I think of the 4 community reviews (5 if Yglesias is considered a community member), this is my favorite. I like that you carved right through wishing you were watching a different movie or expecting to watch a different movie, and just extracted the maximal value from the movie that you indeed actually watched. I feel like when I talk about ways the movie could’ve been better, I’m expressing dissatisfaction with the people who made it; when you do it, you’re suggesting ways for the characters to improve.
I like that what others interpreted as cheap shots at greedy or stupid villains you interpreted as a realistic portrayal of the way social reality commandeers situations.
When Isherwell didn’t take his technical concerns seriously, he should have gone and talked to the engineer in charge of the explosive sync
This calls to mind a genre I’d love to see exist—stories of competence or humility having to resort to being cunning to sneak around in mazes (in the sense of Zvi’s sequence) to get stuff done. Yes, in real life if a boss is too confident the move is to find somewhere on the org chart / chain of command someone who can be reasoned with. Some of us have been in large organizations, gotten results, and by that point it doesn’t matter if an idiot boss who if anything made it harder to succeed gets the credit. I don’t know a great citation for this, but the idea that top-down organizations have very real information flow and compression problems where people with decision-making power lack an inside view of what’s going on throughout the organization comes to mind.
They should have pushed for more redundant back-up plans to be enacted, even before they knew whether the first one worked or not.
Completely, 100%. In real life there’d be many more agents, many of whom with capital / ability to coordinate massive projects. This is probably the principal shortcoming of the movie’s realism, not counting various hard scifi comments about the real life state of the art in asteroid/comet deflection.
I think of the 4 community reviews (5 if Yglesias is considered a community member), this is my favorite. I like that you carved right through wishing you were watching a different movie or expecting to watch a different movie, and just extracted the maximal value from the movie that you indeed actually watched. I feel like when I talk about ways the movie could’ve been better, I’m expressing dissatisfaction with the people who made it; when you do it, you’re suggesting ways for the characters to improve.
I like that what others interpreted as cheap shots at greedy or stupid villains you interpreted as a realistic portrayal of the way social reality commandeers situations.
This calls to mind a genre I’d love to see exist—stories of competence or humility having to resort to being cunning to sneak around in mazes (in the sense of Zvi’s sequence) to get stuff done. Yes, in real life if a boss is too confident the move is to find somewhere on the org chart / chain of command someone who can be reasoned with. Some of us have been in large organizations, gotten results, and by that point it doesn’t matter if an idiot boss who if anything made it harder to succeed gets the credit. I don’t know a great citation for this, but the idea that top-down organizations have very real information flow and compression problems where people with decision-making power lack an inside view of what’s going on throughout the organization comes to mind.
Completely, 100%. In real life there’d be many more agents, many of whom with capital / ability to coordinate massive projects. This is probably the principal shortcoming of the movie’s realism, not counting various hard scifi comments about the real life state of the art in asteroid/comet deflection.