After their defeat at the Breach and then at Mount Fuji, the alien Precursors mount their third assault on the Earth by unleashing a flood of monstrous Godzilla-style kaiju across Australia. Humanity's Pan-Pacific Defence Corp is unable to stem to tide and abandons the continent, bringing down all telecommunications networks and evacuating as many people as they can in the process.
Of course, not everyone makes it out, and five years later teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley are part of a secret community somewhere in the Australian desert. Where exactly is not clear: the geography of Pacific Rim's Australia clearly bears little relation to the real thing.
It's at this point that Hayley stumbles across a secret bunker containing a still-functional Jaegar; one of the massive robots humanity developed to battle the kaiju. This discovery proves to be something of a cursed chalice, however, as it brings one of the kaiju down upon them. Everyone else in the community is killed, and the two teens are faced with a long journey to try and find a way to escape from the isolated continent, the killer kaiju still on their heels.
Of course, even the kaiju may not be the strangest, nor the most dangerous, threat they will encounter ...
This CGI animated sequel series to the two Pacific Rim movies is a pretty entertaining ride, adding something of a Mad Max / Road Warrior vibe to the films "Monsters vs Mecha" formula. It's not a show that pulls punches (as evidenced by a bunch of 12-17 year old kids getting killed off in the opening episode) and it manages to pack a whole lot of stuff in its seven episode run. I'm not fully convinced it will be able to satisfactorily weave together all the threads it has going, but I'm definitely intending to check out the second season to see whether they do.
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