Episode 51 - Dallas Mora vs. ‘Gamera 2: Attack of Legion‘

The Monster Island Film Vault

Hello, kaiju lovers! After a harrowing and riff-tastic adventure in space, Nate and Jimmy return to Monster Island to find the podcast in chaos. Not only did their nemesis WHG3 try to replace MIFV with his own podcast, he canceled all of their guest invitations. Thankfully, Jimmy was able to get Geek Devotions co-founder Dallas Mora to come on to continue the “Year of Gamera” with Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (or “Attack of the Legion” or the much-cooler-title-that-should’ve-been-kept “Advent of Legion”). Nate and Dallas discuss its amazing traditional tokusatsu effects and Christian symbology, among other things. Did you know Gamera is a Christ-figure? Find out how in today’s episode! Along those lines, the Toku Topic is the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac, the Bible story that gave Legion her name.

After the broadcast, Nate goes to the Monster Island Chapel, where he’s greeted by Rev. Mifune. The chaplain tells Nate that Karone—the former “Miss Perkins”—had been hiding in the chapel since before Nate was shot into space. Nate then has a heart-to-heart talk with the former supervillainess and Power Ranger.

Listen to Nathan Marchand and Travis Alexander’s spinoff podcast, The Henshin Men, on Redcircle.

This episode’s prologue and epilogue, “Moving Forward,” was written by Nathan Marchand.

Guest stars:

• Daniel DiManna as Dr. Dourif
• Nate Chen as Rev. Mifune
• Celeste Mora as Karone

Additional music:

• “A Maiden’s Prayer” by RebeccaETripp

Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org.

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, and Elijah Thomas! Thanks for your support!

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This episode is NOT approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:

• Prologue, “Moving Forward, Part 1”: 0:00-3:21
• Intro: 3:21-13:06
• Entertaining Info Dump: 13:06-21:49
• Toku Talk: 21:49-1:37:55
• (Dr. Dourif’s Call: 24:04-30:41)
• Extra Life 2021 Charity Stream Promo: 1:37:55-1:39:13
• Toku Topic: 1:39:13-2:02:47
• Listener Feedback, Housekeeping, & Outro: 2:02:47-2:18:20
• Epilogue, Moving Forward, Part 2”: 2:18:20-end

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Bibliography/Further Reading:

• “Animals.” The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.
• Byrnes, Liam. “Why the Pigs had to die – Some Reflections on the Strange Story of the Gerasene Demoniac.” (Liam Byrnes Blog).
• England, Norman. “Inside the Heisei Trilogy: Bringing Up Gamera.” (Arrow Video Gamera: The Complete Collection; originally published in Fangoria #191, April 2000).
• “Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac.” (Wkipedia).
• Flower, James. “A Guide to English Language Gamera.” (Arrow Video Gamera: The Complete Collection).
• Gamera: The Complete Collection, Discs Five and Six Special Features.
• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion Commentary by Kyle Yount (Arrow Video’s Gamera: The Complete Collection).
• LeMay, John. The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Volume 2: 1982-2017.
• Macias, Patrick. “A History of Gamera: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion ” (Arrow Video’s Gamera: The Complete Collection).
• Linzey, Andrew. Christianity and the Rights of Animals.
• Manning, Erik. “Animal Cruelty, Errors, and Contradictions: The Story of the Madman of Gadara.” (Is Jesus Alive?).
• Preece, Rod and Lorna Chamberlain. Animal Welfare and Human Values.
• York, Tripp and Andy Alexis-Baker. A Faith Embracing All Creatures: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for Animals.
• Wiki Articles on Gamera 2: Attack of Legion:
  • Gamera Wiki
  • Gojipedia
  • IMDB
  • Toho Kingdom
  • Wikipedia
  • Wikizilla