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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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Welcome to Going Ultra.

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This episode I'm calling Ultra Finger.

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I'm reviewing Ultraman Zet episode 17, which features piracy, shifting allegiances, and burning fingers!

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This episode was a lot of fun.

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Barossa is a riot, at least that's what I think, and I want to know what do you think about it.

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So, I've got a few topics to go through to discuss these elements I brought up.

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Ultra Tot is here, so if you hear any weird things going on, it's because I'm being interfered with.

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Anyway, so, by a two-foot titan? Anyway, here we go.

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So, Barossa 2. Alien Barossa we learned at the end of the original Barossa episode, which was, I don't know, nine or something like that.

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Maybe it's ten where he gets killed. Anyway, he has millions of siblings, millions of brothers and sisters, you know, who hatched along with him, I guess.

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Cuz that's as he knows that they, you know, lay a million eggs at a time or something like that.

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And so he comes back, he's deadly, he's funny in a different way, he's like a lot meaner and more menacing, but also more comical.

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And he's like, instead of doing slapstick and quieter comedy and being real sinister, he's like a jerk.

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And he's real intimidating and he kind of does trash talk, which is kind of fun.

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And he says multiple times some iteration of, I'm a pirate, of course I'm going to cheat, you're an idiot if you think I won't.

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And that was a lot of fun. So, Belly Rock, and I'm going out of order with this, Belly Rock is interesting.

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He's flippant, he's, how do you say, he's choosy about who he works with, which is where the Shifting Allegiance has come in.

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He works with Alien Barossa 2, or Barossa 2. He works with Juggler at one point in the episode.

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And then he goes back ultimately to Haruki. And the most interesting thing about Haruki, the thing that keeps him hooked to Haruki,

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is that Haruki is going to be interesting for him because he doesn't know what he'll end up putting himself up against.

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Because Haruki is basically, you know, heroically willing to sacrifice himself.

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So Barossa, no Belly Rock rather, sees that as an opportunity to put himself up against something real big, real bad, real scary,

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that he can slice through as he's want to do. And that's interesting.

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The reason I, I think I said Belly Rock's fame is the topic here, is because according to Juggler,

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Belly Rock is a known quantity, a known entity, and I guess he wasn't born in the void of Grizza when Jid went in there with his belly-ell factors,

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which confuses me because I thought that's explicitly what they said happened in the episode.

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So I guess that was wrong, and I guess he actually is a known quantity.

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He's a thing that's been around for some time, and he's this powerful entity that Juggler would want to use.

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Because it sure sounds like that's what he said. Now, was there some sort of translational error?

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Was that kind of a flub on the writing? Kind of a plot hole, I guess you could say,

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because they weren't paying attention to the fact that, you know, Belly Rock was born in the void of Grizza?

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I don't quite know, but that struck me as odd.

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But it was, you know, regardless of whether or not he's a known quantity that's been around for a long time,

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and now Juggler can get his hands on him, or he's something newly forged, but he's still interesting and powerful,

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and, you know, he and Juggler basically have the same mindset as far as their allegiances are concerned.

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They just want to do what interests and pleases them. That is cool. Either way, just the discrepancy kind of freaked me out.

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I love that both Yuko in Windom and Delta Riseclaw Zet do, essentially, the G Gundam finisher, burning finger or god finger, whatever you call it.

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And I absolutely loved it. The way, like, just the visual language of everything when Windom did it with Yuko,

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it totally read like she was doing, like she was Domo and doing the burning finger.

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And I'm a huge G Gundam fan. Ah! I have a G Gundam podcast called King of Hearts, Queen of Sorrows,

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and I need to get that officially on a feed like I have, you know, the professional official feed like I have for Writer Tears,

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my Kamen Rider show, that's newly, that's new, and, you know, Going Ultra, which goes back a little while.

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But it's fabulous. I actually love the show. It's so good. There's so many things to praise about it.

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And the visual reference in here was good. And we got it not once, but twice.

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Because later when Haruki gets real fed up and he activates Delta Riseclaw, he is holding Barossa by the head.

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And yeah, he's going to wail on him with his other hand. But like the visual language of it was almost identical.

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And he's got glowing eyes that are spitting lightning and stuff. And it's just super cool.

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Oh, yeah, which my next topic was burning finger again. And yeah, so he does it too, essentially.

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And it's really great. So I definitely love that. And then I thought it was interesting that Juggler has this dilemma.

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He specifically states that he's only interested in doing his own thing, but doing what pleases him.

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And he's not trying to be good. He's not trying to save people's lives. He's not trying to fight for justice or anything like that.

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But then again, he does pursue Haburagi. And he, I think, pursues him earlier in the episode.

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He interferes with Barossa trying to get Veliorok and takes it for himself.

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As you can see, that's him totally acting for himself. But then I guess to satisfy his curiosity, totally not to be kind of a good guy or anything like that.

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Then he kind of goes after, which maybe he does say something about being bored again.

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But I was rewatching an older episode, so it might have been in that one where he goes to Haburagi's workplace.

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Anyway, but he follows Haburagi and then he sees Celebro jump from Haburagi into another guy.

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And he just watches Haburagi get arrested, even though he's an innocent man, which kind of sucks.

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But it's also kind of in character for him. But then, like, he doesn't seem... he's not making any sudden moves.

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He's taking it slowly. And I don't know what he's going to do, but he's going to do something about this guy.

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But, you know, I don't know what it is. It seems like he...

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It seems like there's some sort of quandary or dilemma or like uncertainty within him.

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And I find that kind of intriguing, although it's a little frustrating at the same time, but it doesn't really bother me.

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And then Celebro's next move, like I said already, Celebro has abandoned Haburagi and he's gone into another guy,

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which shocked me because I would think he'd want to keep that actor doing the role the whole time.

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But, you know, they're changing things up. They're making it more interesting.

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And he's going to have a different host for himself now, which is cool.

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And I don't know if he's a higher or lower official in Gafch, the Global Alliance, something Japan...

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Global Allied Forces Japan. So, you know, that's interesting to consider. Hold on. Hold on. Here.

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Hey, ultra top. Here. No, hold it like this.

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Both like that. Yeah. Yep. You got it. You got it. All right.

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Anyway, so that's pretty cool. And I do like that.

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So I definitely really enjoyed this episode. I feel like the show's, you know, getting back to where I want it to be.

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I love the moral question and I love how it kind of did this deconstruction and reconstruction to build up, you know,

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Zet and Haruki into this ultra hero. And now that they're done with that, I'm ready for them to move on to the next stage.

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And that's what it feels like is happening in this section of the show.

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So anyway, thank you very much for your time and attention and check out the show notes for all the good stuff that you will find there.

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Until next time, folks, be well. This is MJ signing out.