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I just finished episode 10 of Ultraman Omega,

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which was a little similar to episode 7 of Ultraman

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Omega, which was a little similar to episode

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4 of Ultraman Omega, and I'm a little confused.

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I'll just speak about the show as a show or,

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you know, from the source material. This reporter

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lady comes and she's interviewing Kosei and Omega

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because... And Soroto, because Soroto knows all

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this stuff about the kaiju. Kaiju are new. She

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wants to know how. She has a whole thing about

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a documentary, and she wants to warn people of

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the dangers of kaiju because people don't know.

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If people aren't getting hit by kaiju over here,

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they're going to ignore the fact that people

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are being affected by kaiju over there, and they

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kind of want to ignore it, or they can't ignore

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it. They have the luxury of ignoring it. You

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could say that they did not see it because they

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did not wish to see it. And that's an interesting

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concept. But what ends up happening is that...

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because she's trying to interview them, and Soroto

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is so casual, so lax, he basically wants to tell

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her pretty much right away that he is Omega,

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and Soroto is scared for him. Also, Soroto is

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concerned, no, I'm sorry, Kosei is scared for

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him, and Kosei wants him to pause and say, wait

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a minute, shouldn't we tell Ayu before we tell

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Mak, this new lady? And I don't really know why

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that's a concern. Maybe because it's a betrayal

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of trust and revealing the betrayal of trust

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sooner than later is going to be better for the

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relationship because then they can reasonably

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say, hey, we did tell you before we told somebody

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else. Even though we kept it from you, at least

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we let you know. We were deceiving you longer

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and then we let you know longer that we were

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deceiving you. And you should feel good about

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that, which I'm saying it. with a not a very

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nice tone and kind of like, I think they're being

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big jerks. I'm not judging on that at all. I

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just think it's kind of curious. I think it's

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kind of interesting. And yeah, I don't really

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know why that's an aspect in the calculation

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of telling this lady or not. And I understand

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that Kosei is concerned that if the authorities

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find out who Omega is that it's sort of toe that

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they'll come after him, that they don't know

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who he is. They don't know if he's a friend or

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a foe, even though he's consistently been a friend,

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but still they, somebody might want to harm him.

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And then what he would have to either run away

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or kill them all or whatever to defend himself,

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I guess maybe because he can only be ultra in

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for a few minutes at a time, he might fight them

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off and then get weakened and then be in big,

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bad trouble. But then again, The way he flies

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off at the end of a fight, you think he could

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just fly to another country or something. It's

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an island! He could fly off to the island, right?

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Anyway, or he could fly to Miyagi's home. It's

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Okinawa. I now remember Japan here. Okinawa here.

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Okinawa, my home. Is that... Well, the concept

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is nice. The B -plot, I guess... with Kosei and

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Soruto fighting, it just happened a couple episodes

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ago, and it just happened a couple episodes before

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that. This was funnier, and it made more sense

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in context than the first time it happened, which

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was episode four, and yet it's strange because

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episode four debuts the use of the Reckoness

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armor, and the Reckoness armor gets a big use

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again after a couple weeks, a couple episodes

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of the Trigeron armor getting focused. When they

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wanted to go back to selling the other toy, they

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decided to do that by rehashing an episode, rehashing

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the same episode essentially from before in order

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to bring out the same armor as before. This makes

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no sense. I don't know who's making these decisions.

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I don't know why they're making these decisions.

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And again, I don't know who at Subaru Productions

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is responsible for people being so cavalier.

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with their, you know, prestigious, like, Ultraman

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is the core thing of Super Rare Productions.

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There are other things that they do, but this

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is the core thing, and they're just being so

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careless with it, and I don't understand why.

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But really, my main point is that I don't understand

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why they would rehash this episode, this concept,

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this conflict between Kosei and Soruto again

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for the third time in less than six, four, five,

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six, seven, eight. Nine, ten. Okay, fine. It's

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been seven episodes. Over the course of seven

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episodes, they've had the same conflict three

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times. That is not good. And it's not they were

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fighting a kaiju or they were fighting a tough

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kaiju and it was a three -parter or it was, you

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know, green with evil and it was four episodes

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worth of stuff. It's the same thing popped up

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in different contexts and different scenarios

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three times within the space of seven episodes

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and seven, that's the caps, the end caps of it.

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I hope they don't fight again and have to question

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their friendship and reaffirm their friendship

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again. It didn't make any sense the first time.

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It was just weird. It came out of nowhere the

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second time they did it, which was in the Caught

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a Cold episode. Of course you would help me,

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Kosei. That's what friends do. You don't need

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to say thank you or I don't need to say thank

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you. Whatever. Somebody doesn't need to say thank

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you because we're friends, which actually doesn't

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make sense. That's not good. That's bad manners

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there from Omega. And if he's talking about reciprocity

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and the obligation, how you should help somebody

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because you're close to them, I agree. You should

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still say thank you. And the next thing, just

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like you should say thank you to waiters and

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waitresses, it doesn't, just because it's their

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job, you can still thank them and be polite and

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kind. Anyway. But it's just, it's just, I don't,

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I don't understand why things are being handled

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so carelessly, why we're revisiting this conflict,

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why it matters that they're friends. I didn't

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think their friendship was in trouble. At the

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beginning of this interview they were having

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with this lady doing the documentary, Sorato

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talks about how Kosei is his best friend. And

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she said, but you're cousins. Why are you friends,

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too? Or why is she your best friend? And as if

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that's supposed to be some sort of conflict.

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And then, of course, they had their fight, which

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was more enjoyable, made more sense this time.

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But by the end, there's another reaffirmation

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of their friendship. And I just... don't understand.

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In fact, it brings to mind something from Conrad

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or Forze. Ryusei says something about a friendship

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that needs so much affirmation is not a real

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friendship at all. And I think that's interesting.

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I think that's interesting. I think there's something

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going on wrong in the writing room for Omega

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where they're not putting the proper focus on

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things and therefore They're writing from a place

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of fear and they are afraid that it's not making

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enough money. They're afraid that it's not getting

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the point across. It's not selling to the kids

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well enough. So they're doing these things to

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try to sell it. And they're just not doing a

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good job of it. It's really bad. And that's too

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bad. Anyway, I don't want to talk about this

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episode anymore. Let me know what you thought

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about it. Leave a comment below and we can discuss

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this further if you'd like to. And drop a pinned

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comment for the rest of my Omega or check out

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the pinned comment for the rest of my Omega analysis.

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And there might be some bonus content there,

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too, that you can enjoy. If I can muster up the

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strength to make something for this episode,

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I might. I might try. We'll see. We'll see what

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happens. Anyway, for now, this is MJ signing

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out with Henshin Inspection and Going Ultra.

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Take care, folks.