behold the power of god and 48 mental illnesses

Fearing Rocky might be dead // The Relief of Rocky being alive Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

inspired by this tweet:

"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

Whenever Grace is in the shot, he's literally in the spotlight and there is a lot of space around him. People are turned away from him.

Whenever it goes to Stratt, the screen is crowded with people and Ilyukhina is swaying back and forth, cutting off the line of sight.

Grace is open. Grace is also very alone. Both of them are even surrounded by people, but it's more prominent with Grace. Stratt even at her most vulnerable is still hiding.

Now, the directors talked about this scene and the previous scene as Grace asking whether Stratt is someone who he can have as a close friend and with Stratt responding with by singing a song, saying "maybe someday." She cares very deeply for these people, but she has to put that aside to do her job. The directors go on to say that Grace is sort of daring her, asking her if she's a full human being and she says she is, but she has to chose to not be.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Grace is living on a planet of toddler sized rocks with twice his strength. If at ANY point he forgets to look where he’s going he is Going Trip Over An Ambassador. Unstoppable force vs. immovable object except Grace is very much stoppable.

Eridians either get used to talking to his shins, craning on their tippy toes to get a good look at his face, or begin forcing him to sit criss-cross applesauce for literally any important meeting. Picture him joining the Erid equivalent of a UN press conference and having to curl up his awkward water body and hug his knees for the whole thing.

He can conceivably be picked up by an alien the size of a hard helmet against his will. He’s surrounded by space roombas with perfect memories and attention spans shorter than his San Francisco classroom who can’t believe he’s incapable of solving complex math in three seconds. He has step stools around his house for them to climb so he can feel like he’s “looking them in the eye” even though Eridians think that’s stupid since they lack both eyes and directional perception.