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he/him 🏳️‍🌈 I like people places and thing

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Homosexuality

[halondrus]

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Bisexual Godzilla falling for a completely normal reporter?

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Watch out she’s on her way

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Watch out she’s on her way

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They should do a survivor and taskmaster crossover episode where the survivor players do a taskmaster task and the taskmaster players do a survivor challenge

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Watch out she’s on her way

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I love tomodachi life I have Maude Lebowski ending sentences with “to use the parlance of our times” and Worf saying “it is a good day to dine” before eating.

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It might be the best game ever

[loveridden1999]

[katiebuggs]

Cannot believe this

[artbyaloser]

rocky learns about yawning

[depsidase]

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A bit of tadc criticism that I can't stop thinking about. some of my favorite bits of the show are Zooble in the restaurant explaining why they're afraid of Caine, and Jax explaining to Pomni his perspective on the circus and their archetypes. These characters have been trapped here for a long time and they should all have perspectives on what this place is and how best to live while trapped here. Zooble bugs me because what she says doesn't match their behavior of being the most defiant towards Caine. The perspective she voiced would've made much more sense coming from Ragatha or Gangle. Scenes like this are very low hanging fruit characterization wise and it just feels odd that we don't get at least one for each character. Caine and Jax have the most clear and consistent perspectives on the events and premise of the show, and it sort of makes the other characters feel like they aren't paying attention. Ragatha has been there second longest, what does she think the circus is? Why does she think they are trapped there? obviously none of them know but after several years you would have theories, and these theories would be reflective of a character's personality and world view

[rosetyler42]

@sheepnebula For Zooble, I think the implication is after Ep 3, Zooble has an idea of what Caine is capable of, but their temper and annoyance at Caine get the better of them. For Ragatha, I think she's more focused on trying to stay sane and perhaps look out for others. To a certain extent, her philosophy seems similar to Kingers' "Don't think about it" in not wanting to worry or think about the scary things, particularly since she was punished for showing fear or negativity. She probably just focused on trying to make the best of her situation and didn't want to think too much about the horrifying implications of it in case it caused her to spiral. Gangle at least seems to have the theory it's a game, but probably was too scared or timid to look into things much and like Ragatha, might be worried about spiraling if thinking about it too much. Pomni of course hasn't been there long enough to have formed much of a theory yet and seemed more focused on leaving or making friends with the others, but even she blurts out she thinks Caine wants to make them suffer. And they all seem to have figured out Caine is an AI meant to keep them sane.

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These are all plausible even if I think some are weak character decisions, but its just a big missed opportunity to not explore these more in scenes in the show. It does a lot for the depth of Jax as a character that we get a clear explanation for what he thinks and feels about the circus. It has implications for his behavior and his grief. It adds depth that most of the other humans lack. If one of them were just fully avoiding thinking about their circumstances and the implications of being there, that would be an interesting character trait that could give them more depth, and something I think the show could explore in a cool way, but if all of them are acting that way then its more a logical explanation without real implications for their characters and that makes it kind of uninteresting. Obviously this can't be done with Kinger because he knows the truth, but Kinger already gets enough depth that ties in with the premise imo.

[birbliophile]

made a thing.

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Highlights from the Project Hail Mary director's commentary:

*SPOILERS!!!*

Grace waking up from the coma was the first shot they filmed for the movie! They wanted Ryan to feel eased into the character, and what better way to do that than have him play a character who can't remember who he is?

The little "GOOD LUCK!" note in sharpie that's written on Grace's sleeping bag was canonically written by the other astronauts on the I.S.S. before the Hail Mary crew got put into the ship. In real life, Phil and Chris wrote one word each. They said it was like "a blessing on the movie."

Ryan's most nerve-wracking day on set was when he had to shoot with the classroom full of children. Most of the kids were made up of the children of the film's crew members.

The scene where Grace looks through Yao and Ilukhina's photos is footage of him looking at and reacting to actual pictures of the actors with their loved ones.

When Grace calls Stratt to tell her that he and Carl figured out how to breed astrophage, Ryan is genuinely calling Sandra on her day off set, and her audio is her genuine reaction to the unexpected line: "Carl and I made a baby!"

"We like showcasing Ryland Grace's social anxiety while having a lot of people staring at him. LOL!"

Their intention for the space funeral scene was to have Grace convey that he was trying to ease his own sadness by making the dead people with him feel better about being dead :(

The markings on Rocky's body convey his mission patch, his rank in the crew, his wedding band, and his family crest.

Grace and Stratt's conversation on the boat is Grace asking her if they're allowed to be close friends, and the response from Stratt is no, they can't. This gets driven home in the karaoke scene. She understands the value of connection, a part of her wants it, but "Her love for people has to be suspended for her to do her job."

Rocky has different forward-facing faces for different thought processes! They named his "satellite dish" face, his "scrunched up thinking face", and his "monobrow face".

Direct quote: "I love how on the spectrum Rocky is." ROCKY AUTISTIC CODED CONFIRMED!

After Rocky recovers from his injuries: "As Rocky returns to the movie, the lights turn on. The warmth returns. It's like the day breaking."

Confirmed that when Grace and Rocky reunite, Rocky says to Grace, "You came back for me, question?"

They throw this out there for two seconds and do NOT expand on it, but according to Andy Weir, Stratt is imprisoned for life but somehow ESCAPES???

The Eridians built Grace an artificial tree in his enclosure because Rocky knew he liked trees

There's so much more they shared about film processes and the people who were behind making certain effects possible. I highly recommend checking out the commentary if you're able!

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[worm-suggestion]

It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.

I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.

I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.

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I may have accidentally stabbed you while recklessly playing with knives, but your anguished cries made me feel really bad. Both of our emotions are super valid and this means this is a very compelling conflict and you can't be mad at me.