honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation
So I watched the Project Hail Mary movie without knowing anything about it. Then I immediately went and bought the book. I finished it just in time to watch the movie again a week later.
And it's not that the book is required reading or anything, but I would recommend it to anyone who can't get enough of the movie. It's not so much a different story, it's kinda just more of the same story. More of our favorite guys, muuuuch more nerdy science and fascinating logistics and problem solving, much more Stratt (!!!) and more nuance on the astrophage apocalypse and the people sent to stop it.
Spoilers for both movie and book under the cut!
If there's ANYTHING I wish the movie had touched more on, it's Stratt and all the horrid things she had to sign off on to make the mission a success. My problematic queen who saved the world with an iron fist and instead of getting hailed as a hero, she got sent to jail for life for it (which, fair, she did break every single geneva convention).
Eva Stratt does get a characterization in the movie, but it's a far cry from how much we see of her in the book. In the book she is ever-present, a central figure in most of Grace's flashbacks and you really get a sense of just how vast her influence and authority is.
The movie also softens her a lot. The karaoke scene especially does a lot to make her more sympathetic and it is also clear from the expressions and body language that Sandra Hüller displays that it's extremely painful for her to treat Grace the way she does, even if she says otherwise. I don't think that's necessarily a wrong direction to go, considering her screen-time is limited, but it saddens me to see that her stern speech on the scale of war and famine over the course of human history is absent from the movie. Eva Stratt loves the world and the humans inhabiting it more than anything and the book does a better job of showing that.
I also just really miss the time spent with the other astronauts. In the movie, Yáo, Ilyukhina and DuBois are introduced in the same breath as the way they want to die when the mission is over. It works, but it's sooooo brief. In the book, that discussion comes much later, takes up half a chapter and there is an emphasis on Grace's relationship to these people. They requested him specifically to record their preferred suicide methods. They trust him with their life and death. They love their little science man more than anyone else on the whole project. When I tell you I cried-
In short, the movie is focused on keeping a certain momentum going and it does a GREAT job at it. It's a really tight, solid movie that stands alone just fine. It could never hope to do justice to the push and pull of making mistakes and solving problems that the book is so good at.
A meteor falling into Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia, and the resulting shot looks like there's a green beam of light shooting up from the crater. photo: Gunarto Song
Love how Pokemon games will spend 5 billion hours giving a complete tutorial on every single mechanic possible and then turn around and have the Mold Breaker ability say "[X] breaks the mold!" and never give any further context
dont litigate me about how the choice between legal name and hero name works here these aus are always on some spooky premonition shit to begin with, yeah?
This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??
The fossil is a stunningly preserved skeleton from China that includes evidence of hard armour scales on the tail (like in the much smaller Kulindadromeus), and a coat of spines along its neck and back! The name appropriately means "spiky dragon".
Not only is a spiny iguanodont wild on its own (this individual is over 2 metres long and is a juvenile, other ornithopods with quill-like structures are much smaller), these spines also appear to be an entirely new skin structure? They're apparently not feathers or scales, but a secret third thing.
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