May 14
The project hail mary movie does. Such a good job at humanizing Eva Stratt. Just getting to see the emotions in her eyes does wonders, especially in the ‘sending grace against his will’ scene—theres less of the drawn out, ‘i am trying to explain why i have no other choice’ tone that the book has, just… apologizing
I do think the book does a better job at showing the lengths that she goes to for making the astronauts more comfortable, but we dont get to see the relationship between stratt and grace, the moments that lead to a close enough relationship that stratt trusts him to manage as much as he does, that theyre mistaken as being together. But i suppose you wouldnt feel like humanizing your executioner, would you?
#theres also the layer of not having a backup in the movie for if grace doesnt go. raises the stakes for stratt a little bit more#to be clear: i love stratt so much as a character#imagine needing that level of authority and having that weight on your shoulders???#i think about the karaoke scene from the movie a lot but also now the antartica scene from the book#she is not portrayed as without emotion or care. by god does she#but the margins are also tighter in the book. half the world minimum in less than 30 years#god i need to get into her brain. i need to write fanfiction about this woman so bad#im thinking about plotbeats and tone and. yknow maybe i should leave it in third person#let us keep a little bit of that divide between us and stratt#grace is the open book. stratt doesnt feel in touch with her emotions enough for first person#sev rambles#project hail mary#eva stratt
