Thread:Project Predacon/@comment-27724978-20190912170600/@comment-4820209-20190924052858

Davidg7359 wrote: Project Predacon wrote: Teen Titans Forever! wrote: Besides being consistent do you love it because it's different? Yes, and no. The fact it isn't "just another Godzilla movie" is great. And to me, worth the price of admission in seeing something new. However, I don't like it just because it's contrarian in nature. It's good on top of what it changes, not explicitly because of what it changes. Even if the changes are god-tier. The anime trilogy changed everything for no reason and didn’t do anything with those differences. Godzilla was a tree for no reason. It didn’t effect anything, but they did it. Mecha Godzilla was a city for no reason. It wasn’t even unique because Godzilla always destroys buildings. There was a full planet of monsters they could’ve used, but they just used them to make prequel novels. The anime trilogy was just wasted potential honestly. Given trees and plantlife are a pivotal part of the Earth, and this Godzilla's name is Godzilla Earth, it should go without saying that this new origin serves the purpose of essentially personifying the planet in the form of Godzilla. Hence this Godzilla's neutral nature, while defending its home, the Earth, adamantly. It doesn't need to be at the forefront to mean something, and it definitely wasn't done for no reason. It's in the name.

Mechagodzilla became a city for a pretty clear reason. Slow burn assimilation over outright attack. It became a passive player to its adversary, over inherently offensive. Given the former doesn't exactly consistently work. Hence its survival and success for so long, even without the Bilusaludo. If your standard for unique traits stops at where, how, and what something is destroyed by, then I dunno what to say, lol.

Besides, we didn't need the novel's monsters. The film made much more sense with the few we had. Especially on an ecosystemic level with things like Godzilla Earth, Filius, and the Servum types being the planet's few known occupants.

Then again, the novels also in a contrast, made more sense than King of the Monsters, with Godzilla Earth eradicating a monster population that was unsustainable, on top of its human problem. They used them for novels that pseudo-invalidated 2019's sequel, two years in advance.

It's not wasted potential because it isn't what you wanted. It's just radically different. And I love that departure from the norm.