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

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I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. Prepare yourself for hard

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hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. So I want to talk about Ultraman Arc

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Episode 14, Flash of the Past. And anyway, it was a really great episode. Just yeah,

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just to spill the beans, I liked the episode a lot. It was fantastic. There

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was nothing wrong with it. It's you know, it was kind of a dialogue heavy,

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exposition heavy episode, but I didn't feel like it was an exposition dump. And

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I didn't feel like it was just characters talking to each other. I felt

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like it was us getting all these revelations and I like how they did it. I

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think they did it in a lot of clever. I think they did a few clever things. I'm

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gonna say like three for sure clever things that they did in this episode

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that made it more exciting, more interesting, more dynamic, and more

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engaging even though it was just a lot of people talking to each other back and

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forth and us seeing these flashbacks of the past, which it's funny. Flash of the

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past flashbacks. Anyway, real quick. So the writer on there, the director is

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Takanori Tsujimoto and the writer is Jun Sugita. So real quick on the director

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Tsujimoto, he's done a ton of Ultraman stuff I believe and didn't he do? Hold on, let me see.

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Ultra series, he did Ultrazone from 2011, Ultraman X, some of, not all of, Rube or

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RB, Taiga, Z, Trigger, Decker, Blazar a few episodes as well. I'm gonna say I'm

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pretty sure this guy was, let's see, okay never mind I thought he was somebody

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else and I apologize for that but still the episode was very well directed and I

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thought he did a really good job with that. It was very emotional, it had a lot

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of really good things going for it. Gaining over to the writer, let's see, who

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is this fellow? So he wrote the following episodes for the following series. So he

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wrote on Zone, Z, Taiga, or Trigger, sorry, Decker, Blazar, interesting, and Ark. He's

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the head writer of Ark. So he wrote Ark to the Future, Legend in the Woods, Unleash

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Your Imagination, which were the first three episodes, and then Welcome to Akebono

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Inn, which is a fun episode. So that's interesting. Yeah, so he's the head writer

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for this and this does very much have head writer energy, which is something I

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said in my Ultrafast review, it feels like a final episode of the show.

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However, in the past I feel like Ultraman, Blazar specifically, I'll lob this

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criticism at, and maybe Z too, like they kind of like hold on, hold on, hold on to

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the story, like the real meat of the story, and then you get it at the end, like

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here's the last episode or two and we're throwing all this story at you and all

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these crazy things are going on and what's gonna happen? As opposed to having

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more of like a slow burn. And with Z, you did have, you know, spoilers, you had

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the final bad going from place to place to place, I'll say it like that, and

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slowly working their plan. In Blazar it was much more abrupt and much harder to

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understand, I would say, even though I like Blazar a lot, maybe in some ways I

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like it better than Z, and I don't know, I just find it really interesting, I find it

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really interesting that the dynamic that, yeah, I finished Blazar, I finished Z,

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I'm working on Ark, and that's about it, but it's just kind of odd, it's an odd

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way to do things, to hold things back so much until the end, and they're not

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doing that here, which is really great. The whole, you know, truth about Ruteon

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and his origins has been a mystery, has been something that we've been not aware

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of this whole time. We've had little bits and pieces and it's interesting, this

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episode confirms some things and then spells out some things, but we're not

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getting many new revelations, we are getting some, and I'll go back to the

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three things I thought were really clever. One, we have the idea that by

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meeting face to face or talking, you know, directly to each other, it uses up a

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bunch of energy that Ruteon and Yuma have to utilize together, so when he

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finally transforms towards the end of the episode, like, you know, three quarters or

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more in, he's instantly got that color timer blinking and he's in trouble, which

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is good because it creates stakes and it creates a reason why this sort of thing

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hasn't happened before, so if people have been wondering why are they just talking

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like Z and Haruki would do, this is why. I don't know if there would have been a

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better time for him to do this or not, but it doesn't really matter, it's a

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story, it's fiction, it's plot, it's, you know, it was gonna happen when it was

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gonna happen, and I find that to be interesting. Also, we get confirmation

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from Ruteon that he did save Yuma 16 years ago. Something really interesting to

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note is that when he is reaching for him, it doesn't look like he's moving

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towards him, it looks like he's sitting here and his arms alone are going

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forward, like, almost like his arms are actually extending, which I thought was

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kind of interesting, but maybe in that state when he was traveling through that

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wormhole, for whatever reason the Monohorn creature, Mono-Gellis, was like a

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full-bodied creature versus Ruteon was more like a creature of light and maybe

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he was in more of an energy type form, and that hasn't really been explained,

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but visually it appears that way from the little movie diagram thing that we

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got going, or the, really, it reminded me of the, not that I've ever seen one in real

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life, but it reminded me of the idea of the the the paper shows that they would

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do. Hold on. What am I talking about? I'm talking about Kamishibai. Kamishibai, or

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paper play, is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was

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popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in

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Japan until the advent of television during the mid-20th century. Kamishibai

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were performed by a kamishibaya, or a kamishibai narrator, who traveled the

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street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature

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stage like device and narrated the story by changing each image. Kamishibai has

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its early origins in Japanese Buddhist temples where Buddhist monks from the

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eighth century onward used picture scrolls as pictorial aids for recounting

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their history, their history of the monasteries, an early combination of

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picture and text to convey a story. Very, very cool.

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Ogonbat, or Goldenbat, originally appeared in these famously before his

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anime, and even the the picture on the wiki, it shows the kamishibaya with

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Ogonbat behind him in his old form where he's like more like Phantom of the

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Opera type guy. Anyway, very cool, very interesting, and I feel like when they

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were in the movie theater and they were watching that movie, which that's the

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other clever thing that they did, they went into a movie in Yuma's memories or

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whatever that they had been to together because they've been together for 16

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years, and there he got to see the memories played out in this interesting

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way. Of course you could have just told him because this is a visual medium,

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we're getting the audience is getting this visual illustration of it, and it's

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really interesting that there's this threat to Ruteon's galaxy, his whole

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galaxy full of billions of people, trillions of people, I don't know, there's

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eight billion people on this planet alone, so if you have a cluster of

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planets or a cluster of galaxies that have communication with each other and

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whatnot, and there's no there's just the one Sun, yeah, there's just the one Sun,

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excuse me, so it must be, I think, that there's the single planet or single

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solar system with multiple planets in it that have life, and they all work with

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each other or have interactions with each other, obviously, because they're

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trying to stop their their planet from being destroyed, so this great, this

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super interesting idea that you have this moral quandary kind of of

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Ruteon and people who he's allied with are trying to stop the Earth from being

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destroyed because this Zaisu fellow came up with this idea, this amazing creation

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that he has that can suck the energy from the Sun and disperse it elsewhere in

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the galaxy, there's a lot of empty space in outer space in our universe, and he's

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thinking, hey, let's just move the energy, but for some reason, I think it was an error,

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the Earth is actually in one of the dump spots, and the whole Earth was going to

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be destroyed, but Ark already saved the world! Ruteon already came through and

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saved the world from being destroyed by having the energy output there, but

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Monogalos was sent after him, and Swede now has been sent to find this wormhole

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end that he somehow sealed with his powers, which that seems unbelievable

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that he has that much power, but anyway, that's something to discuss later, and now

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it's resulted in this Onyx thing, this, oh gosh, what do they call it? I don't

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remember what they called it, but Ishido knows of it as the Onyx, and it's

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something that's gonna play a significant role in the future episodes,

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and anyway, so like I said, he already saved the world once, which is really cool, and

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now the world has to be resaved because, or prevented from, yeah, there's that gate

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there, it's been sealed, or they call this seal, that's what it is, so the seal is

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closed, and if it's unsealed, then all the energy will come through and kill the

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earth, but at the same time, you have to think that there must be deleterious

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effect, I wouldn't think that one seal on earth sealed all of the shunts, let's

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call them, or vents, for the energy from their son back in Rition's home

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galaxy, but if that turns out to be what they make for the story, that it's

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either like earth is killed, or this whole galaxy is killed, full of trillions

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of people, or whatever, that to me is kind of like a bad moral, like the math on

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that doesn't make sense really, everything should be done to save as

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many lives as possible, but if you're, I don't know, like sacrificing, I don't know, to

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me it feels interesting, like it's a really interesting moral question, but

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if you can stop millions or trillions of people from being killed by killing

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billions, do you do that? It's the trolley problem, right, but just dressed up in

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space stuff, dressed up in a spacesuit, I mean I would think you have to find a

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way to save everybody, and that's the goal, and that's what Rition's friends

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are working on, or allies, whatever they are, and I think that's really interesting,

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but it creates a really interesting question, but just because the earth, when

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shunt is closed off, doesn't mean the others aren't open, and they, you know,

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can't be moving energy through there, it's a sufficient way to do things, but I

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wouldn't think it would shut everything down, and really put all those people,

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trillions and trillions of people, at risk of dying, and if that is the case, I

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think that's definitely a weird choice to do. It makes more sense, it makes

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Rition more heroic, it makes Ark more heroic, and it makes Swede and Zessu more

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villainous if they are now running at like, you know, 80% or 90% efficiency, but

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they're still willing to kill people to be at 100% efficiency, especially because they

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probably will not have a problem surviving with just one access point

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shut off, and you know, I could just open a new one, so I think that's really

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interesting, so I like this episode a lot, there's a lot of cool stuff going on here,

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a lot of interesting reveals, I like the way that the reveals were done, and I

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know I just felt really cool, it felt like a, like, very much endgame energy, and it

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felt like the end of the show, but this is just the middle point of the show, so

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I think that's really exciting, and I'm really happy that I've stuck it out, and

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I'm really happy that Ark is doing what it's doing now, because it's really good,

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it's very fun, so, Ritual Night After 3? What did you think of it though? Because I

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want to know, what other people think? Do you think it's just a trolley

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problem dressed up in space armor? Do you think it's cool? Do you dislike it? Do you

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like Swede's addition? Do you enjoy her energy? How do you think things are gonna

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play out, because now we have this big floating ball of death? I, one thing I

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really like is that, I think, the, Ark's Galaxy is a ball with these two bands

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around it, and the seal looks the same way, it's this ball with these two bands

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of debris, rocks, and stuff around it, which I think is a really cool thing to

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do. I don't know the significance of it, but it's a cool visual, so yeah, tell me

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what you think about it, I'm curious to hear what other people think about the show.

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