Movie with Robots, hurrah
Jul. 14th, 2013 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirth1. Pacific Rim was really good!
2. But wow, that was a lot of dudes.
3. Seriously, that's a lot of dudes.
If I'm remembering correctly, the first fight is in year 7 of the war. And then we have "5 years later" which equals 12. I don't know whether to count the "14 months" of Jaeger development during the 7 or before it, but I'm guessing during.
So if Mako can't possibly be more than 8 in that flashback, then she's what, 20? And she's in charge of the restoration of Gipsy Danger? Suuuuure.
(ETA - though I will admit I see an argument for her having grown up in the program, and maybe in light of the funding cuts and consolidation, she was the one who stuck it out. But still.)
And my own admission that this is even more armchair amateur science than I'm accusing them of invoking...
So, Gipsy is "analog. nuclear." what does that even mean? They've replaced her (diesel? or was that a different Jaeger) engines with some sort of nuclear-heated steam powered hilarity? No idea why that makes her less susceptible, but I'll accept that you're telling me she doesn't run on batteries. Sure, I'll buy that there's some magical desalination going on. Or they're just constantly flushing the systems. I can't imagine where you'd store fuel, or anything, in there anyway, and they do fight in the water a lot.
But analog? Because I don't think those displays work without computers that'd be disrupted by an EMP, even if she's got plain old pistons powering her joints.
2. But wow, that was a lot of dudes.
3. Seriously, that's a lot of dudes.
If I'm remembering correctly, the first fight is in year 7 of the war. And then we have "5 years later" which equals 12. I don't know whether to count the "14 months" of Jaeger development during the 7 or before it, but I'm guessing during.
So if Mako can't possibly be more than 8 in that flashback, then she's what, 20? And she's in charge of the restoration of Gipsy Danger? Suuuuure.
(ETA - though I will admit I see an argument for her having grown up in the program, and maybe in light of the funding cuts and consolidation, she was the one who stuck it out. But still.)
And my own admission that this is even more armchair amateur science than I'm accusing them of invoking...
So, Gipsy is "analog. nuclear." what does that even mean? They've replaced her (diesel? or was that a different Jaeger) engines with some sort of nuclear-heated steam powered hilarity? No idea why that makes her less susceptible, but I'll accept that you're telling me she doesn't run on batteries. Sure, I'll buy that there's some magical desalination going on. Or they're just constantly flushing the systems. I can't imagine where you'd store fuel, or anything, in there anyway, and they do fight in the water a lot.
But analog? Because I don't think those displays work without computers that'd be disrupted by an EMP, even if she's got plain old pistons powering her joints.
