re: Project Hail Mary - Discussion (Spoilers) *Now Streaming On-Demand*

It’s about time! All I wanted was “Time Go Fishing”! Hit that 2:00 mark in that song - GLORIOUS!

Cannot wait to watch again to pay more attention to the background details such as the score, the props, etc. typically first watch is the dialogue and plot. Especially after watching this

Excellent movie

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1: How did Rocky know what Grace was saying? I understood how Grace used Rocky’s sounds to match the words but how did it work the other way around?

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In the book they give a better description of how they start establishing words. They start with names, go through numbers, and expand it from there. Plus, Rocky’s memory is significantly better than Grace’s. Eridians basically have photographic memory as a base trait.

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2: How did Rocky come back to life after being exposed to the spaceship atmosphere?

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In the book, Grace carries (with a lot of pain and physical distress to himself) Rocky back to his environment and seals him in to let him heal. Rocky is never dead at any point, just extremely wounded and sick.

Thanks!

Yeah, the whole language thing took a while to work out in the book and it made a good bit of sense. It would be impossible to really explain it well in a movie.

2pm was sold out, 3:45 had plenty room. I never go in the evening anymore, too many retards.

I went at 6:20 Perkins Rowe and it was pretty packed and the 6:40 was as well when I was looking at tickets

No, he didn’t visit Rocky’s ship in the book, and there was also no bit about Earth in the future. In the book the Beatles head off and that’s it.

I also don’t remember there being an option for Grace to return to earth in the book.

Also in the book it’s been many years on Erid. So he doesn’t really know if he could make it. We didn’t really get any of that information from the movie. Him going on the ship was awesome.