Linda Holmes

I think my only kind of the main reason I feel differently than you do about the sci-fi story is that I do think particularly by the end, they do a good job of tying this particular sci-fi story and its specifics to some of the things that these characters in particular do.

especially the Dennis O'Hare character.

You know, his situation in life and his story and what he's been through in his history, which you don't kind of find out until fairly late in the game, is related to how he processes the sci-fi elements of this story.

And I do think that by the end, these people are looking at... It's people who are much more familiar on a day-to-day basis with dying than...

You know, they probably were earlier in their lives.

They probably are starting to think about dying more than they did when they were younger.

And so I do think that there is some stuff about mortality and wellness and illness and the well-being of your body and mind that I do think is specifically coming out of this particular science fiction story.

I did reach a point somewhere around the middle where I sort of looked at one of the characters, not one of the main Scooby gang characters, but one of the other characters.

And I thought, I think I know where they might be going with this.

But it wasn't because of anything that struck me as particularly heavy handed.

It was the actor performance.

And I thought, I like the fact that I feel like the actor's performance without more is making me feel like I understand enough about this character to feel like I'm starting to get where they're going with this.

And I appreciated that.

I don't mind figuring out the story.

I just don't want to figure out the story and feel like you're making it super, super obvious to me.

Right.

But I do like when I feel like I'm getting clues.

I don't have a problem with that.

So I think eventually they justify the use of this specific science fiction story in the context of these particular characters.

And so because I found the characters so compelling, it did ultimately kind of hang together for me in that way.