The X-Files<\/a> vibes, as we find out that Monarch 2.0 will operate in the shadows with Barris\u2019 support. He confirms that Dr. Miura will get to lead it with a team that includes: Cate, her granddaughter and Titan whisperer; hacker May; and reinstated Monarch operative, Tim (Joe Tippett). <\/p>\nWhether Kurt Russell\u2019s Shaw will also be involved is unknown, as he\u2019s gone rogue again to avoid Monarch or government reprisal. We\u2019ll spitball, however, and say that there\u2019s a very good chance that Shaw\u2019s pursuit of Kentaro Randa (Ren Watabe) and Isabel Simmons (Amber Midthunder) will at some point dovetail into 2.0\u2019s mission to retrieve Kentaro.<\/p>\n
There have been no references to Bill Randa\u2019s (John Goodman) wife, Dr. Miura, or Monarch 2.0 in the Monsterverse films, which makes sense. To the outside world, she disappeared into an Axis Mundi portal in 1959; after her recovery, she\u2019s come full circle working at Monarch again in a secret agency with hyper-specific Titan goals.<\/p>\n
Monarch vs. Apex Cybernetics<\/p>\n
Going back to its formation as a Japanese-American coalition to hunt and study \u201cMassive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms\u201d (MUTOs), Monarch\u2019s first staff was Dr. Miura, Bill Randa (Anders Holm as Bill\u2019s younger incarnation) and Lt. Shaw. Its U.S. military supervision started in 1955, and Season 2 shows how Monarch\u2019s mission was expanded in 1957 after Titan X was discovered in Santa Soledad, Chile.<\/p>\n
Over the decades, Monarch remained active until 2014\u2019s G-Day, when their work became essential in saving humanity. After Godzilla and the MUTOs\u2019 devastation, Monarch came out of the shadows as an official worldwide independent organization centered on Titan research, tracking, and defense. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters\u2019 two seasons have made explicit how Monarch technology and resources have grown consequentially since G-Day. The Outpost 18 mobile sea command and huge Monarch compound in D.C. make it clear that there\u2019s been plenty of growth alongside the military and in the research sectors. <\/p>\n
Growing in parallel post G-Day is Applied Experimental Technologies, a multinational tech megacorporation founded by Walter Simmons, Isabel\u2019s father. The series reveals how their mission to harness the potential power of Titans evolves into the rebranded company, Apex Cybernetics. They develop Cybernetic Neural-Interface Unit technology with the goal of controlling Titans, which they field test on Titan X. It\u2019s only partially successful, but the Apex compound on Skull Island is destroyed by Titan X. Apex will continue to be portrayed in the films as an adversarial company exploiting Titans for their own gain.<\/p>\n
Is Isabel Simmons Connected to Alan Jonah\u2019s Terrorist Group?<\/p>\n
In the series, Isabel Simmons makes it very clear that she is not supportive of her father\u2019s mission with Apex; however, she doesn\u2019t have any love for the Titans, and sees them as mindless animals that must be prevented from harming humanity. Her ultimate goal is to use Titan X to open an Axis Mundi vortex so that they can harness a stable way for people to time travel, and most crucially, profit from it. She has her own neural implant technology meant to incite Titan X, and at the end of the season, she escapes with Kentaro to continue their mission of using Titans to open up vortices. <\/p>\n
In Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Alan Jonah (Charles Dance) is revealed to be the leader of an eco-terrorist group that is funded through the trafficking of Titan DNA. He thinks that humanity has decimated the planet, and that the Titans will restore the natural order. <\/p>\n
On paper, Isabel and Alan\u2019s missions don\u2019t overlap in many places. Where they do intersect is in seeing the value of tapping the unknown potential of Titans and their DNA, as well as sharing a general apathy for the creatures. It wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if it\u2019s revealed in the future that they help each other out with their chaotic agendas. <\/p>\n
Did Rodan Awaken On Its Own Or Did It Have Help?<\/p>\n
In the coda to Season 2, Shaw travels to Southeast Asia to settle his debts with a local mercenary named A-Wut. He also asks for help in finding what\u2019s at the end of his map \u2013 the Titan called Rodan. The last shot of the season is of an irritated Rodan screeching and sitting atop an active volcano. Was this a natural awakening, or is this the work of Isabel and Kentaro? There\u2019s no definitive answer, but Shaw is determined to get closer to the winged Titan.<\/p>\n
The bigger question is how Rodan gets from this location to Mexico. In Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Monarch paleobiologist Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) will awaken Rodan from his slumber in Mexico, so if there\u2019s a Season 3 of the series, hopefully it will include an explanation of Rodan\u2019s movements around the globe.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Is Keiko\u2019s Titan Language Discovery Connected to \u201cOrca\u201d Technology?<\/p>\nIn the final episodes of Season 2, Dr. Miura confirms that she\u2019s discovered the first indication of a Titan language through audio recordings; she compares it to whale song. She and Cate are attuned to the language, but they don\u2019t know how or why.<\/p>\n
Thematically, Miura\u2019s discovery tracks with Dr. Russell\u2019s \u201cOrca\u201d device, which is introduced approximately 18 months later in Godzilla: King of Monsters. Developed in secret with Alan Jonah, the \u201cOrca\u201d emits bioacoustic frequencies that attract Titans or alter their behavior. Russell is also sympathetic to the Titan\u2019s place on Earth; she sees them as potential saviors of the planet, which is in critical condition due to climate change. Whether Miura and Russell have both made the same communication discovery remains to be seen, but it\u2019s reasonable to assume that they\u2019ve both tapped into similar science. What\u2019s more, they may also have stumbled onto a gender connection. <\/p>\n
The evidence of that theory comes in the opening minutes of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, when the \u201cOrca\u201d device is shown to calm Mothra into a blue state. In the series, a similar result is revealed with Cate\u2019s ability to soothe Titan X with the recorded Titan audio; Titan X\u2019s coloration shifts from agitated pink to calm blue, much like her fellow Titan, the female Mothra. The assumed male Godzilla, meanwhile, turns blue when he\u2019s angered and powers up for a massive blast. Maybe we\u2019ll learn more about this in Season 3 too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoilers follow for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2. Season 2 of Apple TV\u2019s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-408603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}