When people put "irreconcilable differences" on their divorce proceedings, I imagine one of them walked in on the other doing something like this.
Profane tmesis
Troutian idea pulp. All stories my own or found in the back of a cave. Free if you can get them home.
Only 12 days late with the tax return. Looks like somebody is finally getting their shit together.
houston: Vega one, we need you to check the alignment on coil 3A, please.
vega one: Like my mother's auburn hair, its graying imperfections are hidden from me by the innocence of youth.
houston: Remind me, whose idea was it again to send a poet?
When Captain America returned the soul stone to Vormir, did it bring a loved one back to life for him?
Or did it give him something extra to love. Like a puppy just appeared, and kept him company on the rest of the mission.
I think you could fix a lot of Ad Astra in a fan edit.
- Get rid of the voice over.
- Make him get on the Cepheus before engine ignition.
- Mute the on-the-nose dialogue between son and dad ("you have to let me go"). They can still say it, we just don't hear it because space.
- Rm the mad shockwave from the explosion at the end.
- Somehow make the antimatter pulses directed (like a laser) instead of omnidirectional.
- End it on him looking up in the coffeeshop, but before cutting to Liv Tyler.