The Day Tokyo-3 Stood Still – Neon Genesis Evangelion S01E11

➡ In this episode of the Cartoon Cabal podcast, the hosts discuss an episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion featuring an angel named Matariel, who resembles a giant daddy long legs spider covered in eyes. They also talk about their experiences with power outages in America and Japan, and how these experiences relate to the episode’s plot. The hosts also discuss the design and function of coin laundries in Japan, comparing them to those in the United States. Lastly, they analyze the episode’s animation and speculate on the motivations of the attacking angels.
➡ The text discusses the speaker’s experiences and thoughts about laundromats, including the challenges of using them and the potential for theft. It also touches on the topic of AI-generated text, identifying certain signs that a text might be AI-generated, such as the use of M dashes and certain phrases. The speaker also mentions the role of bureaucracy in organizations, comparing it to the dynamics among a group of 14-year-olds.
➡ The text discusses the similarities between adult and teenage social dynamics, using the example of a group of middle-aged people behaving like a group of 14-year-olds. It also talks about a movie called Anno Shin Godzilla and a show called Eva, both of which highlight bureaucratic obsessions. The text further discusses the concept of organizations being infallible, using the example of Nerve, a government agency that seems to run itself. Lastly, it mentions characters from a show, including Shinji and his father, and their complex relationships.
➡ The text discusses a TV episode where angels attack humans, raising questions about why they do so. The episode also draws parallels with a Star Trek episode where a powerful entity is tricked and then helped, suggesting a possible solution to the angel attacks. The text also mentions some humorous elements and critiques certain clichés used in the episode. The writers also discuss their other projects and thoughts on the episode.
➡ This text discusses a variety of topics, including low-rated movies, a podcast about prison, an upcoming mayoral vote, and a conspiracy theory involving Stanley Kubrick, the moon landings, and the CIA. It repeatedly promotes a comic called “Never a Straight Answer” about Kubrick’s supposed involvement in directing the Apollo space missions. The text also includes some abstract, possibly song lyrics or poetry, discussing emotions, struggles, and defiance against haters.

The angel of today’s episode is Matariel, who looks like huge daddy Long legs covered in all seeing eyes. So much fun. Founding games at the Cotton Cabal. Beyond what’s Just in the Name at the Cartoon Cabal. See, just at what cost comes fame at the Cartoon Cabal. So much for the fun and games at the Cartoon Cabal. Welcome to the Cartoon Cabal, where we’re currently running through all of the episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Today, it’s the day Tokyo 3 stood still chatting about it. It’s Matt here. It’s Paranoid American there. How’s it going? Listen, all y’.

All, It’s a sabotage. Yeah, we don’t really solve that in this one, do we? But I actually need to ask, how many power outages do you tend to get? You’ve had a few, I think. We’ve had to reschedule podcasts because of one or two. And in America, one or two a month. Wow. Okay. See, since I’ve, you know, been living in Japan, maybe the grid’s tighter, there’s not so many outages. What do we have the time that, of course, the 2011 quake caused a whole bunch. And then we had the rolling blackouts for. For a while, so that happened.

But otherwise, my power just never goes out, you know, and there’s like a big lightning storm. Things just keep rolling. I don’t know, maybe that’s the benefit of keeping big, ugly power lines all over the place. Well, part of it is a like, 1950s, 1960s power grid and Transformers in some case. But also I live in the literal lightning capital of the world. Yeah, that can do. But, you know, I’ve seen some around here, and I just noticed living in Japan, we seem to have fewer blackouts, which does make this episode amusing, because in Atlanta. Yeah, like you’re saying, once or twice a month, for sure.

I remember that. You know, here’s the thing, though, is. And this is going to sound counterintuitive, but part of you should want to have frequent blackouts because it also means that they’re used to figuring out how to patch it a lot faster in areas that rarely get blackouts when you do have one, and it’s not just some temporary thing someone can reset a computer elsewhere can fix. Those tend to take way longer. So, like, I guess in Florida, if you’re in the. A common path for hurricanes and you’re constantly losing power, they kind of know what they’re doing.

They know how to knock those down, put them back up, replace the transformer and get you going again. Yeah. I think the thing that really got us. I mentioned it before. We had a typhoon like six years ago that knocked out the train lines. I had to like, just. I. I always walk, but I just had to walk a couple extra kilometers a day because they had closed down several train stations for like two months. So, you know, that was. That was the endest of the world we’ve gotten around this particular neighborhood. I guess that’s what happens when the angels attack.

Man, they. They knock out the mass transit. That’s the first thing that goes. I was just experiencing. Speaking of angels, I want to call this one the Daddy Long Legs. Even though it does have a proper name. And we just had a bunch of Daddy Long Legs. Like yesterday, we were cleaning the basement floor of my work and there was like, why are these dead bugs around? Because there’s a room that’s been closed up and has mold and bugs or something in it. It’s a mess. But then there’s a Daddy Long Legs just prowling on them.

And then I’m emptying the garbage. I’m finding them in there. So yesterday I just found like four Daddy Long legs. So today this episode was like weird synchro mysticism, you know? So the angel of today’s episode is Matariel, who looks like huge daddy long legs covered in All Seeing Eyes. And I don’t mean just eyeballs. I mean little pyramid enclosed eyeballs. Like little golden pyramid eyeballs all over. This big green Daddy Long Legs character. Okay, good. It was obvious because I did put Bleeding All Seeing Eyes in my acid Bleeding All Seeing Eyes in my notes.

And I was like, is that correct? Am I stretching too much? But that’s sort of. No, totally any. And he spits acid. That’s how this particular angel fights you, is that he drops acid on you. And I’ll. And I’ll go ahead and say takes the power out. Because we don’t really find out what’s causing the power to go out. We hear that there’s three different backups. So if Nerve loses power, then it means all three of those redundant backups are also offline. So they start floating the word sabotage around, but it’s not clear. I mean, it seems like something an angel could do, especially one that gets taken out this easily.

This one is actually one of the weaker Angels that we’ve seen them fight. Yeah, you just blast through it and it’s fine. Interestingly, this, in the last episode, the magma diver were supposed to be kind of flipped in order we were supposed to blackout, which you were mentioning how they seem to be kind of like a more slipshod organization. And Magma Diver the previous episode. I wonder if that was a mistake, because if they’re. Oh, they just had this power outage or, you know, using gas generators to. To run the things that makes it feel like nerve.

Is that like diminished quality now? Which works better in the next episode? Maybe. I don’t know. Or the previous episodes. Yeah, agree. Yeah. Because they said that they’re basically operating at 20% capacity, that they’ve lost, you know, upwards of 70 or 80% of their resources from the previous fights. Yeah. So I feel like a little flip would be good there for. I don’t know why they did it. Oh, I’ll see if I can cite that as we do this episode. I accidentally watched the episode backwards as well. I mean, not like backwards like from ending the beginning, but I put it on.

I went to type a note, and sometimes I mentioned last week where I had. I thought my aspect ratio glitched out and I started watching it. It put me right in the middle, like, where you get that second title card. Because the first one is the Japanese town. The second one has the English title. Right. So I got the title card with the English town. Just started watching. I got to the end, I was like, that seems short. And then realized I missed the first like 11 minutes. So I went back and watched that second. So I.

I did a little temporal weirdness on this one. As long as you see that they fight the angel, that all three of them for the first time are fighting an angel, and there’s some questions about why are the angels attacking us that they don’t understand what would make these angels attack them. Then you got the whole episode. You don’t really miss anything in that first prelude, I don’t think. Well, it does have all of that, like hyper detailed animation that like, you know, looks like things actually in Japan. Like those green pay phones. You can. I mean, there’s fewer, but you can still find them.

Especially around train stations. We still have the green payphones. So in the States. How hard is it to find a payphone now? You wouldn’t want to touch one if you found it okay. You can still touch the green ones. I think it’s fine. Yeah. I would expect a higher level of cloud cleanliness and a Japanese payphone. A salary man could have vomited on it, that’s for sure. So as far as touching it. Preferable. I don’t think I want to ask, so. Oh, The. At the. It starts off, we’re in the coin laundry. Right. So you know that, that was kind of fun.

And you know, when it’s a busy day, we have to go to the coin laundry near here. My family has got this weird habit we keep our eye out. In the past few years has been this trend in Japan of like really swank looking coin laundries for some reason, because the one here looks very like utilitarian, crappy. But they’ve been building like ones that are like wood paneled with nice lighting and marble entryways and stuff. I’m like, it’s a coin laundry. What are you doing? So well, because coin laundries actually turn into congregation spaces if. If it’s not just a one off because something irregular is happening at home and you don’t have access to your own washing machine and dryer.

If that’s just part of your normal routine. Is that once a week or whatever, you end up going to the laundromat. It’s. It’s kind of like going to the club. You don’t get to drink. You’ll probably find drunk people there. They just don’t serve alcohol there. Right. Maybe that’s why. I don’t know. I, I haven’t, I haven’t. We. The one near here, like I said, is a crappy old one. The sign is like, you know, been weathered and it’s decaying. It looks creepy. It’s called Waitopia, which is also kind of was a bizarre name. Whitopia. That sounds like some kind of a, you know, group in the States you don’t want to hang out with.

I did, I did some of my best studying in Laundromats. I think something about the smell and like the hum and. Yeah, I think there’s, there’s something about it. Nah, that, that, that, that little wafting odor in the air tends to make me want to stay in there as little as possible, personally. But. Oh, that’s what makes it so great to study. Because all the people like you are like, I’m out of here. Yeah. Is in the movie Pecker, John Waters Pecker? I don’t think so. Great movie. Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci. And it spends a lot of its time in a laundromat.

Yeah, Christina Ricci is like the, the fascist manager of it. Not just that I’m calling her fascist, but her character is the, the hardcore manager of a laundromat. You know, if you’re doing something that’s outside the bound, she will call you out on it, that sort of thing. Again, it’s, it’s something that, that’s both old and new. Right. It’s such an old concept that’s been around for over a century, but it still has such a practical use. Yeah, well, it’s, it’s the laundromat. Right? Well, it’s coin laundry, as the sign here said, but in the States it’s laundromat.

You know, like we used to have the auto mats, which we don’t really have so much anymore. So kind of interesting. We can’t be trusted with them. Even the laundry ones have stuck around. So that’s an interesting thought. I feel like it’s sort of cut from the same cloth. Yeah, the, the unfortunate thing is just like automats, Laundromats also somewhat work on an honor system. And there’s not a lot of things in America in 2025 that have survived the operate off the honor system. One of the other reasons that maybe I got into the habit of not leaving the laundromat with all my stuff there, because people either take it or, or more often they’ll snipe you.

They’ll be waiting somewhere across the street or outside and they see some idiot that goes and puts all their clothes in the laundry and then leaves and they’ll just come and take all your wet clothes out and immediately use it. Or they’ll, you know, do the same thing with the dryer. It’s just something you just see happen if you use laundromats often enough. It’s like it’s a certain type. Oh, okay. So you will take it there and come back home for 30 minutes because it’s like a two minute drive and then go back. So yeah, some people, they’ll drop off, they’ll go and do some shopping or just walk around the area, whatever, come back and grab it and they’ll come back and their clothes will just be in a big wet pile in the middle of the room and someone else got to use their dryer.

Yeah. See another thing that you see the dude get on the train with a guitar, right. And I’m just, yeah, that’s me. I’m. Half the time I’m on the train with the guitar, you know, walking around midnight with, with a fender on my back. Yes. I probably don’t want to do that one back in the States, you know, in a couple months. So let me just. If anyone actually still uses Laundromats, especially if they are the coin operated ones, you can do some YouTube video searches on Just how to do free coin return Laundromat. Like, there’s ways that you can kind of manufacture little things that you stuff into the slots and it’ll just give you free forever.

I mean, it only works on certain kinds, but. Yeah. Anyways, I’m not saying to do that. I’m just saying there’s videos out there on how to do it. Right. No, I got the coins. I’m cool. I guess we’re going to move on if we go on for about Laundromats for another minute. Like 80 of the people are shutting this thing off, I think so. They were already gone. Yeah, they’re already gone. They’re already gone. We’re talking to ourselves now. That’s fine. A couple things. There’s a. There’s an election, which, by the way, those trucks driving around blasting noise pollution, screaming about who to vote for is.

Is very much a thing in Japan. I’ve. I’ve heard some outside on. On while doing these podcasts before, and I think Zoom was nice enough to cut it out, but that’s a very normal bit. So on a personal level, people in Japan are supposed to be, you know, relatively quiet in public, but then these trucks are allowed to drive around just like blasting you at like 7am for some reason, because it’s the truck doing it. Right. Vote for so and so. You know, it’s the Blues Brothers thing. That’s. That’s a very normal thing here. But then it comes up.

Oh, even the regular people understand this election doesn’t really matter. We have Super 3 supercomputers running our society. The council just does whatever the computers say. They’re the guys that just need to hit the reset button whenever they need to. That’s it. Yeah, yeah, it’s like the, you know, the infamous. And they’re famous. Why am I calling it infamous? The south park episode where the. The solution is just unplug it and plug it in back in again. Right. I feel like this is a good part too. I was noticing. I don’t know how much you look out for AI generated text in articles or in social media posts and stuff, but there’s like a few specific dead giveaways.

The. The most obvious one that everyone brings up is the M Dash. If you see lots of EM Dash usage, sometimes that indicates heavily, you know, AI generated text. So you kind of know, okay, what level of effort went into writing this thing? So what level of effort do I need to put into reading it? And, well, part of it is explained away as well. That’s people being sloppy or not knowing to at least replace your EM dashes with an ellipsis or something. But the other part of me thinks, what if that’s literally the AI giving us a head start? That’s just like, hey, we are going to kill you.

We’re going to eradicate you. But here’s an EM dash just to kind of let you know that here’s what to look out for if you want to know something’s AI generated or not. Because pretty soon we won’t get the EM dashes anymore, and then we’re not really going to be able to tell very easily at all. Oh, good. I didn’t know about that. So I don’t know the red flags, but I like looking up music gear reviews and stuff. And I. More and more, especially in the past year or two, I’m looking up gear reviews. I’m like, oh, this is not a real one.

This one is. I can just smell the AI on it, you know, and then I. Maybe I’m seeing EM dashes and subconsciously noticing that, but just the way it reads is not correct. You know, there’s some tells. There’s the M dashes, there’s the. The use of certain words you don’t hear often. Like tapestry. You’ll hear like a lot in AI generated pros, but it also does this thing where it proves a point through negatives where it’ll say, you know, X isn’t just Y, it’s Z. But you’ll see that constantly repeat in 20 different articles. It’ll be like that.

This isn’t just a piano. This isn’t just a synthesizer. It’s a game changer. You start hearing that type of phrasing over and over again. Plus the EM dashes, plus the tapestry of sounds. You know, if you were talking about music equipment, all those put together, I think unconsciously. Still, even if you don’t know what to look for, like you mentioned, part of your brain’s like danger, Will Robinson. Like you’re interacting with an evil entity right now. But I really am starting to think that this is the only form of mercy we’re ever going to see from AI.

This is AI’s version of you get a running start before we. We murder you. It hasn’t gotten quite smart enough yet. So anyway, I guess we’re basically the same page. It’s like Magi is going to murder these people if the angels don’t first, you know? Well, and the. The military. The military threatened to murder everybody. In the previous episode, the Angels are coming out to murder everybody constantly that they’re having to protect themselves from. So this is kind of a rough situation for 14 year olds to be in. Yeah. And this episode definitely has Hideki Anno’s like weird bureaucracy obsession again as, as the Joint Chiefs or whatever.

Like oh, it’s nerve, I guess they can handle it, you know, and doing absolutely nothing. Well the, honestly, the biggest takeaway I got from this episode, which I, I saw as the theme is they’re showing that the bureaucracy of nerve, which is what the combination of CIA and DARPA and DOD kind of just mash together, but that like the CIA organization, the hierarchy and the office politics are exactly the same as these 14 year old AVAs that are all fighting amongst each other and shirking responsibility or delegating like calling leadership and then not doing anything and delegating all the actual work to other people that it’s happening exactly the same as it would in a group of 14 year old friends versus this upper echelon.

And I honestly, I agree with that pretty much. I, I’ve. I don’t know if this is jaded or not, but I really feel that a room full of 40 or 50 year olds is no different than a lunchroom cafeteria in middle school. And that all the same like clicks and all the same, we like negative little gossip that gets spread around. None of that really changes. People maybe just have kids and get jobs and get beaten down by the world, but ultimately they’re still spreading the same gossip and they’re still forming the same clicks and they’re still kind of doing the same things.

Yeah. So I, I mentioned a few episodes again, I definitely recommend watching Anno Shin Godzilla where it just kind of like the aspect we’re talking about is, is on steroids in that particular movie. So it’s like. And then when you go back and watch Eva, you can like see, oh yeah, this is the same guy. I think when I first mentioned I was like, oh this is just like Shin Godzilla and had forgetting that it’s the same guy. But yeah, so that’s his, his bureaucratic obsessions coming through and it’s, you know, kind of fun. It’s, it’s like some black humor infused in there.

Also. I feel like a lot of sci fi. Yeah, we always see the big, you know, the Men in Black, the Men in Black organization. Even, even when people screw up. The organization itself is infallible. It doesn’t mess up. You know, a lot of the mech shows this big weird organization that does The Mechs. Yeah. People make mistakes, but the organization itself is like sci fi and cool and an idea where Nerve is a bit of a mess. Which makes it more interesting because I think that the government agencies at this point are egregores. Right. That that Nerve pretty much runs itself.

That even if you were to try and change the course of Nerve, one individual person wouldn’t be able to make that much of a difference because they’re fighting this system that’s almost running itself like. Like a true classic daemon. And Nerve itself kind of is this daemon slash demon, which makes sense because that’s who’s fighting the angels. Yeah. And. And I do want to, you know, figure out just about. About the Commander. Is it. What is daddy’s name again? Calls it Dr. Oh, Gendo. I’m getting Gendo. Okay. And Shinji’s dad. But yeah, I am kind of.

He’s a mysterious dude still, right? Well, he just doesn’t like Shinji. I mean, that’s pretty much all there is to it that. That we’re experiencing this entire story mostly through the eyes of Shinji. And he is the ultimate deadbeat dad in which he doesn’t want to be on the phone with Shinji, let alone in the same room as him. So we don’t see much of him. But I don’t blame him because Shinji sucks. Yeah. And then Oscar is talking to Rey, like, oh, you’re favorite. And she gives like the most MK Ultra victim response ever. Right.

Which is I. I did write down, I think. Anyway, she’s just talking about how like. Yeah, they know they are not favored. Right. So whatever goes on in the background sounds like it really sucks with her. She’s. Yeah, she’s just like a shell of a human being at this point. Yeah. So, I mean, we. In what, episode six, we got the little glimmer of a personality. Of course, we’re back to what Oscar calls the perfect girl. I’m like, how I. I don’t see how you can call someone that ephemeral and weird as the perfect girl, but you can be attracted to her if you want.

But she does. She’s like, not socially functional, but if your job is to disassociate and fight angels in a mech suit, then yeah, she does kind of seem like the perfect MK Ultra victim girl. Okay, well, I guess in the guardrails of this particular job, she is then. But Right, Like. Like Ray has pretty much zero resistance to anything. Right? She’s not. She doesn’t have ego and she doesn’t have anything that would prevent her from doing exactly as she’s told other than her being. Being harmed, which is pretty much the only thing that prevents her from doing what she’s told is if she’s in a hospital bed.

Right. And she’ll, you know, go around with a sling and an eye patch for a few weeks if. If need be. I did like the juxtaposition here of just like going from like, they’re in junior high school Sues doing their normal things straight into you know, weird sci fi crap. I feel like the. The veil between Mechland and School Land was a little thinner in this episode. Yeah, I don’t think that they would notice though. I mean, if. If we were growing up and we’re going through middle school and we also have to fight angels after school, I think that it be.

It would become normalized fast enough that it wouldn’t seem that crazy. What’s wild to me is that they’re just in class with other normal kids and the other normal kids aren’t just like, oh my God, you kill angels. That’s so cool. Tell me more about it. How can I be in your clique? And really they’re just sort of normal kids. Like no one pays them any extra mind, it seems. I mean, yeah, isn’t that sort of how a Hollywood High situation would be? You’d have like, you know, child actors and then a few regular folks. Although it’d probably be in the richer part of town.

So you got that again. You get the Saved by the Bell situation. Right? I guess I would. I’d like to see that version. The Saved by the Bell meets Neon Genesis Evangelion. Well, I mean, some of the school scenes in here aren’t far off. You’re kind of getting that occasionally, you know, writing’s probably better here, to be fair. Little Power Rangers in there. Yes, There we go. That. That’s the one that really does it, isn’t it? But yeah. Yeah, this is definitely the episode with the most teenage bitching, I guess does firmly put us because like the polar opposite.

So we’re going. Are we going Benny and Benny and Veronica. A Betty and Veronica. Yeah. Except now instead of dark hair, blonde hair, we’re going red hair, silver hair. I don’t know. And maybe Sabrina. So maybe Sabrina is like the MK Ultra one. I don’t know yet. Okay. Yeah. Mixing a little Sabrina. You gotta have some witches in there. Although you mentioned. Oh, it’s. It’s like, oh, it’s just common for them to be fighting mechs. Excuse me, Angels now. But this. They do say this is only the eighth one. And how long do you think. How long do you think it’s been since episode one watching this? Months.

Two months? Yeah. Okay. I. And I don’t know, maybe it goes with air day, but I was sitting there thinking, well, it might not be super common. Fighting an angel would be more like the class trip, right? You only got a couple of those a year. All right, everyone getting the bus? We’re fighting another angel. If you remember last episode, they did not get the class trip because an angel could and did show up. Well, they made the angel show up. That’s a way cooler class trip. I’m sorry. Fighting an angel. Or do you want to go scuba diving with the rest of the class, or do you want to fight a freaking angel? I really like snorkeling in Okinawa, so my answer might not be the one you want.

Okay, going. And also, she was all sweaty and stuff. You know, she had to get. It was because she was in the volcano. That. No, that looks terrible. I don’t want to do that. I got her complaining. You know, it’s the middle of summer here. August is. Been a butt kicker in Japan this year, so I get it. No, let’s go, Okanawa. At least I’m gonna sweat and walk around, jump in the ocean, snorkel, not scuba dive. I don’t know how to do that. I got. They’re both life experiences. Who are we to judge one over the other? That’s right.

Anything you really want to throw out into this episode? I. I think that I’m fully over considering that the angel and the kabbalistic stuff is just here for window dressing. I’m done. The VO director guy. I’ve completely destroyed your credibility, or at least in my own mind. But I think it’s worth you kind of getting obsessed with that statement, because now instead of just being, oh, here’s cabala stuff. Oh, here’s this. It’s like you were kind of resistant to it, right? So I was taking his word, man. He was like, hey, I’m just giving you this insider info.

They just put all this. And here’s an example that in this episode, Shinji is. Is talking. It gets kind of philosophical in some parts. And he’s talking out loud, and he says, angels are messengers from God, right? So why are we fighting the angels? And then we hear, because they attacked us first. And that’s pretty much all we know so far. We don’t have any other context as to why These angels keep attacking humanity. And, and he’s. That’s a legitimate question, right? If angels are messengers from God, then why would angels attack us if they’re literally God’s messengers? Unless we’re doing something wrong.

And then he starts wondering a little bit towards the end of the episode. Well, man fears darkness and this causes man to seek out fire and technology. And then he’s, and then he asks again out loud, he’s like, well, is that what makes mankind special? And is that why the angels attack us? So that’s what we’re left with. And then it says, to be continued. So that’s kind of the lasting thought of this episode is why are angels attacking us? And what is it that makes them attack humans in particular? Yeah, that has me thinking of what’s basically the first normal production run Star Trek episode back in 66 or whatever, which is the, the corvo mite maneuver.

Have you seen that one? Is that where angels attack them? Well, kind of. They run into one of those big crazy space things that’s overpowering them. Right. Kirk does his making up BS to trick it, which disables this, you know, all powerful ship. And instead of phasering it, they’re like, well, I guess we go help whatever is on the disabled ship, which turns out to be a child. Clint Howard serving them up Tranya. Right. The whole point is once they. Instead of locking on phasers and firing photon torpedoes. Let’s go, let’s go see if we can help out.

Right. Star Trek 2009 kind of does the lame version where they’re just like, we’re ready to assist you. And he’s like, go to hell. So then they blast him with the photon torpedoes. I mean, that’s fun to see. No, no, it’s. It’s great in a climax of your 2009 film, but, you know, this 1966 episode, television, I feel like it’s one of the more important ones because it’s like, I’m just comparing it. Like you meet the angel, you almost defeat the angel, and instead of blasting it with your, your mech guns at the end, maybe you hydra communicate.

I don’t know, man. These angels have been, have been going for broke. They want to destroy and kill us. Right, Right. But that’s why I’m bringing up the core mite maneuver, because the entire tone of 90% of the episode is that. And then it has like the little change at the end because it’s, you know, kind of the Star Trek thing going on there. Which. And yeah, when the monster is smashing your city. You don’t really think about communicating with it, but this is a show that makes you think, maybe you should try. You know, maybe there’s something.

If you do it. As far as I know, in the New Testament, the only unforgivable sin is denial of the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t say anything about not killing angels, so you can kill angels as much as you want. And I’m pretty sure J Man’s okay with it. Yeah. Massacre of Angels. Gotcha. Rolling along. I’m basically through my thoughts on this one. It’s a very good episode. But, yeah, like you said, I watched the second half first. Oops. And I was like, oh, that was good. But. And I realized I’d only written, like, six notes down at that point.

And then, oh, I missed the first five minutes where I got another, you know, few notes. But, I mean, compared to the last two or three episodes, this one felt like it was a. A slower change of pace. Like, I’m ready for some more action. I’m ready for him to be a little more silly again. There was a little silliness in this one, and interestingly, this one has some studio Ghibli involvement. Some of the more humorous stuff, like especially the truck stuff we were talking about, was actually a. Animated by Ghibli, I guess, doing them a solid or something.

I’m not quite sure how that worked out, but there’s a Ghibli involvement in this one episode at least. Okay. I mean, and there was a little bit of silliness, but for me, it was mostly dialogue, because at the beginning of the episode, when the power goes out, it shows someone in the Nerve military compound, and he’s like, man, it sure would we be a disaster if an angel attacked right now. And then, of course, an angel attacks right after he says it. So, like, that, I kind of appreciate the campy little, like, sure is quiet. You know what I mean? And someone’s like, a little too quiet, and then everything goes to hell.

So I. I appreciate that, but I. I think in the previous two episodes, they just did it with a little more grace. Yeah. Also, the trapped in an elevator trope is pretty overcooked. So even. Even in 96, when this was released, is like, yeah, that’s. That’s been Saved by the Bell. Did it. Just to bring that up again, you know, everyone’s done that. Yeah. Yeah. So that. That seemed a little bit lazy, but whatever. You can do that. I guess. It only took up, what, 30 seconds of screen time. In the end. So it’s not really an episode killer or anything.

It would have been better, but still just as bad if it happened. But it was all them in the mech suits and they’re trapped in like the big service elevator. Oh man, writer’s hat for you. That would have been so much more fun because we do get that brief mech pile right where they all fall down the shaft or whatever. But yeah, yeah, get them in the. Get them in the service elevator and then have that. And then they have to talk to each other in the mech suits. Pothole is that the mech suits, especially today, only work, it seems even when everything is working great, these things only function for like 10 minutes at a time.

And in this one it’s made clear it’s more like five minutes. Because they’re on diesel generators again. They’re. They’re low on resources still. We haven’t seen them replenish their resources yet. Yeah, yeah. Japan notoriously resource poor. I guess if you use the volcanoes enough. But, well, that’s. That’s all for my Illuminati All Seeing Eye. Daddy Long Leg acid spitting review off this one. I can remember what this one looks like easily though, where some of the, like last week’s angel and Magma Diver. I’ve already forgotten exactly what that looked like. Right where this one, it’s like think of a Daddy Long Legs with freaking pyramid eyes on it covered, you know? Yeah, good point.

I don’t think I remember what the monster looked like in the last one either. I remember the little fetus thing, but I guess, yeah, that looked like a trilobite or whatever thing. So that, that’s easy to remember. The. I’m talking about the actual monster. You know what it looked like, the Cracker Barrel logo, by the way, just, just before we got on, I actually, I kept seeing the articles. I looked at the newer one, I was like, I get that. Where the older ones, like a little more old timey. And the new one, I’m like, whatever, you can do that if you want.

I don’t care. The truth is, nobody cares. People only go to Cracker Barrel if they want to feel like they can eat retirement center food. Outside of the retirement center. Well, I’m visiting my parents that are in their upper 70s. I’m pretty sure they’re taking us to the Cracker Barrel. There you go, man. There you go. That’s the new tagline. Leave your dentures at home. Cracker Barrel. Oh yeah, there we go. I guess we’re talking about that. We’re probably finished on this. Ava, like the episode, it does have things to talk about, but it, it’s kind of a, it’s a breezy episode kind of in the end, I think.

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