The Godzilla franchise has taken on many forms over it's near seventy years of existence and yet the one form it's never taken is an American live action TV show. Well that all ends right now with the return of the Monsterverse as for the first time ever we have an American Godzilla live action TV show and well you all just knew that I had to talk about the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the series that sees the king of the monsters tackle the world of TV with the series in question being called simply just "Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters" enjoy.
The plot of this show is when her father dies Kate discovers a secret that connects him to the organization known as Monarch. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad with both of these first two episodes doing a really good of setting up the main plot of the show as well telling some really and at times some really very entertaining and at times very engaging plots in their right as well in freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these first two episodes is F9 star Anna Sawai as Cate and The Flash star Kiersey Clemons as May. Also starring in these first two episodes is 461 Days Of Bento Ren Watabe as Kentaro , Kate star Mari Yamamoto as Keiko , The Muppets Mayhem Anders Holm as William "Bill" Randa , Joe Tippett as Tim , The Falcon And The Winter Soldier star Wyatt Russell as Lee Shaw , Kurt Russell as Older Lee Shaw and Takehiro Hira as Hiroshi.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which was really surprising alot of the cast for this show is mostly unknown and so to expect great acting from them wouldn't have been the best of moves and yet in these first two episodes the cast gave us some really good performances which is helped by the fact that the scripts for these first two episodes is so good that all the cast have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally as that's,just how good the acting is in the first two episodes of this show.
For once I have no idea who did the CGI for these first two episodes as there's no effects company listed anywhere on IMDB. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these first episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good while the CGI in this show will never top the CGI in the movies just for budget reasons that doesn't mean that the CGI in these first two episodes was bad as it really wasn't as we get alot of really cool looking CGI effects in these first two episodes alone.
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To connect this show to the Monsterverse we do have confirmation that this show takes place after the 2014 Godzilla and we also get John Goodman back as Bill Randa. With his scene at the start of episode one taking place during the events of Kong: Skull Island with alot of what we see in his scene connecting up really well with what we see in that film which just goes to show you that this is a cinematic universe that really is well thought out as everything that we see in both Godzilla's 2014 set scenes and older Bill's scenes matching up perfectly what we what we saw in their respective films which is something that alot of films and TV shows would fail to do for really a variety of different reasons.
The first episode of this show does make alot of use of time travel which did start to get quite confusing. As they would jump from one scene taking place in say 2013 and then the very next scene would take place in 2015 with nothing really connecting the two scenes but then we have scenes that are taking place in the nineteen fifties and while we do get a title card at the start of each scene the first time that we see them it would have been better if we got more of them all throughout the first episode as it really did start to get confusing the more episode one went one thankfully tho they did seem to calm down a bit on jumping around in time which did make it easier to understand just what time period we were in during certain scenes which did make episode two alot more easier to follow along with.
The human characters so far do seem to pretty one dimensional which is pretty par the course for the Godzilla franchise. However there is one thing that really did bug me when it comes to the human characters and that's the fact that the nineteen fifties scene feature an Asian woman working for the American government which just wouldn't happen and while yes this is a fantasy type of show and so it's not really bound to the rules of our world the Godzilla franchise is a fantasy series that's based on reality which means that there wouldn't be an Asian woman working for the American army especially so close after the second world war and the attack on Pearl Harbor but she is most probably the best character in the scenes that are set within the nineteen fifties thus far.
Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and forty eight seconds with episode having a grand total running time of exactly forty six minuets and eighteen seconds. With episode two having the better running as while episode one rather rightfully has the longer running time due to how much that it has to set up it also takes alot of time getting going where as with episode two it gets going right away and it helps that both episodes really do have more then enough there interms of plot to cover both of their respective running times with both episodes not really having alot of filler scenes as alot of the scenes in both of the episodes are needed in order to tell the plot of the show as best that they can do and it helps that both of these first two really do have some really good pacing to the as well.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad. While the action in these first two episodes wasn't as good as the action that we'd get in the movies it was still alot better then the action that we get i most modern TV shows as the action in these first two episodes was really cool looking and creative with all of the action looking really good and being genuinely really exiting to see as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall these weren't a bad set of episodes to kick start this show of with as they did a good of setting up the characters and setting up the rest of the plot for the rest of the show itself in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in these first two episodes in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episode airs or even is released online and then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very post from the official Godzilla fandom wiki page , Wikizilla and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Wikizilla since all of the images that are currently up and and on Wikizilla are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.