The Complete ULTRA SEVEN from Shout! Factory?! D8

[Mac]

[RyanClark]

[king_ghidorah]

[MekaGojira3k]

[king_ghidorah]

[MekaGojira3k]

[king_ghidorah]

I really cannot get over the minatures in this show man. They're insanely good. I can't imagine having to churn that sort of quality week after week.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[MouthForWar]

Probably never... not being cocky, just honest. Netflix doesn't seem to get a lot of SHOUT stuff, even in their normal DVD stock. Which is unfortunate because they have released some titles I've been curious about but would like to watch before blind buying anything.

[king_ghidorah]

I just watched some eps of the original Ultraman today...wow! I haven't really gotten all of the hoopla surrounding Ultraseven until now. Man, Seven really makes Ultraman seem like a kids show. I went into Seven thinking that it'd be the Japanese version of Star Trek, which is the general consensus that I've read. I felt Seven was deff not up to par with Star Trek and so initially, I felt kind of let down. Now, going back to Ultraman I can see a bit more how that comparison works especially when you compare Seven to a lot of US Sci Fi shows at the time like Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It's a better show than almost any of those...not as good as Star Trek, but now I finally get the comparison.

Anywho, Seven keeps getting better and better. I'm on disc 5 now. One of my favorite shows of all time at this point. (Still like Kikaider a bit more though )

[MekaGojira3k]

[eabaker]

The Star Trek comparison is an odd one. The shows aren't really thematically or stylistically similar for the most part. I mean, they're both late sixties sic-fi with allegorical elements to a lot of stories, but that hardly makes them suited for 1:1 comparison. It's like the tendency to describe 60s Doctor Who as the British Star Trek - it's not totally unfounded, but it's exaggerating a sense of parallelism.

[king_ghidorah]

I agree, it's setting up Ultraseven to fail in the eyes of new viewers. I'm just trying to say that for the first time I can "kind of" understand the relation, but it's still not a good comparison.

I think Ultraseven is still much more of a kids' series than Star Trek, but it's alot more adult than Ultraman....and I'd say about on par with Return of Ultraman.

Another fasinating thing about Seven though, I wouldn't be surprised if Seven directly inspired the creation of heroes like Kamen Rider. Something about Seven's style...fighting human like seijin, and the fact that Seven is treated like an actual character whereas Ultraman is a plot device.

[eabaker]

[king_ghidorah]

Um so...on the last episode of Disc 5. Anne's hair has suddenly gone from boy-ishly shory, to long. I'm guessing this is a case of Ultra Q sydrome where the episodes played out of order.


On a side note. Anne is probably the most attractive woman I've ever seen in a toku show. On a side note of my side note, I think she looks better with the short hair.

[StevenScrivello]

[king_ghidorah]

I've seen those pics lol. At first I thought they had to be fake but they're not apparently. She had a near perfect body in my estimation.

Solid critique of her character. What's a Ultra series with a strong female character in it? Nexus comes immediately to my mind.

[Reaper G]

[klen7]

[king_ghidorah]

[kiryugoji04]

[eabaker]

I'm now just shy of half-way through the series. While I really liked it from the get-go, it's definitely hit its stride in the late teens and early twenties. If it keeps up at this pace, it will advance from a show I like to a show I love.

[king_ghidorah]

[king_ghidorah]

[eabaker]