Unexpected, yes, and take the biochemical reactions out of the equation of your 'emotions' and what is left? What are those evoked emotions if they can be so easily turned on and off? This is why it is said that 3dSTS experience here is 100x more vivid. The late 2d body is full of this programming, thus our 'emotions'... or at least our bodies reactions, hard to say they are ours, depending upon how one defines themself of course.
As for being in a hurry on that first planet, that is after getting there and one would hope that these scientists and their machines, which they program to do most of the work anyway, would have it all figured out and be ready to 'hit the ground running', but it seems they weren't prepared at all. What good is going there if the analysis is bad, as the data was just a repeating set (which is another classic tool of the trade). One thought would be to send a probe first for initial analysis etc and then when results are available, to send them back to the crew which could go into stasis to save that valuable time component. Either way, I enjoyed the film, but the script is full of this nonsense, the acting saved it, perhaps the directing, not sure who is responsible for that script, if Nolan, then perhaps all of his films have this shared defect? Not that it hurts sales of course, most people in the audience don't pay attention to such things anyway, as the science can really bog down the flow if not presented properly, which can be hard to do, and why cliches are used so often in all entertainment formats. Myths works better when not bogged down by reality. ;) thus the current favorite, black holes. I wonder if they aren't allowed to get too close to mentioning anything other than dead end streets, something Neo in the first Matrix film was warned about.... ''you've been down that road before..." It's a nice film, just too bad the script is allowed to breathe, but then if it was, it wouldn't probably have been made... can't let the light escape that basement closet in Omelas. ;)
As for being in a hurry on that first planet, that is after getting there and one would hope that these scientists and their machines, which they program to do most of the work anyway, would have it all figured out and be ready to 'hit the ground running', but it seems they weren't prepared at all. What good is going there if the analysis is bad, as the data was just a repeating set (which is another classic tool of the trade). One thought would be to send a probe first for initial analysis etc and then when results are available, to send them back to the crew which could go into stasis to save that valuable time component. Either way, I enjoyed the film, but the script is full of this nonsense, the acting saved it, perhaps the directing, not sure who is responsible for that script, if Nolan, then perhaps all of his films have this shared defect? Not that it hurts sales of course, most people in the audience don't pay attention to such things anyway, as the science can really bog down the flow if not presented properly, which can be hard to do, and why cliches are used so often in all entertainment formats. Myths works better when not bogged down by reality. ;) thus the current favorite, black holes. I wonder if they aren't allowed to get too close to mentioning anything other than dead end streets, something Neo in the first Matrix film was warned about.... ''you've been down that road before..." It's a nice film, just too bad the script is allowed to breathe, but then if it was, it wouldn't probably have been made... can't let the light escape that basement closet in Omelas. ;)