It’s atrocious leadership on Koenig’s part, and will just look as though he was trying to save his own skin to those left to mourn the fallen back on Alpha.The Ultraman series has some of the best music that I can think of when it comes to tokusatsu one of my favorites has to be the music from Ultraman Cosmos. Today, Nippon Columbia announced an upcoming box set with the title ULTRAMAN COSMOS 20th ANNIVERSARY MUSIC COLLECTION. We don’t discover Gwent’s energy limitations till later, so this is not an excuse. This outcome should have been obvious from the first skirmish. Three Eagles and two laser tanks (with crews) are destroyed, for no discernible impact on Gwent. The second major battle, following Koenig’s discovery that Gwent is “blind” (he seems able to aim lasers pretty well), is an inexcusable catastrophe for Alpha. The big question from this episode is how does Koenig remain in charge following it? There’s an initial skirmish between two Eagles and Gwent, which ends in stalemate when it becomes clear that Alpha cannot harm Gwent, but Gwent can cause great damage to Alpha. In fact, the blindness winds up having no role in the plot. Why is your AI blind (or, at least, has extreme tunnel vision)? Is this a design defect, or an injury which has arisen during the cruise? I kept waiting for a clever Odysseus and the Cyclops metaphor, but it never comes. You build a colossal AI/Starship and house your consciousness within. Say you’re Delmer Powys Plebus Gwent, of the planet Zemo. I would lean towards Gwent having been sailing the cosmos for millennia, with a string of Companions, but the waters are muddy… The script seems to offer lines in support of both. I’m royally confused over whether Companion is the first of his kind, or merely the latest of many. Leo McKern’s wig and face fungus is fooling no one. I wonder … when Companion dies, and his head drops a foot – “THUNK!” – onto the table, was that a silly instruction from the director or was it McKern just having outrageous fun with his part? Finally there’s an excellent turn by Leo McKern, outacting the rest of the cast.
Then there’s the novelty of the Gwent model. The scale of the set! Those three storey airlock doors set the tone as impossibly grandiose. Some stuff I really enjoy in this episode. You think he’d have some powers of persuasion and negotiation by now.
Ah! One of the great shouty performances from Koenig.
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