You may recall that I shared Nate’s research on quantum mechanics in a bonus Jimmy’s Notes since he wasn’t able to share it on the air for the Godzilla: Singular Point episode. You may also recall I’ve been late posting my blogs this week. So, to make up for that, I’m now sharing Nate’s leftover notes on Singular Point itself. Drink it in, folks.
- The intro in the first episode begins like a fairy tale. It even has “once upon a time…”
- Jet Jaguar is a company mascot for Otaki Factory. Ha! (Now he’s my garage’s mascot. –Jimmy)
- This first episode throws A LOT at you.
- I already love Pero 2. (I’m hoping to work on a project with Mei and Pero 2 at some point—making Nate green as a Messiah 13 Alien with jealousy. 😛 –Jimmy)
- They say “Ja-gwar.” 😛 (As any good English speaker would. –Jimmy)
- How dare those kids mock JJ! (Indeed! Be glad he likes kids, or else he’d be the first robot arrested for murder. –Jimmy)
- Ep1 ends with Godzilla march and Godzilla skeleton. Lots of intrigue. (The scientists on the Island want to study that skeleton quite badly, but it’s been a chore to get it moved here. Raymund Martin is waist-deep in litigation over it. –Jimmy)
- We don’t get the proper theme song until ep2.
- The old man’s speech when he launches JJ is very Darkwing Duck. JJ’s 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. (Piloting Jet sounds kinda fun. Hmm…. –Jimmy)
- JJ vs. Rodan!
- Rodan crawls! (Like a certain Ghidorah…. –Jimmy)
- I love this crazy, cranky old man.
- I love Mei’s kawai kaiju phone cover.
- What the–?! Who the heck is Hot Topic lady here? (Your new girlfriend, Nate? 😛 –Jimmy)
- Oh my gosh! They’re merchandizing Rodan REALLY fast! (And those dolls are being sold at the Island’s gift shop. –Jimmy)
- These early episodes feature a lot of researching. Reminds me of grad school and my job here on the Island.
- Ep3 starts with narration again.
- Mei never has the same outfit from one episode to the next.
- Otaki Factory’s company car is a Cadillac?! (I approve. –Jimmy)
- Mei has clothes on a clothesline? People still do that? (Apparently. –Jimmy)
- “I’m afraid your laundry is no longer with us.” Ha!
- Why are Rodans dropping dead?
- Mei’s major is biologica fantastica. Interesting. (But does she go for English majors, Nate? 😛 –Jimmy)
- Mei and Yun would’ve been natural fits at my alma mater. (We get it, Nate. You’re in love. 😛 –Jimmy)
- “Godzilla” appears at the end of ep3. You know because of the music.
- EE: Godzooki sticker?!
- How can Mei afford to fly to Dubai? (Student loans. Lots of them. –Jimmy)
- Yun just guessed there were bones in the basement?
- Anguirus! He has the ability to defelct bullets. Named by a child who couldn’t say “ankylosaurs.” And is a fortune teller?
- This show likes to end episodes with kaiju appearances.
- Ep5 has Not-Gabara (Salunga).
- The 3D and 2D animation actually integrate pretty well.
- There are a lot of news reports.
- Manda appears. (Mammoth snake).
- JJ’s lower body was built in a hurry.
- So, we have not-Titanosaurus replicating a scene from Reigo by jumping over the ship.
- Godzilla’s arrival in ep7 reminds me of Shin Godzilla. (Varan?)
- Asks the obvious question of whether future means anything if the future is set.
- We have title drop in ep7!
- The gelatin illustration is very Star Trek.
- Does Revelation say 1/3 of the waters turn red? (It is one of the Ten Plagues, though).
- “That puts the “oo” in “Cool.’”
- Gojira or Godzilla?
- Jet Jaguar can talk now—and he sounds like a kid. (I removed that feature from him. It was a bit creepy. –Jimmy)
- Godzilla’s breath attack and “death” in ep8 is very Shin Godzilla.
- Now the kids think JJ is cool. (#Irony. –Jimmy)
- The story in this very much like Shin Godzilla: characters are trying to unravel and decipher a puzzle left by a scientist.
- Not-Gabara isn’t dead?!
- Lena must be adopted. She looks nothing like her dad.
- Godzilla Ultima appears in ep10.
- The Red Dust around Godzilla is basically radiation. He’s a walking disaster.
- JJ rode a Rodan. I’ve seen everything. (It’s the most metal thing I’ve seen in a while. –Jimmy)
- Shiva fits with the Stoic story about the gods covering up the inadequacies of man and starting over. (God and the Flood?)
- I love that most of the creatures in this series are the more obscure kaiju in the Toho pantheon.
- The Octagonal Diagonalizer is the Oxygen Destroyer.
- INN News? Did Fox and CNN merge? (That’d be a confusing disaster. –Jimmy)
- I get it. Jet’s AI reverted because everything is working backward.
- The old man quotes Jurassic Park in the dub: “Hold on to your butts!” (I’m sure our competition loved it. –Jimmy)
- Where’s the JJ with propellers toy?
- Godzilla has fleas?! (He did in 1984. –Jimmy)
- Jet Jaguar vs. Godzilla?! (Madness, I tell you! –Jimmy)
Creator Interview
- Source: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2021-06-23/the-science-of-kaiju-with-the-director-and-writer-of-godzilla-singular-point/.173773
- Atsushi Takahashi (director), Toh Enjoe (sci-fi writer and ex-physicist)
- ENJOE: The first thing we were aiming for was to formulate a Godzilla story 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.
- 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’t match reality, the hypothesis is discarded. In fiction, you start with a concept, and if the story you end up with doesn’t match it, the concept is discarded.
- 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’t match reality, the hypothesis is discarded. In fiction, you start with a concept, and if the story you end up with doesn’t match it, the concept is discarded.
- 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’re one of the people who says you have, you’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. (In other words, you’re all a bunch of uber-nerds. –Jimmy)
- ENJOE: I’m sure that there will be many people who say they can’t understand the sci-fi elements, but we’ve made it so that even if you don’t understand, you’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.
As I wrote in my previous blog:
The “Year of Gamera” continues next week with Gamera vs. Zigra, 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’t 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 Godzilla: The Series, specifically “New Family” parts one and two and his favorite episode, “Deadloch.”
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