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Full Length | The Martian (Patreon)

Published:
2025-05-03 15:05:16
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2026-09

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We are starting the month off STRONG!! This has been requested loads since I posted my Interstellar reaction 2 or so years ago. And I finally sat down to watch The Martian and I am so glad I did.

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LIPPSMACKER

Also sorry Friday movie posted on Saturday. Sleep issues are really kicking my butt right now but I deff think the experience was better for all that I slept first then recorded.

Andrew Vignaux

"Maybe he could listen to a song", Lipps, Reaction to "The Martian" This was a great film - and a fun soundtrack from Commander Lewis's songs (like "Hot Stuff" when Mark is feeling nice and toasty). Very glad you were able to get to watch the film (after a couple of attempts). I have recently re-listened to the audiobook so I could compare it with the film. I say recently, but that was in prep for your delayed December reaction - so that just gave me more time to finish it. The book was originally published on the author's blog as a series of Watney's "log entries" - with people chiming in with ideas and scientific criticism. Later the blog collection was self-published as a book and then later picked up by a publisher. "I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this.", Mark Watney, "The Martian" The book is mostly scientifically accurate too. The thing that gets the most scientific criticism is probably that the Martian atmosphere would be too thin to support the dense, violent sandstorm at the beginning. Mars does have sandstorms and it causes problems for the Mars rovers that are there, but the storms would not be violent enough to break an antenna dish loose and fling Watney away. BTW: As you worked out a "Sol" is a Martian solar day which is about 24 hours 40 minutes long - a bit more than an Earth day - and that term is used in the real Martian missions. The film did a good job of condensing the book - much of the dialog and the jokes in the film come directly from the book. "Mars will come to fear my botany powers.", Mark Watney, "The Martian" Mark is primarily on the crew as a botanist - testing whether the Martian soil could be used for plant growth in future missions. But all the crew members had secondary roles - and Mark's secondary role was that of the equipment maintenance engineer. So with his skill-set he was the perfect person to be stuck on Mars. I hadn't realised that you had initially missed what he was using as organic fertilizer. In the book he has a small sample of live soil bacteria as well (for his Martian soil tests). In the book there were more problems for Mark. During the Hab decompression, his suit was much more badly damaged and to make matters worse, the whole Hab structure had collapsed - it was basically just a big tent held up by air pressure. And he has to resolve all this with a damaged suit. BTW: the reason for the accident was that there was a minor structural fault in the particular bit of Hab airlock canvas. It would have been ok for the expected lifetime of the Hab - but that particular airlock had been used many, many more times than had been originally designed to do. An additional issue in the book but not the movie, was that during the drive to the Ares 4 site he was out of communications with NASA. So when NASA spots a large dust storm bearing down on him they can't let him know about it. That's partly the reason for the whole "Space Pirate" stuff - at that point NASA couldn't give him explicit permission to take over the craft. "So, yeah, I blew myself up. Best guess, I forgot to account for the excess oxygen that I've been exhaling when I did my calculations because I'm stupid. I'm gonna get back to work here just as soon as my ears stop ringing.", Mark Watney, "The Martian" There were some other Mark self-screw-ups in the book too - like the time he glued his hand to his helmet. Or the time he takes a laptop outside (to record the hexadecimal digits) and the laptop screen literally freezes - LCD (*liquid* crystal display). And there's another much bigger Mark screw-up - which I won't spoil. You'd have to listen to the audiobook to find out about it. So more problems and more problem solving - more story. But everything in the story is well researched and probably would work in real life. "Dear America, remember that astronaut we killed and had a really nice funeral for? Turns out he's alive and we left him on Mars. Our bad. Sincerely, NASA.", Annie, "The Martian" Annie, the NASA PR person (Kristen Wiig's character), has quite a mouth on her in the book when she's speaking in the private meetings - I don't know if there is a line in the book when she's not swearing. There are probably more than 100 F-bombs in the book - mostly her and Mark. "If we're going to call something Project Elrond, I would like my code name to be 'Glorfindel'.", Teddy, "The Martian" Of course, a cool moment in the book/film was when they named the secret meeting "Project Elrond" and chatted about Tolkien trivia. This was the reason that I asked whether people had seen "The Martian" during our LotR book-club discussion of "The Council of Elrond" chapter. And, wonderfully, Sean Bean is in both movie versions of the meetings. That's very cool. "If Watney is really alive we don't want the Ares crew to know", Teddy, "The Martian" The NASA administrator gets criticism from some movie watchers for not letting the rest of his crew know he was alive - but I don't get it. At this point (remember NASA don't know about his potato crop), all they could tell the returning crew is that he is alive but that his food supplies are going to run out before he can be resupplied - i.e. he's currently alive but he's going to die and there's no current plan for saving him. I don't think you need to tell the Hermes crew that. "We still have a chance to bring five astronauts home safe and sound. I'm not risking their lives.", Teddy, "The Martian" And another point for criticism of Teddy. If they go with the option where they risk the crew, then they have to commit to the orbital change before they know that the Chinese rocket will work. If it doesn't work and explodes on takeoff like the other one, the five crew members will die. "But, consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man.", Mark Watney, "The Martian" In the book he doesn't go "Iron Man" - they discuss it and gives Commander Lewis the idea to blow the hatch - but he doesn't actually do it during the rescue. "Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man!", message from the Hermes, "The Martian" That was a high-compliment from early days in NASA rocketry. Finally, a species of Australian tomato has been named after the fictional Mark Watney - I suppose for services to Martian botany. I've gone on way too long with this - what can I say, I like this story and the movie.

LIPPSMACKER

Loved all of this!! Thanks for sticking through the delays on this one, i'm so glad I finally got to watch it. The book sounds so fascinating, will I add it to my TBR list ABSOLUTLEY! But seeing how long that list is it will maybe hopefully be read in this lifetime ☠️