Engine Inspection presents Going Ultra. This
is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer,
and I'm about to talk to you about Ultraman Omega
Episode 4, which if you watched my little ultra
-fast review of it, you know I'm not so hot on
it. But I actually listed out all the good and
the bad, and I have more good than bad, even
though I disliked some things about the episode.
And I have a few interesting things to talk about
as well, so I'm just going to go ahead and start
with the bad and get it right on out of here.
So... The bad, the worst thing about this episode
is the little argument, the spat that Kosei had.
It was really a one -sided argument or a one
-sided issue that Kosei had. Kosei was upset
that Sorato is growing up and he is able to take
the train on his own. And Ayumu calls Kosei because
I'm assuming Sorato doesn't have a phone right
now. And she says she wants help because she
thinks this is, well... There's obvious signs
of a kaiju. And she wants his help because he's
a kaiju researcher. Kosei is a warehouse manager,
not a kaiju researcher. So she wants the help
of the relevant person. And Kosei flips out,
and I don't know if the director wouldn't rein
in the actor, if the actor was going crazy, or
if the actor did exactly what the director told
him to do, or whatever. But Kosei leaves in a
huff with his boss, Ayo, and... to go fishing
with him and because the fishing was going to
be interrupted by the two of them going and he
just makes this ridiculous face and well i'm
fine you go investigate the kaiju it's like really
ridiculous how upset he is and like the episode
preview said that there would be a rift between
the two of them and this is like not a real rift
um uh it's not a real rift and it didn't serve
the purpose of selling the toy of uh the episode
which was wreckiness and the armor and that's
why it's bad it's like triply bad um it was a
bad idea bad performance and it was unnecessary
to accomplish what they were trying to accomplish
so it was completely pointless and dumb and they
didn't need to do that they could have had some
other complicating factor like he wanted to go
with oya or he wants to hide the fact that he
uh is helping with the kaiju and And with the
kaiju in general and Sorato specifically as,
you know, Ultraman Omega. So I just, I just don't
get it. It was really bad. To that end, or not
to that end, but also another thing is that they're
trying to keep Sorato's identity as Ultraman
Omega secret. And yet when the kaiju is attacking
and Kosei is there to help him, he yells, Sorato,
do this. Sorato, don't do that. Sorato, this
is your social security number. And he just says
all this stuff. And Serato, I can't believe you're
Ultraman Omega. And it's really stupid because
the whole point is, or not the whole point, but
like there's a thing going on where they're trying
to conceal his identity. And yet he's not calling
to him and saying Omega. He's saying Serato instead,
which is super dumb. The next thing that was
bad was the toy transformation. meant to look
at spark dolls to see how they were used in the
show but i'm pretty sure they just grabbed the
soft movie and said this is a spark doll i'm
going to power up with this spark doll and become
ultraman whatever i don't know if i don't know
what show that was was it from ginga was it from
rube i don't know doesn't matter at this point
go look it up uh they just used regular toys
as merchant or as transformation items in the
show and it worked and here they have this prop
which is a decent prop for um The Meteor Kaiju
for Reckoness. It's a decent prop, but what they
do with the prop is when it transforms, it's
a CGI model that transforms into the Reckoness
Kaiju avatar, a little one, and then it turns
into the real Reckoness Kaiju at full scale.
And I just don't understand why they're doing
that. It doesn't really make any sense to me.
It doesn't look good. I don't think it's an engaging
toy. I just don't think it's satisfying. It's
not helping sell the toy. And I think it's too
bad that they're doing that. I think it just
looks bad. So anyway, I will move on to the good.
Kosei's Reckoness Speculation is cool. He says
to Saruto, hey, do you think this Reckoness Kaiju
was like your pet? He doesn't say because you
have a pentagon on your chest and it has a pentagon
on its chest. But he says, hey, maybe this thing
fell to Earth at the same time as you and it's
your pet or something. And Sorato's like, hmm,
maybe. Something seems familiar about it, but
I don't really know because he's lost his memories,
which is understandable. But I like that Kosei
is thinking and trying to figure things out,
piece things together, and yet he doesn't have
a clue when it comes to, you know, getting upset,
which feels incongruent. So that makes that even
worse that, you know, that he got all upset and
flipped out for no good reason. Oya, the owner
of the warehouse, is a sweet and wise old -timer.
Something I don't like is that in instances like
this, it almost feels as if the character knows
what's actually going on. He knows that Sorato
is Omega. He knows that Kosei is helping him
possibly with Reckoness. like he shouldn't know
that and I don't think he does but it almost
feels like he knows that and I don't like that
I don't understand why that's done like Aunt
May and Spider -Man 2 which is super relevant
if you check out the shorts you'll know why she
almost acts as if she knows Peter is Spider -Man
and is encouraging him to go back to it and it's
just kind of interesting anyway so Just, he's
really charming. I kind of think he might be
a cameo, like he's an old ultra actor for something,
but I don't know for sure. But I really like
him. He was, I'd like to see more of him. And
just, he was an enjoyable piece of the show.
And like, had he, like the way he was helping
Kosei to overcome some of his struggles and get
back to helping Sorato was, or Omega was interesting,
but it could have happened like on the fishing
trip in a different way. And it still could have
worked. Whatever. Especially because, I'll get
to this later, he could have, like, gone out
in the wilderness, or he could have gone fishing.
Excuse me, then he could have summoned Reckonus,
and then he could have had Reckonus travel with
him to the city, or just had Reckonus travel
and telepathically controlled him from miles
and miles away. Probably. Anyway. But I'm talking
about the good stuff. Serato's growing up so
fast. He understands trains. He understands emotions.
He talks about how he's independent now. He understands
how to ride the trains and he can go from place
to place and he can do that on his own. So he
doesn't need Kosei. So in a way, it's kind of
like a parent -child thing, which might be what
they were going for and might be why it was so
irrational and illogical. But Sorato, the child
in this situation, is not the one who's acting
irrational and illogical. Did I say irrational?
I don't know what I said. Anyway, and Kosei is,
which he's like a parent freaking out, which
I guess kind of works, but it just doesn't make
sense. But anyway, I like Sarato, like he's turning
in, he was always an interesting character, but
we see as time goes on that things are progressing
for him and he's learning more about the world
and he's learning how to fit into the world.
And I think that's really good and useful and
just it's an enjoyable thing to see. Tactical
telekinesis was used in this episode, which was
really great. It reminded me of a scene in The
Shadow in 1994. anyway with tim curry and alec
baldwin yes he was that's the right baldwin brother
anyway um he's invisible but uh this guy turns
on the water so that he can see the footsteps
displacing the water because just because he's
invisible to your eyes doesn't mean the effects
of his invisibility aren't felt like you know
you can definitely see him displacing water because
he still has mass right um and the guy shoots
him so tim curry i'm pretty sure uh shoots him
then he gets translator anyway um but they use
the telekinesis to have reckiness lift up all
this debris and cars and things like that and
they're able to spot where the kaiju is and go
ahead and attack him because that that was great
um the next thing is oh i left out something
that i liked which i'll come back to okay so
um i like kosei having reckiness as this kind
of pet kaiju thing that he can summon not a pet
kaiju is this kaiju he can summon and use and
you know why not just have sorato have reckiness
as a kaiju he can summon it's a small cast um
sometimes in arc it kind of felt like people
were just like waiting around doing nothing um
less so in zet and in blazar everybody felt like
they had a purpose and like they were all doing
things for the most part sometimes people had
the week off or whatever and they were away and
they weren't involved with the plot and that
was fine because there was the rest of the team
to carry to carry on but we didn't have that
you know this is not scarred there's no official
group to deal with this kaiju are new to the
world so there's no you know kaiju defense force
uh so they're making it up as they go along um
but like having kosei who's a main supporting
cast character have the ability to use this kaiju
in battle uh is interesting and i like it and
i think i think it's overall a positive thing
i think it's overall a positive thing and i'm
curious to see where they'll go with it and how
they'll expand upon it and make it better or
not uh as they go forward because i just i think
it's something good it works you know uh the
other thing i forgot to mention is i absolutely
love this kaiju design i didn't catch his name
and i meant to check out the wiki and pull information
from it before i did this recording but it's
super late i've been traveling for hours and
i just it didn't happen so anyway um yeah the
kaiju's super cool it's Cute in an ugly way.
I like birds a lot. It's weird. Especially Raptors.
This thing was raptor tastic and Yeah, I really
enjoyed it and he was a lot of fun this guide
you and I'd like to see him come back and I actually
I'd like to see the guide you come back because
it's really cool. It's great design great great
design a lot of fun stuff happen with them Some
interesting things, and then I'll wrap up. Kosei's
stamina is 10 minutes. That's pretty cool. He
can have Reckoness out for 10 minutes and control
him to do stuff for that long before he kind
of gets dizzy or lightheaded or whatever, and
then Reckoness collapses down into a little orb,
and he catches it and falls, and he has a prop
in his hand, so that's fun. And then there's
something going on. Anyway, I just think it's
interesting why Kosei bonded with the kaiju.
he had it close to his heart it was up to his
chest uh when it awoken when it was awoken in
uh the last you know what i guess the last episode
episode three and like they don't really explain
the mechanics of it and that's fine um but like
the thing with his eyes flashing blue and him
being able to control it and wrecking this like
giving him a message telepathically even though
he didn't really understand it he's like oh fine
i trust you go ahead even if i don't understand
um it's kind of interesting because there I don't
know, they're just, like, playing with the idea
that, you know, Kaidu aren't all just these mindless
monsters, and Reckoness specifically has this
connection and this bond with Kosei for some
reason, and he'll only work with him, which leads
to some great comedic moments, and I just, I
wonder what that means, I wonder why that is,
and I wonder if we're going to see weird stuff
happen with Kosei, like he gets visions from
Reckoness all the time, or if he can communicate
with Reckoness in his little, you know, statue
form, or you know what that could lead to because
i think excuse me i think they can go in a lot
of interesting directions with that and i'm just
curious to see where they'll go with it and i
think uh i think it'd be fun anyway so that's
all of my review what do you think of the episode
overall if i had to rank it with like you know
three out of five i'd probably or five out of
five or if i had to rank it on a scale to five
i'd probably get like a three out of five maybe
two out of five because it was just kind of dumb
but the action was really good and really fun
to watch i really like the look of um of whatever
this wreckiness armor version of omega is it's
really cool and again overall it was fun just
there was something lacking in the depth of this
like the depth of the storytelling was not there
and also like the way they played off the toy
stuff also wasn't working for me um even though
i like the idea of doing the toy armor stuff
and also or and then ultimately also so like
they're failing with wreckiness as a character
sort of and yet the armor is really cool and
the fight scene with it was really cool so it's
just i'm kind of all over the place maybe it's
too much to make the armor a character as well
maybe arc didn't do that he just had his armor
appear and he did stuff with them and it was
cool i kind of like that he's using kaiju in
this way but it's just something's off anyway
let me know what you thought about it and um
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