miguelnuva wrote:All that works fine but the film still goes out of it's way to Show Godzilla never disappeared. If Godzilla disappeared and stayed in the bering sea he should have not been affected by the ANEB correct? ... We see twice he isn't sleeping.
It's starting to sound like a chicken or the egg scenario. Everyone remembers Godzilla, Godzilla has effected Japan but if Godzilla himself was asked about the events of RoG and Biollante he'd have a question mark?
I don't think you're recognizing that there are two Godzillas. (If you are, you're confusing when the second Goji shows up.) "Godzilla 1" is the one that appears in the '80s films; at the beginning of this movie, Goji-1 is subdued by the ANEB in the Sea of Japan. Because the Futurians move the dinosaur in 1944, they prevent its mutation into Godzilla, and Goji-1 ceases to exist at the moment the time travelers return to 1992. However, because of the 20th century's proliferation of nuclear energy, they transport the dinosaur to a location where it is exposed to radiation and mutated anyway. This is "Godzilla 2", who never fought Biollante, was never infected with ANEB, and never experienced any of the events of the 1980s films. Goji-2 did not exist from 1944 to 1992: presumably its last memory before appearing in 1992 was of being at Lagos Island as a dinosaur.
Goji-1 appears in GvKG only in a heat-sensitive photograph. Any time Godzilla appears after the time expedition to 1944, such as in Miki's vision, or when he attacks the Teiyo sub in the Bering Sea, it's Goji-2.
Your first statement, that the film shows Godzilla never disappeared, is incorrect. Wilson, Fujio, and later other characters specifically state that Godzilla disappeared. You've rationalized this as Godzilla evading JSDF detection, but that's not supported by the film. While the film doesn't visually show Godzilla disappear, said disappearance is confirmed by multiple characters.
What is the reasoning the he doesn't surface to challange Ghidorah or go attack a plant to recharge like before.
It would appear that Godzilla was unaware of Ghidorah prior to their encounter in Hokkaido. (Why should he be?) The time machine's computer display shows us that the time travelers leave and return to 1992 on July 6. Upon their return, King Ghidorah immediately appears over the Pacific (from Lagos), heading for Fukuoka. Godzilla (Goji-2), meanwhile, has just popped into existence way up by Alaska in the Bering Sea. The monsters are literally several thousand miles apart. It's a wonder that Miki was able to sense him all the way up there.
The date of the final battle is July 10 (as seen in MKG's cockpit), so working backwards, we can determine that Godzilla didn't encounter the Teiyo sub off Kamchatka until July 8. In other words, he hadn't gotten very far in two+ days. Godzilla makes landfall in Hokkaido the next day, at which point the Futurians are alerted to his presence. Wilson explicitly directs M-11 to send Ghidorah after Godzilla. All this gives the impression that Goji-2 was probably content to hang out in the Bering Sea had he not been disturbed by Shindo's sub or other nearby occurrences.
Additionally, Godzilla doesn't need to attack a power plant to recharge because this Godzilla wasn't infected by ANEB and therefore not in a weakened state. Even if he had been weak, he absorbs the Teiyo sub's payload.
Also the Futurians are doing two time jumps which in theory means them changing their timeline would be in the future. If you can't change the past but you alter the future then the only thing that should change is Ghidorah popping up in 1992.
Omori's idea is that if you want to change your future, you have to alter your present from a point in your past. What makes this so complicated to explain is that, throughout the film (and all time travel fiction), the terms "past", "present", and "future" lose their intrinsic meanings, because the words are dependent on the perspective of the person traveling through time. (For example, Emmy's native time is 2204, but at various points in the film, her present is any of 1944, 1992, and 2204. At one point you could say her present is either her past or her future, or that her future is her past, or... See how confusing that is?) So, to explain this, I'm going to declare the origin of any time trip as "Point A" and the destination of that trip as "Point B". A completed trip through time would follow the path of A to B to A. In the context of the film, Terasawa & crew leave Point A (1992) for Point B (1944) and thereafter return to Point A (1992).
To put these terms in Omori's concept: if you want to change your future, you must alter your present (Point A) from a point in your past (Point B). You follow? (I hope so.)
Wilson exists in 2204 and wants to create an immediate future wherein Japan doesn't corruptly govern or own the world. He reasons that he must prevent Japan's ascent to power in 1992; to do that, he must create a monster he can control, in place of Godzilla, in 1954 with which he'll wreck and extort 1992 Japan. This requires two trips, as you noted. The first of course is 2204 (Point A) to 1992 (Point B). From the perspectives of Wilson, Glenchiko, and Emmy, 1992 is now their present (Point A). So he instigates trip two, in which Emmy and M-11 and others successfully complete a loop from Point A (1992) to Point B (1944) and back. Wilson ultimately dies in 1992, but Emmy concludes the first trip (2204 to 1992 to 2204) when she goes to revive King Ghidorah. We find that Wilson succeeded in ending Japan's monopoly on the world: Mouruzu (the Westerner with Emmy in 2204 -- not sure how to Romanize his name) asks Emmy if she wants to revive KG "for that poor country" (Japan). (And just to be sure, I checked... the "poor" he uses is the Japanese word for "impoverished", not a word one would use to describe the world's wealthiest nation.)
So 2204 is changed because 1992 is changed because 1944 is changed. Would it have been simpler for the audience for Wilson to go from 2204 to 1944 and back? Yes, but it's a film about late-20th century Japan and its people, so they needed to travel to 1992 for the benefit of contemporary audiences.
In-universe, without stopping in 1992, Wilson would have returned to 2204 to find King Ghidorah there, but no destruction having been wrought. He'd have to use KG to destroy 23rd century Japan; although Godzilla conceivably wouldn't be there to challenge, he might still face opposition in the form of the 23rd century people, who have access to the same technology he's using to control KG. (Even if he'd succeeded in doing that, the world would still be in pieces. Because he destroyed Japan in 1992, his 2204 presumably would have been mostly the same, except without the Japanese corporations and government in control. I agree that trying to figure out the extent of the changes to 2204 is confusing and best avoided.)