I'm trying so hard to get past Bella Ramsay being so young and completely different than the game Ellie.i couldn't take the pregnancy reveal seriously and their talk afterwards, because it was like watching a 12 year old that doesn't actually understand the implications. I thought Bella was great in season 1, but I've never seen the requisite darkness required in her character, for this story. Dina's actress is phenomenal, and has thus far carried every bit of the season's heaviest moments. I'm still rooting for the show and even Bella though. I want to see the show succeed.i just keep hoping to see the depth, rage, and darkness of Ellie finally shine through. It's such a heartbreaking, visceral, meaningful story, that it deserves to be shown to a much wider audience, as intended.

There's always been a way to defend yourself the Subnautica series. Stasis rifle, poison torpedo, thermal knife..etc. the prawn suit easily dispatches leviathans. Honestly I couldn't care less about there being no traditional weapons. The games are engrossing, the exploration and atmosphere more than makes up for it not being combat centric. It could easily ruin the dynamics of the game by adding in weapons. The fear and dread that builds up in that first reaper leviathan encounter, being utterly helpless, is a great experience.

Frozen clouds aren't remotely fantasy. Somewhere out there in the infinity of space, there's a staggering number of planets that would defy what we think of as possible. It's the very statistical nature of infinity, or even near infinite. If the atmosphere was the right chemical mixture, yes clouds can absolutely freeze and suspend in perpetual suspended animation.

The space craft only needed the rocket to escape Earth's gravity. That doesn't mean that it can't go near the speed of light in space. That's just the nature of physics, the amount of thrust needed to overcome the resistance and friction, but in space there is none of that. Very little is actually needed to produce speed, as there nothing to slow you down. It's a vacuum. That's why fuel and other propulsion would be needed to decelerate. That Spaceship was actually modeled after existing designs for interstellar travel. Yeah of course they took cinematic liberties, but it still adhered to basic and leading science as it's foundation.

On a planet experiencing Mile high tsunamis from gravitational effects from a supermassive black hole, a craft could actually survive that, but they screwed up on showing it. When they were in the water running, it would've kept them in more traditional resistance, but once out of the water, they'd most likely need something to tether them so they didn't float or take off flying if they exerted leg strength. Again, it's definitely cinematic liberties but at least still grounded within conditions that would be encountered in that specific scenario.

That was pretty well explained in the movie. It could've been interference from Gargantua for why they didn't hear from Miller. They calculated the time dilation, but up until that point, no human being has ever actually experienced it, seen first-hand of the theory of relativity truly is as we conceptualized it. I have the utmost faith in science, but everyone will have their doubts until they actually experience it for themselves. With Gargantua knocking out the ability to actually communicate, it also would've made it almost impossible to know exactly when Miller arrived, landed, what the conditions were, other than basic data. Their calculations could be off, there's any number of variables that are largely impossible to forsee and calculate, since this is largely the first time mankind has left it's outer orbit of earth, been in proximity to a black hole, traveled through a wormhole that is still largely just theoretical in science.

Funny enough, that actually tracks with recent discoveries in quantum mechanics. Cognition is most likely produced as a by product of entanglement and other mechanics. Entanglement can occur between particles separated across galaxies. There is something akin to a "hive mind" scenario, in which human beings have been mysteriously linked across vast distances. There's numerous cases where Twins instinctually knows when the other is in extreme distress, or has ed away. There's recorded occurrences of parents knowing the moment something bad happened to their child and vice versa. There's any number of cases showing and proving that there's something linking people together, regardless of distance. It may not be "love" but it's something deeper than we have fully explored. The research into certain hallucinogenics like DMT, Iboga, Ayahuasca, have even shown the same types of experiences and results. We still can't explain where the seat of consciousness is physiologically, what produces it, binds it, and if it is a constant or fluke.

So plot wise, it also tracks with the scientific principles of quantum physics

Not necessarily, that was largely addressed, from a plot standpoint at least, that future us made it possible to cross the event horizon and enter unscathed. It even shows that he begins experiencing spaghettification, and then it all stops at once. There are theoretical "gentle horizons" that humans could possibly survive the trek through, but even that's at best, conjecture and educated guesses. Black holes are still a relative mystery. We can measure certain aspects, see the effects that it produces, but until we can somehow first hand observe we'll never truly know. i still believe them to be pocket universes. Where gravity punched through space and created another universe. It's about the only actual theory that truly gives explanation to what caused the big bang and what was before.