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eggyolk
Nov 8, 2007


ImpAtom posted:

I'm not sure how "I won't die but will be forced to eat corpses and probably will return a broken person after four years of isolation spent eating the bodies of my friends" is somehow supposed to be MORE comforting.

That's my main gripe with the whole movie (And apparently by extension the book too, though I didn't read it). Everyone is a BEEP BOOP logical machine that is incapable of emotion or fatigue like real human beings.

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eggyolk
Nov 8, 2007


Chamale posted:

In the afterword to the book, the author says that being isolated on Mars would have severe and complex psychological impacts. And to paraphrase, he didn't feel like writing a book about that, so he gave Watney a superhuman ability to cope.

That explains it better. It was impressive to see people in the film struggling to survive while their asses were packed to the brim with "the right stuff".

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