#Marbles dorking out about Godzilla

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Nothing to see here, just me dorking out over Godzilla.

• I miss when Godzilla had this presence about him. He moved slowly, heavily, with a certain gravity that was as terrifying as it was awesome, in the traditional sense. The running scene in the trailer just really didn’t do it for me. Neither did the pink spines and stuff.

Oh my Kamata-kun, THANK YOU. The running scene was just so messed up. Godzilla doesn't MOVE like that! And while I love the color purple, I don't understand the reason for the color changes. They don't make sense. His flame and spines have always been either white or blue, and I happen to think that the MV Godzilla Blue is absolutely gorgeous. So that makes no sense at all to me.

THEY PUT MY BOY IN ICE

I fuckin' know. I know. WHY? HOW?

Where’s the mystery, where’s the majesty, where’s the beauty in these incredible creatures? KotM especially nailed the vibe that the Titans are these absolute forces of nature, and I watched the first KotM trailer for comparison before writing this and oh my gosh, I wish I could see KotM for the first time again. The trailer was amazing.

Agree on the lack of majesty and awe. WTF. Is the guy who did KotM directing this? Because it does not look like it.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THERE ARE SO MANY INTERESTING TITANS ON EARTH WHY ARE YOU GIVING US ANOTHER APE. No but really, RIP to anyone who had a favorite Titan who isn’t Godzilla or Kong.

I mean....I kind of get it, partially? Because they want us to buy the sweet little baby Kong plushies and all that shit. Capitalism, friends and neighbors, capitalism. But other than that? Yeah, I don't get it either. Okay, Ghidorah/Mecha are dead, sure, but if Inner Earth is supposed to be so huge and whatnot why can't it be something else? Like a superhuge sabertooth tiger or something? Hell, a massive snake or even a giant damn sloth or a hugeass bear? I guess they would say because tools, but these are the TITANS, okay? You can work something out with another mammal of some sort so that it can use tools, ctfo.

It’s a change. There’s a change happening in MonsterVerse in the tone of the Godzilla movies, and that isn’t automatically a bad thing.

I agree that it's not necessarily a bad thing, but at the same time, I'm seeing Hollywood trying to turn the Monsterverse into a formulaic type of thing like the Marvel Universe, and that just doesn't work for me when it comes to Godzilla. I mean, sure, Godzilla movies are formulaic -- in his savior movies, obviously, he saves us from something horrible, and in his terror flicks, he's here to make us pay for becoming monstrous ourselves -- but I don't like the feels I'm getting for what they seem to be doing with the Monsterverse.

That being said, I'm also pretty pissed that apparently they were trying to entice folx to cross the picket lines during the strikes, so as much as I love Godzilla and am looking very forward to seeing Jia as a Priestess of Titans, I'm going to take a long minute to think about whether I'm going to go see it in the theaters. Solidarity, after all.

I don't have Apple TV (I think my intended does though!) so I haven't seen the Monarch series yet.

ANYWAY

Star, I absolutely love your Monsterverse work, you're amazing, and I would LOVE to see you come back to it. I'd especially love it if you decided to exhume the Atlantis fics from the Graveyard, or if you picked "Three Can Keep A Secret" back up -- if you don't want that though I'd be happy to take it off your hands, just sayin'...I reread that yesterday and thought about messaging you and asking if I could adopt it, but I don't think I could match your writing style very well.

Have a great night, and nice to dork out about the Monsterverse with you!

I was asked to share my thoughts on the new Godzilla trailer, so here we go! Of course, this all comes down to my personal preference and opinion, and I do want to say that I am looking forward to seeing the movie, no matter how much I might not seem like it, lol. 

• I miss when Godzilla had this presence about him. He moved slowly, heavily, with a certain gravity that was as terrifying as it was awesome, in the traditional sense. The running scene in the trailer just really didn’t do it for me. Neither did the pink spines and stuff. 

• I like the Hollow Earth in theory, but seeing it in the trailer… I’m a bit more meh on it now. The 2014/2019 movies felt grounded in reality, silly as that may sound considering giant monsters are involved. But it was still an otherwise normal earth, just with Titans roaming around. The whole world inside our world takes the story into a more fantasy-based direction that just isn’t what I’m looking for in these movies. 

• THEY PUT MY BOY IN ICE

• Where’s the mystery, where’s the majesty, where’s the beauty in these incredible creatures? KotM especially nailed the vibe that the Titans are these absolute forces of nature, and I watched the first KotM trailer for comparison before writing this and oh my gosh, I wish I could see KotM for the first time again. The trailer was amazing. 

• It’s too early to tell, but I’m leery of how the human characters will be handled. The decrease in Monarch’s presence in GvK was a big disappointment for me (and the increase in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is why I am so far loving the show). It’s no secret that I think KotM handled the human to Titan balance really, really well, but I loved it in Kong: Skull Island too, and even 2014 didn’t butcher it that badly. GvK did not inspire confidence in me, however. 

• PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THERE ARE SO MANY INTERESTING TITANS ON EARTH WHY ARE YOU GIVING US ANOTHER APE. No but really, RIP to anyone who had a favorite Titan who isn’t Godzilla or Kong. 

• It’s a change. There’s a change happening in MonsterVerse in the tone of the Godzilla movies, and that isn’t automatically a bad thing. I’m just set in my ways, and I’m fully aware of that. I’m absolutely positive that there’s a ton of people who are really into what this trailer showed us, and I’m thrilled! I hope this series keeps getting more and more interest and fans because that will give us more movies and shows. Just based on this one trailer, it’s not what I would want in a new Godzilla movie. And that’s okay. I genuinely hope I’ll get more hyped about it as the release date gets closer and we hopefully get another trailer or two. I’m excited to see more of Jia, and I will take literally any scrap of Godzilla I can get because I still love him a whole lot, even when he looks kinda silly.