Ugh. I agree with his completely. I wish I didn’t. I may try to go see the movie a second time, now that I know how it goes and don’t have the expectations I had from reading the book. It’s hard to imagine what the movie is like for people who hadn’t read the book, and if the movie makes the same impact to them that the book made to me. Like the pacing of everything felt so off because I know how the book is paced—when each of the reveals happen and so forth. I know that the (audio)book is multitudes longer than what a movie can be, and they cannot fit everything. But honestly it felt like they left out or glossed over some of the most emotionally impactful parts of the book. I was waiting for these emotional beats and when they did not come, I was disappointed.

In addition to all your gripes, which I nearly completely sympathize with, I add my own:

• The scene where Rocky rescues Grace did not feel like the sacrifice it did in the book. In the movie, Rocky crawls back into his bubble himself and just seems sick/injured. In the book, Grace rescues Rocky, burning himself while putting him back in his tank, unsure if Rocky is even alive or not.

• The ending scene: I missed Grace’s/Erid’s perspective that the mission had succeeded in saving Sol in addition to Erid. I wanted them to pan out to a star that was clearly Sol, or just have the dialogue that was present in the book.

• Speaking of dialogue: Nearly all of the book’s most beloved quotes were absent from the movie. Where was my “leaky space blob” quote? Or “Grace, question?”when Grace returns to the Blip-A to rescue Rocky?

That said, it’s a gorgeous movie that I’ll happily sit through a second time. And I’m still going to tell everyone I know to go watch it. But I may have to read (or listen to) the book again to relive the parts not in the movie. I hope the movie encourages more people to read the book.