still working on this but just wanted to let you all know that the motif that plays right after yao tells grace "you just have to find someone to be brave for" is the same one that plays when grace finds rocky in the tunnel at the end :,)
#ProjectHailMarySpoilers
A cropped photo of a page from Project Hail Mary. The text reads: puts out-might be a lot more common in our galaxy than we think.” "Think we'll find more of them? Intelligent species?" "Who knows?" I say. "You and I found each other. That's something." "Yeah," he says. "It really is something. Go do your job, old man." "Later, Rocky." The lines from "Who knows?" to "It really is something" are highlighted.
Cry, cry, cry. #ProjectHailMary #ProjectHailMarySpoilers
Very glad I brought the tissues. So #ProjectHailMarySpoilers #IronLungSpoilers
Interesting that my 2 most watched/impactful films involves people who are first forced into a self-sacrificing role who then step up into it knowing, well, "it's more than me".
A screenshot of a tumblr post from user wine-dark-sky: I was so scared they were heading for a romance subplot but congrats to Project Hail Mary for going for the far funnier option of 'trolley operator' and 'guy she is actively tying to the tracks.' What a dynamic. Movie of the year.
Yeahhhhhhhhh, I looked for that too but pls enjoy this tumblr post on the subject because I am living. #projecthailmaryspoilers
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I felt like the movie leaned into it a bit harder!
Whether it "really would have happened like that" is not a question for me to answer, but the author wrote it to come out that way. They do that sometimes.
I kept deleting bits of this thread because I kept typo-ing the spoiler tags #projecthailmaryspoilers #projecthailmary #spoilers The end.
#projecthailmaryspoilers #projecthailmary #spoilers finished the book, imo the end makes perfect sense and is believable and understandable in context. And btw it's not a romance/monsterfucking. Grace has one friend, "Rocky" is that friend, and he can save two planets. Yes, Weir wrote it that way.
is an odd distinction not to be able to make (love without attraction vs. implied pedophilia panic) even while amnesiac imo (and not funny if intended as) #projecthailmaryspoilers #projecthailmary #spoilers probably gonna finish reading, science guy stuff is fun, probably not seeing the movie
#projecthailmaryspoilers #projecthailmary Ryland Grace objects to blank-check project leader's (overruled) policy to restrict the hail mary crew to het men; speculates while amnesiac that he might be gay; is separately relieved to remember he loves kids because he's a teacher... which... #spoilers
#projecthailmaryspoilers #projecthailmary I don't know if 1/4 of the Sahara is the best place for a massive solar plantation/astrophage breeding facility, but freeing all Africa from is mentioned as a silver lining. (As if that will eliminate colonialist extraction/slavery/exploitation?) #spoilers
#projecthailmaryspoilers #projecthailmary i didn't like that the only person who cries when they "have to" do something ecologically catastrophic to buy time is a climate scientist imo portrayed as a bit manipulative/dishonest (the niven/pournelle "damn treehuggers" angle). but not overtly #spoilers
