I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.
— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
Because I keep running into people who missed it: Pacific Rim is literally an allegory for the effects of man-made climate change. That's why the Serizawa scale is modeled on the Saffir-Simpson scale used to measure hurricanes. That's why our pollution is linked to the reason the Precursors started sending in kaiju. That's why Raleigh Becket literally refers to fighting kaiju as fighting the hurricane.
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Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers
LOKI (2021 - ) 2.05: Science/Fiction dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead