It is a fortuitous arrival. With a building sense of panic in many doctrinal communities that the onset of the year 2000 is laden with eschatological significance, where not even Pat Robertson can make up his mind whether The End is to be by famine, asteroid bombardment or a cascade of ICBMs on the land, a Kaiju on steroids is here to really shake up the cultural landscape. His popularity is proof that we haven t lost our case of existential jitters about what the future may hold. And Godzilla may be here just in time. If he survives New York, I d suggest a similar romp in some new territory, perhaps along the India-Pakistan border.
Next door are hot spots like China and Afghanistan, further to the north a shaky Russia.
That area could be the site for a real Armageddon, the multiple-fault line intersection of Muslim, Confucian, Hindu and Orthodox civilizations, all just in time for the year 2000. Sorting that mess out is a monster task, even if you re the size of Godzilla.