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Posted by gatchamarie on 08-12-2010 at 11:57:

Saturn, it's so nice to be able to thank you personally for all the lovely screencaps you have always provided us! Your kind dedication is greatly appreciated! We wouldn't have had such marvellous, and special, instants marking the beginning of each and every week without your generous work, and without that involved in the excellent recaps done by LB and TJ! You really deserve a rest! Huggles

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-12-2010 at 15:17:

Saturn it is great to see you here! I'm glad you are enjoying the reviews, and we all appreciated your wonderful screencaps! I know about those late hours working on the reviews and complaining husbands lacking our company, so you have my appreciation! Huggles

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Posted by lborgia88 on 08-12-2010 at 19:33:

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One last time, thank you, Saturn, for the screen caps! Quite the journey itâ€™s beenâ€¦]

LB,
It has been a truly wonderful collaboration with you, Huggles

. I can hardly believe that it has been more than one and a half years of making screencaps for your great reviews, and to think that we live on different continents with different time zones. Ah, the wonder of technology, Big Grin

There's an art to weeding down the number of possible screen caps while finding a balance between scenery, action and close-ups -and you are very good at it! Animecheers

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Well, with the end of the episode review, at least now my DH cannot nag me anymore for sleeping so late because the wee hour of the morning was the only available time for me to make the screencaps. I guess he didn't like to sleep alone, Winknudge

You too? I won't say how much of my recapping was done at odd hours of the night (fortunately my brain is wired to be nocturnal)!

Posted by lborgia88 on 08-12-2010 at 22:32:

Something that occurred to me... We were criticizing Joe a bit in ep. 103 for not telling anyone else about the likely significance of Karakoram before he headed out there, but it sure seems like Masaki and Oniishi did kind of the same thing, as they too ended up there and no one knew where they'd gone off to (not even Director Anderson -much to his annoyance).

I'd like to know how Masaki and Oniishi found out about the Karakoram base. Maybe they infiltrated some other, less important base first, posing as goons, and then got transferred to headquarters?
Seems a bit odd though that they couldn't find any way to communicate with the outside until they got their hands on Joe's damaged bracelet, but then, the main headquarters would have to have very high security to keep its location secret.

Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 08-12-2010 at 23:07:

Depending on where they were, they might not have had much warning, or been told their destination. By this point, Katse probably didn't give a damn what was going on.

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 09-12-2010 at 01:13:

I get the impression that the RI Team doesn't report directly to anyoe else. I'm not sure they were obliged to tell anyone else.

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Posted by Becky Rock on 09-12-2010 at 03:17:

I am sooooo glad they never did this episode in BotP! It would have killed me to believe Jason was dead.

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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 09-12-2010 at 04:01:

On BotP? He would not be dead: he'd be pining for the fjords. (Blame Ghost Owl for that gag.)

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Posted by lborgia88 on 09-12-2010 at 20:13:

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Depending on where they were, they might not have had much warning, or been told their destination.

That would be the most likely theory to me -they were posing as goons somewhere else and by luck got taken to the Karakoram headquarters before they even realized where they were going. There is always the chance though too, that Katse slipped up somehow in their presence too and gave them a clue -as you note, he was being a bit careless, saying "Karakoram" in Joe's presence, especially with the Ninjas history of always escaping!

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I am sooooo glad they never did this episode in BotP! It would have killed me to believe Jason was dead.

If they had used this ep and 105, I don't think they would have killed Jason. There'd be a way around that -and the "no blood showing despite being shot up" thing would be especially helpful in that regard!

Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 09-12-2010 at 23:10:

Jason would be ill, and possibly injured, and Zark would assure us that he'd been taken to the hospital and would soon be good as new. Perhaps there would be some footage borrowed from another episode, showing Jason driving or otherwise being awesome near the end.

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