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I noticed that Grace was looking at golden plaques with inscription and realized they look like something made based off the Voyager Golden Record, made by Astrophysicist and Cornell University professor Carl Sagan and singer John Lennon. It was sent out in the probes Voyager 1 and 2, I believe. It has a message etched on it which says, "To the makers of music, all worlds, all times."

For reference, pictures below show the Voyager Golden Record.

People keep talking about the science in PHM like yeah, obviously. Math saves the world, equations translate the universe, whatever.

But what gets me is how hard the story leans into something else: Music!!!!

Like the whole movie quietly argues that sure, math is universal because it is precise. It lets completely different species understand each other.

But music is what lets them feel each other.

When we first see Grace's old memories, the first one shown was him teaching the kids about soundwaves being affected by frequency. This is probably a foreshadowing that it will mean so much in the next few parts of the plot. Specifically Rocky.

Rocky’s language is not framed like cold data, even if it technically is. It is patterned, tonal, almost harmonic. Grace does not just decode it, he recognizes it. There is a difference. Even in the book, he always mentions how Rocky drops an octave when he expresses sadness and grief.

And that is why it hits that even someone like Eva Stratt, who reduces everything to outcomes, to sacrifice, to necessity, can still be pulled into something as unnecessary as music.

The movie soundtrack uses songs in many different languages, and it quietly circles back to the voyager golden record. That record was created in case any life beyond earth ever finds it, to teach them what humanity is. In the same way, the music in the film becomes a kind of message too. It represents human diversity, culture, and emotion, everything that exists beyond just Grace and his perspective, showing what it means to be human to someone who is not human at all.

There are 27 songs from all around the world put in the Golden Record btw. <3

Science lets different life forms understand each other, yes. But something like music exists on a smaller, quieter level. It does not need translation in the same way. It just needs recognition.

And maybe that is the point, that even at the edge of everything, when all you have left is survival and logic and numbers, the thing that still reaches across the gap is not just understanding. It is resonance.

compare how they react to remembering they were forced onto the ship:

in the book, he stands around in numb ashamed shock at his cowardice for a minute before deciding, against rocky's better judgement, that they should voluntarily subject the hail mary to a six g force again to get the lab equipment up and running instead of just waiting eleven days to get back to the blip-A, and it hurts him a lot and he ends up passing out from it. he locates the problem in his memory as being that he was too caught up in concern for his own wellbeing, so he tries to counterbalance it by opting to do something bizarrely personally risky so they can get back to work more quickly. his refrain in his memories is "I don't want to die."

in the book, he suddenly gets terrified that a good portion of students are going to literally die of starvation in twenty years, so he storms back to the lab and demands that stratt (the most powerful person in the world, has all possible authority, commands the actual US army) give him some astrophage to study. stratt initially thinks this is because he's upset that his one original idea / thing he staked his whole career on got disproved and that he wants to soothe his ego by doing further high-profile work, and while she's sympathetic, it doesn't make her budge. what actually convinces her is when he says he doesn't care about his ego or the fact that he was wrong and that he's really just here to try and save his students. the last time he got publicly shot down he just retreated from the source of humiliation so he wouldn't have to face it, so being willing to square up with the scariest woman alive and go back into this field for the sake of others despite being known as infamous within it is a big change in form for him.

in the film, he tells stratt he's the kind of annoying self-advocating person she's looking for, but then he shies away from it when she asks directly if he wants to be on the project. that's not a question she really needs to ask, obviously he wants to be on the project, he wouldn't have started this conversation with her if he didn't, so her asking isn't actually a measure of his desire but rather a test of if he really has the backbone he's claiming to possess. his first response of "if you think I can help..." is very true to form, he's shrinking back from admitting his own want by asking someone else if they think he's competent enough to be worthy of what he wants, but when prompted again he says "yes, I want to." it's uncharacteristic for him because willingly engaging in something challenging and high-stakes implicitly says he desires it and thinks he can handle it.

I just want to take a moment to appreciate whoever in The Fall Guy's set design team came up with all these movie posters...and also to zoom in and drag out as much detail as I can for fanfic reasons!

In rough order of relevance:

Annihilation of Valor: we see Jody filming Colt's mud puddle stunt for this movie, which appears to be set during the Vietnam War. I'm guessing this is the shoot where Colt meets Jody as a camera operator. He's a champion piner, so they maybe could have worked on another movie previously, but Alma calls them a "short but legendary torrid love affair", so I'm guessing this film was their first. If so, I'd also place the flashback with them kissing and goofing around on the prop truck tailgate after they wrapped on this one, given they're pretty cavalier about smashing the breakaway bottles.

Silence Day: my best bet for the movie where Colt breaks his back. The poster looks like a futuristic astronaut, and Colt is wearing a NASA "Time Travel Division" jumpsuit costume during the stunt. (I already love whoever wrote that script!) Not sure if the placement of the poster at Colt's back here was ironic or accidental...

Bad Cop Good Dog: starring everyone's favorite good boy Jean-Claude! Clearly a cop film, probably an action-comedy, this film came out at some point in the period seven years prior to canon because Colt says he worked with Jean-Claude on it [he'd been Ryder's stunt double for 6 years as of the Silence Day accident, plus 18 months in recovery before Metalstorm]. I'd bet on the more recent side, since Colt is surprised to see Jean-Claude with Alma, and Jean-Claude still remembers him.

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Broken Bone - giving Prohibition-era gangster vibes between the hat and the Tommy gun.

Dumb Deal - love the terrible pun on 'done deal'. No idea why there's a car, a US flag, and a guy with a sword involved. I have so many questions.

Stormchaser - dramatic stormcloud, or maybe a wave? I'm imagining like, an angsty dramatic version of Twister.

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Grace: he/him

Rocky: okay. Rocky will use he/him too

Grace: okay but I feel like defaulting to he/him promotes a patriarchal kind of mindset and we should be more thoughtful about it

Rocky: okay so use the other standard pronouns

Grace: she/her?

Rocky: yeah

Grace: okay but that feels weird too

Rocky: why weird question

Grace:

Grace: I guess I could

Rocky: Rocky he/she/they/it

Grace: I don't know if you can use it

Rocky: why not question

Grace: it's just considered dehumanising?

Rocky:

Grace: okay so you won't pick a pronoun but I have to pick a tonal inflection?

Rocky: my thing more important statement

Grace: okay fine can't you just your tones for me?

Rocky: but Grace not qualified engineer

Grace: well is there a schoolteacher tone?

Rocky: uhh no

Rocky: schoolteacher not

Rocky: schoolteacher not prestige profession statement

Grace:

Rocky: yes but very rude to use for close friend statement

Grace: wait hold up 🤔 you think of me as a close friend?

Rocky: uh-huh

Grace: does that mean what I think it means

Rocky: it means what it means statement