Re: The time-travel of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 1:03 pm
I feel bad for anyone whose enjoyment of these movies is hampered by "Why didn't they confirm that Monster Island and Monstersland are the same place."
This is one of my favorite aspects of Kazuki Omori's Godzilla scripts. Godzilla is inevitable. In each of his four films he devises these wild plots to dispose of Godzilla but he somehow always returns. In Omori's works, Godzilla survives supposedly lethal doses of anti-radioactive bacteria, two volcanoes, being erased from time, being frozen solid, and a fatal nuclear meltdown. Some of these are technicalities (Jr. becomes a new Godzilla after his father's death), but still.eabaker wrote:the apparent thematic intent (that Godzilla himself, being a reflection of and punishment for human hubris, is a historical inevitability which cannot be prevented)
That's an excellent point, which I hadn't considered. Actually, there's an interesting idea for both this film and Rebirth of Mothra 3. What if this version of time travel actually works more like the recent filmTerasawa wrote: One other piece of evidence for Zarm's interpretation that I don't think has been brought up is the paradox that two versions of the same being cannot exist at the same point in time without one subsequently disappearing. Glenchiko says this to excuse Shindo from traveling back to 1944 Lagos, but it's true for Godzilla in this film as well. Thanks to their teleportation of the Godzillasaurus to the Bering Sea, the Futurians unwittingly create a second Godzilla that continues to exist beyond the date of their initial time travel to 1944 (I think the "present day" in the film is July 1992). Prior to this, Godzilla existed elsewhere in the Pacific, and it's this Godzilla that disappears (as Glenchiko warned would happen to Shindo) the moment that the Futurian/Japanese party returns to 1992 Japan.