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I liked the Astrophage idea, and the implications of something like that existing. The science, the boost to technology, the effects on climate, the wars.Kinda liked the entire design of Rocky, too. The linguistic aspect sucked, though. I also enjoyed the amnesia gimmic, works really well as a story telling device, and uses the flashbacks in a good way to push the story forward. Grace being a coward was also an "interesting" twist in the end - nice idea, but made absolutely no sense considering that he never acts like a coward throughout the mission. The rest was... exactly what I would have expected of an Andy Weir story. So I wasn't disappointed, my fault for reading the book, really.
Still looking forward to the movie, but mostly because I enjoy looking at rockets lifting off. But Jesus, what made the studio people decide on putting the biggest spoiler imaginable right into the trailers? Worst example of a trailer I can think of. Catastrophically bad.
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