Passenger spoilersYou've given me a thought.
5,058 people on board, 120 year journey, and they're supposed to wake with 2 months left.
Instead 2 people are woken up with 90 years still to go.
Lets assume they live another 80 years thanks to the auto-doc.
Thinking about food/water supply. Under normal circumstances the ship was to feed 5058 people for 2 months. Lets say (2000 calories a day) x (60 Days) x (5058 people) + 2% as a margin of safety = 619,099,200 calories
However (2 people) x (80 years) x (2000 cals a day) = 116,800,000 calories
This leaves 452,299,200 calories for 5056 people for 60 days, which is 1490 calories a day. Not fatal, but people will certainly slim down. All this depends on them recognizing the shortfall immediately and rationing the food they have left to make it to Homestead II. It also depends on Jim and Aurora not over-indulging (which is unlikely), and the company having a 2% safety buffer (which is really really large on such a long journey, and super costly given the fact it's space travel).
I wonder if this is part of the reason Jim and Aurora have plants growing all over the place by the end.... they recognize that they're jeopardizing everybody else by simply being awake and they are trying to be more self-sustainable regarding not only food, but also oxygen.
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"There she lay, so beautiful that he could not turn his eyes away." - Sleeping Beauty (The Brothers Grimm)
The ultimate betrayal for the most understandable reasons. What a character study and how uncomfortable watching said character study. For all the space peril, nothing is as agonizing as watching Jim's protracted conundrum. "Don't do it, man." "Okay, now you've done it." That's me commiserating under my breath with Jim as he does the dastardly deed. And then all we can do is watch it come to it's inevitable conclusion. Stressful! The only peaceful interlude is watching Kat, I mean, Aurora swim, but then that gets stressful too! Very cool scene btw and that pool is the coolest as well. Hmm, this is stream of consciousness, but I'm too confounded by the ideas I've been confronted with and am now wondering how much I could enjoy myself for 80 years in a spaceship full of unlimited movies, cuisine, books, swimming and Chris Pratt.
It seems like it would be difficult to find purpose in such a situation. Aurora writes... perhaps that enough. They can make each other happy, maybe that's enough. But what if it isn't...
Are there enough distractions available for 80 years of inevitability? Being alone would be desperately lonely, that I can get. Even with a partner it could feel that way after a while I imagine. But what awaited them on Homestead II? Complete financial freedom? No. Happy relationships? Not necessarily. More possibilities? Yes. Is that enough to make it preferable? It would be a strange choice to be faced with, and difficult to measure.
I'm glad you watched this! Everybody should see it and throw in their 2 cents.