Planet of the Monsters first impressions: Multiple Godzillas, symbolism and more

If you can, I would mark this topic with SPOILER.

I am also going to talk SPOILERS!

I am almost positive the shield thing wasn't a reference to The Giant Claw, but that film had a very similar thing and I found that neat.

It also gave something for the humans and aliens to work together on to defeat, which is always good for a story.

I also like how they left things undefined in the end. That way we can all come up with some interesting things. A simple idea could be that the planet is now basically a production plant (pun intended) of world destroying monsters. It has enough biological material on the planet and atmosphere to make a new destroyer (a Godzilla) if one is ever destroyed. 

Something of note is that Godzilla is an anomaly even among the other giant monsters that appeared.

Almost all others were either mutations of known organism families or displayed relatively simple biological quirks that could be circumvented with enough force.

Godzilla was different. Everything about him, from his method of reproduction to his various strange abilities, was completely different, which was reflected in how he destroyed EVERYTHING. Humans AND other monsters. His abilities seem tailored toward being as unbeatable as possible by any conventional means. For example, the shield he produces absorbs massive amounts of damage, and he can regenerate tissue instantly even with the shield down, effectively meaning no conventional weapon can harm him.

He is the apex of evolution, showing just how little Humanity matters in the grand scheme of things. This is compounded by the fact that the Exif, Metphies specifically, have noted that similar creatures have destroyed civilizations across the universe, and how his wrath is very much representative of their God's wrath.

Got it- thanks for the reminder!

Maybe the smaller Godzilla was heading towards the OG in order to become part of OG's herd or something. I know they mentioned that Godzilla doesn't travel around in herds but they knew very little of Godzilla and his characteristics. Im not surethe OG was dormant for all of the 20,000 years, but im sure he laid dormant for several of them as the film suggests.

This is a survival story for humanity. yes everything the survivors worked for basically was cut down, but there are still about 3400 more humans floating around in the space wondering what is going on earth. Plus who knows how many "Natives" on Earth there are and how intelligent they are in relation with Godzilla. Are they part Godzilla in some way? like the servum?

Something someone on another forum site pointed out, but if you look closely, that tribal-looking girl's hair over her forehead is styled almost like antennae...... like that of a moth. As well, her body paint pattern is similar to that of the natives of Birth Island in various Mothra continuities.

It's a stretch, but it's possible that Mothra might become involved in the trilogy in some capacity.

I understood the shield concept well enough, I just thought it was maybe a little too convenient the way it worked. All they had to do was disrupt the shield, and then they could blow him up. It wasn't a problem for me, it just kinda reminded me of humans trying to blow up an alien spaceship. I do love the concept though, as opposed to Godzilla's skin just being super duper strong.

Also, I think we're meant to imply that the OG Godzilla wasn't dormant the entire 20,000 years, but went through cycles of dormancy. I don't think the OG is INvulnerable, just that the humans had such a hard time with the smaller Godzilla and have already lost a ton of equipment and stuff, so taking down the OG seems impossible.

As for the OG laying dormant right where the small one died and waking up, they did say that Godzilla was known to frequent that area, so I guess he never went very far. The explosion of the smaller Godzilla seemed to me a big enough disturbance to wake the OG.

Thing was that the shield doesn't collapse under normal circumstances, and they had to attune their tactics to take advantage of the breaks.

They also needed to damage the amplifying organ and then implant E.M.P. devices before it could fully regenerate to basically make his electromagnetic field implode on itself and take him out.

Much like in Shin Godzilla, this Godzilla, known as "Godzilla Filius" required careful planning, tactics, research, and a bit of improvisation. "Godzilla Earth", the original, seems to have demonstrated a wider array of powers that have been amped up from before when he was only 50 meters tall.