Episode 2.5: The Critical Derailment of a Television Series When A Character Googles

[grandest_delusion]

[The screen shows Nobuo who is working from a computer in the hotel. And he looks... oddly solemn as he shuts down the computer screen, the image of Google clearly behind him.

Drawings his knees up to his chest, he laid back in the hotel room, staring up into the roof. And with a single breath, he uttered three words.]

Onore... Hatte Saburo...

[Someone just looked up his name on Google. Talk to him in-person or on the network maybe?]

Comments

[boostup4beetbuster]

Well, shit.

...

[Jin tries to think of something comforting to say.]

At least you're not being run by Joss Whedon--get a great season and canceled anyway.

[And fails.]

[grandest_delusion]

... that is even less helpful Jin!

[boostup4beetbuster]

Well, this is why I don't google myself!

[grandest_delusion]

I didn't think I should but I was looking for sentai information when it popped up.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Great, well...

...What happens IF you're canceled anyway? I mean, think about it--if I'm a show and Marvelous and Gai are a show, they had to have been canceled already, but they're here. And the Riders? They're still here.

'Course, they haven't run out of things to do yet.

[grandest_delusion]

I honestly don't know what happens. I know you guys have shows, but in my world I'm a show-within-a-show. Hatte Saburo can directly influence our lives apparently.

[boostup4beetbuster]

What if you tie him to a chair? Would that work? Take over the show?

[grandest_delusion]

I'd have to find him first though.

[boostup4beetbuster]

It's a start!

[grandest_delusion]

You really think I can find him?

[boostup4beetbuster]

'Course. Nothing's perfect. And it shouldn't be. This Hatte guy can't pull your strings. Just finding out ahead of schedule proves you've got some unpredictability on your side.

[grandest_delusion]

I suppose you're right. I'll just have to figure out a way to get to his world.

[boostup4beetbuster]

There's the worldhop. Just have to narrow down where it is.

[grandest_delusion]

There is that. You'd think that there's something that I could do to find it...

[boostup4beetbuster]

...Recruit Gai? Maybe he'd be able to figure it out? Or even Yayoi--she's good at that stuff.

[grandest_delusion]

Might have to go with the magical girl. Gai and I don't quite get along. He's too normal for me to associate with.

[boostup4beetbuster]

How much is too normal for you?

[grandest_delusion]

Not being able to nerd about Super Sentai along with me. Just avoiding me in general like a normal person does.

[boostup4beetbuster]

...Have you MET Gai?

[grandest_delusion]

Briefly. He hasn't actually really spoken to me. At all.

[boostup4beetbuster]

I think you'll find you've got more in common than you think. Did you watch his season?

[grandest_delusion]

Yeah I did. We're getting pretty close to the ending and all.

[boostup4beetbuster]

And you didn't think he was even the slightest bit nerdy?

[grandest_delusion]

Well... kinda. I mean, he's a fan, but he's like a fan-in-a-series kind of fan. The kind of fan that acts as the audience mouthpiece.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Isn't that the same thing you are?