Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-1030114-20140726200851/@comment-3367060-20140923011407

Eh, the "satellites" explanation is very weak, but having aliens genetically engineer King Ghidorah does make sense.

But leaving Ghidorah's origins "up to the viewer's interpretation" is stupid, really, and doesn't fit into the Legendary era. Like... at all. They've already explained so much about the MUTOs and Godzilla, given them a lot of backstory, and then they just throw in a character out of nowhere? Okay, it could ignite curiosity into some (but seeing as they already explained so much about Godzilla and the MUTOs, again, that option is a cop-out), but it would also largely confuse viewers to have the only explanation be "This monster is from outer space!!!!!!!"... it would raise the questions I've already said are impossible, like "How did it get to Earth? Did it really flap its wings through space?" and "Why didn't they explain this creature when they could explain the previous ones?! And then they just have Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan kill Ghidorah and no questions are answered?!"

See, the Legendary era is about answering questions. "Where does Godzilla come from? [A time when the Earth was ten times more radioactive.] Where do the MUTOs come from? [That same time.]" Those questions are raised and answered. But if you suddenly throw in a question with no answer "Where does Ghidorah come from? [...I dunno!!!!111]", you lose something, and is why some people hate the endings to series like Lost, where the show was about raising AND answering questions but the show ended on tons of questions with no answers (up to the viewer's interpretation) which outraged viewers. (I by the way have no clue what I'm even talking about when regarding "Lost"... I'm only putting out things I have learned from the Nostalgia Critic's editorial on this very question of questions and answers on the endings of films & stuff.)

So if Gareth and Borenstein were stupid enough to leave Ghidorah's origins ambiguous, they would cause a LOT of backlash after they explained Godzilla and the MUTOs so much and threw in something they aren't even gonna explain.