WEBVTT 00:00:00.730 --> 00:00:02.770 What can I say about Ultraman Omega Episode 8? 00:00:03.049 --> 00:00:07.009 I'm not really sure. It wasn't the greatest episode, 00:00:07.110 --> 00:00:08.849 and it wasn't the worst. It was definitely an 00:00:08.849 --> 00:00:12.169 episode, and there was something that I got mad 00:00:12.169 --> 00:00:15.109 at, and then I realized I was totally... So, 00:00:15.189 --> 00:00:18.489 last episode, we had the debut of Trigaron, and 00:00:18.489 --> 00:00:20.690 then this episode, we had his debut as a weapon, 00:00:20.789 --> 00:00:22.230 which is what happened with Reckonus. He was 00:00:22.230 --> 00:00:23.910 introduced in one episode, which I think was 00:00:23.910 --> 00:00:26.250 two, and then episode three, maybe it was three 00:00:26.250 --> 00:00:28.070 and four, whatever, then he was used as a weapon. 00:00:29.210 --> 00:00:32.390 sorry, much like Soroto in episode seven, I too 00:00:32.390 --> 00:00:35.890 have caught a cold, so here we are, anyway, uh, 00:00:36.049 --> 00:00:40.850 I don't really have much criticism for this, 00:00:40.929 --> 00:00:43.750 uh, it was weird that we had this bunch of, like, 00:00:43.789 --> 00:00:47.850 jokers who were able to make this, uh, AI that 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:50.310 they worked with, Jennifer, which is just funny, 00:00:50.429 --> 00:00:55.909 um, and this, uh, in this Red Panda book, uh, 00:00:55.969 --> 00:00:58.689 one of the guys makes a might have been an episode 00:00:58.689 --> 00:01:01.750 actually he makes a weapon uh or he gets a weapon 00:01:01.750 --> 00:01:04.569 from somebody he calls it deborah and uh it stops 00:01:04.569 --> 00:01:06.689 working at some point he says oh deborah you 00:01:06.689 --> 00:01:09.250 finally got killed me gotten me killed or whatever 00:01:09.250 --> 00:01:12.030 it was just like a funny thing um but i know 00:01:12.030 --> 00:01:14.129 it's common to give ai different kinds of names 00:01:14.129 --> 00:01:16.269 to to humanize them or whatever make them more 00:01:16.269 --> 00:01:21.750 you know easy to work with anyway um So yeah, 00:01:21.890 --> 00:01:25.170 these Jokers, the Ghost Riders, which I appreciated 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:27.170 their little logo and their team. I didn't really 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:30.189 like their hip -hooper -ah kind of thing, but 00:01:30.189 --> 00:01:33.549 whatever. They were kind of an interesting group. 00:01:33.609 --> 00:01:35.989 They reminded me of, last episode we had an X 00:01:35.989 --> 00:01:37.269 -Files thing, they kind of reminded me of the 00:01:37.269 --> 00:01:40.189 Lone Gunman. There's three of them. their name 00:01:40.189 --> 00:01:42.030 doesn't really make sense there's the lone gunman 00:01:42.030 --> 00:01:45.129 uh but there's three of them uh i don't remember 00:01:45.129 --> 00:01:47.650 if that's spelled out lone gun man is their group 00:01:47.650 --> 00:01:50.049 or if they're the lone gun men which if you're 00:01:50.049 --> 00:01:52.329 alone then there's multiples of you that doesn't 00:01:52.329 --> 00:01:53.810 make any sense which they pointed out in the 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:57.069 x files but um again they kind of have that vibe 00:01:57.069 --> 00:01:59.569 but they also have some sort of like weird uh 00:02:00.650 --> 00:02:03.329 I don't know, like hacky science guide or a vibe 00:02:03.329 --> 00:02:05.450 to them where they're able to make this interdimensional 00:02:05.450 --> 00:02:07.950 portal thing, which is very strange that this 00:02:07.950 --> 00:02:11.530 is happening. And like the pace of and the state 00:02:11.530 --> 00:02:14.710 of science in the world of Omega seems very peculiar. 00:02:15.509 --> 00:02:18.930 And I almost wonder if these guys are going to 00:02:18.930 --> 00:02:20.629 come back. I know a little bit that there's going 00:02:20.629 --> 00:02:22.569 to be some sort of anti -kaiju defense force 00:02:22.569 --> 00:02:24.969 type of thing formed in Omega. And I'm really 00:02:24.969 --> 00:02:27.210 shocked that it hasn't happened yet at all. I 00:02:27.210 --> 00:02:29.750 wonder if maybe that'll be in... season two or 00:02:29.750 --> 00:02:33.270 from episode 13 on but like if it if it is if 00:02:33.270 --> 00:02:34.770 it does happen i think these guys should be pulled 00:02:34.770 --> 00:02:36.129 into it because they have some sort of you know 00:02:36.129 --> 00:02:39.710 ability to use advanced technology and they create 00:02:39.710 --> 00:02:43.189 a wormhole um but what's really interesting uh 00:02:43.189 --> 00:02:46.710 i'm like there was a beat at the end where ayumu 00:02:46.710 --> 00:02:51.110 is mad at them for treating science like i don't 00:02:51.110 --> 00:02:52.669 know something fun or something dangerous or 00:02:52.669 --> 00:02:55.270 something adventurous um she wants like science 00:02:55.270 --> 00:02:58.590 to be respected and I understand that, to some 00:02:58.590 --> 00:03:01.030 extent. But at the same time, if they're able 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:03.110 to accomplish all these things, like, who cares 00:03:03.110 --> 00:03:04.389 about their kind of renegade rogue attitude? 00:03:06.250 --> 00:03:09.469 I did get a very, like, odd Ghostbusters kind 00:03:09.469 --> 00:03:11.150 of vibe from them. Maybe just because they were 00:03:11.150 --> 00:03:13.370 called the Ghost Riders. And they're obviously 00:03:13.370 --> 00:03:18.110 flying by the seat of their pants. But, like, 00:03:18.129 --> 00:03:20.370 I like the blue -collar aspect of it. These guys 00:03:20.370 --> 00:03:22.030 are, like, blue -collar paranormal investigators 00:03:22.030 --> 00:03:24.689 who are able to do these things. And, like, I 00:03:24.689 --> 00:03:26.610 like that. It's a good... thing, it's a good 00:03:26.610 --> 00:03:29.650 vibe, um, I wouldn't mind there being an Ultraman 00:03:29.650 --> 00:03:32.650 show with, like, just a defense force like that, 00:03:32.729 --> 00:03:34.909 now, before you tell me, oh, you gotta check 00:03:34.909 --> 00:03:36.810 out Ultraman, hmm, I was gonna say X, but there's 00:03:36.810 --> 00:03:39.870 actually an Ultraman X, um, uh, it has that, 00:03:40.009 --> 00:03:42.270 I just, I don't know, my Ultraman literacy is, 00:03:42.370 --> 00:03:44.530 you know, low, I would say I'm, uh, I've not 00:03:44.530 --> 00:03:46.689 seen a lot of shows, but the shows I have seen, 00:03:46.770 --> 00:03:48.569 I've really focused on them, and I have, like, 00:03:48.569 --> 00:03:50.729 a deeper knowledge of them than, you know, just 00:03:50.729 --> 00:03:52.430 somebody who's watching casually, just watching 00:03:52.430 --> 00:03:55.979 for the walls, um, But, yeah, you know, I need 00:03:55.979 --> 00:03:58.080 to be exposed to more. I feel like maybe Ultraman 00:03:58.080 --> 00:03:59.680 Orb has something like this, because there's, 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:03.659 like, a team of journalists who start off with 00:04:03.659 --> 00:04:05.139 Orb being saved by him in the first episode. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:07.719 I don't know if they get involved with whatever 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.580 team, but regardless. I kind of liked what was 00:04:10.580 --> 00:04:12.000 going on here, and I liked the idea of this, 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:14.439 like, I thought about them. Look at this ramshackle 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.569 group. There's a guy riding a bike. He's... pedaling, 00:04:17.569 --> 00:04:20.029 riding the bike to power up this machine that 00:04:20.029 --> 00:04:21.589 Jennifer is helping them to control, it's this, 00:04:21.629 --> 00:04:23.089 you know, time dilation machine or whatever, 00:04:23.290 --> 00:04:26.129 and, like, it just, it was fun, and it was interesting, 00:04:26.290 --> 00:04:29.089 and I kind of liked the idea, the vibe of this, 00:04:29.149 --> 00:04:34.290 like, ragtag, ragtag, oh, I'm sick, sorry, my 00:04:34.290 --> 00:04:36.329 brain is not functioning at full capacity, group 00:04:36.329 --> 00:04:40.490 doing this kind of stuff, and it was weird, they 00:04:40.490 --> 00:04:42.790 went to another dimension, and Ayumu doesn't 00:04:42.790 --> 00:04:44.860 really seem to be, like, She's kind of impacted 00:04:44.860 --> 00:04:47.660 by that. The guys aren't so much. But, like, 00:04:47.660 --> 00:04:50.300 they meet this ghost boy who's possibly connected 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:53.939 to this legend of this giant monster that is 00:04:53.939 --> 00:04:57.540 fought off by a giant, you know, red humanoid 00:04:57.540 --> 00:05:00.160 type of guy. And they say, like, oh, we wonder, 00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:02.319 the ghost writers, that is, they say, oh, we 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.399 wonder if this Omega that's been showing up fighting 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.779 Kaiju, if he's actually the spirit of this mountain 00:05:06.779 --> 00:05:09.839 or whatever. And Kose asks him, have you been 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:11.040 here for, like, a thousand years? And he's like, 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:14.209 no, that doesn't look like me, does it? And one 00:05:14.209 --> 00:05:16.170 of the Ghost Riders comes over and says, what 00:05:16.170 --> 00:05:17.430 are you guys talking about? Oh, it's just an 00:05:17.430 --> 00:05:19.029 inside joke. So like, once again, the guys are 00:05:19.029 --> 00:05:21.370 being sloppy about keeping his identity secret, 00:05:21.490 --> 00:05:23.470 which is frustrating to me. If it really matters, 00:05:23.589 --> 00:05:25.589 which I don't really want it to matter. I don't 00:05:25.589 --> 00:05:28.329 know why they insist that it should matter, but 00:05:28.329 --> 00:05:31.110 they do. And here we are dealing with this, living 00:05:31.110 --> 00:05:33.410 in this world where it matters to them, to the 00:05:33.410 --> 00:05:36.029 creators. But yeah, I know this is just kind 00:05:36.029 --> 00:05:38.930 of like a middling episode. The Kaiju was cool. 00:05:39.370 --> 00:05:42.480 There was nothing offensive about it. I really 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:44.300 like this one moment that I have for the thumbnail 00:05:44.300 --> 00:05:47.560 where Omega pulls off the Trigron claw and gives 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:49.060 a thumbs up and then he puts it back on. Like, 00:05:49.060 --> 00:05:51.579 it was just kind of a light, fun episode that 00:05:51.579 --> 00:05:53.459 didn't do anything offensive, but it also didn't 00:05:53.459 --> 00:05:55.680 really move things forward. And I'm not against 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.839 filler or that kind of thing, but just like, 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:00.339 I don't know, just like give it a little more 00:06:00.339 --> 00:06:02.459 meaning. Like, why are we exploring this ghost 00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:05.709 thing? This isn't Concrete Revolution where we're 00:06:05.709 --> 00:06:07.410 going to have, you know, yokai fighting kaiju 00:06:07.410 --> 00:06:10.170 at some point, I don't think. So, like, why bring 00:06:10.170 --> 00:06:13.290 up ghosts, and why have that kind of thing going 00:06:13.290 --> 00:06:15.009 on? Is it just so there's mystery in the world? 00:06:15.170 --> 00:06:16.589 Because there is something towards the end of 00:06:16.589 --> 00:06:18.389 the episode where Ayumu says, like, yeah, there's, 00:06:18.410 --> 00:06:20.329 like, things that science can't explain, can't 00:06:20.329 --> 00:06:23.189 understand, and they're beyond the realm of science, 00:06:23.329 --> 00:06:27.550 and that kind of matters. And, like, Kosei didn't 00:06:27.550 --> 00:06:31.540 see the ghost boy, but... ayumu and soroto did 00:06:31.540 --> 00:06:33.000 which like i don't know what that's supposed 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.740 to mean and even the ghost boy knows who he is 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:38.199 and he calls out after him like after they leave 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.939 this pocket dimension back in time i guess uh 00:06:41.939 --> 00:06:44.959 i guess that's what it was and the kid just says 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.959 omega and then that's it like i guess there's 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:50.500 a mystery there for the sake of having mystery 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:52.220 and like mystery is still a part of the world 00:06:52.220 --> 00:06:54.500 which is good i like that ultraman has this idea 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:57.579 of like exploring mysteries and exploring things 00:06:57.579 --> 00:06:59.889 that are interesting dramatic i like the heroic 00:06:59.889 --> 00:07:02.209 stories too but like just like the sci -fi and 00:07:02.209 --> 00:07:04.629 paranormal stuff is also cool and it's also uh 00:07:04.629 --> 00:07:07.550 nice but it just i don't really know what this 00:07:07.550 --> 00:07:11.709 one was about and that's too bad so um yeah i 00:07:11.709 --> 00:07:13.790 don't really have much to say not much to criticize 00:07:13.790 --> 00:07:19.279 uh What did you think about the episode? Are 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.720 you... Am I missing something huge? That you 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:23.540 say, oh, this makes it a great episode. I can't 00:07:23.540 --> 00:07:25.680 believe you ignored that, MJ. How dare you? I 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.439 would love to know what I missed, if there is 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:28.939 anything. Or do you agree that this was just 00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:30.540 kind of like a middle -of -the -road episode? 00:07:30.939 --> 00:07:35.660 It definitely doesn't make me hate it. I'm more 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:38.100 mad about, like, the inconsistencies, like, from 00:07:38.100 --> 00:07:39.980 a couple episodes ago, where there was something 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:42.740 suggesting, well... whatever the things that 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:44.199 have suggested that omega has actually been there 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:46.279 the kaiju have been there for longer uh upset 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:47.879 me and i thought that was going to happen this 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.819 time but it didn't but and the only reason it 00:07:49.819 --> 00:07:50.959 upsets me is because the premise of the show 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.339 the promise of the show is that kaiju are new 00:07:53.339 --> 00:07:55.600 to this world so when you violate that promise 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.420 it's like why why did you do that you didn't 00:07:58.420 --> 00:08:01.519 need to if there's speculation that they reuse 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.899 scripts okay update the script and it doesn't 00:08:03.899 --> 00:08:06.819 have this glaring plot hole or like glaring you 00:08:06.819 --> 00:08:08.079 know violation of what the world is supposed 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:13.699 to be about anyway that's all Let me know what 00:08:13.699 --> 00:08:14.959 you thought about this episode. Check the pinned 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:16.819 comment for more. You can find my playlist for 00:08:16.819 --> 00:08:19.259 the rest of Omega and other things that I'm doing. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:20.660 I'm talking about Zets. I'm all caught up on 00:08:20.660 --> 00:08:23.240 Zets. And I've got other things to talk about 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.240 and hence your reflection. I think we might have 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.759 something really cool to talk about. It's not 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:31.000 a hot topic, but it is a cool one. And you might 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.259 be interested in it. I don't know what I'm doing 00:08:33.259 --> 00:08:40.480 anymore. Goodbye. Take well, take care, and be 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:47.220 good, and do it. Oh, God be with us all. Anyway, 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:51.100 goodbye, folks. This is MJ with Henshin Inspection 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:55.779 and Going Ultra signing off. Oh, boy.