Jeremy read Andy Weir's book first — then watched the Ryan Gosling movie. His verdict: the book is better, obviously, but the movie actually holds up. He said that. Out loud. Which he claims he has never said before about a book-to-movie adaptation. The movie (directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller) compresses a lot, and the book goes much deeper on Rocky's perception of sound vs light and the whole alien language discovery arc. But Gosling nails the tone, the emotional beats land, and at 2.5 hours it manages to fit most of what it needed to. The alien Rocky also connects directly to the episode's bigger conversation about consciousness — because if aliens are real and they got here, they had to be aware enough to build ships. Rocky is kind of the argument.
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