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Engine Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist,

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I'm an analyzer. Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar Episode 16. This one is

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called Terror from the Underground. So I liked a lot of the direction in this

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episode. The scope of the holes was really cool. We got to see multiple

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people, like even like construction toys type stuff, dump truck dumping dirt into

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the hole at the end of the episode. But in the beginning of the episode we saw the

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guys in front of this massive crater, the workers, and then we saw Skard in front

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of the massive crater. We get to see them from, they were, the hole was in the

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background, they were in the middle ground, and there was a little bit of

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stuff, you know, the camera was in the foreground so to speak, I would say. And

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we got to see that shot and then we saw a reverse of that shot, which looked really

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cool, and I think it's in my thumbnail, I'm pretty sure. And it actually, it's

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looking at them from below inside of the hole, and then it zooms, the camera pans

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back, and you get to see them from there. And then, it gets better, that shot

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switches to night and you get to see the sliver of the moon, the new moon, and or

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the waxing moon I should say. And yeah, it goes to that, it goes to day without them

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there, and it goes to night I believe, because they're doing their stakeout for

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Mogusion. And speaking of Mogusion, oh hold on one more thing. The perspective

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shots were really cool. While the, while Mogusion flashed and activated the

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amygdala, I think, to create a fear response in some of Skaard, we got to see the bug

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that Henri hates. We got to see Yasunobu, alien, canon, like came up in rows and

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you know, gestured or whatever aggressively, and he was scared of that.

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And anyway, the shots were from down below, and you got to see the things

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rising above, and that was really cool and really well done. And of course, it's

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Ultraman, they do kaiju stuff all the time. Of course, they would do that well,

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but just, it was remarkable. I feel like it was remarkable to go ahead and mention

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that because it looks so good. Moving on. Mogusion's design is so cool. He's a

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weird mole guy, and I like that he's a mole who causes confusion, which is where I

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think Mogusion comes from, but I don't know for sure. I really think the design

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is cool. Even though he's got these, you know, big diggin' claw hands, it was cool

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that they show the other hands inside of it, and they mentioned that there's

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fingers there. But what's really cool is that the person in the suit is

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wearing pink gloves, and then there's other fingers in there that are full of

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cotton or something, and they wiggle around while it's doing its flashy thing

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out of its palms. And I thought that was really cool. I don't know if its palms

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were supposed to be like human hand palms, but it's like a double hand type

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of thing, you know? Like a ten-fingered hand, or what. But that's effectively what

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it looked like, and it looks pretty cool. It did a pretty decent job

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tricking the eye. I had to look really closely to see what was going on, but

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those pink little fingers look gross. They look kind of like a mole's

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nose, so they have that five or six-pointed star nose thing. That I

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personally think looks kind of nasty, even though, you know, it's a creature. So I

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should be pleased with it, but yeah, I can still be grossed out and appreciate

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them and their creation. But anyway, yeah, so that was freaky, and I liked it.

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It was good. It was good gross, good freaky, and it was effective. Okay, so this

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whole attacking the 50-meter woman thing was weird. Why does Emmy fear herself?

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It doesn't get explained. She says it's a secret at the end of the episode, and we

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don't really get anything on it. She's like a genius. She got out of MIT early.

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The only thing I can think is maybe Emmy fears herself because of things she's

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done in the past, and her capacity is like a spy, or I don't know, maybe as a spy

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she's been willing to do things that she regrets and that she's ashamed of, and

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kind of like Natasha and Natalia. What did they call her? Black Widow in the MCU. I think

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they call her Natasha and Natalia, but I don't want to get into that right now.

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But she did really bad things when she was a bad guy before she came over to the

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good side, I guess. Anyway, so maybe it's a similar vibe. Maybe it's something

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similar that she's done terrible things in the name of fighting Kaiju, I guess. I

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don't know what things she would do, other than the fact that they're

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killing Kaiju, killing living beings, in order to protect more lives, which we've

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talked about a lot, so I don't want to bring it up again. Yeah, I'm curious if it

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has to do with the end game of the show, if it has to do with her father and the

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research that he did on her, or not on her, but the research that he was doing

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that she was looking into. I don't really know. I don't really know, but it is

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strange. It's interesting. It was really cool to see like Kaiju-sized Emi though,

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fighting Blazar. That was really neat and a lot of fun, and I think she gave a

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great physical performance. She did that other fight in Thus Fought Emi. She

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did a great job with her martial arts stunts in there, and here we

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could see her like... it was like wrestling, like a chair, hitting Ultraman with it,

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and just bashing him around and stuff. That was a lot of fun. So speaking of

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the fight, I liked it. It was really cool that Blazar immediately pulled out

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the rainbow slash, and he threw it, but the mole caught it and spun it around

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like he was catching a hula hoop, and he threw it back, and it sliced through two

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buildings, and I liked the suit acting that Blazar did. Is it Hayashi? I think it's

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Hoshi. Anyway, the Blazar in Ultraman, maybe Reiwa Ultraman suit actor, he did a

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really great job like feeling panicked and expressing that, like, oh no, I

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inadvertently helped cut down these buildings because the enemy took my

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weapon and turned it against them, and what am I gonna do? How can I fix this? I

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can't fix it. I gotta fake this guy. So that was really cool, and I couldn't tell

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like is that Blazar or is that Gento or is it both of them? I don't really know,

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but it was cool, and then I thought it was funny that, you know, we got this going on,

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and it showed that Blazar has no eyelids, but then again at some point he, the

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light in his eyes goes off, and it's him showing him closing his eyes, and I feel

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like I recently saw that. I don't think it was in, I don't think it was in Zet

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that he closed his eyes. Blazar, I don't know, maybe my kids were watching this episode of

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Blazar like months ago, and I walked by and saw it, and it was like, oh interesting,

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he closes his eyes by turning the lights off in his eyes, or you know, the effect

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is to take the eyes of the suit and de-illuminate them, or whatever, turn the

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light off to them, and maybe it was just this, but I feel like I've seen it in at

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least one other Ultraman show where they did that trick to have him shut his

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lights, his eyes, by closing the light or turning the light off in the mask, and I

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think it's a cool detail, I think it's kind of fun, but it just seems kind of odd that

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he didn't do that before on his own, you know, but there was a point where

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Harkin's that were fighting somebody that they couldn't look at, or like he had

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to close his eyes because he couldn't see him, and he kind of did the same thing

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where he was like waiting and prepping himself for the attack, and then boom,

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striking, you know, but anyway, I thought that was a lot of fun. Okay, and while I

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did like this episode a lot, and there's a lot of cool stuff going on, the

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Tilsonite, I think, Tilsonite sword, I really felt like I was watching a toy

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commercial. There was a few shots where it was just like boom, boom, boom, look how

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cool this toy is, look how cool this toy is, look how cool this toy is, look how cool this toy is,

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slash stab, like it was a little much, it was a little much, and yeah, I was shocked

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by that, I was really shocked by that. I don't know, it didn't really take away from my

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enjoyment, I mean it nicked a little, it took like 5% of my enjoyment away, but I

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still really liked the episode, and I liked all the stuff with Emmy, or not all

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the stuff, but like the one thing with Emmy that we didn't really get an understanding of,

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and like it was cute that Yasunobu was upset that he didn't get to talk to Earthy

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first, and like he doesn't know that the others are all gonna know that Earthy is

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Earthy because Earthy's gonna announce himself like that, because he has no shame,

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and wouldn't, you know, think it's bad to announce that to the others, so that's

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gonna be, I hope that's a cute moment we get to see in the next episode, that would be a

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lot of fun, and then get into fearing, you know, failing a mission, that's cool, that

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makes sense, it's like simple and direct, but simple and clean, and I like it, so

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that's all I have to say, tell me your thoughts about the episode, did you like it,

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did you hate it, what didn't you get, or was the toy addictness like perfect for you,

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or did that take you out of it at all, and what do you think Emmy's secret is, if

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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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Until next time folks, take care and be ultra. I hope you enjoyed that, subscribe to

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