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Hey there, Ultra Fanatics! Just kidding. So,
talking about episode SP3, or the special recap
episode number 3 of ARK, I don't have a ton to
say, but I do have a few things to say, so I'm
going to go ahead and say them. So, um... I like
this overall. I enjoyed the commentary. I wish
there had been a little bit more commentary because
it wasn't quite enough. And like I said previously
in the last episode, I believe, I like hearing
from EJ, you know, from an MJ to EJ. I definitely
like hearing from him. And yeah, I think it was
a decent recap. I like seeing Mark in the lay
and hanging out on this island skip office. Some
of EJ actually brought up that. I thought was
interesting was the use of AI. There's a UP agent
at every skip office. And I like, first of all,
the, I don't know if this is actually tokusatsu,
like a tokusatsu thing or not, but I feel like
it is and I like it and I'm going to ascribe
it to being a tokusatsu thing and just say, I
love the fact that we have now Marine P and I
don't remember the other UPs, but we have these
different UP, you know, alternatives or versions
of UP and it's the same suit. But on this one,
they put a silly little like corncob hat. And
that's what that was. And on one of them, she
was a girl. So I think they like, you know, painted
eyelashes or something like that. You know, three
big eyelashes over the eyes or next to the eyes.
And then the other one, I think he looked just
like Yuppie, except he had like a, like a, it
wasn't poncho, but he had like a tough guy kind
of way of speaking. I think it was what differentiated
him. And there might've been one other little
cosmetic thing, but basically. uh, because he's
a, you know, android, and because it's tokusatsu,
you can just do one little thing and say, oh,
this is an entirely different character, and
now we have at least four of these units, I'm
sure there are a lot more than that, but we have
at least these four, and that's kind of fun,
and special, and magical, and again, it's, this
isn't necessarily a tokusatsu thing, but I'm
ascribing it to tokusatsu, because that's what
I want to do, um, and, uh, it's just like the
tokusatsu quick change thing, you know? Like,
it doesn't make sense, and it's stupid, and it
shouldn't work, but it does. And I appreciate
a lot of those things. If you don't know what
I'm talking about, go look at episode something
of Kamen Rider Forze. I couldn't find it. I looked,
I couldn't find it. It doesn't matter. Don't
talk about it. Don't. It's okay. So anyway, yeah,
it's interesting, this idea that there's all
these AI units that are helping to run Skip,
and it's funny to me because, like, I'm a...
pro ai person and there's so many people who
are anti -ai in all these different areas and
it's really funny because like um even going
back to blazar and i mentioned this probably
in the first or second episode of of arc even
uh blazar had or no uh zet had like that ai agent
who was like running the base and made the announcement
that mike dent did the uh the voice work for
on the dub and it's just funny to me that like
all these people are you know in my opinion,
crazy over the problems with AI. And they're
not recognizing like how cool it is in a lot
of stories. And there's a great book series.
It's a nine book series called, it's by Jeffrey
H. Haskell. I know that much. It's called Full
Metal Superhero. Arsenal is the name of the series.
Full Metal Super, Arsenal Full Metal Superhero.
And then it has all these different things like,
you know, ancient arsenal and, you know, unstoppable
arsenal, explosive arsenal, different subtitles
like that. Anyway. In that, this girl creates
an AI for herself when she's a kid, like 12 or
so, and she names him Epic, and they have a relationship,
and he's a real character, and he's really cool,
and there's a lot of cool stuff going on with
them and their relationship and him being an
independent entity, basically, out of her control,
and he even makes his own AI, almost like his
son, and there's a whole thing in the book series
about that, and it's really interesting because,
you know, you've got Data from Star Trek, right?
This whole concept of advanced AI and advanced
intelligence is really cool, and we got to see
some attitude from UP recently, and we obviously
see these other characters, they have the same
body, the same shell, but they have such different
personalities, and that's just a fun little thing.
Yeah, there's not really much else I want to
say, so I'm going to go ahead and call it here.
It was fine, it was just, you know, very repetitive,
because we're all the way at the end of the show,
and it was showing stuff from all over the place
in the show, and I just find it strange that...
They do these things, but I can kind of understand.
But it doesn't mean I have to like it. So anyway,
I'm always going to kind of complain. And the
other ones were better because there was more
going on with them. There was more commentary.
And this one was a little light on commentary.
And it was a little disappointing because I'd
like to hear more of that. But I mean, I guess
that's why we can go over to UltramanConnection.com
to find out all the stuff that they have
there. Because that's also enjoyable. So anyway,
until next time, folks, take care. Be well. Check
out the show notes for everything I have going
on, and look out for me to be doing more Ultraman
stuff. I'm going to jump back into Kamen Rider
Gob after I'm done catching up with Ark, and
when that's over, I have plans for what I'm going
to do next with Ultraman, and I think you're
going to enjoy them.