Monarch: Legado de Monstros

Is it that I am 54 ? And am too old to tolerate the kind of pathetic whiney crap that I'm not even sure people actually suffer from ? I mean, the characters, some of them, are so horribly lame and weak and seem to be incapable of acting anything like normal adults it forced me to just fast forward through some pieces, I have zero interest in seeing all the butt hurt emotions of these fundamentally unlikeable characters. May, the computer geek cum self destructive idiot is completely unlikeable, she rude, offensive, dishonest, an ugly person in all respects, how could anyone root for that ?.

The Russel's are both perfectly acceptable, I guess my beef is with most of the female characters but mostly the "weak" ones, so nauseating. Some of the story telling, the logic behind their actions is totally unrealistic and thus irritating, the little things like running around in a restricted zone with their flashlights still on after already narrowly avoiding capture, just stupid, or the stepping into an ice puddle or falling down a huge hole all these things that make the characters seem like utter morons certainly don't help, smarter story telling is required.

I was super excited for this show but it has been a super disappointment (at 8th episode so far). Only the first episode was good, it all becomes downhill after that. Only Apple TV was still producing big budget sci-fi like Foundation and Silo. Now they are also going to invest less in big world building saga citing the failure of Monarch.

The characters in the present time are so immature especially the teacher from San Francisco who seems to be a teenager living in an adult body. She is such a turnoff with her attitude similar to teenagers. May is useless and the brother from Japan, while not annoying, is so weak and useless.

I really don't care about their family drama or each of their backstory. This is a show about MONSTERS !! Why are we spending 90% of an episode with character backstory and their feelings, especially when none of them are likeable ?? Where are the MONSTERS? Where is the story about their habitats, their backstory, how they have been hidden for thousands of years, what is common between them, where do they come from? These are the elements that make a fantasy sci-fi interesting, not the annoying, unlikeable teenager mindset adults and their story.

They could have just kept this story in the 1940-50s and gone full on Monsters backstory, some WWII and Cold War drama about how many world powers were vying for the power of the Monsters and culminates in how this set off an underground Cold War that was hidden from the rest of the world with Monarch. Subsequent seasons could be what happened in the 70s-80s and so on culminating in D-day. Then once they catch up to current time, new seasons could be in between storylines between blockbuster Godzilla and Kong movies. This Monster universe could be the Marvel universe of this decade. Why are these Hollywood companies these days ruining entertainment ? People just want to be entertained, why is that so hard to understand? And the ironic part is that they could make a ton of money doing that.

The series is generally OK and worth watching.

It doesn't blow you away, but it can entertain you and as someone who follows the Warner Bros. MonsterVerse there was no way around it.

I would rate the series 7 out of 10 stars.

It is solid and can entertain.

It also answers one or two questions and, as with big franchises, it also raises many new ones.

The story is OK and the characters are run-of-the-mill to "OK".

What I consider to be a big problem is that this series is absolutely irrelevant in the canon and basically they didn't even need to create it in the first place.

You can tell that the series only exists to further develop the franchise and, even worse, that it basically has no impact on the story as a whole.

But at least it has Kurt Russell. ^^

Even though I really liked the show, the good parts of the show was really good and deserved to be part of a much better show. Kurt and Wyatt Russel playing past and future versions of a character was really charming. But it was Mari Yamamoto who stole the show every time she appeared on screen, so much so that her appearance was what I was looking forward more like the occasional appearance of the monsters. But for all those good parts and the monster mayhem, there's so much things that are handled very badly. The human drama might not have been that bad when it was conceived but a lot of the situations were very forced and a lot of the dialogues were utter trash. The first three episodes were consistently of great quality and it was after that the quality dropped suddenly. Even though in totality, I thought it was good, it's a show that had great potential that ruined itself.

This is great.....BUT.

The show is divided in to 2 parts, the origins of Monarch and then what Monarch has become (or contemorary time). BUT WAIT...there is more. The third and final division. Every crappy, boring and irritating moment of the show belongs in the May division.

The May character is one of the most annoying on screen inclusions of all time, worse than Jar Jar Binks!

Everything I dislike about the show is connect to May.

This means if you feel the same as me you will mostly dislike the middle episodes of the series.

SO...perservere. The series starts and finishes strongly, it is totally worth it, just read a book for the middle section :)