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Join me as I talk about Ultra Reimblazer episode 19 light and flame
So I gotta be honest I did not like this episode I was disappointed by how things went down
I don't understand what's going on. It feels like the story was very thin here and
it feels like this episode was mostly just an excuse to sell more toys and choose more toys and
make them appealing to us and I
Wasn't I wasn't appealed to it didn't work on me
I don't know if it's because they didn't do a good job portraying the toys or if it's because the upgrades
Didn't feel earned at all and it really didn't make sense. So
Anyway, I'd like to know what you thought about it as well
but I'll continue sharing because I'm I did make some notes, but uh, I don't know I'd be like I
felt hollow like watching this like like oh, this is like
Honestly, one of my one of my thoughts was like, oh, this is like one of the dumb things they do in Commerator
that's just like disappointing and meaningless and
It's not compelling at all. So yeah, so ultra means doing that now
I guess
and I like I want to know why this happened because it doesn't make any sense to me that would and I find it very strange
but I
Don't know maybe side you clear will have you know
He'll pull some research or ask somebody on the discord or I don't know do something and give me some information about this because
It's just kind of heartbreaking to me that like this show was so cool and then stuff happens. So anyway
Here we go. Let me let me find my notes. So
You know something kind of intriguing for the for the story and that could make it interesting and I
Don't know somewhat worthwhile or something that was like a something that was good in this episode
Well, we got to see me go to lab 66 and we learned what V 99 means, which is great
you know, they're these aliens who came to earth in 1999, which is the same year she was born and
That kind of makes me wonder she's a super genius and she graduated high school or college like Harvard
I know she graduated MIT you think is a genius student
Which means she knows English as well like 100% perfectly
Somewhere close to that much better than I know Japanese
When she was a kid when she was like a like a young teen or something. So she's super
Intelligent she's a very capable fighter
There's these different things about her that are you know exceptional and I wonder what exactly that means
I'm wondering does that mean she's an alien and is that significant?
And her dad and an alien lady
Got together. I guess I didn't think about that implication, but she could have just been like left
It's like oh here is a you know, here's a one of our spawn
You may raise them as your own and we'll come back to her and you know
Collect her or you know have her interact with us or whatever
It could be something interesting actually kind of like can go from for Z if you think about it the way that worked
Anyway, I guess spoilers for for Z. Sorry
Also, like did we get the ghost kaiju episode the other day or previously so that we could get
Ghost dad showing up here and it would like feel justified or feel like it makes sense in the universe
I don't know that we needed that it doesn't really make sense to me that you would do it for that purpose only
I'm not saying it is explicitly for that purpose only but it just kind of made me think like oh ghost kaiju ghost dad and
I
Don't know how I feel about that like you don't need it
It's took us out to his Ultraman I don't know that you need just to justify that also
It could have been like a sciencey thing or he could have like just died there in front of her
Because you know he had to like he was at his physical limit or whatever. He was just died because he was dying
That would have been okay, too
Or it could have had I don't know just stick to it some other thing
But I didn't like hate that just I'm wondering if that's why we had ghost kaiju and
Well, I liked that episode. I was on guilt. It just kind of did come out of nowhere
So I'm wondering was that done for this reason because they know about these things while they're producing the show
It tips that they know we know they break the story and they know where they're gonna put things more or less
Anyway, so that's kind of interesting. I assume that's how they do it
I don't know I've never been involved in that Japanese production or seen much behind the scenes
Behind the scenes information about how they put these things together
So that's that's specifically from the generic TV, but also I've seen stuff from like the Clone Wars
They're not rebels just Clone Wars looks for me talking with other writers about how they're gonna plan those out some
anyway
The
Tilsenite sword being there and it being mentioned. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no quick
So the random firebird is weird like I guess it came through the dimensional rift
so it hasn't been waiting in that facility all this time, but like
Why does a door that needs to be opened we've seen like the blazar stone
Busts through a locker and it's like a little stone that probably weighs
Maybe two ounces or something like that this firebird has to have a lot more mass to it than that
I would think and it would just be able to break through the door like no problem and just go to blazar
So I got some kind of weird like why do they actually need to open the door for that to get through?
It doesn't really make sense. Like I said
and then
Like it's his pet or companion or whatever. I guess
And like I guess because blazar doesn't talk really to to get into like we're never gonna find out the truth about that
And
We just have to reappear with that as an audience being in the dark
But it just it feels weird and phony and like oh, yeah
We just made this up last minute and we put blue lines on it
Like blazar has on them to make it look like they belong together even though they're they're really done
This is something we kept up in the last minute. Let's give them a toy because that'll make the show better
Or you know toy sales better. I don't know
or you know toy sales better, I don't know weird and then
The tilts night blade, you know, they just happen to make a new tilts night spear when this one's about to be destroyed
It doesn't make sense if they deployed with it before and then and earth brun was using a tilts night
Rod or spear or sword or whatever for a while and then
They needed well, and then blazar broke that would be a lot better timing a lot better pacing for that
But it just it wasn't and they just wanted to give this new ability
Like they do need a break in order for him to be able to fuse the firebird thing with it in the first place
So that doesn't really make any sense at all
I could have just been something that amplified and added to it
But that's not what they did for some strange reason it just feels contrived and I don't know like I said empty and hollow
So, I don't know what happened and like will that golden cocoon thing ever be explained because
He sure seems to get like random one-off powers and I don't care that some extent
but um
It really doesn't make sense that
That thing that plot for it's just been like hanging well
This is gonna come back in like the last two episodes or whatever he can blazar can make a golden cocoon
Sort of around something. This is the kaiju mom or yeah, kaiju mom like episode 11 or whatever
Or dad, could be the dad
and
The ones that he went rogue on and and didn't want to kill him and somehow I guess didn't kill
but I think I don't know it's very confusing and
That never made sense and I thought that was gonna need explaining
I like how it was contextualized later in the following episode
I think this one following episode but it still is lacking and it's still an open thread
That doesn't make sense and that's frustrating. So the show sort of really great and then we have weird
things like plot with plot threads being dropped in a weird
Traces being made and stuff that feels empty and it's just it's disappointing because
It's gonna be one of the greats
But it's being diminished by something I can't quite tell what it is
So anyways, let me know what you thought about the episode because I let you know how I thought I let you know
Yeah, you know how I feel about it. I want to hear how you feel about it
So anyway, drop me a comment until next time. Take care. Do well be ultra
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