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[astrotheyge]

'YOU'RE A LONG WAY FROM HOME. I'M A LONG WAY FROM HOME TOO.' PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) COLOR PROJECT + RAINBOW

[prof-grace-aspen]

I guess I am just too autistic to not implicitly understand Eva Stratt.

“It seems like she doesn’t care but she secretly cares, she just doesn’t let it show”

Idk it seemed pretty fucking obvious to me that only someone who cares so SO much would do the things she does!!! She’s showing it through her actions!! Isn’t she!????

Am I just fundamentally wired differently???

And I think Grace understands her too, without even thinking about it. He just gets it.

[snailmug]

i know some people interpret the "you believe in god?" " it beats the alternative" lines as stratt wanting some sort of divine punishment for her part in the project, but i just dont think thats true. shes human, like the rest of us. we all want peace and acceptance. and i dont think stratt regrets doing what she had to do if it meant earth had a chance to live.

in the end, i think what she wants is certainty.

for the rest of her life on earth, humans are going to hate her and blame her for the hardships they will go through. until the beetles make it back, she wont even know if it was all worth it.

so when she believes in god, she believes that in death, god will look to her and say "you did the right thing. you made the hard decisons, but they were the right ones. it was worth it."

[projectgracelanding]

Give me Grace (art only)

Link to the poem

[sundewpockets]

eva was a cool cucumber as a teen

[teashadephoenix]

i dont think im ever gonna get over the scene where rocky finds out grace isnt going home.

the little foot stomps when he says question, which is something he does every time but are infused with actual frustration while he interrogates grace

the sulky way he says no again and again when grace tries to get him to give him a thumbs up

the way grace's voice breaks when we says "we got stars to save."

"need word. to risk self to save other." / "dumb." and then writes brave with this sort of painful pride because he doesnt know yet

the way grace steps away to have a moment to himself

rocky doing the math on his claws. "i can give. i go home six years slower."

the resolve in rocky's voice when he says he couldnt fix his crew but he can fix this, and grace go home

the way grace's breath hitches when he breaks down

"okay."

"i thought you made peace, question?" / "i didnt mean any of that. that's just something you say."

ending with the hug which is plain adorable.

like fuck me it is so perfect. front to back perfect. the performances are so good. like i have a lot of favorite scenes in this movie but it is up there.

[lstatdelioncourt]

We all have to make sacrifices. If I have to be the world's whipping boy to secure our salvation, then that's my sacrifice to make.

EVA STRATT | PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[cleric-chono-is-my-everything]

can you imagine how good fandoms would be if fans thought of women as human beings

[horaitos]

i love when empathetic characters are cruel. i love when it’s because of their empathy

[rylandgraces]

Lionel Boyce as CARL Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[dark-fixation]

i don't want to be “pretty”.

i want to be the reason you stare at your ceiling at 3 a.m.

[lazymik0r]

I almost laughed my ass off when this part came up but couldn't cuz I was socialising and my family would think I'm weird (I am)

[boyfenious4boygenius]

I just saw a comment about Eva choosing to save Earth over Ryland, “A daughter who did everything and anything she could to protect her mother.”

I am SICK.

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

my project hail mary take is that even though stratt is the one to mention that grace doesn't have any close relationships, that actually tells us more about why grace refused to participate in the mission than it does why stratt chose to send him: grace wasn't her plan A or her plan B; he's just the best option she had left and i'm pretty sure she would have made the same choice if he was married and had 10 kids.

one of the only things we know about the other astronauts is that they did have close relationships— friends, children— and that they were willing volunteers, implicitly because of those relationships. obviously grace has people he cares about and people who care about him, but it's not until he has that kind of deep, tangible connection with rocky (as opposed to a general investment in the fate of humanity) that he's willing to make that type of sacrifice

[dead-cosmonauts-collector]

"sending people to their death" this "suicide mission" that EVERYONE IN PETROVA TASKFORCE WERE ALREADY ON A SUICIDE MISSION. the Stratt Vat was hundreds of miles away from any shoreline in case something went Terribly Wrong with Astrophage Experiments. every single member of the crew was there, sitting on a powder barrel with a fuse in one hand and a lighter in another and nothing more but blind trust in themselves and each others to not let flames touch wooden walls. one picogram off the charts, one nanosecond off calculations, – and all hope of humanity would've perished at sea, disintegrated without even a trail of smoke. invisible scythe of the reaper was near their necks at all times. grabs you by your shoulders shakes you violently do you see the vision

[girlrandomstuff]

finally rewatched phm for a third time and now i'm sad thinking about a lot of the people that worked on the hail mary never lived to see the beetles return to earth with grace's discoveries.

scientists like lokken (only having as reference the age of the actress), maybe redell and leclerc (but the book is not descriptive) are older than the rest of the crew.

stratt would be around 72 when the beetles return to earth, but lokken would be around 90, if redell and leclerc are close to that age, then it would be much of the same.

a lot of them wouldnt live to see the hail mary have success, everything they worked for and they will not see it.

lokken who design the centrigufe that allowed to experiment in the hail mary, but wont see the results of her work.

this story gets more tragic as you keep seeing the details behind the main story

[greykolla-art]

I just suddenly remembered this song by The Antlers, connected it with THEM, and I’ve been on the verge of tears since.❤️‍🩹