Crumbling thunder of seas

which is complicated by the fact that ilya takes one look at rose and shane at the bar (rose's arm looped through shane's in what ilya doesn't know is just a friends move) and BOOKS IT so he doesn't have to see this

and then proceeds to avoid them at EVERY fucking turn

this all terminates into rose going "fuck it I'm a true bro and I'm making this happen so help me GOD" and managing to arrange locking them in a closet together (which is. so funny. but this is not the time to point out the punchline.) (she'll save it.) so ilya can't run away.

and it's very sweet and they have their moment of honesty and yay back to ilya's room now fo-

the-the door is locked.

because it turns out that rose got a LITTLE too enthusiastic in locking it after her plan worked PERFECTLY and now something in the mechanism is broken.

because also ilya would NOT know how to fucking react

"she's not my girlfriend!" "i'm not his girlfriend!"

like, his older brother is both absentee and abusive, so I imagine his entire view of sibling relationships is incredibly tarred, and this woman is also his Greatest Enemy In Life.

so he’s getting youngerbrotherbodyslammed by this women who (like all older sisters, can just clock a younger sibling idk what to tell you) is supposed to hate him, but is treating him like a twit child???????

ahem.

@martelldoran NOT SHANE AND HIS DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE

"listen, shane wants--stop whining, you baby, you're fine--shane wants to talk to you"

"AND I WANT A CRAZY PERSON TO NOT BE ON TOP OF ME RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT."

"🙄 it's your own fault. you kept running."

"oh, so shane hasn't told you how much HE likes to run??"

"he made a mistake, okay? and he's sorry."

shane from a safe distance because tbh? kind of thrown by what just happened: "i am!"

"I WAS KIND OF FUCKING BUSY BEING TACKLED BY A CRAZY PERSON, SVETA"

a core ilya tenant (to me) is The Only Person Responsible for Ilya Rozanov is Ilya Rozanov — not only does ilya not expect anyone to take care of him, he sees it as solely his responsibility and will never in any way expect another person to care for him or support him or help him solve his problems

so when ilya raises marrying svetlana as a solution for his immigration anxieties yes he’s testing the waters and trying to gauge shane’s level of commitment yes he’s creating the circumstances to express his own level of desire but crucially he’s doing it by offering a solution to his problem that is entirely disconnected from shane

(so disconnected in fact that it even keeps him physically distanced from shane - he had already raised the idea of transferring to canada! marrying svetlana would keep him in the us, keep the status quo they were already working with)

he’s saying “I can solve this myself, you don’t need to help me, you’re under no obligation, I don’t have to be your problem”

which makes shane’s midnight response all the more stunning and loving and meaningful for ilya

not only did shane try to help and work towards a new idea — which in and of itself is a revelation for ilya — even more so shane’s solution isn’t just one that he came up with and can now hand off to ilya to use: it’s a plan that requires shane’s involvement, his work and commitment and care and support

shane is probably the first person* in 15 years to reject ilya’s offer to handle things himself, the first person since his mother died to say “no don’t handle this alone, I want to do it with you”

💛💙❤✨ the dmc1 ending we deserved

conversations between dear friends...

'good luck' on a sticky note on ryland's coma suit

the use of the videolog as a way to convey the inner monologue to the screen

grace rocky save stars

the scene where they activate the IR view when ryland is doing the petrova line EVA collection at tau ceti and he's amongst the astrophage. god

just the entire execution of rocky and eridian language. PERFECT. that last scene where ryland doesn't need the translator? god

eva stratt double parked coffee

BLIP-A DESIGN. XENONITE DESIGN. ERIDIAN DESIGN. all impeccable.

'time to go fishing, question?'

the mental health screen room and rocky getting to experience bits of earth via it

the music while the hail mary and the blip a start spinning in sync. actually, just all of the music

ryland grace earth hackey sack packed on the hail mary, presumably on stratt's orders + ryland grace nerdy as fuck graphic tshirts packed on the hail mary, presumably on stratt's orders

implication that PHM sent a military jet to grover cleveland middle school to draw those 'save the world' pictures within 3 days so that they could send them with ryland on the hail mary. GOD.

nannybot -> armando. also ryland calling the ship 'mary'

not strictly within the movie but the tagline 'believe in the hail mary'. yeah.

yao and ilyukhina's collections of photographs and the way ryland cries over them when he does the space burial. they were his friends. he can't remember.

the scene where he's walking through the dark tunnel in the orange eva suit and it's like the inverse of the iconic 2001 space odyssey shot

he bikes to work and it's not for exercise

he vomits into a traffic cone after the supersonic jet ride

he runs from the baikonur facility and claws at the earth under his nails before getting sedated. one last look at the sky.

"WHOOMP THERE IT IS"

ryland grace in his classroom looking at the taped-up line running from venus to the sun that he's made to try to explain to his students what no one understands

ryan gosling's delivery of I showed you a clock and now youre showing me a clock <- THATS A NERD! THATS MY RYLAND GRACE!

"of course i'll watch you sleep, buddy. you gotta promise me you'll wake up though" just kill me now

grace getting to see the the blip-a! also, grace only remembering he didn't volunteer when he sees the light refracting off the blip-a.

rocky make door you close door

AND MOST OF ALL. they. made rockys handprint a scar on grace's arm. forever.

things I missed most from the book that weren't included in the movie

"I don't know if you can hear me. but i'm here, buddy, I'm on your hull!!" movie scene was good but grace clinging onto the blip-a thwacking a wrench into the hull in desperation while space is cold and grey and unrelenting in its darkness and silence around him and he doesnt know if rocky is dead. grace, question? you are here, question?

coma resistance gene plotline. this is FOUNDATIONAL for my understanding of stratt to sending ryland. if she could she would have gone herself. any of the PHM biology techs could have feasibly gone in the movie-verse. but they can't. it's one in 7000 and their next option is a distillery worker from paraguay. ryland grace, microbiologist sentenced to marytrdom by his own genes.... its delicious

doomed climatologist of all time, francois leclerc. he runs the numbers and knows we have nineteen years. he snaps and tells stratt 'this isn’t some optional outcome.' he nukes antarctica and cries. he has no choice

the fact that in the book grace is forced to work on analysing the probe samples and getting roped into PHM. in the movie he says 'I want to help earth if I can!' in that scene w the earth beanbag... its imperative to me that he literally never asked to do any of this at all

"how have you been lately" "dr shapiro and I have begun a sexual relationship"

steve, creator of the beetles

"do not fuck up my house, roscosmos bastards" ilyukhina line you are sorely missed

dmitri and grace bonding over puns and spin drives

'you are a fundamentally good man, dr grace.' 'you're murdering me.'

"why did the kiwi government think you were embezzling millions of dollars" "probably because I was embezzling millions of dollars"

dr lokken and dr grace's panspermia feud

the emotional whiplash of "Sorry, Rocky" after grace realises he can only go back to the blip-a OR earth to “I know you’d love a beetle to take apart, but I couldn’t spare one.”

the desperation of circling the petrovascope to locate the blip-a in increasing 5* slants not knowing if he's going to find anything.

You send people to space to save the literal entire world and you still don't trust them to dispense their own drugs