LegendZilla wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:25 pm
HWYFA :
1. They brought back the Gargantuas, only to have them tied thematically to Frankenstein rather than in a literal sense.
2. They rebooted the Seatopians, only to have them the same species as the Nebulans instead of humans? It would explain how they were able to get Gigan and maybe the Nebulans are their spacefaring offshoot.
3. They introduced a new quadrupedal Kaiju for Godzilla to fight?
4. A Kaiju-attack on Easter Island?
1. Their connection to Frankenstein always seemed more thematic than literal. If you were to show Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a gargantua to someone who had never seen FCtW or WotG, they wouldn’t guess the two were tied together. Even the connection to Toho’s Frankenstein is hard to explain to a new viewer given how different he looks from a gargantua.
2. I think the reverse would be more interesting – if the Seatopians were the Nebulans’ first successful colony on Earth. Settling underground would be a clever strategy for avoiding the attention of the military or Godzilla. I have to wonder how successful the Mysterians would have been if they had stayed underground.
3. Quadrupedal opponents tend to be awkward to battle. Godzilla’s best battles are with bipedal opponents who can hit and grab.
4. Granted that Easter Island has historical and cultural significance, I’m not sure what Godzilla’s motivation would be to defend it. Unless you’re imagining something like Space Amoeba where the kaiju are trying to get a foothold in a remote corner of the Earth before moving on to more significant targets? I think it would be more interesting if a larger population was threatened.