Engine Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist,
I'm an analyzer. Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar Episode 16. This one is
called Terror from the Underground. So I liked a lot of the direction in this
episode. The scope of the holes was really cool. We got to see multiple
people, like even like construction toys type stuff, dump truck dumping dirt into
the hole at the end of the episode. But in the beginning of the episode we saw the
guys in front of this massive crater, the workers, and then we saw Skard in front
of the massive crater. We get to see them from, they were, the hole was in the
background, they were in the middle ground, and there was a little bit of
stuff, you know, the camera was in the foreground so to speak, I would say. And
we got to see that shot and then we saw a reverse of that shot, which looked really
cool, and I think it's in my thumbnail, I'm pretty sure. And it actually, it's
looking at them from below inside of the hole, and then it zooms, the camera pans
back, and you get to see them from there. And then, it gets better, that shot
switches to night and you get to see the sliver of the moon, the new moon, and or
the waxing moon I should say. And yeah, it goes to that, it goes to day without them
there, and it goes to night I believe, because they're doing their stakeout for
Mogusion. And speaking of Mogusion, oh hold on one more thing. The perspective
shots were really cool. While the, while Mogusion flashed and activated the
amygdala, I think, to create a fear response in some of Skaard, we got to see the bug
that Henri hates. We got to see Yasunobu, alien, canon, like came up in rows and
you know, gestured or whatever aggressively, and he was scared of that.
And anyway, the shots were from down below, and you got to see the things
rising above, and that was really cool and really well done. And of course, it's
Ultraman, they do kaiju stuff all the time. Of course, they would do that well,
but just, it was remarkable. I feel like it was remarkable to go ahead and mention
that because it looks so good. Moving on. Mogusion's design is so cool. He's a
weird mole guy, and I like that he's a mole who causes confusion, which is where I
think Mogusion comes from, but I don't know for sure. I really think the design
is cool. Even though he's got these, you know, big diggin' claw hands, it was cool
that they show the other hands inside of it, and they mentioned that there's
fingers there. But what's really cool is that the person in the suit is
wearing pink gloves, and then there's other fingers in there that are full of
cotton or something, and they wiggle around while it's doing its flashy thing
out of its palms. And I thought that was really cool. I don't know if its palms
were supposed to be like human hand palms, but it's like a double hand type
of thing, you know? Like a ten-fingered hand, or what. But that's effectively what
it looked like, and it looks pretty cool. It did a pretty decent job
tricking the eye. I had to look really closely to see what was going on, but
those pink little fingers look gross. They look kind of like a mole's
nose, so they have that five or six-pointed star nose thing. That I
personally think looks kind of nasty, even though, you know, it's a creature. So I
should be pleased with it, but yeah, I can still be grossed out and appreciate
them and their creation. But anyway, yeah, so that was freaky, and I liked it.
It was good. It was good gross, good freaky, and it was effective. Okay, so this
whole attacking the 50-meter woman thing was weird. Why does Emmy fear herself?
It doesn't get explained. She says it's a secret at the end of the episode, and we
don't really get anything on it. She's like a genius. She got out of MIT early.
The only thing I can think is maybe Emmy fears herself because of things she's
done in the past, and her capacity is like a spy, or I don't know, maybe as a spy
she's been willing to do things that she regrets and that she's ashamed of, and
kind of like Natasha and Natalia. What did they call her? Black Widow in the MCU. I think
they call her Natasha and Natalia, but I don't want to get into that right now.
But she did really bad things when she was a bad guy before she came over to the
good side, I guess. Anyway, so maybe it's a similar vibe. Maybe it's something
similar that she's done terrible things in the name of fighting Kaiju, I guess. I
don't know what things she would do, other than the fact that they're
killing Kaiju, killing living beings, in order to protect more lives, which we've
talked about a lot, so I don't want to bring it up again. Yeah, I'm curious if it
has to do with the end game of the show, if it has to do with her father and the
research that he did on her, or not on her, but the research that he was doing
that she was looking into. I don't really know. I don't really know, but it is
strange. It's interesting. It was really cool to see like Kaiju-sized Emi though,
fighting Blazar. That was really neat and a lot of fun, and I think she gave a
great physical performance. She did that other fight in Thus Fought Emi. She
did a great job with her martial arts stunts in there, and here we
could see her like... it was like wrestling, like a chair, hitting Ultraman with it,
and just bashing him around and stuff. That was a lot of fun. So speaking of
the fight, I liked it. It was really cool that Blazar immediately pulled out
the rainbow slash, and he threw it, but the mole caught it and spun it around
like he was catching a hula hoop, and he threw it back, and it sliced through two
buildings, and I liked the suit acting that Blazar did. Is it Hayashi? I think it's
Hoshi. Anyway, the Blazar in Ultraman, maybe Reiwa Ultraman suit actor, he did a
really great job like feeling panicked and expressing that, like, oh no, I
inadvertently helped cut down these buildings because the enemy took my
weapon and turned it against them, and what am I gonna do? How can I fix this? I
can't fix it. I gotta fake this guy. So that was really cool, and I couldn't tell
like is that Blazar or is that Gento or is it both of them? I don't really know,
but it was cool, and then I thought it was funny that, you know, we got this going on,
and it showed that Blazar has no eyelids, but then again at some point he, the
light in his eyes goes off, and it's him showing him closing his eyes, and I feel
like I recently saw that. I don't think it was in, I don't think it was in Zet
that he closed his eyes. Blazar, I don't know, maybe my kids were watching this episode of
Blazar like months ago, and I walked by and saw it, and it was like, oh interesting,
he closes his eyes by turning the lights off in his eyes, or you know, the effect
is to take the eyes of the suit and de-illuminate them, or whatever, turn the
light off to them, and maybe it was just this, but I feel like I've seen it in at
least one other Ultraman show where they did that trick to have him shut his
lights, his eyes, by closing the light or turning the light off in the mask, and I
think it's a cool detail, I think it's kind of fun, but it just seems kind of odd that
he didn't do that before on his own, you know, but there was a point where
Harkin's that were fighting somebody that they couldn't look at, or like he had
to close his eyes because he couldn't see him, and he kind of did the same thing
where he was like waiting and prepping himself for the attack, and then boom,
striking, you know, but anyway, I thought that was a lot of fun. Okay, and while I
did like this episode a lot, and there's a lot of cool stuff going on, the
Tilsonite, I think, Tilsonite sword, I really felt like I was watching a toy
commercial. There was a few shots where it was just like boom, boom, boom, look how
cool this toy is, look how cool this toy is, look how cool this toy is, look how cool this toy is,
slash stab, like it was a little much, it was a little much, and yeah, I was shocked
by that, I was really shocked by that. I don't know, it didn't really take away from my
enjoyment, I mean it nicked a little, it took like 5% of my enjoyment away, but I
still really liked the episode, and I liked all the stuff with Emmy, or not all
the stuff, but like the one thing with Emmy that we didn't really get an understanding of,
and like it was cute that Yasunobu was upset that he didn't get to talk to Earthy
first, and like he doesn't know that the others are all gonna know that Earthy is
Earthy because Earthy's gonna announce himself like that, because he has no shame,
and wouldn't, you know, think it's bad to announce that to the others, so that's
gonna be, I hope that's a cute moment we get to see in the next episode, that would be a
lot of fun, and then get into fearing, you know, failing a mission, that's cool, that
makes sense, it's like simple and direct, but simple and clean, and I like it, so
that's all I have to say, tell me your thoughts about the episode, did you like it,
did you hate it, what didn't you get, or was the toy addictness like perfect for you,
or did that take you out of it at all, and what do you think Emmy's secret is, if
you are watching the show along with me, if you know already, you can spoil it if you want to, okay.
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