“The villain was this tech guy that had invented basically sort of the internet 2.0. And then they realized that all his patents came to him one morning. And so little by little, they started putting together this and they said, ‘Oh, he got them from the precursors.’ The guys that control the kaiju. And then we found out that the precursors are us thousands of years in the future. They’re trying to terraform, trying to re-harvest the earth to survive. Wow. And that we were in exo-bio-suits that looked alien, but they were not. We were inside. And it was a really interesting paradox... To me, the hero was Mako Mori. I wanted her not only to live, I wanted her to be one of the main characters in the second movie.”
peak tragic romance is the moment in pacrim: uprising where hermann, despite being inches away from death by choking, rubs newt’s knuckles as if to say it’s okay, i forgive you, i love you. considering this is a scene from a movie that ranges from god awful to okay on the enjoyability spectrum, what the actual fuck was that i have a physical reaction of pain every time i think too hard about it
so can you imagine if it had been the other way around and hermann had been taken over
listen to me. listen to me. i know it had to be newt because he who studies monsters, but i just like to think about the hard-hitting devastation of newt realizing the only reason hermann was consumed by the hivemind and the precursors was because he insisted newt not drift on his own on victory day
and while we’re at it you do realize that newt would have confronted the possessed hermann over the years for ghosting him and then done irreparable damage to “their” relationship because he genuinely thinks hermann thinks he’s too good for him now and has outgrown him
Pov : you see your teachers, Dr Gottlieb & Dr Gottlieb, together during their lunch break and they’re not arguing, for once. (headcanons for this piece under the cut)
While they got married mostly to make paperwork easier, Newt insisted on taking Hermann’s last name, as part of his healing process after PRU. He loves to be Newton Gottlieb, a new, loved, man, who didn’t try to end the world. Also having two Dr Gottlieb is making a mess of the plannings and confuses new students, much to Newt’s delight.
Their left eyes are both permanently injured from Hermann drifting with Newt many times, as part of the process to get the Precursors out of his head.
Now they’re together and happy -and still arguing often- and all is well.