by Legion » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:57 am
I hope you're not rolling your eyes at me, Kain.
And yes, the Heisei series had absolutely NO idea how to take great ideas and flesh them out. That's one of the series' biggest flaws. Movies like Biollante, King Ghidorah and Desotryah are full of fantastic concepts, but no one was able to take these concepts are really run with them. And when they couldn't think of new ideas, they'd just copy what worked in the older movies.
I mean, wtf was up with Emi? She voluntarily goes along with this plan and at the beginning it's made clear that she's one of the bad guys, down to her expressions and body language. Then, after Ghidorah finally appears, her character changes completely, she does a complete 180 and decides to help the good guys. Why? You mean she had no idea what her partners were really up to? I have a hard time believing she was that stupid. Honestly, it really does seem to me that they were using Miss Namikawa in MZ as inspiration. She's a popular, cult "human" character in a Honda film who starts out evil and then is motivated to switch sides and help the good guys win. Isn't that exactly what what Emi does? But while Namikawa's actions are believable, nothing Emi does makes any sense. When they announce that King Ghidorah has appeared and Emi suddenly looks shocked, my reaction is, "Well, what the hell did you think was going to happen, you dumbass?"