By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
Copyright photos Waarner Bros
A friend of mine suggested I skip to the last ninety seconds of this episode and save myself the bother of watching the rest of it. But I couldn’t. I have to watch it all to form my own opinion.
I have to say, he was right. The Randas have now met and spoken with the bosses of Monarch who claim this is their legacy. We get some more daddy talk and the opening scene in 1955 shows that Shaw and Keiko are missing their baby boy and hate the fact their work takes them away from him. Hang on, so Shaw and Keiko did the horizintal dance and conceived the Randa’s dad? So Willy Randa is not their father after all? Is Shaw looking at his own grandchildren which explains how he knows Hiroshi’s movements so well. Even Cate says she thought at one point Shaw was going to tell her exactly that. But we see that Willaim clearly has strong feelings for Keiko too which she is not resistant to.
But we get one conversation after another and learn that Shaw is going to the scene of Keiko’s death in episode one, Kazakhstan. This exposition should be much tighter and over a couple of episodes ago. At this point I feel like slapping Hiroshi myself just so his kids could meet him and explain himself. Then again that would only open up even more talky episodes. Thank God the Titans are taking their time to allow the humans to act out their inner frustrations.
Godzilla is on his way and Shaw is here to seal the entrance to the Hollow Earth. He deploys a bomb and has a conversation, another conversation with Cate as he does so. However there is an earthquake as more monsters come up from below. May, Shaw and Cate fall into the shaft which we know leads to the Hollow Earth but nevertheless it is a great cliffhanger as Kentaro escapes just as Shaw’s bomb goes off.
With only two episodes to go this feels like a wasted opprtuniy which started well and sagged badly in the middle. Can they leave is wuth a spectacular ending? If they don’t there will be no second season which is a pity as this could have been great.
The Time Warriors and Beyond 
Ah dear. This series has just been such a huge disappointment. Boring would be the word I would use. Extremely boring if I could use two lol. If I have to use three then there is a swear word in there. Just 2 episodes to save itself; big ask at this point but I guess we will see with episode 9.
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