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Yours was complementary, inasfar as explaining Mako's motivations for not giving him a heads up.

Frazzled wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I was disappointed the swords didn't come into play sooner.

Because they're last resort weapons. There's a (not well explained) reason they hold them back, and it's Kaiju blue.

But hitting them with plasma or saw blades is just fine? Thats nonsense.

Theory: Edged weapons are not used because Kaiju Blue is toxic to the environment.

Support: Cherno Alpha uses pneumatic fists to concuss, and Gypsy Danger uses a plasma cannon because it cauterizes the wounds instantly, rather than letting them bleed out.

Problem: Crimson Typhoon uses saw blades.

Counterpoint: Since when does China give two gaks about the environment?

Ahtman wrote:I was under the impression that the sword was added sometime between when the original pilot quit and when h came back and was using the rebuilt Gypsy Danger. I thought it was Mako who brought it up, so it may not have been part of the original design, which is one reason why it wasn't used sooner.

While it fits the trope of the forgotten superweapon, a better explanation is that the sword was not built into Gypsy Danger when the brothers were driving it; thus only Mako would know about the sword, and she is inexperienced enough to have forgotten it was there until she desperately needed another option. The dude would not have known about it.

As far as swords and sawblades are concerned, once it was discovered that Kaiju open wounds messed up the environment they probably switched all Jaegers over to blunt weapons. At this point in the movie though Earth is fighting a losing war. So things like the swords, sawblades, missiles, and other previously abandoned weapons are being used again because their back is against the wall and it's a losing battle.

That would explain why start-of-movie Gipsy and Cherno had fists and plasma, they were older models. The chinese and australian Jaegers were newer, and had switched over since Earth had nothing to lose anymore.

 azazel the cat wrote:

Ahtman wrote:I was under the impression that the sword was added sometime between when the original pilot quit and when h came back and was using the rebuilt Gypsy Danger. I thought it was Mako who brought it up, so it may not have been part of the original design, which is one reason why it wasn't used sooner.

While it fits the trope of the forgotten superweapon, a better explanation is that the sword was not built into Gypsy Danger when the brothers were driving it; thus only Mako would know about the sword, and she is inexperienced enough to have forgotten it was there until she desperately needed another option. The dude would not have known about it.

That isn't a better explanation, that is exactly the same explanation.

 Badablack wrote:
As far as swords and sawblades are concerned, once it was discovered that Kaiju open wounds messed up the environment they probably switched all Jaegers over to blunt weapons. At this point in the movie though Earth is fighting a losing war. So things like the swords, sawblades, missiles, and other previously abandoned weapons are being used again because their back is against the wall and it's a losing battle.

That would explain why start-of-movie Gipsy and Cherno had fists and plasma, they were older models. The chinese and australian Jaegers were newer, and had switched over since Earth had nothing to lose anymore.

Thats great but it has very little to do with the movie. There is no mention of using blunt weapons in the movie because of that. The movie itself just has punch punch punch punch OMG SWORD SWORD SWORD BOOM!

I rewatched the film last night, it does actually talk about only using cauterising or blunt weapons.

 azazel the cat wrote:

While it fits the trope of the forgotten superweapon, a better explanation is that the sword was not built into Gypsy Danger when the brothers were driving it; thus only Mako would know about the sword, and she is inexperienced enough to have forgotten it was there until she desperately needed another option. The dude would not have known about it.

I believe that it was a later addition was explicitly mentioned in the movie.

Ahtman wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:

Ahtman wrote:I was under the impression that the sword was added sometime between when the original pilot quit and when h came back and was using the rebuilt Gypsy Danger. I thought it was Mako who brought it up, so it may not have been part of the original design, which is one reason why it wasn't used sooner.

While it fits the trope of the forgotten superweapon, a better explanation is that the sword was not built into Gypsy Danger when the brothers were driving it; thus only Mako would know about the sword, and she is inexperienced enough to have forgotten it was there until she desperately needed another option. The dude would not have known about it.

That isn't a better explanation, that is exactly the same explanation.

Yeah, I didn't type that out as well as I should have. I meant my answer to be an explanation for why Mako didn't deploy it the moment she starts piloting; as opposed to as a last resort when she has no other options left. That is to say, Mako is engaged with the Kaiju for quite some time before the sword gets used, even though she knew about the sword all along. The part about even mentioning Raleigh and the old design is just to negate the possibility that he should have picked up the slack for her 'forgetfulness' during the fight.