There are two points of emphasis on which any given episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters can focus — legacy and monsters. Some episodes maintain a perfect balance. (These tend to be my favorite.) Others tilt in one direction or the other. This week’s installment is more of legacy than monster.
Which isn’t to say no kaiju or creepy crawlies raise their ugly heads in this one. A pair of doofus surfers attempting to catch some waves on a beach vacated by a Titan warning (“Godzilla don’t surf,” they reason) are overwhelmed when Titan X’s Scarabs emerge from the ground en masse. A herd of spiny bipedal dinosaur-type things are set loose on Apex’s corporate campus as a distraction to help our heroes finish their mission. A whole horde of other creatures smuggled off Skull Island by Apex lurk in the bowels of their research facility, Alien: Earth–style.
Most specatcularly,
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