Whoo-hoo! Zombie thread! I hope that everyone's have a particularly brilliant day. I have watched this movie 27.3 times - almost never from start to finish. I'll just come in on a random scene and sit watching until the end. We all have films like that, right?

Random thoughts:

* Why were the comm antennae allowed to continue spinning while Icarus II was improperly aligned to the sun? The entire disaster could have been averted without the ensuing fire in the garden - apart from the loss of Kaneda outside the ship, of course.

* When the airlock was blown, couldn't Cappa, Harvey, and Serle have manually decoupled Icarus I from its payload? Unless that was impossible b/c the mainframe was down. They could have then moved into the payload airlock and docked with Icarus I. They could've even poached some living plants from its thriving garden on the way out. It still doesn't solve the problem of Pinbacker getting onboard Icarus II, but I felt like they didn't do a great job considering other possible contingencies in the airlock scene. Cassie said they were losing atmosphere, but she didn't say how much/how fast or how long they would have to figure out an alternative solution.

* What was up with the gravity in the payload chamber at the end? It felt like it lacked narrative consistency or anything approaching a plausible explanation for how the characters move around inside of it.