• Ramenator@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I think we have different understandings of what constitutes a happy ending

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    9 months ago

    Rough that she’s named “Chubby Mary”. Even if there was another Mary on the ship, ya coulda gone to surnames.

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    9 months ago

    “It was just a dream” and “you are dead” are such cheap tricks for storytelling. Annoying.

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      9 months ago

      Well it wasn’t a dream we see that from the beginning, and we know she is going to die because there’s no way to survive that. So we know she’s going through some last minute coping to die somewhat happy, it’s not a cheap annoying trick in actuality. However, if you take it as cheap that’s fine too

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          9 months ago

          Somebody has never taken mythology.

          Spoiler Alert: Every story ever told has been told 1000 times before. Its the natural consequence of being part of a species that has had language for 12000 years and is obsessed with storytelling. What matters is the execution, not how unique the idea is.

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          9 months ago

          almost as overused as the complaining about it

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          Trying to imagine someone dying happy is a shared idea a lot want. Is it used a lot and sometimes with little effort, oh hell yeah. It’s a simple ingredient for storytelling that is gonna be used a lot. It’s like complaining there is flour in all your baked goods. It’s common, not cheap.
          The question is was it a good dish anyways?

          I think this one was a light snack. Nice. Not filling but nice.

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      9 months ago

      The strip is written by Rebecca Sugar; she thrives in cheap storytelling. To her excuse, this is from 2010.

      But I like this art style.

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      Spoiler for the movie Gravity:

      In Gravity, George Clooney’s character wasn’t her husband and it was he who drifted away. But other than that, it’s a pretty common interpretation that this is the same thing that happened to Sandra Bullock’s character. That she died and the ending on Earth was her already being dead. This comic is basically a summary of the movie.

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          LOL they were so proud of the physics, even had Tyson do his whole “Im the smartest person in any room” shtick at the time on the movie.

          I really like the science in The Martian, even if it was a bit generous with the best possible outcome each time and forgot about the dangers of martian soil toxicity.

          Sunshine was also pretty good!

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        9 months ago

        Wait, what? Bullock’s character is actually dead in Gravity? I’ve been watching that movie way too literally. Kinda messes with her character’s arc though, if she karks it halfway through.