02,465 --> 00:47:07,635 they are able to understand. despite repelling the orcs that are captured by the knights and 514 00:47:07,675 --> 00:47:13,676 taken to a prison fortress. Elsewhere, Kitana and several supervillains speak to a mysterious 515 00:47:13,736 --> 00:47:19,578 figure. Now the beginning of the series, after the Joker blows up those businessmen, him and 516 00:47:19,618 --> 00:47:25,320 Harley escape in this car that's controlled by a piano. Which I thought was awesome. Yeah, 517 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,081 that's something you definitely don't see every day, but I mean it kind of makes sense for 518 00:47:29,101 --> 00:47:33,979 the characters. I dug it. Who do you guys think was the girl that Waller used to open the portal? 519 00:47:33,999 --> 00:47:38,441 Do you think it was Enchantress? It seems like it was Enchantress because the way the portal 520 00:47:38,481 --> 00:47:43,603 manifested with that kind of emerald looking visual was the same kind of visual that they 521 00:47:43,743 --> 00:47:48,465 used to portray her magic powers later on in the series. No, I agree with that totally, 522 00:47:48,505 --> 00:47:55,368 because, yeah, portal was green. So who else? That's what I think. I do wonder who took out 523 00:47:55,408 --> 00:48:00,806 the helicopter pilots. That was never addressed. Because like the agent, I think his name was 524 00:48:00,946 --> 00:48:05,948 Adam, goes to the front and the helicopter pilots look like they've been sniped. I don't know 525 00:48:05,968 --> 00:48:10,729 if that was the Joker or what happened there, but it was never addressed. Yeah, you're right. 526 00:48:10,749 --> 00:48:16,050 Good question, yeah, pothole. Cause yeah, like I don't, like nobody else in that world would 527 00:48:16,090 --> 00:48:21,132 really know how to use a gun or have that kind of precision, right? It would have had to have 528 00:48:21,152 --> 00:48:24,793 been the Joker, you would think. I hope it was. Yeah, especially if you could throw hands like 529 00:48:24,813 --> 00:48:29,406 that, he probably could shoot very well as well. Just a... Jack of all trades. I think he's 530 00:48:29,427 --> 00:48:34,569 like a super joker almost. Like he's not like actually super, but like he's very talented, 531 00:48:34,729 --> 00:48:39,272 you know what I mean? Yeah. Any guy who could like play a piano like that, for sure talented. 532 00:48:40,332 --> 00:48:45,735 Moving on to episode two, a royal court discusses the current war and their prisoners. Queen 533 00:48:45,755 --> 00:48:50,918 Eldora dismisses both the starving peasants and the squad's presence, but Princess Fiona 534 00:48:51,198 --> 00:48:56,841 believes the latter may be of use and orders her elite knight, Cecile, to bring them to 535 00:48:56,881 --> 00:49:02,057 her. Meanwhile, following the squad's imprisonment, Clayface tries to escape, but the guards put 536 00:49:02,117 --> 00:49:07,361 magical handcuffs on him that negate his powers. They later meet an elite Argus soldier named 537 00:49:07,421 --> 00:49:12,184 Rick Flag, who reveals he knows them, that they are meant to serve as Waller's suicide squad, 538 00:49:12,624 --> 00:49:16,867 and their predecessors went missing six months ago. He knows of an area where they can receive 539 00:49:16,907 --> 00:49:21,591 Waller's signal, and under the threat of their bombs, Clayface releases the other inmates 540 00:49:21,911 --> 00:49:27,175 while the squad start a riot and successfully take over the prison. However, they are reconfronted 541 00:49:27,195 --> 00:49:33,901 by the Knights who arrested them. My favorite scene in this episode is probably in the prison 542 00:49:33,941 --> 00:49:38,565 cafeteria where they're having trouble communicating with the Orc and it just leads to this all 543 00:49:38,605 --> 00:49:45,792 out brawl. I love just how savvy the Suicide Squad was when it came to like prison politics. 544 00:49:46,312 --> 00:49:50,556 Clayface thought he knew what was going on, but he was really just a distraction for the 545 00:49:50,616 --> 00:49:56,299 others to up the ante. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I liked the orc prisoners and how through 546 00:49:56,339 --> 00:50:01,001 brawling with them and alongside them, they kind of became their allies. Moving on to episode 547 00:50:01,021 --> 00:50:06,023 three, before the squad can fight, the Knights flag stops them and attempts to reason with 548 00:50:06,063 --> 00:50:11,705 Cecile using words he learned from orc prisoners. Despite being insulted by this, Cecile follows 549 00:50:11,745 --> 00:50:17,468 through on Fiona's orders. They soon meet Eldora and Fiona, the latter of whom resembles Harley. 550 00:50:18,008 --> 00:50:23,758 After Eldora casts a translation spell to facilitate contact. Flag confesses that his previous squad 551 00:50:23,798 --> 00:50:29,941 escaped and became generals in the enemy forces. She demands the squad be executed until a peacemaker 552 00:50:29,981 --> 00:50:35,063 convinces her to let them take on a mission from her instead. She accepts under the condition 553 00:50:35,083 --> 00:50:40,606 that Flag remains imprisoned until the mission succeeds. After the squad regain their equipment, 554 00:50:40,886 --> 00:50:45,788 they take advantage of Cecile's fight with an army of werewolves to sneak into the werewolves 555 00:50:45,828 --> 00:50:51,000 fortress where they encounter Ratcatcher, who holds a grudge against Deadshot for slandering 556 00:50:51,060 --> 00:50:56,885 and humiliating Kim while they were incarcerated together. Using a magic scepter, he takes control 557 00:50:56,905 --> 00:51:01,949 of a pack of werewolves to seek revenge. Though the squad defeats the werewolves, Katana rescues 558 00:51:02,029 --> 00:51:08,495 Ratcatcher, who intends to control a different army to kill the squad. I loved how Rick Flag 559 00:51:08,515 --> 00:51:14,240 was talking to Cecile at the beginning of this episode. I was cracking up. What did he call 560 00:51:14,260 --> 00:51:19,483 him again? He kept calling him like a... stank ass or something like that. Yeah. Something. 561 00:51:19,864 --> 00:51:24,506 It was hilarious. Moving on to episode 4, in a flashback, a young Fiona snuck out of the 562 00:51:24,546 --> 00:51:29,709 castle to befriend peasants, only for them to be killed in the war. In the present, Eldora 563 00:51:29,749 --> 00:51:34,612 refuses to release the squad despite their victory because they destroyed the kingdom's fortress. 564 00:51:35,093 --> 00:51:40,276 Harley berates Fiona for reminding the former of her old self, as Cecil explains how the 565 00:51:40,296 --> 00:51:45,075 war that Eldora's kingdom is involved in has lasted decades. especially after the elves 566 00:51:45,135 --> 00:51:49,699 and beastmen betrayed them. Ratcatcher takes command of a beast army and approaches the 567 00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:55,544 castle and Harley recruits Eldora's prisoners to aid the squad, but Deadshot destroys Ratcatcher's 568 00:51:55,564 --> 00:52:02,150 scepter, causing his army to betray him and then surrender. As a reward, Cecile frees the 569 00:52:02,210 --> 00:52:07,514 squad, who leave to receive Waller's signal, with 12 hours left on their bombs. The kingdom 570 00:52:07,574 --> 00:52:12,730 celebrates, though Eldora is displeased. This episode was pretty dope. And that's what I 571 00:52:12,770 --> 00:52:17,852 was saying, too. Like the whole thing of like the scepter is his main source of power. Yeah. 572 00:52:18,032 --> 00:52:22,894 Like I don't think they explained where he got the scepter from. I thought it was just made 573 00:52:22,974 --> 00:52:27,756 with like magical artifacts that he probably got through the empire. Kind of the same way 574 00:52:27,836 --> 00:52:32,318 that Harley Quinn stuck that magic gem on top of her gun. And then all of a sudden, they 575 00:52:32,358 --> 00:52:36,860 shot like magic bullets. Yeah. I think is what I'm guessing. OK. I mean, fair enough. Fair 576 00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:41,246 enough. I wasn't the biggest fan of Rack Hatcher. I don't know why, I didn't like his design 577 00:52:41,286 --> 00:52:47,269 in this one. I think they included him probably because Ritecatcher was in the Suicide Squad. 578 00:52:47,729 --> 00:52:53,611 I didn't mind it, I thought it was cool again to see like new faces, new comic villains and 579 00:52:53,631 --> 00:52:59,474 see how they were interpreted. The purple mohawk was pretty wild I thought. In episode five, 580 00:52:59,554 --> 00:53:04,236 the squad reaches the portal which is in the sky in time to reset their bombs, giving them 581 00:53:04,316 --> 00:53:10,431 72 more hours. They continue helping Eldora's kingdom. but Deadshot runs out of bullets. 582 00:53:10,811 --> 00:53:16,016 Flag says his helicopter, which was left on a mountain, has more weapons. In routes, they 583 00:53:16,056 --> 00:53:20,659 stop and party with the former prisoners who were left in charge of the fortress, and Harley 584 00:53:20,699 --> 00:53:26,724 acquires a magical size-shifting frying pan. Upon reaching the helicopter, they find a dragon 585 00:53:27,085 --> 00:53:31,728 made a nest with it before it attacks them. While Harley uses the frying pan to deflect 586 00:53:31,788 --> 00:53:36,452 its fire breath, Peacemaker distracts it by stealing its egg, and Deadshot knocks it off 587 00:53:36,472 --> 00:53:41,870 the mountain with a rocket launcher. The egg hatches and the baby dragon imprints on Harley, 588 00:53:41,890 --> 00:53:47,572 who names it Arthur. Flag secretly contacts Waller and informs her of the situation. She 589 00:53:47,592 --> 00:53:52,553 tells him to kill the traitors in the previous squad. After acquiring the weapons, the squad 590 00:53:52,573 --> 00:53:57,275 returns with Arthur, but finds the fortress on fire and the Enchantress and the Thinker 591 00:53:57,335 --> 00:54:02,376 looming in the sky. If any episode I thought kind of dragged on was kind of boring, I thought 592 00:54:02,396 --> 00:54:06,557 it was this one. It was like a transitionary episode, like the first half of the episode. 593 00:54:06,870 --> 00:54:11,213 Their whole motivation is just to get more ammo to resupply, right? There's not a whole lot 594 00:54:11,273 --> 00:54:15,156 of plot going on here, except for the dragon fight, which is pretty good. And then the whole 595 00:54:15,196 --> 00:54:20,260 imprinting thing. Episode six, after finding their friends from the prison have been executed 596 00:54:20,300 --> 00:54:25,303 by brainwashed elves. The squad fights them, Enchantress and the Thinker. King Shark is 597 00:54:25,343 --> 00:54:30,387 knocked into a lake where he is beaten and captured by Killer Croc and a sea monster. Thinker makes 598 00:54:30,447 --> 00:54:35,235 Deadshot Clayface and Peacemaker experience nightmares. then shoots them with a gun after 599 00:54:35,275 --> 00:54:40,699 Enchantress disapproves of making them suffer. Enchantress asks Harley to join them, but Harley 600 00:54:40,739 --> 00:54:46,182 refuses. Flag claims he can make the rogue's bombs explode, but the trio calls his bluff 601 00:54:46,282 --> 00:54:51,566 and leave. After Harley reunites with Deadshot, Clayface, and Peacemaker, the squad is re-imprisoned, 602 00:54:51,966 --> 00:54:58,411 and Eldora declares they will be executed to deter incompetence. Finding this unfair, Fionne 603 00:54:58,591 --> 00:55:04,791 and Cecile release them and provide a carriage. As the squad decides to take the fight to the 604 00:55:04,831 --> 00:55:11,355 villains, Tinker finds the portal and erects a tower around it. I was confused at the end 605 00:55:11,375 --> 00:55:15,417 of this episode when Rick Flagg was bluffing that he could blow up their heads because he 606 00:55:15,457 --> 00:55:18,699 had that controller device with their faces on it and everything like that. In the next 607 00:55:18,739 --> 00:55:22,621 episode, I was like, why doesn't he just use that? Because it wasn't entirely clear to me 608 00:55:22,661 --> 00:55:26,503 that he actually was bluffing. I thought he actually had their controls on him, because 609 00:55:26,523 --> 00:55:31,126 it would make sense that he would, considering he was their handler. So. I'm not sure why 610 00:55:31,166 --> 00:55:35,067 he didn't have the ability to blow up their heads. Well, I don't think it was clear that 611 00:55:35,107 --> 00:55:42,169 he was bluffing until he let them go, because I think he would have blown them up if he was 612 00:55:42,209 --> 00:55:47,410 able to, because he was under orders from Amanda Waller to do so, to kill the old squad. And 613 00:55:47,711 --> 00:55:53,972 he didn't do that. Well, did he not have the controller when they got split up originally? 614 00:55:54,012 --> 00:55:57,453 So don't you think he would have just killed them? Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. Yeah. 615 00:55:57,982 --> 00:56:02,204 Yeah, I don't think Amanda Waller gave him the control to do that. I think she was the only 616 00:56:02,264 --> 00:56:07,347 one who had the controls to blow up the suicide squad bombs. That's stupid. Yeah, that's weird 617 00:56:07,387 --> 00:56:12,670 because like even in the live action movies, Flagg had the ability to blow people's heads 618 00:56:12,750 --> 00:56:17,833 up. Yeah, I don't know. It was kind of weird in the way that they kind of teased that he 619 00:56:17,853 --> 00:56:22,716 might have that ability. But then I was like, oh, psych, who knows? It's a plot hole. I think 620 00:56:22,756 --> 00:56:28,299 it just went on to show that. He never had the ability to blow up their bombs to begin with. 621 00:56:28,739 --> 00:56:33,521 But it does beg the question, why didn't Amanda Waller just blow them up from the other side 622 00:56:33,561 --> 00:56:37,363 of the portal? Even when they were close to it, yeah. I did like this episode a lot. In 623 00:56:37,383 --> 00:56:42,325 fact, I really liked the second half of the season a lot more than the first. I feel like 624 00:56:42,745 --> 00:56:47,768 once they started getting involved with more of the other squad members like Enchantress, 625 00:56:48,048 --> 00:56:53,519 the Thinker, then it really started to become more interesting. Moving on to episode seven, 626 00:56:53,779 --> 00:56:57,963 with a few hours left on their bombs, the squad discovers Thinker built a tower and fortress 627 00:56:58,003 --> 00:57:03,247 around the portal and is guarded by Katana and brainwashed elves. Clayface infiltrates the 628 00:57:03,267 --> 00:57:08,852 fortress and imitates Thinker to distract Katana while the others distract the elves. Amidst 629 00:57:08,912 --> 00:57:14,097 this, Peacemaker captures one and tortures him to death, hurting the other elves due to the 630 00:57:14,137 --> 00:57:19,914 Thinker's linking of their minds. As Harley engages the Thinker, he enters her mind. and 631 00:57:19,954 --> 00:57:26,098 sees a memory of the Joker seducing her. However, she commands the memory Joker to help her defeat 632 00:57:26,138 --> 00:57:31,983 Thinker, freeing the elves. As the fortress and tower collapse, Kitana, who had defeated 633 00:57:32,023 --> 00:57:38,708 Clayface, kills Thinker and takes his thinking cap. Harley and Clayface join forces to defeat 634 00:57:38,728 --> 00:57:45,213 Kitana, breaking her naginata and knocking her mask off, though she escapes. With their bombs 635 00:57:45,253 --> 00:57:51,311 reset once more, The squad celebrate by having Arthur burn down the enemy flag. When the kingdom 636 00:57:51,371 --> 00:57:56,232 receives word of the squad's victory, a furious Eldora orders them to be brought in dead or 637 00:57:56,292 --> 00:58:02,874 alive. Horrifying and confusing, Fiona and Cecile. Absolute badassery when she's just standing 638 00:58:02,914 --> 00:58:08,176 there, just like holding the head. Yeah. Oh, damn. Oh, that was so cool. I was like, what 639 00:58:08,196 --> 00:58:12,157 the hell's going on here? Because that's not Katana, but I didn't know who it was. I thought 640 00:58:12,177 --> 00:58:16,142 she was like possessed or something like that. But yeah, this was my second favorite episode. 641 00:58:16,382 --> 00:58:20,644 My favorite being the last episode, but this was a pretty good one. I guess my one question 642 00:58:20,764 --> 00:58:26,447 is if all the elves minds were linked, then that means if any of them like got, say, punched 643 00:58:26,487 --> 00:58:29,668 in the face in the course of battle, wouldn't they all feel like they just got punched in 644 00:58:29,708 --> 00:58:33,770 the face? That's exactly what happened. Yeah. Yeah, but like they went against the elves 645 00:58:33,790 --> 00:58:37,571 in the previous episode and that did not happen. That's a good question. I don't know. That's 646 00:58:37,611 --> 00:58:43,806 probably a plot hole. You're just overthinking it. Yeah. Stop. What are you doing? Anime logic, 647 00:58:44,046 --> 00:58:49,147 that's what it is. I think maybe the thinker didn't link up all their minds until they were 648 00:58:49,167 --> 00:58:54,889 all trying to find the squad. I don't know. Sure. OK. It's as good a rationale as any, 649 00:58:54,949 --> 00:59:00,130 I suppose. I have to say, I did get a little bit upset that Harley Quinn was holding her 650 00:59:00,330 --> 00:59:04,351 own against Katana, because in my mind, Katana is a much better fighter than Harley Quinn. 651 00:59:04,711 --> 00:59:09,933 Harley Quinn being more of a brawler, I guess, in my mind. But knowing that was in fact the 652 00:59:09,993 --> 00:59:14,982 Joker in the sword fight against Harley Quinn, The fact that it was a more even match sat 653 00:59:15,022 --> 00:59:20,964 a little bit better with me after that reveal. I agree, because in the opening episode, Katana 654 00:59:21,024 --> 00:59:25,445 essentially wiped the floor with Harley Quinn. She was playing with her like a cat plays with 655 00:59:25,465 --> 00:59:30,846 a mouse. So when all of a sudden Harley was able to hold her own, I agree. I was like, 656 00:59:30,866 --> 00:59:37,548 what is this? But in hindsight, it worked. Well, the thing too in anime is a lot of the power 657 00:59:37,588 --> 00:59:43,094 of friendship. And that's what I felt like she was using when fighting Katana in that. moment. 658 00:59:43,254 --> 00:59:48,476 Oh, with Clayface? Yeah, so she kind of got like that ability buff and she was able to 659 00:59:48,496 --> 00:59:53,538 like throw hands. In episode 8, the squad is invited back to the castle, but Aldora and 660 00:59:53,558 --> 00:59:58,721 her court refused to thank them for their victories. One noble, ordered by Aldora before the squad's 661 00:59:58,741 --> 01:00:03,903 arrival, talks against them and slaps Harley, resulting in an enraged King Shark killing 662 01:00:03,943 --> 01:00:09,765 him. Aldora arrests King Shark and says he will be executed, then exiles the rest of the squad. 663 01:00:10,158 --> 01:00:14,739 P&A tries to apologize but Harley tells her off for not standing up for them and leaves 664 01:00:14,759 --> 01:00:19,960 her baseball bat behind. The depressed squad gets drunk at a bar but tempers flair and they 665 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:25,342 start a bar brawl. The next day, Flag contacts Waller about resetting the bombs but when he 666 01:00:25,382 --> 01:00:31,343 tells her what happened, she declares them failures and detonates Clayface's bomb. An enraged Flag 667 01:00:31,403 --> 01:00:36,205 tells her off but they spot that the castle is on fire. Waller says they have 24 hours 668 01:00:36,225 --> 01:00:41,535 to salvage the situation or she will detonate the others. After the call ends, Clayface regenerates. 669 01:00:41,996 --> 01:00:47,721 Flag leaves the squad in rescuing King Shark and the castle. Two hours prior, Fiona visits 670 01:00:47,781 --> 01:00:52,465 Eldora's room to plead for King Shark life, but was horrified to see Eldora's reflection 671 01:00:52,525 --> 01:00:58,411 in her mirror is that of a skeletal monster. Great episode, I thought. When that nobleman 672 01:00:58,511 --> 01:01:04,356 slapped Harley, I was like, oh shit, it's about to go down. And I was so happy to see King 673 01:01:04,376 --> 01:01:08,928 Shark just eat the guy right away. Yeah, I was wondering which of the Suicide Squad members 674 01:01:08,968 --> 01:01:13,832 or maybe even Harley herself was going to kick some ass at that point. But it makes sense 675 01:01:13,852 --> 01:01:17,935 that it was King Shark. Yeah, I guess I didn't say this earlier, but my favorite thing about 676 01:01:17,975 --> 01:01:22,559 King Shark, just in general, is how he's just constantly eating people. You know, he's just 677 01:01:22,579 --> 01:01:25,742 standing in the background and all of a sudden he's just got a foot hanging out of his mouth 678 01:01:25,822 --> 01:01:31,366 after he fought those elves. Right. I'm like, huh, when did he eat that person? So yeah, 679 01:01:31,406 --> 01:01:36,738 that was probably my favorite thing about Shark. And I was just like... Get his ass, shark. 680 01:01:36,779 --> 01:01:42,383 Like, you knew that was coming. So I do have one thing to say about Queen Eldora secretly 681 01:01:42,443 --> 01:01:47,868 being the Skeleton Queen. They refer to this character as two different names in the romantic 682 01:01:47,908 --> 01:01:54,353 episodes. Initially, they refer to her as the Undead King, which I was like, what? Like, 683 01:01:54,714 --> 01:02:00,458 it's a woman character. Joker calls her Skeleton Queen in the final episode. It was just confusing 684 01:02:00,518 --> 01:02:04,399 as to what was going on with this character. I'm referring to her as the Skeleton Queen 685 01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:10,162 in my notes. But yeah, she was also referred to the undead king. Did you guys notice that? 686 01:02:10,782 --> 01:02:15,644 Yeah. And I was waiting for some kind of explanation. Like, are they talking about the same person? 687 01:02:15,824 --> 01:02:21,547 Like, what the hell's going on here? But they normally do that a lot in anime is a lot of 688 01:02:21,567 --> 01:02:29,062 people will have like code names that only certain people know of and like who they are. So. I 689 01:02:29,082 --> 01:02:33,826 guess I wasn't too surprised by it. Okay. So like say you're like an assassin and you know 690 01:02:33,866 --> 01:02:39,331 they call this assassin the silent one, but you're still you know Jonathan Garcia. I feel 691 01:02:39,351 --> 01:02:44,977 like I was just honored with a nickname. I've always wanted that before. The silent assassin, 692 01:02:45,017 --> 01:02:52,762 I'll take it. I've always called you silent but deadly. It still works. I'll take either. 693 01:02:52,902 --> 01:02:57,843 I'll take either. Moving on to episode 9, a minister uses the thinking cap to brainwash 694 01:02:57,883 --> 01:03:03,585 several knights and turn them against the others. Fiona discovers the real Eldora was killed 695 01:03:03,665 --> 01:03:08,286 and replaced by the Skeleton Queen who aims to spread death before Cecile rescues her. 696 01:03:08,706 --> 01:03:14,288 Tired of cowering, Fiona assumes Harley's makeup and baseball bat before knocking out the minister 697 01:03:14,628 --> 01:03:20,169 and in his control. As the Skeleton Queen summons skeletons to attack Eldora's subjects and floods 698 01:03:20,189 --> 01:03:26,167 the castle, Kroc attacks Fiona, but King Shark escapes from his cell and intercepts him. The 699 01:03:26,207 --> 01:03:31,048 rest of the squad soon arrive to help fight the Skeleton Queen and the Rogue Squad. The 700 01:03:31,088 --> 01:03:36,190 Skeleton Queen calls on the Enchantress for help, but Arthur has a growth spurt and joins 701 01:03:36,230 --> 01:03:41,551 the seal in aiding Harley and Deadshot in fighting her. Using a magic gem to enhance her gun, 702 01:03:41,971 --> 01:03:46,893 Harley defeats the Enchantress before interrogating her, deducing that she stopped the Thinker 703 01:03:46,933 --> 01:03:52,487 from killing the others and is serving the because so much she cares about is being held hostage. 704 01:03:52,867 --> 01:03:58,390 Meanwhile, Kitana lures Clayface and Flag to a giant skeleton where a woman resembling the 705 01:03:58,430 --> 01:04:04,813 Enchantress is being held in a magical bubble. I love that scene with Clayface kind of explaining 706 01:04:04,893 --> 01:04:11,056 like, oh, a damsel in distress and a dragon is always guarding something super, super valuable. 707 01:04:11,396 --> 01:04:16,138 And I was like, oh my God, this guy's hilarious. Like. Just the way he describes the whole scene 708 01:04:16,158 --> 01:04:21,821 and he's like, it's my time to shine. And she's like, relax, bro. The fact that he always thought 709 01:04:21,861 --> 01:04:26,784 he was the protagonist of the story, just so endearing for the character. He's got that 710 01:04:26,824 --> 01:04:31,486 main character energy going. Yeah. Did they show how King Shark escaped from the prison? 711 01:04:31,526 --> 01:04:36,129 Because the whole goal of the squad was to get back to the castle so they could rescue King 712 01:04:36,149 --> 01:04:42,149 Shark from being executed. But we never got to see King Shark in danger of being executed 713 01:04:42,209 --> 01:04:47,353 because all of a sudden he was just in the battle. Well, the castle was being destroyed and flooded. 714 01:04:47,533 --> 01:04:52,177 I imagine he escaped during that point because he emerged coming from the water. That makes 715 01:04:52,197 --> 01:04:56,580 sense. We didn't get to see it happened off screen, but I imagine that's what happened. 716 01:04:56,600 --> 01:05:02,105 What about that water with Killer Croc surfing? That was cool. On that water. I was like, that's 717 01:05:02,225 --> 01:05:08,954 so Ninja Turtles. I was like, I love it. I think Killer Croc was better portrayed here in this 718 01:05:09,014 --> 01:05:13,435 series than he ever has been. I agree. That includes like the movies he's been in, the 719 01:05:13,495 --> 01:05:16,436 old Batman television series and everything like that. I thought he was, I thought he was 720 01:05:16,476 --> 01:05:21,197 pretty dope here. He was cool. He was very cool. Like in other media, he's kind of depicted 721 01:05:21,357 --> 01:05:26,219 somewhat like King Shark is here, just eating people and just like really strong. But in 722 01:05:26,259 --> 01:05:32,100 the show, he was like I mentioned earlier, much more of a brawler, like a boxer. He was talented 723 01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:37,041 in fighting, which I think is a cool angle. Moving on to the final episode, episode 10. 724 01:05:37,634 --> 01:05:42,675 Flagging Clayface rescue, the woman Wallakatana destroys the skeleton, but the Enchantress 725 01:05:42,695 --> 01:05:47,497 feels whatever she feels and goes berserk from pain. Peacemaker convinces the sea monster 726 01:05:47,537 --> 01:05:52,999 to turn on Krokk and eat him. Cecilia is wounded and gives his enchanted armor to Deadshot, 727 01:05:53,059 --> 01:05:59,441 granting him enhanced abilities. The Enchantress merges with June Moon. Now that she is free, 728 01:05:59,461 --> 01:06:04,671 she pays back the squad by fighting the skeletons. Deadshot equips the rest of the squad except 729 01:06:04,711 --> 01:06:09,655 Flag with pieces of the armor, enhancing their powers so they can fight the Skeleton Queen. 730 01:06:09,975 --> 01:06:15,339 Harley and Fiona distract the Skeleton Queen by disguising as each other before killing 731 01:06:15,379 --> 01:06:21,583 her. Fiona takes the throne and rewards the squad with a feast. Flag calls Waller to report 732 01:06:21,603 --> 01:06:27,247 what happened and that Katana disappeared. Confused Waller says Katana was with her the whole time 733 01:06:27,668 --> 01:06:32,671 and it's revealed that the Joker entered the Otherworld. and gained the power to shapeshift, 734 01:06:32,931 --> 01:06:38,535 masquerading as Katana among others to manipulate the war for his own amusement. So out of all 735 01:06:38,575 --> 01:06:43,238 of the Super Saiyan powers that the squad got when they donned the magic armor, who had the 736 01:06:43,258 --> 01:06:49,302 best? Clayface. Clayface is pretty dope with the clay duplicates that he could create. Yeah, 737 01:06:49,442 --> 01:06:55,146 that and just how he just I don't know. I just I like the fit. I love the fit. Yeah, that 738 01:06:55,166 --> 01:07:00,878 was good. Yeah. His cape and everything. Yeah. That drip. Good. Exactly. Peacemaker was probably 739 01:07:00,898 --> 01:07:07,700 my favorite. That like sword gun thing was hella cool. Yeah, it's very Final Fantasy. I really 740 01:07:07,740 --> 01:07:12,821 liked Harley Quinn's with the top hat and the chains with the hyenas at the end that she 741 01:07:12,841 --> 01:07:16,302 could control and everything like that. I thought that was pretty cool. Although the hyenas came 742 01:07:16,322 --> 01:07:21,704 out of nowhere. They were like magic manifestations, I think. They were pretty cool. Yeah. That 743 01:07:21,804 --> 01:07:26,105 end battle was so cool. Like I just had the biggest smile on my face when they were all 744 01:07:26,285 --> 01:07:31,500 amped up with the armor. It was awesome. I was like, man, this show is cool. When she started 745 01:07:31,540 --> 01:07:36,984 just literally piecing apart the Suicide Squad and just taking them out one by one, sending 746 01:07:37,004 --> 01:07:42,288 them all flying, I was glued. I'm just like, I can't look away. Like, I need to see every 747 01:07:42,308 --> 01:07:48,493 single one of them get their ass kicked. And when the dragon and Harley flew up towards 748 01:07:48,533 --> 01:07:53,157 her, I was like, wait a second, that's not Harley. Like, in that moment is when I realized that 749 01:07:53,197 --> 01:07:58,141 they did the switch. And then all of a sudden you see King Shark's belly get ripped open. 750 01:07:58,986 --> 01:08:04,069 and the sword fly out of it. I was like, oh, I've totally forgot about that. Yeah, it was 751 01:08:04,109 --> 01:08:08,072 cool because Fionne was saying earlier, oh, you know, she can only be defeated with the 752 01:08:08,112 --> 01:08:13,856 magic sword and it's lost. I totally forgot that I was still in King Shark's stomach. So 753 01:08:13,916 --> 01:08:17,319 right when, you know, she was summoning the sword to her and it came out of her. I was 754 01:08:17,339 --> 01:08:22,462 like, oh snap. It just all came together. It was pretty awesome. I totally remembered that 755 01:08:22,482 --> 01:08:26,465 it was still in his stomach, and I was just waiting for the moment that they pulled out 756 01:08:26,485 --> 01:08:29,843 of him again. I was surprised they didn't do it sooner, but I guess they didn't really have 757 01:08:29,883 --> 01:08:34,625 a good opportunity to get up to the Skeleton Queen prior to that point. So they needed that 758 01:08:34,646 --> 01:08:39,828 kind of deception where she wouldn't expect Harley Quinn to wield the sword. So it made 759 01:08:39,868 --> 01:08:44,871 sense. It was a good moment though, for sure. The end battle was just so well plotted and 760 01:08:44,911 --> 01:08:49,193 mapped out. Even with like the finishing blow with Harley Quinn batting the Skeleton Queen's 761 01:08:49,253 --> 01:08:54,436 head off into the horizon and then, you know, the sky turning from red to blue. It was majestic. 762 01:08:54,596 --> 01:08:59,467 I loved the way they did it. Yeah, no, that was great. But that does it for the whole series. 763 01:08:59,907 --> 01:09:05,130 I had a lot of fun with it. It was not perfect. There were some parts that didn't quite make 764 01:09:05,190 --> 01:09:11,473 sense, but overall I would say I definitely recommend it. It's low stakes and somewhat 765 01:09:11,493 --> 01:09:16,956 confusing narrative. Don't really drag down an otherwise fun and absurd anime actioner 766 01:09:17,136 --> 01:09:23,480 with a strong squad of characters and kinetic visuals. I'm giving this three and a half out 767 01:09:23,500 --> 01:09:29,563 of five stars a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, no, I totally agree with that. I mean, 768 01:09:29,843 --> 01:09:33,847 personally, I would probably give it a little bit of a higher rating, but I came for the 769 01:09:33,887 --> 01:09:39,631 fights and the straight up animation and I thought they hit the nail on the head with everything 770 01:09:39,651 --> 01:09:45,416 they did. But when you do break it down a little bit more and you get into the actual story 771 01:09:45,456 --> 01:09:50,961 and the tropes and everything, it has been played out quite often in many different stories that 772 01:09:50,981 --> 01:09:57,526 have been told. So, yeah, I could agree with that. It's definitely fresh. I would agree 773 01:09:57,546 --> 01:10:03,388 with a 3.5 star rating. I enjoyed it. I think it was definitely a successful anime adaptation 774 01:10:03,528 --> 01:10:09,790 of these American comic book characters. I commend them for what they did with the action and 775 01:10:09,810 --> 01:10:14,352 the animation and everything. I just wish that maybe the story was a little bit tighter or 776 01:10:14,552 --> 01:10:18,853 coherent, I guess, fewer plot holes and stuff like that, but there's still a lot to like 777 01:10:18,973 --> 01:10:24,489 within the show. Yeah, I mean, if you're showing up for the action, you are going to leave pleased. 778 01:10:24,689 --> 01:10:30,653 If you're showing up for a coherent story, I mean, maybe anime is not always best suited 779 01:10:30,693 --> 01:10:37,218 for that. Well, anime is very long form, right? So they always do drop like little things here. 780 01:10:37,518 --> 01:10:42,081 And then, you know, maybe four seasons from now, we'll get an answer on what the hell they 781 01:10:42,101 --> 01:10:47,085 were talking about in the first season. That's right. That usually happens a lot in long running 782 01:10:47,165 --> 01:10:54,201 animes. So. I wouldn't really hold it against it because again, most animes do that. So we'll 783 01:10:54,221 --> 01:10:59,725 probably get our answers very soon. I guess my assumption while watching it was that this 784 01:10:59,805 --> 01:11:03,368 wasn't being set up for additional seasons. I thought it was going to be kind of a contained 785 01:11:03,448 --> 01:11:06,890 story. I actually thought they were going to get out of the Isekai by the final episode. 786 01:11:06,910 --> 01:11:10,893 That was kind of my assumption. Just watching it offhand. But you're right. They're definitely 787 01:11:10,933 --> 01:11:15,136 playing the long game with this story. I hope they are. I hope we get more seasons out of 788 01:11:15,216 --> 01:11:19,687 it. I hope a lot of people watch it and it becomes successful. Because I do think, as we mentioned 789 01:11:19,747 --> 01:11:24,891 earlier, that this is probably the coolest version of the Suicide Squad that has been translated 790 01:11:25,012 --> 01:11:30,997 onto the screen. As good as James Gunn's film was, as cool as the characters looked in David 791 01:11:31,077 --> 01:11:36,902 Ayer's version, they don't top this. I would agree. No, I agree. I totally agree. Yeah. 792 01:11:36,963 --> 01:11:42,247 But thanks for coming on board to review this series with us, Zach. I can't imagine having 793 01:11:42,307 --> 01:11:47,315 done this review without your insight. I'll tell you right now, you actually changed Jonathan's 794 01:11:47,355 --> 01:11:51,938 rating from three stars to three and a half stars. Oh, wow. With your enthusiasm. And I 795 01:11:51,978 --> 01:11:56,842 think you just made both of us realize that yeah, this is actually a solid show for sure. 796 01:11:57,242 --> 01:12:01,145 Awesome. Well, I appreciate you guys for having me on. And yeah, that makes me happy that, 797 01:12:01,165 --> 01:12:05,668 you know, I just kind of got more people excited for anime. Like that's my job. You know what 798 01:12:05,688 --> 01:12:10,391 I mean? That's what I got to do. So. It worked. It worked for sure. Don't forget, guys, to 799 01:12:10,471 --> 01:12:16,043 check out Zach's show, Sinjo World, part of the Dynamite Network. And also stay tuned for 800 01:12:16,123 --> 01:12:21,267 a new show that Zach is developing. And we'll be announcing that later on our show. Senjoworld, 801 01:12:21,567 --> 01:12:26,492 it's great. I love being part of the Dynamite Network. And this week, the battle that we 802 01:12:26,512 --> 01:12:32,697 have set up was actually pretty fun. Me and my buddy DJ Tom had a pretty good time going 803 01:12:32,717 --> 01:12:38,722 back and forth with this battle. And in lieu of last week's review, I'm doing a Sailor Moon 804 01:12:38,762 --> 01:12:43,719 versus Dragon Ball Z fight. Oh shit, nice. That's pretty exciting. Super glad to have you as 805 01:12:43,739 --> 01:12:47,607 part of the network. We'll have to have you on again at some point in the future. Always 806 01:12:47,627 --> 01:12:51,876 great talking to you. And we'll talk to you later. Sayonara. Well, that does it for the 807 01:12:51,916 --> 01:12:59,367 review. AJ9K, help close this out. Thanks for listening to Dynamic Dual. Visit the show's 808 01:12:59,387 --> 01:13:05,290 website at dynamicdual.com and follow us on Instagram at dynamicdualpodcast. You can support 809 01:13:05,330 --> 01:13:11,034 the show on Patreon at patreon.com slash dynamicdual and joining a tier that works for you, or by 810 01:13:11,094 --> 01:13:17,257 rating and reviewing Dynamic Dual on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podchaser or on our website. Don't 811 01:13:17,297 --> 01:13:21,820 forget to listen to the other shows in the Dynamite Podcast Network, including Max Destruction, 812 01:13:22,180 --> 01:13:28,919 Senjow World and Console Combat. In our next episode, as we mentioned earlier, we will be 813 01:13:28,979 --> 01:13:36,683 doing a team duel between DC's The Outsiders team and Marvel's X-Force. That's going to 814 01:13:36,703 --> 01:13:41,426 be a lot of fun. X-Force is going to have characters like Cable and Deadpool on it. And I think 815 01:13:41,446 --> 01:13:45,668 you guys are in for quite a treat, as all of our team duel episodes are. And this is kind 816 01:13:45,708 --> 01:13:50,691 of a tie in duel to this review, because my Outsiders team is going to have Katana on it, 817 01:13:51,051 --> 01:13:55,073 along with, you know, like Black Lightning and Geo Force, it's going to be an awesome episode. 818 01:13:55,542 --> 01:13:59,623 Look forward to that next week! That does it for this episode, we want to give a big thanks 819 01:13:59,663 --> 01:14:05,124 to our executive producers Ken Johnson, John Strosky, Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Balcom, Miggy 820 01:14:05,164 --> 01:14:10,226 Methan-Geehan, Brandon Estregard, Nathaniel Wagner, Levi Yaiten, Austin Wazolowski, AJ 821 01:14:10,266 --> 01:14:16,267 Dunkerley, Scott Camacho, Gil Camacho, Adam Spies, Andrew Shunk, Dean Maleski, Devin Davis, 822 01:14:16,447 --> 01:14:21,409 Joseph Kersting, and Josh Leiner for helping make this podcast possible. And we'll talk 823 01:14:21,429 --> 01:14:26,864 to you guys next week. Up up and away, true believers. My anime kink is future dystopian 824 01:14:26,945 --> 01:14:28,413 cyberpunk mecha mommy milkers.