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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyst. You can find all my work at

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MJMunozs.com. Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra. This time I'm talking about Ultraman

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Blazar Episode 3. The name is Earth Garonne. I struggle to remember that title for a second

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there. Okay, anyway. So we see the team coming together. We see them training together. We

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see people get to be impressed by Henri and her physical prowess. She's a fierce little

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lady who is good at fighting and doesn't like bugs. So we have this Antiglir Kaiju. That's

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probably not the name, but it's trying. It's not triangular. That's this. This is triangular.

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Anyway, anyway. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the Kaiju's name is, but he's a

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big beetle guy and he sucks energy juice out of these canisters of this like renewable

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clean energy source that's been found derived from water, which is interesting little sci-fi

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concept. But more than that, getting to some story elements, I was, I got to say I was

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totally wrong, I guess about the origins of Blazar because somebody mentioned in the first

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episode there was this incident three months ago where something crazy happened and Gento

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did, you know, great heroics. And the guy kind of expresses like a, I don't know what

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happened, but it was crazy. He did this. But I, it's unclear whether or not he became Blazar

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at that time. He could have, it is inconclusive. What did happen is that while he was helping

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clear this building during a Kaiju attack, a wormhole opened up and Blazar was reaching

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out towards him and then Gento, because he's like, Oh, like his reaction was, Oh, I think

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this is somebody I need to go save. So he goes and runs after the guy and reaches out

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to him and he's saying something like, Hey, whatever. He's calling out to him, this silhouette

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of a person in white that he sees. And it turns out that that's, that's how he got through

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the wormhole or whatever. And, and got connected with Blazar, which is pretty interesting from

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a story perspective, or like just like giving you insight into the character. Cause the

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way it's being done, the way Blazar is being done, it's like very real world. It's very

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subtle. I mean, there's a giant, you know, Mecha Godzilla robot that helps them fight

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Kaiju or whatever, but, and yet, and yet it is still very like subtle and very like subdued

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in the way it's doing things. It's not, I asked that you chant my name. It's not doing

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that at all. It's doing something a little bit different and that's probably good because

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it's the same guy who's headlining the show, right? Anyway. So it's pivoting in this different

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direction, this more realistic, more grounded direction. And I find that to be interesting.

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I find it enjoyable and I don't actually find it frustrating. It's just, it's interesting

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how, uh, how it's being expressed. And the idea though, that I was getting to the idea

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that, you know, why was Gento chosen? Maybe Gento was chosen because he is willing to

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sacrifice himself. He's willing to put himself on the line for somebody he doesn't even know.

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And in this case, the way that it appeared, um, he wasn't even like, the person looked

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like they were bathed in white light or like, you know, glowing white light. And still he

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thought I should go rescue this person. And that's some, that's somewhere that attitude,

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that immediate reaction is something between, uh, dumb and brave. Uh, it's somewhere between

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self-destructive and selfless. And maybe that's what the ultra was looking for. Maybe that's

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why he was able to connect with Gento. Maybe that's why the wormhole appeared before him.

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I don't know. I just think it's something kind of interesting to speculate about, but

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I don't want to spend too much time on it. Um, there's lots of other stuff that happened

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in the episode. Um, like the mystery behind the Kaiju wasn't a big deal to me. Um, it

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was pretty tatangular. Is that what it was? Tatangular? Anyway, um, it was, uh, you know,

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it wasn't supposed to be a mystery, I don't think. Um, and the lady who does, is it Emmy

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who does the, uh, Intel, she went and infiltrated this, uh, energy plant that has this particular

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type of energy tank or vat or whatever, uh, where they're, they're pulling this stuff

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and her actions with the, uh, the lead scientist guy there were kind of funny cause he's like,

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like he doesn't get it. Uh, he's very much like a head in the head and not hidden in

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the clouds, but like he's like focused on the science and all the other stuff like falls

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away from him. He just like wants to focus on his facility and on using the technology

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for good purposes and things like that and everything else. He's kind of like clueless,

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which is funny. Um, so I did like that. That was a good comedic bit. Uh, earth girl on

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is really cool. I liked that they are all training to be like, they're all training

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to pilot it. And the guy who's on the cons for whatever reason, um, is like a, you know,

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airplane pilot, I don't know if it's a VTOL or what it is. I think it's just like a regular

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airplane. Um, like a fighter jet. He, uh, says to on your or any pre-shoot them anyway,

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he says to one of them, like, yeah, I'm a pilot, but piloting earth grown is going to

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be something entirely different. And the guy who, uh, put together earth grown and a bunch

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of their other technology, he, uh, he knows all about the technical aspects of it. And

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he knows all the emergency stuff to do with the, with earth grown, like if something goes

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bad on it, which it's a little cute, you know, it's a kid show. So I get it. Like the one

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thing they talked about going bad and how to fix it. Uh, that's what they ended up fixing.

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Um, when there's an issue with earth grown, although there is a second thing, which is

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that emergency, um, I can't remember this, this earth beam comes out of his mouth and

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then it's the something tail. I can't remember what it's called. Anyway, he ends up shooting,

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uh, he, the technical guy ends up telling Andre how to shoot that at the end when there's

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an emergency. Um, I was almost thinking that we wouldn't get to see blaze on this episode

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because of one, how cool earth grown looks and how capable it seems to be. And it is

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capable. Uh, but there was just, there was just too much going on. Um, this guy, do was

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super powerful. It had all this, you know, heat energy that is absorbed. Uh, more, maybe

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that wasn't until blaze or sort of fighting. I don't know. Anyway, it just, it was a problem.

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It was a problem for them. It was the first time out actually piloting against an actual

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Kaiju, but they showed all this like a training montage, which was super cool about them,

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like thinking, learning how to think tactically about using earth grown in a city scape against

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Kaiju where there are people and buildings that can be damaged, which was super cool.

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Um, so they did that in addition to their like, you know, running around training and

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fighting each other, uh, with their guns and stuff. And like, it's interesting cause it's

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the show is showing them go through the effort of learning how to do everything and learning

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how to operate these things so that they have a level of competency that we as an audience

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can believe because they are a brand new unit. This isn't, you know, guts has been going

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for 80 years. I don't know if that's for any more, for any long amount of time, but that's

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was the first thing that popped in my head. So we don't know how that all works, but I

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really do like that. I like this, this harder, uh, sci-fi edge to it. I also like how goofy

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it can be. Um, the Kaiju gets too hot cause he's, it's like when you're charging your

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phone, the charger block is all hot cause the energy is transferring through it. Right.

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Um, so the Kaiju is sucking up all this energy and it's getting all this heat and he's literally

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too hot for blazer to touch and blazers making all these noises and like pulling his hands

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away after touching him and hot, hot, hot. And, uh, like that's almost the actual sound

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he makes. Like he's basically saying hot, which is very funny. Um, and, uh, I really

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dug that and like at some point he's like laying on the floor with the Kaiju like on

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top of him rolling around and he looks pathetic. And, um, it's interesting because we get like

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all this cool fighting with him, um, where he's doing all his great Savage stuff. But

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then we also get these moments where he's just being like really weird and he's trying

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really hard and it looks really dumb or bad, but like it kind of makes sense. It's like,

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well, I guess this must be a really difficult Kaiju to fight. Like I've never tried to fight

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a Kaiju. I don't know what that looks like. I don't know what it feels like. So yeah,

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him rolling around the ground with the thing, I guess that makes sense. Um, so I'm not saying

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like it's, you know, the realism is pulling me. It's just, it's an interesting take. It's

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an interesting way to do the story and, and, and, you know, the whole scenario and, you

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know, make it a little bit more interesting if you've watched every Ultraman and none

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of them have rolled around pathetically on the floor before defeating the Kaiju. Um,

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yeah, I don't know. Interesting, interesting stuff. Uh, something I noticed is, uh, Gento

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is with, uh, Henri while she's, um, fighting the Kaiju. And I think it's funny that because

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she's a girl, she's like disgusted by the Kaiju being an insect or bug like guy. Um,

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so it was kind of funny, but, uh, anyway, at one point he tells her to use earth fire.

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That is what's earth fire to take out the Kaiju's arm. So, oh, this is going to be cool.

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So she aims for his arm and she knocks one of it off and then it's got little tendrils

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hanging out of it. And that was really gross and weird, but it was cool. Cause it's like,

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that's something Blazar would have done if he could. And that's something Gento is telling

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her to do. So the connection between them, you know, might be stronger than one might

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expect it first. Um, but yeah, so, you know, a little team building stuff happened for

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the story and, uh, we get to see earth go on and I don't know. It's interesting. It's

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just kind of, you know, going forward, setting things up little by little, we'll see how

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the story builds up and, uh, I'm liking it so far. I hope you enjoyed that. Subscribe

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