yumiiii

Because what do you mean Grace was dancing with a mop that has the exact shade of Stratt's hair color?

What do you mean that she only smiles when she's with him?

What do you mean the directors said Stratt never smiled again after the Hail Mary launched and only got her smile back when she watched Grace's video logs when the beetles returned?

What do you mean she had her tattoo 'life without parole' on the same spot where he was injected when he was sedated?

What do you mean he remembers her face along with Yao when he didn't have any pictures of her as reference?

What do you mean that when Stratt went to guide him to his seat after his "whoop there it is" he instinctively grabbed her hand?

What do you mean that he asked her "what are you going to do for the next twenty years, you got a plan?" on February 14th of all dates?

What do you mean the directors confirmed Stratt left him the fox keychain that were along his things that were packed when he went aboard the Hail Mary?

What do you mean Ryan Gosling said Hail Mary is bit of a RomCom in an interview?

What do you mean they were staring at each other with heart eyes throughout that karaoke scene?

What do you mean that the editors had a hard time cutting the some of their scenes because it was too romantic?

What do you mean that in 2022 draft she got him an ice cream soft serve machine aboard the Vat because he misses it and in the movie he got his supply of Twizzlers candies?

What do you mean that in 2022 draft she was the last thing he saw and her name is the last word he uttered before being sent into space?

What do you mean that in 2022 draft when Grace was in Erid and he heard that the sun/Sol survived, he looked up the sky and said 'Good work, Stratt'?

What do you mean that in 2022 draft Grace's final word to Stratt in his video logs was "Take care" with a warm look on his face?

What do you mean you casted Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller who had so much chemistry on screen?

What do you mean with all of that huh? Screenplay, script writers, casting, director people??

- inhabitants of the vat have taken to affectionately calling themselves the vatlings, with Eva as their benevolent dictator and head of their unofficial government on board the ship

- after some weeks of boarding the ship, time quickly becomes lost on everybody so they revert to basing everything around the position of the sun/moon/stars

- this quickly led to an ongoing joke of the vat being a pirate ship with Stratt as the Captain

- and quickly spiraled into the whole ship, save for one Captain and her lapdog, dressing up in pirate costumes one April fool's day (of course Ilyukhina bought extra costumes for those two but the best she managed to put on them was a hat and eyepatch)

- she did get Stratt a real sword though, no one knows how she managed to procure it but Eva proudly brandishes it in her office

- sickness is rare but not impossible on the ship, if one person is down, it is inevitable that everyone goes down (except Stratt and her primary crew, who she drags onto a private jet to wait out whatever disease to run its course)

- if she so much as hears one cough from any of them, she kicks them off and sends them back to the vat (Grace only survives since years of teaching around living petri dishes has strengthened his immune system, while Stratt is always the last one standing, but her cursed sleep and eating schedule ends up being her downfall)

- the multicultural makeup of the ship has led to factions forming among vatlings of similar origins, and mock wars are declared nearly every week that always devolve into petty pranks

- peace treaties too, each with more ridiculous articles than the last, such as renaming little russia to little america after a cold war reenactment between members of ROSCOSMOS and NASA (which did not last longer than a week thanks to Komorov)

- Grace refuses to pick any side during these wars but ends up helping anyway, including stacking neon party wigs on Dubois (with help from Shapiro and Ilyukhina) after he nodded off during another last minute team meeting, or convincing Leclerc that no it's not snowing that's just frozen rain

- they rarely attempt to prank Stratt, once Ilyukhina convinced Grace to try the same prank they did on Dubois on her, but the best they managed was one green wig and a blurry picture when she passed out after three days of irregular sleep (one eye shot open and that was enough to send the pair scampering from her office)

- Ilyukhina often defects for no reason other than to stir drama, while Yáo pretends to not care but is willing to broker information to anyone for the right price (a pack of cigarettes and an hour of their PTO)

- being the dictator director, Eva does not step in during these wars, so long as work is completed by the end of the night (she understands how stir crazy living on a boat can be)

- the mess hall has a rotating schedule to represent the different cultures on board the ship which inevitably means everyone complaining once its time for English-based meals (no one wants to eat mushy peas or beans on toast, but an argument breaks out on whether chicken tikka masala belongs to England or India)

- the Olympics causes a return to nationalism among the vatlings and is the only time Stratt is seen repping her country's flag

- speaking of, the vatlings held a mock Olympics (the Vatlympics) themselves with increasingly strange competitions based not on country/heritage but on respective roles on the ship

-Stratt catches wind of this and forms her own team made of the best in each crew simply termed the Leads (did not last long, Ilyukhina quickly retermed them the Strattlings)

- she tried getting the astronauts to join her team but they chose to stick together led by Yáo who surprisingly became quite competitive

- events included but were not limited to swimming laps around the Vat, running along its length (suprising to no one Redell wins), bowling using discarded equipment and a mannequin head that no one knew where it came from (Grace has shockingly good aim), a spelling bee amongst the science factions (despite being the lead astrophage researcher, spelling is not his forte), extreme hide and seek (won by Shapiro and Dubois who of course knew all the best hidden places), and cultural dance forms (it was impossible to select a clear winner but Lokken did surprise everyone by performing a hallingkast)

- they hold a funeral for Antarctica headed by Leclerc (he's bawling the entire time), Ilyukhina almost poured one out but quickly remembered the newfound Prohibition enforced on the vat

- an illegal speakeasy is formed by the chemists when Stratt limits alcohol usage only for galas and the monthly team bonding events, they take orders from the crew teams until one suspicious request for mead shows up (little known fact, Eva has a sweet tooth)

- a makeshift Eurovision is held (including non-euro crew members), Eva almost considered joining but started getting a sore throat after endless meetings that always ended in her yelling at greedy capitalists trying to profit off the end of the world

- Lokken and Grace's beef is so well known amongst the vatlings that a silent system is formed to alert if one gets within 10 feet of each other (fails every time, those two can rarely hold a civil conversation, Grace likes to think himself a calm man but Lokken knows the exact buttons to press)

- (eg. During the Vatlympics in a particularly heated staring contest between team bio-engineer and team Leads Strattlings, Lokken and Grace had the misfortune of being paired, Lokken only won when she whispered independent evolution, causing Grace to yell about panspermia)

- the speaker system on the vat is usually off save for announcements, but Stratt noticed that many had trouble adjusting to living on a ship with no clear timezone and started playing white noise every morning and night to help the crew adjust (birdsong to wake them/soft instrumentals at night)

- but one morning (well after April Fools) the entire ship woke to sea shanties blasting through the system (Ilyukhina swears she had nothing to do with it cause why would she ever disturb her own precious hours of rest, Stratt gave her a look but dismissed her, while somewhere on the ship, Hatch was bent over laughing over his success)

- when first arriving on the vat, it can be hard for vatlings to adjust to the rise and fall of the waves beneath them, but after a while it becomes easier to walk and work even during rough waters

- that doesn't stop the sea sickness, though, after a particularly bad storm much of the crew was left incapacitated and nauseous including Eva (who would never admit it, but for once replaced her third cup of coffee with ginger tea), Grace (who couldn't stomach anything longer than half an hour), and Lokken (Grace finds her doubled over and in a rare moment of civility held her hair back as she threw up in a Petrova Task Force sickness bag)

- that experience was so terrible that Lamai ended up developing an anti-nausea medication that didn't induce drowsiness (which was promptly sold to Big Pharma to help support the vatjectives)

- when the next storm arrives, she is hailed a hero and employee of the month (ending Grace's three month streak)

- there are two universal truths of Stratt's Vat: one, the vatccent posses all, and two, no matter how strong your core strength is, the curse of sea legs comes for all

- after months of not stepping on stable land, the flight crew and the primary team of the PTF are invited to a last minute gala mainly for pr sake (much to the chagrin of Eva) which of course meant relearning how to walk on dry land in their hotel rooms

- it was much easier for some more than others, years of training gave the astronauts an advantage (though that did not stop Shapiro and DuBois from holding the other up, if anything it gave them an excuse), but the primary team, however, struggled to keep their balance straight

- if you were to analyze the pictures taken that night, you'd notice how the second in command kept a steady arm hooked around his Director, the two rarely apart when standing (for all her capabilities, heels and sea legs do not mix well)

- each part of the vat is given a notice board to place complaints and requests, but over time this evolved into being a space to post pictures taken of one another, and a silent competition formed of vatlings attempting to take the most candid photo of each other

- many photos of crew members sleeping in wild positions or even on top each other are posted (including a flight crew dog pile, komorov and lokken after a long day of testing a mini astrophage-powered centrifuge, and one posted by Carl who, during a traffic pile up after yet another meeting with some world power, snapped a selfie of Ryland and Eva asleep in the back seat, Ryland's head on Eva's shoulder, who in turn rested her own head on his)

- that photo went missing soon after, tucked away in a certain office drawer containing a fox charm and rosary

- a cat somehow ended up on board the ship and was only discovered hours after it sailed from harbour by a poor member of security who thought he could escape his allergies, only to be assaulted by cat fur

- he failed to capture the animal, and hours later it is found sleeping and huddled up in Eva's office under her desk

- it quickly grew on her, and the vat did have some loose mice running around so she allowed it to stay

- Grace named it Sol since it was perfectly orange, but no one realized it was pregnant until Lamai caught a rare sight of it while giving a report to Eva

- she ended up giving birth to three healthy kittens right under Eva's desk, and votes were held throughout the ship to name them

- the white one was unsurprisingly named Luna, the black kitten was named Astro for its fiesty personality and love for biting people, and the orange one was originally named Garfield since it was mistaken as a boy

- but as it grew it became obvious as being the sole girl in the litter, and after spending so much time around Eva grew an attachment to the woman, and a running joke was spread of the kitten being like her daughter, where the name Eve quickly spread and was adopted

- the four cats now roam the ship and were given the official title of chief mice repellent

Subject 1.

"🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎵 🎼 " (how was she like?)

"Eva?"

Rocky nods, waiting. He doesn't talk much about her.

He sighs, eyes scanning the horizon. Recalling what he remembers.

"she was brilliant, commanded every room she walked into." he started with the basics

"has a coffee addiction. I didn't know that much coffee consumption was humanely possible till i met her."

"nerves of steel. Talented. Kind. Loving. Smart." he was naming out qualities from fragmented memories to keep. It wouldn't suffice. He didn't want to remember someone by their characters like a checklist. He wanted memories. Moments.

"she was brought to court once, they tried prosecuting her for piracy. She, a history major, represented herself. Sat working with her tablet in court, shoved a pardon infront of the officials and left. They tried chasing after her. "you must abide with the law" or something. "only when i want to" nerves of steel.

"i remember her on a conference. Switching between languages like it was nothing

Russian, then Chinese, german, Russian again. English, French, Greek.

If i recall she can speak Arabic too, as well as her native tongue of coarse. Dutch." talented, smart.

"i saw her pet and feed a stray cat once. It was completely on accident and she swore me to secrecy. I believe her exact words were "if you breathe a word about this encounter doctor grace i assure you will be strapped to the first viable missile to antarctica" kind

" 🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵" (what did she look like?)

"she had blue eyes. Blonde hair."

(like grace's?)

"No, not like mine. Brighter, more red."

(ohh ginger?) (Rocky's been on the Internet okay?? He knows what a ginger is)

"ehh, not quite. More neutral, something like... Uhh"

"wait give me a second" he turned around, searching the ground and his pockets for something.

"ah." he pulled out a fox keychain.

"something like this." he hands it to rocky. Rocky scans it with a spectrophotometer.

Colour AA5729.

He glances back down at the keychain. Its the one stratt got him. The one that matches his sweater.

Erid's atmosphere is thick. It keeps much more heat in, and bc is so hot in there making astrophage fuel is super easy(just throw it on the ocean) They set up the Blip-A having a 70 year safe threshold before things started cooling dangerous amounts. When Rocky and Grace got there with the taumeabe and the solution to all their problems, Erid was just starting to feel the worst effects of the cooling

Earth didn't have any of that. Earth's atmosphere is thin and loses heat rapidly, the planet is already cold so making astrophage fuel is hard, it would take only 17 years for humanity to lose half of its population to starvation. 17 years is nothing to them, they might as well have been told earth had a only months to solve everything

Imagine the Eridians when Grace explains that humans had to make major sacrifices just to keep themselves alive for a fraction of the time Eridians had, Earth couldn’t affort to bring their astronauts home, it couldn’t affort to send other people, it didnt have the time, it didnt even know if the Hail Mary would work

I give them names of things of what they represent. Not all follow this however

Sooraj - Sun in Hindi

Yue - Moon in Chinese Mandarin

Toki - Time in Japanese

Alon - Waves/Ocean in Tagalog Filipino

Aves - Bird in Spanish

Atlas - named after the Greek titan

Orion - named mostly after the star constellation over the greek mythos

@child-of-flame-and-sky It was eight nine times!

Edited to add: nine times, thank you @skinnystreakofsexy !

He looks so sad when they’re saying goodbye, I checked several times for tears but missed it.

Eva Motherfucking Stratt

Everyone forgets (especially movie fans since I don’t think they even brought it up for y’all) that Stratt wasn’t a scientist like the rest of her crew. Sure, she was definitely smart enough to understand most of what they told her, but it wasn’t her field of study. She wasn’t a biologist or a chemist or an astrophysicist, she was a historian. She was also recommended for the project because she was an incredibly talented diplomat. Canonically, she’s fluent in at least seven languages, and probably speaks several more- give her a day, and she’ll understand Eridian almost as well as Grace. The atmospheric testing, the experimentation with Xenonite, that’s all her crew. But getting to know an alien race, learning all about their language and their history and their culture? That’s her thing, right there.

I was thinking of them snickering to themselves like children hiding, but giggling about how sneaky they are

But eridians must be really still — still when they're lying in ambush, still when they're sleeping...

You could plop down and have a (mandated, involuntary) snooze, and be pretty well camouflaged. But you're still vulnerable — so someone sits with you to watch, also completely still, to not give it away (if something does approach, you can't just wake your companion up to fight or run with you. You have to stand your ground and defend them on your own. So if you can avoid being detected and confronted in the first place, that's best)

Grace is dragged up and down, east and west by Stratt and he's like "yeah, another tuesday"

How whenever she's about to do something questionable like kidnapping another scientist (Dr. Lokken) he's like "you'll get use to it."

How the movie pulls this but switched it, when Grace is firstly meets the crew and Yao says "he talks like a kid", and Stratt is like "you'll get use to it." Then followed by her telling him "you are doing great."

How once again when Stratt is about to do something questionable, like nuking the Antarctic and she says something like "I dont care about morality" and he's like "yeah, she doesn't".

And just the way they gravitated towards each other, she only smiles when he's with her, he goes to look for her whenever he feels uncomfortable in a room and after seeing people flirting. How they work together in separate stuff.

"Am I smart?!"

"That's not our sun :("

"Thus proving the Carl Hypthesis." (love him always giving credit)

*throws pills in his face while screaming*

"I really like him :)" (has known him for a total of 30 secs)

"It could be a bomb- Is it a bomb >:'( !?"

*open literal alien container and sniffs it* "Ooooohhh noaaaur!" (survival instinct of a chair)

"I don't have one of these! Thank you!" (literal alien artifact)

"We're clock brothers...?"

"That is the discoball, it makes me happy"

"Armando, yes, can I help you? You're doing this" *does little dance* "It's a lot of this" *continues little dance*

"Oh my god he's got a gun!"

"I'm having a moment"

"Life is reason star not die- why didn't you just say that!"

"I've been practicing, haven't I :("

"Thumbs up? ... Tiny thumbs up? ... Come on, we've got stars to save."

Stratt: "Can you take the compliment please?" "No" "It's an order" "Oh okay"

"You can't just say 'Words of encouragement'" Rocky:"Words of great encouragement!" "Nope"

"We leave now, statement."

"Now we are just a coulple of very cool dudes with their very own strand of nitrogen-resistent taumeba"

"Hopefully it all makes sense and if not... you're smart, you'll figure it out." *smirks*

"This is Dr. Captain Ryland Grace reporting from the Hail Mary :)"

'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.

The voice of the Hail Mary was recorded live on set with Ryan so they could react to each other in real time!!

Ryan was so nervous and intimidated by the kids in Grace's class (who were played by children of the cast and crew 🥹)

The dots of astrophage Grace shows his class??? That was done by filming burning steeling wool, inverting it, then PUTTING IT IN BLACK AND WHITE

Ryan didn't know what was going to be in Yáo and Ilyukhina's bags, and they were real photos of the actors. He was told to "remember who these people are" and a lot of the emotions we see from him in that scene were real 🥹

The walk outside the classroom was one of the first scene Sandra and Ryan shot together. Sandra whispered "You wanna race to the bike?" And they DID and they KEPT THE SHOT which is why they're doing that hysterical little speedwalk I- ajdgsjshsj

They purposely emphasized reflections to reflect the themes of the movie. They loved glass, they loved light, they loved reflections.

They called the hardware store "off brand homedepot" LMAO

When talking about the shopping trip they said they wanted to show that "Playfulness and creativity are intertwined" 🥹

Grace's goggles that he uses to find the astrophage in the box in a box are literally made from an iPhone duct taped into makeshift goggles. And the infrared footage of him finding the four dots was actually shot ON an iphone!!!

There's a bright orange sticker that reads "CIVILIAN" on the back of Grace's flight helmet and the directors don't know if thats something they actually do but they found it hilarious

When Grace is shoved in front of the room full of world leaders to explain the astrophage, they said, "One of the many times we demonstate Ryland Grace's social anxiety by having people stare at him" ajdgsjdgsjjs

There was a team called "The Poetry Unit" who's job was just getting beautiful shots. And goddamn did they do a beautiful job. Also I've been talking nonstop about the inherent poetry of space travel since Artemis II launched and this just solidified it for me.

Talking about Daniel Pemberton's masterful soundtrack, they said, "He would not be alone in the soundtrack. In fact, two different planets would be rooting him on." 😭

THAT SCENE ON THE BEACH IN THE DONT GO CRAZY ROOM WHERE SOMEONE IS WALKING TOWARDS HIM??? THATS HIS FUTURE SELF ON ERID. (They also said "we dont know how they let us keep this in the movie" which is very funny but im very glad its there)

The scene where he catches the canister took ELEVEN takes for him to actually successfully catch it and everyone on set cheered

They call song that plays (or maybe they're were referring to the scene? A little unclear) when Rocky's ship starts spinning "The Gravity Tango" because "as Rocky spins his ship, its an invitation to dance."

They had 3 ramen ship models on set and every single one broke at some point 😆

Some of Ryan's reactions to Rocky copying his dances are his live reactions of being "absolutely delighted" by the puppet team

Rocky is 200 years old!!

The "Close Encounters" joke was pitched by STEPHEN SPIELBERG HIMSELF

Rocky's carved patch has the petrova line, as well as the base line six number for 23, the number of crew on his ship

The overlapping blue circles on Rocky's arm is his wedding band!!

When Rocky puts his forearms together, he's displaying his family crest!

Rocky has a lot of nonverbal communication cues, and one of them is that every time he says "Question" to form a question, he stomps twice!

They had a deaf consultant for Rocky's nonverbal communications!

Quote from one of the directors: "Its a movie about looking, witnessing one another."

In the scene where Rocky is bossing Grace around telling him how to build his enclosure and Armando and Mary get involved, one of the directors says, "Mary, Rocky, Armando- he's [Grace] creating his space family!"

When Stratt sings "Remember everything will be alright" it is confirmed she is singing it directly to Grace. They talk alot about how much she cares and loves but cannot care and cannot love, and how much she believes in him. How much she sees in him. I just. Man. Wow. They also say that this scene is a bit of an exchange. Grace is daring her, "Come, be human with us." And Stratt is accepting that dare, as much as she can.

I have seen this film three times (counting today) and until the directors' commentary pointed it out, I didn't notice the little HEEL CLICK Grace does when he comes in from collecting the astrophage coming from and going to Adrian AHHHH

"I love how on the spectrum Rocky is" CANON AUTISTIC ROCKY also the director who said this is a parent of a child on the spectrum which makes this all the more authentic and heartwarming 🥹

A lot of the scene where its revealed to Grace that he is the back up is improvised by everyone at the table

After Rocky saves Grace. The little model of himself that Rocky made that he holds up. The little item he holds up beside it? Thats a model of the device that opens the orb that caught the Taumeoba. Its Rocky telling Grace to finish the job. I'm in tears.

"As Rocky wakes up, the lights turn on, the movie warms up. Its like day breaking." 😭😭😭

They built the flexible panel on Rocky's ball MAINLY so Grace could give him the Earth ball akdhjshd

THE RAINBOW WHEN GRACE IS GETTING SEDATED IS REAL IT HAPPENED WHEN THEY WERE FILMING THAT SCENE IT APPEARED IN THE SKY JUST WHEN THEY WERE FILMING AND THEY HURRIED TO CATCH IT IT WAS JUST TOO PERFECT

"Even though he's going away from his home, Earth, he's going towards his real home, which is Rocky." HIS REAL HOME IS ROCKY Y'ALL MY HEART

When Grace and Rocky reunite on Rocky's hull, the translation of what Rocky chirps at him through the transparent xenonite is "You came back for me, question?" 😭😭😭

The tattoo Stratt has at the end means Life In Prison Without Parole

The beach in the Earth Dome on Erid is so rocky because the Eridians got the scale of sand wrong 😭 They're TRYING OKAY

About all the imperfections of Grace's habitat: "Really, all that matters is that he's with his best friend." 🥹🥹🥹

The song choice for the end credits, the "Hallelujah", is because Grace has ascended 😭😭😭😭

Can we get some sentience for Mary & Armando/Nanny?

I feel like Mary would be the mom who has all the embarrassing photos and stories about you. She has definitely given Rocky blackmail (once Grace coded her to respond to Rocky’s commands as well).

Idk if Armando & Nanny are the same robot or different robots. Maybe Armando is from the movie, and Nanny is from the book? (I should really read the book.) But, regardless, I imagine them as separate. 

Armando takes place as more of a doctor who does serious procedures and diagnoses. And Nanny is, well, a nanny, nurse, and caregiver; she takes care of long-term recovery care after whatever Armando does.

Armando is the family doctor who is tired of their family going to them for care 24/7. The “family” is just Grace because he’s the only human that he could help within his abilities/skill set. (Armando actually likes it. He likes to feel needed. He also feels like he needs to take extra care of Grace because he already lost the other two while trying to bring them back. He is supposed to be this advanced doctor robot, and 2 people died under his administration.)

Nanny = School Nurse vibes. *throws ice pack & meds at Grace* & *literally drags his ass back to bed at the beginning of the movie* (Also, secretly thinks she needs to take extra care of Grace because she lost the other two in her care. If only she had taken care of and maintained their bodies better, they would still be here.)

Armando and Nanny are bickering over who Grace likes more between the two of them.

Mary just watches and is a forever-supporting presence.