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Episode 7 of Ultraman Omega, Caught a Cold, is

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quasi -unremarkable. To be more correct, there

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are things that could be remarked upon if you

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really wanted to. If you really had to. If you

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were pressing yourself to say, I gotta talk about

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this episode, then yeah, there are definitely

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things you could say. I don't want to say them,

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I don't want to talk about them, and I gotta

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be honest, this is... Another week episode. And

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I don't really understand what's going on here.

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It feels like the tone is kind of funny. It feels

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like there's not a lot of, like, cohesion. And

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I don't understand why that's the case. Like,

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you could argue that it's finding its footing,

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it's finding its voice, whatever. I don't really

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think so. I think it has a strong voice. I think

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it has a strong footing. I'm not demanding that

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every episode be this amazing mythic episode

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like Miko and Mikoto, which I will still go back

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to and say that's a fabulous episode. And I'm

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grateful for Omega existing, if only for that

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one episode. But there's kind of so much wrong

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with it that I don't really know where to start.

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I don't really know what to identify as the core

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problem, other than... It kind of doesn't move

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anything forward. And... I don't really... I

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mean, it does move things forward, but it moves

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things forward in a very mechanistic way, which

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is that there has to be another meteor kaiju,

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which we get in Trigeron, which is a cool name.

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And it's a cool -looking little guy, little suit,

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little statue, little creature, little toy. And

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that's great, wonderful, but by the end of it,

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there's this whole thing about how Sarto jumps

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on Kosei's back because they're friends, and

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he's like, oh yeah, we are friends. And I thought

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episode three, where they had that really, I

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think it was episode three, they had that really

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weak fight, established their friendship in a

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very subtle way. I mean, they had a fight. And

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then they got over the fight through action and

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through scenes and through things being cool.

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And that was really neat. And I enjoyed it. It

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doesn't matter. And it was cool because while

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the fight was ridiculous, in my opinion, the

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resolution for it was good. We understand that

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they can have differences, Kosei and Soroto.

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They can have differences, but they can also

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be friends and they can have this relationship

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that gets over those differences. And that's

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nice. It's nice to see done, even if I didn't

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like the full context of it. But you're sick,

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stay in bed. Don't fight this thing alone. It's

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not a good setup for, oh, look, now we're friends

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or I know we're friends or I'm affirming that

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we're friends because you helped me while I was

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sick. Well, he was already helping you while

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you were sick. Kosei was nursing. soroto back

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to health and ayuma was helping too but kosei

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was primarily the guy acting and this like resolution

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kind of comes out of nowhere which is interesting

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because episode six had a resolution like that

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where everything's happy even though the kaiju

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were one of the kaiju's dead and we put the mate

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uh we put the two of them together a living one

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and a dead one yay that's not a yay kind of thing

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that's nothing to celebrate over and also this

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conclusion at the end of the episode comes out

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of nowhere and there's this whole thing with

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the streamer going on and he's i think he looks

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older um i wouldn't be surprised if he's you

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know older than me um and he's dressed in a very

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weird very loud very obnoxious outfit which is

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funny because i just talked about uh ultraman

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having like a more subdued look to it generally

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speaking but that costume he's called wolfie

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uh he's supposed to be like mr beast i don't

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know that mr beast dresses weird i I've only

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seen him in like a, you know, blue t -shirt and

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jeans or whatever. So I don't know. I don't follow

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him. I don't know anything about him really.

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But I don't think he dresses loud, but like,

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I don't know, beast, wolf, wolfy. Is that kind

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of a connection? Like, is there commentary about

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streamers being made? I know I've heard of some

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streamers doing like very rude, very culturally

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insensitive things in Japan and different places,

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whether that be a certain forest or. touching

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statues in a weird way and whatever. Um, so like,

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I don't know if like, that's, uh, I don't know.

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I know this episode is like, Hey, uh, the Japanese

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government called up. Who's the prime minister?

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She was a lady that was in like a metal band.

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Anyway, she called them up and she's like, Hey,

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so we're at your production. I don't know why

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she's Mexican all of a sudden. I need you to,

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uh, I need you to take down somebody for me.

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I need you to take down the YouTube streamers.

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They're terrible people. So I don't know if that's

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what happened. I don't really know what this

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episode was going for. And therefore, it's frustrating

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to me. And there's not really much to say about

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it. Seeing Gamora again is cool. It's a great

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kaiju, classic kaiju. Always cool to see him

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show up. Called a Gamorasaurus this time. One

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thing, again, that was confusing to me is they

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were disputing whether or not the kaiju came

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from space, and Soroto said, nope, this kaiju's

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been here for a while. On this planet that didn't

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have kaiju before I came to it. Again, it's not

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that the show's losing its voice, it's that it's

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willfully contradicting itself and not being

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consistent, and I just don't understand why.

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I think I need to look more closely. at who's

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writing the show, who the head writer is, and

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maybe the producer. I don't know. Like, Taguchi

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gets a lot of praise for Blazar and Zet being

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what they are, I think. And I'm just wondering

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what's with the weird inconsistencies in this

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show. What did you think about Ultraman Omega

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Episode 7? Did you dig it? Do you think I'm crazy

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for disliking it? What was the best part of it?

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What was the worst part? I'm curious to hear

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what other people have to say about this episode.

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Or is it something that you forgot existed because

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it was just so unremarkable? I'd like to hear

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that. And you can find links to me talking about

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the rest of Omega in the pinned comment. And

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you can find other things there. What are you

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going to find? I don't know. You're going to

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have to look and find out for yourself. Until

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next time, folks, this is MJ with Henshin Inspection

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and Going Ultra, signing out.