[ID: A video of several of the Pacific Rim characters doing the Caramelldansen dance to the corresponding song in front of various backgrounds from the first movie. In order of character appearance:
Yancy Becket and Raleigh Becket, Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori, Newton Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb, Herc Hansen and Chuck Hansen, Sasha Kaidonovsky and Aleksis Kaidonovsky, the Wei Tang Brothers, Hannibal Chau and Newton Geiszler, Stacker Pentecost and Tendo Choi, and finally Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori. The video repeats a second time with the characters in the same order. End ID]
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Even though it’s been eight years, Pacific Rim still lives rent free in my head.
But the majority of the fandom, myself included, knows that it’s not the perfect science fiction movie to dominate all science fiction movies.
So here are a few suggestions I have at the top of my head to make this glorious mess even better:
- GETTING RID OF THE G-SLUR IN THE NAME OF LADY DANGER, like c’mon Guillermo, it’s not that difficult
- Having a female K-scientist, and having her replace Charlie Day. He’s a gift but PR significantly lacks women in the cast and I feel that a messy kaiju-groupie-esque woman would be the better choice when replacing either of those male characters. Women are hardly allowed to be messy.
- In general we need more women/non-male characters. Are there female J-Techs? I don’t know but if yes I doubt that there are many. Another male character I think who could be replaced (more easily than others) is Tendo Choi. They should keep the rockabilly attitude though.
- Maybe add an extra Jaeger to make room for at least another female pilot. Give me a South American team! Peruvians perhaps or Chilean (There are surprisingly [to me, a European] not many South American countries bordering the pacific).
- I would also like to see more non-white characters. PR has a Japanese woman and a black man in the leading trio but there are still a lot white dudes in the more important roles. They are nice white dudes, but they’re white nonetheless.
As I said, these are just the things that come to my mind right now. Please feel free to add your ideas!
EDIT (19.12.21)
Several of you lovelies have given me lots of ideas and improvements of my own suggestions. Here are they:
@jedi-whovian24601 said: Maybe we can add a female/non-male k-scientist instead of removing Charlie Day? Herman’s physics/maths and Newt’s mostly bio so the new k-scientist can be chem (which is also a messy science. Image the explosions they can cause)
@bae-science pointed me towards a very interesting presentation
@milfbailorgana opened my eyes to my own white privilege: Bestie said pac rim should have more non white characters and said we should change Tendo Choi— one of pac rim’s only poc— in the same post
You're right and you should say it. Instead of replacing Tendo we could let him work in tandem with a woman, maybe even his wife Alison. We don't know much about her, only that she worked in munitions in Anchorage, so let me headcanon that she retrained and now they handle the operations together. Alison could also be BIPoC. As for their son, there might already be some sort of kindergarten for Shatterdome employees in canon.
all of the jaeger pilots have insomnia and ptsd so if they cant sleep cause of nightmares, etc. they all have a designated room where they go in and theres hot chocolate and music and everybody is dogpiled in the middle of the room, sharing warmth and companionship
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