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Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar episode 14 Moonlit Memories.
So I don't have a lot of notes on this episode.
I have a lot of feelings but I'm not sure I have a lot to say about it.
The kaiju here was Del Tendul which is kind of funny because he's a flying guy and he's
called Delta Null and maybe think about Delta Airlines and as I'm recording this there was
recently that whole Windows, I don't know if it was a zero day exploit or what but a
bunch of airlines got delayed which is not funny because of this error and I guess what
is funny is that I believe it was Delta Airlines had not updated their system for a long long
time and this was I guess it was I don't know if it was something people had mocked or been
upset about or whatever.
However there are a lot of people and businesses around the world that are still running Windows
XP because it's perfectly serviceable and I don't want to get into a whole computer
tangent thing but the Windows kernel has been the same for a long time and are you really
getting something good with Windows 11 or 10 or anything like that?
I'm not going to argue about it, I'm not going to fight about it but just know that there
are people who say not so much and there's lots of businesses that don't see a benefit
in going to the next level and Delta Airlines was one of them I guess or they were too cheap
to do I'm not sure which and I guess it saved them from having a lot of troubles that a
lot of other people had as well.
I think that's the right story.
Anyway so that kind of made me laugh about the fact that this guy was Deltandal and he's
a flying kaiju but seriously there is a lot of interesting stuff going on here.
We have Haruno yelling at Skard which was not terrifying but not very nice and again
the vocal performance at Silverstein I believe and also the actor, the physical actor there,
the Japanese actor Kato I believe is his name.
Doing fantastic performances you can really feel the energy, you can feel like his like
honestly it was a little upsetting like oh man these guys are really getting yelled at
this stinks for them and I thought that was cool that the performance could put me there
and have me feeling for them so sharply, so dolefully immature.
Good work from the crew there.
Okay so it's been hours since I was recording and I kind of lost track of things and I'm
just going to jump and hope this works.
So the connection between Emi and Haruno is interesting.
The fact that her dad worked with Haruno and was involved with the guy she found who she
talked to at the gym, the old man, and he was connected with this like Lab 66 or some
research facility 66 I think they called it and in this episode she talks about V99.
First of all I think it's interesting that they're connected with each other, Haruno
and Emi that is, and that all this stuff is coming together that a lot of the things that
unite SCARD or SCARD is formed of people who have all these connections with each other
and that makes the storytelling a little richer, a little deeper, a little more interesting.
We'll see exactly what they do with it but at least the potential is there to make that
the case so like I said we'll see what happens.
And just kind of I don't know like I liked the episode it had a lot of like mystique and
a lot of mysterious atmosphere and like I wasn't super I didn't really care about the
kaiju fight that much.
Like it was neat seeing Blazar using his sword up in the clouds and using kind of using the
lightning to jump around.
He didn't do it as tactically as I thought he could have but whatever.
Also seeing Yasunobu take the back seat and not be shooting and having Anri do the fighting
and do the gunning and the shooting up in the sky was interesting because it kind of
put her on the back foot and creates an opportunity for her.
It's like a growth opportunity for her and showed a little bit of weakness because she
like flipped out at everybody saying she's not very good at shooting and that's kind
of interesting and fun.
But anyway jumping back to one thing it almost seems like the implication is being made that
it's possible that this research facility 66 summoned Blazar and they summoned him three
years ago during that incident and I wonder if that's going to be the case.
If it is it'll be super interesting and if it's not then I don't know I guess that's
a missed opportunity or a red herring.
And the other thing is I noticed that 66 and 99, Lab 66 or whatever and V99 are inverse
of each other.
You know if a 6 or a 9 you just flip it over and I just think there's something a little
political and a dramatically in that and I wonder if that's something real.
If it's something I'm just imagining.
If it's a red herring.
If it's something that they want to throw in the show to throw people off or what.
But I'm definitely excited about where the story is going and seeing how the plot develops
and seeing exactly what happens with all these characters who have been established to be
really nicely connected to each other and set into an interesting story and now it's
kind of like it almost feels like the season up until this point has been setting up all
these different pieces and now we're seeing them come together so I'm really really curious
to see how the rest of this show goes because it feels like they've got something good going
and I've enjoyed it so far a lot and it'll be interesting to see if they fumble for me
or if they make it a complete slam dunk and it's a you know a giant hole in one.
The blazar pun I guess off of a bad golf joke.
Anyway until next time that's it for now.
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