[Zaragon]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I'm feeling more and more that Ultraman just isn't for me, I've tried, multiple times but everything you're saying just falls flat to me. If Nexus is a reinvention of the franchise, I find that hilarious as about the only difference between the shows is the tone. And if those cities in Ultraman are supposed to feel organic...that is hilarious as well.

Ultraman is low budget, even by toku standards, and is formulaic, even by toku standards or at least that is how it comes to an outsider like myself. And if what you're telling me is true, I guess it shows I won't ever match up to the general consensus.

Honestly, I'm not sure what you want. Tiga, Dyna, and Gaia all take place in alternate universes with Earth-based Ultramen. Gaia in particular has a protagonist whose job within XIG is not combat-oriented, and XIG has several different flight teams.

Within the Showa continuity: Ace was the Two-In-One Ultra. Leo is from L77 and one of the last survivors of his planet. 80 is a schoolteacher that moonlights as a UGM officer. Zero's first two movies don't take place on Earth. Ginga has no defense team and instead focuses on high school students (too bad about it not being very good.)

Then there's stuff like Ultra Q and Ultra Galaxy, which aren't about Ultraman.

And I'm not so certain what there is that makes it anymore low budget than other TV shows. You've already made apparent your distaste for Tiga, but there's no doubt in my mind that it looked TONS better than Carranger which was airing around the same time.

To be honest with you, it seems as though it really ISN'T your thing. Quite a few of your complaints are about mainstays that aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

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I guess it's just because the things wrong with the miniatures are just so...obvious. That goes for Ultraman, Sentai etc.

Fair enough on some of the miniatures. Though, I personally think most of them are quite good for TV productions. Movies and direct-to-video stuff usually looks much better.

It doesn't really bother me too much because complete realism is the last thing I expect when they're making the sets week by week. Otherwise I'd be tearing my hair out over some minute thing, like ENORMOUS flowers on a natural landscape because they couldn't quite work out the perspective. There's some instances for cities where it's nearly unacceptable (an episode of Ultraseven where somebody forgot to put in sidewalks comes to mind.) But most of the time it's alright.

Anyway, I think that most people would rather not think about all the people Ultraman must be killing when the monster smacks him into a building.