Heisei as a continuation...

[pocketmego]

I debated on where to put this, but in the end the general category made the most sense.

My question is...

Do you guys think the Heisei films would have been as good or as effective if they had just continued from Terror of Mechagodzilla and kept all the old continuity?

I saw G85 when I was about 9 or 10 years old and I never realized at the time I first saw it that the other movies following G54 weren't supposed to have happened.

Since seeing the film several more times and understanding it better, I realize, of course, that they wanted a film in tone to the original and felt some of the Showa era films negated that tone.

But, was the elemination of that continuity truly necessary?

-Ray

[Gfan54]

In wanting to start a second more serious Godzilla series, I can understand why the decision was made to start a second separate series...since the Showa series is my fave of the 3, though, naturally I would have always preferred that all 28 (or 29, if you count GINO) fims have been kept together as one longer series, but the decision wasn't exactly up to me.

[Andrew Nguyen]

[pocketmego]

But, that is assuming that after 9 years, people were even thinking about the Hero-Goji era.

The Godzilla that went back in the water in 1975 looked nothing like the creature that came back out of the water in 1984.

People dealt with the change in the character from horrific monster in the 50's to campy hero in the 70's, it is hard to think that the same mindset could not be adopted to the change from Campy Hero to updated monster in the 80's.

Just my opinion, of course.

-Ray