Ultra Seven X - Talkback {Starts Oct 5th)

[Forever Knight]

The part where "milk" came out of that last nazi-like alien was cool. I don't know why it looks cool to me. It just does.

I agree it looked cool. I think the Nazis were my fav villians so far they just looked totally creepy.

 

[Hyperknuck]

I wonder if Agent D will stick around for the final episodes or not.

Those Aliens in ep 7 reminded me of Nazis and they were damn scary looking.

lol they remembered me of the half-life 2 enemy's:

 

[Forever Knight]

Ep 10 seems to dig into Jin's SevenX memories. Only 2 eps left. :disappoin

 

[Buzz's Room]

Am I the only one left who is still watching this show? 1 episode left.

 

[Forever Knight]

I'm with you. I've really liked the show up to now but these 2 final eps better be about giving us some answers, the Aliens sending the monsters, what DUES really is, Who Jin really is, and one hell of a final giant battle. I still think the show should have been extended to 25 episodes.

 

[Raida|23]

Nope, i'm still watchin it too, but i'm stucked at ep 10.

 

[Buzz's Room]

I think the lack of Gigant battles and all ultraseven-ness has turned fans away from this series. Is it just the 3 of us who are sticking to it untill the end?
These 11 episodes had flown by quickly. It feels like this series just began yesterday.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

I'm still watching it, not that I care much for the show though. It's really not all that good, I'm pretty disappointed by it, but I'm hoping that the ending will at least close up lose ends.

 

[Algo Fonix]

I too, am watching it... albeit slowly. I've only watched up to episode 5... >.>

 

[Kimiden]

I'm still watching it, not that I care much for the show though. It's really not all that good, I'm pretty disappointed by it, but I'm hoping that the ending will at least close up lose ends.

Seconded.

I've been saying that Tsuburaya managed to pull out the stops to manage a return to their hardcore sci-fi glory days with Seven X, I even say this in my next column for Otaku USA but that was after viewing the first 5 or so episodes.

...Then it started to slip.

The ".3 Second Fight" argument seemed to be the big issue and it really has come back to haunt them, turning the final confrontation at the end of each episode into a MASSIVE anti-climax. Sure you can get away with quick fights when you're going for dramatic effect like in "Blood Message" but when it's a constant thing, it really ruins the flow of the story and takes away from the impact.

Biggest example of this is in "Your Song". We're expecting a throwdown against the rather intimidating and awesomely designed Monster of the Week. What do we get for all our trouble? An Eye Slugger for all our trouble.

Compare that to the first episode when Seven takes out the first monster and the alien ship. That shot where he just looks at the ship before taking it out, you can really feel a sense of "Holy crap, this guy is badass". The old saying of "Too much of a good thing is bad for you" couldn't be anymore right in the case of this series.

But that's not to say that it's all bad. The plots are a lot more solid than say Nexus (which started a ton of mysteries and only managed to resolve half of them) but I still tend to prefer the self-contained stories than the one pertaining to the main looming plotline.

Sure we can blame the producer and all those in charge but the main problem of the series and shis has been the main crutch of it; Time. A friend of mine watched a few episodes and she agreed that the show could really shine if they weren't restricted to 23 minutes a show.

Two to one if the show were allowed to go maybe 45 minutes, they'd be able to shine and it'd be worthy of being made for Seven's 40th. Otherwise, the show just seems like Kaiki Daisakusen: Phase 2 or the first 12 or so episodes of Silver Kamen.

(...In that case, if that's what they really want to do, Tsuburaya just needs to do a direct to video sequel of the recent new version of Kaiki Daisakusen and just get it out of their system.)

I do like Ultraseven X in spite of its flaws. It's a nice change of pace in the same way Den-O was after enduring Kabuto and the many years of Serious Business but it isn't THE GREATEST EVAR OMG! like some people are making it out be. I'd still prefer Mebius over this hands down and I wish that they'd do a Hesei-styled Direct To Video special for the series. The story is still going on in the Ultra Cockpit DVDs and I'd like a way to enjoy it that doesn't have my friends looking at me funny as I'm screaming "GANBARE MEBIUS!!!" while fiddling with plastic joysticks.

In the end, however, I'm thankful to Ultraseven X for one thing.

...At least it wasn't a sequel to Ultraseven Evolution.