Mallory Rubin

What about empathy as a superpower?

Because in addition to religion, like, that's another kind of core theme and big idea.

That is certainly one of the areas where the idea of World War III poised to erupt is

Yeah.

These are connected.

Also, obviously, the filmmaker trying to reach you through the power of story to say, no, except not only your fellow man, but your fellow being, wherever they might come from.

The aliens have that interest, as you noted, about, like, Rocky and Grace.

The aliens have the interest in certain stories and getting to know us and understand and speak to us and through us.

What if we showed the same openness?

Hugo says that empathy is an evolutionary advantage.

That is one of the things that he says in the movie.

Now, we love to talk about empathy in the stories that we cover.

I think we believe that empathy can actually be a superpower.

And this is certainly something in many different stories, not just space movies, not just alien movies.

Like when we potted about Andor, we talked about this.

We heard from people a lot that part of what genre stories can do is they can get you to think about how you receive the news around you.

I think we'll talk about this maybe more in a minute when we get to the ending and what

what didn't totally work about it but at its core the idea that just opening your heart and mind to another person or being's experience is a better and more worthwhile and more holy perhaps way to live was very interesting I don't know that it felt totally new nope but it was I agree I agree

Pretty good.

Math, bad.