Talk:Asuka Fortress/@comment-26128914-20160725213157/@comment-5923366-20170531015431

Hard to say. If this movie had been made, the distinction between the two series might have been less obvious. There's no plot information other than "Godzilla fights a gaint robot named Asuka Fortress," but if it had continued from where the Showa series left off, we might not even refer to them as the Showa and Heisei series'. Why?

If you don't know, the Showa and Heisei eras are Japanese political periods. The last four have been defined by who is Emperor at the time. We are still currently in the Heisei period. We refer to the Showa and Heisei film series as such because the Showa movies took place during the Showa period, and most of the Heisei movies took place at the start of the Heisei period. The only one that doesn't is the first, The Return of Godzilla , which came out in 1984, but the political Heisei period didn't start until January 1989. We don't call that movie a Showa movie because The Return of Godzilla is a distinct reboot that starts the series that takes place during the Heisei era, and doesn't have anything to do with any of the previous Godzilla films other than the first.

So if this movie had continued where Terror of Mechagodzilla left off, it would have still technically been a Showa movie, and it wouldn't be considered a rebooted series at all. Especially since Terror of Mechagodzilla would have only been released 4 years prior. After that, it's pretty hard to tell if the next movies would have been the same as what we have now. Probably not. If Godzilla movies had been continued being made from that point, there would never have been a hiatus that makes distiguishing the periods of Godzilla movies the way we currently do logical.

Now, even if it did reboot the series, it still would have taken place 10 years before the Heisei political period even started. Without a hiatus that puts the rest of the movies in the Heisei era, it wouldn't make too much sense to call the new rebooted series the "Heisei series" if half of them wouldn't take place during it. We'd probably end up calling them 1st and 2nd generation, or something like that.

If that was the case, we'd probably call the Millennium series the 3rd generation, and the Post-Millennium series (is that what we're calling it?) the 4th generation. We'd still call the MonsterVerse the same thing, since Legendary Pictures came up with that name instead of the fans like the rest of the series' names.

Sorry for the super long winded reply to your year old comment that I spent way too much time on and probably won't even get read anyway. lol