Now I'm imagining if Aurora had taken the chance to go back to sleep, only to wake up and discover Jim wrote an epic memoir before dying
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And finding that the whole new society on the alien planet takes Jim's book as a sort of founding myth and turns against her for leaving him
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Or there's the ending where Aurora does kill Jim in a rage, and now Aurora is alone, wrestling w the urge to wake someone up
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Maybe (callout to ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) a black-comedy daisy chain of people waking each other up until it all falls apart
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Or just deal a little bit with the realistic problems here - what if Jim just plain doesn't like Aurora as much as he thinks he would
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And, ironically, she's more invested in the relationship than him bc in her mind they're two imperfect ppl thrown together by chance
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Whereas he, inevitably, thinks of himself as having had a choice and of having made the wrong choice
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Or hey -- there is no spare cryopod, but Aurora and Jim stay broken up, and they have to now live the rest of their lives as roommates
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Unless one of them is willing to resort to murder or suicide
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Think of how interestingly fucked up and awful that would be
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(It actually seems to be a fairly large ship, one that's "big enough for the two of them")
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(Imagine the future colonists waking up and discovering a ship with a clearly demarcated border between JIM'S SIDE and AURORA'S SIDE)
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Total social isolation, we know, is enough to destroy your sanity - but what about social contact with one other person who hates you
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