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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters takes the Watchmen approach to a Godzilla show
18.11.2023 - 19:21 / polygon.com
The rise of franchise-first pop culture has made what was previously a genre stumbling block into everyone’s problem: Exposition. Specifically, the stuff we call “lore.” When every big show or movie has to connect to something else, those connections aren’t always graceful. Especially when you need to work in how your villain was in the Amazon with your mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Apple TV Plus’ extremely good mystery-thriller based on Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse, deftly dances around every major pitfall modern mega-franchises happily dive into. The series packs the frame with fascinating little details that unobtrusively build out the world of the show without having characters explain much of anything. It’s thoughtful in its visual design in a way that recalls HBO’s Watchmen, another show full ofextensive references to a prior work, carefully building out a story that stood on its own.
The similarity is more than superficial. Both shows are very interested in the background construction of a political and cultural apparatus predicated on one massive, divergent event in history. Both shows have clearly had writers do a ton of mapping out the ways in which their fictional worlds were similar and the ways in which they diverged, and instead of having characters recite endless factoids better served by a wiki, they merely depict the characters living in that world. It’s for the viewer to notice the ways in which it is different.
The early episodes of Monarch are filled with details like this. Passengers on a commercial flight are sprayed down by men in hazmat suits after an international trip, airline corridors have clearly marked Godzilla evacuation routes, and installations of military weaponry stand ready for another Titan appearance.
This, coupled with the show’s noteworthy focus on human drama about two siblings whose father kept them from each other, gives Monarch a thematic richness that surprises and delights. If the big, cacophonous MonsterVerse movies use their kaiju as a metaphor for humanity’s disregard for the planet on a grand scale, then Monarch personalizes that devastation. Not just by showing what it’s like to try and adhere to normalcy after surviving a spectacular catastrophe, but in showing how the men and women who chased these monsters over generations shattered their families to pursue their reckless work — work that would in turn shatter the planet.
Monarch is less openly about thorny, difficult topics than Watchmen was. You won’t find, for example, provocative explorations of race in America. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a show for these times. Much like Watchmen found new relevance in its revisitation of a
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polygon.com
08.12.2023 / 03:43
Exoborne takes The Division’s Dark Zone to a grand, post-apocalyptic scale
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droidgamers.com
04.12.2023 / 19:05
Archosaur Games Takes the Helm of Avatar: Reckoning
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gamepur.com
01.12.2023 / 22:58
Best Early Game Monsters to Synthesize Before Rank E in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince
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gamepur.com
01.12.2023 / 22:58
GTA 6 Trailer 1 Feels Bigger Than The Super Bowl Halftime Show
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pcgamer.com
30.11.2023 / 18:59
The devs of this 'freaky and grotesque' adventure game about a Russian Orthodox nun left Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, and they're out 'to show that people and authorities are not the same thing'
Not many games have a story like Indika, a game about a 19th century Russian Orthodox nun journeying to the centre of her soul with an «unusual, horn-headed companion.» Drawing inspiration from Dostoevsky and Bulgakov and dripping with dark humour, Indika tells a tale of religion and authority, madness and belief. But also, not many games have a story like Indika, whose developer Odd Meter left Russia when the country invaded Ukraine in February last year. Calling the invasion an «insane crime» perpetrated to «satisfy the ambitions of an elderly, weak-minded dwarf,» game director and studio founder Dmitry Svetlow decided to up and move Indika's development—and the company behind it—out of Moscow to neighbouring Kazakhstan, even moving the «entire recording studio by truck.» And both of those stories make it, for me, one of the most fascinating games to grace this year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted.
tech.hindustantimes.com
30.11.2023 / 16:41
Apple iPhone screenshots: Here is how to take the shots quickly and efficiently - a step-by-step guide
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polygon.com
29.11.2023 / 18:45
Steamforged is taking another stab at the Dark Souls license with co-op board game
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gamesradar.com
29.11.2023 / 12:16
Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor goes full method and raids the Grove in the name of Minthara, becoming the only cast streamer to take the evil route
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pcgamer.com
29.11.2023 / 12:11
Microsoft Paint jumps on the generative AI bandwagon, with DALL-E taking the fancy-footed horses' reins
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wccftech.com
29.11.2023 / 06:29
14-Inch M3 MacBook Pro Features The Best Speakers and Display on Any Laptop, Taking The Top Spot in DxOMark’s Testing
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pcgamer.com
27.11.2023 / 18:17
Bungie admits Destiny 2: The Final Shape is being delayed until June: 'We’re taking the time we need to deliver an even bigger and bolder vision'
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