This is MJ.
I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.
You can find all my work at mjmunoz.com.
Welcome to Going Ultra, brought to you by Henshin Inspection.
I'm going to be talking about Ultraman Blazar episode 13, which is a recap episode, so
I will make this short, not as short as the short, but still short nonetheless.
Does that make sense?
Anyway, I am continuously shocked by the existence of recap or clip episodes, but they always
try to make them good.
They always try to make them interesting, they always try to make them work, and I think
this one definitely does it.
It's cool getting to see different sides of everybody.
The most interesting conversation, so I like the girl talk was cool, the conspiracy talk
was cool.
I like how even the conspiracies are being shut down by somebody, whether that's somebody
in the Scarred or the government or whatever.
Either way, it could be either, but either way it's interesting, and I just thought that
was really cool, and very interesting how much that parallels stuff going on in the
real world with people trying to figure things out, and not going with the narrative that's
being put out there, but trying to figure it out on their own based on facts and evidence
and observable things.
To me that's a good thing.
I know some people don't like that, but you're wrong.
Anyway, moving on from there.
I thought the most interesting stuff that of course we're only getting little shreds
of so we'll see what it is later, is this V-99, which I don't know if it was in the
actual episode of We're a Thus Fought Emmy.
I don't know if that was in the actual episode where one of the documents showed V-99 on
it, but I grabbed thumbnails from the future, and from future episodes, and it turns out
V-99 is something that pops up, or a reference to something very much like V-99 pops up,
and now my head is kind of spinning wondering what all that has to do.
I'm wondering what's going to go on with the overarching plot of the show, and how it ties
into things from the past perhaps.
Anyway, that's pretty interesting that they're seeding these things in here, and it kind
of makes me happy to know that I shouldn't be skipping, or I was justified, or I'm being
rewarded by having not skipped this flip episode, because I usually just say, it's a recap,
I don't need it, but when they structure them like this so they're adding new content, it
draws me in and causes me to watch it, and I like that.
This is a tangent, but J.K.
Rowling, as far as she got on into the Harry Potter books, the more she recapped all the
events.
By book six, she's recapping the other five books, basically, and she does it in an interesting
way.
It's really deftly, skillfully done, and very natural feeling, because Harry's reflecting
on, oh, it's been five years since I blah, blah, blah, and this happened, I met Hagrid,
and then I got turned into this, or whatever.
It's done really well.
I did a whole series of podcast episodes talking about the Harry Potter books, because I only
read the first three of them, first two actually as a kid, and then as an adult, my daughter
was interested in them, so I said, I'm going to read all these.
I listened to the whole 60 hours worth of Harry Potter stories.
Is it more than that?
It might be more than that.
Anyway, I listened to those within a relatively short amount of time, and good books.
Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand, this episode, Teruaki and Gento, their interaction
was really interesting.
Gento felt so guarded, and that was super interesting.
He seems like he's trying to play the nice guy, but he really wanted to get out of there
desperately and didn't want Teruaki asking him any more things, and piecing together
any more information, and that was really interesting, because Teruaki, after he asked
him about Blazar, why he named him Blazar, first of all, Teruaki went into this whole
thing about what a Blazar is, and he was like science-nerding out about what a Blazar is,
and maybe how it compares to Ultraman Blazar, or how he can see the connections between
Blazar, maybe because he has the black hole thing, and he pulls the weapons and whatever
out of his hand.
That's probably what Teruaki sees, and why he gets it, and he seemed impressed by the
fact that Gento named him that.
I don't know if Teruaki caught something as Gento was telling him why he named Blazar
Blazar, or what, but then when he followed up and wanted to ask him something more, because
it seemed like it made something click for him, and then he wanted to ask him something
more, and Gento put his hand up and was like, can I go now?
I don't know, that's a really interesting behavior, that's a really interesting blocking,
reacting, direction choice of him nicely asking if he can go, but also telling him, I don't
want to be here anymore, doing it in the nice guy way.
It's just, I don't know, it's a really interesting choice, and it really felt like an interesting
character moment for Gento.
Less Teruaki, more Gento.
Obviously, or it seems to imply that Teruaki's onto something, he's trying to piece things
together, that's kind of the way his mind works, he connects things, he doesn't just
take things at face value.
But I don't know, just the way it made Gento feel defensive, or slippery almost, was really
interesting, I didn't expect that from him.
But I mean, the guy's basically lying to his family, his wife and son about what he does,
and he has to keep up this double life kind of thing, and that's kind of interesting.
Also, he's lying to his team by omission that he's Ultraman Blazar, but yeah, I don't know,
I don't know, it's kind of interesting, kind of an interesting character moment.
So yeah, there was no action, there was just recap stuff.
But I overall found it interesting.
So anyway, that's all I have to say for now.
If you go to the channel, you can find my kids book, Inspired by Ultraman.
Last night, I spent an hour revising chapters one through five or six of my first book to
spice things up, make things a little better, clean things up, make things a little more
clear, so hopefully I'll have news on that soon for you, and you can check that out.
That's about it.
So until next time, folks, be ultra.
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