maggie

In hysterics over the fact that mark's name is 75% Mars. Of ALL the people in the ares 3 mission he's the one that gets stranded on Mars. The protagonist of the next mission is going to me called jupitek and you'll never guess where he goes. It's Hannibal the cannibal all over again

while i love the martian movie it seriously downplayed how utterly fucked mark watney is. need to get pathfinder? no problem he just hops in the car and gets it. what do you mean it took mark weeks to even get to it? he has a whole separate place to make his potatoes! he doesn't have to farm the entirety of his Hab and additional pop tents at all!! when the airlock explodes and separates from the Hab, he can just duct tape over the crack in his helmet and it's good as new. doesn't have to literally cut off the arm of his EVA suit to seal the crack and he's not rapidly losing air in the airlock. he makes a silly quip about NASA telling him to 'drill a bunch of holes into the top and hit it as hard as he can with a rock' but doesn't say that it takes him almost a week to do it because the drill he's using was made for taking soil samples. oh btw while he was working on this he fried the circuit in the pathfinder, cutting off all communications with earth. and he definitely didn't have to go around a sandstorm and didn't tip the mars rover over.

i love love loved how the martian novel ended. mark doesn't do it alone. he's not a hero who flies out to hermes and rescues himself. after a year and a half of lonely survival he has to (he gets to) surrender and put his life in his friends' hands. they don't throw him a line and tell him to grab it, it's not distant and impersonal like an escape pod docking to a rescue ship. beck gets to go out there and bring him home. when mark sees beck coming down to him he has a startle response, like it's been so long since he's seen another person that his body recoils in fear. it's important that the rescue is so personal. beck holds on to mark with his own hands and tethers their bodies together and carries him back to the ship and mark's only orders are to relinquish himself to being saved

one thing i have learned from The Martian is that when things go wrong its ok if you need to freak out and panic and cry and get angry about it but after that you gotta lock in or you die. like you will make it but you have to keep going. you’re gonna make it but you have to keep on going.