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[The Realist]

Reading posts about the Mill Creek home video releases on another forum, and it’s kind of weird to me how many people are obsessed with the English dubs for these series. I mean, I guess I can understand a nostalgia factor if that’s how you first experienced the shows as a kid or whatever, but you probably also had a bicycle with training wheels. Doesn’t mean you want to keep using them as an adult.

 

[kirk55555]

That seems a bit harsh. I personally don't care for dubs with live action shows/movies, but having them definitely expands your audience and I'm sure in japan a lot of the mainstream US stuff they see is dubbed into Japanese so I don't see the English dubs of Japanese live action stuff being that different. Only Tsuburaya knows if its worth the cost, but them having it really doesn't matter to me as long as they also keep releasing everything in Japanese with English subtitles.

 

[Christopher]

Omega #22: "He Who Looks to the Stars":

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So we finally get Omega's backstory, through a long recorded infodump, which is perhaps not the most effective way it could've been done, although they try to spice it up some by making it a scavenger hunt of sorts. And it turns out that in this universe, Ultras are basically Watchers and Omega is Uatu, the one "Space Gazer" who broke the rules and got involved. That's the second season in a row where the Ultraman has an unconventional origin and is at odds with at least part of his own civilization. I don't mind unconventional origins, but this one's pretty derivative.

It's actually not unusual for Ultras to have non-interference policies of a sort, but the usual rule is "Let humans figure things out for themselves unless all their efforts fail, at which point you can save them as a last resort." Which is kind of like the TOS version of the Prime Directive ("The people... may be changed by the knowledge, but it's better than exterminating them"), whereas Omega's people follow the more rigid TNG-era "leave them to die" version.

And yes, there's an alien invasion coming, but it's not from the Ultra's own people this time, just from the last race they declined to save, which is now looking to conquer Earth as their new home. Which explains why their warrior Zovaras's design was based on the Baltan from the original series.