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MemberTitanosaurusFeb-05-2020 1:33 PMI love the MonsterVerse. I just want to make that absolutely clear before I go any further. I love it, I love Godzilla 2014, I haven’t seen Kong: Skull Island yet but I’ve heard good things about it, and if you’ve been looking at my content long enough you’ll know that I especially loved King of the Monsters, warts and all. And it’s great to see that most of the fandom–about 70-80% of it, I’d say, correct me if I'm wrong–shares that enthusiasm for this continuity.
But I think some of us are getting a little too excited over it. Like, excited to the point where people aren’t thinking as rationally as they should be.
I’ve seen a lot of comments around the web rattling off whole lists of monsters people would like to see in the MV, like Gigan or Anguirus or Destoroyah or Biollante, things like that. There’s a whole section on this forum devoted just to theories on how they could fit in. Frankly, I think that’s all just wishful thinking. Let’s face it, the most likely reason that Mechagodzilla is going to be in GvK is because Warner Bros. has the rights to him left over from Ready Player One, and they don’t want to cough up more dough for other monsters.
And on that note, and this is for the people who want to see all these monsters in the MV…have you actually thought of the stories? Like the actual narratives these movies would have outside of “Gorosaurus is in the MonsterVerse” or whatever? What roles would they play? How would they advance the overall narrative? What’s the point?
I’ve also seen some talk about how Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla are coming in way too early for their liking. Maybe they are…or maybe the MonsterVerse simply wasn’t meant to go on for as long as a lot of people think.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Godzilla vs. Kong is supposed to be a “soft-ending” to the MonsterVerse; a point where if it fails, at least it has a definite conclusion with no lingering plot threads (hopefully), and if it succeeds, then goody; we can expect more movies. But it seems to me that GvK is what the MonsterVerse has been building up to all this time. It’d make sense, considering that GvK was the last announced movie in the lineup, and especially considering the state of the world at the end of KOTM.
I think what I’m trying to say is that we shouldn’t get our hopes up. Or at least we shouldn’t get them up so ridiculously high, because we’ll inevitably just wind up disappointed. Here’s a personal example; after Avengers: Endgame, I fully expected that Godzilla: King of the Monsters would usher in a new era of popularity for the Big G. We were going to be the cool kids on the block, the next big cinematic universe, and finally the world would give us and him the respect he and we are due. And we all know what happened; I enjoyed the movie immensely, but the critical backlash and the constant fandom debates have soured the movie for me in a way that I haven’t experienced since probably the last Jurassic World movie, and it almost makes me wonder if my love of the film is worth the constant self-doubt that I end up bringing upon myself. But I’m just rambling now, so best to get back on track.
In summary, for the people who love the MonsterVerse, don’t get so excited. And for the people who hate it, well…hang in there guys, you’re almost at the end of the tunnel. Maybe. If GvK winds up being a success and spawns more movies, then I apologize for getting your own hopes up.
A true fan can acknowledge the bad while still appreciating and cherishing the good.
