#pointless meta

so! we know the watson flat was filmed at 10 wordsworth avenue (in cardiff), and we’ve been noticing that the way the flat appears in tst is wrong. I did some research and found that the house is registered to two film service companies for “television programme production activities”. it’s meant to film tv shows in, had been for years, and nobody lives there. so why did arwel find it “easier” to build and decorate a replica set of the entire ground floor than to return to a house they’ve filmed in before (especially since there were no wild shots in tst that would require difficult accommodations)?

here’s the house from the outside (middle), in google earth street view:

as you can see, their flat is between two other houses, on the lower half (I highly doubt they own the whole house). yet in this picture of the set, we see that their kitchen has skylights and a slanted roof, like an addition might. 

then, looking at the aerial view, it’s clear that while the house does have additions that could easily have slanted roofs, the kitchen in this set obviously should fit within the main/original building, under three other stories.

Half formed incoherency on race, history, and technology in Gaea I guess? 

The only thing these films have in common giant monsters and humans.

G14 is an old-school kaiju movie.  It's about the giant monsters, with people explaining and framing their story.  The climax of the film is Godzilla fighting the MUTOs and killing them.  The humans do their best, but they aren't driving the film forward -- nothing they do really affects the monsters at all, except for the fact that setting off a nuke may revitalize Big G at the end.

And all of that is pretty standard for a kaiju movie.  In some of them, like the first, humans do manage to kill the big monster themselves, but usually it's only as an adjunct to whatever the monsters themselves are doing.  Ford burns the nest, and Godzilla takes out the MUTOs.  As a kaiju film, it fits perfectly in the tradition.  Massive forces are in motion, and, for the most part, humans are doing good if they can just stay out of the way.

Pacific Rim, on the other hand, is a war movie.  An old-school war movie, like the ones from WW2, where the enemy is largely faceless and implacable, and the focus of the film is on Our Heroes, who have to overcome tragedy, adversity, and their own personal conflicts to defeat the enemy and save the day.

Del Toro has said as much, and you can see it in the sets and costumes.  You could reasonably take all these characters (or slight modifications thereof) and plant them in any WW2 movie about bombers and fighter escorts, and they'd still work the same.

just why is she so obsessed with being with robert? why is she so willing to do anything, including crime, to stay with her "brother"? she sat through fucking 122 times of booker dewitt failing his miserable ass just because robert wanted to make amends and threatened to leave her if she didn't let him, and almost destroyed universes trying to pull him through...to be fair, it is an exciting opportunity as a scientist to be able to connect with your double and study with him, but...what could she have possibly have seen in robert that she went through so much pains for it, when robert himself seemed clearly afraid/reluctant to do it at first?

could it be because she was lonely? a form of narcissism perhaps? or was there a more logical explanation? it's been strongly hinted at that the two communicated many times, even before robert jumped through the tear, so they probably got to know each other better in time...

probably my favorite thing about their whole relationship is that she clearly has the upper hand though: she makes him wear the sandwich board during the coin toss, she doesn't help him row, everything about them suggests that rosalind is dominant. it could be simply that she didn't want to have anything to do with the whole affair but since she was forced to by robert, she just makes him do the dirty jobs. and robert accepts it. nothing about their banter or conversations or interactions suggests any hostility between the two of them or any bitterness on robert's part; they're very affable towards each other, despite the fact that rosalind is rather uncooperative during the entire ordeal. the fact that they spent 16 years together before the incident must have helped greatly in their relations as well (as well as sleeping in the same bed, hehehehehehe). 

i really really wish i could write more about robert too but everything in the game is from rosalind's perspective so it's hard...i would really like some robert voxophones in burial at sea ep 2 but it's....not likely, i guess? when will we ever get to know robert's side of the story, anyway?