17 "Ao no Kishi! Omae wa Ore ga Mamoru!!"
(The Blue Knight! I Will Protect You!!)
2002-07-27
16 "A Knight to Remember" 2005-10-01
Summary here

Argh, another stinker episode. I've never seen so many times the Law of Conservation of Mass has come into play (that means, movement of previously cut scenes). This season started out so well too...

Looking at the episode by itself, it seemed good enough... Then you got into the all the alterations they had. There wasn't even much of a theme to the alterations, they were just... There. Oh well. Blue Knight's theme music was cool, at least.
And Lettuce's chest seemed strangely big in this ep.


Ugh. Script was completely changed in places, like the beginning scene at Ichigo's school and the scene with the info on the aliens. And then some bad SDA tossed in at the end.

The Blue Knight keeps his name, and is voiced by the same guy who does Elliott.

Oooookay...let's take a trip in the time machine to last week's cut of the Ichigo/Aoyama dream on the beach. A part of that scene was added in to Ichigo daydreaming in school, replacing her thinking about what Keiichiro said about the aliens.

In fact, in the original Ichigo was angsting over the aliens. The dub has her angsting over Mark.

When Ichigo and her two friends are walking out of school, Ichigo says while blushing: "I told you, it's not like that at all!" The dub doesn't have her mouth move and has her thinking about the aliens.

Another randomly placed scene, so another trip in the time machine, this time to the episode 14 comparison. The Ichigo walking up to the tree scene cut from there is added in here.

(1 second) A shot of an alien man walking across the screen is cut out, replaced with a long shot of the panning before it.

The words on the computer screen are erased.

(5 seconds) A panning across of the aliens on the snow planet is cut.

My cable was blinking out during this scene, but from what I heard, I believe that Wesley is saying that the aliens lived on another planet some short time ago, then its atmosphere changed so they had to leave. They're jealous of the humans, so that's why they want to take Earth.

In the original, the aliens used to live on Earth, but the envrionment changed too much so they had to leave, and ended up on a horrible planet, and they want Earth BACK.

The alien scene and the Ichigo crashing into Aoyama scene switch places.

(7 seconds) Ichigo running behind a building, then jumping up all excited is cut.

The text on the magazine Ichigo looks through is replaced.

(24 seconds) Ichigo looking at her calendar in her room, then going to sleep is all cut.

*sigh* The scene with the aliens jumping down to attack gets shifted before all the Ichigo is sick scenes.

(2 seconds) A shot of Ryou leaning against the wall in the cafe is taken out.

(3 seconds) Pie keeps his hand in the water longer in the original.

(5 seconds) Aoyama going all red after the others leave Ichigo's room is cut.

Ichigo's little flashback of Ryou is different in the dub. He speaks in the dub, while the original is just him looking at her.

(2 seconds) Ichigo looking out the window at Aoyama is cut short.

Part of the scene with Kishu floating outside Ichigo's room is moved to before Lettuce and Pudding go into the park.

(3 seconds) A far away shot of Aoyama and Ryou walking is cut.

"I think I just split a seam in my jammies."
"I didn't know you were a tree hugger!"

No, Zoey, you should be thanking your kitty genes. And Dren, you should be saying that she tries hard.

"Didn't mama tell you not to run outside in your PJs?"
"Well mama never thought I'd be chased by aliens!"

One of the strangest SDAs ever.

The dub replaces Mint's shortened transformation with her full dub transformation.

The sign on the fence that Zoey leans against has its kana erased.

(7 seconds and 3 seconds) Beginning and end of Ichigo's transformation.

The end of the episode has a "To be continued" added to it.

Total Retained 75%