it’s just me and my parasocial relationship with charlie day against the world

Shoutout to that nice German person I met today who (after conversing about a wide variety of subjects) rightfully suggested we just need like. A 10min minifilm to give some closure after pacrim 2. Like we’re begging. Pls that’s all we need. Pls

painfully cute

So as I'm digging up stuff on what was initially planned for Pacific Rim 2, something I've determined is that while a lot of stuff in Uprising was created after Steven S. DeKnight took the helm, there's a lot of stuff in it was adapted from the initial script, and... probably would have been better.

There was going to be a rogue Jaeger, but it would have been an old Jaeger piloted by two assassin sisters.

Herc Hansen, rather than Mako Mori, was meant to die.

There was an antagonist in communication with the Precursors; however, he was a techbro who had seemingly invented an "Internet 2.0." (His "inventions" were given to him by the Precursors.)

Regarding the antagonist, based on elements that appear in the Aftermath comic (which was informed by information sent to writer Cavan Scott by Legendary Pictures), I have a strong suspicion of what this "Internet 2.0" would have entailed. Aftermath depicts various neurological implants that allow people to pilot mini-jaegers; one type that's effectively a port embedded into the back of the pilot's neck, and another type that allows the pilot to wirelessly control the Jaeger.

I presently suspect the original antagonist would have been marketing brain implants through which people could wirelessly access the Internet, that were also intended to connect people to the Precursor hivemind at some point.

Worth noting here is that Guillermo del Toro intended to have San Francisco utterly devastated in the final battle. Silicon Valley was absolutely going to bite it in what appears to be a story taking aim at technology like Neuralink and the increasing inescapability of techbro bullshit in general.

pacific rim 2 thought for sure it was getting a sequel. sorry lil bro but you were shite

Re-watched Pacific Rim 2 with some friends last night

Just wanna say that I do plan on rewriting Pacific Rim: The Black to be more aligned to the first film

In Pacific Rim (2013), Charlie Hunnam and Robert Kazinsky play two different characters— a subtle nod to them being two different actors, despite me being unable to tell them apart on the first viewing of the movie.

I can be trusted to be normal about big robots (lying)

Everyone who was pissed that i left Pacific Rim out of my first poll

i was pissed at myself for forgetting it.

Also no Goncharov once again-- trying to capture a more distant era of tumblr, like i said.

Please reblog so we can see what as many people think as possible!

since my pacific rim brain rot doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon, i'm thinking about how losing your drift partner while still connected to them through the neural handshake is the cruelest way to lose anyone ever. even crueler when you consider ghost drifting. so after all those years of piloting together how much of yancy's mannerisms thoughts etc has raleigh retained? has he dreamt yancy's dreams? how much of him is now yancy too? yes, raleigh might have lost a piece of himself when yancy died, but it's also the way yancy's ghost will forever be inside his head (in a very literal sense). he has to grieve someone who will live inside him forever and that makes me very sad because how are you supposed to move on from that?

So I've spent awhile puzzling over what Beacham meant by these:

I think if anything/anyone makes sense here, it's Hannibal Chau. He's someone we've already met, but wouldn't necessarily expect to see in a sequel. Also, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think his post-credits scene could be a sequel clue.

What other sequel clues he might mean, I'm still working on. (Though, based on a statement from del Toro about showing more of the Anteverse, I have a suspicion he might have been referring to that as well.)