re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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Possibly. I don't see it but I may have missed something:

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It's not that you missed something, it's simply that the points you mentioned could easily serve as evidence in support of the argument you're attacking.

Your main argument is seemingly the nonchalance and disinterest in the wormhole displayed by the remaining humans, predicated on the fact that humanity has all it needs and doesn't require a planetary body on which to subsist.

However, that lackadaisical nature could easily serve as evidence for the fact that the wormhole, quite simply, is no longer there. They're drifting along with "no urgency", as you put, because the wormhole is gone. They have no direction or plan because the portal that held their future has closed.

Narratively, it makes sense that the wormhole would be closed, at least in terms of the its purpose. The hyperdimensional beings didn't have an interest in providing humanity with an expressway to a suitable new domicile, but rather to guide them specifically to the black hole. That was the purpose behind the presence of the wormhole - to emancipate humanity from Earth by edifying them on their understanding of gravity. With this understanding, it seems logical that the wormhole would indeed close after that venture concluded, especially after we see the tesseract close, which was overtly linked to the wormhole through the fabric of spacetime.