WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.580 Sometimes in Power Rangers and Super Sentai, 00:00:01.580 --> 00:00:03.520 I can't wait for the big mecha battle to be over 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.679 at the end of the episode because it's just the 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:07.700 same thing every single time. I'm not sure why 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:10.099 I get so tired of it and why it's so boring, 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.980 but that happens from time to time. In this episode 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:16.679 of Omega, episode 3, I had a boringness of a 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.000 different kind that I had to deal with, and it 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:20.960 was really interesting because I didn't remember 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:22.780 disliking this episode as much as I did, but 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.320 I think watching the dub of it... Let me know. 00:00:25.539 --> 00:00:27.800 It took away all the mystique of hearing people 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.920 speak in Japanese and having me read their words 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:32.700 on the subtitles to see what they're saying to 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:35.219 realize, yeah, this is like a very dry episode. 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:41.359 And I find that funny because I think that Tsuburaya 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.020 Productions is the classiest outfit in tokusatsu 00:00:44.020 --> 00:00:48.899 or henshin hero stories. And their stories of 00:00:48.899 --> 00:00:51.719 transforming heroes don't rely on things being 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.420 super poppy. They don't have... Anyway, they're 00:00:55.420 --> 00:00:57.560 not relying on va -va -voom from the female cast, 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.200 typically. They're not relying on the guys having 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.799 crazy hair or makeup or costumes other than, 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.099 you know, the ultra costume and, you know, the 00:01:06.099 --> 00:01:08.420 guts, militaristic uniform or whatever. Guts 00:01:08.420 --> 00:01:11.349 select. Like, there's not a lot of, like, it's 00:01:11.349 --> 00:01:13.329 a very, like, vanilla show. And then there's 00:01:13.329 --> 00:01:15.370 a giant light fighting Kaiju, which is very cool. 00:01:15.609 --> 00:01:17.810 And it kind of makes sense to me because there's 00:01:17.810 --> 00:01:19.150 a little bit of a balance there that's being 00:01:19.150 --> 00:01:21.310 stricken between this is people in the normal 00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:24.030 -ish world with extraordinary things in it. And 00:01:24.030 --> 00:01:26.090 we get to see them rise to extraordinary heights 00:01:26.090 --> 00:01:27.969 and rise to extraordinary challenges, which is 00:01:27.969 --> 00:01:31.489 really cool. I love that concept. I think it's 00:01:31.489 --> 00:01:33.469 neat that they call the transformation of Ultraman 00:01:33.469 --> 00:01:35.650 the Rise. And then we, like, had Ultraman Rising 00:01:35.650 --> 00:01:39.079 and whatever, right? These are kind of like tropes 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:42.980 or basic elements of what makes Ultraman Ultraman. 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.700 So I like being in this vanilla world. I've been 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:47.900 wanting to see a world without Kaiju and see 00:01:47.900 --> 00:01:51.519 how Kaiju coming to a world and being a new thing 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.959 in the world would affect things. I almost now 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.500 wonder if I wasn't hoping for that because it 00:01:57.500 --> 00:01:59.599 irritates me that kind of like Zordon says, oh, 00:01:59.659 --> 00:02:01.540 it's the Minotaur, Rita's Minotaur. It's like, 00:02:01.540 --> 00:02:03.000 well, didn't you destroy him once before? Why 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.260 is he back now? Same problem with Keeva and the 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:07.290 Fangires, but... We won't talk about that. My 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:10.569 precious Kiva. We will set aside and excuse all 00:02:10.569 --> 00:02:12.389 its imperfections because I love it so much. 00:02:12.469 --> 00:02:19.830 But anyway. I typically don't think Ultraman 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:24.650 is ever boring. Sometimes it will be low action. 00:02:25.030 --> 00:02:28.050 Sometimes it will be... maybe low stakes, but 00:02:28.050 --> 00:02:30.909 for sure low action and, like, not a lot of escalation. 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:32.949 Like, sometimes the fight happens once or twice 00:02:32.949 --> 00:02:34.289 in the episode, and it's just kind of like, whoa, 00:02:34.409 --> 00:02:37.449 that was sudden. Okay, now that Kaiju has gone 00:02:37.449 --> 00:02:38.949 from being just a weird thing or causing weird 00:02:38.949 --> 00:02:41.569 stuff to happen to, it's fighting, and the guy 00:02:41.569 --> 00:02:43.310 needs to transform into Ultraman and destroy 00:02:43.310 --> 00:02:45.169 it so it doesn't kill people, whatever. That's 00:02:45.169 --> 00:02:47.870 fine. But typically, those episodes are still 00:02:47.870 --> 00:02:49.250 very interesting. I'm thinking about the Man 00:02:49.250 --> 00:02:54.830 in the White Mask from Ark, and... There's even 00:02:54.830 --> 00:02:57.930 an episode coming up in Omega that's like very 00:02:57.930 --> 00:03:01.389 subdued and like emotional and personal. And 00:03:01.389 --> 00:03:03.789 it's about like human connectivity and human 00:03:03.789 --> 00:03:07.509 connections and less about epic battles and, 00:03:07.550 --> 00:03:09.250 oh, the city's in danger and things like that. 00:03:09.330 --> 00:03:11.849 And yet it was more exciting. It was more engaging. 00:03:11.930 --> 00:03:14.469 It had like kind of a... I'll talk about that 00:03:14.469 --> 00:03:16.310 when it comes to it. But like this one was just 00:03:16.310 --> 00:03:20.189 kind of boring. And it's too bad because we had... 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:22.699 The ancient Chinese kaiju here, we had Reckiness 00:03:22.699 --> 00:03:28.060 show up, and, you know, there's two heroes against 00:03:28.060 --> 00:03:29.939 one enemy kaiju. You would think that would be 00:03:29.939 --> 00:03:31.819 super exciting, but it wasn't. It was, like, 00:03:31.819 --> 00:03:33.939 very subdued, and we have this whole thing with 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:36.139 Kosei's backstory, and he was a runner, and he 00:03:36.139 --> 00:03:38.439 realized he couldn't do it. So, like, it's all 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.139 emotional and touching, and it's nice, but it's 00:03:40.139 --> 00:03:42.000 just like, is this show really made for kids? 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.419 Like, this is a boring episode for kids. I would 00:03:44.419 --> 00:03:47.900 think so. I haven't checked with my kids to see 00:03:47.900 --> 00:03:49.259 if they think this one's boring. I know they've 00:03:49.259 --> 00:03:51.520 watched some of the makeup, not all of it. I 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.539 know one of them would definitely like Paganos. 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:55.560 And like, also I thought Paganos was like kind 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:57.840 of a weak kaiju. Like he wasn't that exciting. 00:03:58.460 --> 00:04:02.479 I like birds, but like not penguins so much. 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:05.520 They feel very much less bird -like to me. And 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:07.770 just the way he played off. I don't know. It 00:04:07.770 --> 00:04:09.530 just, to me, it wasn't very exciting. It was 00:04:09.530 --> 00:04:11.409 like, it was probably like the most disappointing 00:04:11.409 --> 00:04:13.469 episode of Omega so far. It's only three in, 00:04:13.569 --> 00:04:15.849 but even including the, I think I've seen up 00:04:15.849 --> 00:04:17.689 to seven and just like, I don't know, it just 00:04:17.689 --> 00:04:20.389 falls flat. It's kind of weird. It doesn't really 00:04:20.389 --> 00:04:23.550 make sense. I don't like it. I'm not sure what 00:04:23.550 --> 00:04:27.069 happened. And I think it, I don't know. Honestly, 00:04:27.230 --> 00:04:29.410 I think the dub made it worse. The subtitle version, 00:04:29.509 --> 00:04:32.089 I remember liking a lot more. And thinking, oh, 00:04:32.250 --> 00:04:33.569 this is really interesting. And they're like 00:04:33.569 --> 00:04:35.389 crafting a world. And there's all these different 00:04:35.389 --> 00:04:37.709 things that are going on that are like, you know, 00:04:37.709 --> 00:04:40.170 realistic. And, you know, it's a very, the very 00:04:40.170 --> 00:04:42.769 similitude of life and whatever. And I thought 00:04:42.769 --> 00:04:44.629 like, oh, this is like, it's a literary episode 00:04:44.629 --> 00:04:46.850 of Omega. But it's just like, it's kind of boring. 00:04:47.649 --> 00:04:51.029 I didn't really like it. And certain things don't 00:04:51.029 --> 00:04:53.889 quite make sense. And yeah, I don't know. I find 00:04:53.889 --> 00:04:55.949 them frustrating. I find them frustrating. Like 00:04:55.949 --> 00:04:57.829 the coolest thing, like if I want to grasp onto 00:04:57.829 --> 00:05:00.589 things to talk about, there's Wreckiness. showing 00:05:00.589 --> 00:05:06.569 up, being found, whatever. It's unclear if Paganos 00:05:06.569 --> 00:05:09.529 was looking for Wreckiness because, again, that's 00:05:09.529 --> 00:05:12.709 why he came from wherever because he was across 00:05:12.709 --> 00:05:15.389 the sea. Maybe he was in mainland China or something 00:05:15.389 --> 00:05:18.029 like that and then he crossed through or, you 00:05:18.029 --> 00:05:19.990 know, whatever. He crossed towards where they 00:05:19.990 --> 00:05:21.930 are and he ultimately went to where Wreckiness 00:05:21.930 --> 00:05:25.850 is. And I think that Soroto was smelling out 00:05:25.850 --> 00:05:31.259 or sensing Wreckiness and... That's what put 00:05:31.259 --> 00:05:35.720 him, Kosei, and Ayumu all in danger of Paganos 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:39.759 at the end there. And, like, I like that setup, 00:05:39.860 --> 00:05:42.019 but everything around it wasn't, like, super 00:05:42.019 --> 00:05:45.100 exciting. But, you know, trying to dig in and 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:48.459 pull something good out of this, I guess the 00:05:48.459 --> 00:05:53.839 kaiju, Paganos, locked onto the signal of Reckiness 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.759 and Omega did at the same time, which, again, 00:05:56.819 --> 00:06:00.500 goes more towards this idea that... I think Reckoness 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:08.220 was in Omega somehow, and all these Kaiju were 00:06:08.220 --> 00:06:09.399 somehow stored in him. I don't think I've talked 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:12.779 about this theory yet here in my dub reviews, 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:14.759 but I'll just throw it out because it's the most 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:16.079 exciting thing I can talk about, and I'll wrap 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.920 up in a minute or two. My theory is that when 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:20.920 he fell from whatever planet and then somehow 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.100 landed to Earth, he had a bunch of Kaiju stored 00:06:24.100 --> 00:06:26.240 inside of him, and he also had his meteor Kaiju 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.620 stored within him, which are Reckoness and... 00:06:29.559 --> 00:06:33.279 And maybe, which we'll see later. But like, because 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:37.000 Reckonus has the same, you know, pentagon, pentagonal 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.160 crest thing on him that Omega has, I believe 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.959 they're definitely bonded to each other. They're 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.279 definitely linked to each other. Not just in 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.800 design, but like, we're going to find out. Oh 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.019 yeah. Yeah. He's like, you know, this is his 00:06:47.019 --> 00:06:49.240 version of the reboot Lance and the reboot shield 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:51.019 and whatever. Like this, this is his Ultraman 00:06:51.019 --> 00:06:53.819 gear that he has. I don't know if he'll be a 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:55.779 full on Ultraman or if he's whatever, because 00:06:55.779 --> 00:06:57.220 there's different dimensions and blah, blah, 00:06:57.300 --> 00:07:00.589 blah. But. That's my idea, that he was escorting 00:07:00.589 --> 00:07:03.949 these kaiju elsewhere for whatever reason. He 00:07:03.949 --> 00:07:05.670 was on his mission. He had a bunch of them stored 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:08.089 within him that he captured because he did. And 00:07:08.089 --> 00:07:09.709 when he blew up that planet, it was so powerful. 00:07:09.769 --> 00:07:12.610 It knocked him out, wrecked him. It threw away 00:07:12.610 --> 00:07:16.029 his armor pieces or his accessories or whatever. 00:07:16.110 --> 00:07:17.389 And he's going to slowly collect them over the 00:07:17.389 --> 00:07:19.310 show, collect his memories, and realize that 00:07:19.310 --> 00:07:21.189 he has a mission. And we'll see what that mission 00:07:21.189 --> 00:07:23.589 is. I'm sure that mission is going to threaten 00:07:23.589 --> 00:07:26.069 the planet later that he's on. But we'll see. 00:07:26.610 --> 00:07:28.250 But that's my theory going forward. And, like, 00:07:28.290 --> 00:07:31.110 I don't know. Just, I like when they build the 00:07:31.110 --> 00:07:32.490 things slowly. I like when they build the things 00:07:32.490 --> 00:07:34.910 reasonably and rationally. But, like, you really 00:07:34.910 --> 00:07:36.290 do need to keep it poppy and exciting for the 00:07:36.290 --> 00:07:38.110 kids as it goes on. And I don't think they did 00:07:38.110 --> 00:07:40.089 a very good job of that this episode. And I was 00:07:40.089 --> 00:07:42.750 disappointed. So, what did you think about it 00:07:42.750 --> 00:07:45.589 overall? Oh, and then, yeah, Reckon this design 00:07:45.589 --> 00:07:47.490 is really weird. I talk about it in a short, 00:07:47.589 --> 00:07:49.470 or I'm going to talk about it in a short, whatever. 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:06.160 I'm going to have a short coming out after this 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:10.540 where I talk about that. Yeah. And anyway, you 00:08:10.540 --> 00:08:11.899 can also check out my reaction short as well. 00:08:13.019 --> 00:08:15.240 And yeah, for now, let me know what you thought 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.259 about this episode overall. Let me know what 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:19.459 you thought about Reckonus. His design is very 00:08:19.459 --> 00:08:21.720 interesting. It's very Chinese -ish. And again, 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.480 that's something we can discuss later. And yeah, 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.009 you can check out the full playlist of... You 00:08:28.009 --> 00:08:29.730 can check out the full playlist of me talking 00:08:29.730 --> 00:08:31.629 about Omega, as well as some other stuff. It'll 00:08:31.629 --> 00:08:33.029 be in the pinned comment. It'll be in the description 00:08:33.029 --> 00:08:35.450 as well. I've been talking about Project Red. 00:08:35.570 --> 00:08:36.909 I've been talking about Commentary Zets Weekly. 00:08:37.110 --> 00:08:38.950 I have a playlist for that as well. You can find 00:08:38.950 --> 00:08:42.549 all those links in the right places. And I look 00:08:42.549 --> 00:08:43.769 forward to hearing from you, getting your feedback 00:08:43.769 --> 00:08:45.870 on this. Do you think the Omega dub, or whatever, 00:08:45.970 --> 00:08:47.809 do you think Episode 3 of Omega is not so great? 00:08:47.929 --> 00:08:49.870 If you've seen them, like I have, the sub and 00:08:49.870 --> 00:08:51.389 dub version of it is one better than the other. 00:08:51.889 --> 00:08:53.350 That kind of stuff. Let's discuss. And what do 00:08:53.350 --> 00:08:54.529 you think about my theory about Omega having 00:08:54.529 --> 00:08:56.970 fallen from, and all these things coming out 00:08:56.970 --> 00:08:59.320 of him? I'm curious. Anyway, that's it for now. 00:08:59.379 --> 00:09:01.580 I got to go, folks. This is MJ with Henshin Inspection 00:09:01.580 --> 00:09:03.120 and Going Ultra signing out.