He's the captain. It doesn't matter who's idea it was. He was the on executing it.
> They also said more than once that the robot wasn't meant to survive
He WAS meant to survive long enough to collect and send the data.
> He is!
Not anywhere else.
> maybe with a glimpse of hope that he will SOMEHOW survive or see something interesting before the death.
Again, I don't have a problem with him committing suicide (or sacrificing his life to give Brand a chance to survive). But it was originally supposed to be an unmanned mission to get data, which was IMPOSSIBLE! unless you know you'd be greeted by 5th-dimensional polite green men.
> There is no time for this.
They were sitting there for hours! And he later planned the gravitational maneuver around the black hole IN SECONDS, without even asking any of robots.
It took weeks for Rich Purnell, who was a genius who didn't have anything else to do.
> Here is the problem, then :)
No. Well, not the root problem. I sympathize with characters when I can believe their actions. Not the world they live in - just their reactions to this world.
And, BTW, I didn't sympathize characters of "Inception" either, but the plot was so good that it didn't matter. Ditto "Memento".
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Date: 2014-11-17 12:12 pm (UTC)He's the captain. It doesn't matter who's idea it was. He was the on executing it.
> They also said more than once that the robot wasn't meant to survive
He WAS meant to survive long enough to collect and send the data.
> He is!
Not anywhere else.
> maybe with a glimpse of hope that he will SOMEHOW survive or see something interesting before the death.
Again, I don't have a problem with him committing suicide (or sacrificing his life to give Brand a chance to survive). But it was originally supposed to be an unmanned mission to get data, which was IMPOSSIBLE! unless you know you'd be greeted by 5th-dimensional polite green men.
> There is no time for this.
They were sitting there for hours! And he later planned the gravitational maneuver around the black hole IN SECONDS, without even asking any of robots.
It took weeks for Rich Purnell, who was a genius who didn't have anything else to do.
> Here is the problem, then :)
No. Well, not the root problem. I sympathize with characters when I can believe their actions. Not the world they live in - just their reactions to this world.
And, BTW, I didn't sympathize characters of "Inception" either, but the plot was so good that it didn't matter. Ditto "Memento".