my own tags: #grocky#IT IS OKAY WHAT CAN I SAY#i am not convinced this wasnt cut bc ryan gosling was way too convincing at being in love with a rock spider alien#and the normies got nervous
okay but next day thoughts: i think my tinfoil hat theory here holds water. out of all the deleted scenes we got, this is the number one that should not have been cut.
it's fully scored by Pemberton already (thx man)
already fully voiced with the TTS 'effect' on Rocky's speech, it's ready to go
this is, i think, the only time we get to see this specific stunning lighting effect, with the green light from adrian dyeing the ship gorgeously
(for real, if this were in 2160p it would be my wallpaper)
okay fine the panspermia talk might slow the inertia of the build-up to Go Fishing Mission, but!!! this is what establishes the "shake head, nod head" joke from the final act of the movie, when Grace does it again. they kept in the call-back but didn't keep the establishment of the joke! its a continuity error (albeit a very minor one, but one many people have noticed)
therefore: this feels like a very very late cut from the movie, like post-picture lock as a response from Someone higher up. ergo: gosling really was too convincingly in love with the rock alien and cutting this toned that down juuuuust enough.
(or it was cut for time; you wouldn't think one minute and 45 seconds would matter to such a long-ass movie, but I know from BTS around the last Mission Impossible films that once you break the 2 hour mark you basically have to justify every fucking frame you keep)