I just finished episode 10 of Ultraman Omega,
which was a little similar to episode 7 of Ultraman
Omega, which was a little similar to episode
4 of Ultraman Omega, and I'm a little confused.
I'll just speak about the show as a show or,
you know, from the source material. This reporter
lady comes and she's interviewing Kosei and Omega
because... And Soroto, because Soroto knows all
this stuff about the kaiju. Kaiju are new. She
wants to know how. She has a whole thing about
a documentary, and she wants to warn people of
the dangers of kaiju because people don't know.
If people aren't getting hit by kaiju over here,
they're going to ignore the fact that people
are being affected by kaiju over there, and they
kind of want to ignore it, or they can't ignore
it. They have the luxury of ignoring it. You
could say that they did not see it because they
did not wish to see it. And that's an interesting
concept. But what ends up happening is that...
because she's trying to interview them, and Soroto
is so casual, so lax, he basically wants to tell
her pretty much right away that he is Omega,
and Soroto is scared for him. Also, Soroto is
concerned, no, I'm sorry, Kosei is scared for
him, and Kosei wants him to pause and say, wait
a minute, shouldn't we tell Ayu before we tell
Mak, this new lady? And I don't really know why
that's a concern. Maybe because it's a betrayal
of trust and revealing the betrayal of trust
sooner than later is going to be better for the
relationship because then they can reasonably
say, hey, we did tell you before we told somebody
else. Even though we kept it from you, at least
we let you know. We were deceiving you longer
and then we let you know longer that we were
deceiving you. And you should feel good about
that, which I'm saying it. with a not a very
nice tone and kind of like, I think they're being
big jerks. I'm not judging on that at all. I
just think it's kind of curious. I think it's
kind of interesting. And yeah, I don't really
know why that's an aspect in the calculation
of telling this lady or not. And I understand
that Kosei is concerned that if the authorities
find out who Omega is that it's sort of toe that
they'll come after him, that they don't know
who he is. They don't know if he's a friend or
a foe, even though he's consistently been a friend,
but still they, somebody might want to harm him.
And then what he would have to either run away
or kill them all or whatever to defend himself,
I guess maybe because he can only be ultra in
for a few minutes at a time, he might fight them
off and then get weakened and then be in big,
bad trouble. But then again, The way he flies
off at the end of a fight, you think he could
just fly to another country or something. It's
an island! He could fly off to the island, right?
Anyway, or he could fly to Miyagi's home. It's
Okinawa. I now remember Japan here. Okinawa here.
Okinawa, my home. Is that... Well, the concept
is nice. The B -plot, I guess... with Kosei and
Soruto fighting, it just happened a couple episodes
ago, and it just happened a couple episodes before
that. This was funnier, and it made more sense
in context than the first time it happened, which
was episode four, and yet it's strange because
episode four debuts the use of the Reckoness
armor, and the Reckoness armor gets a big use
again after a couple weeks, a couple episodes
of the Trigeron armor getting focused. When they
wanted to go back to selling the other toy, they
decided to do that by rehashing an episode, rehashing
the same episode essentially from before in order
to bring out the same armor as before. This makes
no sense. I don't know who's making these decisions.
I don't know why they're making these decisions.
And again, I don't know who at Subaru Productions
is responsible for people being so cavalier.
with their, you know, prestigious, like, Ultraman
is the core thing of Super Rare Productions.
There are other things that they do, but this
is the core thing, and they're just being so
careless with it, and I don't understand why.
But really, my main point is that I don't understand
why they would rehash this episode, this concept,
this conflict between Kosei and Soruto again
for the third time in less than six, four, five,
six, seven, eight. Nine, ten. Okay, fine. It's
been seven episodes. Over the course of seven
episodes, they've had the same conflict three
times. That is not good. And it's not they were
fighting a kaiju or they were fighting a tough
kaiju and it was a three -parter or it was, you
know, green with evil and it was four episodes
worth of stuff. It's the same thing popped up
in different contexts and different scenarios
three times within the space of seven episodes
and seven, that's the caps, the end caps of it.
I hope they don't fight again and have to question
their friendship and reaffirm their friendship
again. It didn't make any sense the first time.
It was just weird. It came out of nowhere the
second time they did it, which was in the Caught
a Cold episode. Of course you would help me,
Kosei. That's what friends do. You don't need
to say thank you or I don't need to say thank
you. Whatever. Somebody doesn't need to say thank
you because we're friends, which actually doesn't
make sense. That's not good. That's bad manners
there from Omega. And if he's talking about reciprocity
and the obligation, how you should help somebody
because you're close to them, I agree. You should
still say thank you. And the next thing, just
like you should say thank you to waiters and
waitresses, it doesn't, just because it's their
job, you can still thank them and be polite and
kind. Anyway. But it's just, it's just, I don't,
I don't understand why things are being handled
so carelessly, why we're revisiting this conflict,
why it matters that they're friends. I didn't
think their friendship was in trouble. At the
beginning of this interview they were having
with this lady doing the documentary, Sorato
talks about how Kosei is his best friend. And
she said, but you're cousins. Why are you friends,
too? Or why is she your best friend? And as if
that's supposed to be some sort of conflict.
And then, of course, they had their fight, which
was more enjoyable, made more sense this time.
But by the end, there's another reaffirmation
of their friendship. And I just... don't understand.
In fact, it brings to mind something from Conrad
or Forze. Ryusei says something about a friendship
that needs so much affirmation is not a real
friendship at all. And I think that's interesting.
I think that's interesting. I think there's something
going on wrong in the writing room for Omega
where they're not putting the proper focus on
things and therefore They're writing from a place
of fear and they are afraid that it's not making
enough money. They're afraid that it's not getting
the point across. It's not selling to the kids
well enough. So they're doing these things to
try to sell it. And they're just not doing a
good job of it. It's really bad. And that's too
bad. Anyway, I don't want to talk about this
episode anymore. Let me know what you thought
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strength to make something for this episode,
I might. I might try. We'll see. We'll see what
happens. Anyway, for now, this is MJ signing
out with Henshin Inspection and Going Ultra.
Take care, folks.