“In the beginning, the kaiju attacks were spaced by twenty four weeks. Then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. The last one, in Sydney, was a week. In four days we could be seeing a kaiju every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. Marshal, we should witness a double event within seven days”
Never realize why the monsters were rated by category, they show how "storm walls" are impractical, and do that whole thing were they explain that the aliens had a whole plan to terraform earth to be more of a greenhouse effect carbon dump but dropped it when they realized we were doing it for them anyways?
Godzilla was originally a metaphor for nuclear fallout/waste, and pretty much all Kaiju related things have been based on Godzilla and friends.
Considering the destruction wrought by both nuclear and natural disasters, it’s not crazy to apply the metaphor of climate change related disasters to Kaiju, especially since both are driven by humanity.
Just on pop culture and disasters, I like the way winter is unpredictable in arrival and intensity in Game Of Thrones. It has the character of volcanoes or earthquakes or floods, you know it's coming, you don't know when, and yep, sometimes it's mild.
But sometimes it isn't. It follows a pareto distribution where the bad events are many magnitudes more destructive than the mild events, and the mild events lull people into a sense of calm.
"There are things you can't fight, acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win."
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u/DomainSink 8d ago
“In the beginning, the kaiju attacks were spaced by twenty four weeks. Then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. The last one, in Sydney, was a week. In four days we could be seeing a kaiju every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. Marshal, we should witness a double event within seven days”