[GoldenXtreme]

I watched the first episode of Omega too. Honestly seems like a great start, an Earth that has never dealt with kaiju before is one of those things I am shocked the series has never really done before and Sorato and Kosei were both very charming.

Unfortunately, what I am actually here to talk about is Ultraman Trigger which was... bad. Quite bad, I actually feel a little guilty for harping on Blazar so much now. I'll start with the positives: there are unique ideas like Ultra being known to some, but not all, of his allies from the start. Sometimes the show got a laugh out of me too. But overall, it just had so many half-baked, half-coherent things going on that it just completely failed to do almost anything right. I think the best example of this is how we know almost nothing about the regular cast outside of the main group. They're utterly flat, and the mains are barely better to be honest, with lots of rushed and bizarre plotlines for them. Akito's dead parents? Who cares I guess. Kengo's incomprehensible backstory where he exists because of a time paradox? Agh. Yuna has a plot about forging her own destiny I guess, but she's given so little agency in the early parts of the show and then spends the later parts getting inconveniently kidnapped a lot of the time. Let's not even get into the legions of male characters tripping over themselves to simp for her. Ignis doesn't seem to add much to the show besides being hammy, just kind of a walking security issue that GUTS-Select doesn't seem all that worried about. The Tiga references also do the show absolutely no favors, at best making the story predictable and at worst making me wistfully think about how I wished I was watching Tiga instead. Dialogue and individual episodes... also not very good. I think the only thing that really stuck out about it visually to me was the fact it actually used a moderate amount of fake blood, which is unusual for New Gen shows. A show where the only "Smile, smile!" I was doing was a wry one.

I'm sort of hoping I will have some kind of inverted reaction to Decker and actually like it, since I like Tiga but not Dyna!