WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Episode 5 of Ultraman Omega was mythic. It was 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:04.620 beautiful, restrained, emotional, and intentional. 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:07.960 Episode 6 feels like the opposite. Not just a 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:10.619 weak episode. Not just a weird episode. This 00:00:10.619 --> 00:00:13.099 feels like a mess. I was actually thinking, who 00:00:13.099 --> 00:00:15.439 wrote this? I haven't checked, but it can't be 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.920 the guy who wrote 5, right? What makes it worse 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.660 is that it's a mess right after Omega proved 00:00:19.660 --> 00:00:22.260 it could be transcendent. So today, I'm not here 00:00:22.260 --> 00:00:24.289 to dunk on Omega. I'm here to explain why Episode 00:00:24.289 --> 00:00:26.550 6 feels like a broken promise and why this might 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:28.850 be one of the most structurally bad episodes 00:00:28.850 --> 00:00:32.469 Ultraman has delivered in a long time. Yeah, 00:00:32.509 --> 00:00:34.829 I stand by that. I definitely stand by that. 00:00:36.570 --> 00:00:39.549 So the first issue with the episode is that it 00:00:39.549 --> 00:00:42.750 breaks Omega's premise. Kaiju are new, supposedly. 00:00:43.450 --> 00:00:45.109 They've never dealt with them before and they're 00:00:45.109 --> 00:00:48.929 trying to figure it out. And yet somehow there's 00:00:48.929 --> 00:00:50.729 an analog to this earth animal that looks just 00:00:50.729 --> 00:00:52.530 like it. In this mole video that we see that 00:00:52.530 --> 00:00:55.630 Ayumu pulls up, it's the same suit reframed as 00:00:55.630 --> 00:00:58.969 a little mole instead of this giant kaiju. And 00:00:58.969 --> 00:01:02.850 it's strange because it's supposed to be something 00:01:02.850 --> 00:01:04.750 novel, something new to the world, but it has 00:01:04.750 --> 00:01:07.450 this parallel to something familiar and that 00:01:07.450 --> 00:01:11.030 loses the immersion, that ruins the fact that 00:01:11.030 --> 00:01:12.709 this is supposed to be an intrusive kind of invasive 00:01:12.709 --> 00:01:16.069 species and it just doesn't work. The next thing 00:01:16.069 --> 00:01:19.109 would be the biology and logic collapse. So supposedly, 00:01:19.370 --> 00:01:22.849 I can only assume that they're assuming that 00:01:22.849 --> 00:01:26.069 these kaiju have the same life cycle as this 00:01:26.069 --> 00:01:28.269 little mole, which lives underground, emerges 00:01:28.269 --> 00:01:30.590 every now and then, and it does this mating dance 00:01:30.590 --> 00:01:35.209 with this dancing or whatever. And I don't remember 00:01:35.209 --> 00:01:37.030 if the little mole is actually underground for 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:40.629 years or not, but that's kind of what they think 00:01:40.629 --> 00:01:42.989 is going to happen, that if they take the kaiju... 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.019 the pair and put them back underground and bury 00:01:46.019 --> 00:01:47.959 them, everything will be fine because they have 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:49.359 this nesting behavior and they're inferring from 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.579 that that it's going to be the same situation. 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.739 However, these moles are this big. The kaiju 00:01:55.739 --> 00:01:59.540 is that big. So how can you assume that their 00:01:59.540 --> 00:02:01.719 life cycle is going to be the same, especially 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:03.799 on a world where the kaiju are new and you have 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.780 not been able to establish a pattern to observe 00:02:06.780 --> 00:02:09.879 the data? They have all this confidence in what's 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:11.280 going to happen with the kaiju, even though they 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.300 shouldn't because kaiju are new. Also, the female 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:18.240 appears to be dead. And then episode never, like 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:20.039 they call her a corpse. Kosei says, oh, it's 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:21.919 just a corpse. Why are you worried about that? 00:02:21.939 --> 00:02:24.860 Why are we going to go out there? And Soto feels 00:02:24.860 --> 00:02:26.620 like he should because something in his memory 00:02:26.620 --> 00:02:27.879 is telling him there's something else going on 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:29.300 here. So he must know that there's a second one 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:33.699 that's going to appear. Which makes sense. That's 00:02:33.699 --> 00:02:36.620 internally logic all. What isn't internally logic 00:02:36.620 --> 00:02:40.520 all is the fact that at the end, even though 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.099 she's dead, or appears very much to be dead. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.180 They almost treat her as if she's hibernating 00:02:46.180 --> 00:02:48.879 because she had been hibernating before she died 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:55.479 from the sun, I guess. And then her corpse gets 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:57.800 put into her nest and her mate gets put into 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:59.620 the nest and everybody acts like it's a happy 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:04.219 ending. And that's really weird. It's like this, 00:03:04.259 --> 00:03:06.900 oh, they'll be fine and they won't be troubling 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:08.680 anybody for a while. She's dead. She's not ever 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:10.789 going to trouble anybody ever again. When the 00:03:10.789 --> 00:03:13.449 mail comes out in a year, two years, three years, 00:03:13.449 --> 00:03:15.610 10 years, 15 years, I don't know, whatever. He 00:03:15.610 --> 00:03:17.069 might go on a rampage because you put him in 00:03:17.069 --> 00:03:20.069 there with his dead mate or mate. I don't want 00:03:20.069 --> 00:03:22.169 to go. That's gross to think about the biology 00:03:22.169 --> 00:03:25.770 and what it can mean. But so I'm moving on. I'm 00:03:25.770 --> 00:03:28.469 moving on. And then third, the episode breaks 00:03:28.469 --> 00:03:32.430 the promise of quality. Episode five was so good. 00:03:33.189 --> 00:03:35.389 It's a beautiful mythic episode. And this one 00:03:35.389 --> 00:03:37.710 is just a mess because it doesn't make any sense. 00:03:37.770 --> 00:03:40.319 And even. You could argue that episode five doesn't 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.500 make sense in some ways, but I would argue that 00:03:43.500 --> 00:03:45.560 in other ways it does, because it's more of a 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.060 mythic episode than it is a non -mythic episode, 00:03:49.099 --> 00:03:52.080 like a regular episode. But it's very meaningful 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.659 and very beautiful and very well done. Speaking 00:03:54.659 --> 00:03:57.539 of well done, I've been complaining about the 00:03:57.539 --> 00:03:59.840 quality of the story, the lack of logic, but 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.879 the action in this episode wasn't even very good. 00:04:02.020 --> 00:04:04.240 There was a lot more action in episode six than 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.479 there was in episode five, but the minimal action 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.919 in episode five... was executed so beautifully, 00:04:09.139 --> 00:04:12.960 done so well. It was so thematic and meaningful 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:17.980 that it blows this episode's action out of the 00:04:17.980 --> 00:04:20.660 water when there was a lot more of it, but it 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:23.600 was just a lot lower quality. So that was not 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.759 good. And the episode five was just, it was a 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.459 beautiful episode on many levels, including the 00:04:29.459 --> 00:04:32.279 action. That little tear from the sakura petal 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.339 that looked like Omega was crying. It looked 00:04:34.339 --> 00:04:37.040 like Omega was crying. Gorgeous. Here. We get 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.639 silly music and weird dancing and an odd fight. 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:41.980 It's super awkward. It's poorly staged. There's 00:04:41.980 --> 00:04:44.660 like no meaning to it. There's no emotion in 00:04:44.660 --> 00:04:47.360 the battle. It's just something that's happening 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:49.899 because it has to, I guess. And I definitely 00:04:49.899 --> 00:04:51.500 think this episode is a craft failure. And it 00:04:51.500 --> 00:04:56.220 feels like the trust is broken because while 00:04:56.220 --> 00:05:00.399 there have been things in Omega that didn't make 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:01.720 sense, like in episode two, they talked about 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:07.379 this amphibian type kaiju that was... also had 00:05:07.379 --> 00:05:10.459 its nest disturbed by the changing of the levees 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:13.279 or the dams or whatever from like decades ago, 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.740 which didn't make sense. This doubles down, this 00:05:15.740 --> 00:05:18.459 goes even farther and just continues to make 00:05:18.459 --> 00:05:20.759 that mistake. It compounds that mistake. It compounds 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.360 that error and storytelling and choice and ruining 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.339 of the scenario for what gain? I have no idea. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.519 And it cements it as like, this is a show that's 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:29.959 not going to take itself seriously. It's not 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.420 going to take its premise seriously. It's going 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:35.100 to be all shucks for no good reason and just 00:05:35.100 --> 00:05:37.120 want to treat the audience like they're idiots. 00:05:37.220 --> 00:05:39.120 Like the kids watching, like, it doesn't matter. 00:05:39.220 --> 00:05:42.480 They're going to pick on me on the logical fallacies 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:44.060 and on the inconsistencies in here, but it doesn't 00:05:44.060 --> 00:05:45.660 really matter because they're just kids. And 00:05:45.660 --> 00:05:49.399 I don't want to ascribe an attitude or a reason 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:53.259 why it ended up like this to anybody, but there 00:05:53.259 --> 00:05:55.480 has to be a reason it ended up like this. Was 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:00.360 nobody paying attention? Was somebody shackled 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.300 and they let somebody ruin the episode? I don't 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:08.220 know. Actually, I'm calling an audible. I'm checking 00:06:08.220 --> 00:06:09.899 into this episode to see who wrote it because 00:06:09.899 --> 00:06:14.899 it's just too different to not matter. It's too 00:06:14.899 --> 00:06:18.220 different to not matter. Somebody has to know. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.360 Somebody has to be held accountable for this 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:27.220 in some way. So, okay, I'll just go through one 00:06:27.220 --> 00:06:31.759 by one. Here Comes the Alien was written by Tojizo 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:39.019 Nemoto. As was Episode 2, which had a little 00:06:39.019 --> 00:06:41.540 logical fallacy in it. Not a huge deal -breaker, 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.459 but weird. Episode 3 was written by Junichiro 00:06:45.459 --> 00:06:52.040 Ashiki. Episode 4 was written by Junichiro Ashiki. 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:57.939 Or Ashiki. Okay. Episode five was written by 00:06:57.939 --> 00:07:01.199 Masaya Hondo, which makes sense. I raved about 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:05.019 him previously. And okay, episode six was written 00:07:05.019 --> 00:07:09.060 by Akio Miyoshi. Let's look at what Akio Miyoshi 00:07:09.060 --> 00:07:12.459 has done. I feel like this is not wasting our 00:07:12.459 --> 00:07:14.300 time. I feel like it's value added because I 00:07:14.300 --> 00:07:16.220 want to know why it's so different. And I'm going 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:17.579 to check and see if he worked on any of the other 00:07:17.579 --> 00:07:19.259 episodes. So we can anticipate whether or not 00:07:19.259 --> 00:07:20.839 there's going to be another strange one like 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:22.579 this and another outlier. I'll say I'll be nice. 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:26.079 He wrote two episodes of Ultraman Ginga S. One 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.819 episode of Ultraman X, one episode of Ultraman 00:07:28.819 --> 00:07:31.300 Orb, and two episodes of Omega. Okay, it already 00:07:31.300 --> 00:07:33.860 tells me. The Kaiju Search and a close -up for 00:07:33.860 --> 00:07:36.779 the two. So I'll just anticipate that episode 00:07:36.779 --> 00:07:39.300 two, or episode 10 rather, is not going to be 00:07:39.300 --> 00:07:40.740 very good. But we'll see what happens when we 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:48.800 get there. Yeah, wow. Okay. I wish him well, 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.329 and I hope episode 10... proves that this was 00:07:52.329 --> 00:07:54.610 just an aberration for some reason. And it's 00:07:54.610 --> 00:07:58.089 an amazing episode. I'd love to hear your thoughts 00:07:58.089 --> 00:07:59.670 on the episode, what you thought about it. Do 00:07:59.670 --> 00:08:01.149 you agree that like Omega is kind of breaking 00:08:01.149 --> 00:08:03.629 its promise here that it made with the rest of 00:08:03.629 --> 00:08:06.990 the show so far? Did this lose your goodwill? 00:08:07.529 --> 00:08:09.110 What did you think about it overall? I would 00:08:09.110 --> 00:08:10.769 love to know. Let me know in the comments. Also, 00:08:10.829 --> 00:08:13.829 you can find all my other Ultraman Omega analysis 00:08:13.829 --> 00:08:16.410 in the pinned comment. Until next time, folks, 00:08:16.470 --> 00:08:20.250 this is MJ with Going Ultra and Henshin Inspection 00:08:20.250 --> 00:08:20.769 signing out.