niyalune

stratt gets to her monthly scheduled half-hour for "feeling things" and lets herself descend into cheeky little bitter envious frenzy over not having the coma resistance gene markers. oh, to not have to face the rest of her life on earth and be locked away helpless while everyone starves, and instead just wake up, work for a single month more, eat the best food available, fix everything with her own two hands, die in satisfied peace, and be remembered with reverence. she's just getting into a proper spiral about how grace has this opportunity but can't even seem to comprehend why this would the most beautiful thing and why, why doesn't he? does he not care? about the world, about me, about himself? what's wrong with him? he has the capacity to care, I've seen it, it's there, but he refuses it. why won't he do this for all of us? if I could just reach into his brain and fix-- and then her alarm goes off and she has to go to her next meeting.

"Grace and Rocky saved two planets of intelligent life." Yeah, so did Eva Stratt btw. Do you know how much caffeine that woman must've been on to get major power on earth to coordinate, to organize the world's first interstellar spaceship in just FOUR years, and you know,,, to tie her best friend to the train tracks and blast him to space. Yeah Grace and Rocky did all that. But holy shit Stratt did all that too.

and okay like. everyone hold my hand. can- WITH LOVE. can I, with love, talk about how I hate the fan-perception that grace cries too much. you guys. he cries a NORMAL AMMOUNT for a MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER who was KIDNAPPED and sent to SPACE!!! WITHOUT HIS CONSENT!!! yes yes leaky alien blob leaky leaky leaky I GET IT okay but like. the first time I watched phm every time ryland cried I was right there CRYING WITH HIM. this is just what happens when we've stopped normalizing the "male main charcter doesn't cry" thing, okay??? there is not a SINGLE time in this movie where we spend time on the ryland tear ducts that doesn't make sense / deserve it!!! I will always fight and say that Dr. Ryland Grace cries A Normal Ammount considering the circumstances he's under!!!