It’s very on-brand for Godzilla that it took an atomic bomb for things to really get going. The third episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is the best one yet, as it clarifies what the narratives of both timelines will be going forward. We have stakes and clear objectives! We don’t know the answer to the mysteries yet, but at least we have some understanding of what the questions are: How did Monarch become the shady organization it currently is, and what information did Billy Randa and Hiroshi have that was so important they wanted to hide?
Also Godzilla is actually in this one. It rules! (Even if the circumstances of his appearance continue to hammer home the fundamental metaphor failure of the Monsterverse.)
In the Wyatt Russell timeline, it’s 1954, two years since Lee,…
