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Things in the Project Hail Mary book that aren't in the movie that I think are delightful
Spoilers under the cut for the book
Stratt hires a climate change scientist and then nukes Antarctica and paves the Sahara desert and the scientist just sobs
Rocky calls Grace a leaky blob
Rocky thinks humans are crazy for doing EVAs
Stratt gets sued by Everyone for plagiarizing Everything
Grace gets scurvy
Grace drags Rocky back into his habitat after Rocky saves him, and he gets really bad burns from coming into contact with Rocky's atmosphere
Grace also power washes Rocky, but we don't talk about it
Rocky was orbiting Tau Ceti for 40 years before Grace came along
Rocky has anxiety about oxygen after he gets lit on fire by Grace's atmosphere
Rocky also has anxiety about Grace using the centrifuge because of how it almost killed him that one time
Grace also pulls that maneuver a few more times and repeatedly passes out (at least he doesn't get crushed by a metal chair after the first time, though)
During the confrontation with Grace and Stratt, Stratt calls Grace a coward and Grace says that Stratt is murdering him. Just much more aggressive language all around
Grace doesn't lose his memories from the coma; Stratt injects him with memory altering drugs. Her hope was that by the time he remembered, he'd either already be done, or he'd be in too deep to stop
Eridians don't know about relativity, which is said in the movie, but in the book Rocky talks about how he was basically running the ship alone with a faulty trajectory and STILL managed to make it to Tau Ceti
When taumoeba leaks into the Hail Mary's fuel, Grace immediately dismisses the possibility of Rocky's boxes failing because Rocky is such an incredible engineer
When Grace and Rocky separate, Grace does loser amounts of math to figure out how long he'll be able to see Rocky's ship
When Grace does something stupid, Rocky forces him to take a nap to be less stupid
Rocky doesn't have a voice, Grace just learns Eridian by using his laptop setup
Grace gets arthritis at the end from Erid's intense gravity
Grace also gets a slew of other diseases from malnutrition
He survives by eating taumoeba until the Eridians can figure out how to feed him
The Eridians feed Grace by synthesizing human meat. Grace calls them "me-burgers" and they're his favorite food
Rocky's blood is mercury and he eats toxic heavy metals
When Grace teaches Rocky about radiation, he gets Rocky to cover his side of the tunnel in astrophage to protect him. Rocky tells Grace to do the same, but Grace just lies and says that humans are immune to it. On the inside, he thinks that it doesn't matter if he gets cancer because he's going to die anyway :(
Rocky's ship is the first actual spaceship Eridians ever made. Rocky has to fix so many things on the way over, because they just have no experience with space travel
Rocky thinks it's really cool that Grace can see light, and he's a little jealous until the power goes out and Grace keeps blindly walking into things and Rocky is like "wow you are useless"
One project hail mary character dynamic from the book that I love is Grace moping around like ough I'm just Stratt's little lapdog, her pet scientist that she drags around everywhere, this sucks so bad
Meanwhile everyone else is apparently like waow. There he goes. Mr. Number Two of the hail mary project. Stratt's right hand man. And also her lover.
i'm fscking CHEWING on the costume details in this photo. i need to rub my eyeballs all over every stitch and the TEXTURE of the fabric. god i love hi-res promo stills. look at the meticulous work. LOOK.
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