Terribly unsatisified

[neotoma]

I've been trying to read the novelization of Pacific Rim, but somehow the writer has managed to make Raleigh come across as a dudebro, which is just unpleasant.

Where is the big Labrador puppy from the movie? Why am I reading about a guy who is insubordinate and disrespectful, because Raleigh was neither of those things in the movie?!

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[neotoma]

He doesn't read like Raleigh to me. Raleigh is more centered, more emotionally aware, not disrespectful or insubordinate (seriously, Raleigh in the book says he was dismissed from service after Knifehead for insubordination... which is just no).

I might just skim the rest of it and see if I can find sufficient other characters viewpoint scenes to be worth it, but at the moment, it's kind of awful.

[jenab]

I don't know if this would help but kayim has gathered some information from Travis Beacham regarding the world of Pacific Rim.

http://kayim.dreamwidth.org/184226.html#cutid1