HH Episode 124 Reaction
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This entire palace invasion arc is a masterclass of storytelling
At the end of the day, as much as I love Killua and Gon, we must admit that their relationship can sometimes come off as extremely toxic. There is a lot codependency involved, especially on Killua's part. In his mind Gon is his saviour, his light, the embodiment of everything good and kind there is, and he believes he owes him for it. He clings desperately to him also because he believes that his only purpose or place in this world is to stand beside him. If we rewind thing a little and go back to that one episode in Whale Island's Arc, when they're stargazing and questioning each other's resolutions, Killua says "I don't know, I guess I'll just follow you around for a while". He didn't take it lightly in the slightest, that was a clear and strong promise. He never had the intention of separating from Gon and going his own way, he knew he was gonna stick by his side, and do anything to keep him safe, even if it meant putting his life in danger.
You two have been switching between saying ‘Puff’ and ‘Poof’ the whole arc, even between different sentences lol. But the correct pronunciation is actually ‘Poof’.
Funnily enough, I do think this whole transformation for Palm reversed some of her mental instability. Along with a whole slew of problems, I think one of Palms main issues is that she couldnt regulate her emotions so they came out in big explosions (including love with gon/knov or rage towards killua). Separating her from her emotions and then getting them back in my opinion fixed that. You could also see with her nen power. While knov was not teaching her anything out of her harmful power that was unaligned with her nen class, now she has a better, more stable power, which is I think is the authors way of showing that shes now more stable
125-126 together pls, great fight
I completely understand why some people dislike the pacing for certain things in Chimera Ant, but the palace invasion imo is a masterclass in pacing. In a single episode we reintroduce Palm, get her backstory on what happened to her, have her transformation and powers explained all while giving both her and Killua a character rich emotional mini arc. All in a bit over 20 minutes. It's truly incredible, especially considering we got the same for Welfin in the previous episode. As excited as I am for the rest of the arc, very sad you're not far off the end of this amazing journey.
The manga's pacing is much better. The 2011 has plenty of things weighing it down. Like time constraint (it came out weekly for years). So they had to pace it accordingly and stretch out the story. The 2011 staff did a good job. But that's all it is. A good job. A more talented staff with a good budget and the proper timeframe would take this story to a whole new plateau. HxH, well paced, better animated, better direction, visual storytelling, artstyle, no censorship. Just imagine.
I love the scene of Killua crying, it's one of the few times throughout the show you really remember that beyond the crazy assassin backstory and everything, he's literally just a 12 year old kid.
I don't really know how to explain what's going on with Palm but I've seen it a few times before and I think it's always been a woman behaving like this. That's just my experience though. People who frequently lose control suddenly becoming the calm and reliable one when the person who is usually calm gets upset. These people may seem crazy and completely out of control of their emotions but they're not, they have empathy. I think they just lose perspective when they feel overwhelmed. It's exhausting to be around. At first it made me feel special because I thought it meant they really do care about me, and they do. But only being able to show it when someones at the edge isn't healthy. I really love this show for taking emotions I don't understand and can't put to words and showing them.
I totally agree, the fact that you get to understand more of each character everytime you rewatch is the joy of hxh for me. I could probably understand those experiences since i know two people of that exact description, though dealing with them is a topic i can't really add on lol.
how did yall learn to be so locked in when watching shows
Killua made me bawl this episode lol he’s my little baby so it broke my heart
I still don’t like Palm but the fact that Pitou experiment sort of backfired was a bit surprising the first time I saw this episode. I was expecting Killua and Palm to go at each others throats but Togashi is definitely not a conventional writer and the way he handled this interaction was definitely something that I always appreciated about his writing even from characters I don’t care about much like Palm. Sad that HunterxHunter is coming to an end in a few weeks… but if you guys decide to read the manga, I hope we get a least a mini review or something from you girls :”)
Also it's Pouf (Puuf) like the word poof. It is not (Puhf) like the word puff, I thought you two were saying it wrong on purpose this whole time.
did she day drop a nuclear bomb to kill the king?? it sounds a joke to me
Togashi the GOAT strikes again. I’ve been waiting for you girls to watch the episode since the arc started and especially since you both didn’t like Palm as a character. Even though she’s bat shit crazy, she’s not stupid and she knows Killua needed to hear those words. She acted like an adult when she needed to. Togashi knows how to write relatable human characters even with all the crazy nen powers at play. Can’t wait for you girls to react to these upcoming episodes!
in case you do some binge-watching sessions, after episode 135's outro there is a post-credit scene that you need to watch. Just to be sure that you won't miss it
yes!