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EP. REVIEW: Megalobox 2: Nomad

I don't think Sachio can be blamed for anything - he was just a young kid whose found family slowly fell apart right in front of his eyes because the remaining father/brother figure he had was unable to deal with his own pain, let alone the pain of others. I don't think a child can be blamed for not handling a situation like this well.

Joe is the one who should have known better, so there's no excuse for him not being a responsibile adult - from him throwing himself into the match against Liu to eventually running away, all the while hating himself for doing all these things. But this is who Joe is, or rather, who he used to be. The reason why this story feels so real is that so, so many people would have made similar decisions in similar circumstances. It's easy to point at others (even fictional characters) and say "ugh he's so stupid/annoying, why didn't he do the right thing" but let's be honest, we're all humans and as such, extremely fallible. (Also, while again this is no excuse, it's not like Joe was all that mature at the time. Come to think of it, how old is he, anyway? He was still pretty young during S1.)

Anyway, Megalobox, both S1 and now Nomad, is such a great example of how you don't need to reinvent the wheel to make a good show - you just have to make a good show. In lesser hands - worse writing, worse direction, etc. - this show would be a formulaic, mediocre affair. Instead it is full of personality, charming and relatable characters, great direction, etc. This is what happens when you don't just regurgitate tropes and formulas and call it a day, but actually put some thought into how to use them to build something of real value.

I don't think Sachio can be blamed for anything - he was just a young kid whose found family slowly fell apart right in front of his eyes because the remaining father/brother figure he had was unable to deal with his own pain, let alone the pain of others.

Sven Viking wrote:

Agreed. Just clarifying that I wasn’t blaming Sachio, just meaning that Joe does deserve some blame even though his fault was letting things break him rather than intentionally doing the wrong thing.

I'm quite fine with blaming Sachio. Not only he tries to reenact all the Joe's errors, he hurts his friends due to his dumb hothead actions and then refuses to apologize even as Joe is the one to save them all again from Sachio's dumbassery. There is only so much you can blame on youth before you can come to acknowledging some characters just suck, and frankly Sachio sucks.

Sachio due to his rash actions threatens once again to destroy everything his friends worked for, and then once Joe solves everything he getsd back to pointlessly angry moping boxer. I don't see him as much better then the boy that tried to make friends with bronw-people haters - another misguided youth that thinks he got all the answers

The Spanish title for this episode is "Una sola mano no basta para vivir, pero aun así la forma de vivir prevalece,” and Wikipedia tells me that this can be translated to "The way in which to live cannot be counted on one hand, even still there are ways to survive."

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The Spanish title for this episode is "Una sola mano no basta para vivir, pero aun así la forma de vivir prevalece,” and Wikipedia tells me that this can be translated to "The way in which to live cannot be counted on one hand, even still there are ways to survive."

There are probably idioms there I'm not familiar with, but it more literally translates to "One hand alone is not enough in order to live, but even so, that way of living prevails." I would take that to mean that you can't live alone or without a helping hand, but nevertheless a lot of people still keep trying to. In which case, I'd think the title is referring to Sachio, and maybe a little bit to Mac (who seems to be trying to shoulder all his family problems himself without their help or input), in counterpoint to everyone else slowly moving forward in accepting help from others.

"Una sola mano no basta para vivir, pero aun así la forma de vivir prevalece,”

I thought that deal with Rosco was for him to avoid jail time and then suddenly an article says he's arrested for his involvement. Nothing else explained or shown, just I guess someone went back on their word? It was strange to me.