[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by algo448

... now focusing on Baltan, who is a... space ninja? and the sole survivor of his planet? Whatever...

Baltan's epithet has always been "Space Ninja", since the second episode of Ultraman.

Also, SPOILER ALERT FROM 1966, the whole plot of the Baltan race is that they destroyed their planet with nuclear wars, fled, and then settled on the idea of conquering our planet as their new home. The episode ends with Ultraman basically wiping out the entire (but obviously not really due to later appearances) species in their single ship, the billions of Baltans reduced to microscopic size inside.

So that is entirely relevant to Barel's background, yes.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Baltan II

Baltan's epithet has always been "Space Ninja", since the second episode of Ultraman.

Also, SPOILER ALERT FROM 1966, the whole plot of the Baltan race is that they destroyed their planet with nuclear wars, fled, and then settled on the idea of conquering our planet as their new home. The episode ends with Ultraman basically wiping out the entire (but obviously not really due to later appearances) species in their single ship, the billions of Baltans reduced to microscopic size inside.

So that is entirely relevant to Barel's background, yes.

I had no idea.

That's really interesting background, I suppose the surviving Baltan aren't particulary happy with the Ultras then.

14: Leo's retrospective and it was excellent, probably my favorite so far.
On the Kaiju part they finally beat Red King, but their adventure is far from over.

Next episode the Spark Dolls return to talk about other Kaiju, sounds fun.

And btw: Leobrella.

[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by algo448

I had no idea.

That's really interesting background, I suppose the surviving Baltan aren't particularly happy with the Ultras then.

One of the reasons why I'm here! It's easy to miss little details like this without some prior knowledge of the franchise, but such references are thankfully almost never overbearing or alienating.

Uhhh, no. They aren't happy.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Baltan II

One of the reasons why I'm here! It's easy to miss little details like this without some prior knowledge of the franchise, but such references are thankfully almost never overbearing or alienating.

Uhhh, no. They aren't happy.

Thaks for the info.
And yeah with such a long franchise it's easy to miss those details, I have probably missed hundreds between Retsudan and Mebius.

The main problem with the Baltan thing, is that I take everything in the Dai Kaiju segment with a grain of salt, due to it being so different.

And yeah I thought so.

[algo448]

Another one: The Spark Dolls return to talk us about other monsters.

Boy this episode was bizarre, Pandon double personality disorder with the fiery and cold kaiju, then Jack gets torn to pieces, Kanegon and Ol' Moustache, Tiga vs Silvergon a monster who can only see moving objects and has an odd habit of copying Ultra postures.

Another Ultra Zero Fight scene is shown where we see MiracleLuna and StrongCorona... You have no idea how much I would love to see UZF subbed.

The Monster Rush was surprisingly tame compared to everything else, they fought Neronga.

Next week, Rei and co take the spotlight as Black King hosts.


That was weird, as heck, even the Spark Dolls thought so.

[ljacone]

Yeah, I always pegged the Space Ninja title on the Baltans due to their "ninja magic" tricks from their appearance, like splitting into multiple copies and disappearing from sight. The Ultra Frontier segments are fun in a sort of "watching the cut scenes from a video game" way, which makes sense considering.

Anyways, I am a little behind because I had family in town over the weekend, but I loved the Ultraman Leo episode. I have watched a few Raw eps of Leo so getting to see even a little bit of it subbed was a hoot. The fights with Black Gillas and Red Gillas (and Alien Magma) are fantastic in their uncut form; the scene where they flood the city has some of the best flood special effects I have ever seen in any movie or TV show, bar none. I also liked Zero talking about how Leo trained him, a bit which really made me smile in the first Zero movie.

EDIT: Also, I noticed that in the scene of Ultraseven fighting the Gillas, he has the red collar like his Renewal Ultra-Act.

Up next is the Spark Doll Monster Analysis!

[algo448]

Seeing Rei and Gomora is great, I love that duo, things got kinda spoilery, but it was enough to get you hooked without showing too much, nothing that the Zero movies didn't mention, 'cept for the sister.

The Dolls are funny as always, and seeing a show where the monsters are the heroes was a good change of pace for them. Kemurian's voice is so funny.

Neronga is done for btw.

Cyphon is next, no clue who he is, and that's great!

[Baltan II]

Cyphon is a comet, not a monster.

[algo448]

Yeah, that was unexpected.

Like Seven's episode this was more of a rebroadcast than a compilation episode, not much to say really.

[ljacone]

Finally got a chance to watch the Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle feature episode of Retsuden last night. Pretty funny to hear the Spark Dolls comment on the monsters, including the female half of Pandon's crush on Rei, heh. I own the DVDs for that series, but have only gotten to see a few episodes as I lent them to my friend who is an Ultra neophyte.

Spark Doll Dragoris (Dragorie in O-T's sub, I have always seen his name as Dragoris) is freaking hilarious. Sir, yes sir!

I did not download the next episode, as I just did a watch-thru of all of Ultraman last year. Cool episode though, with 3 great monsters in Gigas (who is a rebuild of the Jamila suit, which is equal parts amazing and strange to me), Dorako (whom I always think of as a proto-Gigan), and of course the return of Red King.