WHO THE FUCK'S HERODOTUS

This joke could be told 500 times and it would never be enough for me

They really emphasized his figure and that he'd do well in a dress and then they. They fucking did it.

They could have just teased us with the angle and Cloud's flat chested (but vaguely there) bust but they. They just did it.

Cloud at an angle also emphasizes how fucking lost he is at all times. Blank eyed stare every time something strange or new happens. This boy has the perfect figure to fight god and none of the foresight to read a newspaper or go to the library or listen to gossip at a bar.

Blindsided for eternity prettiest boy.

He's winning. He's staying in his lane. He keeps getting ambushed by team vanish people who piss us off (TURKS) and keeps beating their asses.

(I have only played remake but I keep seeing clips of rebirth and every time Cloud is on screen in said clips he is either badass, clueless, being flirted with (clueless squared), or adopting a bunch of troopers into breaking the law about harboring criminals (badass squared plus adorable for extra points).)

I am convinced that everyone's main goals in this are to do their own shit and watch Cloud just get into events by mistake. Sometimes Cloud is the event and sometimes he's side questing it up and nobody can tell which is actually his priority anymore.

Literally everybody outside the group has more of an idea of what's going on at any given time than Cloud does and it's great.

(I fucking cried when he got his high five. My boy connecting with people willingly my heart he finally had an ounce of a clue.)

The best part of this whole thing is that he isn't dumb or stupid or acting it up he's just missing all the social cues and making no effort to try and catch them as they fly by his face and hit Barret with the fact that he is the only real adult and everyone else is a traumatized kid.

Meanwhile Cid and Vincent are off buddy comedying on their own and that feels like Squeenix saw the shipping and gave us open implications to play with. But they left Barret to be a single dad to a bunch of disasters in physical form he never signed up for. Okay he signed up for Cloud once and now they are a super glue bonded group.

Cloud at an angle is magnetic and attracts chaos and rejects normalcy.

*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