CAT GENETICS!!!

WHAT AN EPISODE. I really enjoyed it. It was...

Yeah. Very cluttered, very messy. Everyone's everywhere, characters are getting split up and shuffled around. It's fast-paced, I wish we got to slow down and spend more time with the characters and their thoughts. A lot of the same problems I've noticed with the bigger plot episodes.

Our eliminated contestants are Winner and Liy.

I wasn't sure who to expect to be eliminated beyond Not TB and Grassy. Grassy's been getting big character moments and TB is POPULAR.

Winner did well in TPOT! They took their elimination in stride. I think theyve come a long way this season, a full little story :] It wouldn't hurt to see more of Winner in the future!

Versus...

Liy. Liy this episode was FUN. They really saved some big character development for after her elimination. She served a good role in slowing down One. Watching her fall apart over being eliminated is a good contrast to Winner. She snaps out of it to fight and protect everyone. That is a CONSTANT with her.

TPOT's power scaling can be inconsistent. It grinds my gears a little but WHATEVER. I got a chance to analyze One because of it.

See, she was holding back. She could teleport others to her in the blink of the eye. She could kill EVERYONE in her way but she doesn't. It makes sense if she wants to avoid a repeat of Three. She also acts on her anger and it tends to not make her think about better options. That's what the show's left me with.

But they nerfed her HARD. She could've moved people aside, teleported herself to X??? She could've easily torn through Liy or Winner. Also consider the fact that she willingly erased three objects from existence. Our big scary bad is getting ragebaited a bunch 💀 it's hilarious and the voice acting is phenomenal but they don't make her NEARLY as scary as she was before. Just pathetic.

LIKE I WANT to see a pathetic One. I want it to be kept in mind that she's also incredibly dangerous and all-powerful. What we see out of her a majority is something I'd imagine she's do on her last leg, losing her power; A lot of bluff and trickery.

There's be something cathartic about One either being turned down by Three or Three straight up Not interacting with One, they need to focus on recovery. One would be incredibly devastated. I'm going on a tangent,

Tennis Ball this episode. It's been clear to me the writers weren't doing much with him, they didn't know WHAT to do over the last several episodes. His stuff with the Fourse 🥹. He didn't add much to the show, a lot've crying about Golf Ball when they weren't together. But this episode??? WOW!!

I've been able to sit and enjoy TB more near the end of BFDIA and some this episode. I like seeing him as a competent leader. I like the sass he got at the end of BFDIA. He's a character who's meant to be smart. Trustworthy. His dependency takes a backseat and he locks in. More pls pls

i like the black hole song. i like the exploring space song.

THREE.

Where do I begin???

I LOVE Three. She's bitter and distrusting and traumatized and has been alone for 16 years. And in PAIN. Nobody's checked on them until now. She serves as an antagonist to the EXIT gang and obliterated Fifteen-

Oh.

Yeah I don't see why that was necessary. LIKE, to show that Three was willing to KILL them to be left alone.. but the way the zeroes react.. algebraliens CANT be recovered properly (as far as we know). Also the zeroes reaction again was just. Idk, not what I was expecting?? Except for Zro, Zro looks traumatized.

Now, back to Three. THE BOSS FIGHT HOLY SHIT. Six definitely pissed them off. Three isn't going to listen to reason. You need help defeating One?? WELL, she doesn't want to see One. So. No. And also One killed them SO NO.

I loved everything with Three. The music to the disturbing and dreadful aura she had to the voice acting, UGH. GOOD WRITING. GOOD CHARACTER.

Solid episode.

What does this mean for the redux?

Declutter:

I want to scrap One taking Leafy, she has no reason to here. Same with trying to take Firey, as proposed before. Their characters can be retired, their storyline is complete. I'm satisfied with where they are right now. They can get fun side content.

Kill more characters. Be picky and choosy about who's in One's grand finale. I want to focus on characters with stories actively in development, with shit to resolve.

The folks in Two's Domain don't escape the way they do in canon. I'd still like to dedicate TPOT 22 to them, let specific characters out. I bet they'd do a rejoin... I NEED to see Cake or Saw back in.

As usual, eliminations stay the same.

Liy's resolve to fight to protect everyone. In the redux, she kills the Failed Debuters to win the challenge. It's impulsive. She's angry. She tunnel visions on taking out the competition and the Debuters are IN HER WAY. She doesn't let the guilt eat at her until the challenge is over, when she's recovered. If Grassy recovers the Debuters in the redux like he wanted to in canon, they'll be shaken. Liy gets to look at that.

Versus them not being able to be recovered. A: the recovery machine breaks/is missing and they don't know where it is. The world has literally fallen apart. As far as the cast is aware, they can't recover anyone. Price Tag's remote could break.

Then she's eliminated!! She killed those guys because they were in the way, to win the challenge. She has TPOT 21 to think about that. She's eliminated in 23.

Liy's resolves can be extreme, flipflpppy. Everything is looking bad. The world is ending. She's pushed away her friends. However, there's still people left. She's in a low moment and then gets pulled out of it to SAVE THE DAY. She will protect this group with her life.

I drew this once. One and Liy won't be making a deal now... but Liy will be getting her squish in. I'd love a scene where she distracts One. Like, bulldozes into her and squeezes her. She gives her group enough time to GO and we find out squishing One is like chewed gum. I die on that hill ♥️

I NEED to dedicate some time to Three. I like xym being an antagonist force who inevitably agrees to help take down One. But it's going to take a LOT of convincing. Three wants to live out xyr punishment in solitude. Being alone for upwards of a decade DOES SHIT. Xy have been stuck with xyr self-hating mindset. It's guilt. Xy's not in the right headspace. Xy don't think xy can be redeemed and want nothing more than to wallow on the floor.

I think Three wouldn't want to see One here either. Hearing One is one a revenge quest... UGH. Why don't they accept their punishment like Three did!? Doesn't she know it's what they had coming??

Three would go "I DONT CARE!! Leave me ALONE."

They won't.

[Boss battle initiated]

*editing here, I looked back on TPOT 20 and realized redux!Three is a lot more self sacrificing. I like that version more but I also want to keep a boss fight. I don't know if redux!Three WOULD do that. Maybe it quickly becomes that self-sacrificing behavior with the disregard for xyr own body. Xy sees what xy could have became in One.

Or no boss fight... FUUUUCK. xy definitely won't be trying to kill anyone tho, just keep them away.

*edit again: maybe it's caused by everyone trying to convince Three that xy are redeemable. Three says NOOOO.

One would be on another rampage. She's far more malicious in the Redux. She's familiar with a fraction of Two's power and now she has ALL OF IT and then some.

People are going to die. She's on a power trip.

She's going to hurt and kill and destroy anyone in her path, anyone who stops her from reaching X. She's EFFECTIVE until she's driven into a blind fury.

I'll go over what I'm imagining for the future in another post. I have a LOT of juicy ideas.

One big thing of this episode is Where TF is Black Hole. "Black Hole, Save Me" is GRAND. It does sum up the episode. Everyone is everywhere, it's chaotic!! Also Black Hole was maintaining the rip in space time. The song would play with clips of the characters Doing things.

The challenge is to defeat One. Two's... trying their hardest to motivate the contestants. For Two, it's channeled justice. I need them to find out from Donut that One deleted Basketball and Barf Bag so they can connect the dots to Gaty.

This or TPOT 24 would give more focus to everything with Three too. I need them out of Four's domain STAT so Three can be there for the final fight. Three realizes they won't leave xym alone and xy just go :'\

I think Braxcelety especially would try to reach out to Three. She did great with a bitter Roboty! But Three is just as, if not even more, stubborn.

With One being defeated BEFORE the season is over, I want to spend the rest of it with nicer challenges and characters getting the chance to process EVERYTHING.

I'd like to get more of a look at the Algebraliens' home planet. TB should be comfortable in her leader role despite anxieties at this point. The others have his back... I just need to figure out HOW they get there.