And you COULD NOT expect me to go back to Generic Cardboard White Dudes in the sequel and expect me to accept it. Heroes in a sci-fi/action movie can have deeply emotional stories: here’s Exhibits A and B.
I never watched the first Pacific Rim movie because I can’t really abide a lot of smashy fight scenes, though I knew all about the plot and concept of course. So a couple of weeks ago I read Hello Tailor’s article ‘Pacific Rim’ actor Charlie Day says slash fanfic informed his performance more because of general interest in slash fanfiction in wider culture and all the associated issues, and I watched the video clip with the same thing in mind.
Except then the phrase he used, something like, “He misses the man that he’s in love with”, sort of snagged me with its pathos and I remembered that after the first movie there was an explosion of fan interest in the pairing and waxjism was definitely reading it for a while. So, being temporarily without a fannish reading interest, I went to AO3 and started acquainting myself with the fanfiction in descending order of kudos.
It’s always quite an experience going into a body of fanfiction for a canon that you haven’t seen, even with a fair amount of fannish osmosis background information to draw on.
In this instance, after a few pages of results I’d gone through enough post-Uprising stories to have been spoiled for it as well, and
the most unrealistic thing about pacific rim: uprising was the fact that i’m expected to believe newt geiszler has been infected by the precursors for nearly ten years without managing to annoy them the fuck out of his head yet
the precursors: bl ease,,, stop.. …
newt: *loudly and off key, for the 284935th time* i know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your –
Dude. I just gotta say this… For the brevity of her time in this film, this little girl delivered, like, literally the most convincing performance of any actor in the past ten years. I’m dead serious. She deserves a fucking award, and a medal, and everyone’s praise, and she’s my hero. 侍
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