Episode 7 of Ultraman Omega, Caught a Cold, is
quasi -unremarkable. To be more correct, there
are things that could be remarked upon if you
really wanted to. If you really had to. If you
were pressing yourself to say, I gotta talk about
this episode, then yeah, there are definitely
things you could say. I don't want to say them,
I don't want to talk about them, and I gotta
be honest, this is... Another week episode. And
I don't really understand what's going on here.
It feels like the tone is kind of funny. It feels
like there's not a lot of, like, cohesion. And
I don't understand why that's the case. Like,
you could argue that it's finding its footing,
it's finding its voice, whatever. I don't really
think so. I think it has a strong voice. I think
it has a strong footing. I'm not demanding that
every episode be this amazing mythic episode
like Miko and Mikoto, which I will still go back
to and say that's a fabulous episode. And I'm
grateful for Omega existing, if only for that
one episode. But there's kind of so much wrong
with it that I don't really know where to start.
I don't really know what to identify as the core
problem, other than... It kind of doesn't move
anything forward. And... I don't really... I
mean, it does move things forward, but it moves
things forward in a very mechanistic way, which
is that there has to be another meteor kaiju,
which we get in Trigeron, which is a cool name.
And it's a cool -looking little guy, little suit,
little statue, little creature, little toy. And
that's great, wonderful, but by the end of it,
there's this whole thing about how Sarto jumps
on Kosei's back because they're friends, and
he's like, oh yeah, we are friends. And I thought
episode three, where they had that really, I
think it was episode three, they had that really
weak fight, established their friendship in a
very subtle way. I mean, they had a fight. And
then they got over the fight through action and
through scenes and through things being cool.
And that was really neat. And I enjoyed it. It
doesn't matter. And it was cool because while
the fight was ridiculous, in my opinion, the
resolution for it was good. We understand that
they can have differences, Kosei and Soroto.
They can have differences, but they can also
be friends and they can have this relationship
that gets over those differences. And that's
nice. It's nice to see done, even if I didn't
like the full context of it. But you're sick,
stay in bed. Don't fight this thing alone. It's
not a good setup for, oh, look, now we're friends
or I know we're friends or I'm affirming that
we're friends because you helped me while I was
sick. Well, he was already helping you while
you were sick. Kosei was nursing. soroto back
to health and ayuma was helping too but kosei
was primarily the guy acting and this like resolution
kind of comes out of nowhere which is interesting
because episode six had a resolution like that
where everything's happy even though the kaiju
were one of the kaiju's dead and we put the mate
uh we put the two of them together a living one
and a dead one yay that's not a yay kind of thing
that's nothing to celebrate over and also this
conclusion at the end of the episode comes out
of nowhere and there's this whole thing with
the streamer going on and he's i think he looks
older um i wouldn't be surprised if he's you
know older than me um and he's dressed in a very
weird very loud very obnoxious outfit which is
funny because i just talked about uh ultraman
having like a more subdued look to it generally
speaking but that costume he's called wolfie
uh he's supposed to be like mr beast i don't
know that mr beast dresses weird i I've only
seen him in like a, you know, blue t -shirt and
jeans or whatever. So I don't know. I don't follow
him. I don't know anything about him really.
But I don't think he dresses loud, but like,
I don't know, beast, wolf, wolfy. Is that kind
of a connection? Like, is there commentary about
streamers being made? I know I've heard of some
streamers doing like very rude, very culturally
insensitive things in Japan and different places,
whether that be a certain forest or. touching
statues in a weird way and whatever. Um, so like,
I don't know if like, that's, uh, I don't know.
I know this episode is like, Hey, uh, the Japanese
government called up. Who's the prime minister?
She was a lady that was in like a metal band.
Anyway, she called them up and she's like, Hey,
so we're at your production. I don't know why
she's Mexican all of a sudden. I need you to,
uh, I need you to take down somebody for me.
I need you to take down the YouTube streamers.
They're terrible people. So I don't know if that's
what happened. I don't really know what this
episode was going for. And therefore, it's frustrating
to me. And there's not really much to say about
it. Seeing Gamora again is cool. It's a great
kaiju, classic kaiju. Always cool to see him
show up. Called a Gamorasaurus this time. One
thing, again, that was confusing to me is they
were disputing whether or not the kaiju came
from space, and Soroto said, nope, this kaiju's
been here for a while. On this planet that didn't
have kaiju before I came to it. Again, it's not
that the show's losing its voice, it's that it's
willfully contradicting itself and not being
consistent, and I just don't understand why.
I think I need to look more closely. at who's
writing the show, who the head writer is, and
maybe the producer. I don't know. Like, Taguchi
gets a lot of praise for Blazar and Zet being
what they are, I think. And I'm just wondering
what's with the weird inconsistencies in this
show. What did you think about Ultraman Omega
Episode 7? Did you dig it? Do you think I'm crazy
for disliking it? What was the best part of it?
What was the worst part? I'm curious to hear
what other people have to say about this episode.
Or is it something that you forgot existed because
it was just so unremarkable? I'd like to hear
that. And you can find links to me talking about
the rest of Omega in the pinned comment. And
you can find other things there. What are you
going to find? I don't know. You're going to
have to look and find out for yourself. Until
next time, folks, this is MJ with Henshin Inspection
and Going Ultra, signing out.