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Controversial Opinion Time 2.0: I think at least part and unfortunately, it's a big part of the problem with Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 is that they assigned more importance to Shaw's character than he actually has in the story. There's a reason why he worked so well in season 1 and it was because he was a supporting character to Cate, Kentaro & May in the present day timeline and was on equal footing with Billy & Keiko in the 1950s timeline and taking him out of both of those positions and pushing him to the forefront in both timelines was a terrible decision. As was the choice to have three whole episodes dedicated to him. We got an episode dedicated to Shaw & Keiko cheating (with two episode setting it up and one episode about them actually cheating), another episode about Shaw & his father (which, I'm sorry but, a flashback episode after Hiroshi's death should have been about Hiroshi and specifically, about Kentaro/Hiroshi, following on from the opening flashback scene in Skull Island and showing more of their relationship to together along establishing Kentaro's story and where his grief was leading him and if it did have to be about Shaw, it should have been about Shaw & Hiroshi, given he wanted revenge for Hiroshi's death) and then another episode with Shaw talking to his past self and making the decision to leave Keiko behind (which is the episode that actually should have been about Shaw leaving Monarch, his relationship with his father and then returning to Keiko & Billy if we really needed that). I've seen so much discussion about this lately with this insistence that the issue is that they had too many characters to work with and they were trying to tell too many stories this season but, the more I think about it, the more I don't think that's the problem actually. I think the show went from treating everyone like they were in equal ground storytelling wise to treating certain characters like they were more important than others and they weren't able to actually handle that shift so, a lot of stories, characters and dynamics paid the price.

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How the Monarch: Legacy of monsters season 2 writers felt after ruining the old trio dynamic with a random cheating sub plot, giving barely any attention to Billy, giving Lee and Keiko zero romantic or platonic chemistry in current day, giving cate a nothing burger character arc with random titan related superpowers involved, killing hiroshi, and completely ignoring catemay’s obvious chemistry except one line said by kentaro that’s never addressed.

(At least May and Tim were given a fun friendship, honestly one of my favorite parts of the season.)

#oh and why was there so much focus on Lee #why do I need to know he has daddy issues #it had nothing to contribute to the past or present plot #monarch legacy of monsters #mlom spoilers #mlom season 2 #mlom s2 #mlom crit #mlom #this season was alright at first but was straight dog and shit towards the end #it felt like the writers didn’t communicate with eachother at all

monarch question: what was the point of them showing kei feeling the titan x vibrations in the past flashbacks? was it just so that they could set up the "i don't feel anything/i feel" scene with lee? i thought FOR SURE it was going to be a huge deal, some generational thing for the randa women having connections to the titan and kei and cate could bond over it. and they sort of had some bonding scenes but have completely dropped the kei felt it too storyline. idk why it's bugging me so much but it isssss. what are your thoughts? do you think it was a thread that just got dropped? that they didn't think about it at all? that they were going somewhere and then decided to veer left instead?

Hey :)

To tell you the truth, until you mentioned it, I had actually completely forgotten all about Keiko feeling the vibrations from Titan X in that flashback scene which doesn't really feel like a good sign but, in terms of why it's bugging you, I think it's probably the same reason that the whole Japanese women from the village subplot in 207 is bugging me. It comes across like an intent to establish a connection. For you, it was thinking that Keiko & Cate were going to be established as having a connection with Titan X and bonding over it whereas for me, it was thinking that the Japanese women in the village were going to be set up as ancestors or familial in some way for Cate & Keiko, demonstrating some kind of generational connection to Titan X. But, neither of them ended up happening. Keiko didn't feel anything and admitted as such and the women were just random women.

Whether or not Keiko was ever supposed to have a connection with Titan X, I don't know but, I definitely think something shifted with her character and they ended up moving in a different direction with her than they originally intended because, there is just something really inconsistent in the writing for Keiko in the modern timeline and it feels uneven. You know what it looks like when a character's arc flows naturally from one episode to the next and you can tell when something is off. It isn't just her either. It's almost every character that has that problem. There are specific character arcs, story arcs and episode arcs that work really well and remained consistent throughout but, other arcs come across like they were dropped suddenly, decided to change course or, were speeding along as quickly as possible to get from point A to point B.

For that reason, I don't think it's as easy to ascertain if Keiko's potential connection with Titan X was something they dropped, that they didn't think about past that scene or if they changed course because I just don't think the writing was consistent enough all round to be able to tell. I think the only thing you can actually tell is that something is off.

Hope that makes sense.

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