Naamloos

[queer-benoit-blanc]

All I could think while rewatching the first lab scene

[alienatedgrace]

thinking about how yao and stratt talking in chinese in front of grace doesn't come with subtitles because we're in grace's memory so he obviously doesn't understand what they're saying. later learned that yao was asking why grace talked to them like they're kids and stratt basically said they'll get used to it. i love them a lot actually

[halethleia]

hey so fun fact!!! the directors said that stratt left these as a gift for grace

the medallion is also confirmed to be st christopher: the patron saint of travelers. it’s a symbol of good luck, guidance and protection on a journey

so you know. i’m really normal and fine about this

[blue-sunshine-mauve-morning]

One detail from the book that didn't make it into the movie that I think is neat is that Eva Stratt did not just stumble across Ryland Grace. He was not the 'potentially disposable' option. She went to the top microbiologists in some of the best research labs in the world and was told multiple times "you know what? I think Dr. Grace might be your guy." When discussing the Petrova Problem. And this several years after his ejection from academia.

[grouphug33]

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.

[druid-for-hire]

His raincoat was never packed, because obviously he wouldn't need it in space—I wonder sometimes if Stratt held onto it for any amount of time.

Something something getting someone out of their shell & shucking clams?

[scullee]

here’s some project hail mary studies i did recently in heavypaint

[avi-mation]

Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb

[burningdreambanana]

Top 10 romcoms from the 21rst century

[tris-morreu]

something really cool about the drama also is that while we, as an audience, have access to emma's interiority, memories and anxieties, charlie does not. emma never has to articulate to us why she considered going through with her plan and why she ultimately chose not to. we can see exactly how she reacted to being confronted with the consequences of the kind of harm she wanted to inflict on others and the steps she took to prevent herself and others from enacting that harm. i don't think she would've been unable to explain it, but i find it crucial that we see it instead of hear it, because it dispells any indication that she is not genuine, and it impresses on us what her motivations were and what factors dissuaded her. charlie, however, does not have access to her memories and interiority the same way we do and would have to investigate and interpret her framing and narrative of that moment.

and, because charlie's portrayed as being functionally emotionally illiterate, the gaps emma leaves are filled with his own assumptions and bad faith, oversimplified interpretations of her actions. he can't, but also won't, do the interpretive work that emma cannot do for him.

[y2k-was-a-vibe-deactivated20260]

...no help is coming. So you better start saving yourself.

Send Help (2026), dir. Sam Raimi

[whoreiorcats]

I appreciate The Drama’s stance that in the USA it doesn’t take any kind of special psychopath to become a mass shooter. It’s essentially encouraged with no barrier to entry and the only thing that takes Emma down that road is like a few bad years. A moderate level of bullying and isolation. The only thing that pulls her out is like, a few good friends. A club.

She wants to kill people because like she’s bored and lonely. That’s genuinely it. And she sees no real irony or falsehood in her becoming a gun control activist because it’s as genuine as the first thing.

She really does seem to be immediately past that. She’s over it. It wasn’t about hurting people, it was about looking cool and having an impact on others. Being an activist fills the same role in her life.

It’s still terrifying that it was that close. As Charlie points out, if there are thousands of mass shootings a year, how many people in this country are there who wanted to or almost did but didn’t go through with it? No one at her school knew, except, like, didn’t they?

Everyone who grew up in the age of mass school shootings felt like it could be them next, any day, any time, maybe anyone. It became baked into our routines and casual consciousness. It’s all just happenstance that it wasn’t us, specifically. It’s pure luck.

[cozylilacbear]

Send Help | 2026 Dylan O'Brien as Bradley Preston

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

We're not in the office anymore, Bradley.

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

SEND HELP | I CAN'T DECIDE 💘🔪 We're going for a ride. (spoilers!)

[raspberrydee]

honestly can’t remember the last time i laughed as hard in a theatre as i did with send help… sam raimi i LOVE you 😭

[queernarchy]

saw send help and am obsessed with the core of the film aka the scene where linda talks about her husband and bradley talks about his mom. because then you think about it and each one is just a stand in for the other’s past abusive relationship. bradley can’t accept linda’s power over him but when he realizes he needs it he puts on a charming compliant facade that you can imagine was what he needed to survive his childhood all while growing more and more hateful. linda keeps bradley there and makes him dependent on her even when he manipulates and insults and poisons her because she can’t stand being alone and suddenly you can imagine the cycle that kept her and her husband married for 10 years. bradley sees her as his mom and is never attracted to her and shakes his head at the food she feeds him like a child. linda sees him as her husband and pictures the life they could have together as a couple. both were operating on hardware from decades past and were never going to change. no one talk to me.