Skydon is just an incredibly fun episode!

Yeah, easily one of my favorite episodes of the original Ultraman series and one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched.

That's my favorite episode of OG Ultraman!

Mefilas is the best villain of the show IMO, the whole episode is fantastic, I love the dialogue between Mefilas and Hayata ("What are you? Human or alien?") and the end of their fight is so cool.

I agree. So I didn't really like the Shin Ultraman version of Mefilas. He was turned into a chess-player villain who thought everything through many moves ahead, which may be more logical than requiring a child to give up the planet, but at the same time, quite banal. The original Mefilas captivates precisely with its uniqueness as a villain.

I loved Hayata's mocking laugh when Akiko's brother wouldn't give in. And it was pretty cool how Ultraman and Mefilas actually tied.

It also made me start to wonder how much of Hayata was Hayata and how much of him is Ultraman post-fusion, although admittedly some of the recent episodes have actually given Hayata some actual bits of characterization:

- Him being so eager to go on a date with Patty.

- Being the only one in proper uniform in the middle of the night (does he sleep in that?).

- His despair at realizing what he had done by throwing all those Kaiju into space and creating the Monster Graveyard. I guess now I understand why modern Ultras all blow the Kaiju up instead of leaving corpses around.

Although it kind of hurt seeing that they straight up tossed Pigmon up there.

I saw the first ever Ultra episode and the first ever Rider episode in the same day as well as Gavin. After I finish Zen I may resume Ultra. I'm using Maylay disk sets for Ranger episodes. I may pair up Rider with Ultra. The problem is that 98 episode Rider set before V3 which will run into the 2nd Ultra series.

I'm doing a Super Hero Time block for an hour with both shows.

AMC has a listing for Shin Ultraman coming out Janauary 11 2023

https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/shin-ultraman-71952

Where there's Chouju, there's Yapool.

The Kanata/Agams arc continues strong, but now Agams has a new friend in the form of our favorite dimensional threat, Yapool. I've not actually seen Ace yet, but it's always neat to see how well modern Toku handles the effects for the dimension breaking and Yapool's effect veiling his true appearance (guy's a walking Ultra Q logo).

Now we've come to the Griphon gets shot down by everything phase (though it was inevitable), but then again, it's up against the Chouju, which are stronger than Normal Kaiju, which I still find funny how these old designs happen to be stronger than even the newer ones. But that miracle double fight was fantastic! Really enjoyed seeing that and Decker beating Terraphaser without the aid of Dynamic.

Next Episode: We're going to put an Ultra on the moon. Or two!

I wonder what it is about Agams' trigger word. It seems related to Laelia, but is it a mantra he created as part of his revenge or some kind of mental command?

Alien Yapool just crossing dimensions trying to kill any variant of Ultraman he can.

Murahoshi, don't tell Kanata he can't deal with Agams! He's the main character!

Oh yeah, if Kengo could redeem a genocidal yandere, maybe Agams wouldn't be impossible to redeem.

Well, now Kanata has personally ticked off the main villain. That always ends well!

I did not expect that Ichika slap.

So, like, are Ichika and Ryumon just not going to notice the fact that Kanata magically vanished when Decker showed up? He was literally right there in front of them! They could've seen him transforming out of a corner of their eye! Unless they were so distracted by Aribunta that they didn't notice. But I doubt it.

It's nice seeing Deckers' base forms even if he was still getting beaten up before Terraphaser even showed up. Yet it was great to see how far Kanata has come that he was able to save himself without GUTS-Select's help and even managed to turn the tide with Miracle Type! Double Decker! And that was a spectacular Dynamic Type Finisher!

The Sphere get their own cards!?

Next week...Decker and Trigger! Kengo returns! And Galactron!

looks like UGF3 is going to start airing on youtube, the premiere for the first ep is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6QJs0ouoYc