I wonder if the novelization author got an early version of the script or something. Because seriously, I'm finding book-Raleigh to be kind of unpleasantly skeevy.
Especially because one of the things that comes across in the movie is that being the bucking-authority male power fantasy is actually counter-productive to saving the world. (ie, everyone thinks Chuck Hansen is a jerk with daddy-issues, even if he's good at piloting a Jaeger).
Basically, I wonder if no one informed the novelization author that the film was about subverting that particular narrative, because it really is, and yet the novelization is trying to wallow in it and I'm finding it very offputting.
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Especially because one of the things that comes across in the movie is that being the bucking-authority male power fantasy is actually counter-productive to saving the world. (ie, everyone thinks Chuck Hansen is a jerk with daddy-issues, even if he's good at piloting a Jaeger).
Basically, I wonder if no one informed the novelization author that the film was about subverting that particular narrative, because it really is, and yet the novelization is trying to wallow in it and I'm finding it very offputting.