What Even Is This

its kinda crazy that after 12 years II2 is over. it was one hell of a ride

the entire ii crew has my thanks and graditude for all the hard work they put into this show. thank you II for being with me for pretty much 12 years of my life i dont know what id be without it

"He made you."

I swear this movie will be the death of me.

0:02 - Taco seems to have lol idk how to say this but authorized herself onto Mepad like idk system restart i don’t know how electronics work but clearly this resets when she dies

0:16 - i didn’t really pick this up the other times i’ve watched but why does Mepad want to meet Taco in the first place? everyone knows about what she did last season and really it is in his best interest to not interact with her as an assistant. Plus his want to help comes during the events of the episode (he gets really attached) So i’m intrigued Mepad. why?

0:23 - hehehe this callback to to funny to just gloss over it. plus Taco’s reaction is golden

0:48 - Taco gets lonely. okay but like it makes sense since she was outcasted by everyone she knows but she also chooses people (Mic and Mepad) for her own gain, but they are also people who don’t know much about her. but also since she messed up with mic she feels like she cant go back insert tacos tirade

1:24 - when this is the most united the grand slams have been and they aren’t even in teams anymoreeeee

1:54 - gotta love lightbulb here cause compared to the grand slams the bright lights know how to talk, confront, solve problems and they grow from it. ill talk more about it when lightbulb gets eliminated and the hotel scene

1:58 - ahahaahah that look they gave to each other is so good cause lets face it the situation was not the same - as suitcase elaborates during the challenge but a fun little nod to it

2:02- when lightbulb reacts to ‘team’s gone’ - especially cause that’s where her insecurities lie - but gotta love that baseball’s trying to cheer her up

2:14 - oof the guilt on baseball’s face after ‘close with your allies’ but also again more contrast bt the grand slams and the bright lights - lightbulb never uses the word allies. she calls them her friends. while the grand slams really focused on the alliance they had though it really was only baseball nickel and suitcase. which is probably why suitcase focuses on what allies are supposed to be for far too long that and well it takes her 4 episodes to really answer knife. even with balloon when he gets eliminated, she characterizes his actions as something an ally would do even though they were also friends. basically suitcase has like no friends. that’s what i got out of this apparently.

2:46 - lol knife you can answer one of those questions

2:59 - realizing we see a lot of knife’s guilty face this ep

3:11 - ik suitcase is hyperventilating here but the green outline for invisibility is cool

3:22 - its literally paintbrush coloreddddd sobbing

4:28 - hahaha lightbulb you have no idea. so much foreshadowing peeps. so much

4:48 - ljhaujdivjkaouhdfjkan tacos tirade oh boy there’s too much here to unpack i had to look up so many words thank you cakebrunch for storyboarding this

5:07 - pfffftttt lightbulb i love you girl

5:31 - ‘i wont live in the past….. uh huh taco. yeah right

5:53 - “and we lose more than we gain. taco losing the two people who she cared about - also mic doesn’t have the gain on her back which is funny. but yeah basically taco saying that this games costs friendships which she reiterates during the challenge

6:14 - she has given up on the prize now after what was desperation of last episode

6:35 - lowkey mepad doesn’t really answer tacos question here. but he is indeed right. i feel like the things mepad says could have a bunch of different meanings, not sure how right they are but observations none the less. “incapable of starting over” could be a metaphor for revival based on the previous lines. but also since he’s just really observing taco just stating the truth and she can just start over, which he elaborates during his part of the duet. however the fact he says ‘i don’t know who you lost’ feels more like “oh taco lost someone who couldn’t get revived, which feeds into his “of course not” beforehand but also his whole thing with marshmallow. and lowkey it doesn’t have to go down the permadead route either, despite bow being dead she still exists and marshmallow found a way back to her and honestly, ‘is it not possible to get them back’ most likely means to mepad at least, ‘can you not just talk to them again’. But with taco, no matter what she does and she knows this, she can never go back to the way it was with pickle or with mic which segue back to the song—

6:55 - hahahahaha mepads partttttt its actually really interesting bc the more he trys to console her the more info he gets about taco. ‘the whole slate has fallen apart-taco that is not true there are other ways to’ (i presume fix it)’ its too late-its not to late- for me to restart’ (its here where mepad probably learns the severity of what taco has done so instead he) ‘lettuce taco bout it…’ sorry bad joke. basically mepad really wants to help taco and she’s why too riled up right now especially considering she’s just singing about how terrible the game is, so mepad is like’ lets talk after you’ve calmed down.’ can’t tell if ‘you’re no menace’ is supposed to be comforting or truthful but its probably both since mepad’s saying it. and well ‘how did they hurt you’ feels like a response to taco after she’s like’ but its not i its they….. spiel.’ ‘please think this through’- why does it sound like ‘please think about taking one therapy session with me. it’ll do you good’

7:20 - hahahaha foreshadowing to our finalists ey - and insert a free session of mepad’s therapy ‘healing is a process’ as we see the cracks form in tacos shell hahaah. well i guess dying and getting revived was a process but yeah not the kind mepad’s thinking of. anyways taco is lowkey ranting at the contestants which is hilarious as mepad’s there trying to help her. and again she continues this sentiment during the challenge

7:41 - ‘all the beans that get spilled wont be mine’ - again the challenge but also i would like to add that this episode made me realize that taco has what i assume is meat inside her and i thought all this time she was just lettuce and tomatoes. i even had to look at the plushie and low and behold there is meat. but then i was talking to a friend about how it would be funny if it were beans bc… well of this line and bc she’s british… so yeah haha

7:48 - ‘no i’m fine’ mepad’s little lean over to say something is everything to me but i really think he would have just said ‘but you aren’t fine. clearly your crack is affecting you but taco just shushes him hahahaha

8:22 - so like i wonder what questions mephone would have asked. because i don’t think he would’ve went down the whole twisted therapy session. but i also cant bring myself to see him ask stupid questions either…

8:37 - i really like how we get to see knifes reaction bc from his perspective, mic left bc of taco so he thought he was done with that drama as he so says, so when taco appears he’s just like ‘ what the heck why are you here i thought this was over with’

9:12 - ‘what are you doing’ i kinda forgot that mephone doesn’t know that taco basically kidnapped mepad so to him its like mepad left him to help her which at least by mepad’s answer makes it plausible

its challenge timeeeeee

10:04 - look how defensive knife is about all this bc taco will expose everything and everyone well… mostly him and he realizes quickly that she is targeting him

11:49 - i love this especially with the fact it comes right after lightbulb’s, well her first question anyways. bc baseball’s advice for lightbulb really hit for her like immediately but nickel’s reassurance for baseball has never felt true bc of what happens in his team. baseball even says that he missed everything that was going on in his team and that’s because baseball, i think anyways is pretty selfish. i’ll touch more about this during his elimination but he doesn’t want to admit that he’s a bad team leader, which is why he gets this outburst when the platform lowers and while bad team leader doesn’t necessarily have to equate to putting the team ahead of himself, except it does bc it mattered to nickel and it matters to suitcase. baseball needs validation. its easiest to see this through nickel and suitcase where nickel just gives it to him and baseball seeks it out from suitcase but most of all he doesn’t want to get his feelings hurt and we see what happens when it does so he needs someone to blame which was suitcase and then mephone but never himself

12:04 - there’s a good comment about how everyone answers i thought it was pretty high up but it might’ve dropped or its just me being blind but knife twists tacos words bc he doesn’t want to give anything up. but also this is just him retaliating against taco, him trying to find the loopholes of her questions to keep him save in the game and to the others

12:47 - pftttttttttttt tacos too proud of herself

12:53 - ill talk about suitcase eventually i swear but here’s just more of baseball being in denial ‘suitcase doesn’t care about’ what? who? testtube? who knows but also baseball speaking for suitcase like he knows her. he doesn’t. and he’s trying to justify himself through suitcase which is like huh. so yeah baseball here just cant admit his wrongdoings at the moment. ‘victim of circumstance’ here we have baseball pushing the blame onto maphone hurray even though was was partly at fault yayyyy

13:50 - hehe lightbulb raises her hand and foot okay but yeah. while knife lightbulb and suitcase’s choices make ‘sense i don’t really understand baseball’s? is it just so he can try to justify himself more? bc that’s what i’m getting from him

16:03 - its funny because they both describe the other like that but don’t really see themselves like that also love that we actually don’t see the answer suitcase gives but we know what it is. but it also shows how knife cares for suitcase to an extent that not even baseball gives (bc he really mostly cares about his feelings) and why suitcase eventually chooses knife for the final 2

16:38 - suitcase its time. so clearly suitcase is not ready to talk about it but she’s not going to back down either. ‘i see weird things like that all the time’ i like to think that she still has her back turned towards taco and is talking to the fire and turns around when she says hallucinations. i feel like that hits harder bc not only is she putting herself out there in front of everyone, this is the first time she actually says it and accepts it herself. and then she becomes so done with everything. such a mood. oh boy here we go with baseball againnnn just mentioning it bc this ties to his elimination

17:23 - tacos tirade pt 2

17:49 - gotta love how mephone is literally just sitting on the floor like a kid observing all this therapy session when he’s the one who needs it the most

18:05 - oh you knowwww just makes a whole new season and gets even more traumatized

18:51 - when it looks like knife and suitcase are giving each other another look okay this one is probably more incidental bc here tacos speaking from experience go figure. but it really only feels like knife got bridges burnt here after tacos questions. since well suitcases were burnt long before that…

19:05 - haha gonna learn something from season 3 buddy or what. i would love to talk about tacos speech but dang it feels like there is no explanation needed

19:42 - hello i wont live in the past taco so here’s i wont face my past taco instead. taco cracks bc she cant face her truths. she hides away from them. the real question is who taco thinks is coming but honestly it really could only be pickle. mic is the one who left her and i feel like she could explain herself, probably not in front of a crowd but this is an extreme reaction and well, knife knows more about taco than most

20:17 - mephoneeeeeeee noooooooooo

20:28 - THE PAINTBRUSH SIGNAL EVERYONEEEEE. so lightbulb talks about saving taco twice here and in the hotel but like are they actually going to do that that would be insane. anyways the bright lightssss ahhhhhh you guys are toooooo wholesomeeeee so back to lightbulbs insecurities about herself and her team. i love you bright lights the healing environment is too real. anyways the way lightbulb has to ask painty ‘like actually’ just to make sure its true and obviously it is. and when paintbrush tries to leave ‘there is nothing i want more than to win this game’ bc all lightbulb wants is to reunite with her friends again and it to adorable and shows how close the bright lights are and i’m going to talk even more about them

21:47 - mephone you are not fooling anyone

22:22 - ‘allies give you strength’ and while lightbulb doesn’t really categorize the lights as allies they are her friends and oh boi here it comes… to clarify i’ll be talking about the team composition from like kick the bucket or something. so anyways this line lightbulb says really rings true for all of the eliminations of the bright lights and there’s also the fact that, with the exception of fan, but that gets fixed later on cause his arc wasn’t done yet, none of them left alone. so let’s start with marsh. so obviously marsh left the show for bow. bow gave her the strength to do that and brought apple along. then with paintbrush, they left with baxter. fan well officially goes with testtube and lightbulb with paintbrush. arent they all cuteeeee we love their consistency. butt also each bright light elimination arc ends really nicely and its too wholesome

22:39 - mepad can teleport by himself bc taco died ? also i like how he teleports them up on a truth platform also i wonder how the melifetm app organizes the players cause its not alphabetical or by deaths. the way he has to clarify my show, he does it again later

24:03 - ‘for your approval’ where have we heard that before hmmmmm. yeah the wording here really brings back memories doesn’t it

24:13 - ‘i hate you’ mephone just drowning it out this guy

24:22 - baseball again with pushing the blame

25:12 - the way baseball smiles after the platform rises like his truth is going to fix something.

25:19 - so these close ups. baseball knows she’s not going to choose him. and then there knife who’s nervous for like the first time in his life and is surprised when she chooses him hahaha but hey after a couple episodes suitcase finally answers knife “what is an alliance to you”

25:39 - this has the same feeling as walking on ice around someone that has anger issues except its her anxiety. and while its a nice sentiment for her to not explain herself bc she doesn’t have to, baseball seems to say this for himself not for suitcase. baseball doesn’t want to hear the truth from her mouth. he doesn‘t want to face it bc he knows he was in the wrong and wants to preserve his feelings. he does get better though he finally confronts it in front of lightbulb bc she knows nothing about the grand slams so honestly just being away from the game can really help him learn to grow from his mistakes

26:18 - mepad giving taco strength to finish things though.

26:55 - they’re allianemies

27:10 - oh mephone. next episode you’ll get the closure and therapy you deserve. i hope.

final thoughts/ tldr

i bash on baseball too much for no reason, suitcase and knife become friends, lightbulb finally reunites with her team, taco and mepad are going to finish things, and mephone needs therapy.

the grand slams were always about the playing the game while the bright lights were about the experience and the connections and the friends along the way

and finally based on 4 episodes of Inanimate Battle… Knife be winning