It’s surprisingly emotional to get attacked by a godzilla. That’s more or less the premise of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a show that has a ton of fun with its creatures but wants to make it clear the experience of coming into contact with kaiju is dangerous and deadly. The trail of physical destruction the monsters leave behind is easy to see. The trail of emotional destruction? Making that debris and detritus as visible as the monsters is Monarch’s main task.
This episode continues the heroes’ and villains’ respective quests to find Titan X. Led by boss Brenda and her roguish henchman Jason, Apex Cybernetics has used Bill Randa’s old migration map to track the monster to its next destination, the now-abandoned village of Santa Soledad. Brenda, wearing a brown jumpsuit nearly as spectacular as the Titans, sees this as their golden opportunity to field-test May/Cora’s monster mind-control code.
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