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Ultraman arc had an amazing emotional climax

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and I ended the series on a high Was that all

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an illusion was arcs final trick making me believe

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the entire series was actually good when it wasn't

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I Want to know what you think about Ultraman

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arc the finale and the series as a whole and

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I'm gonna tell you what I think about the whole

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series now, so Let's see I think the series had

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a strong start and an impressive finale, but

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it was inconsistent in the middle. How do you

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define the middle? It kind of depends. It's kind

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of all over the place. I'll go through a quick

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rundown of the episodes and get specific about

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how I feel about it. I almost considered stopping

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watching at one point due to a quality decline

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and I don't remember what had me sticking around.

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I mean, I wanted to know the rest of the story.

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I wanted to know what was going on. So I guess

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my curiosity kept me coming back. And that must

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mean that the show did a good enough job of hooking

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me at the beginning of it, that I stuck through

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the difficult parts. And the quality dramatically

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improved after the Blazar crossover, which the

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Blazar crossover in and of itself, it kind of

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feels disconnected from Ark. And it feels, I

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mean, it was integrated and it's part of the

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show, but it's just, it's kind of a cheat to

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say like, that's Ark, in my opinion. Because...

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I feel like it kind of heavily depends on Ultraman

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Blazar, and I really like Ultraman Blazar. It's

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definitely one of my favorite shows. The first,

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no that's not true, the first Ultraman DVD, Blu

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-ray, whatever I bought was the original Ultraman.

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I bought it twice. I bought the old Mill Creek

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one, which like, aren't we supposed to not like

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Mill Creek? But now I guess they're okay with

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Super Eye. Anyway. I don't do what we're supposed

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to do, so that's fine with me. Anyway. Then I

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bought the original Ultraman on Blu -ray, and

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I didn't really buy much else I don't think at

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all I bought the movie because as the dub on

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it still never watched the Shin Ultraman movie,

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but I will someday soon I went I was fortunate

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to be able to go see Shin Kamen Rider and sit

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in theaters But anyway, it's I don't want to

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get distracted on that um what so but however

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as soon as blazar came out on on Blu -ray I bought

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it Haven't watched the whole thing yet. I got

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it recently not you know too long ago or Was

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it as soon as it came out? It was pretty close.

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Anyway, but I'm excited about the movie because

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that's... I'm just excited to see what happens

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with the rest of the show. So naturally my inclination

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and my affection for Blazar, when Blazar stuff

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started happening in Ark, that piqued my interest

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and I was really into that, and I was shocked

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that it was four episodes. The series is only

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25 episodes long. Four episodes is not quite

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a quarter. It's a sixth. So from 25 % to, what

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is it, 18%, something like that. I think 18 times

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6. Yeah, about a little less than that. But still,

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that's a lot of the show is basically another

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show. And that feels off. And it feels to me

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like if you just told somebody that, that that

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would be a bad sign. Kind of like I wasn't a

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huge fan of the Book of Oba Fett. I liked the

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beginnings of it. But when Mandalorian came in

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and it like took over the show, that was frustrating

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to me. And it's kind of something similar here,

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except for I as much as I liked Mandalorian at

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the time. Intruding into you know Book of Boba

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Fett was odd And then here I feel like blazor

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intruding into arc is odd as well That was episodes

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16 17 18 19. That's four episodes and then we

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had 21 22 23 24 25 so five more at the end so

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We have like this five episode stretch That was

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really strong for the end especially 24 25. They're

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like a two -parter episode that means 23 22 and

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21 are all Different I guess 20 as well. You

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got to take that into account which I will like

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it's not a lot of space to do stuff and one of

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the episodes was really weird and really out

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there and thought he had nothing to do with the

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finale at all, but I think if we look at it more

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closely we can see that they are related and

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they do all matter so It's interesting some of

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the best episodes of Ultraman ever I've seen

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or that I've ever seen and I've heard other people

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say kind of similar, were in this show. However,

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just because they're isolated really great episodes

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or standalone great episodes doesn't mean that

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the overall show is great. And just because the

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finale was great doesn't mean that the whole

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package is really wonderful. And that's what

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I want to examine. So I gave you my thoughts

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on the overall structure and quality of the show,

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kind of all over the place. And then now I want

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to talk about some plot structure issues and

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then... We'll move on to the next thing. So some

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episodes felt disconnected from the main storyline

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as I was hinting to earlier And that's just in

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general all over the show. There's like every

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couple episodes There's something that's like

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kind of out of left field doesn't really make

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sense kind of took me out of it in some ways

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Kind of felt like what does this have to do with

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this overarching story which? from the beginning

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the overarching story seems to be there's something

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going on with space kaiju it's really bad which

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we had something similar in blazar so i thought

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that's a little irritating frustrating that they

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would be going back to this idea of the space

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kaiju being a problem um and then we had also

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this uzi uh you know this uzi thing which is

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a parasite um and it's an alien so i'm thinking

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okay it's an alien parasite we had uh that in

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ultraman zet And it's a space kaiju specifically

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I believe and we had the space kaiju being a

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big bad problem in Tremend blazar so arc is just

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doing like a Redux of those two things that doesn't

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really seem to make sense to me You know, why

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are we doing that? and then that never came back

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not once and That's kind of interesting to me

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and I don't I don't understand why and then I

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don't know if that's like a Wasted opportunity

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or if that's just something that makes sense

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because Ark is taking this approach of like Kaiju

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or actual animals or you know living creatures

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They have their own biology that like Yuma's

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a student of and an expert in and things like

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that But I feel like he isn't the one to identify

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the Uzi I I feel like Ishida was which is weird,

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but then again, he's the space guy So it would

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make more sense that he would have that He would

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have that ability and that familiarity to recognize

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that, but still it just kind of seems like a

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funny thing. Next, Swede is this big bad character.

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She's in the finale. She's in the two -parter,

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I guess you could say. Yeah, she is. And besides

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that, she's in like two other episodes, so she's

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in about four episodes total, I believe. And

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yet she should be this big bad, and she's gone.

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Like, she's introduced and then she's gone for

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like eight episodes approximately, and then she

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comes back. And that just seems weird. Don't

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really get how that works. So, you know, we have

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Swede being gone for a long time We have some

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of the episodes feeling desperate we have the

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Uzi parasite thing like not really being relevant

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towards the end of the story and The you know

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some of the standalone episodes like kind of

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get looped back in to being meaningful but some

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of them are just kind of silly and not silly

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but just I don't understand how this contributes

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to the overall plot, and that's something that

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is part of the weakness of Ark, I would say,

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or definitely you throw that in the weakness

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column for Ark, if you're saying, you know, these

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are the strengths, these are the weaknesses,

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and this is what makes it a good show or not.

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I want to switch gears and talk about the character

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development. Ishido evolved from Yuma's foil

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to a brother figure. There's this whole theme

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of found family going on here, and it's developed

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effectively throughout the series. I really do

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think that's true. Yuma has his grandmother,

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but his parents are dead. By the end of the show,

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he is... I'm gonna go into full spoilers. We

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get this beautiful image of Ark doing the hugging

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transformation thing that he does, but he's embracing

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all of Skip at the same time, and Yuma and Ishto

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are hugging at the time, and everybody else is

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off to the side. They became brothers, but Rin's

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a sister, but I don't know that they're gonna

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be hugging, and Bon is, you know... an unclely,

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fatherly figure, whatever. But again, I don't

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know that they'd be hugging. And Yuppie's a robot,

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so I don't know that you hug a robot or not.

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An Ultraman, but maybe you do. I would hug Yvonne,

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just personally. But anyway. So, yeah, I mean,

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that's really good, and it's really well -founded,

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and you get to see them go through different

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things. Like, you have the whole thing with the

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chief and his daughter. That was episode 20.

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And like, Yuma gets close to him, and he hears

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more about the family dynamic, and learns more

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about the family dynamic, which is something

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he's ignorant of, because he was raised by his

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grandmother. for the last 16 years or you know

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off and on raised by her they don't really go

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into specific details about it and it's not like

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a big thing and she appears in one episode if

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not two um and she's not like an essential part

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like Ishiro and his connection with uh Shu or

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I'm sorry Shu is Ishiro um Ishiro's connection

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with Yuma um like is a more important thing and

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like Rin feels like a sister and never like a

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potential girlfriend or somebody who he'd be

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romantically interested in um but like Yeah,

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kind of like yeah like a big sister like a not

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bratty, but just like you know she's got attitude

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sometimes She's not trying to say she's like

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a nasty character. She's she's she's great. She's

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fun. She's interesting but like Like chiding

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you about you know going to the bathroom all

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the time or whatever And like being missing and

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you know where'd you go? Where'd you get off

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to like there is definitely like a sisterly vibe

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there, and I think that's good But if you wanted

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to I guess you could say Rin is like the mother

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and Vaan is like the father and you know she

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was like his brother and I don't know, Yuppie's

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the dog, right? Yuppie's the dog again for the

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second time in this series. So yeah, like I really

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felt like all the character dynamics in the relationship

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was really sweet and something I was really impressed

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by that I didn't... have written down to talk

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about is that the skip crew because they're not

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a defense force because they're not an attack

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force and they're helping they're doing like

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research they're doing prevention they're doing

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evacuation they're doing things that put them

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in the line of harm or in harm's way but they

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don't really have weapons except for these sonic

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emitter things that are Kind of not that greatest

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thing ever. They're not an offensive weapon.

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They're a defensive weapon They're meant to drive

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the Kaiju away like they're really brave They're

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really noble and that's really impressive too

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And it's kind of like it's ridiculous that Haruki

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went and saved a puppy in the first episode of

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Wolfram Z But it's also like it shows heart and

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it shows You know how much he cares and it's

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like a sweet thing It would make more sense to

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see Yuma saving a puppy. It would be more natural,

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and it would be more fitting with the overall

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context of the show. And we didn't get that.

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That's not a complaint, I'm just saying. It's

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something true we did not get. But we could have,

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and it would have been very reasonable. But more

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than that, we get to see there's a kid who's

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gonna be crushed by something, and he goes to

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save the kid at some point. And just Bon and

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Rin, they really... do not have any way to defend

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themselves. All they can do is run from a kaiju.

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Ichido has a, I think he does have a gun, like

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it's a more special kind of gun from the space

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kaiju division of the GDF, and I don't remember

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too much about his weapon, but it's more, I believe

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it is obviously more powerful than the GDF, or

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sorry, than the skip weapons that they have,

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so. That's interesting. And again, it just makes

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them more noble and it makes them cooler because

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they're putting themselves more at risk than

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Ishido, and they're putting themselves more at

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risk than Yuma, because Yuma can just transform

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into Ultraman, you know, run away and abandon

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everybody, which of course he wouldn't do. But

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it is still cool that he has the possibility

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for doing that. That's what kind of makes things

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exciting, is that tension. Let me see. I'm trying

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to look up right now if we can see... the make

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model whatever the information about the gun

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that Ichido has but I'm not seeing it in a real

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quick look so I'm not gonna waste a lot of time

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on that just if I found it I found it and if

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not and not then it's okay. I love the Ghostbusters

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thing at the end though that was very cool. Anyway

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so going back into main pod elements so the central

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threat comes from another galaxy not from space

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kaiju as I've already kind of talked about I

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didn't Well, anyway, the alien civilization is

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trying to redirect energy from their dying son,

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which they call Solana. Ark's from there, so

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is Swede, so is his pal Bjornó, who pops up very

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late at the end of the show. And they plan to

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dump energy through all these wormholes, or one

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wormhole, I'm not sure how many there are, and

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one of them happens to be on Earth, and it's

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going to destroy everything. And 16 years ago,

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Ark closed the Zessou Gate and... After the mono

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gallows had come through which he killed But

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he couldn't save Yuma's family and he barely

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saved human he to give up he had to give up almost

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all of his life energy I think I personally think

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that Yuma was like crushed to death and somehow

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routine was able to go inside of him and Use

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all of his you know almost all of his energy

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to Condense himself within the boy and heal his

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body But I think Yuma was in a coma for some

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amount of time before he woke up. So like it

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didn't work real great and then Yeah, and then

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he woke up and then later on he is able to come

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Ultraman they can they have like very limited

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communication through reflective objects and

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through dreams and different things and it's

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really interesting But then Yuma and Ark ultimately

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travel to Ark's galaxy to find oh, this is like

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Speculation and like very end of the episode

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spoilers. They it seems like they fix Solana

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somehow with the power of imagination imagination

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And that's pretty cool, but like yeah, that's

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that's it like Skip as a crew on earth. There's

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this whole thing with Katie 16 years ago, which

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also to me. I think it's a little messy I Wouldn't

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think that you should assume that every Ultraman

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series there have always been Kaiju on earth

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forever Because that doesn't really make sense

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to me because how are people surviving Kaiju

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without an ultra there if there was like stories

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that there was always Ultras throughout the generations

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Doing stuff that would be cool. That would make

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sense. I would get that but that's not how it

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seems and even with Ultraman rising we have you

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know, 30 years ago four years ago, whatever an

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Ultraman came to earth or whatever cuz he yeah

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This is mention of m78 and I personally think

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the dad is an alien who like took a human form

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because yeah if you can turn into a human if

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you can turn into a giant and you can indent

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yourself down i figure you can probably transform

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your body to look like human which is something

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i want to use in a story an ultra man -like story

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that i want to tell but we'll talk about that

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at another date um anyway so i think he's an

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alien and especially as he says that his wife

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like taught him to be human or what it means

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to be human um which you can take that a lot

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of ways and you can say my wife taught me to

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be human too and i'm not an alien or am i Anyway,

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so, yeah, it's an interesting idea. Like, well,

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what happened before? What happened before 40

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years ago in the world of Ultraman Rising when,

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you know, Ultra Dad wasn't there to help everybody

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out, you know, what was happening. And especially

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because there's been a Kaiju Island there for

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who knows how long. Interesting world building

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possibilities and interesting concept of seeing

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like an ancient Ultra, which they had like in

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Ultraman, the original series, there was, I think

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they called them No, Ultraman No in like episode

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seven or... 7 or 11? I feel like it's one of

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those two episodes. Anyway, it's a cool episode.

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They travel to like an Egypt -like place and

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there's a desert sand kaiju, which is pretty

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cool. Anyway, don't want to get distracted with

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that. So yeah, like that's kind of the show.

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There are thematic elements that imagination

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is a central power and solution to problems.

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Human imagination is valued because of advanced

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species like... Like Routillon's, I guess, like

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Biorno's, like specifically Swede's is the one

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who says it. They have the ability to deceive

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themselves because they're higher in intellect

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and they can't like think outside the box because

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then it's like they're faced with reality and

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they can't only deal with the reality as it is.

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And like they don't have the ability to say,

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but what if we just did this instead? Which is

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interesting. And Swede, it talks about like,

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she's like jealous of that, which is interesting.

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there's a idea of the importance of questioning

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things rather than using brute force and We can

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see that in a couple different ways like new

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Mata doesn't get killed because he's uh, you

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know he's overstating his visa and he's the mushroom

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guy from the mushroom land bird guy from the

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mushroom plan, I think is the way to say it and

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Yeah, just like not everything can be solved

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by killing it and some things are solved in different

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ways but I mean he just still arc does kill kaiju

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like all the time um so it's not like that but

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uh and that's just kind of a weird interesting

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struggle or tension that Ultraman has within

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it I believe um so that's that's kind of there

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um but you know the solution ultimately is killing

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but also the zetsugate is reimagined and reshaped

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and it's like no amount of force could just stop

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the zetsugate from being um the you know black

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hole that it is it's going to destroy the the

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earth um Probably the whole solar system, but

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definitely the earth I wonder what the instantaneous

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destruction of a single planet would do to the

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rest of the planets. I Know anyway, it doesn't

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matter it calls for speculation. We're not gonna

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do that right now, but um Yeah, it's interesting

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because there's that tension there But anyway,

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and then there's kind of themes of dream versus

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reality Which would pop up in the final episodes

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of the dream bird and maybe even episode 20 2,

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I think, which is the Man in the White Mask episode.

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And also, it's not really, I said it like this

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when I talked about it in the finale, like Yuma

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learning to live with the pain. It's not about

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learning to live with the pain. Yuma's been living

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with the pain. He's had to live with the pain

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for so long of his parents being gone. But it's

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more like, like in Sonic 3, not letting the pain

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change you into somebody else. And Yuma doesn't

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do that. He's optimistic and he's bright and

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he has, like he wants to to um move towards the

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future as an Ultraman and um yeah like it's not

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a played out theme it's a cool idea and it's

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a lot of fun and uh yeah I don't know I don't

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know it's really interesting um it's really interesting

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as an aside I think I just found the gun As an

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adult, Shu entered into the prestigious American

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University, Space Science University, at a young

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age and graduated with top honors. He then continued

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his studies in Europe. Inspired by his grandfather's

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involvement in establishing the GDF, Science

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Division, Shu decided to join the organization

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specializing in alien space kaiju research. He's

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equipped with the Elema Gun, an anti -kaiju weapon

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for combating kaiju emergencies. There you go,

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Elema Gun. Great. I got it. Just decided to look

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that up. Anyway, so yeah standard episodes are

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episode 21 the dream bird definitely connects

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thematically to the finale I think episode 22

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it does as well. Like I said earlier 23 through

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25 form an effective finale sequence 16 through

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19 are the blazar episodes which like I know

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I really like those and I feel stupid a little

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bit for liking I feel like I've been duped a

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little bit because you know Why should I like

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these just because they're blazar and featuring

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like a little bit of blazar and you know Not

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even the whole scarred crew feels a little bit

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weird but um yeah i want to talk about the well

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yeah so in the whole scenario at the end like

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we get this whole you know mind bend i'll say

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it like that uh you know end of evangelion um

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or maybe death and rebirth i don't know anyway

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we get this kind of crazy story going on where

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you know Ishido is in a dream, and it doesn't

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last very long, but he's in this dream and it's

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this beautiful dream of his parents being alive,

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and he has to see through the deception, he has

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to see through the dream, and he has to embrace

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the pain and the suffering in order to... like

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have an actually happy life and not just live

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in a fantasy that he knows is a fantasy and In

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that dream bird episode like I feel like that

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stuff is kind of reflected in different places

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So for sure in the dream bird episode, you know

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Rin specifically tells Ali She can't just live

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in a dream and like having your all your wishes

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granted everything given to you It's like no

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way to live like you won't value it. It's not

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gonna be beneficial to you and It's not gonna

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be very great. So that's an interesting idea

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and an interesting parallel to to things you

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know to that whole dream that Gil Baku gives

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to to Yuma at the end so like Aoi has to reject

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that she has to live with the pain and She's

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ultimately happy after deciding to embrace the

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pain and not just you know kill everybody in

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herself God forbid and I think the man of the

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white mask is similar because he erases his face

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he erases his identity like he forgets his own

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name and he does that all for the sake of having

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a world drained of color a world drained of texture

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a world drained of difference and He does it

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to ultimately destroy kaiju so that they don't

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harass the world anymore But he says by erasing

00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.339
the concept of kaiju from all of our minds here

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on earth I will erase the kaiju somehow which

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doesn't actually make sense. It almost seems

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like he's saying you can just turn your blind

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eye and like delude yourself into believing that

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none of this is real and it doesn't matter and

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it honestly it felt to me like a like a code

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for suicide which I was uncomfortable with a

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little bit but like it didn't say it and it wasn't

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spelled out specifically enough for me to have

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an actual problem with it but it did feel a little

00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:54.430
bit like that and Honestly, Yuma in the last

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episodes, if he embraced the dream of his parents,

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he would have been destroyed on Earth. So it

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would have been like he would have lain down

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and fall asleep and let himself be killed, which

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I don't know how different that is from suicide.

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So the Man in the White Mask episode being an

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illustration or a way to look at, examine the

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idea of suicide or like the process of depression

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leading you to suicide is interesting, especially

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because like... They kind of determine in that

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episode that when people became depressed like

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Rin was saying she was so tired. She just couldn't

00:22:23.460 --> 00:22:25.900
think straight like those are those are symptoms

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of depression, and then she just disappeared

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and then for some reason Then she goes to work

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at the the coffee shop um Bonds coffee shop,

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and then Ishido gets pulled in the same way,

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but I don't know that he was actually feeling

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tired and Sad and like unable to form thoughts

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like he kind of got distracted, but I think he

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got distracted He saw the man in the white mask

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so it's like almost like if you don't keep that

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focus And you don't keep moving forward you will

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move backwards. That's a concept I almost wonder

00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.160
if that's kind of what was going on there. I

00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.319
don't really know it's really interesting like

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how the the imagery and the like the theme I

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Don't know more like the imagery and the symbology

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being used in that episode coupled with the stuff

00:23:10.140 --> 00:23:13.779
from the dream bird is like paralleling and giving

00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:16.059
you like a proto finale and Representing that

00:23:16.059 --> 00:23:18.099
challenge to you before you actually see it unfold

00:23:18.099 --> 00:23:20.339
in the finale of the show with the fighting and

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everything and that's really cool And like that's

00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:25.740
really interesting, but I just I'm sure that

00:23:25.740 --> 00:23:29.039
was purposeful. I know it was purposeful It's

00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:30.940
just interesting like I don't know what to do

00:23:30.940 --> 00:23:34.640
with that really I don't know what it means But

00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:36.140
it is interesting and I think that's that's the

00:23:36.140 --> 00:23:38.519
kind of stuff. That's like really high quality

00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:43.220
storytelling, and it makes a lot of sense and

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I don't know it's it's just like It's interesting

00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:48.920
what it does and that's the kind of thing it

00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:50.880
makes me want to say well No, the series was

00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.579
good the whole time, but that's episode 21 and

00:23:52.579 --> 00:23:57.660
22 specifically they Set up that conflict for

00:23:57.660 --> 00:24:00.319
you, or they help form they help those two episodes

00:24:00.509 --> 00:24:01.789
if you pay attention to them, if you think about

00:24:01.789 --> 00:24:04.450
them, they make the ending that much richer and

00:24:04.450 --> 00:24:07.390
deeper and more beautiful. And like episode three

00:24:07.390 --> 00:24:09.670
goes back to episode 25, or they connect to each

00:24:09.670 --> 00:24:10.950
other and apparently they were filmed at the

00:24:10.950 --> 00:24:13.150
same time. And like, I mean, if you just like

00:24:13.150 --> 00:24:15.730
kind of, and that's where we learn his backstory

00:24:15.730 --> 00:24:18.970
about his parents dying and saving him and everything.

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And if you kind of like put all those together,

00:24:22.130 --> 00:24:24.700
it makes a really good. Story and you could like

00:24:24.700 --> 00:24:26.299
almost condense the series down and like here's

00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:28.920
the movie and we're gonna you know Just cut all

00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:30.240
this other stuff out and put this all together

00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:32.599
and like you can get a story from that but having

00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:34.319
the rest of it makes more sense especially with

00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:40.700
like the fact that I Know that humans fighting

00:24:40.700 --> 00:24:42.420
to save his family here on earth and the rest

00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:50.279
of the planet by Embracing the pain and by Being

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okay with and admitting or Don't know just like

00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:58.680
going he like he chooses to leave a world of

00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:01.559
Bliss Which I would assume he'd be able to forget

00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:03.960
him make himself forget even though he like pretty

00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:06.160
quickly figured out that the world wasn't the

00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:07.960
real world and that it was just a dream and an

00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.220
illusion he Seems like and they didn't spell

00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:13.059
this out. So maybe that's kind of like why it's

00:25:13.059 --> 00:25:15.079
not so great but it's also kind of good that

00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:17.220
they didn't spell it out because now you like

00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:18.680
kids watching this will have to think about it

00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:20.640
and They're not having their hand held through

00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:22.920
the hole through the show the whole time, but

00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:25.279
If they presented a clear choice like you can

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:26.859
stay here and forget like at the end of persona

00:25:26.859 --> 00:25:29.440
3 If you can stay here and you can forget everything

00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.299
and you will just die along with everybody else

00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:34.119
But you won't know you won't remember the suffering

00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:36.920
but like you will wants to remember the suffering

00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:39.859
Kind of because it's the right thing to do and

00:25:39.859 --> 00:25:43.059
it's noble and this is unstated But also if he

00:25:43.059 --> 00:25:45.920
forgets everything else and just knows the bliss

00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.859
of this dream of having his parents He will have

00:25:48.859 --> 00:25:51.549
to sacrifice. He'll have to give up Because you're

00:25:51.549 --> 00:25:53.250
always giving up one thing for another thing

00:25:53.250 --> 00:25:55.809
he'll give up his time with his brother Ichido

00:25:55.809 --> 00:25:59.829
and you know Rin and Yuppi and Pan and he doesn't

00:25:59.829 --> 00:26:04.150
want to do that either and I think he wants to

00:26:04.150 --> 00:26:06.589
save the world but I think some part of the calculation

00:26:06.589 --> 00:26:09.269
is he also doesn't want to give up this relationship

00:26:09.269 --> 00:26:11.589
with these real relationships with real people

00:26:11.589 --> 00:26:15.549
who have become his second family and Abandon

00:26:15.549 --> 00:26:18.609
or and abandon all that just for the sake of

00:26:18.609 --> 00:26:20.930
a dream the sake of ignorance with this fake

00:26:20.930 --> 00:26:26.630
family I Think it's really interesting. I think

00:26:26.630 --> 00:26:34.390
it's really compelling before I get into My final

00:26:34.390 --> 00:26:37.369
analysis or assessment of the show I think I

00:26:37.369 --> 00:26:39.289
just want to run through real quick all the episodes

00:26:39.289 --> 00:26:42.670
and See what they are so at this point. I'm curious.

00:26:42.890 --> 00:26:44.750
What do you think? What are you already thinking

00:26:44.750 --> 00:26:49.549
about the show? and its overall quality and What

00:26:49.549 --> 00:26:51.569
do you think about me adding a little more texture

00:26:51.569 --> 00:26:53.630
and a little more focus in like does it change

00:26:53.630 --> 00:26:57.369
anything for you and That's kind of what I want

00:26:57.369 --> 00:27:01.049
to know so We have art to the future, which I'm

00:27:01.049 --> 00:27:03.630
not going to recap, but that's where we see the

00:27:03.630 --> 00:27:08.569
Shigong which is being manipulated by this Uzi

00:27:08.569 --> 00:27:16.289
space parasite and Weird stuff is happening with

00:27:16.289 --> 00:27:18.910
it and it's behaving inappropriately like it's

00:27:18.910 --> 00:27:20.670
supposed to eat limestone I think it's not like

00:27:20.670 --> 00:27:22.869
a carnivore so it should just be eating rocks

00:27:22.869 --> 00:27:25.029
but it's like super big for the size it is which

00:27:25.029 --> 00:27:27.130
like we get a little more of you know Yuma's

00:27:27.130 --> 00:27:29.150
expertise as a like kaiju physiologist or whatever

00:27:29.150 --> 00:27:31.230
and that's really cool that's a fun part of the

00:27:31.230 --> 00:27:33.210
show but like that doesn't really matter the

00:27:33.210 --> 00:27:35.660
overall plot we get to see him I think he talks

00:27:35.660 --> 00:27:37.740
to Ark in like a puddle or reflection or whatever,

00:27:37.740 --> 00:27:39.480
which is a really cool aesthetic, which I didn't

00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:41.640
mention. Like aesthetically the show is beautiful

00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.079
and they do a lot of great things. Ah, the reason

00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:46.200
I started the episode talking about like Ark's

00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:48.799
trick, like was was Ark's final trick fooling

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:50.279
me into thinking the whole show was great, was

00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.059
because in the beginning they started off with

00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:53.779
these really great trick shots where like you

00:27:53.779 --> 00:27:55.000
get to see through Ark's eyes, you get to see

00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:58.160
through Kaidu's eyes, you get like Yuma, you

00:27:58.160 --> 00:27:59.859
know, falling into water and like coming out

00:27:59.859 --> 00:28:01.319
the other side of it. You get like all these

00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:03.220
really interesting shots and all these interesting

00:28:03.220 --> 00:28:05.400
visual elements which... It's tokusatsu. It's

00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:06.759
important that the visual elements are exciting

00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:08.599
and interesting and engaging and the fights are

00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:11.299
really cool and you know, gov has been killing

00:28:11.299 --> 00:28:14.779
it with its fights and Well last Super Sentai

00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:17.519
I watched was Lupat probably and Lupat was like

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:22.339
it showed a marked step up Zyuranger, Zyuranger,

00:28:22.460 --> 00:28:25.660
Zyuranger? The one with the animals anyway that

00:28:25.660 --> 00:28:29.000
one like the the fight quality kicked up a serious

00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.089
amount on that and it kept going with With loop

00:28:32.089 --> 00:28:33.970
on I haven't watched since I since then so I

00:28:33.970 --> 00:28:36.869
can't tell you That it's gotten better or not,

00:28:36.869 --> 00:28:38.670
but I think from things. I've been seeing online.

00:28:38.809 --> 00:28:46.430
It's amazing So anyway So like this show has

00:28:46.430 --> 00:28:49.869
great spectacle and that's never a problem Sometimes

00:28:49.869 --> 00:28:51.730
the fights are a little samey like towards the

00:28:51.730 --> 00:28:54.700
middle like they dipped in imagination and creativity

00:28:54.700 --> 00:28:56.759
and how they would present the fights and I was

00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:58.119
less than thrilled by that because I thought

00:28:58.119 --> 00:29:00.000
the show is about imagination you have to show

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.039
that but thematically it's about imagination

00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:05.640
too it's not just in the shots and in the spectacle

00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.160
but I think it should be both I think you should

00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:09.160
like really strive hard to have both things bear

00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:11.259
be very imaginative however I will give them

00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:14.779
credit for this Givas the robot instantly captured

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:17.980
my heart with his weird simple clunky kind of

00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:20.759
cool retro -ish design from another world that

00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:22.960
we never get to see. And that was really cool.

00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:24.559
So let me try to run through these episodes real

00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:26.660
quick. Quick. Real quick. Quack, quack, quack,

00:29:26.660 --> 00:29:27.519
quack, quack, quack. Because I'm running out

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.160
of time. I've only got three minutes left. That's

00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:31.180
not true. I have more than three minutes left,

00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:33.079
but I have like ten minutes left at the most.

00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:36.299
Probably five. Anyway, I gotta go. So anyway,

00:29:36.859 --> 00:29:38.400
yeah, so we have that happen, and then we have

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.119
this legend in the woods where this kid... Doesn't

00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.039
believe his foot like this kids. I know getting

00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.319
communication from a kaiju and like warning his

00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:47.059
father with the deforestation He's like no don't

00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:48.940
deforest this thing because you're gonna wake

00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:50.680
up this mountain kaiju, and he's gonna kill stuff

00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:53.539
He's gonna destroy everything and that's interesting

00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:57.079
Next we have unleash your imagination where we

00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:00.180
get to see the origin we get to see the Daigalos

00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:02.079
or we get to the Monogalos fight And he's fighting

00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:04.380
a giant of light who is all like prismatic and

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:07.039
stuff which is super cool and then we get to

00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:11.539
see a Daigalos fight and That's we see Yuma do

00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:13.859
this thing where he like curves his beam his

00:30:13.859 --> 00:30:15.380
ray, whatever it's called. I just want to call

00:30:15.380 --> 00:30:18.380
it a specium ray For everybody because I'm basically

00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:20.380
like that anyway So he curves it and it goes

00:30:20.380 --> 00:30:22.579
around the monster shield and it destroys it

00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:24.619
and it is a really interesting thing where they

00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:28.339
built a CGI model of the 3D scan the suit and

00:30:28.339 --> 00:30:30.420
then they built a CGI model and then had that

00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:31.779
explode and turn into rubble and stuff which

00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:33.539
is kind of an interesting move, but it looked

00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:35.559
really cool I was very well integrated very well

00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:37.299
compositive and everything. It was a fantastic

00:30:37.299 --> 00:30:42.150
effect Visual effect anyway um so let me see

00:30:42.150 --> 00:30:45.029
episode four on the Kaiju's tail. This is the

00:30:45.029 --> 00:30:48.750
rat episode the Nezutron which is like you know

00:30:48.750 --> 00:30:51.589
a Pikachu the evil Pikachu um that was a fun

00:30:51.589 --> 00:30:53.650
episode and we got to see like Rin being super

00:30:53.650 --> 00:30:56.930
heroic because she was gonna like you know basically

00:30:56.930 --> 00:30:59.930
she was risking her life in order to go save

00:30:59.930 --> 00:31:02.230
a bunch of people and you get to see that they're

00:31:02.230 --> 00:31:05.019
like saving real people and saving a little town

00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:07.480
a little market area that she really likes and

00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:09.839
that's cool adds texture to her character ocean

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:13.640
on the mountain ridge um bon has this sensei

00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:17.920
uh who is this kaiju expert and we learn we see

00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:22.359
levi jira who's this um leviathan uh whale uh

00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:24.480
it's literally what the name means which is pretty

00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:29.980
cool the jira's i can go jira um and uh Like

00:31:29.980 --> 00:31:31.539
Yuma used to watch this guy when he was a kid

00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:32.880
and this guy was all about like, you know What

00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.400
can you imagine and like, you know, think outside

00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.619
the box that kind of thing But he was also bond

00:31:36.619 --> 00:31:38.539
teacher and like he failed to think outside of

00:31:38.539 --> 00:31:41.180
the box and he rejected One of bonds findings

00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:43.400
that like oh this must be an ancient false fossil

00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.680
for a kaiju and he was like no It can't be and

00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:47.140
I know there's just you know, whatever. This

00:31:47.140 --> 00:31:49.500
is kind of a whatever texturing of bonds character,

00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:51.759
but the skip crew works together really well

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:54.089
there's this flooded area and they're like evacuating

00:31:54.089 --> 00:31:55.250
people and they're saying like these people are

00:31:55.250 --> 00:31:56.809
going to lose their homes but then they save

00:31:56.809 --> 00:31:58.809
their homes and like help them and Ishida has

00:31:58.809 --> 00:32:01.490
like a real like positive move towards like being

00:32:01.490 --> 00:32:04.910
more part of the unit of skip on more of the

00:32:04.910 --> 00:32:07.869
family which happens even more in Welcome to

00:32:07.869 --> 00:32:12.759
Acapone Inn there's This alien, Kukuro, who's

00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:15.059
Numata, I think is his name, and like, Ichido

00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:16.680
wants to kill him because he's an illegal alien,

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:18.779
and humans say no, and they have a whole thing

00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:22.359
about it, and ultimately, he doesn't do that,

00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:23.759
and they find out that there's another kaiju

00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.039
there, which is a shogun that's causing issues.

00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:28.759
It's a few shoguns, actually, causing issues,

00:32:28.779 --> 00:32:33.740
and that's interesting. In the full moon's answer,

00:32:33.980 --> 00:32:37.259
we get this weird thing. This is a weird episode.

00:32:37.940 --> 00:32:40.720
With this explosive kaiju that it has to die

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.200
and blow up in order to give birth to its children

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.599
And it has like one kid at a time But it'll like

00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.200
you know wipe out a whole city and kill billions

00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:48.980
You know like kill thousands or tens of thousands

00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:51.480
of people in order to do that and like we're

00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.680
all just supposed to be okay with that and Yuma's

00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.000
not like oh yeah like in the at the end of the

00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.019
episode He's like we have to find a way to let

00:32:58.019 --> 00:32:59.579
these things known or let people know in the

00:32:59.579 --> 00:33:04.079
future how to work around This kaiju so that

00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.900
it can continue to live and it won't kill you

00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:10.359
know a bunch of people so like I mean it is good

00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:11.940
it's a good ethic it's a good thing to strive

00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:14.200
for but it also seems kind of dumb to say that

00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:15.519
as opposed to just like yeah we got to kill these

00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.460
hunger when they when they come around like let's

00:33:17.460 --> 00:33:18.759
find the babies and kill them which obviously

00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:21.859
is awful an awful thought but it's like yeah

00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:23.400
you like you got to figure something out because

00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:25.519
this hunger is throughout time like every couple

00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:27.680
hundred years or whatever it just like you know

00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.680
blows up and has a new baby and then kills a

00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:31.519
bunch of people and it's just it's kind of weird

00:33:35.929 --> 00:33:37.809
Yeah, I know this is kind of weird like I have

00:33:37.809 --> 00:33:40.150
very fun or odd feelings about the internet Kanigan

00:33:40.150 --> 00:33:42.509
They totally get Bitcoin wrong But it's funny

00:33:42.509 --> 00:33:44.029
because they have this Hoshipei thing and there's

00:33:44.029 --> 00:33:45.430
a Kanigan in the internet and they go inside

00:33:45.430 --> 00:33:47.809
the internet and it's crazy set design and that's

00:33:47.809 --> 00:33:52.690
a lot of fun and It's a great thing for each

00:33:52.690 --> 00:33:56.029
show and and and Yuma because they like work

00:33:56.029 --> 00:33:59.849
together on this like Livestream I can't remember

00:33:59.849 --> 00:34:02.500
they have like um They have little characters

00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:05.019
like, it's not called Vocaloid, what's it called?

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:07.440
It's the thing people do with the YouTube thing.

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:09.619
Anyway, whatever. They have little internet personas

00:34:09.619 --> 00:34:12.539
that they do stuff with and he's just trying

00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:14.980
to raise more money for his coffee fund so he

00:34:14.980 --> 00:34:16.219
doesn't run out of coffee, which is a lot of

00:34:16.219 --> 00:34:19.239
fun. Goodbye Rin is a cool dramatic episode where

00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.619
there's this guy who's working with black market

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:23.969
stuff. He used to know Rin. he's in love with

00:34:23.969 --> 00:34:26.530
her but he married this other woman because whatever

00:34:26.530 --> 00:34:28.829
but like also he was like a professor of hers

00:34:28.829 --> 00:34:30.110
and it was kind of creepy because he was older

00:34:30.110 --> 00:34:31.750
than her and she was into him he was into her

00:34:31.750 --> 00:34:33.710
but he was already engaged and it's kind of weird

00:34:33.710 --> 00:34:36.289
but like it was really interesting how like cool

00:34:36.289 --> 00:34:39.230
it got it was to like get close to Rin and like

00:34:39.230 --> 00:34:43.869
see one of her stories and um Like see her deal

00:34:43.869 --> 00:34:45.769
with the heartache and with how difficult this

00:34:45.769 --> 00:34:49.510
guy is For her to come to terms with and there's

00:34:49.510 --> 00:34:51.590
like there's like spy espionage thing like it

00:34:51.590 --> 00:34:53.130
shows her like a really strong character But

00:34:53.130 --> 00:34:55.710
also like because she's vulnerable in the episode

00:34:55.710 --> 00:34:58.190
too Like it shows her as being very vulnerable

00:34:58.190 --> 00:34:59.969
and then overcoming that and just being strong

00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:02.969
and like doing what she has to do in order to

00:35:02.969 --> 00:35:04.989
do what's right and it's really cool which again

00:35:04.989 --> 00:35:08.070
like kind of Touches on what Yuma has to do at

00:35:08.070 --> 00:35:09.530
the end of the series, which is good, you know,

00:35:09.530 --> 00:35:11.730
it's it's texturing. It's adding it's she's foiling

00:35:11.730 --> 00:35:13.610
it's it's everything kind of parallels each other

00:35:13.610 --> 00:35:16.050
and works together towards a better end. To my

00:35:16.050 --> 00:35:18.510
distant friend, so we have Yuma's classmate Kazuo,

00:35:18.530 --> 00:35:22.110
he's talking to this lady, Fio, on the radio

00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:24.429
and she's on another planet that's dying and

00:35:24.429 --> 00:35:27.849
he has this connection with her. And is it romantic?

00:35:28.090 --> 00:35:30.590
Is it sisterly? Is it brother -sister? I don't

00:35:30.590 --> 00:35:34.809
know, but he's so connected to her. And he has

00:35:34.809 --> 00:35:39.159
to hear her die. His connection with her is causing

00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:41.659
a kaiju to come and attack them Because it's

00:35:41.659 --> 00:35:43.460
like a weird frequency or whatever and they have

00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:45.840
to deal with that and that's just kind of interesting

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:48.440
Next episode message. That's give us. It's two

00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:52.059
-parter And I don't give us is just interesting.

00:35:52.500 --> 00:35:55.760
Um alien Kroko knows him new Manta comes back

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:58.059
shoe is friends with new Manta now he's like

00:35:58.059 --> 00:36:00.639
protecting him and it's showing this like nuanced

00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:03.440
approach to aliens and Kaiju or Kaijin whatever

00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:09.530
in aliens and I like that Anyway get give us

00:36:09.530 --> 00:36:12.369
who's an amazing robot design and a very cool

00:36:12.369 --> 00:36:14.989
creature and like he comes from a world where

00:36:14.989 --> 00:36:19.030
I can't remember everything but like his pilot

00:36:19.030 --> 00:36:21.010
there's a pilot inside of give us is like an

00:36:21.010 --> 00:36:24.130
advanced AI and Like he kind of doesn't want

00:36:24.130 --> 00:36:27.889
to know that the pilot who he had like a personal

00:36:27.889 --> 00:36:30.119
connection with is dead Sort of he's like ignoring

00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:33.699
that fact and Yuma climbs up Givas and he opens

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:35.719
up the chassis or like the cockpit or whatever

00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:38.760
and he sees like the bones or the dust of like

00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:40.820
what used to be a person and I think it all is

00:36:40.820 --> 00:36:42.280
it's like a skeleton and it like all crumbles

00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:44.539
before him it's like a weird skeleton too and

00:36:44.539 --> 00:36:47.659
then there's like a control yoke or a um Like

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:50.219
Martian successor Nadesco where he's got the

00:36:50.219 --> 00:36:51.719
thing that he you've like got the thing on the

00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:52.760
back of your hand you touch it I think it's like

00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.539
that, but he also has like a head thing I don't

00:36:54.539 --> 00:36:56.400
know he like gets into give us his mind a little

00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.780
bit and has this connection with him and like

00:36:57.780 --> 00:37:01.039
give us seems like he wants to destroy and But

00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:02.920
like human doesn't believe that he doesn't feel

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.320
that's right. He sees give us save a little girl

00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:07.539
so he knows that there must be this like nobility

00:37:07.539 --> 00:37:09.659
or this heroic or this positive aspect to give

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:11.800
us he's not just looking for an enemy in his

00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:14.380
world the moon phases or whatever change and

00:37:14.380 --> 00:37:16.340
friend can mean enemy enemy can mean friend depending

00:37:16.340 --> 00:37:18.760
on context or whatever but give us as a friend

00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:22.940
and ultimately he does not get destroyed and

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:25.820
he goes to the moon and waits to be called upon

00:37:25.820 --> 00:37:28.440
for later and That's kind of it. So it's like

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:31.119
Yuma, because he has the ability to not just

00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:32.579
like look at things in a binary, look at them

00:37:32.579 --> 00:37:34.280
as black and white, he's got the imagination

00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:37.400
to find nuance. He tries to find a way to fix

00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:39.880
this whole, give a situation and figure out what's

00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:43.360
actually going on and what can be done about

00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:48.400
it. And anyway, so like this is all good stuff

00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.179
and maybe in retrospect I'm seeing more of it

00:37:50.179 --> 00:37:53.820
as good than it was in... The action or like

00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:56.320
as it was happening. I don't know episode 13

00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:57.659
shoes report. Apparently there were no kaiju

00:37:57.659 --> 00:37:59.340
I don't really remember what happens. It might

00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:01.139
have been like a recap episode. That's what it

00:38:01.139 --> 00:38:05.239
is flash of the past is where Zadime shows up

00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:08.500
I would say this is where Swede shows up as well,

00:38:08.500 --> 00:38:11.420
but she might actually come She's there in the

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:13.119
background, but then she comes out in the next

00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:16.300
episode the wandering future and we get to see

00:38:16.300 --> 00:38:20.460
this whole thing and we learn why exactly Sweet

00:38:20.460 --> 00:38:23.940
is there and what? Routillon is doing there and

00:38:23.940 --> 00:38:28.039
what kind of arc is all about this threat from

00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:29.860
16 years ago this threat to the earth that's

00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:35.500
happening now and That's interesting then we

00:38:35.500 --> 00:38:39.300
get a recap episode after that and then we get

00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:41.539
The arc episodes, which I'm not gonna talk about

00:38:41.539 --> 00:38:44.539
for the sake of time Except they were cool. But

00:38:44.539 --> 00:38:46.619
like I don't know how they like contribute to

00:38:46.619 --> 00:38:49.039
the overall story other than arc you're getting

00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.909
a aren't getting a power -up from blazar so that

00:38:52.909 --> 00:38:55.489
they don't have to all die from hellneric or

00:38:55.489 --> 00:38:58.070
hellneric Which like I just didn't need to be

00:38:58.070 --> 00:38:59.110
part of the show. There could have been something

00:38:59.110 --> 00:39:01.349
else going on there I don't know. I like the

00:39:01.349 --> 00:39:03.809
blazar thing in isolation. Does it contribute

00:39:03.809 --> 00:39:05.969
to the overall show? I don't really know that

00:39:05.969 --> 00:39:10.130
it does except Yuma and Isshido bond over Zangiel

00:39:10.130 --> 00:39:12.809
and His love of coffee and how he hangs out with

00:39:12.809 --> 00:39:14.610
them and I really like Zangiel's voice actor

00:39:14.610 --> 00:39:18.070
and I really like Zangiel's uh performance um

00:39:18.070 --> 00:39:20.590
or like just like his presence there it's really

00:39:20.590 --> 00:39:22.289
something i like it's too bad they couldn't get

00:39:22.289 --> 00:39:24.610
the face actor back but they have the suit and

00:39:24.610 --> 00:39:26.710
they got the same dub actor uh for over here

00:39:26.710 --> 00:39:30.530
for the us um and uh yeah that was a lot of fun

00:39:30.530 --> 00:39:32.690
um so i have a lot of positive feelings about

00:39:32.690 --> 00:39:36.530
that um and then like i mentioned there's the

00:39:36.530 --> 00:39:38.710
episode 20 is about the chief's daughter it's

00:39:38.710 --> 00:39:42.210
like i don't know whatever um The Dreambird is

00:39:42.210 --> 00:39:44.050
great. Man of the White Mask I talked about already.

00:39:44.630 --> 00:39:47.150
Then 23 is Calamity Thrice, which was where a

00:39:47.150 --> 00:39:50.269
three -horned... or a trigalus shows up. Then

00:39:50.269 --> 00:39:52.929
we get another recap, and then the Descending

00:39:52.929 --> 00:39:56.050
Dream, and then Time to Run Yuma. So like...

00:39:56.050 --> 00:39:59.800
I don't know. I'm not going to touch on those

00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:01.320
because I feel like I've already said enough

00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:04.320
recently on them. So I'm going to say despite

00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:06.739
inconsistency, the thematic arc is ultimately

00:40:06.739 --> 00:40:09.340
satisfying. The emphasis on imagination and on

00:40:09.340 --> 00:40:11.019
creative problem solving ties together well,

00:40:11.340 --> 00:40:13.699
ties the episodes together well too. The character

00:40:13.699 --> 00:40:16.719
relationship and emotional elements provide depth

00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:18.960
and they also texture each other and like foil

00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:20.320
each other, but you kind of have to think about

00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:24.300
it too. So either you're just going to be...

00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:26.099
taking the show on more like a surface level

00:40:26.099 --> 00:40:27.699
and enjoying the episode to episode and maybe

00:40:27.699 --> 00:40:29.719
you didn't like something here or there or whatever

00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.760
and you just roll with it or you would be like

00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:34.239
oh I don't like this episode then afterwards

00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:36.440
you think you know what actually maybe in retrospect

00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.460
I do like it and these these are the good things

00:40:38.460 --> 00:40:40.260
about it this is why it was so good and this

00:40:40.260 --> 00:40:42.760
is how it contributed to the overall episode

00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.460
this is how it contributed to the other episodes

00:40:45.460 --> 00:40:47.199
this is how it contributed to the overall series

00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:49.360
and that's why I feel this way about it and then

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:51.400
you can make it like a mature you know reason

00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:53.699
decision which is the same as arc is cool and

00:40:53.699 --> 00:40:56.210
he has a rainbow attack and he blows up monsters

00:40:56.210 --> 00:40:58.429
and he has friends who he helps and cool armor

00:40:58.429 --> 00:41:05.050
um which is you know also great um so i don't

00:41:05.050 --> 00:41:07.889
know i have written down that um the series finds

00:41:07.889 --> 00:41:09.469
its footing in the second half and delivers a

00:41:09.469 --> 00:41:11.369
strong conclusion definitely delivers a strong

00:41:11.369 --> 00:41:13.869
conclusion does it find its footing in the second

00:41:13.869 --> 00:41:15.349
half i don't know my experience watching it was

00:41:15.349 --> 00:41:17.130
very interrupted i had to take a long break because

00:41:17.130 --> 00:41:19.429
there were family issues going on and i wasn't

00:41:19.429 --> 00:41:24.389
watching anything really um and then uh There

00:41:24.389 --> 00:41:27.869
was the... Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

00:41:28.010 --> 00:41:29.489
Like, definitely the Hongar episode upset me.

00:41:29.489 --> 00:41:32.570
You could see that here. Um, and then I... I

00:41:32.570 --> 00:41:36.210
don't know. I liked the... Give Us episodes,

00:41:36.289 --> 00:41:37.610
and then after that there was another... there

00:41:37.610 --> 00:41:40.289
was a, you know, shoes report. And then there

00:41:40.289 --> 00:41:43.150
was the Sweet episodes, kind of introducing this

00:41:43.150 --> 00:41:45.210
threat from another world. I don't know. Maybe

00:41:45.210 --> 00:41:48.329
it's just the fact that, like... You get this

00:41:48.329 --> 00:41:50.110
great big threat from another world, and then

00:41:50.110 --> 00:41:54.460
you do four episodes of... blazar maybe if the

00:41:54.460 --> 00:41:56.360
blazar episodes had been first and then you get

00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:58.539
this threat from another world and then you have

00:41:58.539 --> 00:42:00.940
the break with Ishido's daughter then you have

00:42:00.940 --> 00:42:02.400
the dream bird and the man in the white mask

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:04.820
as like you're wondering what exactly happened

00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:08.480
because the thing about the Zesugate being turned

00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.579
into the Galaxer is really interesting and the

00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:11.900
fact that it's like basically a ticking time

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:14.619
bomb like a contingency plan that's within Arkanuma

00:42:14.619 --> 00:42:16.780
and if they don't know that and nobody does anything

00:42:16.780 --> 00:42:18.840
like Zesu could have just done nothing and they

00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.300
wouldn't have known and then they would have

00:42:20.300 --> 00:42:21.679
blown up from the inside and everything would

00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:25.099
have been fine. Although I guess, uh, Buono came

00:42:25.099 --> 00:42:26.880
along and ruined his plans because he interrupted

00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.380
and told them about that. But like if you did

00:42:29.380 --> 00:42:33.059
that and then you went into, um, Calamity Thrice

00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:35.340
and the other, you know, and the Descending Dream

00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:36.739
of Time to run, you might, it would have been

00:42:36.739 --> 00:42:38.599
really good and like really satisfying and felt

00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:42.179
really like, oh, this is what the show's about.

00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:44.019
Like we had all these other things going on and

00:42:44.019 --> 00:42:45.800
they thought the threat was, you know, space

00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.139
kaiju or Or technically the thread is from space.

00:42:49.179 --> 00:42:50.300
They thought the threat was this, they thought

00:42:50.300 --> 00:42:51.760
the threat was that, these interesting things

00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:53.320
have been going on, what's going on in this world.

00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.559
Uh -oh, it turns out that it looked like everything

00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:58.480
was great, but it wasn't all great because there

00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.219
were problems from the past that are finally

00:43:00.219 --> 00:43:02.179
here manifesting in the future, and we could

00:43:02.179 --> 00:43:04.159
see all that play out together. I kind of think

00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:06.699
had the episode order been changed around, it

00:43:06.699 --> 00:43:09.639
would have been more satisfying to me, and it

00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:11.079
would have made a lot more sense, but it also

00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:12.380
just could have been the way I kind of watched

00:43:12.380 --> 00:43:15.860
the show broken up. I don't know. What did you

00:43:15.860 --> 00:43:18.340
think? What do you think about my... Assessment

00:43:18.340 --> 00:43:20.659
of it. What do you think was the show good all

00:43:20.659 --> 00:43:25.340
along? Or was it not so great in places and did

00:43:25.340 --> 00:43:27.440
it kind of it to be inconsistency ruin it for

00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:31.460
you? Yeah, it's like mid or masterful. I'm gonna

00:43:31.460 --> 00:43:34.860
say It's somewhere between mid and masterful

00:43:34.860 --> 00:43:37.619
like that conclusion is great but the episode

00:43:37.619 --> 00:43:40.920
order kind of messes things up for me and Maybe

00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:42.380
there's some other complicating factors. I'm

00:43:42.380 --> 00:43:45.059
gonna say arc is very good I'm not gonna call

00:43:45.059 --> 00:43:47.929
it masterful It's also not just okay. I'm gonna

00:43:47.929 --> 00:43:49.869
say it's a very good show. I would give it like

00:43:49.869 --> 00:43:53.969
an 8 out of 10 probably there's a lot of things.

00:43:54.050 --> 00:43:56.349
I like it. There's a lot of great episodes the

00:43:56.349 --> 00:43:59.010
Dreambird is an amazing episode of television

00:43:59.010 --> 00:44:01.510
an amazing science fiction episode just in general

00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:05.969
and besides that It was a really cool show overall

00:44:05.969 --> 00:44:07.650
a lot of cool things in here I love the relationship

00:44:07.650 --> 00:44:10.289
between each dough and Yuma and the rest of the

00:44:10.289 --> 00:44:11.909
art crew, but like them specifically they get

00:44:11.909 --> 00:44:16.070
so much focus and context together It's really

00:44:16.070 --> 00:44:19.389
nice. Well, that's all I have to say for now.

00:44:20.630 --> 00:44:23.650
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00:44:23.650 --> 00:44:25.389
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00:44:25.389 --> 00:44:27.989
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00:44:27.989 --> 00:44:30.289
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00:44:30.289 --> 00:44:32.489
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Podcast setup and everything podcast feeds and

00:44:40.969 --> 00:44:43.530
links to the YouTube videos and whatnot. I've

00:44:43.530 --> 00:44:45.030
been doing YouTube shorts for all of these I

00:44:45.030 --> 00:44:47.150
plan to cover Omega ultimate Omega when that

00:44:47.150 --> 00:44:51.489
comes out as well and I've recently I keep evolving

00:44:51.489 --> 00:44:53.570
my style and my approach for reviewing and I

00:44:53.570 --> 00:44:57.539
think what I'm doing now is like the best form

00:44:57.539 --> 00:45:00.099
I have currently. This episode is an aberration

00:45:00.099 --> 00:45:02.039
because I'm going so long and talking so much

00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:04.320
about so much, but the way I focus in on each

00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:06.139
episode individually, I do kind of like a short

00:45:06.139 --> 00:45:09.599
punchy review of things and I think that's good

00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:11.900
and it's useful and hopefully you'll find it

00:45:11.900 --> 00:45:14.639
enjoyable as well. I have fun doing them. And

00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:23.090
besides that, I am... Anyway, besides... watching

00:45:23.090 --> 00:45:26.230
and analyzing Tokusatsu, Ultraman, and Kamen

00:45:26.230 --> 00:45:29.530
Rider, and whatnot. I also am a writer, and I

00:45:29.530 --> 00:45:32.309
have been working on a story that is ready for

00:45:32.309 --> 00:45:34.230
publishing, pretty much ready for publishing.

00:45:34.510 --> 00:45:36.809
It's called Mockwing Mayhem, and in it, magical

00:45:36.809 --> 00:45:39.210
bugs battle monsters, and these monsters in the

00:45:39.210 --> 00:45:42.210
night, well, in the night and in the day, whenever

00:45:42.210 --> 00:45:43.929
they can, really, they go around and they find

00:45:43.929 --> 00:45:47.610
children, and they prey upon them. They... Hurt

00:45:47.610 --> 00:45:49.969
them by feeding off of them with their emotions

00:45:49.969 --> 00:45:52.230
and they cause them distress and all these negative

00:45:52.230 --> 00:45:55.269
things so you could say that they They don't

00:45:55.269 --> 00:45:58.389
make children smile or you know, they they hurt

00:45:58.389 --> 00:46:01.289
them and attack their smiles and as any good

00:46:01.289 --> 00:46:04.469
tokusatsu hero would the grow bugs protect the

00:46:04.469 --> 00:46:07.030
smiles of these children and they do that by

00:46:07.030 --> 00:46:08.969
Fighting with their powers of light. So they

00:46:08.969 --> 00:46:11.050
have like an aura of light that they have around

00:46:11.050 --> 00:46:14.789
their bodies though, you know their bugs and

00:46:14.789 --> 00:46:17.010
they run around and or fly around run around

00:46:17.010 --> 00:46:19.090
whatever and wherever a kid is being attacked

00:46:19.090 --> 00:46:21.949
they get sent there and they help to fight off

00:46:21.949 --> 00:46:24.130
the grimling and save the kid and protect them

00:46:24.130 --> 00:46:27.489
from harm and they live in their own little world

00:46:27.489 --> 00:46:29.980
within our world which doesn't mean it's like

00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:31.340
they're going through a portal it's like they're

00:46:31.340 --> 00:46:33.719
in the park they have a nest or a fort where

00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:35.900
all of the grow bugs live in this particular

00:46:35.900 --> 00:46:37.800
area and they get sent out from there to protect

00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:39.840
children and then they go back home and they

00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.219
eat and they you know have babies to raise and

00:46:42.219 --> 00:46:44.079
things like that and there's a whole thing there's

00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:46.400
training programs there's um different things

00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:47.579
that grow bugs do and they have their own little

00:46:47.579 --> 00:46:49.840
lives in their own little world uh you know right

00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.039
outside your window and then they go and whenever

00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:53.900
there's a kid in trouble the grow bugs go and

00:46:53.900 --> 00:46:57.429
fight to save them and It's a story about the

00:46:57.429 --> 00:47:00.809
Growbugs, about them growing up and facing danger,

00:47:01.230 --> 00:47:02.789
and particularly in this book, Mockwing William,

00:47:03.230 --> 00:47:05.250
it's about them facing the danger of a Mockwing,

00:47:05.449 --> 00:47:07.250
which is a Grimling, something that preys upon

00:47:07.250 --> 00:47:09.010
children, has found a whole fort of Growbugs,

00:47:09.070 --> 00:47:11.250
and it wants to kill them all while they're all

00:47:11.250 --> 00:47:13.170
gathered together in one place, so they're easier

00:47:13.170 --> 00:47:20.159
to kill. A kill was a kill box, right? the Mock

00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:21.940
Wings attack and the Growbugs have to try to

00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:24.280
survive. In particular, two of them fight together

00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:28.760
to save their master. And then the problem though

00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:30.579
is, even if they can defeat the one Grimling,

00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:33.480
the one Mock Wing that's threatening their master,

00:47:33.619 --> 00:47:35.480
and they save her life, what are they going to

00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:37.099
do about the rest of the flock that's there to

00:47:37.099 --> 00:47:39.420
destroy all of the Growbugs that they've ever

00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:40.719
known, all the Growbugs that they've grown up

00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:42.880
with, their family essentially. How's that going

00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:44.559
to work? And in order to find out, you've got

00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:45.940
to read the book Mock Wings of Mayhem. You can

00:47:45.940 --> 00:47:49.269
find links to it in the show notes. You can send

00:47:49.269 --> 00:47:52.409
them to my email list to find out kind of behind

00:47:52.409 --> 00:47:54.349
the scenes information about the girlbugs, get

00:47:54.349 --> 00:47:55.610
a little short story so you can get a sample

00:47:55.610 --> 00:47:58.469
of what it's like as well as like a guide to

00:47:58.469 --> 00:47:59.989
the world of the girlbugs in Mach Room Mayhem

00:47:59.989 --> 00:48:01.969
and you can learn about these characters and

00:48:01.969 --> 00:48:04.409
their world and what's going on there so I'd

00:48:04.409 --> 00:48:06.949
appreciate that. Also like, subscribe, share,

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00:48:09.010 --> 00:48:09.269
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