Final Thoughts on the Pacific Rim: Final Breach (and franchise)
Love how Tumblr affirmed my feelings about this comic. I've been thinking about it a little for the last couple of days, along with engaging with the community, so I want to just vomit out my thoughts on where the whole franchise is going, along with some things I missed in my review.
Pacific Rim (the first movie) is something you can write a literary essay on. All other installments are corporate slop shoveled into the mouths of hungry fans. If you have followed this blog for a while, you would know I'm a huge fan of Chuck and Herc Hansen and their Jaeger Striker Eureka, even though they are side characters. Why? Because their lore is cool and their characters have depth! I genuinely can't name any characters that are like that after the first movie. Speaking of, what's with the Chuck erasure? Why has he not been mentioned since the first movie?
I completely forgot that 'Final Breach' was a fan-funded comic. I remember being so excited seeing the GoFundMe- because finally! More PR content! Only for it to turn out like this. Just going to bullet point my thoughts about the comic and franchise from here on out.
What I meant in my first review about me being glad that Newt died was that it was the only "logical" conclusion to the whole stupid premise of "kaiju-taking-over-his-mind" thing in the second movie. What is NOT logical is the whole death scene (where the dialogue does not sound natural whatsoever), and the only thing Hermann has to say is "goodbye, old friend" and promptly moves on. Mind you, they have known each other for DECADES (I think by that point around 3 to 4 decades, but don't quote me) and went through very traumatic events with each other. They clearly don't care about legacy characters.
Raleigh with a beard is probably one of the worst things in the comic. Oh, and the fact that he is a kaiju now, but you can't tell by his appearance or anything, and the whole explanation doesn't make sense.
What happened to Jaegers looking unique and realistic? Remember the good old days when you could actually tell them apart via visual design and movements, and they didn't look like the same bunch of pentagons?
It should've ended at the first movie and some of the comics, sorry. Not everything needs to be a franchise! Especially when you are dumbing it down to be big robot fight big monster. Do you think something like the lore book 'Man, machines, and monsters could work with the second film or The Black?
Already put this in another post but I'm going to say this again: After Final Breach, the Pacific rim community needs to realize that we’ll only be satisfied when we come together and create our own comic/rewrite. Do yall remember the zine that came out a while back from @edgeofhopezine?
Look how cool this is! So many talented and amazing artists and writers in the fandom are, who care a lot more than the company. I will hold out hope for the prequel series, though.
