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- Pacific Rim: The Black certainly has a few missteps here and there, with some wonky animation, but it’s a great, world-expanding look at concepts and monsters that audiences who loved the original film can easily fall in love with.
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Pacific Rim: The Black: Created by Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle. With Gideon Adlon, Calum Worthy, Erica Lindbeck, Victoria Grace. After Kaiju ravage Australia, two siblings pilot a Jaeger to search for their parents, encountering new creatures, seedy characters and chance allies.
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Season 1 – Pacific Rim: The Black. While The Black carries over all the grit but little of the humor that distinguishes the Pacific Rim film franchise, its striking visuals and expansion of ...
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Mar 5, 2021 · Netflix’s Pacific Rim: The Black follows siblings Hayley (Gideon Adlon) and Taylor Travis (Calum Worthy), who find themselves struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic vision of Australia....
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Nov 3, 2022 8:45 pm
Posted: Mar 5, 2021 10:00 pm
The first season of Pacific Rim: The Black is now available on Netflix. This is a review for the full season.
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Holding The Black back, just a bit, in its first season, is the story itself taking a while to fully gel. That, plus numerous sci-fi tropes being swirled together (mute mystery kid, siblings in search of parents, the emotionally-scarred loner, etc), sinks the saga just a touch. Especially since if a series takes three or four episodes to kick in and the season is only seven episodes total, the clunkiness is taking up almost half the time. Once The Black does find its legs though, it's a grim good time.
Just the fact that The Black is set on an abandoned continent that's been completely crushed by the Precursors' Kaiju already makes this a bleaker ride than the films. Though the world is brutally beset by monsters in the movies, the story is always about humanity trying to defeat these interdimensional enemies once and for all. To end the siege. This isn't even an option in The Black, as the main focus here, at least in this first season, is a young brother and sister duo Taylor (Calum Worthy) and Hayley (Gideon Adlon) trying to traverse the Aussie badlands in a quest to find their long lost mom and dad. There's no mention of defeating the Precursors or putting an end to the Kaiju blight. This is a smaller, more intimate family story set among the ruin.
The transition of the mythos and mayhem from live-action to 3D animation is entrancingly handled by Polygon Pictures, which delivers to us the same colorful vibrancy seen in the films while also creating a world that's very much its own, with new Kaiju designs and a wasteland paradise to explore. The story is a heavy one and it sometimes moves a bit too quickly past some of its grittiness (the two teens have a habit of getting a lot of people killed, er, inadvertently), but once you realize that burying guilt and fear down deep is just a core survival mechanism for these kids, it makes more sense.
Plus, all of this psychological baggage figures profoundly into the concept of "drifting," which is as big a deal here as it was in the movies. Even more so, in fact, since one of the series' strengths is presenting us with a set of heroes who are hamstrung in just about every way possible. They're untested, only partially trained, clueless about what their next movie is, and gifted with a disarmed Jaeger -- Atlas Destroyer -- that's only used for training cadets. Throw in scheming thieves, roaming monsters (a Kaiju named Copperhead is a constant, cruel bane), and altogether new life-forces born out of the "Uprising Wars" (yes, the sequel is important, it turns out), and The Black becomes a fairly engrossing uphill climb for our protagonists.
Pacific Rim: The Black maintains a high level of action and devastation, as you'd expect from this franchise, while also keeping the fragile family drama, that was also prominent in the films, alive as well. It actually gets explored a bit better in The Black, naturally, since this is an ongoing series, and that helps blend together the desolation ...
Pacific Rim: The Black may take a few episodes to kick in fully, but once you wholly acclimate yourself to these visuals and this tone -- which is a bit more emotionally catastrophic (and less popcorn-y) than the films -- it's a rewarding continuation, and extrapolation, of the franchise.
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