Yes! Interestingly enough, all of the tie-in stuff emphasizes this view of Stacker pretty heavily. The novelization essentially says he's superhuman. After he piloted solo for hours, he shouldn't really even be able to tie his shoes because of the brain damage that should have resulted, yet he's apparently affected not at all (or capable of appearing not to be affected, which for purposes of brain functionality, seems to be the same thing). I also thought it was neat--and wish it had been explored!--that he's the one who offers himself up as test pilot and proves the scientists' theory that the piloting system can work, and then turns out to be, well, superhuman and not the norm. It does still seem like some degree of control of memory is something that pilots can learn (he says Mako is too inexperienced to control hers?), but he obviously has an incredible innate aptitude for it. World's biggest badass! I also REALLY need Stacker-is-a-cyborg fic, or a mental cyborg, or *something* because he's clearly the most natural pilot of the bunch. Argh, I wish I could write fic about something other than feelings, but I really can't.
If you haven't checked out the novelization and have any interest, there are some tidbits in it that may interest you. The pilots have these apocryphal stories about their jaegers responding to them well after they're no longer piloting them, and there's a bit more about pilots in the drift. Not a lot, but interesting tidbits!
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Date: 2013-07-30 01:55 am (UTC)If you haven't checked out the novelization and have any interest, there are some tidbits in it that may interest you. The pilots have these apocryphal stories about their jaegers responding to them well after they're no longer piloting them, and there's a bit more about pilots in the drift. Not a lot, but interesting tidbits!