A story of hope, conection, bravery (forced? lol) Glossed over a lot of the science detail and the speed of extraterrestrial communication has got to be way longer than this (truncated for the movie, I suppose)
But I really teared up at Grace taking off his helmet. TRUST in Rocky! The friendship and love developed, sacrifice and communal reciprocity in all nature, in formations beyond Earth. To at least imagine and envision this to be the case—that’s the power of scifi.
Inspired to read more science fiction as a result, for visions of the possible amidst incredible doubt and despair of our times.