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[dudski]

SO HERE'S THE THING: Pacific Rim has all of the FUCK YEAH PERFECT EXECUTION OF A JOYFUL FUN SUMMER ACTION MOVIE excitement of Iron Man or STXI [all three of which were situations where AS I WAS WATCHING I could already see myself in the distant future relaxing on the couch and popping the DVD in for the billionth time], but on top of that it's also

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[hongkongaton]

LET US STARE IN AWE AT OUR ADOPTED ROBOT DAUGHTER

Here's a Q tho and I wanna know if it gets answered in the book. HOW DOES THE PUBLIC HANDLE HIS ABSENCE THO. Like wouldn't they want to track down the dude who piloted a Jaeger alone??? Or like wouldn't people working on the wall know who he is? I LOVE that he refused everything though, wish they showed that in the movie, then again I wish they showed A LOT OF THINGS IN THE MOVIE

[dudski]

OKAY SO I READ THAT PART and basically it's just gossip at the Wall, like HEY THAT DUDE USED TO PILOT A JAEGER AND THEN HE CRASHED ONE AND THEY FIRED HIM, so it seems like they keep some pilots sufficiently out of the spotlight? It makes sense that being stationed at Sitka they wouldn't be as prominent as like, Herc and Chuck taking down that one in Sydney. From the profile of Gipsy Danger in the book it looks like Raleigh and Yancy took down kaiju in places like LA and Manila that would have been bigger deals, but maybe since the last one was so out of the way they were able to keep him away from the media?

ALSO the book is super inconsistent about what even happened with Raleigh and the PPDC, because the little extra thing with his personnel dossier says he was "dismissed for disobeying orders prior to engagement [with Knifehead]," and when Pentecost comes for Raleigh, Raleigh's like UH, DIDN'T YOU GROUND ME FOR INSUBORDINATION? just to be a little shit, but ALSO at one point Stacker is thinking about how much his job sucks and it specifically says that Raleigh QUIT the program after Yancy died, "suffering from clear post-traumatic stress, compounded by his mercurial temperament and survivor's guilt." DID HE QUIT OUTRIGHT? DID HE QUIT BC THEY GROUNDED HIM? DID THEY SERIOUSLY GROUND HIM FOR SAVING A BOAT EVEN AFTER HE KILLED A KAIJU BY HIMSELF AND THEN BROUGHT GIPSY DANGER HOME? DID THEY DISMISS HIM FOR SAVING THE BOAT? Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike I'm just going with him out-and-out quitting bc it suits my emotional needs best. THE NOVELIZATION IS SOFT CANON, I DO WHAT I WANT WITH IT.