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09-11-2013, 11:16 PM | #141 |
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Tiga Episode 37. Perhaps one of the worst episodes of anything ever. For some reason it's peace time with no kaiju having been spotted for months. So what does GUTS do? Go to look at sakura blossoms in the park and have a picnic? As if the premise weren't strange enough the entire episode is filmed from incredblly odd, diagonal, up close angles.
And it's like a blur filter was on the camera the whole time as well because huge chunks of scenery and background are blurred for literally no reason. Very odd somber music is played throughout the episode. No one, not even Daigo, is in appropriate character. The imagery, the cinematography, the music, the lighting, all wrong. It's as though they hired a write or director to do a single episode of this show with literally no knowledge of it at all. It's like the W/OOO Core War of Tiga. This is the most bizarre and awful episode of an Ultra series I've ever seen.
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09-13-2013, 10:20 PM | #142 |
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Tiga 40. Yet another terrible and poorly constructed episode. Bizarre camera angles and filters and nonsensical plot. This show has been hard to make it through. I'm enjoying some of it but good lord there are some really terrible episodes.
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09-13-2013, 10:29 PM | #143 |
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You are making me reconsider my desire to watch Tiga.
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09-13-2013, 10:32 PM | #144 |
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The cast of characters, GUTS, is entertaining and interesting. Tiga himself is a decent design with decent fight choreography. And some of the kaiju designs are excellent. But there is little to no overall plot. Maybe about 5 episodes total up through 41 have involved Tiga's origin and the legacy that links him to Daigo. There are so many, and I hate to use this term, filler episodes that it isn't even funny.
Everything is so bland. Every alien invader episode is exactly the same as the one form 3 episodes further back except it's a new random breed of alien trying to do the same thing the last one was. There's no originality. Every couple of episodes is the same over and over.
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09-13-2013, 10:37 PM | #145 |
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Ouch, I hope Mebius fares better as I'm really excited about it, for now I guess I can postpone Tiga, such a shame, the backstory of Tiga showed great potential.
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09-15-2013, 11:11 PM | #146 |
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After an incredibly long drag Tiga finally picked up some steam, and plot, with 43 & 44. This is where we some businessman come out of nowhere, know Daigo is Tiga, steal the Spark Lense from him, discover 2 more stone giants, have the remains of the giants from Tiga's pyramid stolen, devise a plan to clone an army of giants/ultras, and use the Spark Lense to become one of them AKA Evil Tiga. But that was all introduced orchestrated and done within in 2 episodes. Then we go right back to episodic nonsense with flower monsters that make people happy in 45.
I have no idea what the writing staff was like for this show but it's clear that several people wanted it to go in several directions and never reached a consensus.
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09-16-2013, 02:21 AM | #147 |
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The flower monster was actually part of the actual over all story arc as the last time it appeared was 30 million years ago right before the ancient civilization was destroyed by the darkness. Their reappearance meant the darkness was coming soon. It's all explained in the episode.
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09-16-2013, 09:26 AM | #148 |
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The flower monster was actually part of the actual over all story arc as the last time it appeared was 30 million years ago right before the ancient civilization was destroyed by the darkness. Their reappearance meant the darkness was coming soon. It's all explained in the episode.
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09-16-2013, 11:00 AM | #149 |
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I realize it was explained in the episode but it wasnt nearly as significant as the epiaodes before it with Evil Tiga. I'm up to 50 now and theyve been sprinkling tiny bits of plot into each episode up til now. Finally it looks like theyve discovered the ruins of the civilization and Rena knows Daigos secret.
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09-16-2013, 12:56 PM | #150 |
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Well, remember, Tiga was the rebirth of the series after it essentially went on hiatus in the 80s. We got the two co-production series, but this was the real "full on" return for Tsuburaya. So it may have taken some time to get the ball rolling up again. There's a lot of good stuff from this era; unfortunately, not a lot of it is subbed.
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