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Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games
They are piloting a Jaeger together in my imagination
#hate this. im in the shatterdome trying to coordinate my jaegers in the field fighting for the fate of humanity #and these two chuckleheads over here won’t stop doing bits on the open channel #they keep defeating kaiju with slapstick routines and its INFURIATING
yeah the worst part is it's actually working for them
I loved when “Drift Compatible” entered pop lexicon cause we were in DESPERATE need for a way to platonically express “one of us to the other is as a limb to a body; we are a left and right feet of a dancer; we do not need to speak because any one word inspires an exchange of unspoken words that conveys a full conversation in which a mutual conclusion is determined in an instant”. Huge win for the QPRs out here
I also really love that the movie explicitly shows that drift compatibility can be any form of relationship. Two brothers, three brothers, husband and wife, father and son, two friends who have lost everything to the same enemy. It isn’t about the way you connect, it’s about the connection itself. And of course, that connection lets you put boots to asses and kill alien monsters together. Because the power of human connection can change the world or something.
pacific rim au, you're welcome
pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering
i took a few notes from guillermo del toro’s commentary on pacific rim:
Is there a name for the phase in every fandom where we put them in a Pacific Rim AU?
Anyway, Pacific Rims your Jayvik! >:) Their Jaeger is called "Hammer Time"
Ohh I love Pacific Rim AUs! Just, like, considering: Jayce starts out as a jaeger pilot, co-piloting with his dad, but they get wrecked by a kaiju off the coast of Freijord and his dad dies. So they try to re-match Jayce with a bunch of other people. He's friendly and charismatic, it should be easy to find someone else drift compatible, right? No. Fail after fail after fail. They don't wash him out of the program because he was a great pilot and ffs they will find someone else drift compatible for him eventually and in the meantime he gets transferred to the Zaun Shatterdome for more failed compatibility tests (they are scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point, although Vi ends up the closest Jayce has gotten yet) and he kind of wanders over to the science labs because Jayce always loved science and he's heard rumors about the mysterious and brilliant head scientist Viktor. Meet-cute: Jayce is staring at a giant kaiju eyeball suspended in formaldehyde and he looks up and there is the most beautiful man he's ever seen who wants to know wtf he is doing in his lab. So Jayce and Viktor become science partners and build the newest, best jaeger and Jayce knows, he just knows in his bones, that they're drift compatible and they should be the ones to pilot it, but he doesn't say anything until there's an attack and the only Zaun pilot team--Vander and Silco--get wrecked and a kaiju is like twenty minutes away from destroying the city. Jayce and Viktor get in the new jaeger and yes, drift compatible, perfect, and they go kick the kaiju's ass. And then they kiss, yay. (They eventually get transferred to the Piltover Shatterdome because politics and Ekko and Jinx take over at the Zaun Shatterdome with their scrappy, painted jaeger.)
#the eyes they never lie
PACIFIC RIM (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro
Honestly I miss the energy Tumblr had when the first Pacfic Rim movie came out. Everybody was talking about who they were drift compatible with and that was like a huge compliment. Ppl were drawing Kaijus, and Jaegers, naming ‘em. It was a better time
The image won’t load but god I hope it’s Robopope, The Robot Pope.
feels so wrong that itll be 2025 soon. fake year. science fiction year
guys i think pacific rim takes place in 2025. no way to be sure though
YOU WILL HOLD ME LIKE I'M HOPE.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller Pacific Rim (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro
“I think Pacific Rim is unrealistic now because instead of everyone banding together to defeat COVID, the governments just gave up and abandoned everybody-”
Are you kidding me? Pacific Rim 100% predicted this kind of thing. That’s literally what the Pacific Perimeter Program was about. Once the PPDC decided fighting kaiju was too expensive, they just gave up and chose to ignore the problem by putting it behind a big wall. Pacific Rim is literally about the people who were abandoned by the institutions that were supposed to protect them and kept on trying anyway.
🎉🤖🎉TEN YEARS OF PACIFIC RIM🎉🦖🎉
Pacific Rim is great because of the absolutely fanfiction level of its plot points. Want to pilot the giant robot? You’re going to need to share your most painful memories. Who will you share them with? YOUR CRUSH
@beautifulwhensarcastic why would you hide this in the tags
what’s funniest about the pacific rim scientists is like. when newt geiszler says he’s a scientist he means an old-timey 1910s entomologist wearing khaki shorts and a comically oversized pair of binoculars traipsing through the jungle capturing endangered species of butterfly and murmuring “egads!! fascinating…..” and scribbling it in his journal. when hermann gottlieb is being a scientist it’s literally the fucking manhattan project. tortured chainsmoking physicist. pawn of a war. repressed homosexual all his life. gets executed for being a communist. And they have to do each other’s peer review
