That time Ultraman Producers Slapped a Lizard Frill on a Godzilla Suit and Hoped for the Best

Dude, so I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about giant monsters. I was introduced to the Showa-era dubbed Godzilla films ("GODZILLER!") very young by my older brother and my cousin and that canon event permanently adjusted my brain chemistry so that a radioactive lizard created as a metaphor for the horrors of nuclear weapons is now a comfort to me in horrendous times. As a "Godzilla sicko" (best insult I've ever gotten tbh) I go out of my way to watch any and everything in the genre; the good, the bad, the Pulgasari - and while finishing up the second season of Monarch (The effects are fucking gorgeous in that show; Godzilla and 'Titan X' look incredible) I started thinking a lot about special effects of modern day monster films and just how fucking much has changed since the genre's origins. No shade to the hard work 3D artists put in now and this isn't a "digital vs practical" pit fight1 - I just really miss a rubber suit. And then I started thinking about Gomess and…

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