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This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com

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Welcome to going ultra

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This time out. I'm talking about Ultraman Zet episode 23. This is the dub from 2023 that I am recording or you know

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Making this reaction to whatever and it was originally aired December 5th, 2020. The director is Kouichi Sakamoto. The screenplay is attributed

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posthumously to Koto Fukuhara, which I assume that means that these were his ideas, but I don't know for sure and

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That's about it. Yeah, so this is a terrible set of incidents happens in this episode and

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We learned a little bit more about it in the next episode so I won't go too much into it

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I'll just kind of talk about

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What's happening as opposed to why it's happening and I think that we should be good to go from there. So

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We get to see the official launch of Ultroid Zero

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Apparently it's been five days since it was initially utilized and we are seeing five days later that

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there is a big bad negative reaction that

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Kaiju are having and again, we'll discuss that later. What we do get to see here is

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before then a final interaction between Haruki and

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Yoko, which is pretty interesting because the two of them are

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Interested in each other and

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It's

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Well, yeah, they definitely seem more and more it seems like they're romantically interested in each other and

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We're not sure exactly what's gonna happen. We get this big revelation about her arm wrestling thing

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her fixation on the arm wrestling is so that she

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can fulfill her father's will or

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desire not to have his daughter marry some weakling, which I totally understand sir. I respect that Mr. Nakashima and

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You know, I think that's great

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It is interesting that you know Haruki says oh if I beat you does that mean I have to marry you and you know

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She you know gets a little bugged. She said have to come on. You should be so lucky and

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You know, that's a cute fun interaction and I appreciate it

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But it is a little weird to hear him say that especially because

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Like in the Kanagan episode the clip show he was pretty sure she was going on a date and he didn't seem

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He seemed less than thrilled that she was going out on a date which if you're interested in a woman

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That would make sense then again, they could just be playing the the friend angle that he's

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So much her friend that he would just be you know

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Thinking about that or concerned about that or whatever which whatever I'm not gonna argue with that

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You know, it's a kids show. But then again, you've got hard ass in this kids show. So I don't know

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you've got the you know, partially naked lady from

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the past from you know, the

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The challenge of 2020 or whatever it's called and you know, whatever I'm not gonna fight. I'm not gonna quibble

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There's just kind of some interesting stuff. So like it just strikes me as funny that you could show, you know

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One thing which you can't show another thing. So

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odd very odd

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But I think that's more of a a culture clash between me and

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The Japanese audience who this was originally intended for so I'm not gonna fight about it. But

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again, I'm

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beginning to

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Come around to this

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beginning to come around to this idea of ultra zero

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being this big threat and this this abnormal thing that

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Makes it so that it's not okay. It makes it so it's justified that the kaiju are

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Freaking out and having a big issue with them

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I think my biggest problem is as much as again as much as I love this show. I think there is a

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There's telling going on and not showing going on so

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Like for example or to be more clear in this episode specifically we get neither

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Telling nor shown we don't really know why all these monsters are freaking out

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I guess we are shown that yes, they did start flipping out five days ago during the activation of ultra zero

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Basically at the activation of ultra zero the initial activation which

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You know, that's good that they're they're laying out the evidence

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But as far as how it is that you know, these kaiju are just like sleeping peacefully and they don't need to be worried about

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We've only ever really seen one instance of that and that was with the one that

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Got transported away during the episode where they were trying to impress the like the international suits of

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Jfg and you know the the hay fever upset basically where the one woke up and and

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hierarchy in Windom

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got to fight it off and show that

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Their machine is capable and I think it's there's the debut of beta smash maybe anyway

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So I think that

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That's

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You know not good that there's a little there's a little bit of a lack of of

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showing exactly what the issue is and showing that these

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Storage people are trying to live peaceably with kaiju because it's basically been

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You know kaiju shows up you kill it and that's that's the end of it. So I don't really see

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Where the sympathy is coming for kaiju and like you'll go

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You'll go or no, you could rather makes a comment like oh you just care about the

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People the you know, you just care about humans being harmed

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You don't care about kaiju kaiju live on this planet, too

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so I mean there's a

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You know a statement there's a bit of dialogue asserting that kaiju, you know

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Who lives matter that kaiju belong on this planet as well?

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But I just don't think and like I want that to be true that makes sense to me

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Why wouldn't organism be here? But you know, maybe because of my beliefs my core beliefs

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Why would something be here if it's not supposed to be here?

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And why would something be here if it has no purpose like these things have to have a purpose things have to be logical and reasonable

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Because it wouldn't make sense that it would be created otherwise like

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You know, God doesn't make mistakes basically. So that's my perspective and that wouldn't really make sense to me

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for that to be the case, so I

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Don't understand where you could come from where you could just say that you know

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the kaiju are a mistake and they should work within the system of the world and it should be done logically and

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Not really be a stretch and I feel like it is a little bit of a stretch here. So

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That's not good. It's definitely a demerit I would say and

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It's interesting because while that's all true

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I kind of don't care and I kind of still like the show as

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You know as much as I do which is a lot

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in spite of that stuff, so

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Whoops, I just made a mistake. It's okay

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So that's kind of odd to me and

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Well, it's not kind of odd. It is odd to me and I don't get it, but I don't necessarily need to get it. It's just

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It's just weird. It's weird that these types of decisions would be made and that these

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Discrepancies discrepancies rather would be present when it's like so clearly

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Like everything in the show seems to be so well put together and

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And designed excuse me all my sneeze

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All right, well that's enough of me being a downer about that I mean back into things being a little more exciting so

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Ultra zero itself is really awesome. It's funny in the comments almost everybody put well

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I'm not a fan of the

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Guys, which is kind of funny for it's kind of funny on a couple on a couple levels. I won't go into it

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So I thought that was you know, I think it's interesting how cool this guy looks and how bad he is

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You know, it's a definitely a good thing. I like that contrast. I

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Know so again, I thought that was good

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And I think that's kind of a good thing

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I think that's a good thing. I like that contrast. I know so again, I thought that was good

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But like seeing his attacks seeing the old through zero text very cool. Very it's very energetic very dynamic and honestly

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You know, I've brought up

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Ultraman Guyver

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previously and I

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have a feeling right I I get a I

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Get a vibe of Guyver from Belial's son

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Whatever his name is

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I get a Guyver vibe from D and I think it's a really cool vibe that I get from him and

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I like it a lot, but it's mostly his like, you know

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Celestial whatever form that kind of goes away after he gives the medal to Haruki and the medal for him to become

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Man Delta Rise Claw. So after he gets that then we have it looks like

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Geed is just this regular one. He's not like Gold Storm or I don't know whatever he's called galaxy blast

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I think it's an ice cream. Anyway, he he stopped being that one and he becomes his other one

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Or you know the regular deed

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Which you know, it's fine. Whatever you know, I like that form

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But that guy has Guyver vibes this ultra zero also has Guyver vibes because he's got those forearm weapons that go forward like tone

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front almost but also they extend back and they're kind of like blades like

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Guyver has and then his final attack with the d4

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Is kind of like the mega smasher to me. It definitely feels like that and I

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Think that's pretty cool

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again, I really like

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the Guyver designs and I actually

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Sajik Sajik sir pointed out. I'm sorry. I don't know I'm messing with you. I haven't looked at you

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It's just name a couple days and I stumbled on it before so I'm gonna stumble on it again, buddy

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Sorry anyway, but he pointed out that like, you know blazer has these weird, you know, I think he said cattle tail, which is funny

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And you know, I agree that's kind of the design but honestly his foot made me think of the Guyver and I don't know Sajik

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Sir, you uh, you familiar with Guyver or not?

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Because I love Guyver my grandpa showed it to me when I was a kid and I

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Like in middle school got all the VHS's from Suncoast, which is a very old place. It doesn't exist anymore

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You know linked to my buddies and I love the ultraviolence of it and stuff. It was super cool. But anyway

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There's nothing heroic about a zoonoid

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That's what I have to say about that

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but I

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I brought Guyver here before talking about Zet and like Ava and Zet or and Guyver honestly feel like they might be

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Influences and even that little bit of Gigan which by the way, I found out that Dōmu and Kasu's Japanese voice actor

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played a alien barista too who got the

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Shining finger done to him by Windom and Yoko, which was super cool

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And that totally makes sense why that happened now, but at least that's what I heard over in a discord

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the other day, so anyway, that's pretty cool pretty fun

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But anyway, yeah, I definitely feel like a Guyver-ish vibe from this guy too

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And he is an out-of-control weapon and he is vastly

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Superior to the weapons that you know people here have on earth

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But and he was all coordinated by an alien guy, you know to spoil it a little bit for next episode

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but um, yeah, that's a you know, that's a problem. That's not good and

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You know, he's definitely a bad ombre so

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But oh and then his final attack the big d4 ray the way he pulls his arms apart

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It definitely feels like the Megasmasher which is a Guyver move. So that's pretty cool to me

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I do like that a lot and

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Yeah, I don't really have much more else to say

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Other than like this was an exciting episode. I liked I like how fierce the fighting was from

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from Z himself and I liked how

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Like the underwater fight was really cool and just you know

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Seeing all these kaiju attacking at once was really neat and there's a lot I liked about it

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But at the same time, I'm still perplexed a little bit by how some of the

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I'm a little bit perplexed as to how some of the stuff got

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Like just told to us and it wasn't really shown in a good way that I think

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Makes it so that it's I don't know believable is the right way to say it or makes it so that it's like

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Understandable that this is why

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Everything that's happening is happening because it kind of feels like it's just

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Like this is what they wanted to make happen

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And if they didn't necessarily do a very good job of planning it out so that it would be the most logical

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thing to happen and like, you know, all of a sudden now we really care about kaiju and

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Like it we haven't really before and that bothers me and I don't know what to do with that because

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Like the premise is good and the idea is nice. It's a very nice sweet like

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cool idea

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But at the same time, I just don't feel like we've had the necessary set up to really make it

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To make it work and to make it feel earned

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Yeah so far like this episode specifically didn't make me feel like they'd earned that stuff so I don't know what else to say

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And with that I'm gonna go ahead and wrap this up i'm very excited all the way through

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And with that i'm gonna go ahead and wrap this up. I'm very excited. I'll be releasing soon the next episode

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episode 24

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Discussion to my thoughts so we'll see how that goes because we're almost at the end of Ultraman

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Zet and we'll be starting blazar very soon and that's super exciting to me. So anyway, stay tuned

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I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. And uh, if you thought that you know

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That they had earned

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Everything that's going on here and if they're doing a good enough job

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And getting you know, justifying the payoffs that they're saying that they want in this or showing that they want in this episode

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anyway with that I

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Hope that you are well, which would be well. This is MJ signing out

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