re: AppleTV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Eps 1 & 2 have dropped. (no spoilers)

The 3 past figures are contrasted with the 3 in the sorta present day.

Cate is the most annoying so far, but I’m hoping she gets some sort of arc.
Digging the rest of the cast. Wyatt & Kurt are awesome. They even sound so much alike.

I’m still trying to figure out how many people are named Randa & how the family tree even looks.

I’m surprised you actually watched the show instead of just posting nerdrotic’s take…

That being said, you and I both have a love for Godzilla and kaiju movies. I’m excited for this series. I’ll save my bashing of you for your impending Nerdrotic link post

I’ll probably wait till season is done and watch all at once and sign up for Apple+

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Not sure what is meant by this

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Cate related scenes

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Yes that’s what I meant. None of them had much charisma at all.


I agree with the rest. Godzilla showing up would be cake. Plus minus one in two weeks.

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It’s not really his fault, but I don’t think I will ever be able to see him as anything other than Anders.

I’m curious what role (if any) John Goodman will play as the series goes on. With all the timeline hopping you’d think we would see a good bit more of him outside of the Skull Island flashback at the beginning right?

So far I’m digging the show. I don’t really get the criticism about it being human-centric. It’s a spin-off series, not a full blown kaiju movie. And so far I feel like we’ve seen plenty of monsters anyway. I think it’s kind of cool seeing all the ways that these monster events have changed everyday life for normal people. I was reading an interview with the creators and they likened it to making a show about “9/12” rather than 9/11.. I thought that was a very good analogy.

Casting Kurt and Wyatt Russell was a great idea. I’ve seen Wyatt Russell on screen before but didn’t realize who he was until seeing this and going “man, they nailed that casting.” It makes a lot of sense now.

Cause 'Legacy of Humans' was a sh!tier title

I watched both episodes, but with all the time jumping and what not, I have no idea who is who and who is supposed to be who.

I certainly enjoyed it, but I pretty much enjoy all things Godzilla... ever since I had chicken pox as a kid and was left home all day when there was a Godzilla/King Kong "marathon" on what was then WTBS Channel 27 (or maybe 17)?.
Got me hooked.

how are the CG effects? i saw the video of the spider queen vs crab with john goodman running around the legs and it was pretty horrible looking.

i am hoping that was a one off.

Episode three dropped and it was serviceable but not great. Couple of callbacks to the original 2014 movie, but they left a lot of questions just hanging there. That’s the problem with doing these flashback episodes and continuity scenes. As Dr Who puts it, there are “fixed moments in time“ that need to be adhered to, and not altered. Like moments from the movies that are on the big screen, and everybody can see what took place and why. It’s fine to give a different point of view of the same event, so it may look a little different, but the events themselves can’t be altered.