My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of The Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters TV Series

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.

Skull Island TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

 

The Monsterverse is a cinematic universe that alot of people seem to have forgotten about with their being no new entries since 2021. Well now it's back with it;s first animated TV series rather rightfully starring a really iconic and very popular monster and well as somebody who has quite literally seen every single film in the Monsterverse multiple times and so you all just knew that I had to check this show out and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that sets out to explore the mysteries of Skull Island with the show in question being called simply just "Skull Island" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when a family , their friend , a stranger and group of mercenaries wash up on Skull Island they have to find a way of off the island before one of the islands many monsters finds and kills them all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad with this shows plot being a bit of a slow burn but also being rather enjoyable and engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Nicolas Cantu as Charlie , voice acting acting legend Mae Whitman as Annie , Darren Barnett as Mike and Benjamin Bratt as Cap. Also starring in this show is Betty Gilpin as Irene , voice acting acting legend Phil LaMarr as Sam and Fryda Wolff as Island Girl. There are more actors and actresses in this show however I cannot find a complete cast list for this show anywhere online and so I really can't credit every single person who is starring in this show despite this show having some pretty big voice acting talent.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. Which given this shows voice cast isn't all that surprising as this show really does have some really talented voice actors working on it and so then it only makes sense that they would turn in some really good performances in this show.

Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Powerhouse Animation Studios Studio Jangdokdae , Studio Mir and Studio Nine Lives. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with the shows animation having the same inspired anime look to it that Castlevania had to it's show as well and it's something that really does both work well for and look good in this show.

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I have to admit that it's really hard for me to work out where in the Monsterverse timeline this show is meant to take place as if it's sets before Kong: Skull Island then the sea creature that attacks this shows cast should have also have attacked the cast of Kong: Skull Island. The only thing that I know for sure is that this film does take place before the events of Godzilla Vs Kong which gives us a whole long time for this show to take place as there really is a large that this show could possibly take place in and that might also mean that we shouldn't expect this show to reference things from the movies or to set up things for future movies.

What I really didn't like about hi show or at the very least these first batch of episodes is the fact that they really hold off on showing Kong. It takes two and half episodes just to get a tiny glimpse of the king of Skull Island and even then he doesn't do anything that's all that meaningful he just shows up scares an alligator away and that's it and then he doesn't really show up again until episode four this is a King Kong themed show that shockingly has very little King Kong in it with the show instead focusing on it's human cast of characters.

This wouldn't be an issue if alot of us are coming to see the human characters but we're not as lot people myself included are coming to this show to watch King Kong. However I will admit that while King Kong does feel alot more like a side character in his show a few of the human characters are very enjoyable like Annie for example always managed to get a chuckle out of me as she's someone who chose to stay on Skull Island when she was very young and so has grown up on the island which does lead to some pretty fun and funny conversations with best friends Charlie and Mike who are trying to get of off Skull Island.

Now then each of this episode of this show has / had an exact grand total running of no longer then thirty minuets. With this first batch of episodes being eight episodes long and I will admit that this show really is suited to the twenty five minuet running time as this show has more then enough story to cover that amount of running time and if you really wanted to binge watch this entire batch of episodes it should only take you at very least two and a half to maybe three hours and this show is really helped by the fact that it has some really good pacing in alot of it's episodes. 

So now then since 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 this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. As the shows action is pretty fun to watch when Kong is fighting over monsters but alot of the time all the action in this show mainly consists of is the human characters running away from a monster and there's only so long that you can watch that before it gets dull and boring which sadly for this show is really quite quickly and that really does bring down the overall quality of the action in this show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall given how this batch of episodes end and given that Netflix likes to have several batches of episodes all good to go it's safe to assume that this show will be getting more episodes released by the end of the year and with this being a decent show I can see it getting a good healthy following as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that means that this very show earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review 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 featured / presented to us on Wikizilla are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.