The Reel Rejects - MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS - 1x3 Breakdown & Review | Godzilla | Monsterverse

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

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No. She never got it in the plane. What a face. It's all right Old Man Shaw's been able to figure his way out of every situation I'm sure he'll figure it out Oh yeah, very start of the next episode He'll have like a special whistle or something that like makes Kaii

Capacitated for a minute I'll jump back into action All right, all right Damn you know with the dad in hiding yes especially when he doesn't want to be like caught by a monarch

yeah one of the best things he can probably do is find ways of securing his location and hiding keeping it secret but not lying about it yeah totally totally but what would the best way to be to what would the best way be to I'll show you right now I'll show you I'll show you I'll show you naturally naturally to show you yeah walk me through this yeah I was natural sure explain it to me

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John, did you love it? I liked this episode quite a bit. I did. I didn't say you loved it. I really, really liked it. Wow. You're not quite out of love? I'm still inching towards love, but I really like it.

I like, that's my favorite one. Is, yeah, out of the three we've seen so far, that's my favorite one. Sure. It's the most sort of like propulsive. And it's got a really kind of, you know, I don't know, you're moving and you've got, you know, a couple really good kaiju touchstones on both timelines. I feel like we're actually unpacking new shit. Okay. Whereas before, even if it is just sort of fleshing out and monarch, understanding how monarch came to be with its corruption is a really cool angle to me of like, oh, this actually really did start off as a.

a wondrous prospect. Something truly just interested in learning about these. Yeah, they're all Oppenheimer. They are. What horrible, horrible door if we opened. Oh shit, now we have a nuclear bomb. Innovation, yeah. This is not what we meant by this.

Yeah, yeah. I really like how it seems to riff on elements of history in the way how, to my understanding, original Godzilla was a metaphor for threat of nuclear war. Am I correct about that? Yeah, the trauma. All I think about are big monsters punching each other. The traumas. Not the deep shit. And the fallouts of. Yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Real life terror. Historical atrocities and ass murder. Put a guy in a costume and blow up fake buildings with your funny little screams. Rubber suits. Rubber suits. Yeah. Yeah, my bad. What did I say? Oh, I don't know. Some bullshit about history.

and trauma and you got very you really corrected me on something you were like rubber Greg Greg Greg Greg Greg rubber suits Greg rubber suits rubber suits rubber suits guys guys the suits so the first movie is a real metaphor about guys take off the suits you'll be less angry but no I mean like the way they were showing should really showcasing how the three of them You know, young John Goodman. Young Kerr Russell. And, and grandma, doctor.

And Dr. Grandma, who just gets to be the definitive version of her character because we haven't seen her in the future. Doctor, Dr. Woman. Dr. Woman, what say you? What are your feminine instincts telling you this time? Every scene is it's a doctor, a woman, doctor. Whoa, what? I hope they bring it every episode.

Yeah. guys it's pet we're we're we're past world war two now women have had jobs it's okay so the but that like everything on the beach and everything that was like hearkening back to like while while you do get a little bit of like nostalgia homage um um um emotionality just that entire sequence yeah i mean it's like it's always cool to see godzilla don't remember that's really cool and i love the visual too with seeing through the yeah through the old camera to the old camera i'm like wow that that feel so vintage to use their words but it was a great aesthetic touch and the this show does deal a lot with duplicitousness and dichotomy and then seeing that within monarch itself of like they really didn't

want to attack Godzilla they really wanted to understand and then you're and then seeing I like I like when they're cutting back and forth between I'm I find myself now super interested and compelled by the cutting back and forth, seeing how Shaw was the one who went to the army and approached them. Like he was just on some escort mission with this doctor. And now he's like, open up the door for this secret

camp of government. And you know, they were like, yeah, you'll get unlimited funding. We're going to really help you out. And then he cuts to the future and he's just like, we've got to keep him in prison and we're taking control the entire thing, you know? Like it's that it feels like it was really

riffing on something that feels real world. yeah and the whole time i've been kind of watching the show going like what the hell are they expanding upon or showing me that is really all that different yeah that what we already know and they've really i feel like this episode truly hit the mark and maybe hit hit it for people earlier already for me this really hit the mark on monarch being something i really want to one pack yeah you know and that's probably my favorite aspect and prior to this i didn't really get that sense i'm like i always feel like monarch was always being treated like they're kind of corrupt and then you need them and yeah because who else is going to deal with this yeah yeah and this one really um gave us a different angle and there's mystery with like the first time they actually discover gojura which goes back to when uh syrazawa does talk about that in the in the 2014 godzilla movie you know so they we got that filled in which is really cool to really get that entire thing fleshed out um and just in the middle of the reality Actions. I'm like, well, no, I know. I just waited.

It's okay. It's okay. You gotta say everything, but don't talk about, don't talk too much. Don't talk too much, but get all the right things to say in the reaction. So there's nothing, you know, we should just start pausing, wrecking the watchalong experience. And then just like, you're making sure we get each reference down before we move on with the show. So, yeah, bringing that in. And, and then, yeah, I'm, covering under Muto's as well. Yeah. Our main issue is I really just don't give a shit about the two kids.

Like they're, the way they're portrayed is the most baseline flat to me. It is so, is so baseline. And like, I really like the moment where they did hug. Yeah. That was nice. They both finally have a reason to connect over something.

You get a sense, a little bit more sense of depth of, of not willing to be vulnerable because it's easier to kind of take out this anger and pain on each other than it is to deal with the fact that their dad is dead and did something horrible. So I get the

subtext. I do. It's there. It's very obvious, but the way it's done, the way they go about it is and it's hampering of exposition, it just kind of feels repetitive, a little monotonous. I'm just not the biggest fan of it

and the performances are fine. They're fine performances. They are. I'm not going to sit here and be like they're bad performances. They're not really doing something to, they're not strong enough, though, to elevate it beyond its flatly ridden material. Yeah. If I was an actor, I would be hungry for more material to sink my teeth into as those characters in particular.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because we see a lot of this, these are archetypical beats. And so, especially when you're in a position where, yeah, the script doesn't seem, seems least concerned about spending time writing that story I do feel for the actors in that position because you're in a position where it's

going to kind of I don't know you're in danger of fading into a longstanding trope rather than your performance actually being accentuated by the material the question about is the dad alive and what's the dad

really up to is just light years more interesting than the actual kids yeah like the actual just question about it is so much more interesting than the kids even their response to it just like i just want to know what's going on with the dad and i'm not super interesting like and i think the show itself is not that interested in them like the writing they put around the grandma who is is great doctor woman uh she she's great her performance is great i i really like love her and then yeah with the shaws that so much of that is very compelling um so for the most

part i really it's it's all that stuff where the writing of the characters is the most intriguing it's them and and i like curiousy clemens is i think curious clemens is a really good actress yeah but even with her what there's there's kind of seems like i feel like something in the writer's room I feel a note. It might not be true. It just feels this way to me of we need to provide something to make them more interesting. We need like drama around them to make them more interesting. You could feel like them throwing in some note to try to include.

So it just reads as kind of melodrama that bogs it down a little bit than actually feels like drama I find really, I personally find really interesting. Yeah. It feels like somebody mandated. these three characters and the show is like is including them out of spite and is only concerned with doing the bare minimum to have them there. Yeah. Which is kind of funny to me because again, this

is a show that is steeped in this lore and is building this world out, but that is you know, having to rely more on its human elements because they cannot do a money sequence, you know, constantly. And yeah, it's funny to me because yeah, I enjoyed the immediacy of this episode and how much this is moving things forward. I'm much more compelled by the characters combined with the story in the past. This episode was fun for the

presence sequences just because, you know, you're on a ship and then you're on a plane and we see a new kaiju and there's some fun to be had there, although I do, and not to spend too much time like, you know, hypothesizing or rewriting, but part of me thinks that they could have accentuated this whole plot line with the two, you know, half siblings, a lot more if they had utilized a bit of that Gareth Edwards, like soaking in the environment vibe where there aren't a big, you know, world spanning travel, basically. And so I feel like we could have made that feel like experiential in a way where without even having to like write extra drama for them, we could just kind of be along for the journey and bonding with them that way.

have like a few little moment like every time we come back to those couple of characters it just feels the most like oh i'm watching a show with like here's beats that we got to do whereas i can get more lost in a lot of the other stuff so it's like yeah i feel for the actors because i i keep wanting them to you know be able to i don't know like this has got to be a big opportunity for them and certainly you know it's it's a good you know calling card but uh yeah and the and the bummer too is that they're, and I don't, I really don't know what the general consensus is on them as the main characters. Yeah.

Because you essentially got two sets of main characters. You got the people in the past, you got the people in the present. Yeah. And then Shaw is kind of like the connecting thread between the two main characters. Yeah. Two main sets of characters, right? Yeah. And it's, and in the present, we got two Asian leads, which I think is really cool to get,

especially when you have like the adaptation of Godzilla, yeah, of your Godzilla movies to get Two Asian, finally, to get like the two Asian elites. It's not like just Ken Watanabe as a co-star elite, you know? Yeah, not coming in to also fill something of a trope character. Yeah, yeah. I think that's, that's really cool. So I am wishing that they were given something better here. It's weird that Kentaro's mom is still the most distinct flavor to me of that whole story.

A thousand percent. I'm right there with you. Because, yeah, she is given these, like, regular human, you know, bit lines. But, like, everything about that feels like a person and feels like they put a character on it. Yeah. Whereas I feel like I'm kind of just watching, like, two protagonists, capital P. Yeah, yeah. And I feel like I don't really have faith.

Faith the show is really going to change this. Because this is kind of an ongoing opinion for us. Sure. And I feel like we could just be very repetitive here. so perhaps if it just carries on we'll just be like they're still doing the thing we don't really like that thing whatever but if they

but if we if they didn't do something that we really like about it then all right fuck we'll talk about that yeah because this episode did ultimately provide me with a lot of things I really did like

aesthetically really cool I do love the fact that they embrace these locations some stuff is a little bit silly when you just throw your brain out the window and you're just like oh fuck it I guess I got on this ferry um

you know yeah I guess this insane level of survey right I was able to get us on like the most inefficient form of travel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we know we have a truck here we took that clearly has it a very identifiable license.

Yeah, yeah. And we've been under hyper surveillance up to this point that I'm pretty sure has reached beyond the compound. The only tracker they gave me was apparently this ankle bracelet and not some weird, like, track crew of my blood or something. Yeah. Some bugging my... Yeah, as high tech as this monarch. the organization is in as much surveillance as they have on me. It's okay.

I got it one step ahead. The government passports situation, like all that stuff. This is really spy heightened that is filled in the blank by. He's on a lot of shit in between that we just don't know about. But it's fun. And Kurt Russell is his charisma and charm

and is the way he uses, the way he does his line reading, the way he uses dialogue really brings a lot of there's a reason why kirk russell is is the legend that he is because he's no he's just known to like he's got a way with dialogue that that makes they're like oh fuck it i'm on board you're car russell um so he and he's such a delight and i really feel like he bring he does bring a lot to this role and it is kind of fun watching because i think Wyatt russell's a really good actor yeah he's one of the best like nepotism you look like just like your dad yeah and he's a really good

actors of all those guys. And it's kind of like, wow, what a daunting thing to be at the same show as your dad. Yeah. Because like, your dad is a whole other caliber of talent. And you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, like, Wyatt Russell is a great. I still remember watching that Black Mirror episode not. Oh, yeah. Not knowing who that that was the son of Kurt Russell and being like, this is a great actor. Who is this? And then finding out that, oh my God, that's Kurt Russell's son. Yeah. And I had no idea that was Kurt Russell. So I, Like, I've formed that opinion prior to knowing. But it is just fun watching the roles.

I just be like, one is just so much significantly more charismatic. But it's, it, but at the same time, like, what Wyatt Russell is doing. That's why I would be curious to know what the homework is for both of them, because where Shaw is at at the point in time where Wyatt Russell's at, that's what's required for that performance. Yeah. Like, like there is a little bit more of a carefree experience, same time, a lot. more wounds have been inflicted on a guy for where for where cur russell's at where he's just like fuck

this i'm gonna play by my own rules a little bit yeah you know whereas why russell was still up and coming and had to be obedient to the army at all costs and everything you know so it is fun watching the dueling roles there of the same character and um and uh i do like the kaiju stuff i like the themes of again of of of human history that feels like allegorical to real life to the point where when you're watching the way this portrayed and then you're seeing the traumatic events of what today is like with the Godzilla incidents and the Muto from 2014 movie you're going oh maybe there was a path where they may have been able to prevent some of this or help prepare humanity for it if they didn't just make

that one mistake of we got to just shoot this thing yeah you know and like was there a path where they could have where we could have almost like eased each other into coexistence in some greater way than just an immediate attack to leave that first impression, yeah. Yeah, so there's a lot of really liked about this. I'm really into it when we're watching it.

Yeah, no, I'm too, and I'm rooting for it to continue on and I'm like, I'm here for the mystery and I'm excited to find stuff. Like, yeah, it's, it has those bits that we have, you know, well-trodden in terms of how it could be better and more gripping dramatically speaking. The shock great, too.

Was it? Oh, it shot. Yeah, yeah. No, it totally is. And it's one of those things where it does, at least again, when they are going big scale, like look really nice.

Like when you're going up the backplates on Godzilla and that whole thing where it comes out of the water and the mist is coming on. Like, it looks really beautiful. And yeah, like I am enjoying the spirit and I think the way that they do the, especially the way. that they handle being in the 50s, it feels kind of, I'm able to just kind of slip into it and not be, I don't know, like, it's nicely hewn to the point where it's not too stylized and crazy. It's not, I don't know, it just feels kind of natural. It doesn't feel as much like, oh, this is a, you know, I don't know what I'm trying to say. Like, sometimes you can feel the facade, especially when you're cutting back and forth and especially on like a TV format. Like, it doesn't feel like they're stretched in any way, bringing that stuff to life.

and no it doesn't yeah and and and i think it's i think there's like the way they work with the dp it feels doesn't feel like a shot like a show like there's a lot of symmetry to everything everything feels very thought out and composed and there a lot of times and i wouldn't the only time i've really said that when it wasn't focused on monsters was gareth edwards 2014 movie yeah which i think is a very i think it's a very under rated movie because it got a lot of backlash for the way they chose to capture Godzilla

in the perspective and obscure him a lot of the time and stuff. So I understand but I think as time has gone on, it's become more appreciated. It's personally my favorite of the movies that have come out. It's actually my favorite. I know

it's not the one that we all really want. I find that the most effective one. It's the most well-rounded movie of all of that. It's definitely 2014 for me my I know my rating easily 2014 god's lover is Kong king of the monsters

Kong skull island um really yeah a lot of people prefer Kong skull island over yeah uh king of the monsters and I don't I prefer it's definitely my the bottom for me okay yeah my my ranking would probably be that

it would be 2014 Kong Godzilla versus Kong Kong Kong Skull Island King of the Monsters yeah I'm not a big fan I've tried Kong Skull Island always starts off like ooh And then it just really loses me.

That's fair. The last half, I've always like, yeah, this is kind of, this is really not. The fun is definitely wearing it in for me and I just get annoyed. It complets how King of the Monsters is there are aspects of that movie that are kind of like aggravating to me. But, but, you know, there's a lot of really beautiful monster stuff. So they might even average out. But, but yeah. But my point that I was saying was that Carreth Edwards, I thought, really shot every moment of that.

with such composition and scale and like you're there but be what i'm saying even when there wasn't a monster thing happening yeah exactly no exactly whereas the other movies i sort of feel like they reserve that for the monster stuff for sell it yeah it doesn't really care about doing that when you're in between scenes yeah like they're shot fine they're always shot good but but but that's like okay they really that that's when they really give a shit and then i would say this show matches that with Gareth Edwards at least in the intention of we

really care about every shot we're doing like every, even if it's just a talking scene, which is most of this, they really give a shit on how to compose every frame. Yeah. And I really appreciate that, especially for

a television series. Yeah. Where they, that is a very filmmaker or this still feels like filmmaker driven, which is kind of strange because normally you're like you feel that with the writing and not so much the directing and I kind of have an inverse with this experience. Yeah, I feel like the directing is where the filmmaking is shining and some of the writing is where I feel a little bit perfunctory and how they're doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There are a lot of there are a lot

of perfunctory beats across a lot of the characterizations and stuff like that. But I, but yeah, the to varying like to varying degrees of appropriateness, but yeah, the style, the mood, the atmosphere is always on point and it's like appropriately dreary when it needs to be but then you'll have these nice contrasts of like how beautiful it is when they're out on the beach um and then yeah you're out in the ice and whatnot and just like when you're looking up at snow but then just like clouds and like you kind of lose where the sky is like yeah there's a lot of real beauty and and things to marvel at and uh and yeah i i appreciate so much about how they've orchestrated this and And I like that they're giving us at least these like kooky little things to wonder about like, okay, Kurt Russell, how old is he? And is he like aging slowly? Is he regenerating somehow? Is he, is this going to be like a Jurassic World character? He's like a secret clone or something like that, which I don't know how wacky they're going to ultimately go with it. But, you know, I like having little mysteries like that on the surface to at least ponder about. And yeah, going back, like I did think that was a really nice moment.

where the two kids are able to both identify the handwriting. It's like a real nice way to tie that all together. And now we have, you know, present and past kaiju, you know, moments. We got this big ice dude with either the... I couldn't quite tell if that was, yeah, like some kind of like the force of the suction. It's so cold that it froze everything in the cabin of the plane. I was sad. I like that guy.

I liked his buddy from Korea. It was very obvious. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's... And that's what I mean by the writing. There's a lot of tropes and there's a lot of like, this is about what would happen, you know, in the writing. And yeah, it's seems like right now it's kind of always up to the actors to elevate it. And I think about it less in the flashbacks because I think the three of them just have more chemistry.

I think that's what it is. I think Kurt Russell helps give chemistry with anybody he's directly interacting with. And the present trio, I don't feel as much just like natural chemistry between is like when you cut to the three of them in the past. they have even when the writing could be better and even when you're like, oh, I know exactly what's going to happen. The military is going to come in. They're going to be too gung-ho. They're going to lead completely adversarially and all that stuff.

You still feel that sense of magic at the end when they kind of strike that deal of like, all right, well, you can tell me everything I need to know. You basically can do your research and I'll act as a buffer to help you get that done and deal with, you know, the people upstairs who have clearly shown us how they're going to handle our research or how our endeavor here and i keep think at one part of me in my rewrite brain i'm waiting to see how the season plays out sure for i commit to this thought is i don't think you need kirstie clemens i think you could have translate transplanted a lot of that to the sun it would have made him more interesting if he himself had become some type of like hacker person and

he investigates it himself but gregg and and i think he has zero chemistry of kerski clemens there's none Yeah, and I, and I kind of, I, and they're supposed to be, you know what they're doing. You can make some weird fucking argument for him and the sister being like, they're distant and straight. He's not allowed, no, I honestly, it kind of feels to me like they went. We have these two leads, but she's his half sister. We cannot orchestrate a romance here. So we need him to have an X flame so he can have a romance with a pretty lead who we have sort of tact. on and i like that kind of character that kiercy clemens is playing i like the way she's playing it

but i i don't disagree in its current form that there's no thought put her in her mess yeah she's here to be hacker character and have the you know info when it's needed like she is so along for the adventure and i'm like but you are the you you're so uninterested yeah and and and again it's one of those things or i'm like maybe if they they showed us that moment in the previous episode where Cantaro comes by and she like blows him off and then she's like oh I'm working on other things but she's clearly digitizing all the monarch stuff and it's like maybe just an extra beat to show like what your obsession with this is aside from just being annoyed that he brought this to your door or a lude yeah give it just give us like some secret fun shit to unpack

even if it's just normal human stakes by the end that it reveals to be like give us something with those characters to wonder about or to think of their allegiances in relation to me melodrama or characters arguing does not immediately equate to strong conflict or compelling character it just doesn't and and it's to me it just like it feels like perfunctory melodrama and it does and the way the brother and sister treat each other is indicative of that because it's clear the main beat that the two of them focus on is just like our dad cheated and it's kind of like the only piece of character history that informs most of their interactions and then with Kiercy Clemens it's just like oh we used to be together

drama and uh yeah like it's yeah it's just one of those things where you're sitting there going that's all it's so boring you're just like guys i and too i mean you never know but like sitting here with everything as good as it is now i'm everything else as sort of interesting this so much of this for for as much as we've had critique throughout this review this show was like better and more engaging than i was expecting like i'm having a lot of fun watching it and so i expected it to be slightly better only because the rotten tomato score was like through the roof on it still is yeah yeah so high yeah and and and it's like i expected it to be see i yeah i didn't see that until after we started watching the first couple of episodes and i had a primer and so if i

had seen that i might be a little a bit more disappoint i was like damn this should's just like almost 100. Yeah. And so that, yeah, that leads me to believe like, oh, it's got all the cool pulp you want, but also probably has like some at least affecting drama. And it's like I don't really care about any of the drama. Like it's, it is about as boilerplate as you could get aside from it being about a guy searching, trying to get his wife back or something. Yeah. And so that's, I don't know how much to expect out of that from the season. going forward i certainly hope that because this is all done i assume like they're not it's not like network tv where there's a period of time where like you're shooting while stuff's airing

and you can actually adjust you know uh so i don't know i just hope that maybe the writers feel emboldened upon the back of this success in the future to yeah write some actual like we've proven that we can sit with some people in a godzilla and it's fine and now i think it'll only help you if you get some actual interesting shit for those people to do well guys uh got put work on the video right now but what did you guys think about this episode how are you feeling about the monarch series thus far leave your thoughts down below uh be sure to subscribe leave a like and hey we will talk with you all soon thank you for being here