I'm reading a somewhat bad mecha fic that makes me desperate to go see Pacific Rim (it's a two-hour movie in theatres nao! or trying to track down some anime show from the nineties). It's bad because it's skipping so many steps and scenes inbetween action that it comes off as fairly cold. Suddenly romance after the characters have no significant interaction! I thought his arm was permanently paralyzed, and now I thought he was dead from strapping a bomb to his chest, but he's back again without fanfare? Her daughter is near death and is the main character's best friend, and she's never mentioned again!

So here is a question: what do people think Newt meant about the kaiju and dinosaurs? Was he saying that the dinosaurs WERE kaiju or that the kaiju KILLED the dinosaurs? I thought the former (especially given the whole "dinosaurs have two brains" thing), but there's a good case for the latter as well.

I thought they were the dinosaurs. The climate got inhospitable and they were dormant until we poisoned the planet making the climate more hospitable again.

Yep, that was my interpretation. But it's not as explicit as I thought. Newt says, "They tried before—the dinosaurs?" Which could mean, "That explains what killed the dinosaurs." The kaiju killed them and then the climate became inhospitable, and so on.

Even still I am NO dinosaur expert, but were any of them close to as vicious as the monsters in the movie? Besides the fictional second brain, did any of them have electricity flowing through their bodies? Because that is a scientific discovery!

Well, remember that they have been adapting (the EMP was new, for instance), and they've also had plenty of time to mess around since dinosaur times, so I don't think we have to assume that the kaijusaurs were all that different from our current conception of them. Well, except for the violence thing, maybe they were really nice at first but then got pissed off when the first invasion didn't work out.

I am still amused though. The aliens have all this technology to wormhole to the center of the earth. fuck it, just attack from above, aliens. We would be dead in no time.

I mean these are some PATIENT mfers. They are like Bill Murray on Caddyshack for like a billions of years.

I think the answer is Guillermo del Toro doesn't actually know anything about dinosaurs.

Which is surprising since he seems like exactly the sort of person who would have loved the shit out of dinosaurs as a kid and know more than his parents about everything from ankylosaurus to Quetzalcoatlus.