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Engine inspection presents Going Ultra.

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This is MJ.

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Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar episode 14 Moonlit Memories.

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So I don't have a lot of notes on this episode.

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I have a lot of feelings but I'm not sure I have a lot to say about it.

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The kaiju here was Del Tendul which is kind of funny because he's a flying guy and he's

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called Delta Null and maybe think about Delta Airlines and as I'm recording this there was

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recently that whole Windows, I don't know if it was a zero day exploit or what but a

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bunch of airlines got delayed which is not funny because of this error and I guess what

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is funny is that I believe it was Delta Airlines had not updated their system for a long long

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time and this was I guess it was I don't know if it was something people had mocked or been

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upset about or whatever.

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However there are a lot of people and businesses around the world that are still running Windows

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XP because it's perfectly serviceable and I don't want to get into a whole computer

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tangent thing but the Windows kernel has been the same for a long time and are you really

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getting something good with Windows 11 or 10 or anything like that?

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I'm not going to argue about it, I'm not going to fight about it but just know that there

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are people who say not so much and there's lots of businesses that don't see a benefit

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in going to the next level and Delta Airlines was one of them I guess or they were too cheap

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to do I'm not sure which and I guess it saved them from having a lot of troubles that a

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lot of other people had as well.

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I think that's the right story.

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Anyway so that kind of made me laugh about the fact that this guy was Deltandal and he's

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a flying kaiju but seriously there is a lot of interesting stuff going on here.

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We have Haruno yelling at Skard which was not terrifying but not very nice and again

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the vocal performance at Silverstein I believe and also the actor, the physical actor there,

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the Japanese actor Kato I believe is his name.

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Doing fantastic performances you can really feel the energy, you can feel like his like

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honestly it was a little upsetting like oh man these guys are really getting yelled at

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this stinks for them and I thought that was cool that the performance could put me there

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and have me feeling for them so sharply, so dolefully immature.

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Good work from the crew there.

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Okay so it's been hours since I was recording and I kind of lost track of things and I'm

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just going to jump and hope this works.

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So the connection between Emi and Haruno is interesting.

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The fact that her dad worked with Haruno and was involved with the guy she found who she

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talked to at the gym, the old man, and he was connected with this like Lab 66 or some

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research facility 66 I think they called it and in this episode she talks about V99.

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First of all I think it's interesting that they're connected with each other, Haruno

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and Emi that is, and that all this stuff is coming together that a lot of the things that

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unite SCARD or SCARD is formed of people who have all these connections with each other

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and that makes the storytelling a little richer, a little deeper, a little more interesting.

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We'll see exactly what they do with it but at least the potential is there to make that

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the case so like I said we'll see what happens.

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And just kind of I don't know like I liked the episode it had a lot of like mystique and

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a lot of mysterious atmosphere and like I wasn't super I didn't really care about the

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kaiju fight that much.

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Like it was neat seeing Blazar using his sword up in the clouds and using kind of using the

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lightning to jump around.

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He didn't do it as tactically as I thought he could have but whatever.

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Also seeing Yasunobu take the back seat and not be shooting and having Anri do the fighting

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and do the gunning and the shooting up in the sky was interesting because it kind of

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put her on the back foot and creates an opportunity for her.

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It's like a growth opportunity for her and showed a little bit of weakness because she

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like flipped out at everybody saying she's not very good at shooting and that's kind

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of interesting and fun.

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But anyway jumping back to one thing it almost seems like the implication is being made that

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it's possible that this research facility 66 summoned Blazar and they summoned him three

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years ago during that incident and I wonder if that's going to be the case.

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If it is it'll be super interesting and if it's not then I don't know I guess that's

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a missed opportunity or a red herring.

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And the other thing is I noticed that 66 and 99, Lab 66 or whatever and V99 are inverse

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of each other.

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You know if a 6 or a 9 you just flip it over and I just think there's something a little

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political and a dramatically in that and I wonder if that's something real.

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If it's something I'm just imagining.

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If it's a red herring.

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If it's something that they want to throw in the show to throw people off or what.

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But I'm definitely excited about where the story is going and seeing how the plot develops

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and seeing exactly what happens with all these characters who have been established to be

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really nicely connected to each other and set into an interesting story and now it's

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kind of like it almost feels like the season up until this point has been setting up all

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these different pieces and now we're seeing them come together so I'm really really curious

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to see how the rest of this show goes because it feels like they've got something good going

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and I've enjoyed it so far a lot and it'll be interesting to see if they fumble for me

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or if they make it a complete slam dunk and it's a you know a giant hole in one.

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The blazar pun I guess off of a bad golf joke.

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Anyway until next time that's it for now.

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