It wouldn’t have taken much to give a better reason for resurrecting the Jaeger program - we’ve kept monitoring the breach site just in case, and now we’re seeing seismic activity and whatever-type-of-energy-an-interdimensional-breach-causes activity, so we think they’re coming back, so fire up the Jaegers. You could even bring in that we’d seen activity like that in the year before the breach initially opened, so hey, we had a year’s grace to start building or something like that.
For November Ajax, my headcanon is it and other Jaegers were destroyed by the drones. Shao could offer resources to get the four closest Jaegers up to fighting condition again, but that was it - only so many resources, put them into closest Jaegers.
And I think the PPDC just gave Obsidian Fury a cool nickname because it did kick Gipsy Danger’s ass pretty good, after all - respect your enemy and all that.
Yeah, that would have worked. A general “all the stuff we learned last time shows us that they’re still out there and still a threat” would have enhanced that further.
It’s not so much that he wasn’t there. It’s that we never found out what happened to him at all. Something like this would have worked:
Whoever: “OMG all the Jaegers got smooshed!”
Amara or Jake: “Even that blue dude who chased us out of the scrap yard?”
Whoever: “Yeah, him too!”
I’m perfectly fine with cheap hand-waving, and some things DO need to be explained somehow, even with a throwaway line or two. (Like what happened to Raleigh Beckett, dammit)
Saw it tonight, and while it wasn’t as good as the original (how could it be without Idras Elba and Ron Perlman?), it was still a fun movie. Too much robot versus robot fighting and not enough robot versus kaiju.
Boyega’s character realizes that the new Kaiju are headed to Mt. Fuji to blow it up- he’s able to do this by plotting their courses and by plotting the tracked courses of the Kaiju from the first movie. The only problem is that in the first movie, the Kaiju only came from *one *rift, not multiple rifts like in this movie. If the original monsters were all headed to Mt. Fuji, they would’ve all traveled along the same course.
And, really, there was no reason to even bring in the tracked courses from the OG Kaiju. Just say that these are headed to Mt. Fuji and be done with it.
Yeah, that was an especially egregious…I’m not even sure it’s a plot hole. It’s just a really obvious misrepresentation of what happened in the original movie. There was no reason for that.
Best I can recall -
Newt (the scientist that first drifted with the kaiju in PR) is helping the Shao company develop a line of drone Jaegers. Once Gipsy Avenger defeats the rogue Obsidian Fury, and open it’s conn pod, they find that instead of people, it is piloted by a kaiju brain.
Basically, Newt’s gone off the deep end from doing too much kaiju-drifting, and as we learned from Hannibal Chau, “it goes both ways.” So he’s like possessed by the aliens or something, and at times, acts as their representative.
I don’t think it’s ever explained how Newt managed to create a super-awesome black drone Jaeger when the other drone Jaegers were white and just regular-awesome.
Just watched the original Pacific Rim last night, and I thought of something: Cannonballs. Old-school cannonballs.
If the objective was to inflict blunt-force trauma on the kaiju, why not use non-explosive projectiles? If you made them big enough, they likely wouldn’t even break the skin most of the time. Just pummel them with kaijuballs until they’re toast.
Our current systems for delivering bombs and missiles could be adapted to deliver the kaijuballs with great accuracy. It would be expensive to implement, yes, and dealing with such heavy projectiles would bring its own set of problems, but the cost would be nothing compared to the Jaeger program.
The kaijuballs themselves would even be relatively cheap, because the materials could come from the wreckage of cities that had been attacked.
Of course to kaijuball plan has one fatal flaw - no giant robots would be necessary. Darn.
