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One thing I keep thinking about is in the book Yao’s preferred method of taking his own life was by using a gun, so genuinely there is a gun on the Hail Mary. It never comes up again in the book (potentially a subversion of the idea of Chekov’s gun), but it’s there.

All I’m saying is Rocky could have a gun in any headcanons and it would be canonically accurate. I don’t know what to do with this knowledge but I think about it constantly.

femmeboyant

#not sure if this has been done already but yeah #project hail mary #phm

binchickensupremacy

As if Project Hail Mary couldn't hit the old heart strings even more, while we were watching it, I heard one of my mates softly singing along to one of the songs.

'Pō Atarau/Now Is The Hour'

"Pō atarau e moea iho nei. E haere ana koe ki pāmamao. Haere rā ka hoki mai anō. Ki i te tau e tangi atu nei."

Now is the hour for me to say goodbye. Soon you'll be sailing far across the sea. While you're away oh please remember me. When you return you'll find me waiting here.

#i used to talk about this a lot but polynesians and pasifika peoples are MADE for narratives in which we navigate the stars #we are still seafarers we are made to be starfarers #the piece was a perfect addition to the score like there's some srs kaona there (is there a maori word for hawaiian kaona? i'd love to know

is-that-sand-in-my-waffles

I fear I have been charmed by the multiple montages of Dr Ryland Grace fucking up and being a human disaster

andromedda

I am a Project Hail Mary book lover and my biggest gripe with the movie was the fucking microcentrifuge was not balanced

#lmaooo real #😭

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ryan gosling as ryland grace project hail mary (2026)

#my close personal friend ryland grace

katestewartt

The way they are not romantic, not quite platonic, but definitely some sort of soulmates

noworneverphantom

The headcanon that Ryland Grace is aroace is so important to me. Because the respresentation of his relationship with Rocky being the most important relationship in his life is SO meaningful.

Like that’s just his buddy. His little guy. A friend, and that’s ENOUGH for him. It’s the most meaningful relationship he has and will have and he’s perfectly content with it

evastratt

ok after thinking about it there really is only one thing from the Project Hail Mary book that I wish they'd put in the movie (book + movie spoilers below)

I think Grace's decision to go back and take Rocky to Erid was weakened a little bit because the movie left out the fact that he only had enough food to go back to Earth OR take save Rocky/Erid and that he would die of starvation if he chose the latter (didn't end up happening but that's what he thought would happen when he made his decision).

Deciding to sacrifice himself to save another planet (Erid) shows how much character growth Grace experienced throughout the story, because when he was faced with the same exact decision on Earth (sacrifice your life for the entire planet) he chose not to. By being faced with the same dilemma and choosing to sacrifice himself for a planet he had never even been to, Grace shows how much he's grown, and the movie does not convey that growth like the book does.

That's pretty much my only serious gripe with the movie, everything else that was left out or changed worked pretty well, there's no way you could or should try to fit TWO taumoeba outbreaks AND the coma resistance gene AND Grace doing a bunch of physics to calculate gravity in a movie and they kept the most vital stuff.

I'd be very interested to hear what others thought of the adaptation!

avadaniels

project hail mary has it all. amnesia trope. petty academics. platonic soulmates. narratively justified retro-futurism. red string of fate. a bird may love a fish, but where will they live / then I shall have to make you wings. also a competent woman committing so many crimes in order to save the world and bringing the protagonist with her everywhere because he is her AND I QUOTE "little science lapdog". book of all time

armandeos

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politiho

there are some real bangers here

#CJ The X is indescribable #in the best way

fangirlagainstmywill

I’ve seen some more idiotic readers go “Mark and Grace are just the same people.”

if they’re the same people, explain this:

Mark Watney: *at any minor inconvenience * FUCKING FU— Ryland Grace: *world-ending, life-threatening news* holy moly

skapediem

if it's any consolation, you'll be hailed as a hero

saturn-is-sick

OHGGGHH

cilceon

Finished Project Hail Mary earlier today and how come nobody told me this was a platonic Orpheus and Eurydice type situation between two alien species? There is no greater act of love than the act of turning around can anyone hear me hello can anyone hear me Rocky are you there it’s me Ryland I am actively bashing the side of your ship with a giant fuck ass wrench

#so true bestie #this perfect of a post gets “bestie” i don't make the rules #it didn't hit me when listening to the audiobook but BOY does the metaphor slap you in the face in da movie :D #this is a queer ace love story of the finest caliber