I don’t think this is targeted to our age group at all.
The vertical format is grown in anime and Asian dramas as well.
China is starting to be competitive with vertical short dramas specifically produced for the US market.
This is interesting.
The vertical manga/manha/manhua format is where new GenZ audiences can be found.
I’m going to infer that Deadline made a typo, but I copied it verbatim from their listing.
Regrettably geoblocked for Canada. Sigh.
I really prefer the work by the team that’s now in charge of the television side. But they received a lot of negativity for K:SI so it seems the television medium is a better fit.
It will be interesting to see whether the film part of the franchise can ground things more again.
The cinematic release scheduled for 2027 Godzilla v Kong: Supernova, reported to feature Spacegodzilla, sound like it will continue to go in a different direction than the new television franchise with Apple that aligns more closely to the first two movies.
You have a point generally but underestimate how loathed the 1998 film is.
The 1998 movie sufficiently disrespected the values around Gojira that Toho has been incredibly cautious about licensing since. There are many contractual limits on how the Toho Kaiju can be used, especially Godzilla.
American interpretations have leaned too much to the younger male audiences who are just interested in big monsters fighting and threatening humans. Not so much interested in morality stories about humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
Legendary Entertainment has tried to bring a more character driven human centric version to US and international audiences. However, the films after Kong: Skull Island had a different creative team and became more focused on spectacular fights than storytelling or messaging.
M:LOM is helmed by the original creatives. They seem to be successful overall in balancing more character driven storytelling but whichever way they lean, there will be some dissatisfaction.
I’d say that it’s fairly clear that the writers had an endpoint for the season, a few key narrative, Kaiju and character milestones that they mapped out, as well as some narrative pipe that they wanted to lay down towards the third season.
The season mostly succeeds from that perspective but there’s validity in some of the criticisms.
One thing to keep in mind is that the show is serving different international audiences, including a core of American fans who only want to see big Kaiju fight.
My sense is that they got the balance a bit different for the second season such that those who liked the first season may not be as happy with the second and vice versa.
In particular, this season seems to be the natural conclusion to many unresolved issues from the movie Kong: Skull Island — one of the most divisive movies in the Monsterverse. So, if that movie is one that someone liked or found intriguing, they are likely to find this season particularly satisfying.
You really know it’s from the 1970s.
And people (quite falsely) believe an urban myth the inking choices in Star Trek: the Animated Series were due to a colourblind artist.
No folks, those of us who were alive then will tell you this was definitionally cool at the time.
To decompress from the latest Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season finale and real world conflicts, here’s an older Grickle cartoon to enjoy.
It’s available for purchase at https://gricklemart.com/countryside-chill/
As with other wild populations, the animals’ health, ecological sustainability and whether they are reservoirs of infectious disease would be the paramount concern.
Not sure that the current provincial government has the credibility in evidence-based decision making to be able to sustain any interventions.
As Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Carignan is a General not a Lieutenant General.
It’s really unfortunate when a basic error doesn’t get caught in the vetting of an article as it undermines the rest of the story.
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Kong and Titan X face off in a colossal clash that threatens to reshape Skull Island. Shaw embarks on a dangerous journey.
Written by: Andrew Colville
Directed by: Lawrence Trilling
New photo from closing scene — strongly suggests a third season to come.
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Got it.
I generally think of the vertical market niche as under 25, not a large slice of the fediverse.
I don’t see though how vertical pagination is much different than social media on phones, which we’re all fairly accustomed to.