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yada yada wearing your dead wife's clothes

#phm art #she looks like she solves crimes in denmark #eva stratt #yellow raincoat (phm)#<- it's its own character at this point no?

agentrouka-blog

Of all of Eva's team, the one she trusts the most would undeniably be Carl.

He's who walks up to stand beside her when recruiting Grace. A seamless team. "I need you to come with us."

He's in the observation room with her and all the other important officials, watching Grace make first contact. He's privy to that pivotal moment. She must think he's entitled to partaking of it. Because this is his mission too.

She trusts him to oversee Grace's experiments with three (and a dead) invaluable astrophage cells. How he does it is up to his own judgment. With an expense account and plenty of leeway for how to use it, no questions asked. He's entirely confident in the authority he wields in her name. "Which government?" "All of them."

He's in the room at Baikonur when they present Grace with his role as replacement science officer. He knows. Of all people she thought would be appropriate to have there, the flight team, the lead scientists who have worked with Grace all this time... he's there. Shaking his head in disappointment. Expressing what Eva doubtlessly feels beneath her ever so calmly presented arguments.

He's doubtlessly the one she calls from her office to let him know they predicted correctly and the final stretch of corralling their wayward savior will be up to him. He'll do it right. He'll do it.

Just... unspoken, implicit trust and faith in his ability to do his part in their greater purpose. She believes in Grace but can't fully trust him. Carl? Zero doubt.

I want to be a fly on the wall during the job interview. Must have felt like two kindred spirits meeting. Sun's dying? Not if we can help it.

specialagentartemis

Ooh, yes. This is definitely something interesting the movie seems to present—Grace never felt like the whole project’s second-in-command, because we never really see him do anything on the legal/political/management side of the whole ordeal. Grace was clearly the project’s lead scientist and worked closely with Stratt on even the scientific aspects he wasn't personally an expert on (as seen in the centrifuge scene), but Carl was probably the project’s administrative deputy. Grace was Stratt’s #2 when it came to any of the science and engineering aspects, making sure everyone knew what was going on and she knew what was going on with it. Carl was Stratt’s #2 on the legal, administrative, management, and security aspects of the project. It was a huge project, she’s not putting all of that on the guy who’s also in charge of the science, let alone the guy who seems to believe he’s not important and moreover doesn’t want to believe he’s important. She’s making sure the legal and logistical elements are the responsibility of someone whose commitment to the project she has unwavering faith in.

So anything regarding astrophage or the ship or space goes through Ryland, and that means he is constantly working with Stratt to make sure all the many moving parts of getting the Hail Mary in the air keep moving. But it’s Carl who the lawyers and accountants and security report to, whose sphere is making sure payments are processed, supply management and delivery to the ship stays on track, authorization to enter national waters or national airspace is obtained, background checks are performed, security threats are handled, political threats to the project are monitored, and who joins activities like springing useful embezzlers out of prison and Stratt’s copyright trial excursion. She has two deputies to cover different aspects of keeping the project running and she thought she chose them well based on their stated willingness to go all in on the task to save the world but as the project goes on only one of them seems to really understand what they’re all dealing with here.

(And so after DuBois and Shapiro die in that explosion, Carl is the one Stratt sits down with to say, “You know it has to be him.”

Carl gives a long sigh and is quiet for a few heavy seconds before he says, “Yeah, I know. Does he?”

“I hope so,” says Stratt, and she sounds like she genuinely does hope he’ll understand, that he’ll see what has to happen now, but the fact that Ryland Grace is not here discussing this with them belies the true answer.)

agentrouka-blog

Stealing your tags, as well:

#Project Hail Mary #it was definitely ambiguous what Carl's role in the project was. Chief of security? Grace's handler? Administrative management? #It's also interesting to read that ambiguity as an intentional choice on Stratt's part to not leave a paper trail of the project hierarchy #so when shit hits the fan she's the only one who takes the fall #And just like Grace has no official title #Carl is officially on paper employed as Stratt’s bodyguard #So when the ship has launched and the consequences come she can say ‘what? Oh don’t arrest him he’s just my bodyguard. Leave him out of it’ #So until it’s time to break her out of prison there’s someone she trusts free and leading Phase 2 #(Ryland and Carl were supposed to do that together. But. Well.) #long post. lots of thoughts. anyway yes more about Carl.

#lovely addition #carl (phm)#eva stratt #ryland grace #phm movie #project hail mary #big fan of the concept of a phase two after Hail Mary that focuses on mitigating the deteriorating conditions #and on groundwork being laid for structures that endure outside international support #because once some nations revert to insular self-interest you are going to want to be able to gather support independently #long post

sp1dergrrl

"Whatever it takes"

#phm art #eva stratt #ryland grace #lovely and colorful!#free my girl she did all of that and that's why people are alive to make her wear orange of all colors

glafifo

#oh no #grace and the strawberry blonde mop #phm art #ryland grace #the mop (phm)

cedardivine

can we say... "i hope death is kinder than man" with eva stratt?

agentrouka-blog

But can you imagine death eventually coming to pick her up?

Eva: "Took your time."

Death: "I was busy."

Eva: *staring intensely*

Death: *smiling* "But not as busy as I could have been."

Her literal #1 frenemy.

#eva stratt #project hail mary

mariacallous

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy

camcamstar7

stratt em giz pastel oleoso <3

#phm art #eva stratt #look at her big sad eyes how could anyone not go to space for her

astrotheyge

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

#phm art #long post #this movie is so beautiful #phm movie #project hail mary

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.

#eva stratt #you get 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."

#it is so important to remember that she believes in her own choices #she is not making them for fun but for a purpose #if she believed they would not work she would not be making them at all #so no she isn't shaking with shame #maybe she has some questions for god of her own while we're at it #eva stratt #project hail mary #project hail mary spoilers

projectgracelanding

Give me Grace (art only)

Link to the poem

#phm art #eva stratt

sundewpockets

eva was a cool cucumber as a teen

#love the little microphone in the corner #phm art #eva stratt

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.

#the repeated no is what gets me in particular #it's serves no purpose except to convey the raw emotion #and it really lands #rocky phm #ryland grace #phm movie #project hail mary #project hail mary spoilers