What happened? What happened in this episode
of Omega? Omega episode 6 was not good. I don't
understand what was going on. I don't understand
what they were doing. I don't understand the
decisions that were made. There was weird like
kaiju romance stuff or like mating stuff going
on. Defining the kaiju is very biological and
we just had a kaiju be very much like a god.
Even referencing a god in mythology. I don't
know if it's a real myth or if it was just one
made up for the show or what. You know, kaiju
are divine. No, kaiju are just animals. And also,
kaiju are animals in the weirdest way, and they're
animals that are supposed to be taken seriously
for what they do and how they inspire us and
the amazing things that they're able to do in
spite of difficulties they face, but also they're
silly, goofy jokes that we should just laugh
at. Omega Episode 6 is the worst episode of the
series so far. I think I just said Omega 5 was
the best episode of the series so far. I don't
know how these got back to back, but here they
are. It was bad and I didn't like it. I've got
a new format for the show. If you see here, I've
got these nine points that I'm going to go through.
And let me keep going through those real quick.
I hope this will make the review more fun and
more enjoyable for you and for me and just better
structured. So here we go. Trying to go no more
than 10 minutes. So here we go. So this image
from the beginning of the episode depicts fans.
receiving the slop, the drool, the warm drool
from the cooling corpse of this episode, episode
six of Omega. And it's just bad. I don't understand
why this episode was so bad, especially when
the last one was so good. And I failed to look
up who the creators were on it. And I don't really,
you know what? I'm going to try to do it right
now. Hold on. I did it. It's not going to be
on screen here, but it's on my screen over here
so I can read it. According to the episode's
screenwriter, Akio Miyoshi, who I will look into
his credits later, back when he wrote for Ultraman
Orb, he made a promise with Tomonobu Koshi to
work together. He's the director of this episode.
So this episode fulfills that nine -year -old
promise. So let me pull up their information
real quick. So Tomonobu Koshi is the director
who worked on Max, Mebius, Saga, Fight, Fight?
Ginga -esque. King S, the movie, X, X, the movie,
Orb, Geed, Rube, Taiga, Z, two episodes, The
Lion's Cry and Belly Rock, which Belly Rock was
a really cool episode. The Lion's Cry was pretty
good too. Ultraman Trigger, Ultraman Z, he was
the assistant director for the whole thing. Ultraman
Decker, he did three episodes there. Blazar,
he did Planet of Music, which is a fantastic
episode with beautiful direction. Interesting.
Parent and Child, which was an... It was actually
an episode I thought of during this, during watching
this, and it's better. It's a much better take
on being sympathetic towards Kaiju and on trying
to have nuance with Kaiju and human interactions,
which is interesting. The Towering Terror, which
was okay. I didn't love it, or maybe I did. I
don't remember. It was towards the end of Blazar.
And then Light and Flame, which was just okay,
mostly because I don't like the Phoenix. bird
armor thing that was introduced in blazar uh
for arc though he did seven the full moon's answer
uh internet canagon the light of fear demon slicing
meteor sword the man in the white mask and calamity
thrice i feel like he also worked on the last
episode yes it's the same director from the last
three episodes so miko mikojo was a fantastic
episode but And the director's the same on both,
but this episode, The Kaidu Search, wasn't very
good. How interesting. Let's move on to the writer,
Akio Miyoshi. Akio Miyoshi has worked on Ultraman
Ginga S, two episodes, Ultraman X, one episode,
Ultraman Orb, one episode, and Ultraman Omega.
He wrote episode six and episode 10, which is
already out now, but I'm catching up, so I haven't
seen that yet. Very interesting. He's had a little
bit of a spread over Ultraman. He hasn't written
that many episodes. I wonder if that's why this
was a weaker episode of Ultraman. I also don't
know much about Orb X and Ginga S, how they treated
Kaiju, because Kaiju are very much animals in
this, or even like unto humans, and yet last
episode had them very much deified or in a status
like demigods, and... I just I find that contrast
interesting, especially back to back. So, yeah,
that's that's very interesting. I really tried
to look hard for the positive in this episode
and I just don't like it. If I had to rank it,
I would give it like a three out of 10. Yeah,
maybe less, maybe like a two out of 10, just
because it wasn't that good. It wasn't offensive,
but it's just it just was so lacking in so many
ways. It's really sad. It has this. this weird
handling of kaiju. I said romance is a joke here,
bad kaiju romance. There's this weird balance
of kaiju as animals, but like, and like, I'll
get to it a little bit later, but yeah, so they're
animals and they're mating, basically, or they're
like, they think it's mating season. The female
wakes up because she thinks it's mating season.
And then the male wakes up because he thinks
it's mating season. And I guess they were both
hibernating and... they were hiding in the same
nest under a mountain, and she breaks out first
because she hears tunneling or digging or whatever,
and she thinks it's his mating dance, so she
goes out to find him. Then once she's out, he
smells her, he kind of wakes up, his sleep is
disturbed, and he goes out to find her from their
nest, and she's dead. I think she, I'm pretty
sure she's dead. Died from the sunlight, or at
least is dazzled and knocked unconscious, which
is still strange. And then... And that's like
the point. He's not attacking. He's not being
aggressive. He's going towards her, which she's
sort of towards a settlement, sort of towards
a city. So they think they need to kill her,
but then they decide they don't need to. And
instead they pick them up and put them together
into their nest and bury them there. Omega and
Rickiness, that is. And I guess everything's
good now. I don't know. It's kind of strange.
The word of the week, the word of the episode
is challenge. And IU has a challenge. meant to
be a scientist researching endangered animals
that's what she's supposed to be working on but
because the kaiju thing she's now working with
kaiju working on the whole topic of kaiju being
a researcher to try to figure things out and
she's rising to a challenge and that's great
and i think that's a very good there's some very
good character moments for her especially contrasted
with yuta who's a co -worker of hers who's been
kind of conscripted into this um kaiju research
wing they're taking scientists and say that we
need to respond to this crazy stuff that's going
on let's work on it let's figure out what to
do with these giant animals or whatever kaiju
are let's work with it let's figure out what
to do and uh she's doing that and she's doing
that happily because she feels like she should
use her skills for something useful and the world
is facing this kaiju crisis so to speak so she's
rising to the the occasion and that's great um
but her perception based on that is that they
are like large animals and she's kind of treating
them that way and they are actually very much
like animals and despite the contrast to episode
five where they were definitely not just regular
animals. Um, so that's interesting. And she's
trying to study them and she realizes that their
behavior mimics the behavior of regular animals,
which they're, it's the kaiju. Anyway, it's the
kaiju suit reused to show an animal doing this
mating dance thing and whatever. It was kind
of goofy. Um, and I didn't like it that much,
but here we are, uh, zooming through this. Where
did five go? Oh no, I lost five. Where's five?
Found five. Here we go. So the kaiju are just
kind of being played for lols. They're very silly.
They do kind of act like animals, but they also
act, I don't know, kind of like babies, whatever.
It's weird. And like I said, we've had this contrast
of beasts or animals versus gods. And last episode
really pushed that like divine aspect or identity
part of kaiju. And then here they're just like
dumb animals. really goofy, silly, dumb animals,
which is unfortunate. And we're veering into
fantasy here or yeah, like almost, no, I guess
we're veering into sci -fi here versus fantasy,
but it's like ungrounded, like silly, goofy sci
-fi. And I don't really understand why that choice
was made. And I don't like the choice. Anyway,
I know I brought this up before, but you know,
she's saying that she, getting back to IU, they
have this running thread of she is doing what
she can with her skills. That's great. And I
think it's a good thing. It's laudable. And it's
this challenge that gets set up in the episode
as part of the structure of, you know, thinking
about it or perceiving it as an audience. And
she's rising to the challenge, which is great.
But again, I guess then it is related to the
kaiju because the kaiju is being blinded by the
sun. And because they knocked off his little
cap that his visor that shields his eyes from
the sun. and she's saying like he won't stop
doing his duty what he has to do which is mate
um no matter how much it hurts uh with the blinding
sun and whatever because it's this drive that
he has and i guess the parallel is supposed to
be she has this drive research endangered animals
um which this is again like an endangered animal
which there's literally there's a long mouth
a long mouth mole that's this suit just uh like
great up and take has the pink color taken out
of it and it's you know made to look small instead
of made to look large and it's putting a little
thing and showing it doing its mating dance and
she's trying to preserve its life um like that
thing she wants to preserve because it's an endangered
species and she's i guess assuming that this
kaiju is also endangered or she's saying like
oh it has a cousin who's endangered so let's
not just destroy it let's save it as opposed
to the other kaiju that we've got happily um
so it's like missing nuance so it's it's weird
that like There's kind of a thread of we need
to understand these things and have a scientific
approach to them And science should be about
understanding not about domination. It should
be about like Finding out information you don't
find out information by killing people or destroying
things Anyway, I don't know it's weird. It's
weird. I don't really have a full grasp of this
idea going forward I just think it was because
it was sloppily executed but thinking about this
like this is slightly better that it keeps going
no matter what just like she keeps going and
doing her duty um even though it's hard for her
you know she necessarily doesn't she doesn't
necessarily like the field work and Yuta definitely
doesn't like the field work he's even afraid
to camp um which is played for laughs but it's
not that funny it's not a very well executed
joke um and then moving on so uh as far as you
know I want to speculate here So Omega Serato
is reaching out to the heavens while everybody
else is sleeping. And I'm wondering, what's he
trying to grasp? Because when he does that, he's
trying to find out something about the kaiju.
And apparently it works somehow. Ultraman magic,
whatever. So he's trying to find out something
about the kaiju and find a way to deal with them.
What's he reaching out to right now? is he reaching
out to the stars is he reaching out to the heavens
he knows he fell from the sky is he reaching
out to the sky because he wants to try to understand
it is he actually grasping information that we
don't know about and will that become revealed
in the future i don't know uh i hope so um i
would like them to continue rounding out his
story i want to learn why he became an amnesiac
why he lost his memories and like where he came
from and what he was doing as an ultra because
we just don't know and it's it is part of the
mystery and he's the parts of himself that he
remembers and the details about kaiju that he
remembers seem neutral enough like they just
make him seem like a good guy and they make him
seem like a decent person decent alien whatever
and they make him seem informed i just i want
to know why he's informed and why you just i
want to know about him and his background you
know we never got that with blazar we'll see
if we get it with omega because we don't have
to necessarily And then for number eight, do
you think Omega is doing a good job of exploring
Kaiju as animals or exploring Kaiju in general,
exploring Kaiju as animals, exploring Kaiju as
gods? I don't really think so myself. I made
a reference in a previous episode to Ultra Creel,
I think is the way you say the name. And I am
curious to see what he says about this. I think
I'm going to ask him on Twitter what he thinks
about this. He has it as ultra... Kirio. Ultra
Kirio. There we go. And I wonder what he thinks
about this, because to me, it doesn't seem to
be doing a good job. It made the kaiju, like,
it didn't take them seriously, so it didn't treat
them as anything more than an animal, didn't
treat them as divine, didn't give them, like,
respect. Like, they were very goofy, and I'm
not saying that kaiju can't be goofy, and that
maybe sometimes they shouldn't be goofy, but
just, like, it really... killed it for me and
it all fell flat for me this episode but like
what do you think that's what i think what do
you think is omega doing a good job exploring
kaiju as animals as gods as part of nature as
this mysterious force or not there have been
some different things that have been done with
the kaiju that we've seen so far and i wonder
what your takeaway is from that because well
you hear mine i'm very frustrated by it all and
then just specifically did this episode land
for you why are we not and if you differ from
me that's interesting and um I'd love to have
a conversation about that. One other thing I
wanted to talk about is I find it really like
kind of gross and creepy that to me, it looks
like the female kaiju is dead and then they buried
them together. Like this is kind of an extreme
take, but whatever, like he's not, he's not going
to mate with her if she's dead, but like, is
she going to decompose next to him? He's going
to wake up horrified that his mate is now, you
know, a skeleton or a decomposing corpse next
to him. Like, I don't think they thought things
fully through when they made this episode. And
I don't know why that happened, and I find it
frustrating and sad that it happened, especially
because Omega's been really good so far. I think
very solid so far. And I just, I don't know how
this happened. So anyway, that's it for me. That's
it for me. Check out all the other work I'm doing.
I'm now covering Combinator Zets, and I also
will continue to cover Ultraman Omega. Talk about
it and hopefully I'll catch up soon and hopefully
it gets better in the next episode. And I hope
this is the worst episode because so far this
really is the worst episode of the series so
far. And it's unfortunate to have to say that
six episodes in. But like I said, hopefully it's
the worst and everything's much better than this
from here on out. Till next time, folks, this
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