At least Jimmy has the excuse that he lost his mind and his mental health went down to the negatives due to the many MANY fucked up things he did to the crew and his best friend ( and due to him putting a lot of effort to push away his guilt and remorse, and distort reality).
Thatâs why, in the end, his mind convinced him that him and Curly fixed everything( which implies he still thinks Anya, Swansea, and Daisuke are alive and that theyâll be rescued).
What are these peopleâs excuse for believing that everything couldâve been fixed.
Hereâs the thing: even if Anya didnât lock herself in the medbay( which lead to Swansea having to mercy kill him and then Jimmy shooting him afterwards. Then Jimmy imagining everyone is alive and puts Curly through more hell by cutting up his part of his leg with a knife while heâs still conscious)
They probably wouldâve died due to starvation, dehydration, or due to lack of oxygen. Jimmyâs flaw is that he convinced him that he can fix his mistake of crashing the ship by being their captain. He was trying to convince himself that if he tries his best as captain, theyâll survive long enough for them to be rescued and taken back to Earth. And if theyâre rescued, Curly would be taken to a hospital with professionals whoâll fix up Curlyâs wounds and make him good as new.
But even he knew the mindset is BS cause he knows he doomed them all.
Pony Express isnât going to sent help because they donât care about them. The fact that they havenât been found immediately means theyâre in the middle of nowhere, where thereâs no intelligent living beings or ships, in space on an asteroid.
They would have to be the luckiest people if a ship driven by a human( or nonhuman intelligent life form that wouldnât want to kill, torture, or enslave them) passed by their ship, sees the crashed Tulpar , and helps them get back to Earth.
Iâm also bring up this line of dialogue:
The way I see it: Anya isnât saying that Curly doesnât care about her when she ask him âwhat would you have doneâ.
Sheâs saying that thereâs nothing anyone can do to help her. Unless Curly has a Time Machine so he can prevent Jimmy from assaulting her and getting her pregnant, curly canât fix this. Even if he drops kicks her in the stomach to make her have a miscarriage and kills Jimmy, she still has to live with her traumatic memories that wonât ever go away. Actually doing all that would make things way worse for her.
If she canât delete those memories, she at least wants to be a thousand miles away from Jimmy ( doesnât want him to die; just wants to be far away from him since he terrifies her) so that she can eventually heal. But she has to wait til the haul is over. For the time being, sheâs stuck with a dangerous man who terrifies her.
Again, curly canât magically teleport them to their destination and teleport them again back to Earth. But Curly doesnât know about the assault.
( based on how genuinely surprised he is when she tells him sheâs pregnant and how he was about to ask her who she was sleeping, she didnât tell him the whole truth. Probably only told him that Jimmy keeps hitting on her. Or maybe Jimmy talked about his attraction towards Anya to Curly or talked about being sexually frustrated. Point is, Curly knows that the only person who would sleep with Anya would be Jimmy. He just doesnât know it wasnât consensual cause why the hell would you assume a woman has been raped cause she said sheâs pregnant and sad. I think he didnât get why Anya wanted to prevent Jimmy from getting hold of the gun. Heâs dealing with depression, possibly suicidal thoughts, hallucinations, exhaustion due to lack of sleep, regret over his life choices, insomnia, the responsibilities of being a captain, etc. He needed her to explain everything bluntly and she didnât for multiple reasons. Or maybe he just thought she was just mad at him for having terrible pull-out game and convincing her to have non protective sex with him and now has the irrational fear that Jimmy is going to hurt her. This has nothing to do with the main discussion, sorry lmao)
So of course he believes he can make things better for her.
Okay okay, im done lol but not really cause I can keep going on and on. But I spent way too long writing all this