Gems on Broadcast TV

So a surprisingly unknown fact nowadays is that with an antenna you can get free television!  And in Los Angeles, we get about 50 or so channels over the air, depending on the orientation of our antenna.  In terms of the big networks, as of right now we get NBC, CBS, and Fox.  Still have to figure out the orientation for ABC and CW.  But in addition to those big name tv stations, there's a lot of foreign language television to fill out the remaining 40ish channels.  There's your typical Spanish channels with their novellas.  But then you have some Armenian channels; one's even named "Best TV Programming," so I don't know why I ever change from that channel.

But what I'm getting to is the Asian channels.  I've discovered a kaiju style tv show on what I believe is a Japanese station.  18.1 or 18.2 I think.  If you don't know what kaiju is, think about a Godzilla movie with guys in mnster suits fighting on a miniature city set.  That's kaiju.  It's probably because I grew up on Godzilla and Power Rangers (and I still watch the latter a lot!), but I am hooked on this show now!  I believe it's called Ultraman.  Even though the video quality looks like it's from the later 90s, the effects are horribly cheesy.  There's a lot of alien spaceships chasing down Earth space craft, and the aliens look like 2D paper sketches flying around.  There's no parallax at all!  The human ships look like Arwings from Starfox.  And it's great!

And speaking of Godzilla, when I first tuned in to the show I thought I was watching a series based off of Jet Jaguar, who was a character in a Godzilla movie I watched a ton as a kid.  Sadly, the character was only in that one movie, and Jet Jaguar had no franchise of his own.  But the resemblence is crazy, isn't it?  It makes sense since Ultraman was popular at the time this Godzilla movie came out.

Isn't it kinda funny what you find on tv?