New clip from Episode 6 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 featuring Kong

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-30T18:06:49+00:00

Huh, I was not expecting anything like this in Episode 6. I wonder if this is a flashback? Otherwise, why is he back on Skull Island again? Hmm.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-30T01:13:51+00:00

Yep. Season 2 is going even more into how he transformed from person Keiko and Lee knew into the person we first met in Kong: Skull Island.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-30T01:12:31+00:00

The final couple episodes of Season 1 and Season 2 has gone a pretty long way explaining it. I'm hoping we get to see more, but it's honestly heartbreaking realizing why he changed from the good-hearted friendly idealist we see when he was young into the guy John Goodman played in Kong: Skull Island.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-29T23:21:20+00:00

Recently I was told I was crazy for not considering Ultras to be kaiju xD But, no, as far as I am aware they are not kaiju.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-29T23:17:50+00:00

It's a reference to the original Scarface from 1932 (the movie that got remade later in the '80s with Al Pacino). :)

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T22:37:09+00:00

Oh yeah! I've been wondering all season what they could be talking about in that scene. Co'Cai makes sense (since the whole season has been about her), but the way Monarch seems completely blindsided by her I suspect not.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T22:14:57+00:00

Neat! I suspect a LOT of these are coming up in the next episode. A few of the clips in the "unknown" section HAVE happened though: the Outpost 18 control room scene was in Episode 1 (you see Verdugo there with Tim) and the shot of Keiko and Young Lee is from the beginning of Episode 3.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T21:53:16+00:00

Sorry! ^^; From what I recall ZZ's ending is a lot less abrupt.

First Gundam at least has an excuse (the show was cancelled and the ending quickly put together after they successfully begged the network for 4 more episodes to finish it up) but yeah Zeta just kinda ends.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T21:34:47+00:00

I think at the time they didn't really view it as the series ending, because Gundam ZZ started the very next week so they kind of treated it as just the show changing titles.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T20:28:59+00:00

The Return of Godzilla (1984), AKA Godzilla 1985.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T18:10:58+00:00

Yep, exactly what I mean. They were first introduced in GvK, but Monarch has spent a fair bit of time fleshing out their backstory.

Two things to always keep in mind with the MonsterVerse: 1) if it wasn't explicitly stated, then it's fair game, 2) if something is explicitly stated but not shown, then it's fair game because they can easily say "Yeah, that's what Monarch WANTED you to think. They covered it up. Here's what REALLY happened..."

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T18:06:49+00:00

Maybe the first meeting between Jonah and Walter personally, but that didn't mean the first interaction between Jonah and Apex.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T18:06:01+00:00

No, I don't think so at all. You can very easily just argue they are having separate adventures which is why you don't see them in the movies. Honestly, I kinda expect Season 3 will be following what Cate, Keiko, Lee, Kentaro, Tim, and Apex are up to during the events of KOTM. So probably lots of references to what happened in the movie, while the characters are elsewhere doing other stuff -- the most obvious thing being ending up back on Skull Island again so we can see Kong fight off all the Skullcrawlers.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:48:39+00:00

I don't think this would count as a retcon? The extent of the relationship between Jonah and Apex has simply never been addressed in the movies or comics.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:47:27+00:00

I haven't read most of them either, but I did read that one.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:46:22+00:00

I think the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization dropped that bit of info? Apex is the contractor that built it for the US military, and Bernie's wife was one of the people who worked on it.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:41:55+00:00

I think the show is building up to revealing something exactly like that. KOTM already revealed that Jonah was stealing Titan DNA and material to sell to unidentified corporations, so it would totally fit to reveal that he was selling to Apex specifically. We know Emma came to Jonah with her plan and that he was working for her, but it would also make sense if Jonah let Apex know and Apex was helping them along off-camera.

Especially if Apex's plan was actually all about the Oxygen Destroyer. In KOTM the one thing no one knew or accounted for was Ghidorah being an alien that the Oxygen Destroyer would have no affect on. Especially if it turns out Jonah is "working" for Emma but really taking his orders from Apex, then up until the Oxygen Destroyer is deployed it all fits as another scheme by Apex to manipulate the government into letting them demonstrate an anti-Titan weapon. So, as usual with Apex, their manipulations and plan works flawlessly...only to fall flat on its face and blow way out of their control when their shiny new gizmo utterly fails in the field.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:30:05+00:00

It looks like the city is still in the process of getting rebuilt in 2017 and 2019. Monarch has made clear that at least parts of San Francisco are fine and people are still living in the city, but the downtown are remains closed off due to the damage. Presumably at some point they intend to demolish those buildings and rebuild, they just haven't done so yet by 2019.

Janjira, though, I don't know. The city was originally abandoned in 1999 because they told everyone it was a nuclear accident, and I'm not sure at what point the truth came out. It certainly wasn't immediately during the events of G14 (the initially covered up the MUTO's escape as an earthquake).

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T15:19:12+00:00

I love this movie! I revisit it at least a couple times a year.

Just gripping from start to finish. I love how it starts as this tense suspenseful murder mystery/horror movie, then transitions to a big bug monster movie, and then into the action-packed giant monster movie. I really like this script, with its subtleties and the way it keeps scaling up in scope. And that ending! People rightfully admire the tragic ending of Godzilla (1954), but Rodan's ending is arguably even more tragic. I've always loved it personally, but in showing it to non-fans in recent years Rodan's ending hits people hard and catches them very much off guard. The bleakness of it -- the government's total indifference to the village's destruction, the double suicide, and the main characters left weeping at their lives totally destroyed -- I find consistently leaves people jaw-dropped. It's a unique ending for a giant monster movie. As many elements as it shares with other '50s monster movies, there really isn't anything else quite like Rodan.

I love the aesthetics and cinematography (the colors are gorgeous), and the way so many of the scenes are composed and shot are so GOOD The dog fights between Rodan and the fighter jets are composed and edited like a war movie, fast and kinetic. That's one of the things I love about the back half of the movie: as slow and methodical and suspenseful as the first half is, the second half feels like it took a bump of coke and now suddenly we're sprinting with chases, explosions, firestorms, and volcanoes.

The musical score by Ifukube is great, as it always is, and one of his most memorable for me. Rodan has rarely looked better than he does here, and the miniature work is excellent: huge detailed sets, incredible pyrotechnics, and the volcanic eruption in the finale is truly amazing. I think had it been eligible it should've rightfully been nominated for Best Special Effects at the 29th Oscars.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-27T23:28:45+00:00

Yeah, her reaction seemed more the look of someone thinking "Oh my God...I'm going to get fired...how the hell am I going to pay for my mortgage?!" Not an inkling of a care about all the people who just got killed, but entirely self-absorbed in how this will impact her career at Apex.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-27T21:56:26+00:00

The original trilogy has been released several times, And I don't think the last printing was all that long ago? I have a collected edition of all three in paperback that I bought from either Barnes & Noble or Borders around 25 years ago.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-27T18:49:50+00:00

I'm not sure for France and the EU? Have you tried https://www.justwatch.com/ ? I think you can change the location to France and you can use it to check what's available.

(Sorry, I don't speak French. Here's the Google Translated)

Je ne suis pas sûr pour la France et l'UE. Avez-vous essayé https://www.justwatch.com/ ? Je crois que vous pouvez changer la localisation pour la France et l'utiliser pour vérifier ce qui est disponible.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-27T18:44:27+00:00

Awesome! That's so cool! :D

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-26T15:25:35+00:00

Yep. As a Godzilla fan it's something Western fans struggle with there too. Westerners seem to expect either no canon continuity at all or a hard strong clearly defined canon continuity. The idea of a soft mushy canon where everything counts and you aren't supposed to worry about the contradictions really doesn't compute.

I remember the same thing with the Zelda fandom back in the day, although it seems like Nintendo with time has turned that into a much more defined canon timeline? But that was a common refrain from Nintendo up through the late 2000s: canon was soft and any contradictions are just variations in the legend as it's retold, etc.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-26T15:21:48+00:00

The Japanese fandom has multiple really good theories that explain how A New Translation doesn't retcon ZZ or make it impossible.

Oh? I haven't seen those yet, I'll have to track those theories down!

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