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(re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:29 pm
What do you get when you take the *first* masked hero and drop his descendant into a cyberpunk dystopia? You get Phantom 2040, a *very* '90s sci-fi drama that just happened to be an AKOM cartoon.
Episode list (so you can find them online):
Generation Unto Generation (part 1)
Generation Unto Generation (part 2)
The Sum of the Parts
Fire and I.C.E.
Reflections of Glory
Shadows from the Past
The Good Mark
Ghost in the Machine
Dark Orbit (part 1)
Dark Orbit (part 2)
The Biot in Red
The Gauntlet
Three Into One
Life Lessons
The Magician
Swifter, Higher, Faster
Lasers in the Jungle
Down the Line
Control Group
A Boy and His Cat
Season 2
Rite of Passage
The World Is My Jungle
Sanctuary
The Ties that Bind
The Woman in the Moon
Matter Over Mind
The Sins of the Fathers (part 1)
The Sins of the Fathers (part 2)
The Sacrifice (part 1)
The Sacrifice (part 2)
Rogue
The Second Time Around
The Furies
Moments of Truth
The Whole Truth
"The Ghost Who Walks" is a compilation movie made from the first five episodes.
Episode list (so you can find them online):
Generation Unto Generation (part 1)
Generation Unto Generation (part 2)
The Sum of the Parts
Fire and I.C.E.
Reflections of Glory
Shadows from the Past
The Good Mark
Ghost in the Machine
Dark Orbit (part 1)
Dark Orbit (part 2)
The Biot in Red
The Gauntlet
Three Into One
Life Lessons
The Magician
Swifter, Higher, Faster
Lasers in the Jungle
Down the Line
Control Group
A Boy and His Cat
Season 2
Rite of Passage
The World Is My Jungle
Sanctuary
The Ties that Bind
The Woman in the Moon
Matter Over Mind
The Sins of the Fathers (part 1)
The Sins of the Fathers (part 2)
The Sacrifice (part 1)
The Sacrifice (part 2)
Rogue
The Second Time Around
The Furies
Moments of Truth
The Whole Truth
"The Ghost Who Walks" is a compilation movie made from the first five episodes.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:16 am
I'm gonna keep up with Wednesdays being my target watch-day at the moment, though I might change that depending on which days are busiest with the new anime season
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:40 pm
Aight, I only seem to have access to The Ghost Who Walks, so if there's no obvious episode divisions in the compilation then I'm gonna stop around the 40ish minute mark.
I remember playing a bit of the video game back in the day and being vaguely interested in more of it, but I'm not sure I ever saw the cartoon.
Also on a related note, there was a long-time lucha libre wrestler named El Fantasma who I never really saw in his heydey but in current day, but I've seen a lot of his son El Hijo del Fantasma, including the son losing his Phantom mask a year or so ago.
Ep 1 + 2 (since it's a two-parter anyways)
I remember playing a bit of the video game back in the day and being vaguely interested in more of it, but I'm not sure I ever saw the cartoon.
Also on a related note, there was a long-time lucha libre wrestler named El Fantasma who I never really saw in his heydey but in current day, but I've seen a lot of his son El Hijo del Fantasma, including the son losing his Phantom mask a year or so ago.
Ep 1 + 2 (since it's a two-parter anyways)
- Spoiler:
- We only have about 20 years to get our world looking like this
- Radical Hoverboarding with BLUETOOTH
- And police robots seem to shoot to kill, just like the real ones
- Turned his arm into a gun like Mega Man?
- Oh, video games
- Resource wars, let's maybe not do those
- Garbage the immediately biodegrades, that's so cool
- Of course, the evil guy has a cat
- They said "murder" in a '90s children's cartoon?
- I can fully believe that '80s synth is back in in the year 2040
- Pew pew pew
- Grand-Aunt Badass dual-wields
- "Only on an artificial heart for a few days until they clone her a new one." That one feels like it'll happen in our lifetimes or just after it, tbh
- I had one of those Phantom rings as a child
- That seems like a random skull-thing to find in a wall
- Damn teenagers and their music and their rioting
- You are the Black Panth- whoops, I mean the Phantom
- Swearing an oath on the skull of his father's killer, that's hardcore
- (Also a little bit white saviour but also kinda funny because it's black people going "... How about we make the white guy do it?")
- "No looters!" "But my friends are in there!" "Who cares?"
- Oh it was at the arcade, the teenagers actually did start the riot
- Robo-dog
- Dog jumped on a metal robot and started biting it, that's hardcore
- Good job giving yourself away while playing with your new toy, Kit
- Eyyyyy, Kit wants to be the Phantom now because then he can nail Jena
- You can eat apple cores in the future.
- "GIVE ME YOUR GUN SONNY, LET AUNTIE SHOW YOU HOW TO USE IT"
- Whooooooooops, now he made an enemy out of the Enforcer
- Homie just savagely murdered that robot
- Oh damn, Grand-Aunt has some of kind of powers/tricks to fool the robo-dog
- Ecological and social collapse, and a corporation is trying to safeguard itself from it all
- Wow, Maximum Inc radicalized Gamergate into the Incel Rebellion
- Tbh if I was like 8 years I would've wanted a toy of Graf(t?)'s big robot thing
- Subliminal messages!
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:26 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E1 and S1E2: Generation Unto Generation, Part 1 and Part 2
- Spoiler:
Begin the hero's journey.
-Hello early '90s CGI.
-Guess the CGI budget ran out.
-Iron Man pose.
-It's okay for robots to die.
-Earth in peril, but it's okay.
-You are destined to be a hero.
-Sweet hoverboard.
-Ooooh, arm cannon.
-More jungle.
-Corsets as outerwear. Yep, it's the '90s.
-It's a VR game.
-Food glop dispenser.
-Terminator glasses.
-Kit's a jungle nerd.
-Infodump, but not too long.
-The robots don't have a sense of self-preservation.
-Mom calls in on the holophone instead of being there in person.
-More corset.
-Mom's too busy to be a mom.
-Sunglasses dude is a known dude.
-Phantom generally doesn't go around murdering people. Hmmm.
-Cyborg dude has a restraining bolt.
-Alexa, what happened to your voice?
-Eloise knows sunglasses dude, too.
-Oh, he's the next Phantom.
-When robots attack.
-Dude took those blasters like a champ.
-Eloise dual-wielding the slugthrowers.
-But she didn't have the body armor.
-Of course the leaf interests him more than the ring.
-Clone random organs. Keen.
-He likes the ring.
-Yep, Wikipedia makes up stupid and lazy.
-The cat is his avatar.
-Always busy with work.
-Cyberville? New Detroit?
-Sure, let's walk into the toxic waste dump.
-Oh, the ring is a key.
-Ha, the game was a conditioning program.
-But Kit's too busy exploring to riot.
-Time for your destiny.
-Backstory time.
-Lion tickling.
-Plotting.
-Batman-ish gear, and a cloak.
-Yep, she's OCP.
-Dang, what did I miss?
-Sorry dude, you have to answer the hero's call.
-Hero's first appearance gets livestreamed.
-And promptly goes viral.
-Wrecking the plot.
***
-Tabloid news goon, stirring up shit for ratings.
-Rogue robot on the loose.
-Call in Robocop.
-And Robodog.
-Robot got away.
-Samus is a girl.
-And a cynic.
-Take that, cameras.
-Not quite signed up for the hero's life.
-Built a copy of the Batcave.
-Well now, Max Sr. was an ecoterrorist and the Phantom went out and ganked him?
-Maybe not.
-Still plotting.
-Graft is too pragmatic for cartoon villainy.
-The biot found him.
-Pyramid eggplant.
-Visit Aunt May.
-You're a made man now, kid.
-Oh, she just has an armor suit.
-Don't just stand there getting shot, bro.
-Whoops, unlucky shot.
-Eloise is more willing to be the Phantom than he is.
-The cloak doesn't hide smell.
-She put the whammy on the dog. Eloise has some skills.
-Max Jr. isn't up for the grand scheme.
-But he knows what's up.
-Phantom doing some detective work.
-More gamer riots.
-Hoverbike.
-Time to go to work, Doc.
-Oh, so he's more remake Robocop.
-Aaah, the big body.
-Phantom figured it out.
-Just in time to die.
-Big body's not too agile.
-Time for some police brutality footage. Woohoo!
-Nope, Phantom spoiled the plot again.
*** Peter Chung did the character designs, so everyone looks like extras from an Aeon Flux casting call.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:06 pm
S1E3 and S1E4
- Spoiler:
- Saxophones in 2040
- '90s cartoons sure had wimpy sound effects
- Named him Walter White
- The space guy is long and skinny because he grew up in artificial gravity, or did they just draw him funny?
- Hrm, so Cyberville isn't the only escape from environmental failure
- Post-Resource-Wars-Reconstruction. So they already had resource wars.
- Dog knows what's up
- "How about you leave your detective dog inside so we can smash in here"
- Right on, Kit has a Phantom alibi now
- Just stabs right through what she thinks is the Phantom
- Nice going Cruz, got your dog all screwed up on what's what
- Maybe the Professor should get a mask on or something too, guys
- I can't let him shoot missiles in the city, so I'm going to ram him and send him flying down into the city at missile-like speed
- Ohooo, did Heisenberg gain sentience?
- Badass hacker Granny
- Graft is rubbing his chin with his robot hand, but wouldn't he slice up his face doing that
- Prof already moving in on Aunt Eloise
- So if they just throw away all the poor people, they can have a central staging area for the robots that put those poor people out of work
- Thanks, Cowboy Hat guy
- "My father is dead" WHAP
- Oho, so the Phantom and the Maximum Papa in the pollution trainwreck?
- That's a hell of a lot of machinery just for one brain
- So badass Hacker Granny is actually a boy who sounds like a girl? Wesley Crusher
- Whoops, Cairo/Cowboy Hat Guy is figuring out Phantom's secret identity
- Graft's attack suit is so nostalgic, it's so '90s Robocop or '90s "boss of a level in a 2D beat'em up or shooter"
- Graft shooting on the police, very brazen
- "Comin right up, bitbrain" My brain was ready for the "ch" to follow "bit"
- Cairo's not selling out The Phantom?
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:31 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E3: The Sum of the Parts
Phantom 2040 S1E4: Fire and I.C.E.
- Spoiler:
Phantom gets framed by a mint-flavored Terminator.
-Moody voiceover.
-Nobody knows what the Bat... Phantom is or who he's for.
-No one, except for the megacorps, etc.
-Robot phantom fights the morphing goo, because why not.
-Oh, it's a test.
-Oh shit, he's a Spacenoid?
-Fractal biot? Yep, it's the '90s.
-Yep, his soul is not weighed down by gravity.
-Dykstra Platform? Niiiice.
-Zeon's not ready to revolt quite yet. UC0070 or thereabouts.
-Should have just had the Kaminoans do it. Less guff.
-Bruce Wayne? Damn.
-Time to take down the Bat... Phantom.
-Damn Google autosearch...
-There we go. Dude must not be a mugger or anything.
-The bike has a cloak too? And a special license plate? Oookay.
-Waaaaait. The Phantom's not made of goo...
-Doc's putting his thumb on the news scale.
-The dog knows too much.
-And normal humans typically do standing leaps onto the roofs of trains.
-Phantom-on-Phantom violence.
-T-1000 can't handle rope.
-Oh, wait, yes he can.
-Professor found you out, so either kill him or recruit him.
-Sikorsky field. This show is full of shout-outs.
-Yep, Doc's being fed info.
-Good thing Phantom has a camo'd hovercar too. Who pays for this stuff?
-Sorry, cell jammer.
-Ramming always works.
-Out of the way, shitty land car!
-Yeah, he's gotta be a do-gooder.
-Max completely no-sells his rescue.
-Goobot not dead.
-And he's a freebooter.
Phantom 2040 S1E4: Fire and I.C.E.
- Spoiler:
Phantom has some fun with Wikileaks.
-Well, we skipped a bit of hacking there.
-Lotsa satellite hopping.
-Old lady has l33t hax0r skillz.
-Oops, he hung up too soon.
-Yeah, let Phantom hack the dummy files.
-Some backstory infodumping.
-So, great-aunt Eloise then.
-And Professor Smooth makes a pass.
-Hahah, you and your dorky old man lingo.
-Oh, I know who the old lady is.
-Formal dress and still with the corset.
-Yep, it's Delta City.
-Damn, and Phantom's goofing around in it.
-Another random dude warning him off.
-Holodude wants to make some arrangements.
-Yep, that sounds pretty dead.
-He's more machine now than man. Sad and lonely.
-TANSTAAFL. This shows is a giant '90s nerd shout-out.
-Hey! I just wanna steal your groceries!
-When vegetable thieves need a beatdown, the Phantom is there!
-Whoops, he's the old lady.
-Ah, that's why Phantom was bumming around.
-Trenchcoat got his ID.
-Mmmmm, gimme the suit with the really big guns. And claws, some of those too.
-A fair exchange, of sorts.
-Ha, no one takes Graft's collar but him.
-I'm a costumed hero, so I can do sneaky shit like that.
-Yeah, I have tons of weird shit. Need a SCSI printer adapter?
-Hijack the suit. But to be honest, Phantom could have just slipped a small grenade in there and called it a day.
-Graft's suit is just as junky and painful as Vader's.
-Cairo playing some games here.
-Dey took our jerbs! Robots suck!
-Phantom just engaging in random terrorism now.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:51 am
S1 E5
S1 E6
- Spoiler:
- That building didn't look big enough for the hover-truck-train-thing to enter it
- Superhero terrorism!
- I like how the mom is treating the son the same way the son is treating the pet cat
- Sparks with the cheeky "It's not like I blew up a building" right in front of Cruz
- Cruz wants the PD (I'm exceptionally proud of coupling "Police Department" and "Phantom Dick" together)
- Max groupie-hunting for Vaingloria
- Sharon Apple concert
- Oh man, Cruz catches Kit leaving Vaingloria's dressing room while she's on stage, not good for the creeper scale
- Coma-fied, that's pretty horrifying
- "Bio-Lassie videos" Do they reward the smartdogs with dog porn?
- How did Graft sneak on them in that giant robot?
- Paper money in 2040
- Max Jr seems like he's giving away the plan on purpose
- "Loving me is forever, and not a one night stand." WHOA WHOA, KID'S SHOW
- So The Phantom's big plan to get back at Rebecca is to ghost-grope her
- Whoa, he did shoot at her
- Hrm, was that skull above the throne there before? I thought Aunt Eloise wondered why it wasn't rebuilt exactly?
S1 E6
- Spoiler:
- The internet and Metropia are just a series of tubes
- Black Woman dressed like a Pharaoh, this should be a racially sensitive episode
- I dunno Graft, you were doing pretty well when the robot was smaller
- She can shoot laser beams but she's also using blowdarts
- RIP, animals
- I dunno, Graft, I'd probably just destroy the anti-Toxin so that Goran could die and we'd be down one member of Team Phantom
- The music used in the jungle was definitely used in the video game
- Uh guys, if you kill these two and let Goran die from the toxin, you're severely fucking up Team Phantom
- Did she just fucking kill Graft
- "How can you have a zoo without tissue samples?"
- Dude just put a ninja star in her head
- Mythical shadow panther
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:23 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E5: Reflections of Glory
Phantom 2040 S1E6: Shadows of the Past
- Spoiler:
Pop stars and diabolical plots.
-Politics, politics. Graft hates this shit.
-Those darn offshore investors.
-I wanna see The Metropians.
-Debit disc? Naah, everyone just uses their phone.
-Your thumb has been rejected.
-Sparks getting a bit snarky.
-I guess you can just bring your dog to the show.
-Phantom going creepin'
-Wuh oh. Pop star putting the whammy on everyone.
-She's no Minmay.
-Good thing the camo works while you're passed out.
-I'll bet it involves criminal activity!
-No, don't skip the Sumo Bash!
-Oh! Brainwash the kids of your political enemies.
-Rebecca's got no time for screwups.
-Whoops.
-Oh, well that big bag of money is quite persuasive, and we'll ignore that whole murder thing you have going on over there.
-Max Jr wants to get some villainous boasting in.
-Graft has the Evil Overlord list memorized.
-Yep, Phantom escaped while they were yapping.
-Show's over, Synergy.
-Ha, damn, jump kick is the robot armor's true weakness.
-Yeah, the dog's my homie now.
-Plan B: just bribe them.
-Raise the Defensive Shield!
-Rebecca's got some brass.
-He took a shot after all.
-And no-sold the Hannibal Lecture.
-Phantom has embraced the hero life.
Phantom 2040 S1E6: Shadows of the Past
- Spoiler:
Let Mighty Black Justice be done upon the Phantom.
-Yeah, lots of nasty crud on the subways.
-Of course the black guy is all "By Any Means Necessary".
-Uh oh, black avenger.
(Too bad I never got around to seeing Black Panther. I'm sure I could make all sorts of cheeky Wakanda riffs here.)
-Jeez, this episode is off-model even for AKOM.
-Oh crud, he brought the telescoping body.
-Ha ha! This body is blaster-proofed! Suck it, Phantom!
-Back off, white oppressor! His ass is mine!
-Right in the palm. Ouch.
-Nasty venom dart.
-Pesky animals are gone. Yaaay!
-Pandas were especially annoying.
-But plants are awesome!
-Guran has some pretty sleek activity-based underpants.
-And he's bonkers.
-Awwww, she lost her crown because Phantom put an end to petty chiefdoms and shit.
-Looks like a barren waste. Welcome to Scotland!
-Let's fly a hovercar halfway across the planet!
-42 minutes? That's fast as fuck.
-He found the old Phantom's porn stash.
-Papa Phantom looks and sounds a bit like Graft.
-Graft being practical, but supervillainy carries the day.
-Darn it, she got me in my one small fleshy part.
-Wuh oh, Guran has rabies.
-Look lady, we're trying to do a thing here, mmkay?
-I shall avenge my people, Mighty Whitey!
-Graft died already? Shiiiiit.
-Maximum Inc really doesn't spend enough on these battle armor suits.
-Max Jr ain't right.
-Yeah, Guran's the panther.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:29 pm
bomaye wrote:S1 E5
- Spoiler:
- Cruz wants the PD (I'm exceptionally proud of coupling "Police Department" and "Phantom Dick" together)
And well you should be. Take a bow.
The commercial bumper voiceover dude is very ASMRish.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:54 am
waxingjaney wrote:Phantom 2040 S1E5: Reflections of Glory
- Spoiler:
-And no-sold the Hannibal Lecture.
Have two thumbs up
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Thu May 02, 2019 9:32 pm
S1E7
S1E8
- Spoiler:
- Graft still thinking about justice
- Konichiwa
- Training officers to shoot the Phantom with video games even though he won't shoot first IRL
- "Hey, keep these files safe but announce to the world that you have them, thanks bro" Obvious trap is obvious
- Kit gets cockblocked by the Phantom again
- I dunno man, Kit's a fucking nerd who finds researching vegetation exciting, I think his character would actually read old history
- "This debit card gives you untraceable money" BITCOIN
- Graft hilariously gets the jump on The Phantom in his giant walker
- And still dangling the maybe-real files (USB thumbdrives are sure is gigantic in 2040)
- Awww shiiiit, Graft is playing Rebecca too, he just confirmed that she has secret files to the train crash
- Siri, make up a devious plan to hack my boss's e-mail account
- Kit pumping his girl (for information)
- And now Graft is playing Max Jr against Rebecca and the overseas Cyberville partners. He's no Bebop and Rocksteady
- Max Jr projecting his thoughts and feelings through his cat, and now he shakes Graft's hand with robot arms instead of his real ones
- Cruz might've gotten a up-close look at The Phantom's shooting skills
- "You're dead, father, you're not supposed to sleep." That's vicious, Max Jr
- Phantom hasn't done anything wrong, though he did kind of blow up warehouses and destroy property and such
- Graft goes down pretty easy in a fist-fight, guess his robo body is slow and clunky
- But he gets leverage on Rebecca and Kit only ended up with fakes. Graft wins over everyone
S1E8
- Spoiler:
- Max Jr has nightmares about happiness, that's such an early '90s bad guy thing
- Is it really training, or could Kit Sr just not find a babysitter?
- "I wish I knew him" You blew off reading your father's diary last ep, Kit
- I like how Sparks says "bits" and half the time it sounds like "bitches"
- Oh whoa, Rebecca's trying to upload Max Sr's brain into a clone or android body
- Probably explain the reasoning for not using the drone camera to Sparks now before he does something silly like trying to plant it himself
- Huh, I was expecting the robot to crash in the chase, but it quite intelligently stopped on a dime and forced its way in to keep chasing Sparks
- Holy shit, Sparks not only derped into the perfect opportunity to plant the drone cam, but also can help haywire Max Sr wreck everything
- Dr Jack putting the moves on Pam
- I like how Maxwell biot just picks up and carries a fully grown man around
- "I'll keep you safe, son." "That's what Boudolier always says to me." The cat calls him "son"?
- Fucking Graft using the rescue operation to get back Max Jr as even more leverage so Rebecca "owes him one." This fucking guy.
- Damn, Guran and Max Jr are really taking this Max Sr biot seriously
- Max Jr saying "tell ME what happened" and not just using the Cat's name
- Max Sr is getting his memories mixed up on where he was... are Kit Sr's memories in there too or did it get really distorted?
- Wow, the robot just killed itself, that's not going to fuck up Max Jr even more
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Sun May 05, 2019 1:19 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E7: The Good Mark
Phantom 2040 S1E8: The Ghost in the Machine
- Spoiler:
Baiting the Phantom.
-Graft used to be a good guy.
-Now he's a cynic with a minor in vengeance.
-Rebecca using a medusa head as her icon is probably indicative of something.
-Doing business with geisha girls.
-Sorry dude, you've got a restraining bolt.
-Training simulator.
-Doctor Jakk does all the news shows. He must have a deal with Maximum or something.
-Hubert!
-Yep, he's Maximum's PR guy.
-I wonder if Graft feels like he's naked all the time?
-Almost a title drop.
-Phantom doesn't have time for crusty history lessons, but he does like jewelry.
-Bribing the senior officer.
-Channel 880 has its own building.
-Oh, we're doing the '80s Running Man.
-Freebooting will only get you in trouble.
-Oops, Rebecca spilled her beans.
-Yep, your boss is crooked. Sorry Cruz.
-Kit, you smoothie.
-Graft making some side deals.
-Crooked cop trying to clean up his mess.
-Phantom making some deals of his own.
-Well, Jakk will take opportunities when he sees them.
-Yeah, nobody bother to keep an eye on the wanted guy who just surrendered.
-Whaaaaaaat? He has to do the whole activation callout for a dropkick?
-You'd think Graft's robot body would be strong enough not to get pinned like that.
-Naaah, she's not ready to switch loyalties just yet.
-Graft's deal worked out so far.
-Cruz is back to Phantom hunting.
Phantom 2040 S1E8: The Ghost in the Machine
- Spoiler:
Maxwell Madison Sr. returns, sort of.
-Max's turn to do a moody voiceover.
-Jeez, he's had the cat this whole time?
-Hey, even the Phantom does Take Your Kids To Work day.
-We all need expensive lifting platforms to do full VR.
-Meanwhile, the in the Evil Tower of Ominousness...
-Hahahaha. "Push the button, Frank."
-Well, she made herself a husband doll.
-You can order mad scientist equipment online. Makes sense.
-Miniaturized drone camera. Score.
-Frank had a bad day at work.
-Industrial corridor chase.
-Don't lose any body parts in the droid factory, Anakin.
-Crazy dude with cables hanging out of his head asks you to open a door, you do it.
-Sorry dude, your tech's out of date.
-Max Sr's not reacting well to the new era.
-Dorky old land taxi.
-When weird shit is on live TV, it's Phantom time.
-Max Jr's just getting dragged around like a raggy doll.
-Oh, we can't use the secret biot army that we're not supposed to have.
-Toxic sludge train wreck!
-That doesn't seem like a Phantom sort of thing to do.
-Now that you remember you died, you have to die again.
-Max Jr is too busy being traumatized to chew out Rebecca for now.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Wed May 08, 2019 9:26 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E9 and 10: Dark Orbit, Parts 1 and 2
- Spoiler:
Plots to destroy the Earth, and abuse Australia.
-Wacky flying fish.
-Eaten by a leaping shark.
-Transuranic elements.
-Random investigative hijacking.
-Phantom has learned to ride Shai-hulud.
-Ha, it wasn't the Phantom blowing shit up after all.
-Dropping more trash in the ocean.
-Time for an ecology lesson.
-Someone's being sneaky.
-Oh, just a giant death ray is all.
-I blame the Spacenoid!
-Hey hey, Strine Woman!
-So, she's basically a pink Jabba with an atrocious accent.
-Pirates! Phantoms know how to deal with pirates.
-Yeah, just go ahead and explain your villainous plot for everyone.
-Zeon did it first.
-They're stealing us with a giant air clamp! Who knew they had one of those?
-And the next wrestler entering the ring is... Graft!
-Look out! He has oversized door handles.
-Ad hoc tag teams never work out in the end.
-That, or engaging in a World's Strongest Biot contest.
-2 on 1. Bad odds for the Phantom.
-Nobody ever believes the Critter Alarm.
-Yep, first rule of conspiracies: bump off the co-conspirators.
***
-Oh! He's a Natural Spacenoid.
-Phantom's working with Trench.
-Ha, a conference call.
-Graft's shoulder tat will probably be explained in his origins episode (I'm sure there will be one at some point; this is that kind of show).
-You silly supervillain. You shouldn't show it off until *after* it's finished and has blown away a few planets... cities.
-That's your house, honey! (You've outlived your usefulness as well.)
-Nope, I guess they're not quite finished after all.
-I would say Sean gets partial credit as a Char Clone.
-Hahahahahahahahahah! Phantom and Graft really don't disguise well at all. (One would think Phantom's camo screen has more settings than Lanky Purple Hero.)
-He almost looks like a miscolored Gray Ghost here.
-A trap?! In a scuzzy joint like that? Quelle surprise.
-Well, they apparently bought off Trench earlier.
-Huh. I guess he installed clones in the other platforms? Seans 2, 3, and 4?
-So much villainy he lost track.
-And I don't suppose Gorda will figure out what Max Jr and Guran have in common? (But honestly, she probably doesn't look past the first page of results on Cairopedia.)
-Damn, everyone in this cave scene is waaaaay off-model.
-Yeesh, Phantom just karate chops a headless robot that Graft's couldn't break free from? His body must really be lowest-bidder garbage.
-You can tell they're girl biots because they have bikini and crop top outlines.
-Graft is about 20 frames back, love.
-Biot clubbery, lol. At least it wasn't a robot kangaroo.
-AH-HA! There's our robot kangaroo.
-And it went down easy. Fake level boss.
-There goes our ride!
-Saaaay, I bet he has some useful data.
-You know, just vaporizing a shit ton of ocean would wreck the Earth too.
-Sorry Max. Freaky space dude won't fry your mom for you after all.
-Naaah, Graft is too jaded to be a good guy.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Fri May 10, 2019 2:15 am
S1E9
S1E10
I just now realized that the Walker in "Kit Walker" is a pun because he's the Ghost Who Walks
- Spoiler:
- IT'S THE CIIIIIIRCLE OF LIFEEEEEE
- Ohooo, I thought the Phantom was the one making the air freighters disappear, but destroying them would mean pollution
- Kill-o-meters
- "Defense" Particle Beam Cannons to wipe out rioting poor people with
- So they've got a woman doing a Jabba the Hutt deal, and then in contrast, a dude who's super skinny because he's lived his life in artificial gravity (that's a neat little detail)
- I like how they actually show Gorda with octopus tentacles reaching out
- So this space guy is going full Neo Zeon
- Kit sure saves Max Jr often enough
- Wow, the Biots programmed to invade the shipment aren't programmed to not shoot at the cargo
- Eyyyy, Graft brought some big guns this time instead of a clunky giant robot
- Awriiight, a "good guys and bad guys work together" episode
- Whoops, let his guard down and the bad guys got'em
- I forget, did his Phantom mask have some kind of special seal that no one else could take it off? Because otherwise, the bad guys should take his mask off or kill him immediately or something
- Ah yeah, it does bond to him. But maybe still kill'em quick?
- Ohooooo. So Graft shot Max to let the Phantom go, but does Max realize it?
- Ha, Rebecca hates Boudelair
- It's interesting how much the villains of the show are manipulating each other and trying to play leverage against each other. And this is a children's cartoon
S1E10
- Spoiler:
- I like how Dr Jak can easily get facetime interviews with terrorist leaders
- Cairo trading favours for Phantom biopics
- That's so cool, Phantom, Cairo and Graft meeting in secret (probably without Rebecca's knowledge) to try to figure out how to take down Sean One
- Sean One is shooting Gorda, this fucking guy
- Graft wearing an eyepatch
- So Max must've been in on letting the Phantom go
- Gorda knows who Graft is, and yet the eye patch is tricking her completely
- And she would absolutely know Max Jr's face
- Tigeroos? As in Tigers and Kangaroos?
- I like how this episodes shows that Graft can actually kick a lot of ass
- Damn, even Baudelaire can kick ass
- Whoa, hand-rockets out of nowhere blow up the VTOL rocketspaceship
- This walking TV monitor fight where they can feel pain is pretty goofy
- Max Jr isn't going to warn Rebecca, that's fucked up
- D'awwww, Kit and Hubert have a newfound respect for each other
I just now realized that the Walker in "Kit Walker" is a pun because he's the Ghost Who Walks
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Wed May 15, 2019 12:00 pm
S1E11
S1 E12
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- Orbital mail drop
- Eyyyyy Heisenberg
- Glad she's his "friend"
- Holy shit, he just killed Max Jr by turning into a wall
- Archer and ASS
- San Francisco Islands, water level situation didn't get better
- Huh, Heisenberg wants to find the Phantom so he can get his memories of being an Anti-Phantom T-1000 back
- Selling feelings as VR drugs? Was she selling the feeling of eating good food too? Very Sword Art Online
- They never got around to developing bluetooth before the resource wars
- Everyone wears trenchcoats and hats when they go investigatin
- Dr Jak takes bribes because the ratings will go up when he exposes it. That's amazing
- Pav is programmed to make gagging noises when something's wrapped around her neck
- Heisenberg has a creepshot of Pavlova
- "It's just not the same when I do it myself." HEYYYYYYYY
- Pretty sweet shootout
- Ohoooo, so Heisenberg could potentially be the beginning of sentient AI in Biots
S1 E12
- Spoiler:
- Oh man, Cairo summing up the social media and internet era pretty accurately
- Did that street blob just kill a dude
- Damnnnnn, Spark's parents killed too
- Oh, just dragged away
- Rebecca's sure into Graft's... attachments
- Eyyyy, Sparks' parents are a still kicking, maybe, but in Cyberville
- Max Jr made a terrible pun, took a second, and then laughed to himself, god dammit
- Kit just gave a teenager a laser gun, this should end well
- Ouch, Gauntlet modeled after Sparks parents
- Gargoyle Mode Graft
- Graft has a soft-spot for children, eh?
- Interesting how half the time Graft is trying to kill them and half the time he kinda wishes he could just leave
- "To know your own beginnings, how glorious it must be." Cairo not know where he came from either?
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Wed May 15, 2019 9:30 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E11: The Biot in Red
Phantom 2040 S1E12: The Gauntlet
- Spoiler:
Robots and cylinders, oh my.
-Meanwhile, on Side 3...
-A robot! That explains the lack of zero-g boobs.
-Random implausible leap off a building.
-The bikes should transform into power armor suits to fight, but this isn't Mospeada.
-Rogue biot again.
-Presidential sax.
-Turning into a sturdy wall can be useful.
-By all rights, Max should have 20 broken bones and be clinically dead right now.
-Random visor scanner. Oooookay.
-Oh yeah, remember the sidekicks?
-Cyber opium den, yeah.
-Standing around plotting in the open and shit.
-He taking the cylinder that the biot is still holding? Bad, bad AKOM animators.
-Phantom's looking pretty beefy here.
-At some point, Graft's going to quit bring out the big clunky suit just to get beat up.
-Oh, I suppose the cylinder is going to be not crushed now.
-I'm not seeing it either. They've had practically no interaction at all.
-Planting the seeds of the robot revolution.
-Hanging out in the Train Station of Doom.
Phantom 2040 S1E12: The Gauntlet
- Spoiler:
Sparks gets his tragic backstory.
-Trench's turn for a moody voiceover.
-Yeah, feelings and friendships suck!
-It's his old house from before his folks ditched him.
-Trench is doing quite a bit of pro bono work.
-His folks got kidnapped for weird science.
-Sorry Robin, you've got to sit this one out.
-I'm sure Graft just looooooves being his boss's back massager.
-Yeah, because postnational corporations always conduct unethical research in random apartment buildings.
-One might think Max was learning to move in zero-g...
-Sorry kid, the blob... blanket... I dunno what, got you.
-But shooting up Graft's bodies every other episode is perfectly fine, so have fun.
-Sorry kid, it's your parents.
-And you've got to shoot them.
-Flyboy suit this time.
-Nice Adidas, kid.
-Graft's a bit of a softy.
-That was a hint of something from Trench.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Thu May 16, 2019 2:55 am
A MOSPEADA reference. I've only seen the Robotech version, but that's a reference I never thought I'd hear another human being make 
Wait, are you a robot?
Wait, are you a robot?
waxingjaney wrote:
Phantom 2040 S1E12: The Gauntlet
- Spoiler:
-Yeah, because postnational corporations always conduct unethical research in random apartment buildings.
- Spoiler:
Cooking up in the bando right next to trappers and future rappers
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Wed May 22, 2019 1:51 pm
S1E13
Gonna watch the next one a bit later
- Spoiler:
- 32 million people in Metropia, just googled, apparently Shanghai today has 24 million people... so that growth level doesn't seem too far off for 20 years in the future
- Brain candy
- Ha, Kit's Phantom suit messes with 3D glasses
- The criminal in the backseat busting out the backwindow as if it was sugar glass and wouldn't slice him to pieces
- I like how blunt the advertising is about "you'll be cool if you listen to my music and everyone knows it"
- Uhhhhh how did that fall not kill that person
- Cairo wanting to hear all the juicy Kit x Cruz gossip
- Is Kit's digital camo still shut off while he's meeting robo-Cruz?
- The police will drop all the Phantom's charges if he helps? It's either a trap or they created this problem in the first place
- Eyyyy they conveniently mashed Kit and Cruz's body's together
- The analyticals ship Kit and Cruz
- Red-Market Wetware. I want to know what those words mean because they could mean quite a few things
- Cairo's working for Phantom information, can't tell if he's an archivist fanboy or up to something
- Storage chambers for retirees
- Child experiments, that's kinda dark for a kid's show
- Whoa, Graft actually hitting his targets for once
- "Give up citizen, you have nothing left to offer." God damn, that's freaky
- The Triad Children can replace humanity
- Phantom just called her Sagan while Triad was aiming to melt her
- Eyyyy, jumping in front of a laser-blast for someone you randomly knew at academy. I wouldn't take a bullet for anyone I knew in school <_<
Gonna watch the next one a bit later
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Wed May 22, 2019 3:33 pm
S1E14
- Spoiler:
- Robot uprising incoming
- Graft, you could've shot him in the back and killed him instead of letting him know you were there
- That Biot just screamed in pain
- Becauseeee it's a human
- Eyyy Heisenberg, got any Meth?
- No, he's just got news that the Machine Uprising is beginning
- The City Inspectors, the true heroes of Phantom 2040
- Corporations stealing the lives of Humans, Humans stealing the lives of Biots
- D'awww, Dogbert's going undercover with Cruz too
- Welp, the Nuclear Reactor's melting down thanks to the firefight
- Guran putting his hand on Sparks shoulder to make it look like he's calming him down as Kit's going to the nuclear reactor, but he's totally thinking "You're going to be the next Phantom, Sparks"
- Ha, Rebecca didn't realize that melting down humans with radiation would be bad PR until Graft told her
- Fufufufu instead of killing you with our own hands, Enforcer Cruz, we'll let a countdown do it for us
- Dogbert just mangled Graft (should't Graft's anti-radiation gear cover his face, like the actual human parts of him?)
- Heisenberg just turned the Phantom into a rock'em sock'em robot
- A trippy-ass magic carpet sled with Graft attached to the back of it
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Mon May 27, 2019 2:41 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E13: Three Into One
Phantom 2040 S1E14: Life Lessons
- Spoiler:
Three randos go on a crime spree.
-I'm just going to assume every episode starts out with a moody voiceover.
-Hahah. "The van was just open, so I climbed in out of curiousity."
-In and out of uniform. Arrrgh AKOM.
-Augmented reality? Dammmmmmmn.
-Boy, Rebecca makes community fundraisers sound EEEEEEVIL.
-Dude is pretty tough if he can bust out a car window and take off running.
-*That's* who we are, motherfucker.
-Trench drops by for a visit.
-Haha, the computers are making them cooperate.
-Their mutant power is to make things melt.
-Aw hell, they've gone unified consciousness.
-Ropes and bondage? Oooookay.
-Holograms: green or not green? Who the fuck knows.
-Flashback time!
-They put him in the old folks storage locker.
-Whoops, the three crystal babies met up after all.
-Graft never knocks.
-Ah, er, oh hell just shoot everybody.
-One-third of it died.
-I guess the flashing red is supposed to be the strobe on the cop car, but the effect doesn't work for that.
Phantom 2040 S1E14: Life Lessons
- Spoiler:
More Maximum plotting, and an almost completely unexplored subplot about being a human in a robot's world.
-Heisenberg gets the voiceover.
-Phantom's camo is not very camo-y today.
-I suppose Maximum never got around to inventing wifi.
-Whoops, that's not a biot.
-Looks like the usual extreme-violence-on-robots policy backfired.
-Phantom, you're being biot-racist as hell right now.
-Rebecca's got no time for transbiot awareness.
-Woman, you've got more problems than radiation burns.
-Back-alley biot clinic.
-Oh boy, the reckless nuke is gonna pop soon.
-Guran getting left behind again.
-"Baudelaire is allergic to lethal radiation." Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
-Oh Rebecca, your biot servant heard youuuuuuuu.
-Damn, Max is snarky as hell today.
-Well, that's a bit of premeditated homicide for no particular reason.
-The computer voice is pretty snarky, too.
-Computer again, damn.
-Phantom gets a fractal biot power suit. Ooooookay.
-Just dragging Graft's upper half along like a robe fringe.
-Whoever programmed that computer voice was the biggest smartass on the planet.
-Cruz finally came around to Team Purple.
-Heisenberg's building up his sleeper army.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Mon May 27, 2019 2:44 pm
bomaye wrote:S1E13
- Spoiler:
- Uhhhhh how did that fall not kill that person
It was in VR. The actual fall was about five feet out of the little figure-8 track.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Mon May 27, 2019 4:03 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E15: The Magician
Phantom 2040 S1E16: Swifter, Higher, Faster
- Spoiler:
We can't actually call him Mandrake because legal stuff, but yeah, it's him.
-Aunt Eloise this time.
-Oh! Papa Phantom busting some biots up.
-Cruz not letting this one go.
-Haha, Maximum is sniffing your search history.
-Graft has to hire a data tracker for this one.
-Damn dude, don't call while I'm getting shot at.
-Well, there we go. The half-insane remnant echo of Max Sr. knows Mister Hat.
-Trench is pretty solidly taking sides here.
-She's going to the library?
-Almost. The old police records room, where musty information is not online. And that tells us something about Trench.
-Graft is the worst houseguest.
-This dude is pretty good.
-Chamber 27?! That's where I keep my VR Phantom pornos!
-Well, Mister Hat obviously knows everything.
-Max Sr is seriously fucked up.
-Oh okay, so that's where Phantom's gear came from.
-Yeah Kit, I think they already know each other. Bible-style.
-Sorry dude, we've gotta burn your house down.
-Here you go kid, have a Phantom-mobile.
-Ha, well not quite. Hybrid Mustangs are a bit in the future still.
-The house shoots back.
-Jeez Graft, you could just rip the safe out of the wall and take it with you.
-But I suppose you have to know what's inside first.
-Not so fake.
-No actual smoochie.
Phantom 2040 S1E16: Swifter, Higher, Faster
- Spoiler:
Cybernetics eat your soul.
-Phantom gets to do a summary voiceover.
-He just ran into a wall and fell off his bike.
-Oh hell, this is going to be a Very Special Episode of Just Say No to Drugs (and Yes to Corporate VR Programming).
-Sorry Phantom, you're living the hero life now.
-Yeah, athletics are for winners only!
-Slag off! I'm high on Competitive Spirit!
-Wait? Whaaaaa/? Seeing you and Tran? (Yeah I know it's not like THAT.)
-I guess the black market is racist now? (Or it's a lot worse than the red market.)
-Aha, no drugs because nanocrystals.
-Yeah, Vaingloria's role as Maximum's hypnotoad kinda sucks.
-Treatments? You mean illegal performance enhancements? Yep!
-Hahaha, first you're bare-knuckle boxing biots, next you're a crooked doctor
-All the kids have Phantom posters in their dorm rooms.
-She's the one person on this show who can recognize faces and voices.
-Up to now, no one has tried simply wrestling the Phantom into submission.
-Maybe busting through doors is Graft's passive way of fighting back against Maximum?
-Max just happens to keep the team jackets handy.
-What the hell is he just randomly doing there?
-Damn, even Vaingloria dissed him.
-The nanobots rewrote her brain.
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by bomaye Fri May 31, 2019 5:21 am
S1E15
S1E16
- Spoiler:
- I like how Phantom jumping into a Biot from both of their jet-cycles is enough to destroy the jet cycles but not splatter Kit all over it
- The magician guy with an NES Zapper to the rescue!
- Whoa, a dude even Cairo can't find
- Does whatever a Spider can
- "Your father's involved! He still cares." "Uh yeah, but he's still dead." Damnnnn, Max Jr
- Graft the cockblocker
- Eyyyy, I think Steel's got Master Splinter's voice
- Max Sr's reciting Beatles lyrics now
- Steel mackin on Aunt Eloise
- He puts a deadly trap on his front door
- Is he giving Kit the Batmobile
- Graft sure got his robot leg attached again pretty quickly
S1E16
- Spoiler:
- Wow, just fall over backwards and you can KO the Phantom
- Don't do drugs, kids
- Postmodern Olympics. There is no god, so why are we even running fast?
- It's called HGH, guys
- God damn, if she would've thrown that Olympic Powerlifting Bar just a bit harder, she could've killed Rebecca and then the whole Maximum Inc problem is solved
- Max Jr wants to find out if Roid Rage is a thing
- So she beats up the Phantom and then puts him in the washing machine?
- TBH, I think "never hit a lady" goes out the window once she starts tossing Javelins at you
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Re: (re)watch Phantom 2040
by waxingjaney Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:18 pm
Phantom 2040 S1E17: Lasers in the Jungle
Phantom 2040 S1E18: Down the Line
- Spoiler:
Wacky villain team-up.
-Vaingloria!!! gets the voiceover.
-He's a human supremacist.
-And Phantom's just hanging out backstage, because Rebecca surely has some sort of evil planned for this week.
-Oh, nope. Dude was going to throw an overcharged cell phone at her.
-Wuuuut? Random bot sprays goop on Rebecca and her hair falls out?
-No, don't pick up the vine! It's a tendril from Sawboss!
-More completely random shit.
-Yep, she went bald somehow.
-Well, Graft is the only person in Maximum's orbit who's not a complete whackjob, so, sure, she's into him.
-Max is setting this up pretty well. Grab the Phantom if they succeed, or remove his rivals if they fail.
-It's perfectly fine for a 90% robot man to die horribly, but not the goofy pop star.
-Phantom's turn to flex his woo.
-One benefit of being a robot man is having spare body parts on hand.
-Whoops, there goes the plan.
-Graft must eat just to pass the time.
-Haha, they'll upload a holodeck simulation into the biots.
-Eloise always come prepared.
-Command sequence Talos IV? Hahahahahahaha, soooooooooooo damn appropriate.
-Spooky chirascuro threats.
-Graft's not one for trinkets.
-Phantom doing his hero thing and thinking the villains can be redeemed.
Phantom 2040 S1E18: Down the Line
- Spoiler:
-A message of doom from the future.
-Swashbuckler Phantom.
-Eloise gets the voiceover.
-The Phantom's Pledge: Make villains look stupid and weak.
-Oh, the sanctity of life thing.
-Deliberately, no. But the occasional accident is just a part of business.
-Future Phantom is ringing up.
-Guran's not into this timey wimey shit.
-Wait, Phantom can shoot back? Wuh-oh...
-You've gotta be evil to save the world. Spaceman in disguise says so.
-Future Phantom is turning current Phantom into his errand boy.
-Geishabots.
-Halfway across the planet in an hour? Gonna need some hefty inertial dampers.
-Ummmm, future Phantom just gave his shit away.
-Spaceman Spiff!
-Giant dude needs a suit to hang with the heavyworlders.
-Well, everyone's here. Let's hash this out, y'all.
-Lol really? Robots with swords versus Phantom with a plasma thrower?
-Oh! That works.
-Hahahahahahah, Rebecca with all the snark. Even though she believes the Phantom murdered her husband and he already took a shot at her.
-Belly-crawling crust dwellers!
-Rebecca's really got the medusa hair going on today.
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