Yes! I was thinking the same during the movie whereby there're a lot of Asians around but.... no black people? Really? All your best and brightest and none of them are black? OK. And I think black people would be a significant part of the resistance! The nerd-bromance was awesome and I loved the two characters, but they didn't have to be white dudes at all, either.
My problem with Idris and whatshisname dying was... like, didn't they have an opportunity to eject out of the Jaeger as it went nuclear? Did they say that the Jaeger was too damaged for them to eject? Which makes Stacker's death played really for the emotional high without thinking through carefully the statement about "the world saving the world". They still could have had that same emotional high with the tension of wondering whether he's still alive, but like you said, they made that decision to kill him off instead, which sucked.
The deaths of ALL THE OTHER PILOTS also just doesn't sit right.... sure it's a trope that the rookie and the vet working together will survive, but it sticks in my craw how we're supposed to buy how QUICKLY Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are taken down (I didn't even get to see the Thundercloud Formation clearly??? I was very unhappy with how that scene was directed; they made it to be such a Big Thing and then we the audience barely get to see it).
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Re: Black Men Dying
Date: 2013-07-14 11:33 pm (UTC)My problem with Idris and whatshisname dying was... like, didn't they have an opportunity to eject out of the Jaeger as it went nuclear? Did they say that the Jaeger was too damaged for them to eject? Which makes Stacker's death played really for the emotional high without thinking through carefully the statement about "the world saving the world". They still could have had that same emotional high with the tension of wondering whether he's still alive, but like you said, they made that decision to kill him off instead, which sucked.
The deaths of ALL THE OTHER PILOTS also just doesn't sit right.... sure it's a trope that the rookie and the vet working together will survive, but it sticks in my craw how we're supposed to buy how QUICKLY Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are taken down (I didn't even get to see the Thundercloud Formation clearly??? I was very unhappy with how that scene was directed; they made it to be such a Big Thing and then we the audience barely get to see it).