Friday, August 14, 2015

GHWP Live Tweet Aug. 14, 2015 - Midnight Spectreman


     It's another night of giants with both #Bmoviemaniacs and #GHWP tonight, so join us first at 11PM EST when #Bmoviemaniacs presents Peter Graves in the giant grasshopper opus The Beginning of the End, followed by the final subtitled episode of Ultra Q available on YouTube. If you can't get enough of this classic tokusatsu series, then it is available in a complete DVD set from Shout! Factory. Once we bid farewell to Ultra Q, it's time for more Spectreman with #GHWP
 
Spectreman Episode Selections:
40 - The Grass-Whistling Monster
41 - Vapor Monster Dies at Dawn 

     Tonight, we move into the final leg of Spectreman. With episode 41 in Japan, the series makes its final title change from Space Apeman Gori vs. Spectreman to simply Spectreman, and it would hold on to some level of consistency until the final episode, even doing away with the revolving door of female leads and keeping just one until the end of the series.

      In this story, the kaiju action starts off hot and heavy when the gas-emitting Metanodon appears, controlled by Dr. Gori. The Pollution G-Men are on the move immediately to face the threat, but they don't have the full story. A little village boy named Kenny (you know how monster love kids named Kenny), armed only with a blade of grass, discovers that the monster is not only friendly but can speak. Metanodon manages to shake off Gori's control temporarily, and Kenny and Metanodon quickly become friends when the monster saves him from drowning after an encounter with local bullies.

Another monster with a frill. Those monster makers are real frill-seekers.
     While the G-Men scramble to find the monster's hiding place, George soon finds out that Kenny has been helping Metanodon evade detection. Unfortunately, the local bully children find Metanodon and rat him out, and Spectreman shows up to beat Metanodon within an inch of his life, all the while ignoring Kenny's desperate plea. Meanwhile, Dr. Gori, frustrated that Metanodon has given up his rampage of destruction, orders Karas to send another monster to finish the job: Magmasaurus.


You'd think there would be armed observation posts around every single volcano by now.

     A volcanic eruption gives Metanodon a stay of execution, and his gas breath turns out to be a pretty handy fire extinguisher. In the midst of the dust and smoke, Magmasaurus emerges from the volcano, and Spectreman quickly turns his attention to the new monster, allowing Metanodon to escape. The boy hopes that Metanodon will stay hidden at the bottom of the lake forever, but Dr. Gori's plans aren't finished yet. With Magmasaurus, he plans to blow up another large volcano to flood the land with molten lava, and Karas has an idea of his own to deal with Spectreman once and for all: to turn Metanodon into a mind-controlled time bomb.

Join #BMoviemaniacs at 11EST tonight, and then stick around for Spectreman action with #GHWP at 1:15EST.

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