To get Hiroshi’s device back, Shaw and the team execute a daring heist at Apex Cybernetics.
Written by: Al Letson
Directed by: Hiromi Kamata
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After the character-focus of episode three, it was nice to have Titan and creature suspense and action balancing the character beats.
Gut punches again following Billy’s reaction to finding the letter and pursuing his mapping of Titan migration patterns. I was really frustrated that they didn’t grab everything on that board in the level ten basement.
It’s good to finally have Cate on board after she bottomed out in the last episode.
Kentaro keeps on showing competence, it was good for Keiko to intervene with Hiroshi to say that perhaps he’s not letting Kentaro know he can see it.
May/Corah buying in to Apex’s agenda for her code was not what I expected but based on what we’ve seen in the show, perhaps I should have. This show needs to lay down the pipe for events to come in the movies in this continuity — and Corah is an unusual legacy character in that her actions have established impact later.
The Skull Island creatures in the lab were disturbing but interesting.
Last thing, in addition to the teaser Apple released earlier this week with the opening scene of the surfers, the scene of Shaw breaking the creatures out of the Apex basement was posted yesterday.
I caught it by chance and wish I hadn’t. It took away the surprise and diminished the impact for me.
I am interested to see where the May/Corah thing goes. Well, big picture, we know that trying to control nature like this generally goes poorly, in fiction and in real life.
Once I saw the monsters in the small rooms, I knew Kentaro would find any opportunity to release them.
I enjoyed the bar scene and the moment in the elevator between Keiko and Hiroshi.
As far as not grabbing everything from sublevel 10, Lee and Keiko probably recognized all of the stops on the migration path from their earlier work and Hiroshi was probably also aware of some of them.
I keep wondering if Apex and the controlling monsters aspect is going to find a Titan to test it on and basically create this universe’s version of Gigan (part cybernetic, part kaiju).
They are already responsible for Mechagodzilla and now they have that prototype monster control device. They have recruited May who will continue her code and make this all more real.
I think May has drunk the Flavour-aid and will do her best to make it happen. Of course, Apex isn’t looking for coexistence, just control.
I guess I felt both in terms of Billy’s life work and all the personal stuff, the Randas keep leaving so much behind that might be useful later.
