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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Parallels and Interiors (2023)
Such bad writing
I was unsure about the validity of this story during the course of the first two episodes. After this train wreck of a third episode, I think I have my answer. It confirmed for me that the writing in this series is as bad as I feared it would be. Godzilla stories aren't renowned for their award-winning dialogue, but at least a lot of the original were, at times, kitschy entertainment. Monarch isn't kitschy, and the writing is just sophomoric. Both the flashback and hallucination scenes with Kentaro and May are nothing more than superfluous and unnecessary filler that drag the story to a crawl. I'm hopeful that this episode was a one-off, and that it improves drastically through the remainder of the series, but I suspect that's not the case.