#alienstories

For an example, my friend Druxl parked their vehicle in a clearing in the forest the other spherical turn, and there was this group of 1 adult humanoids and several smaller pre-humanoids there. The pre-humanoids decided they wanted to ascend to the top of the vehicle. The adult humanoid did nothing. They just observed.

I finally got around to Project Hail Mary, and I can’t quite shake it.

Everyone talks about the interstellar bromance (which, to be fair, is genuinely great). The relationship between Grace and Rocky is probably one of the most compelling parts of the whole story—two completely different beings figuring each other out, choosing to cooperate, choosing loyalty.

But the more I think about it, the more it feels like the story is doing something deeper… and then stopping just short of it.

The mission itself is a “Hail Mary.” A last desperate attempt. But that phrase originally comes from a prayer—an appeal for help when you’ve reached the end of what you can do yourself.

And the structure of that is still there in the story.

Humanity isn’t enough. So it reaches outward.

And something answers.

But what’s interesting is what answers.

The film gives us something real—connection, sacrifice, even transformation in a sense. But it all happens… laterally. From the side. It helps, it even saves, but it doesn’t quite reach whatever the deeper problem actually is.

So the question I keep coming back to is:

is what answers the cry… actually capable of answering what the cry is for?

I don’t think the story fully resolves that.