Ultra-Q thread!

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Ultra-Q, the show that started it all! Whether the original show, the movie, Dark Fantasy, or Neo Ultra-Q, share your thoughts!
Personally, as much as I love Ultraman, Ultra-Q is probably my favorite show out of the Ultra-pantheon.
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I loved Neo Ultra Q. Laundry Day is just such a wonderful episode.
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Nagira from the 1990 movie is such a cool monster design, too bad it hasn't resurfaced in any other series since.
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The movie was produced by Tsuburaya Eizo (Akira Tsuburaya's then-independent company), not Tsuburaya Productions. TPC might not legally be able to use Nagira or the characters that originated in the film.
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Terasawa wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:08 pm The movie was produced by Tsuburaya Eizo (Akira Tsuburaya's then-independent company), not Tsuburaya Productions. TPC might not legally be able to use Nagira or the characters that originated in the film.
Sega was also the main sponsor for the film, and seeing how Bandai has a very large controlling share of the series and Tsupro now, I wouldn't be shocked if they explicitly want this particular entry buried.

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Currently watching Ultra Q as a start to an overdue Ultraman binge. I'll have to say that Namegon's episode is the only one out of the 3 I've watched so far that I actually liked. Defeat Gomess! and Goro and Goro are just kinda there, they exist.

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It might help that I've already watched Gift from Space before, though. Well, only the latter half but it still counts in my book.

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Cryptid_Liker wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:18 pm Currently watching Ultra Q as a start to an overdue Ultraman binge. I'll have to say that Namegon's episode is the only one out of the 3 I've watched so far that I actually liked. Defeat Gomess! and Goro and Goro are just kinda there, they exist.
Yeah, neither of those episodes really satisfies me. Deafeat Gomess! in particular is very hollow. Goro and Goro at least attempts something a little deeper, but doesn't have anyplace to go with it in the end.

In my opinion, though, the show gets better pretty quickly, and improves enormously by about the half-way point.
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Stopping for today. I'd rank the episodes I've watched so far like this.

1: Grow Up! Little Turtle
2: SOS Mt. Fuji
3: A Gift from Space
4: Peguila is Here!
5: Mammoth Flower
6: Goro and Goro
7: Defeat Gomess!

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I agree the show gets better as it goes on, though it should be noted that some of the later episodes like Devil Child and Open Up! were actually among the first produced, before it was essentially forced by the network to be exclusively about giant monsters.

I think the biggest problem with Ultra Q is its overambition. I think it strives to tell some genuinely complex/engaging sci-fi stories, but is usually hampered by the 24-minute runtime. Challenge from the Year 2020 is a prime example of this. While I still enjoy the episode, there's a TON crammed in there, to the point where it becomes borderline incomprehensible without a few rewatches. The more typical "Kaiju" stories like Defeat Gomess!, Peguila is Here!, Terror of the Sweet Honey, Garadama and Fury of the South Seas are certainly a lot more straightforward, but are often quite bland. But there are still some great ones like Tokyo Ice Age, Garamon Strikes Back.
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So, I'm about halfway through the series now. I find it kinda funny how this show's best episodes (so far, at least) are the sillier ones but Ultraman's best are the more serious episodes.

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Just finished Ultra Q. You guys were definitely right, it did get a lot more consistently good in the later episodes. In terms of series highlights, Grow Up! Little Turtle and Blazing Glory were both really good. M1 and Kanegon were also really fun. None of the episodes were honestly bad in my eyes but Defeat Gomess! is such a nothing episode that there really is no opposition for least favorite episode. Overall, the show never really reached the highs or lows of its successor. It's just kinda there, I guess.

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