WEBVTT 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.220 Tension Inspection presents Going Ultra. This 00:00:03.220 --> 00:00:05.759 is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer. 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:08.839 Find all my work at mjmunoz .com. Prepare yourself 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:11.220 for hard -hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. 00:00:13.099 --> 00:00:15.279 Would you choose to live a beautiful lie with 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:17.719 the people you love or embrace a painful truth 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:21.780 alone for the sake of the world? That's the question 00:00:21.780 --> 00:00:25.179 Ultraman Ark asks in its final episode. And honestly, 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:27.699 the first eight minutes got me crying and working 00:00:27.699 --> 00:00:32.100 on this little intro here. So, yeah, I thought 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:35.259 episode 8, or sorry, I thought episode 25 of 00:00:35.259 --> 00:00:37.939 Ark was absolutely amazing. I loved it. It was 00:00:37.939 --> 00:00:41.079 fantastic. There's never been a better episode. 00:00:41.619 --> 00:00:48.960 And it was just, it was fantastic. This is full 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.020 spoilers for Ark. One of the things I really 00:00:52.020 --> 00:00:55.579 like is that there's no climactic battle. I mean, 00:00:55.619 --> 00:00:57.619 there is a climactic battle, and crazy stuff 00:00:57.619 --> 00:01:01.920 happens, but really... Um, it, the, the way that 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.040 the episode, uh, gets to reach the point of a 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:11.620 fully climax is that it has Ark just do some 00:01:11.620 --> 00:01:14.599 stuff. And because he's a wizard now, because 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.280 he's a magical, uh, you know, spaceman, uh, he's 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:20.359 just able to do these things and he's able to, 00:01:20.459 --> 00:01:25.400 um, manifest victory over this horrible evil 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.930 because He has the imaginative capacity to, and 00:01:29.930 --> 00:01:33.750 it is, you know, a little bit of a hat pull, 00:01:33.930 --> 00:01:36.409 but at the same time, based on Swede's comments 00:01:36.409 --> 00:01:39.329 earlier in the episode, it's also a legitimate 00:01:39.329 --> 00:01:43.930 thing. So, man, I took so many screenshots of 00:01:43.930 --> 00:01:46.129 this episode because it was so crazy, all the 00:01:46.129 --> 00:01:48.430 things that were happening. I don't want to do 00:01:48.430 --> 00:01:50.209 a synopsis. I don't want to do a review of the 00:01:50.209 --> 00:01:51.969 episode, but I do just want to touch on all these 00:01:51.969 --> 00:01:54.150 different points. So let me see if I can look 00:01:54.150 --> 00:01:56.500 at each of these images and kind of like... Say 00:01:56.500 --> 00:01:58.019 something based on each of them because there's 00:01:58.019 --> 00:02:00.000 just so many great shots in here and there's 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.299 so many meaningful moments Um, so I'm gonna go 00:02:02.299 --> 00:02:04.519 back and I'm gonna start with Swede real quick 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.319 Yuma realizes that he's in a dream see I feel 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:09.800 like I'm recapping now, but I'm not recapping 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:13.259 I'm giving context for the moment when Yuma realizes 00:02:13.259 --> 00:02:15.360 he's in the dream and he wants to break out of 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.560 it Swede takes over as the voice of the TV anchor 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.360 and then she Crawls her way out of the screen 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.009 which was like a really cool She doesn't actually 00:02:24.009 --> 00:02:25.689 crawl away all the way out. She rests her arms 00:02:25.689 --> 00:02:29.090 on it and says, like, look, if I, as a higher 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:32.129 being than you, had the capacity, the ability 00:02:32.129 --> 00:02:36.210 to deceive myself and delude myself into imagining 00:02:36.210 --> 00:02:38.129 that everything was just okay, everything was 00:02:38.129 --> 00:02:41.270 just hunky -dory, then I would have already fixed 00:02:41.270 --> 00:02:44.689 my problem with my universe or galaxy or whatever 00:02:44.689 --> 00:02:47.449 being about to explode. I felt like that's what 00:02:47.449 --> 00:02:49.009 she was saying, and I thought, huh, I wonder 00:02:49.009 --> 00:02:50.710 if Yuma, if he just went there, could he fix 00:02:50.710 --> 00:02:54.759 it? Fuck. That'll be addressed later. But for 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:56.960 now, I thought that was a really great moment. 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.520 I liked the breakdown. The only thing I thought 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:01.439 was a little bit confusing is, is this dream 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:04.400 happening now after the end of 25, episode 25? 00:03:04.659 --> 00:03:08.240 Or was it happening during episode 24 when he 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.319 was in the dream? Probably not during 24. I think 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.259 that was a separate issue. But also like, I don't 00:03:13.259 --> 00:03:15.599 understand how the skip crew was able to create 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.860 this Ghostbuster machine thing that Shu wore 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:24.689 and used. to go ahead and fight the kaiju and 00:03:24.689 --> 00:03:26.229 break the barrier that it had around it. Very 00:03:26.229 --> 00:03:28.370 Ghostbusters 2. Very end of Ghostbusters 2. It's 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:31.289 a strange thing that happened. And like, I don't, 00:03:31.289 --> 00:03:32.810 they looked like they were in their office, which 00:03:32.810 --> 00:03:34.629 if it's the set, it's the same set, but it's 00:03:34.629 --> 00:03:36.129 supposed to be like a different branch or whatever, 00:03:36.229 --> 00:03:39.189 that's fine. But I honestly didn't feel like 00:03:39.189 --> 00:03:41.949 that was very well explained. So like, it's not 00:03:41.949 --> 00:03:44.490 a perfect ending. And then they also like made 00:03:44.490 --> 00:03:45.870 sure to mention like, oh yeah, we took a sample 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:47.949 of this energy from such and such and we're using 00:03:47.949 --> 00:03:49.909 it here. Boom. It's in your little... backpack 00:03:49.909 --> 00:03:53.150 in your, in your proton pack shoe, um, like, 00:03:53.229 --> 00:03:55.409 was that from the Pikachu episode, or the, the 00:03:55.409 --> 00:03:57.990 electric mouse, the electric rat, was it from 00:03:57.990 --> 00:03:59.610 that episode that they had the sample, or was 00:03:59.610 --> 00:04:01.389 this from somebody else entirely, I don't even 00:04:01.389 --> 00:04:04.490 know, I don't even care though, because, whatever, 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:06.990 BS, hand wave it away, they were able to make 00:04:06.990 --> 00:04:09.629 a solution for Ishido to somehow interfere with 00:04:09.629 --> 00:04:11.550 the electromagnetic waves that were coming from 00:04:11.550 --> 00:04:17.990 the, um, from Gael, Gil, Baku's little belly, 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:23.220 thing. His little troll belly button jewel thing 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:26.319 that he's got going on there. And yeah, he was 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.300 able to disrupt the thing and able to wake up 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:32.519 Yuma. And one thing I really loved is that everybody, 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.839 Chief Bond said it, Ishido said it, the others, 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:37.060 I think, felt it too. They're like, we're going 00:04:37.060 --> 00:04:39.319 to save Ultraman. No, we're going to save Yuma, 00:04:39.420 --> 00:04:41.779 our friend. And I thought that was really cool. 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.579 I thought that was really touching. I really 00:04:43.579 --> 00:04:46.980 enjoyed that. I read in the trivia, which I'm 00:04:46.980 --> 00:04:48.480 not going to read to you because it's just kind 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:49.839 of, some of it's a little bit obvious, but some 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:50.800 of it's just kind of interesting. You should 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:52.500 check it out for yourself at the Ultraman Wiki 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:55.060 or wherever you get your Ultraman trivia, is 00:04:55.060 --> 00:05:02.379 that he, he, the man who played Tetsuya, I believe, 00:05:02.459 --> 00:05:07.899 is Yuma's father. He had like a bowl of nothing. 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.040 He had a plate of nothing and he poured imaginary 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.699 soy sauce on the bowl and the production crew 00:05:12.699 --> 00:05:14.220 saw that and they got him a blank newspaper. 00:05:14.339 --> 00:05:16.100 A newspaper with no, like it had all the framing 00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:17.500 or whatever, but it was no actual newspaper. 00:05:18.100 --> 00:05:19.980 I don't quite know how they did that, but they 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:21.220 did. And that's pretty cool. It's sitting on 00:05:21.220 --> 00:05:24.600 the table there. And like Yuma's bed is empty. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.259 It's in the middle of an empty room. He pulls 00:05:26.259 --> 00:05:28.300 a single bottle of water out of the fridge and 00:05:28.300 --> 00:05:30.180 he's like, wait a minute. And then the only thing 00:05:30.180 --> 00:05:32.339 I have a little quibble with is his parents were 00:05:32.339 --> 00:05:33.639 like, oh, isn't it a miracle that we survived? 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.649 And Yuma's like. A miracle. Yeah, it was a miracle. 00:05:36.889 --> 00:05:39.209 This is fake. It was a little too sudden, but 00:05:39.209 --> 00:05:41.589 also, this is the world of Ultraman. It's the 00:05:41.589 --> 00:05:43.990 world of Kaiju. It's the world of, well, Ultras. 00:05:45.410 --> 00:05:48.889 I think miracles should be fine. Like, if they 00:05:48.889 --> 00:05:50.389 had played it off as being something ordinary, 00:05:50.670 --> 00:05:53.189 I would understand. Or like, oh, that was all 00:05:53.189 --> 00:05:57.629 a dream. Don't worry. But I guess, like, Gilbaku's 00:05:57.629 --> 00:06:01.110 and Swede's, like, hastily put together a world. 00:06:01.149 --> 00:06:02.730 This is from the trivia. Like, it was supposed 00:06:02.730 --> 00:06:04.819 to be like, they didn't do a very good job. They 00:06:04.819 --> 00:06:08.139 did a very good job of selling the lie. So that 00:06:08.139 --> 00:06:10.360 part is a little disappointing, honestly. I wish 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:11.920 it had been a little bit of something else that 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.639 tipped Yuma off that this wasn't real. But ultimately, 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.040 I'm okay with it. It's not that big of a deal. 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.180 A lot of great shots. A lot of cool images going 00:06:25.180 --> 00:06:28.779 on here. I wish we'd gotten a little bit more 00:06:28.779 --> 00:06:31.519 of Ark fighting in the Dream Bubble City thing. 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:36.300 But it was cool that, like... I'm confused as 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:38.879 to, like, was Hoshimoto destroyed or not? I don't 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:40.379 think it was because they're all in Hoshimoto 00:06:40.379 --> 00:06:43.060 later. Maybe it looked as if it had been destroyed 00:06:43.060 --> 00:06:46.720 because of this dream bubble thing. Maybe. And 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:48.279 maybe that ending was just to fake us out. I'm 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:50.860 not really sure. But it's cool that when Yuma 00:06:50.860 --> 00:06:53.740 awakens as Ark and he, like, does this cool cartwheel, 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.199 like, he passes in front of this building that 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.240 I'm pointing at. You can't see. He passes in 00:06:58.240 --> 00:06:59.519 front of this building that has this really great 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:04.279 mirrored surface, the windows, and... You can 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.019 see his reflection of his hand casually in there 00:07:06.019 --> 00:07:08.100 as he's posing to fight and stuff. And then he's 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:09.500 like, oh, look at this mirror and see if I can 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:11.620 talk. And because it's a dream, he can talk to 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:13.459 Yuma. But before, what I was going to say, when 00:07:13.459 --> 00:07:15.720 he goes into that world, I saw one of the buildings 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.040 kind of move a couple feet or slide. And I thought, 00:07:18.060 --> 00:07:21.000 was that an accident in the production? And then 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.100 as I was thinking that thought, the buildings... 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.879 came and hemmed him in and he had to like, I 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:28.480 don't even know how he got out of the way. Like 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:30.579 he jumped out of the way or knocked buildings 00:07:30.579 --> 00:07:32.519 over or what, I don't know what he did, but it 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:34.699 was really cool. And it was a lot of fun. Um, 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:39.040 so that was neat. Uh, I really liked this. Uh, 00:07:39.300 --> 00:07:41.860 this is a great image. It's like a split second. 00:07:41.899 --> 00:07:43.319 I had to go back and capture the image. It was 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:44.920 really difficult to, well, not really difficult, 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:46.560 but it was just, it was harder than usual to 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.839 capture the image. Cause it's for a second arc 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.980 is there and doing his beam pose and the GDF. 00:07:53.310 --> 00:07:56.209 planes are flying over to attack the kaiju while 00:07:56.209 --> 00:07:58.889 he's, like, still waking up, and it makes a really 00:07:58.889 --> 00:08:01.709 cool moment, and I can't remember, did those, 00:08:01.949 --> 00:08:04.810 did they actually kill Gilbaku, is that what 00:08:04.810 --> 00:08:07.329 happens, and then Swede takes on her, her alien 00:08:07.329 --> 00:08:09.970 form, or whatever, her fighting form, maybe that's 00:08:09.970 --> 00:08:12.230 what happens, yeah, but, like, that, that Swede 00:08:12.230 --> 00:08:14.509 kaiju is, like, anyway, Swede is, like, really 00:08:14.509 --> 00:08:18.879 nasty, um, and she gives a great, like, I hate 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.220 and resent you performance. And, uh, yeah, she's, 00:08:22.220 --> 00:08:25.180 she's not a nice lady, not a nice lady at all. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:27.819 And her form being like a weird, like inversion 00:08:27.819 --> 00:08:31.180 of arc, maybe like, she's almost like an evil 00:08:31.180 --> 00:08:34.580 arc in her kaiju form. I think anyway, um, she's 00:08:34.580 --> 00:08:36.779 got the fin instead of having two eyes, she's 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:40.080 got like this gap, this like weird hollow gap 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.779 that kind of shows Solana, I guess, maybe from 00:08:42.779 --> 00:08:45.480 her home galaxy. Cause she's supposed to be somehow. 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:51.120 I guess Lord Zesu made her a separate... Because 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.220 he mentioned in the previous episode, like, don't 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:55.200 forget if you fail, I can still unlock you. So 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.259 I think he unlocked her, and what he unlocked 00:08:57.259 --> 00:09:01.559 was the fact that she is a Zesu gate as well. 00:09:01.899 --> 00:09:04.480 So her form is almost like if you took the onyx 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.799 in that weird ball kind of shape that it had, 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:08.600 and all the ridges and whatever on it, if you 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:10.740 took the onyx and then you reshaped it into like 00:09:10.740 --> 00:09:14.159 an armor... It turned her into like an evil ultra 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.799 with that. And even her, the color timer is like, 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:19.279 even though I said the face has like a hollow 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.940 in it and it shows Solana coming through, it's 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:23.559 almost like when they showed, when they went 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:27.279 up close on the chest, you could see Solana like 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.080 flaring in there, almost like as if that solar 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:30.799 energy was coming and it was going to come out 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:36.039 of the hole in her chest and unleash all the 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.120 solar energy and kill the planet, which was really 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.169 cool. And then I love that Yuma. And here's another 00:09:42.169 --> 00:09:46.070 little complaint. And the complaint is about 00:09:46.070 --> 00:09:49.250 the execution of the effect and not the actual 00:09:49.250 --> 00:09:52.190 concept behind it. So somehow Yuma, like his 00:09:52.190 --> 00:09:56.110 power is all drying up and I think maybe Swede 00:09:56.110 --> 00:09:59.769 is nullifying the Zesu gate in him, the Galaxer, 00:09:59.769 --> 00:10:01.929 the whatever, the Onyx. I think that's what's 00:10:01.929 --> 00:10:05.309 happening. But somehow I guess he, I don't know, 00:10:05.330 --> 00:10:07.190 maybe it was kind of like zero one. It almost 00:10:07.190 --> 00:10:10.879 seems like Yuma in this dream state. creates 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:15.460 himself a super form that is beyond, um, even 00:10:15.460 --> 00:10:18.480 farther beyond. Um, I don't know why that joke 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:20.000 has become so popular with me lately. Anyway. 00:10:20.259 --> 00:10:24.659 Um, yeah, I, I pretty sure Yuma creates for himself 00:10:24.659 --> 00:10:28.259 an extra power. So, uh, in the notes, I'm going 00:10:28.259 --> 00:10:29.379 to read from the notes and it says regarding 00:10:29.379 --> 00:10:31.860 the concept of arc finalized overload sensation, 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:34.480 uh, Tsujimoto explained when ultra man fires 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.379 a beam. Oh, maybe that's not, I know. I think 00:10:36.379 --> 00:10:39.690 that's like the final form of arc. that just 00:10:39.690 --> 00:10:41.490 looks like base Ark. I don't know if there's 00:10:41.490 --> 00:10:44.990 anything different about him. I don't think there 00:10:44.990 --> 00:10:48.190 is. And it's just kind of funny that it seems 00:10:48.190 --> 00:10:50.929 to be this other thing. Let me pause real quick. 00:10:52.429 --> 00:10:56.009 Yes, it's very unclear what this is. Like Ark 00:10:56.009 --> 00:10:58.509 has a cool fight and he gets extra powers, but 00:10:58.509 --> 00:11:00.809 like his superpowers aren't actually what helps 00:11:00.809 --> 00:11:04.809 him to win against Swede here. Like it's his 00:11:04.809 --> 00:11:07.600 heart, but let me get back real quick. So the 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.759 mono gallows horn he gets knocked all the way 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.399 back to the forest whatever the mountain where 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.580 the mono gallows horn is and he somehow this 00:11:15.580 --> 00:11:17.860 is what i was getting at there's a clear cube 00:11:17.860 --> 00:11:20.779 that's being assembled in the sky like a dungeon 00:11:20.779 --> 00:11:22.960 dice monster dice but it's going in reverse and 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.879 opening it's closing and it's it is like it's 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.879 like here's the mono gallows horn over here over 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:31.440 here, and then here's the cube, and it's forming 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.299 one, two, three, four, five, six, and it stays 00:11:33.299 --> 00:11:36.100 there, and Yuma passes that, and you see him 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:38.340 going past those things, or you see him going 00:11:38.340 --> 00:11:40.159 past the Monogalus form, you see the cube, and 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:43.200 you see him unleashing what looks like all the 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.539 powers of the Galaxer just on his own. He's like, 00:11:45.620 --> 00:11:47.320 he does this, and then, like, one, two, three, 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.679 four, like, blades come out, almost like the 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.840 feather things from the Galaxer. I sound like 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:54.559 an idiot just trying to describe this, but it's, 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:55.879 you know, it's accurate. You know what I'm talking 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:57.799 about. And then other ones come from behind him 00:11:57.799 --> 00:11:59.580 because he does some other flourish. And then 00:11:59.580 --> 00:12:02.179 as he gets to Swede, because he's running towards 00:12:02.179 --> 00:12:05.840 her and he's attacking with his melee or his 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.960 ranged attacks, he gets to her. She's like, she's 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.700 walking all off, possibly with Solana energy, 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.879 possibly with just whatever Onyx energy she has 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.899 or Zesu gate energy she has. And then the final 00:12:17.899 --> 00:12:19.460 thing that happens is the cube comes crashing 00:12:19.460 --> 00:12:24.779 into her and it looks like the... Monogalus horn 00:12:24.779 --> 00:12:26.820 was inside of the cube. You saw the episode, 00:12:26.940 --> 00:12:28.620 so you know what I'm talking about. But the amazing 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:30.360 thing is that I want to point out is that with 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.279 his imagination, he figured, oh, I'm just going 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:34.200 to plug that hole. I'm going to plug that hole. 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:36.919 I want to say something else. I'm going to plug 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:40.039 that hole and the tip of the Monogalus horn gets 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.100 lodged in her and he comes along and he does 00:12:42.100 --> 00:12:46.539 this great chop and he like twists into a crouch 00:12:46.539 --> 00:12:48.639 and does a little pose and the camera captures 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.620 it. It looks really great. It's fun. As much 00:12:51.620 --> 00:12:53.720 as I said there wasn't, like, a big spectacular 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:55.899 fight at the end, there was a cool fight, but, 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.720 like, the climax is an emotional climax that 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:02.639 happens in just, like, a moment. Like, he's beaten 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:06.840 her, and it's done. They're over. And then he 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:08.899 has this whole thing with the skip crew for a 00:13:08.899 --> 00:13:10.720 couple minutes, which was fantastic. So, anyway, 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:13.039 I really like that. What I didn't like about 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.299 that was the effect shot didn't show the cube 00:13:15.299 --> 00:13:17.679 forming around the Monogalos horn, which it should 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:19.470 have. And I don't know why it didn't because 00:13:19.470 --> 00:13:21.250 it wouldn't have ruined the surprise. It would 00:13:21.250 --> 00:13:23.110 just be like, why is he making a cube among the 00:13:23.110 --> 00:13:24.490 other girls? And then when it crashes into her 00:13:24.490 --> 00:13:26.450 and it stabs into her chest and you realize that 00:13:26.450 --> 00:13:29.149 she's like trying to pull it out, but she can't 00:13:29.149 --> 00:13:30.710 with her kaiju fingers because it's wedged in 00:13:30.710 --> 00:13:33.169 there and he's chopped it off. It's just so cool. 00:13:33.370 --> 00:13:36.230 And it would have been great had the effect been 00:13:36.230 --> 00:13:38.169 correct and like properly lined up. And even 00:13:38.169 --> 00:13:42.210 like they did this thing where like arc and. 00:13:43.209 --> 00:13:45.629 Yuma show up at the same time, like, Yuma's superimposed 00:13:45.629 --> 00:13:47.789 onto Ark, and, like, his hoodie is, like, unzipped 00:13:47.789 --> 00:13:50.230 in a way that kind of matches the, like, the 00:13:50.230 --> 00:13:53.009 patterning on Ark's chest, which is pretty cool, 00:13:53.070 --> 00:13:55.330 but, like, it's not quite right, and, like, he's 00:13:55.330 --> 00:13:58.049 over here a little bit, Yuma is, so it's, like, 00:13:58.129 --> 00:13:59.850 like, they could have done a little bit better 00:13:59.850 --> 00:14:01.889 job, but, like, it's still really good, and I'm 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:03.330 fine with it, I'm not mad about those things, 00:14:03.450 --> 00:14:05.070 they're not ruining the show for me at all, it's 00:14:05.070 --> 00:14:07.950 a great show, great climax to the, to the, like, 00:14:08.029 --> 00:14:10.980 great emotional finish. to the, uh, to the story 00:14:10.980 --> 00:14:12.919 and to this episode and to the show overall. 00:14:13.179 --> 00:14:15.159 And I really, really liked it. So that was a 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.220 lot of fun. Um, and then like, I'd been complaining 00:14:18.220 --> 00:14:19.659 about the lack of trick shots and stuff like 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:21.559 that. And like, I want the spectacle, but I want 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:23.320 the heart too, but like the heart's been there. 00:14:23.820 --> 00:14:26.659 Um, which I'll get to in a minute. The heart's 00:14:26.659 --> 00:14:28.559 been there for sure, but the spectacle on top 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.299 of it just makes it all the sweeter. And I love 00:14:31.299 --> 00:14:33.500 that she's pushing him back, pushing him back 00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:37.419 as he's doing his final attack. And she pushes 00:14:37.419 --> 00:14:39.679 him all the way around the world. And then they're 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.360 standing back to back and he's just continuing 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.820 the blast. And it just like shows this like infinite 00:14:43.820 --> 00:14:47.100 power almost that he has. And I guess it's the 00:14:47.100 --> 00:14:49.139 infinite power of imagination, which I will get 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:52.019 to that in a bit. But then he does the thing 00:14:52.019 --> 00:14:55.559 that he used against the... where he shakes the 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:57.879 beam, and for whatever reason, that's able to 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:00.460 shake it in such a way that it destroys her. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.559 It goes through that void head of hers and completely 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.700 destroys the kaiju, and then, like, that's it. 00:15:04.779 --> 00:15:06.740 Then we're done. Like, there's no fallout. There's 00:15:06.740 --> 00:15:09.220 no, like, pausing. Like, he walks past her. She 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:12.159 explodes. Zesu's head pops up, and she explodes. 00:15:12.299 --> 00:15:14.279 Or, like, I don't know. He does whatever, and 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:15.539 then fades away. And, like, that's it. And then 00:15:15.539 --> 00:15:17.419 it goes through the emotional climax of the episode, 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:22.379 which is really fantastic. Swede said something 00:15:22.379 --> 00:15:24.919 like, I'm so resentful of you because your power 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:26.879 of imagination, because you're this lower life 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.379 form you disgust to be, it could fix our problem, 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.460 the problem in our solar system. And then, again, 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.100 spoilers, you've seen it, so you know. At the 00:15:36.100 --> 00:15:37.340 end of the episode, it's been three months, they 00:15:37.340 --> 00:15:39.539 do a flash forward, and it seems like Yuma... 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.820 uh, signaled him in the sky with some flashing 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:43.980 lights, and then now he's back on Earth, and 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:46.259 he called, he called into the skip hotline, you 00:15:46.259 --> 00:15:47.919 can tell, because everybody's so excited, and 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:49.320 they're fighting over, you know, who gets to 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:53.019 talk to him, or whatever, and, uh, of course, 00:15:53.019 --> 00:15:55.159 his boy Ishido is talking to him, or Shu, I should 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:58.460 say, um, and it's been three months, and I guess 00:15:58.460 --> 00:16:01.759 in that time, Yuma has traveled to the home galaxy, 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.200 and he's fixed Solana with the power of imagination, 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.259 which is awesome, because it almost feels like, 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.120 in this final confrontation, kind of metaphorically 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.059 and accepting the pain and like choosing to live 00:16:13.059 --> 00:16:16.460 with the pain Yuma slash arc has opened himself 00:16:16.460 --> 00:16:19.919 up to be this channel for infinite energy and 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.639 infinite possibility and he can do anything with 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.639 his imagination because he's this flawed inferior 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.500 human being um he can go to someone else's galaxy 00:16:27.500 --> 00:16:30.659 and fix their so like change the reality of their 00:16:30.659 --> 00:16:33.299 world and fix their issues so that they can continue 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:37.610 to live and flourish and That's really awesome. 00:16:38.309 --> 00:16:40.269 That's really, really awesome. I absolutely love 00:16:40.269 --> 00:16:43.009 that. I think that's an incredible thing. I am 00:16:43.009 --> 00:16:44.610 forgetting something from earlier that I wanted 00:16:44.610 --> 00:16:46.629 to bring up at this point, but I don't remember 00:16:46.629 --> 00:16:50.049 what it was, unfortunately, for now. Oh, I don't 00:16:50.049 --> 00:16:51.049 remember what it was, but I do remember something 00:16:51.049 --> 00:16:52.690 else I wanted to talk about, which is this. And 00:16:52.690 --> 00:16:55.549 I am planning on, well, anyway. I think it's 00:16:55.549 --> 00:16:57.250 so beautiful. Let me go back to my images so 00:16:57.250 --> 00:16:58.470 I don't forget about it. Well, I won't forget 00:16:58.470 --> 00:17:04.049 about it. I think it's so beautiful that Yuma's 00:17:04.049 --> 00:17:07.069 being tempted. to embrace this false world and 00:17:07.069 --> 00:17:10.349 to live happily with his parents but the memories 00:17:10.349 --> 00:17:12.430 this is like you know the memories either whether 00:17:12.430 --> 00:17:14.089 they're real or they're constructs of his memories 00:17:14.089 --> 00:17:16.670 only these recreations of his real mom and dad 00:17:16.670 --> 00:17:21.150 show up and they encourage their son to do the 00:17:21.150 --> 00:17:23.549 right thing they tell him to get out of here 00:17:23.549 --> 00:17:25.710 which i believe was an exact duplicate time to 00:17:25.710 --> 00:17:27.650 run you might get out of here uh is what they 00:17:27.650 --> 00:17:30.430 said to him to help save his life He was ultimately 00:17:30.430 --> 00:17:31.950 almost crushed to death by the monogamous one. 00:17:31.970 --> 00:17:34.990 We know this from the show. And his life was 00:17:34.990 --> 00:17:36.589 saved, but Ark had to sacrifice all his power 00:17:36.589 --> 00:17:39.769 basically to save his life. Fantastic. Really 00:17:39.769 --> 00:17:42.250 interesting way to do it. Very tragic. Very cool. 00:17:43.390 --> 00:17:48.529 And they're telling him to run. And they're telling 00:17:48.529 --> 00:17:53.029 him to get out of that dreamlike world. And he 00:17:53.029 --> 00:17:55.829 chooses to do that. We see him as a little boy. 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.259 running away from, like, nodding, and like, you 00:17:58.259 --> 00:17:59.500 know, I'm gonna do this, and he runs away from 00:17:59.500 --> 00:18:01.299 his parents, and they're encouraging him to go, 00:18:01.420 --> 00:18:04.920 and then he passes by the camera, and then you 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:09.819 see adult Yuma running, and he holds up the thing, 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:12.019 and it, the diamond comes out of it, and then 00:18:12.019 --> 00:18:14.579 Ark comes, and he's flying, and then he flies 00:18:14.579 --> 00:18:17.359 straight at the enemy kaiju to face it, and to 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:22.500 face danger, and to face certain doom, and that's 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:24.799 so beautiful, and so amazing, because What is 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.740 the object of parents but to raise their children 00:18:27.740 --> 00:18:31.200 into adults who will become people who can transform 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:35.319 themselves through will and grit and determination 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.779 and imagination and creativity into a being of 00:18:39.779 --> 00:18:43.259 light who can combat cosmic horrors? What is 00:18:43.259 --> 00:18:46.759 a more beautiful symbology and representation 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.259 of what it is to raise... a child, to have a 00:18:50.259 --> 00:18:51.960 child, to bring a child into this world and then 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:54.000 raise them so they can go forward and fight for 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.859 the future and make something better. Like, that's 00:18:56.859 --> 00:18:58.900 just absolutely gorgeous and I absolutely love 00:18:58.900 --> 00:19:00.420 it and I absolutely love this finale. I'd love 00:19:00.420 --> 00:19:03.519 to hear your thoughts on this because I enjoyed 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:05.940 it so much and thought it was so friggin' fantastic. 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:09.480 More Ultraman coverage will come in the future. 00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:11.750 I'll let you know when to expect it. soonish, 00:19:11.750 --> 00:19:14.150 but not too soon. And yeah, I'd love to have 00:19:14.150 --> 00:19:15.549 a conversation about the show and about what's 00:19:15.549 --> 00:19:17.210 going on. Also, Ultraman Omega has been announced, 00:19:17.309 --> 00:19:18.930 but that's coming. We don't know when yet, but 00:19:18.930 --> 00:19:20.769 we do know it's coming. So that's something to 00:19:20.769 --> 00:19:22.769 be excited about and talk about as well at some 00:19:22.769 --> 00:19:26.009 point soonish. That's about all I have to say 00:19:26.009 --> 00:19:28.589 for now. One last little bit of business before 00:19:28.589 --> 00:19:30.170 I get out of here. Let me tell you about my middle 00:19:30.170 --> 00:19:32.329 grade novel, Mockwing Mayhem. It's coming out. 00:19:32.430 --> 00:19:35.349 I'm working on cover design with a cover artist, 00:19:35.390 --> 00:19:37.069 and I'm working on building newsletter and all 00:19:37.069 --> 00:19:39.809 sorts of stuff. 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So until next time, folks, take care 00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:39.279 and be well.