Ep 377: “Moon”

I'm a sucker for space movie.

I just love it, especially when a lot of stuff is...

I like it when they ground you in physics and yet make other things fantastical.

Does that make sense? That's the beauty of...

I think space stories or space films is, you know, you can have anything you want as long as a few things that everybody knows to be true are actually true, you know? Maybe, maybe it takes a while to send a message to, to earth or back or something, or there's no sound outside of the Rover or something like that, or like things where it feels like, oh, this is, this is our same universe kind of thing.

But there are some fantastical things like in this case, you know, he's a clone.

Right.

Obviously, that's not a real thing, at least not yet.

And they're mining the moon.

OK, like that's fantastical as well.

It doesn't mean that it can't happen in the future.

It just means that it hasn't yet.

But we're grounded in this real kind of physics-based kind of feel, right? And that's, I think, one of the things they do really well here.

I feel like this could be a real story in 300 years or something like that where we could be doing this.

And I feel like that because of the physics of the thing.

And then for, like, how the whole interaction with himself when he finds his clone or, like, meets his clone.

So, so cool.

And then the end where, you know, the decision is made where they're kind of, like, wrestling on who will go and then...

The main, I guess, version of him says, no, you should go.

I'm dying anyway.

Put me back in the rover kind of thing.

I thought that was really smart and really cool.

And then we don't ever go to Earth.

Here I think is, what is it, a newscast at the end where he's talking about how he's arguing for clones' rights, you know? Which is just like a little bit, and yet it's super important because we have fallen in love with him as a character.

We want him to be able to have a family.