Liveblogging the new Flamefrags episode (I Joined the World’s Largest Minecraft Army) [spoilers]
Less than a minute in THANK FUCK flame is pointing out how bad Cindercrest sounds. Seeing him teaming with Billy and Cindercrest in Parrot’s episode threw me for a loop, and him telling Wemmbu that he joined because Lomedy likes them was not at all the logical reasoning we expected from uu!Flame.
Also Lomedy is the first character to actually explain why the old players dislike the new players. It makes a lot of sense! Having a massive influx of new players on a server with limited resources obviously means that there are less resources to go around than before, and we’d already known that starvation was a widespread issue from multiple of Parrot’s videos. I think it was a good choice for Parrot’s POV to ignore this motivation entirely in favor of focusing on the new players. It shows how Parrot is an unreliable narrator and refuses to believe he is in the wrong, and it also gives justification for Cindercrest wanting to completely overthrow Parrot instead of reasoning with him, as Parrot has proven himself to be unable to listen to the old players. (Not an endorsement of the ‘let’s kill all new players’ mentality but I get where they’re coming from)
Flame initially refusing ‼️‼️‼️ Smartest protagonist right here!!! My favorite protagonist right here!!!! A character who has his own opinions and motivations and doesn’t throw them all out of the window for the plot!!!! My GOAT!!!
Flame joining to protect Lomedy that makes sooo much sense omg! Also Lomedy making the decision to go instead of being dragged there by Flame is SUCH a peak moment for character agency (torchflower duo my beloved but Lomedy really got the short end of the stick most of the time). Also Flame trying to convince Lomedy while running after him jhkjnlksksds uu!Parrot could never.
Speaking of Parrot. People were speculating that Spoke was going to become the antagonist of season 3. I personally think Parrot would make an AMAZING villain POV. He’s King of Spawn. He won the election by getting a team of his friends to slaughter thousands of players who’d sided with his political opponent. Last episode he used hundreds of the TNT he’d bought with the last of his money not to fight Cindercrest directly, but to set a trap for and murder any remaining player of the Law who didn’t side with him. Can we talk about that actually? Parrot set that TNT there ahead of time. He’d known that Law wouldn’t join him, and he intended to kill them from the start. His speech wasn’t a plea for support, it was a threat against anyone who stood in his way. Villain Parrot when??
Flame points out that there has to be more to Cindercrest’s motivation than preventing old players from starving THANK YOU. ASTUTE OBSERVER OVER HERE. I do appreciate that he doesn’t paint Lomedy as a total fool, though. Even the most well-intentioned people are prey to propaganda. Type shit.
Saparata’s introduction 🔥🔥🔥
Also I find it interesting how he interrogated Lomedy and wouldn’t let him join until he showed his mace, whereas he let Flame in instantly. He even referenced that Flame’s story was like a “fairy tale.” PEAK antagonist characterization, he already comes across as manipulative and power-hungry. Funny how we now have two protagonists (Flame and Wemmbu) roped into fighting for villain groups aiming to take down Parrot (Cindercrest and Arachnid) because of their deuteragonists.
Immediately jumps to the attack on Spawn?? Which either means that we’re skipping the events of Wemmbu’s episode (in which case what information did Flame need from Egg?), or Wemmbu’s latest episode happens after the attack on Spawn. I personally hope we get to see Wemmbu in this episode because I want to know why Flame needed info from Eggchan, but I get it if there isn’t anything new that Flame’s perspective would add to those events otherwise.
I also. Forgot that Billy was allied with Cindercrest. I’m not going to lie I thought he was just his own solo menace. I don’t remember the reveal that he’s a Cindercrest member (pretty sure it happens in the Parrot episode where we met Reina, though).
Flame pointing out that it’s weird he and Billy are on the blimp by themselves, Billy responds with ‘we’re both the strongest in all of Cindercrest,’ which like. #1 that’s totally a setup for Flame to duel ShoeBilly at some point. #2 Parrot’s gonna have some trap to obliterate all of the Cindercrest players and Flame and ShoeBilly are going to have to take on Spawn as a duo. Or something. Maybe not. That’s just my guess.
“Fort Feather” WE CANNOT BE SERIOUS. WE CCAANNNNOOTT BE SERIOUS RIGHT NOW. FORT FEATHER? You mean the training fort for the army of a bird??? Yo. Lock in. (It is kind of a tuff name but also. Feathers get incinerated. Name it Fort Talon or something.)
Ohhhhhh nevermind the blimp has more than two players on it. Also that makes sense and I think it’s a good plan.
God can you imagine how fucking terrifying it would be to be in Parrot’s army and look up and see Flamefrags leading an army of netherite players from the sky.
“We decimated them” Saparata stfu Parrot had a trap for you there. He ordered his people to flee when you arrived so they wouldn’t be killed by the trap. Lock in.
“We need the orbital strike cannon” NO YOU DO NOT. NO YOU DO NOT NEED THE ORBITAL STRIKE CANNON. WHAT THE FUCK???
THEYRE GOING AFTER WEMMBU OMG. HOLY SHIT.
Also Saps sent Flame to find the orbital strike cannons but like. The blue invis player was right there? Who has Egg’s book? And knows where the cannons are because they were in the book?
Wait nvm Saps introduced the invis player as ‘someone who knows a lot about the server.’ Ok.
Also Saps is so aggressive in that scene wtf.
Pause. Invis player is saying they need to take Eggchan hostage and ask him where the orbitals are. I GUARANTEE you that Egg wrote down the location of the Forge in the lore book (although now that I’m typing this, I’m remembering an interaction where Wemmbu told Egg not to write it down in the book so that he would be the only one who could access the Forge).
Flame not wanting to go along with it raaaaaaa imperial fire duo go!!!
So we do get Flame’s POV!! That’s awesome.
“I didn’t know we were using stasis chambers in the Big ‘26” LMAOAOAOAOOOO
WHAT. Invis player just teleported to Flame’s location????? How in the fuck??
And now we know what happened to Wheat Civilization!! They got robbed :3
Flame asking for how the stasis worked THANK you.
Also the invis player confirmed that the trims are original? So it’s HIGHkenuinely dol9hin.
Also poor eggchan. Professional damsel in distress. And he’s telling the wheat civ people not to fight 😭😭
But Flame didn’t kill any of them! Instead of slaughtering them on the spot! Character development 🔥🔥
I love Flame and Egg’s dynamic tho. And Egg refusing to tell him omggg tax duoooooo
“Um. That might be Wemmbu.” LMAO
Oh! Flame said that he was forced to capture Egg because he was in Cindercrest. I didn’t catch the “forced” in his dialogue in Wemmbu’s episode. Flamefrags my favorite protagonist I hope you kill can kill Saparata at the end of this arc for all the shit he’s already put you through.
Damn Wemmbu’s crash out is so much more apparent in Flame’s POV. He sounds genuinely stressed to have Egg’s life threatened :(
“It may not look like it, but me and Wemmbu and relatively cool with each other” I WIN. I WON. IMPERIAL FIRE CANON ALLIES. I WIN. GENUINELY ITS OVER I WON YOU ALL CAN GO HOME. ‼️‼️‼️‼️
FUCK he immediately admitted to betrayal and going behind Wemmbu’s back. I celebrate too early for this shit. Every goddamn time.
I do appreciate Flame walking us through his line of reasoning for betraying Wemmbu though. Betray Wemmbu -> get to Egg -> get to the orbitals -> help Cindercrest -> Lomedy survives. Thank you Flame for not leaving the audience to make that logical jump alone because you KNOW they would have misunderstood it.
THE CLOSEUP ON WEMMBU AS HE MAKES HIS ULTIMATUM OMLLLLLL and then just followed up with “am I included in that?” Omllllllllll
Also new fight theme?? I love it it’s really cool :) It feels less intense/metal than the other Flamefrags themes, which I think matches how Flame’s fighting style has gotten calmer and more controlled as he progresses towards being a Combat Grandmaster.
Yungy being the only one talking during the fight is so funny wth 😭😭 Flame is locked because he’s a Combat Master, Wemmbu is locked because his best friend’s life is on the line, invis player is silent because they don’t really talk, so Yungy is just left to do all of the commentary TT
Are there more new themes?? The music throughout this entire fight is on point omg
Wemmbu sounds so depressed when he asks Flame to stop fighting Yungy damn :/
I fully was not locked in during Wemmbu’s episode apparently I completely missed all of these vocal cues and changes to his demeanor.
Still 18 minutes left in the episode…
Flame gave his elytra back nooooo (like it’s in character but still)
Also proposing an alliance with Arachnid only to be immediately ignored by Saps like ugh Flame you gotta convince Lomedy to leave this narrow-minded bastard somehow he’s just tunneling Parrot and very obviously refusing to risk putting Arachnid on the throne :T
Flame straight up telling Saps ‘hey Parrot’s gonna have a plan to counter this’ and Saps going ‘we have to do it it’s still our best shot’ STOP THE RAGEBAIT. GENUINELY MASTER RAGEBAITED WTF SAPARATA.
False surrender? Parrot abandoning his morals and faking a surrender to lure the army into a trap?? Villain Parrot?
Also. They’re using white banners. You know what else uses banners? TRAPS.
PARROT HERE!!! IN THE FLESH!!! Bro is surrendering bro like bro can’t you tell we placed all of these banners.
His voice acting is great though. My guy sounds like a person who’s trying to sound like they’re scared. Bro is NOT surrendering 💀
Flame encouraging Saparata to go through the gate knowing DAMN well it’s a trap because if Saps is down then maybe Lomedy will leave Cindercrest 😭 THAT’S MY FAVORITE PROTAGONIST RIGHT THERE!!!
Also I take it back Parrot is not being smart he’s so obvious about trying to lure them through the gate. Please let this be a bluff trap and have there be a different trap for the blimp waiting.
Parrot just bluffed his way out of Cindercrest attacking 😭😭😭 I don’t believe there was a trap there anymore 😭😭😭 Bro got them to go back and get the blimp
Flame was probably right that they could’ve just walked in and been fine TT
YO the shot of everyone dropping down and getting obliterated was peak TT I do wonder if Parrot will ever bring back chunkbans as a weapon though. I feel like this whole thing could’ve ended if Parrot grabbed a some books and a shulker box and just dropped it on Saparata or something. Maybe like? Due to the weird server mechanics being forced to load the game for tens of thousands of players chunkbans stopped functioning? Idk I feel like we’re long overdue for getting someone banned in a way other than killing them straight up.
FLAME VS THEO DUEL LETS GOOOOO
Oh for like two seconds i guess because the fucking vanguard showed up 😭😭
DID I JUST SEE REINA KILL SOMEONE IN CHAT??
Ok W Reina but also like. Well no I looked it up and she’s played by a youtuber named hpneybee who has currently 117 subscribers. Which I guess is chill and it’s probably a situation similar to how Eggchan joined the server but like idk something about her is throwing me off. It’s probably because the thing with Marlow just happened and my first impression of Reina was that she sounded like she was voiced by an AI but it’s totally possible that’s not the case.
SAPARATA SHUT THE FUCK UP i hate this guy in unstable vro. FINALLY he’s listening to Flame’s advice. Good lord.
“YOU were the one who failed to get the orbitals” GET THIS GUY OUT OF HERE BRO DO NOT PUT THAT ON FLAME >:(((((( WTF WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO AGAINST MFING ARACHNID AND WEMMBU AND THE TRAITOR INVIS PERSON. I’m glad that Flame isn’t falling for this guy’s shit like. Thank god for characters with agency :/
“Death happens in war” Lomedy are you hearing this guy??? Remember at the start of the episode where your whole motivation was to stop the deaths of players? Remember when Parrot claimed surrender and you talked about how great it was that nobody had to die? PLEASE just leave Cindercrest your leader VERY OBVIOUSLY does not care if his soldiers die PLEASE leave so Flame can kill his ass omL
Alright so final thoughts/predictions
Flame is still my goat. Like Wemmbu’s POV is my favorite but Flame is my favorite protagonist by far. I love it when characters are allowed to actually be smart instead of just telling the audience that they’re smart 💀 or bashing their head into a wall until they break through (sorry Wemmbu but you have to learn patience at some point)
Parrot is probably going to upload next with a summary of the two battles shown in this episode and a few more battles against both Cindercrest and Arachnid.
Spoke is doing his own thing right now. Like completely detached. Honestly though I’m really enjoying the arc he has going on and I hope his character fundamentally changes by the end in a way that will come to affect the other protagonists.
Wemmbu is going to have to team up with Flame due to working for Arachnid. Flame might help free Egg and work with him to turn on Arachnid and Cindercrest once Lomedy finally leaves? Or gets killed? I don’t think I would mind a Lomedy death guys I’m gonna be completely honest (I think it is unlikely though given the fakeout death from the Mist arc). Also somewhere in there is gonna be the favor that Wemmbu owes Parrot but it might just be like a “hey Wemmbu kill those guys” “already on it” type of situation.
Would have been better if uu!Saps wasn’t in it but I’ll give it a pass because it’s a flamefrags video