1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 This is MJ. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,960 I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 3 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:05,920 You can find all my work at mjmunoz.com. 4 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,800 Welcome to Going Ultra, brought to you by Henshin Inspection. 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,680 I'm going to be talking about Ultraman Blazar episode 13, which is a recap episode, so 6 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,520 I will make this short, not as short as the short, but still short nonetheless. 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,640 Does that make sense? 8 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:28,480 Anyway, I am continuously shocked by the existence of recap or clip episodes, but they always 9 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:29,920 try to make them good. 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,160 They always try to make them interesting, they always try to make them work, and I think 11 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:34,240 this one definitely does it. 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,320 It's cool getting to see different sides of everybody. 13 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,160 The most interesting conversation, so I like the girl talk was cool, the conspiracy talk 14 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:42,160 was cool. 15 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,440 I like how even the conspiracies are being shut down by somebody, whether that's somebody 16 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,000 in the Scarred or the government or whatever. 17 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,360 Either way, it could be either, but either way it's interesting, and I just thought that 18 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:59,000 was really cool, and very interesting how much that parallels stuff going on in the 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,480 real world with people trying to figure things out, and not going with the narrative that's 20 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,720 being put out there, but trying to figure it out on their own based on facts and evidence 21 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:09,720 and observable things. 22 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:11,160 To me that's a good thing. 23 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,440 I know some people don't like that, but you're wrong. 24 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,080 Anyway, moving on from there. 25 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:23,600 I thought the most interesting stuff that of course we're only getting little shreds 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:29,320 of so we'll see what it is later, is this V-99, which I don't know if it was in the 27 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:33,200 actual episode of We're a Thus Fought Emmy. 28 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,480 I don't know if that was in the actual episode where one of the documents showed V-99 on 29 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:43,640 it, but I grabbed thumbnails from the future, and from future episodes, and it turns out 30 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:49,160 V-99 is something that pops up, or a reference to something very much like V-99 pops up, 31 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,840 and now my head is kind of spinning wondering what all that has to do. 32 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:59,400 I'm wondering what's going to go on with the overarching plot of the show, and how it ties 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,880 into things from the past perhaps. 34 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:08,320 Anyway, that's pretty interesting that they're seeding these things in here, and it kind 35 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,920 of makes me happy to know that I shouldn't be skipping, or I was justified, or I'm being 36 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:16,640 rewarded by having not skipped this flip episode, because I usually just say, it's a recap, 37 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:20,400 I don't need it, but when they structure them like this so they're adding new content, it 38 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,680 draws me in and causes me to watch it, and I like that. 39 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,760 This is a tangent, but J.K. 40 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:35,320 Rowling, as far as she got on into the Harry Potter books, the more she recapped all the 41 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:36,320 events. 42 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:41,760 By book six, she's recapping the other five books, basically, and she does it in an interesting 43 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,760 way. 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,160 It's really deftly, skillfully done, and very natural feeling, because Harry's reflecting 45 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,800 on, oh, it's been five years since I blah, blah, blah, and this happened, I met Hagrid, 46 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,680 and then I got turned into this, or whatever. 47 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:57,680 It's done really well. 48 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:04,360 I did a whole series of podcast episodes talking about the Harry Potter books, because I only 49 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:09,600 read the first three of them, first two actually as a kid, and then as an adult, my daughter 50 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,960 was interested in them, so I said, I'm going to read all these. 51 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,960 I listened to the whole 60 hours worth of Harry Potter stories. 52 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,280 Is it more than that? 53 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:18,280 It might be more than that. 54 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,680 Anyway, I listened to those within a relatively short amount of time, and good books. 55 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:30,240 Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand, this episode, Teruaki and Gento, their interaction 56 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,200 was really interesting. 57 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,640 Gento felt so guarded, and that was super interesting. 58 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,080 He seems like he's trying to play the nice guy, but he really wanted to get out of there 59 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,240 desperately and didn't want Teruaki asking him any more things, and piecing together 60 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,800 any more information, and that was really interesting, because Teruaki, after he asked 61 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,120 him about Blazar, why he named him Blazar, first of all, Teruaki went into this whole 62 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,640 thing about what a Blazar is, and he was like science-nerding out about what a Blazar is, 63 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,360 and maybe how it compares to Ultraman Blazar, or how he can see the connections between 64 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Blazar, maybe because he has the black hole thing, and he pulls the weapons and whatever 65 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,200 out of his hand. 66 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:12,080 That's probably what Teruaki sees, and why he gets it, and he seemed impressed by the 67 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,360 fact that Gento named him that. 68 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,800 I don't know if Teruaki caught something as Gento was telling him why he named Blazar 69 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,040 Blazar, or what, but then when he followed up and wanted to ask him something more, because 70 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,720 it seemed like it made something click for him, and then he wanted to ask him something 71 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:35,040 more, and Gento put his hand up and was like, can I go now? 72 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:40,520 I don't know, that's a really interesting behavior, that's a really interesting blocking, 73 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:47,280 reacting, direction choice of him nicely asking if he can go, but also telling him, I don't 74 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:50,040 want to be here anymore, doing it in the nice guy way. 75 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,120 It's just, I don't know, it's a really interesting choice, and it really felt like an interesting 76 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,840 character moment for Gento. 77 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:56,840 Less Teruaki, more Gento. 78 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:00,800 Obviously, or it seems to imply that Teruaki's onto something, he's trying to piece things 79 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,880 together, that's kind of the way his mind works, he connects things, he doesn't just 80 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,640 take things at face value. 81 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:14,560 But I don't know, just the way it made Gento feel defensive, or slippery almost, was really 82 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,840 interesting, I didn't expect that from him. 83 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:23,440 But I mean, the guy's basically lying to his family, his wife and son about what he does, 84 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,320 and he has to keep up this double life kind of thing, and that's kind of interesting. 85 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:32,240 Also, he's lying to his team by omission that he's Ultraman Blazar, but yeah, I don't know, 86 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,720 I don't know, it's kind of interesting, kind of an interesting character moment. 87 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:40,080 So yeah, there was no action, there was just recap stuff. 88 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,080 But I overall found it interesting. 89 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,680 So anyway, that's all I have to say for now. 90 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:52,640 If you go to the channel, you can find my kids book, Inspired by Ultraman. 91 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:59,440 Last night, I spent an hour revising chapters one through five or six of my first book to 92 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,000 spice things up, make things a little better, clean things up, make things a little more 93 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 clear, so hopefully I'll have news on that soon for you, and you can check that out. 94 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 That's about it. 95 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,840 So until next time, folks, be ultra. 96 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,080 I hope you enjoyed that. 97 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,120 Subscribe to keep up with me. 98 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,800 Like and share to help me reach more people like you. 99 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,200 And go to MJMunoz.com to find your next favorite thing. 100 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,440 And don't forget to let your voice be heard. 101 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,880 Stories are always better when you're part of the conversation. 102 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,360 Until next time, be well. 103 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,960 This is MJ signing out. 104 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,360 This has been a Story Over Everything production.