Thinky thoughts on Pacific Rim: Grief, loss, and the drift

Some of you know that Pacific Rim has completely eaten my fannish brain. A lot of that doesn't surprise me -- I mean, Idris Elba and Max Martini. In a movie together. Being BFFs and slashy. Plus there are giant robots piloted by hotass people punching out giant monsters. Even with all my big issues about certain aspects of the movie, I still have become a huge fan of it, and the more I think about it, the more I realize it's about relationships, first, and heroics, second; surprisingly, this is the first media creation I've ever seen that comes close to portraying what it has felt like for me to have lost my twin sister, and to try to carry on without her.

( Here be spoilers about monsters )