Beyond Logic

I wonder what this show classifies as? It's not SciFi. It's not fantasy. It's not historical. It's not really fiction. It is dribble though. Why are the Gen Z actors involved? They bring nothing to the story except for whines, moans and tears. The whole show of ten episodes can be concluded in 2 hrs max. The monster lovers may like this episode as you got to see three of them. The rest of us who like a good story were sadly disappointed. Again. The graphics are good but I dare say they spent all the budget on that and there was nothing left for the script. Kurt Russels appearance was more cameo than anything else. Maybe trying to entice older viewers? Again they'd be sadly disappointed. I confess I watched a total of 15 minutes of this episode by fast forwarding big chunks. Maybe I missed something. Then again I probably didn't.

It's exceedingly rare these days for big budget productions to simply not ruin beloved franchises...rarer still that they honor & do justice to the history of what's come before. Rarest of all is when they do everything right, AND add something well-written, acted, & produced with heart.

Monarch has done it.

This is the level of quality fans hope for (and should expect) from every studio that capitalizes on our favorite franchises; they don't need 'fixing' or modernizing, or inserting agendas - they only need to be respected. All fans want are good stories. This finale is proof.

THIS is The Bar, Hollywood. Aim for what this show did.

Thank You everyone who worked on this season - very much looking forward to the next!

That's how you end the season of a show. Perfect from start to finish and the cliff hanger is stellar! Guessing it leads up to the next Kong/Godzilla movie. This episode made me want to watch the show all over again as soon as I finished. Great episode! People complaining about not enough Titans and too much about just the people....well this episode should satisfy those people. Overall very well executed show. And just to reach the word limit, I will say again, this is how you end a show....right here! One of my favorite endings of a show ever. Just watch it and enjoy it for what it is! Word limit. Word limit!!

...... if your eyes are still dry at the end of this episode your as stone cold as Lo-Pan." The last two episodes have the best acting and tightest scripting of the whole of season one. Very predictable, but in a nice way. Definitely makes up for the 3 or 4 filler episodes in the season which is nice but still feel if they'd have just had 6 (maybe 8) episodes this show would be regarded more highly.

Now if you're one of those crazy people that reads all the reviews of a show before you actually watch it, please take my advice and do yourselves a favour, watch the first 3 episodes in a block, the following episodes while you're 'working from home' and the last two as a mini movie, you'll enjoy S1 much better that way. Ps the flashback scenes are the best throughout, they could've made a full show just on this time period (and I'm not usually a fan of prequels).

My son is very into the Monsterverse that Legendary has put together these last few years, so we are happy to have the chance to sit down together, once a week, and watch this companion series - widening the mythology of this world.

Having survived Godzilla's San Francisco incident, traumatised Cate Randa (Anna Sawai) investigates her father's whereabouts, which leads her to discover he had an alternate family in Japan. She continues the investigation with her new half-brother Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and his friend May (Kiersey Clemons) and the uncover her fathers links to Monarch, a covert force investigating the Titans. They connect with Lee Shaw (Wyatt and Kurt Russell) a retired Monarch operative who was friends with both their father and grandparents, who were key figures in Monarch's establishment.

Each episode mixes a modern day (well... 2015) storyline alongside scenes from various years following the second World War explaining the origins of the Monarch organisation, it's establishment of the existence of Moto's and the loss of founder Keiko Miura. Both storylines are complementary to each other, though perhaps both underplay the role of Hiroshi Randa - who is the very physical link between both halves of the plot. I think the show gets the balance right between the human storyline and monstrous interference and the man himself, Godzilla regularly appears in the series.

Everything technically was really good with the series, performances were decent as were the expensive looking visual effects that the show needed. I have heard that aspects of the story were a bit complicated for people who weren't already on board with the wider storyline, the significance of Apex cybernetics for example, but that wasn't us, so I can't say we bounced off it. The storyline does perhaps hit the same beats a bit to often, with Tim having to prove his worth a few too many times. The score is really good, particularly the theme music, which we were humming all the time.

The only concern is whether enough people will have watched the show, on what is still quite a small potential audience on Apple TV, to justify what must be an expensive series. Nothing confirmed at the time of writing.