#my pacific rim thoughts

[blueish-bird]

every time I rewatch Pacific Rim’s scene of the bigass robot wielding an oil tanker like a baseball bat to hit the alien monster it’s a healing experience

[californiannostalgia]

Things I noticed on my Pacific Rim rewatch:

1. Raleigh had his left arm ripped off while he was piloting the left hemisphere, then had his right arm and leg shredded while he was piloting the right hemisphere. Holy fuck he has been through it. His resilience and battle focus is enough to be recognized by Pentecost, whose solo Tokyo battle was three hours long.

2. Implied that Hercules Hansen was one of the OGs, like Cherno Alpha. Wonder what happened to his copilot before he began drifting with his son. Wonder what happened to the Jaeger he piloted before Striker Eureka.

3. Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift, but that just means he knows how to match with anyone, right? Wonder what that final drift was like in Chuck Hansen's head.

4. Tendo Choi is in command of the bridge when neither Pentecost nor Herc Hansen is present. I forgot that he reverts to Cantonese in stress situations, love these details.

5. I enjoy the bilinguals of this film. Also really interesting choice to focus on the western rim of the Pacific Ocean: Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, and a badass Marshal who strikes deals with the black market and literally anyone else who will fund the Jaeger program. We get to have industrial apocalypse, alien thriller, and cyberpunk in one film. (Side question: are the Americas' coastlines devastated?)

6. Mako's expressions are so. Agh. Her face shows what she's feeling with unshielded honesty (she feels so much, like Raleigh) but she carries herself like Pentecost: deliberate, controlled. Very much his student (daughter).

7. Newt and Hermann are obsessed with their scientific theories being right, even if it means the possible doom of humankind. Iconic Academics. Also they must be important enough to have helicopters on call, since they run out of one to get to the bridge in time for the final fight.

8. Final goodbyes between Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori.

9. Mako and Raleigh are two of many orphans who had no intention of surviving the war that took their families. Raleigh's last sacrifice was simultaneously the most selfless and selfish thing to do. Good for him to have survived, Mako would've found it hard to forgive him.

10. "Stop the clock."

[glasspunkart]

Pacific Rim x Transformers 3

[foxglovecove]

Just a happy moment of relief probably after one too many “so you saved the world” interviews

[writeouswriter]

Bro, bro, there is no second Pacific Rim movie, bro, it was just a bad dream, go back to sleep

[mudinyourshoes]

Of all the things that are under explored about drifting in the original Pacific Rim (and EVERYTHING is under explored) the things that drives me most bananas is when Pentecost shows up as Herc's replacement jaeger pilot and Chuck is like, "this is not going to work. We are not drift compatible" and Pentecost says "don't worry about it, I'll make us drift compatible because I WILL BRING NOTHING INTO THE DRIFT NO THOUGHTS NO MEMORIES"

SIR, SIR PLEASE COME BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WILL BRING NO MEMORIES INTO THE DRIFT. HAVE YOU ACHIEVED NIRVANA? WHAT IS HAPPENING? SIR?!

[dragons-in-spaceee]

*looks at newt* that is a man who watches httyd at least 3 times a week and owns neon green alien socks

[yourlocalvastard]

having insane thoughts about Pacific Rim: Uprising. it’s a good movie. it’s a mediocre movie. it’s a bad movie with a really cool concept which makes it incredibly easy to extrapolate and convince myself that it’s a good movie. there’s a very good movie in there, but not in there somewhere because i can see it- i know where this very good movie is. I can see it. it is unrealized potential. it’s about the power of love, no, it could’ve- should’ve been about the power of love- theoretically it’s about the power of love and how people misunderstand and try to manufacture it, always to no avail. it is not actually about any of that. why the fuck is mako a cop

[labelledamesansraisondetre]

Please tell me someone has written the Pacific Rim AU with Charlos and all the other driver pairings as teams so I don't have to do this. It's burning a hole in my brain. It doesn't even have to be smutty just well written and I am dying for it. Drop a link if you know.

[jekacatrina]

I celebrated AO3 being back up by reading like 10 Bakudeku fics before breakfast and I loved it!

Also, next chapter of Nobody Else is finished, thanks to Hozier (Love you, babe) and here's a small sneak peek:

Huh, would he look at that? His breath caught in his throat as Kacchan covered Izuku’s fist gently. “I win.”

Izuku wasn’t so sure that was the case. The outcome of a Jankenpon had never been so irrelevant to him. He truly didn’t care about who got two of the three, since he was winning either way. Especially since Kacchan hadn’t let go of his hand yet.

Look at this guys, I'm back at it with the longing!

[neosatsuma]

sometimes I remember that the entire world wasn't irrevocably changed by Pacific Rim like the culture of tumblr was, like it was just a movie that came out that some people watched, and I'm thrown for such a loop

[blueish-bird]

All I'm saying is that The Drift is probably a deeply unique space shaped by its participants. There's an active effort by the Jaeger Program to standardize it to the format we see in Pacific Rim (linear 3rd person experience of memories) because if pilots don't have narrow limitations to work within, The Drift might take on a depth and complexity that they could end up getting lost in.

[booktomoviebrawl]

Watched Pacific Rim again and this time my main talking points (what I paused the movie everytime they were in a Jaegar for) were mostly What's Up With Raleigh's Arm, Anyway (is it a mental thing? Physical injury? If it's physical (clearly indicated to be by the scars) how did it happen?), To What Extent Can A Pilot Be Injured And Still Use A Jaegar (subcategory: can you use a Jaeger with a prosthetic limb if it's not the one you're controlling, and why couldn't Herc switch sides like Raleigh did), If A Jaegar Is Moved By Outside Forces, Would The Pilots Move Too, And By How Much (I've come to the conclusion of no they don't move), and a scene specific one of, Hey, when Raleigh looks over at Mako and sees himself, doesn't it kind of seem like this is Yancy's memory and not his own? That's horrible and messed up, isn't it?

[hauntedradiotower]

haha get it, Drift compatible

[foxglovecove]

Random doots

Newt fiddling in the lab pre-drift, he seems like he’d be a pen-chewer

Newt admiring the view from their new apartment in Boston post world-saving, Hermann sharing his favorite tea with him

Otachi stuffy

Bonus sleepy Newt below

[cicada-candy]

Late-Night PacRim AU doodles of. Questionable Anatomy. And a random Punisher for. Idk seemed fun.

Will my PacRim!Blaze design ever be consistent?!! Tune in next time to see that the answer is probably No!!