Rocky loves human movies, films obviously aren't a thing on Erid (echolocation doesn't exactly help on that front), and the idea of them seems to tickle Rocky like nothing else. "Humans watch other humans on screens make fools of themselves for fun, question?" "Yeah kinda, sometimes they're sad and serious, sometimes scary, I'm more of an action or comedy guy, personally." Ryland started showing him stuff close to what they've seen before while on the ship; all the Rocky films, some Tarantino stuff, Jaws (Rocky loved Jaws, he compared it to the fishing they did on Adrienne). But soon enough, Rocky wanted to branch out
He scuttled around Ryland's living room, making a nest of soft pillows and blankets to sit on for their movie night. "All movies like Rocky, humans fighting other humans, question?" "No, no, that's just that movie. They can be anything." Ryland adds, looking through the catalog of films Stratt downloaded onto the database of the Hail Mary (now hooked up to his personal living room). "Sometimes, they're thousands of drawings strung together to make a moving image, like uh," he racks his brain trying to think of an equivalence that Rocky will understand, "Like when we do the puppet show!" That makes the rock spider trill excitedly, and nudge Ryland's arm. "We watch one of moving picture films, statement. Rocky sees human drawing picture movie."
Ryland and Rocky need to have a movie night, he needs to see Lilo and Stitch
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