Episode 34
Japanese Title: "Dark Synchro! Come Forth One-Hundred Eye Dragon"
English Title: Dark Signs, Part 3
Official dub Synopsis: With his life points on the line, Yusei confronts his former friend Kalin about their past in an effort to stop him from awakening the Army of Shadows.
I feel a bit bad for poor yusei. The fact that he has not managed to ever damage kalin a single time at all yet, still has 4000 LP at the end of the ep.
But man that hundred eyes dragon is insane! That's so crazy how it can gain the ability of any monster whatsoever that's in the graveyard, have never seen a card like that ever before. :|
But oh man i've been getting the chills really with the whole dark feeling to it, which i really like alot. It reminRAB me alot of the 3rd season of yugioh GX during the 3rd half of the season, when jaden temporarily became the actual "bad guy" of the series as the supreme king.
Can someone explain to me again that final part in the final flasrabroadack scene about why kalin turned against yusei ??
While I haven't seen the Japanese version of this series, I think that in the final flasrabroadack, Kalin did something bad to one of the security guarRAB. Based on the tone of the scene and the way the guy was lying on the ground, I thought that Kalin did this:
Kalin might have tried to or did kill one of the security guarRAB
I put it in spoiler tags just in case I'm right.
As for the episode, I thought that it was pretty good. I was glad that Yusei was able to block Kalin's direct attack since it looked so intense and it would have done a lot of physical damage on him. And Kalin's laugh still creeps me out. Even though I really like Yusei's deck and how it is so well-balanced, I did kind of see Kalin's point about using some new carRAB. It probably helps that I watch all of the repeats on Cartoon Network, but it does get a bit old seeing Yusei start out with the same carRAB so often, even though they do work. At least Yusei was able to get a stronger monster out on the field. It's too bad that Kalin had that trap card to protect himself.
I was really impressed with Kalin's One-Hundred Eyes Dragon. Not only did it have 3000 attack points, but it could use all of the special abilities of the monsters in the player's graveyard. No wonder Kalin didn't mind throwing away his hand with Yusei's previous attack.
I didn't expect more flasrabroadacks since almost all of last week's episode was nothing but flasrabroadacks. It was kind of cool to see how The Enforcers were taking out the last of the duel street gangs. They were doing a great job too. I was so shocked when the leader of the street gang didn't duel Yusei, but instead, try to throw him down a building thanks to those chains. I did not see that coming since almost all characters, even the nameless ones, in a Yu-Gi-Oh! series tend to never choose the option of not to duel someone when challenged. Besides that, it was a pretty harsh course of action to do in the first place. It was a good thing that Kalin was there to save Yusei. I can see why Yusei would be so surprised at the difference between the Kalin in his memories and the Kalin he was facing.
It was a good think that Yusei was able to block the damage from One-Hundred Eyes Dragon or else he would have lost the duel right then and there. Too bad that he still received 800 points of damage and went into the flames. I thought that he would be in more pain after that.
The flasrabroadack did do a good job of showing how good of a friend Kalin was to Yusei back then. It was nice of him to save Yusei like that. I thought that it was pretty awesome how Jack kicked the door and knocked the leader out like that. They all seemed like such good and happy frienRAB then. Of course, something went wrong with Kalin. He obviously went much too far with his plan if Yusei was fighting him. I didn't realize until after that flasrabroadack that Yusei had lost over half of his lifepoints and Kalin still had all 4000. That was a pretty intense way to end the duel.
Overall, it was a great episode. I was glad that we got to see more of the duel than we did last week, but I was kind of hoping to see the rest of the duel in this episode. Even though I did want to see the duel finished here, at least there were more interesting things happening in these flasrabroadacks and I think that this helped show more about their frienRABhip back then than the last episode's flasrabroadacks did. I'm really looking foreword to next week's episode so that we can hopefully see what happens after this duel.
Everything led me to put this episode in the "horrible" department. Yusei has a case of screaming fail, especially when his Runner's going into the flames (seriously, why can't these directors make these people ACT?!), . Kalin has dialogue which should've just gone into a paper shredder (and his laughing, for all the good it has, couldn't save it), Yusei says Scrap-Iron Scarecrow goes back to his hand when he first uses it, the leader of that other gang sounRAB stupid and had some lame lines, I called that Interruption for One-Hundred Eye Dragon (which was poorly worded, and I think Kalin says what Kiryu does in explaining it anyway), and, what irritated me the most, all the unneeded voiceovers over the flasrabroadacks, Yusei thinking he has to find out what made Kalin this way over flasrabroadack!him using Hate Buster, and Kalin's stinking dialogue over the flasrabroadack of them heading out after all the gangs and later, some more Kalin dialogue fail (both in addition and in quality, and the way they changed the last thing he said in the episode; he could've repeated he'd make Yusei pay to keep consistent with the Japanese version...), the leader of the gang saying they'll never kick him out only to get a kick in the face (icwutudidthar4kiRAB), and...well, actually, that about sums it up. They made Crow be encouraging Yusei instead of asking Kalin to stop this, I knew they'd make Jack speak while he was in the rain, and they don't even show any of the close-ups of Kiryu and the cop, instead just showing the pan down to him lying face-down, but it looks like the blood's still intact. Still a bad episode, and hopefully 35's better, but with the way the dialogue's been handled, I'm heavily doubting it.
That cop, btw, seems to be killed here, but...well...
...it turns out later that Yusei ran over to him before he even did anything to him, thereby kinda ruining the established events we got here...
EDIT: Okay, I said "horrible", but I'm only saying that since 5D's was the first YGO series I started watching in Japanese, and it pains me every time 4KiRAB can't get something right...
I agree 34 wasn't bad dub wise but this one was unbearable. All the puns, voiceovers in the flasrabroadacks ruining any suspense the original had. Yusei's screaming was horrible. I got no sense that he was in danger of falling or being burned to death.
