Andy Weir
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But like what this story comes down to is there's not going to be a third act big fight.
The fight is going to be internal about your own like what can I do and who am I inside of all of this.
So like this is not to denigrate superhero movies.
I love them, but we love diversity of storytelling.
And I love that this is something which like you're
Not just your intellectual abilities, which is very important for Ryland to figure out, why am I here?
What do I need to do?
How do we fix this?
And for Rocky to figure that out as well.
Rocky being like, you're pretty dumb.
I have some great ideas.
That's the best.
But also that emotional journey to empathy for Rylan, which is something that is revealed a bit at the end for people who haven't read the books and haven't seen the movies.
But upon rewatch, knowing that we're watching this character access emotional empathy.
heretofore unplumbed depths inside of him.
Like, Rylan Grace is such an interesting character because, you know, I think we did get, I did see some comments from people being like, how is someone as hot as Ryan Gosling?
Like, man, I'm just not good with relationships, you know?
And I'm like, well, hot people can be dysfunctional too.
But like, but wouldn't women be trying harder to access the closed off man that is Rylan Grace?