I was wondering if the yegers are the best defence against the giant monsters, why did they only have 4 left. It seems that they would be trying to make bigger and better ones not just try to keep repairing the few they had left.
shareGuess you're one of those people who will watch a movie, while simultaneously not actually paying attention to the dialogue.......Because the answer to your question is said very early in the movie. They lost their funding, because people thought it was better spent on the building of the Walls. Which end up being a nothing obstacle to the Kaijus anyway, seeing as how they smashed through the wall pretty damn easy.
shareI must admit I did miss the first twenty minutes of the movie, thanks for not being too much of a dick in your reply.
shareAt least one legitimate concern brought up in the novelization is the fact humanity has finite resources. I can't remember if this is brought up in the film or not.
Anyway, it's stated that the Jaegers are expensive and are lost in combat faster than they can be replaced much of the time, and there has been, so far, no end to the Kaiju. So the governments of the world are seeing the Jaegers as money gobblers that are only a short-term solution. The Wall, they believe, will be a long-term (perhaps even permanent) solution.
Rather annoyingly, though, while the Wall is a bad idea, it's never acknowledged in book or film that the governments are not necessarily wrong or stupid for wanting a permanent solution instead of just fighting the individual Kaiju whenever they show up, which causes massive damage and loss of life, and, as noted, eats money, crippling the economies of the nations funding the Jaeger program. It's interesting that they're portrayed as cowardly jerks when the only thing wrong is that their alternative to the Jaegers sucks.
Personally, I would've avoided this conflict altogether. Since it barely figures into the plot at all except at the very, very beginning, you could omit it entirely, or better still, since it's a fictional story about giant robots fighting giant sea monsters, have both. The Wall and the Jaegers, with the Wall as primary defense and the Jaegers as secondary defense if and when the first is breached, makes more sense. So much sense I'm surprised it's never offered as a compromise, with the movie making a "one or the other" argument and bizarrely insisting the two ideas can't work together.
I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?
Actually you're both wrong, they said the Kaiju were destroying Jaeger faster than they could make them. I think it takes a very long time to build something like a Jaeger and the attacks were increasing..
shareit's because the Kaijus were destroying the Jaegers faster than they could make them that the Jaeger program lost its funding...from what was depicted in the movie, I had the impression that the Jaegers would probably take about few years or less to build, but the amount of Kaiju attacks were rapidly increasing, and that was quickly exhausting the Jaeger program, I think that was the main problem.
sharePart of it is the number of Jaegers being destroyed. Raleigh mentions in the beginning that "We got pretty good at it," referring to Jaegers killing Kaiju. This suggests that at some point one Jaeger was expected to be able to kill a Kaiju by itself. However, the Kaiju kept evolving an getting better, whereas humanity may have hit a slump or plateau'd in Jaeger development. Raleigh mentions that he was in a formation with the one Australian Ranger before, suggesting Jaegers may have had to start engaging in units of two or three just to kill one Kaiju. That could explain why Gipsy Danger at the beginning was ordered to the Miracle Mile instead of saving the ship; Gipsy was supposed to link up with other Jaegers so that Knifehead couldn't get the drop on it (which it ultimately did).
Then you have the Wall of Life program. The Earth doesn't have infinite resources, and if it takes more and more Jaegers to kill one Kaiju while the Kaiju themselves are getting stronger, then it only makes sense for the PPDC to start looking for alternatives. Hell, the Kaiju War has been going on for several years and shows no sign of stopping while the Kaiju are coming in at a faster rate. But as far as the scientific community knows, the Kaiju are just animals so if you build a wall, an average animal will just walk around it or go somewhere else. There was only one person who believed the Kaiju were being controlled, and they thought he was nuts. That could be why there was only one Mark V Jaeger built, because they finally reached that technological level and finally decided "Whelp, time to try the Wall option." It wouldn't be the first time the Military-Industrial Complex did something like that.
It's also no coincidence that one of the PPDC politicians in charge of the decision to build the Wall was from the UK. I've got no ill will towards the Brits, but it's more of a social commentary that the politicians in the film (those above Field Marshal Pentecost) are disconnected from the reality of the situation, both the one from the U.S. and the Brit who arrogantly states "The Jaeger Program is dead, Marshal! However, the Wall of Life program is a promising option." Here's a guy who's own country isn't under attack, who isn't directly threatened by the Kaiju, having a huge say over the strategy of other countries.
Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.
"The Jaeger Program is dead, Marshal! However, the Wall of Life program is a promising option."To be fair to the OP, this whole thread was given about 30 seconds treatment in the film and you end up having to guess what actually happens. Yes, the Jaeger Program is given temporary limited funding, whilst the walls, which prove useless, are resourced by the governments of the world. Then that seems to be it. The Jaeger Program continues with virtually zero funding, the walls aren't really spoken about again and the world governments don't seem to come running back to Stacker Pentecost saying, "Sorry, we wuz wrong."🐭
You mean Jägers?
shareThe ever important umlaut. lol
shareApparently the Jaegers were getting to expensive to build.
shareit's not so much it was getting too expensive to build the Jaegers, it was more because the Kaiju attacks became more frequent and if you had paid attention...in the beginning they said that because of the rapid increase in Kaiju attacks, the Kaijus were destroying the Jaegers faster than they could build them...I'm guessing each Jaeger would've taken a few years to build. Since the Kaiju attacks were rapidly increasing and they couldn't build enough Jaegers in time, the government decided to stop funding the Jaeger program.
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