Taking Stuff Literally

The Rahkshi attempt to gain street cred.

***Taking Stuff Literally*** is the fourth episode of Bionicle. It was fully filmed on 8th July 2017 and almost fully written, but ultimately it was never released due to the series’ cancellation.

## Synopsis

Sawdris shows a slideshow of the trip to Lincolnshire to the audience. He goes to sit down on a nearby bed, but Intor is still sleeping in it. He wakes Intor up, who suddenly remembers about his meeting with Cyphor and runs off. Sawdris worries for his mental stability.

Intor arrives at the meeting place and Cyphor begins giving advice. Intor doesn’t listen for whatever reason and instead decides the best course of action is to take stuff literally. He also gets an Armour Upgrade, claiming that “it helps”. *Sure*.

As such, he walks over to the Rahkshis’ edgy alleyway hangout and asks Rahkshi if she would like to join him in taking stuff literally. She rather passively agrees and begins doing so.

Intor begins by slapping Zardok. In retaliation, he screams “eat this” as he hurls his fist at him, so Intor literally CONSUMES HIS HAND. Zardok is extremely horrified.

Meanwhile, Rahkshi spots Vorcan, who is experiencing stomach pain. She stabs him through the chest, claiming “Here it is!”.

Elsewhere, Arvak has pinned Sawdris down and prepares to kill him, exclaiming that “IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO DIEEE!!!”. Intor appears and states the actual time, as well as the fact that it is “way past” Arvak’s bedtime. He then shoots him.

Zardok is still grumbling about how much of a “backstabbing traitor” Intor is, so Rahkshi walks over and stabs him in the back.

She then meets up with Intor, and claims that she, understandably, is bored. She then leaves.

Intor returns to Cyphor in disappointment, who ridicules his social skills. Tanma then shoots him for destroying his shop in the previous episode. The credits roll. Similar to Cyphor Wants Doughnuts, we then find the clip of Zardok punching the camera repeated at least a further 50 times.

## Quotes

“FUDGECAKE! I gotta go!”

”Fudgecake? Never heard that one before. Freak.”

- **Intor** attempts to dodge censorship. **Sawdris** is not impressed.

## Errors

- Only one of the situations presented in the episode actually feature someone taking something literally; when Intor eats Zardok’s hand. All three of the other times are either just corny one-liners or random violence for no reason.

- Not so much an error, but Intor claims that he got some new armour because “it helps”. Under normal circumstances, this would be accurate: he could use an upgrade to appear more physically attractive. But he instead uses the upgrade to become noticeably shorter, gain stick-thin thighs, a hunchback, super wide shoulders and ludicrously long arms. Because all girls find *that* attractive. He even loses the Flamethrower/Laser Machine Gun, which was one of the few cool things about him in the first place!

- Again, not an error, but the way the Rahkshi are portrayed in this episode is utterly hilarious. They’re all depicted as being the stereotypical ‘cool youths’, going as far as feature a shot of them in an alleyway all leaning against the opposite walls, with all of them, Onorahk especially, in ‘hip’ poses.

- During the aforementioned alleyway scene, Photez appears to have Zardok’s arm blade attached for some reason. Also, Orzehk’s Electro Blade is missing the back half of it, presumably so that he could fit in the shot.

- When we see Zardok, his arm blade is very clearly missing. Which means that, yes, Photez does actually have Zardok’s arm blade equipped in the alleyway. *Why* he has it is a harder question to answer.

- When the camera cuts to Rahkshi after Intor arrives to show her response, she is very obviously not in the alleyway anymore. In addition, Orzehk, who was standing on the other side of the alleyway in the previous shot, is now behind her and facing the opposite direction.

- Sawdris is missing one of his thigh plates throughout the entirety of his second appearance.

- Tanma shoots Cyphor as revenge for destroying his shop. But, why Cyphor though? Yeah, he’s the titular character of *Cyphor Wants Doughnuts*, but out of everyone, he actually causes the *least* amount of damage to the shop. If anything, Tanma should be shooting Intor, who burned the entire building down, or Rawzak, who commandeered the shop in the first place!