If the opening sequence of the show is any depiction on the rest of it, then things jump off to a rocky start. Here we have a young girl that is handcuffed and is being chased around a large yacht for "reasons", who manages to escape her potential captors by being way more awesome than they are. Events fall into line with macguffins available that just make the whole escape possible, although totally implausible. We learn shortly after that the girl doesn't know what coffee is, or who certain famous people are, but seems to totally know what a cigarette lighter is, and how to work it.
We're off to a great start.
Scene two, and we have a wonderful father, who doesn't want their only child to better themselves by going to college, but to be a mythical monster hunter like him?! Honestly, what sort of parent doesn't want the best for their child? I wonder if this is an allegory for the writers own past. Maybe he wanted to be an architect, but his dad forced him to write crap TV shows instead.
By the end of episode one, it's not hard to see how the rest of the show will pan out. More plot holes than a sieve, bad dialog, and implausable scenarios, all written by a single person who probably thinks themselves a literary genius.
The beginning of episode two doesn't fare any better, with one NPC "ominously" providing the viewer with the name of the island (and series) our protaginasts find themselves on, except, it's not ominous, it's cheesy. Skull Island does not sound scary, it sounds like a place in the Monkey Island game series or something that would pop up on Scooby Doo. The only thing missing was the lighting flash effect and someone going "Mwahahahahaaaa!" to round out the inept story telling on display.
Questions for the writer: How did the dad wash up on top of a cliff face, with his beanie still on his head? Why did he not wash up on shore like other people did? Why did he take his coat off and leave it behind? Where did the girl get the rope vine? What happened to the giant foot print the two boys find themselves in? It vanishes from one scene to the next.
My favourite part is when the girl exclaims "Are all boys as useless as you?" and the boys, being modern boys who can't do anything, sulk back "Pretty much." It's borderline impossible to take a show like this seriously. The writing on this show makes the plot from 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' seem like a masterpiece.
Every passing minute, the plot gets worse, the writing gets worse, and modern ideals take centre stage. The most laugable part is the production company "A Legendary Television Production". The only thing that is legendary about this production, is how poor it is.
I don't want to analyse every episode, I'd write enough to make my own book, but I find myself in episode three where the boys are being chased down a river by a crocodile thing, who flings itself over a waterfall to catch said boys who have gone over the waterfall themselves. We get a wide shot of the boys in the river at the bottom, and mere seconds later the crocodile thing is eaten by Kong. Where the hell did Kong come from? How did it get there so quietly? It's a 30m high Gorilla, it's not like ducking down would make it invisible. This show doesn't require you to just suspend disbelief, but to shoot it into orbit, of a neighboring star system.
Shortly thereafter we learn the girl doesn't know what an 'interview' is, but understands the word 'conversion', uses the phrase "our home", but advises she lives alone, and somehow speaks fluent English with an American accent. This is about where by brain starts to stutter and cries out in pain, and all I can squeak out is: Huh?
Okay, update. It seems the girl lived alone from about age 7, so we have some explanation as to her limited vocabulary.
I don't condone excessive alcohol consumption, but anyone with a modicum of intelligence would need to be extremely inebriated to watch this show without resorting to self harm.
No wonder Warner Bros. Don't have their name on the show, it's more than likely too embarrassed to have it there.
This show should be referred to The Hague to prosecute the production company, cast and crew for crimes against humanity (and Kong for making him a Eunuch).
And of course the show ends on a cliffhanger, so we'll be given a season 2, unless Netflix does the right thing and cancels this abomination.
On a positive note, the animation is reasonable.
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