Pacific Rim: The Black

 As is rather well known amongst my friends, I totally worship the first Pacific Rim movie, it had everything I love in a sci-fi film.

The second one... not so much...

And now netflix has released this seven episode first season upon us, called The Black.  The series takes place around or some time after the events of the second movie (it meticuiously avoids a pinpoint year, yet hints at the rough time period), and follows the loss of the Australian continent.  Taylor and Hayley are two children of Jaeger pilots, left behind safely during the evacuation.  But 7 years later, their community is attacked by a Copperhead level 4 Kaiju, and it's inhabitants killed.

They escape as they find an old training Jaeger, Atlas Destroyer, in an abandoned PPDF base.  This leads them to an encounter with Kaiju egg dealers, as well as discovering a mysterious kid they name "Boy".  As they try to find their parents back, the series tells more about drifting, but also brings back Herc Hansen (who piloted the Striker Euraka in the first movie), whose fate remains unknown to this day.

And there is that mysterious black Kaiju / Jaeger hybrid that appears at seeemingly random intervals... but is it linked to them or the Boy in some way?  What about Mei or the locked files in Atlas's memory banks?  The series has been confirmed for a second season, so let's see what that will be all about when it arrives...

A good series that catches on an action level the feel and spirit of the first movie, and actually makes it a pity it's drawn instead of the CGI behemoths of the franchise.  It's worth checking out for sure though!