Meghan and Oprah interview...holy shit!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

71. The extreme fictionalization is exactly what made me cringe.

Sometimes my problem is that I know too much of history or science or some such.

I had to stop watching the movie The Midnight Sky because of extreme stupidly wrong factual stuff. To start with, the notion that there is a previously unknown moon of Jupiter that is rather earthlike is laughable. Imagine we'd somehow never noticed another moon, the size of our own, around our planet. And then, the real plot mover, that the returning spaceship would somehow be out of touch with Earth until the very last minute is totally unbelievable and not possible. I can't even think of a real world comparison. Maybe that you're driving down the freeway and somehow can't see any exits? I dunno. There simply would NOT be any kind of blackout in communications.

I double checked those things with My Son The Astronomer, and he told me I had it right.

I'm not sure what the actual point of the movie was, since I stopped watching after about 15 minutes, but if it had something to do with human connections, surely there could have been some other way to do it.

Sigh. I get so frustrated with the idiocy of Hollywood.