Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

This show will be one I fall back on to watch ( in future if a season 2) when I have have nothing better to watch

Totally makes sense. Yes, if writer, director and cast all perform well (along with a decent budget), virtually any kind of genre or niche can be good entertainment!

the first two episodes where extremely promising, the got a 4.5★ so i had high hopes.

But well they never recovered, most of the rest only got a 3.5★-Rating from me, not bad but not great either.
I love deep and well written characters, interaction and believable authentic dialogues and acts/plots, no matter if its fiction, fantasy and sifi or closer to "real live" drama - if its shallow and unbelievable i cannot enjoy watching it - and this show sadly did exactly this, there was great potential as E01+02 prove

Well normally "Godzilla" is nothing i can take really serious - but if writer, director and actors take it serious and the technical setup is good as well (like in E01+E02) - surprise surprise: the viewer so "i" can take it serious despite being "godzilla", and i really was quite astonished and surprised by it (E01+02)- which made me liking it even more.
Does that make sense?

Yes, agreed, I've noticed the same thing, but I've also noticed on here, and other message boards, people complaining that there isn't enough character development in sci-fi series.

I'm with you in that I prefer a series to concentrate more on the "event/happening" than on whether the lead character has fallen out with his daughter and is estranged from his ex-wife or whatever, but it seems others want more of that.

So I guess a shows writers are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't. Not to mention if a show focuses more on the human side it means less effects/model work and a series is, therefore, cheaper to make.

seems to be a pattern - have a scifi show that centres too much on the human story rather than the scifi eg Invasion - we saw very few aliens. Now with Monsters we get a few seconds of monster.

Yeah... Still slightly disappointed, but 6.6/10 from me.

ep 10 was decent enough. ah so thats where whats-his-name the gorrilla came from. good explantion

Just finisherd ep10. I quite liked it 7/10 for me :)

eps 8. 5 secs of monster. greeeeeeat. Atleast we now know some thing about where they came from. Had to wait 8 eps before we were told that. Thanks for nothing. I don't like shows that do this.

Yeah, the show's not as good as I had hoped. 1x7 at least introduced Dominique Tipper - aka Naomi Nagata of https://next-episode.net/the-expanse fame. Took me a few minutes to remember where I saw her before. :)