I never saw it as "She's a woman" but as "She's my daughter, no way I'm letting her doing something that dangerous!" The trauma explanation seems light to me, because Raleigh also has trauma, trauma he got while piloting. Yancy! ;__;
To be fair, I think Raleigh gets points because no matter the trauma, he did kill Knifehead and pilot the Jaeger back all by himself. So you could see that as Raleigh proving that he's robust mentally to get the job done from Pentecost's pov.
But being really real, I think it's the combination of she's my daughter AND she's traumatized (i.e. has a level of emotion she cannot take into the Drift to make piloting possible).
I think her silence could have been handled in a more balanced way.
I agree. In the novel I think the writer says that some pilots don't like talking --that most pilots are silent while in the drift. That makes sense to me, but it looked different once it played out on screen.
I think I'm with you--concerned about the role of women in sci fi in general. I'm kind of bored with the hand wringing about whether Mako is a feminist heroine or not. I think that's being kind of myopic where the issue (representation as a whole) is way larger than that. And yeah, I think Pacific Rim did well with what it had Mako wasn't sexualized, her storyline was also pretty fleshed out, the romance was played down in favor of friendship. It would be nice to see representation branch out a bit more like you say. Gay pilots being thrown in the mix. I remember that was the hope with the first Trek, but it didn't materialize. I didn't see the second so Idk where it went.
Comments 4
Reply
But being really real, I think it's the combination of she's my daughter AND she's traumatized (i.e. has a level of emotion she cannot take into the Drift to make piloting possible).
Reply
Reply
(The comment has been removed)
I agree. In the novel I think the writer says that some pilots don't like talking --that most pilots are silent while in the drift. That makes sense to me, but it looked different once it played out on screen.
I think I'm with you--concerned about the role of women in sci fi in general. I'm kind of bored with the hand wringing about whether Mako is a feminist heroine or not. I think that's being kind of myopic where the issue (representation as a whole) is way larger than that. And yeah, I think Pacific Rim did well with what it had Mako wasn't sexualized, her storyline was also pretty fleshed out, the romance was played down in favor of friendship. It would be nice to see representation branch out a bit more like you say. Gay pilots being thrown in the mix. I remember that was the hope with the first Trek, but it didn't materialize. I didn't see the second so Idk where it went.
Reply
Leave a comment