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Tension Inspection presents Going Ultra. This

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is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.

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Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. Prepare yourself

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for hard -hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis.

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Hey there, Ultra Fanatics! Just kidding. So,

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talking about episode SP3, or the special recap

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episode number 3 of ARK, I don't have a ton to

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say, but I do have a few things to say, so I'm

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going to go ahead and say them. So, um... I like

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this overall. I enjoyed the commentary. I wish

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there had been a little bit more commentary because

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it wasn't quite enough. And like I said previously

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in the last episode, I believe, I like hearing

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from EJ, you know, from an MJ to EJ. I definitely

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like hearing from him. And yeah, I think it was

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a decent recap. I like seeing Mark in the lay

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and hanging out on this island skip office. Some

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of EJ actually brought up that. I thought was

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interesting was the use of AI. There's a UP agent

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at every skip office. And I like, first of all,

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the, I don't know if this is actually tokusatsu,

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like a tokusatsu thing or not, but I feel like

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it is and I like it and I'm going to ascribe

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it to being a tokusatsu thing and just say, I

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love the fact that we have now Marine P and I

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don't remember the other UPs, but we have these

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different UP, you know, alternatives or versions

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of UP and it's the same suit. But on this one,

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they put a silly little like corncob hat. And

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that's what that was. And on one of them, she

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was a girl. So I think they like, you know, painted

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eyelashes or something like that. You know, three

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big eyelashes over the eyes or next to the eyes.

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And then the other one, I think he looked just

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like Yuppie, except he had like a, like a, it

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wasn't poncho, but he had like a tough guy kind

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of way of speaking. I think it was what differentiated

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him. And there might've been one other little

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cosmetic thing, but basically. uh, because he's

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a, you know, android, and because it's tokusatsu,

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you can just do one little thing and say, oh,

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this is an entirely different character, and

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now we have at least four of these units, I'm

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sure there are a lot more than that, but we have

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at least these four, and that's kind of fun,

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and special, and magical, and again, it's, this

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isn't necessarily a tokusatsu thing, but I'm

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ascribing it to tokusatsu, because that's what

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I want to do, um, and, uh, it's just like the

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tokusatsu quick change thing, you know? Like,

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it doesn't make sense, and it's stupid, and it

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shouldn't work, but it does. And I appreciate

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a lot of those things. If you don't know what

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I'm talking about, go look at episode something

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of Kamen Rider Forze. I couldn't find it. I looked,

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I couldn't find it. It doesn't matter. Don't

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talk about it. Don't. It's okay. So anyway, yeah,

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it's interesting, this idea that there's all

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these AI units that are helping to run Skip,

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and it's funny to me because, like, I'm a...

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pro ai person and there's so many people who

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are anti -ai in all these different areas and

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it's really funny because like um even going

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back to blazar and i mentioned this probably

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in the first or second episode of of arc even

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uh blazar had or no uh zet had like that ai agent

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who was like running the base and made the announcement

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that mike dent did the uh the voice work for

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on the dub and it's just funny to me that like

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all these people are you know in my opinion,

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crazy over the problems with AI. And they're

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not recognizing like how cool it is in a lot

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of stories. And there's a great book series.

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It's a nine book series called, it's by Jeffrey

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H. Haskell. I know that much. It's called Full

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Metal Superhero. Arsenal is the name of the series.

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Full Metal Super, Arsenal Full Metal Superhero.

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And then it has all these different things like,

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you know, ancient arsenal and, you know, unstoppable

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arsenal, explosive arsenal, different subtitles

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like that. Anyway. In that, this girl creates

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an AI for herself when she's a kid, like 12 or

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so, and she names him Epic, and they have a relationship,

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and he's a real character, and he's really cool,

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and there's a lot of cool stuff going on with

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them and their relationship and him being an

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independent entity, basically, out of her control,

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and he even makes his own AI, almost like his

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son, and there's a whole thing in the book series

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about that, and it's really interesting because,

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you know, you've got Data from Star Trek, right?

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This whole concept of advanced AI and advanced

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intelligence is really cool, and we got to see

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some attitude from UP recently, and we obviously

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see these other characters, they have the same

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body, the same shell, but they have such different

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personalities, and that's just a fun little thing.

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Yeah, there's not really much else I want to

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say, so I'm going to go ahead and call it here.

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It was fine, it was just, you know, very repetitive,

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because we're all the way at the end of the show,

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and it was showing stuff from all over the place

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in the show, and I just find it strange that...

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They do these things, but I can kind of understand.

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But it doesn't mean I have to like it. So anyway,

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I'm always going to kind of complain. And the

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other ones were better because there was more

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going on with them. There was more commentary.

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And this one was a little light on commentary.

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And it was a little disappointing because I'd

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like to hear more of that. But I mean, I guess

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that's why we can go over to UltramanConnection.com

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to find out all the stuff that they have

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there. Because that's also enjoyable. So anyway,

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until next time, folks, take care. Be well. Check

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out the show notes for everything I have going

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on, and look out for me to be doing more Ultraman

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stuff. I'm going to jump back into Kamen Rider

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Gob after I'm done catching up with Ark, and

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when that's over, I have plans for what I'm going

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to do next with Ultraman, and I think you're

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going to enjoy them.