Evan

I am a prophet.

@SCShipyards A little promise at the beginning & developed characters. I don’t like a lot of the directions SNW has taken but doing those things right at the beginning is enough that I keep watching. Meanwhile 1/2 the bridge crew on Discovery were nameless to me after 2.5 seasons.

The frustrating thing is that SNW had outstanding character development, and multiple instances of it. So someone on NuTrek's team knows how the equation works. They're just not allowed to implement it nearly as often as it should be.

@smod4real It’s a much better film though obviously I can understand why Deep Impact would be a personal favorite. 98 was a good year for you in film. Like 97 for volcanoes.

Project Hail Mary was great. Probably the best experience I’ve had at a movie theater since Deep Impact. Highly recommend it.

@girdley Pity Riker wasn’t as professional when Jellico came aboard.

I know this is Star Trek, but it's a great case study in leadership. Every boss eventually needs to have this talk with a senior employee at some point in their career. Sometimes you have to remind people who is in charge.

@politicalmath @EsotericCD I’ve got guys arguing with me on Reddit (yeah, I know) that, unlike Kurtzman, Weir really hasn’t done anything.

This reinforces every bias I have and, as such, I'm deeply skeptical about it

@IBD_ECarson @JonahDispatch @lymanstoneky In these trying times we could use a Norman to coordinate.

@lymanstoneky Trump with Russia and Iran right now. youtu.be/y_JCIoifZcg?si…

Unironically the war on Iran and on Russia are the same war. The U.S. needs to get that straight.

@neontaster And if you dare to suggest the writing is poor we will place the blame on you for being stuck in the past, we will describe you as a hater and review bomber and we may occasionally suggest that you are likely a racist or a homophobe. Or both.

I want to tell new stories, but I want to tell them using established franchises and characters that I will change for my story. Make it make sense.

@BGYKPA @antiAntiperson I can see how it might be taken that way. I just don’t see it from that perspective. Weir’s optimism is a big part of what draws me to his writing. In my mind things would in time have gotten as bad as predicted but didn’t while he was gone because of the advances/cooperation.

@stokevm @antiAntiperson If earth is ok, it would take away from the importance of Grace’s mission. With free energy, humanity would only die out if we killed each other. An uplifting story about how the remnant survives and maintains the infrastructure to use Taumoeba could be very uplifting.

Project Hail Mary spin-off that’s not hopeful or optimistic at all and examines the danger and weapons applications of astrophage on a dying and tense Earth…

@SonnyBunch I see some nitpicking from hardcore book fans who don’t like that this detail or that was left out.

Every negative critique of PROJECT HAIL MARY I’ve seen is basically “I resent this movie’s amiable tone.” Which strikes me as yet more proof it’ll have pretty solid legs, since most people don’t want to be made miserable.

When Charlie Kirk was murdered, those of us on the conservative side rightly chastised those of our political adversaries who cheered and celebrated his death. We accused them--again rightly--of shameful callousness and of polluting public discourse and coarsening social life. What President Trump does here merits the same chastisement, for the same reasons.

@Schizointel @SCShipyards We warned them about buying gas from the Soviets/Russians for 40 years.

Like the United States has been warning Europe for 14 years publicly about this threat and unsurprisingly once again the Europeans have spent this entire time scoffing the United States

Good thing that we put that Aegis Ashore Battery in Romania and Poland we've only been telling everybody since like 2012, but Europeans kept disregarding it saying it wasn't real because Iran pinky promised that they weren't developing any such missiles. Also, Iran's entire space program was also a cover for their ballistic missile development. Which Europe also ignored saying Iran would never militarize its space program.

@baseballcrank It should be. I’m not convinced it is. At this point isn’t all this just factored in?

Trump can't help himself. This isn't just classless & petty, it is counterproductive for Trump politically.

@TheCinesthetic He made money. Which is certainly a form of success and probably the only one they care about. But real Star Trek has been around for 60 years and is still watched and loved. Nobody will be watching this stuff in 60 years.

Before J.J. Abrams took over, Paramount reviewed over a dozen scripts for a new Star Trek. Some focused on young Kirk and Spock, others on events after Nemesis. Abrams was chosen to reinvent the saga, not just resurrect it, and he absolutely succeeded.

@petersuderman I think the only criticism you could make is that the book is better. But that’s usually true and always irrelevant. But if people do like the movie they really should read the book.

PROJECT HAIL MARY is the rare film where you come out and just say... "no notes." Even if you have a complaint or two, why bother? It just works so seamlessly as mass-market, mass-appeal entertainment. It's preposterously charming, a perfect popcorn movie. reason.com/2026/03/19/pro…

@GregoryPCA1 @rkylesmith Doesn’t include being knocked out and forced. I get what people are saying but Christ was willing to set aside His desires. Grace wasn’t.

@stokevm @rkylesmith The Agony in the Garden?

TIL that if there were hypothetically a movie about a guy called Grace who boarded a ship called Hail Mary to sacrifice his life to redeem humanity there would be guys too dumb to grasp that this is an allegory.

@BCLive5 @rkylesmith Yes but Grace isn’t willing if there’s no other way. Christ was.

@stokevm @rkylesmith Of course every allegory and analogy has limitations, but "take this cup from me" is there.

@tryintothink @rkylesmith Big reach there. If there was another way let this cup pass but if not they will be done. He didn’t start running and have to be chased down and knocked out.

@stokevm @rkylesmith Garden of Gethsemane?

@micmat02 @karpathy It has a couple of mild "jump scares" but nothing that I would have found objectionable when my kids were that age. Though we probably wouldn't have taken them because we were very (maybe overly) cautious about that sort of thing then. I really don't know why it's not PG.

@karpathy Ok for a 6 and 8 year old to watch with daddy? Official ratings say no but kids want to join me…

Had to go see Project Hail Mary right away (it's based on the book of Andy Weir, of also The Martian fame). Both very pleased and relieved to say that 1) the movie sticks very close to the book in both content and tone and 2) is really well executed. The book is one of my favorites when it comes to alien portrayals because a lot of thought was clearly given to the scientific details of an alternate biochemistry, evolutionary history, sensorium, psychology, language, tech tree, etc. It's different enough that it is highly creative and plausible, but also similar enough that you get a compelling story and one of the best bromances in fiction. Not to mention the other (single-cellular) aliens. I can count fictional portrayals of aliens of this depth on one hand. A lot of these aspects are briefly featured - if you read the book you'll spot them but if you haven't, the movie can't spend the time to do them justice. I'll say that the movie inches a little too much into the superhero movie tropes with the pacing, the quips, the Bathos and such for my taste, and we get a little bit less the grand of Interstellar and a little bit less of the science of The Martian, but I think it's ok considering the tone of the original content. And it does really well where it counts - on Rocky and the bromance. Thank you to the film crew for the gem!

@karpathy A lot of the harder sci-fi aspects of the book were just never going to translate on screen. I accept that. The core of the book is the relationship between Grace and Rocky and the film gets that very, very well which is why it works.