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Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra! This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.

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Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar Episode 9, Planet of Music.

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So, there's a lot to say about this one.

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Music saved the world, and that's pretty crazy.

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Last episode I asked the question is...

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Well, I talked about the fact that 7 and 8 were asked in the episode, or the science fiction tech question,

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does humanity deserve to be saved?

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And I think that the answer is yes, and I think that this episode is an answer to that previous two-parter.

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And I think it's really interesting because...

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These aliens who were sent to destroy Earth turned out they didn't want to,

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and the catalyst for that was the discovery of music.

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They were sent here 60 years ago, which is super cool because it does an Ultra cue, and that's fantastic.

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Anyway, they were sent here 60 years ago, and they were intending on destroying the planet.

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They were all set, they put their phones into motion, they called the meteor from far away,

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and it took the kids to get here, I guess.

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And the plan was for them to just go ahead and use their alien technology to control this thing,

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and have it destroy the Earth, I guess.

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And because they fell in love with music, they spent all their time until they absolutely had to do their duty playing music.

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And if you watch the Ultra Cue episodes that relate to this, there's one more that relates to it than the other,

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because it gives more specifics on the culture, and you actually see these aliens.

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But if you watch that one, you see that when those aliens fail, they are killed,

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and I guess the ship that dropped them off that's hiding wherever it goes off on its own is, I guess, the idea?

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Anyways, that's a little vague, but basically, if they fail on their mission, they are killed.

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So it's not like you've given them a chance to run at this.

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There's no runback with these aliens.

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So, anyway, so that kind of syncs for them.

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But it seems to me like, because that was the reality for them, they waited and waited and waited,

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and they just loved playing music, and they did it as a, I don't know, not a location,

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like it wasn't really their job, or maybe, I don't know, not like they had a job,

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it doesn't look like they really aged between the 60s and now.

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Maybe the lead guy got a little grayer, but then it was black and white,

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and then the images where you saw him in the past, I don't know, maybe they blackened his hair a little bit,

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or they grayed it, I'm not sure.

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But regardless, what I'm saying is, they wanted to delay destroying Earth as long as possible,

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and by the end of the episode, you see that their hearts really weren't in it.

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They just wanted to keep playing music because it was so beautiful to them.

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And while they have sound, and they have manipulation of machinery or whatever through sounds,

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they didn't really hold music as something, or they didn't really have an understanding of music,

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and they ended up getting it, and that's what leads them,

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that's what leads to the combination in this episode of everything that's going on, which is really interesting.

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So, yeah, that's a little bit of a mess, but there's definitely something deep going on here,

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there's something I really like going on here, and I find it to be very, very interesting.

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Uh...

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Yeah, and something that I wrote down in my notes is that, you know, humanity,

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I believe we were gifted with music, I believe we were blessed with the gift of music,

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I don't know if it's something that we discovered or made up on our own,

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and I think it's really, music is wonderful, music does have a great power to it,

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and a lot of wonderful things come about through music,

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and it's really interesting because you get to see the humanity of these aliens through their exposure to music,

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and you get to see how music is this one beautiful thing that we have,

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or it's one of the beautiful things that we have that comes from man,

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and that kind of makes somebody think twice about destroying the entire Earth,

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which is pretty cool, if you ask me.

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So anyway, um...

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I'm confused, so that's all the really good stuff, but this is just kind of some random notes now.

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Like, I don't understand why Blazar took control of Gento,

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I don't understand why he drank that juice,

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I suspect that's a seed for another Yasumobu focused episode later on,

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or maybe even Teruaki, maybe Teruaki's family grows these vegetables,

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and these vegetables have trace elements of something in them from something,

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and he's been sharing that juice with Yasumobu,

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so it's more about the vegetables being affected, so it's about his farm,

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so it could be Teruaki episode, or it could be about Yasumobu drinking this vegetable juice for whatever,

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as a sleep substitute, or I don't know why he's drinking it, but anyway, that's kind of weird.

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This was an Henri focused episode, right?

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But it kind of wasn't an Henri focused episode, and I found that a little bit strange,

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and yeah, I mean, she was the one who made things happen, ultimately,

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but it just, I don't know, it could have been more about her, it was almost more about these guys, which is interesting.

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I like that Garamon did evolve to threatening,

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no weapons worked too well against him, and he was really trouncing Blazar, which was great,

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and I like things like Blazar was able to hit his stomach, and it did pretty decent,

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but when he was trying to hit his back, it didn't work so well. Before then, Earthgeron was unable to really do much against the armor,

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the meteorite-like armor that he has all over his back, and one of the spikes actually impaled Earthgeron and almost killed Yasumobu,

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so that was kind of interesting, and it made me think about, from the Ultra-Q episode, is this Tilsenite, I believe is the name of it, this material, this...

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So in the Ultra-Q episode, there was this little meteorite made of Tilsenite, and they couldn't do anything against this metal,

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so they ended up putting it basically in a Faraday cage to stop it from transmitting signals to the same Kaiju, the Garamon, and yeah, that was pretty interesting.

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But yeah, Garamon in Ultra-Q looked not so great, he didn't have the greatest showing as a Kaiju,

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and it's a neat design over here, his actions and things like that were kind of weird,

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and he's supposed to be a robot, but it's so very organic-looking, it's very strange, and in this they just roll with him being a robot even more,

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and they say, oh, his heat signals show that he's a robot, but definitely the mobility of the suit and the performance that they got out of it,

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it was definitely a scarier thing, and it was more threatening, and that was really good,

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and I really like that Blazor even bashed his prism lance thing against it, and it broke it, and he's just like, oh, well, that didn't work too well,

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and then he proceeded to get his butt kicked for a little bit until the music was stopped by your girl Henri shooting the cello man,

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and that was kind of crazy, that was kind of crazy, which I'll get back to that in a minute.

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So the Ultra-Q connections were great, I want to thank Cedric Schar again for pointing me to Ultra-Q,

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the theme song from Ultra-Q was really cool, and I watched the two episodes, these two episodes with Garamon in them,

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and I didn't tell him this, but I was like, yeah, I really like these, these are so great, the Ultra-Q music was definitely cool,

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and I mentioned to him that the theme song was really cool, and I also liked the actor who played the alien in the, I think it was episode 16,

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I liked him a lot, which I think is like Garamon Strikes Back or something like that, let's see,

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but yeah, the theme song from Ultra-Q is super cool, and it was used to an amazing effect here,

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and this like new different version of it, or this new take on it, or playing parts of it that we haven't heard before,

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just from the TV size opening, was really interesting, and it was great, it felt creepy, it felt weird,

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seeing the band start to play it, the quartet start to play it, was really cool, it felt like something alien and sinister,

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and then it kind of turned into something beautiful too, and it kind of, it went here and there, and it was just, it was really interesting, I really love that.

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Speaking of the alien quartet, it's interesting, like they have very long lives it seems, because they've been here since the 60s,

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they have a different scale of time, an inhuman scale of time, they're these beings who live for so long that it must change their perspective on things,

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they've been waiting decades, and they've just been living lives appreciating playing music for all this time,

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until they have this thing to do or else they'll be killed by their superiors or whatever, and that's pretty interesting.

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I like this idea of a cold patience, they have a high time preference, they can wait a long time for things to happen,

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which is a quality human should take more, because rushing causes us to make mistakes, but anyway.

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Another connection to Ultra Q is the meteor fall, it looked identical, I wonder how, like was it 99% the same effect, was it 80% the same effect,

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I don't know, did they just digitally composite up the wires, I'm not sure, but it looked really cool,

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and it looked almost exactly like the same type of shot with the meteorite falling, which is cool, and the meteorite opening as well, that was really great.

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It was funny, they're at an empty concert hall, and that should bother me, but it doesn't, because it doesn't matter,

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the details of the realism of it don't matter, because what it's about is André having this conversation with these guys,

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and them having their last concert at this concert hall, and that's all that really matters,

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and I thought it was kind of hilarious that André had the most American reaction possible to dealing with these guys,

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and I was thinking, why didn't you just shoot the guy, that's the way to solve this, right?

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And that's the most American solution I can come up with, and then that's what she does, so that's kind of interesting.

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It's also interesting that they wanted her to win, and to stop them, and I don't know, it's really interesting, what do you think of this episode?

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Thank you for watching!