{"id":1113,"date":"2021-07-09T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:45:00","slug":"bonus-jimmys-notes-on-bonus-episode-8-godzilla-singular-point-feat-kaiju-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/bonus-jimmys-notes-on-bonus-episode-8-godzilla-singular-point-feat-kaiju-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"BONUS Jimmy\u2019s Notes on \u2018Bonus Episode 8 \u2013 Godzilla: Singular Point (feat. Kaiju Weekly)\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?resize=783%2C327\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?w=783 783w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?resize=300%2C125 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JIMMYS-NOTES.jpg?resize=768%2C321 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may recall that <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/bonus-jimmys-notes-on-quantum-mechanics-for-kw-episode-80-mifv-bonus-episode-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I shared Nate\u2019s research on quantum mechanics in a bonus Jimmy\u2019s Notes<\/a> since he wasn\u2019t able to share it on the air for <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/30\/bonus-episode-8-godzilla-singular-point-feat-kaiju-weekly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the <em>Godzilla: Singular Point<\/em> episode<\/a>. You may also recall I\u2019ve been late posting my blogs this week. So, to make up for that, I\u2019m now sharing Nate\u2019s leftover notes on <em>Singular Point<\/em> itself. Drink it in, folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The intro in the first episode begins like a fairy tale. It even has \u201conce upon a time\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jet Jaguar is a company mascot for Otaki Factory. Ha! <em>(Now he\u2019s my garage\u2019s mascot. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0This first episode throws A LOT at you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I already love Pero 2. <em>(I\u2019m hoping to work on a project with Mei and Pero 2 at some point\u2014making Nate green as a Messiah 13 Alien with jealousy. \ud83d\ude1b \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They say \u201cJa-gwar.\u201d \ud83d\ude1b <em>(As any good English speaker would. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How dare those kids mock JJ! <em>(Indeed! Be glad he likes kids, or else he\u2019d be the first robot arrested for murder. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ep1 ends with Godzilla march and Godzilla skeleton. Lots of intrigue. <em>(The scientists on the Island want to study that skeleton quite badly, but it\u2019s been a chore to get it moved here. Raymund Martin is waist-deep in litigation over it. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We don\u2019t get the proper theme song until ep2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The old man\u2019s speech when he launches JJ is very Darkwing Duck. JJ\u2019s stubby legs are so funny! In this, he starts out as a small mech with a pilot. Then he has a mind of his own after a reboot. <em>(Piloting Jet sounds kinda fun. Hmm\u2026. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JJ vs. Rodan!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rodan crawls! <em>(Like a certain Ghidorah\u2026. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I love this crazy, cranky old man.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I love Mei\u2019s kawai kaiju phone cover.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What the&#8211;?! Who the heck is Hot Topic lady here? <em>(Your new girlfriend, Nate? \ud83d\ude1b \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oh my gosh! They\u2019re merchandizing Rodan REALLY fast! <em>(And those dolls are being sold at the Island\u2019s gift shop. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These early episodes feature a lot of researching. Reminds me of grad school and my job here on the Island.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ep3 starts with narration again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mei never has the same outfit from one episode to the next.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Otaki Factory\u2019s company car is a Cadillac?! <em>(I approve.\u00a0 \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mei has clothes on a clothesline? People still do that? <em>(Apparently. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m afraid your laundry is no longer with us.\u201d Ha!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why are Rodans dropping dead?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mei\u2019s major is biologica fantastica. Interesting. <em>(But does she go for English majors, Nate? \ud83d\ude1b \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mei and Yun would\u2019ve been natural fits at my alma mater. <em>(We get it, Nate. You\u2019re in love. \ud83d\ude1b \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cGodzilla\u201d appears at the end of ep3. You know because of the music.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EE: Godzooki sticker?!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can Mei afford to fly to Dubai? <em>(Student loans. Lots of them. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yun just guessed there were bones in the basement?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anguirus! He has the ability to defelct bullets. Named by a child who couldn\u2019t say \u201cankylosaurs.\u201d And is a fortune teller?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This show likes to end episodes with kaiju appearances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ep5 has Not-Gabara (Salunga).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 3D and 2D animation actually integrate pretty well.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are a lot of news reports.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manda appears. (Mammoth snake).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JJ\u2019s lower body was built in a hurry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So, we have not-Titanosaurus replicating a scene from Reigo by jumping over the ship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Godzilla\u2019s arrival in ep7 reminds me of Shin Godzilla. (Varan?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asks the obvious question of whether future means anything if the future is set.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have title drop in ep7!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The gelatin illustration is very <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does Revelation say 1\/3 of the waters turn red? (It is one of the Ten Plagues, though).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThat puts the \u201coo\u201d in \u201cCool.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gojira or Godzilla?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jet Jaguar can talk now\u2014and he sounds like a kid. <em>(I removed that feature from him. It was a bit creepy. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Godzilla\u2019s breath attack and \u201cdeath\u201d in ep8 is very <em>Shin Godzilla<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now the kids think JJ is cool. <em>(#Irony. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The story in this very much like <em>Shin Godzilla<\/em>: characters are trying to unravel and decipher a puzzle left by a scientist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not-Gabara isn\u2019t dead?!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lena must be adopted. She looks nothing like her dad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Godzilla Ultima appears in ep10.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Red Dust around Godzilla is basically radiation. He\u2019s a walking disaster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JJ rode a Rodan. I\u2019ve seen everything. <em>(It\u2019s the most metal thing I\u2019ve seen in a while. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shiva fits with the Stoic story about the gods covering up the inadequacies of man and starting over. (God and the Flood?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I love that most of the creatures in this series are the more obscure kaiju in the Toho pantheon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Octagonal Diagonalizer is the Oxygen Destroyer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>INN News? Did Fox and CNN merge? <em>(That\u2019d be a confusing disaster. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I get it. Jet\u2019s AI reverted because everything is working backward.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The old man quotes <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> in the dub: \u201cHold on to your butts!\u201d <em>(I\u2019m sure our competition loved it. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where\u2019s the JJ with propellers toy?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Godzilla has fleas?! <em>(He did in 1984. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jet Jaguar vs. Godzilla?! <em>(Madness, I tell you! \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Creator Interview<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interview\/2021-06-23\/the-science-of-kaiju-with-the-director-and-writer-of-godzilla-singular-point\/.173773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interview\/2021-06-23\/the-science-of-kaiju-with-the-director-and-writer-of-godzilla-singular-point\/.173773<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atsushi Takahashi (director), Toh Enjoe (sci-fi writer and ex-physicist)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ENJOE:<\/strong>\u00a0The first thing we were aiming for was to formulate a\u00a0<em>Godzilla<\/em>\u00a0story that is shown in animation through 13 weekly episodes. I originally joined not as the screenwriter but as a consultant for the science fiction aspects, so I mainly thought about how Godzilla could be actualized as a living creature. People are right when they say that Godzilla is symbolic of something, but I wanted to try reexamining what could be reexamined through the perspective of modern biology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENJOE: I suppose it might be the attitude of attempting an internally consistent work of fiction based on a hypothesis. In physics, you first start with a hypothesis, and if the results you end up with don&#8217;t match reality, the hypothesis is discarded. In fiction, you start with a concept, and if the story you end up with doesn&#8217;t match it, the concept is discarded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENJOE: I suppose it might be the attitude of attempting an internally consistent work of fiction based on a hypothesis. In physics, you first start with a hypothesis, and if the results you end up with don&#8217;t match reality, the hypothesis is discarded. In fiction, you start with a concept, and if the story you end up with doesn&#8217;t match it, the concept is discarded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TAKAHASHI: I think there are many people who are aware of Godzilla, but there are surprisingly few who have sat down and watched a Japanese Godzilla film, much less all of them. I do wonder how many people have seen them all. If you&#8217;re one of the people who says you have, you&#8217;re a nerd in the minority. I hope that watching Godzilla SP gives you the motivation to sit down and watch the older Godzilla films. <em>(In other words, you\u2019re all a bunch of uber-nerds. \u2013Jimmy)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENJOE: I&#8217;m sure that there will be many people who say they can&#8217;t understand the sci-fi elements, but we&#8217;ve made it so that even if you don&#8217;t understand, you&#8217;ll be fine. Actually, the characters are smarter than me, so there are plenty of times when the logic they espouse is lost on me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I wrote in my previous blog:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cYear of Gamera\u201d continues next week with <em>Gamera vs. Zigra<\/em>, which will feature Kaiju Weekly co-host\/MIFV MAX member Travis Alexander and now (because our previous guest vanished off the internet), kaiju author Neil Riebe. Nate isn\u2019t a fan of this movie, but again I remind you a beautiful woman parades around in a bikini for a while! How can you complain? Then we have another first on the show: a Patreon-sponsored episode. Not only that, but that generous MIFV MAX member is joining us on the air: Eli Harris. The topic will be three episodes of <em>Godzilla: The Series<\/em>, specifically \u201cNew Family\u201d parts one and two and his favorite episode, \u201cDeadloch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until then, remember: #WeShallOvercome<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow me on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NasaJimmy\/status\/1322791987213410305?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NasaJimmy<\/a><br>Follow MIBOD on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterIslaBOD\/status\/1323267020641718272?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MonsterIslaBOD<\/a><br>Follow Raymund Martin (The Monster Island Legal Team) on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIFV_LegalTeam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MIFV_LegalTeam<\/a><br>Follow Crystal Lady Jessica on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrystalLadyJes1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CrystalLadyJes1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#JimmyFromNASALives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that I shared Nate\u2019s research on quantum mechanics in a bonus Jimmy\u2019s Notes since he wasn\u2019t able to share it on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/monsterislandfilmvault.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/bonus-jimmys-notes-on-bonus-episode-8-godzilla-singular-point-feat-kaiju-weekly\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BONUS Jimmy\u2019s Notes on \u2018Bonus Episode 8 \u2013 Godzilla: Singular Point (feat. 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