this. they apparently have a dozen or so jaeger pilot candidates lying around. and two extremely tough, albeit damaged somewhat (red typhoon didn't suffer nearly as much of a beating as cherno alpha did), jaegers presumably tucked in their hangar. why no repair jaeger and begin testing out jaeger pilots?
how I interpreted that was that most of the Jaegers were destroyed beyond repair, they only had 4 remaining Jaegers which were still working and salvageable, and those were the 4 remaining Jaegers we saw in the movie. As for the candidates, since the Americans only had 1 remaining Jaeger which was Gipsy Danger (the other 3 Jaegers belonged to other countries), Pendecost insisted on having Raleigh pilot Gipsy again, because he used to co-pilot her, so he was an experienced pilot with Gipsy. They could only train potential candidates to be Raleigh's co-pilot, but as it turned out none of the candidates that were picked were compatible with Raleigh, only Mako was strong enough to be drift compatible with him.
this, too. they knew there were gonna be kaiju near the breach when they went in. that implies a fight. with the marshal's condition, it could be reasonably argued that pentecost was totally neglecting to look out for his co-pilot. Even had they survived the kaiju fight, the marshal may have already kicked it and left his co-pilot to complete the mission on his own. solo.
Striker Eureka was Australia's Jaeger, meaning it should be piloted by Chuck and his father Herc, but since Herc had injured his arm, Pentecost volunteered to replace him as Striker's co-pilot. Remember that Chuck had complained to Tendo Choi that his father was injured and that he could not pilot Striker all on his own, sure they could've gotten someone else to co-pilot with him, but there was no time to find a candidate who was strong enough to be compatible with an experienced pilot like Chuck. By the time the deployment orders were sent out to the Jaeger pilots, the Kaijus had already appeared at the breach, they had to act quickly, there was no time to waste, so Pentecost decided to replace Chuck's father as the co-pilot for Striker, he made that instant decision because he knew that he was the only other person strong enough and experienced enough to be drift compatible with Chuck. Even though he knew that piloting a Jaeger again could potentially kill him, but it was for the greater good, and just as he had told a worried Mako "not getting into that Jaeger would kill us all". I'm sure at that moment he felt he had to co-pilot Striker...of course you can see the situation from a different perspective and say that Pentecost "did not consider the safety and well-being of his co-pilot" by deciding to pilot Striker and literally going on a suicide mission. But Pentecost knew that he had to do it for the greater good, and I'm sure Chuck understood that very well, I'm sure all the Jaeger pilots understood that they did what they did to protect humanity, and would even risk their own lives to complete that mission, all the Jaeger pilots risk their own lives every time they pilot a Jaeger, they risk their lives to do what they did in order to protect humanity. And I'm sure Chuck understood that, hence he became more receptive of the possibility of dying for the mission in the end.
You also have to consider that if Chuck's father had not injured himself in the first place, then Pentecost would not have replaced him and he would've stayed alive...also, even if Chuck had co-piloted Striker with his father as usual during the mission, there's still the possibility that Striker would've ended up being destroyed and they still would've died anyway. Because even if Pentecost was not in that Jaeger and Chuck's father was, there's still the possibility that Chuck and his dad could've met with the same dilemma of being trapped between incoming Kaijus and they had to self-destruct Striker like they actually did in the movie. These are possibilities that people should consider.
this. it's supposed to be a neural interface with the machine, whereby every function of the machine that is a pilot's jaeger is controlled by that pilot's thoughts. why the hell do they need any sort of controls?
was it ever mentioned in the movie that the neural link between the pilots and the Jaegers controls "all" the functions of the Jaeger? I don't think that was ever specifically mentioned...my impression is that the neural link does not necessarily "control" every function of the Jaegers themselves per se, but rather it stabilizes and manipulates the effectiveness of the functions and controls. I mean, Raleigh did say in the movie that the stronger the bond between the pilots and the Jaegers are, the better you fight, so the neural link between the pilots and their Jaegers were probably mainly just used to manipulate and stabilize the effectiveness and strength of the functions, the stronger the neural bond the pilots have with their Jaegers, the better & stronger the functions work. But all the Jaeger's functions still required some sort of controls to activate or deploy...remember the time during Gipsy Danger's trial run and Mako lost control, she accidentally subconsciously activated Gipsy's plasma cannon weapon and the control center were not able to deactivate it because Mako's neural link with Gipsy was too strong, they eventually had to pull out the main power line to shut down Gipsy completely. That incident with Mako during Gipsy's trial run only further convinces me that the neural link does not necessarily control all the Jaeger's functions themselves per se, but rather it manipulates the effectiveness of the functions.
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