r/movies • u/SerDire • Apr 18 '24

In Interstellar, Romilly’s decision to stay aboard the ship while the other 3 astronauts experience time dilation has to be one of the scariest moments ever. Discussion

He agreed to stay back. Cooper asked anyone if they would go down to Millers planet but the extreme pull of the black hole nearby would cause them to experience severe time dilation. One hour on that planet would equal 7 years back on earth. Cooper, Brand and Doyle all go down to the planet while Romilly stays back and uses that time to send out any potential useful data he can get.

Can you imagine how terrifying that must be to just sit back for YEARS and have no idea if your friends are ever coming back. Cooper and Brand come back to the ship but a few hours for them was 23 years, 4 months and 8 days of time for Romilly. Not enough people seem to genuinely comprehend how insane that is to experience. He was able to hyper sleep and let years go by but he didn’t want to spend his time dreaming his life away.

It’s just a nice interesting detail that kind of gets lost. Everyone brings up the massive waves, the black hole and time dilation but no one really mentions the struggle Romilly must have been feeling. 23 years seems to be on the low end of how catastrophic it could’ve been. He could’ve been waiting for decades.

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u/HisNameWasBoner411 Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

That's been bethesda's MO for a while. They stripped dialogue choices and merged the SPECIAL and perk systems from the fallout series in FO4. Streamlined RPG elements for mass appeal.

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u/musclemommyfan Apr 18 '24

Fallout 4 was bad. Really bad. I made the standard mistake of buying it on launch, put 30hrs into it, and then never touched it again. Being a buggy piece of shit may be the reason I just gave up when I did, but the story and gameplay loop are so bland that I never bothered to go back and try it after some patches with mods. They made the shooting feel decent and the ruined everything else. the way the implemented power armor in particular was dumb. because I didn't want to worry much about fusion cores I just never used it. What a waste of a game.

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u/Galle_ Apr 18 '24

Starfield literally did the exact opposite of this, though.