look me in the eye and tell me Grace isn't the nicest and sweetest and most helpful little sacrificial lamb to ever sacrifice
mostly by the power of Grace's own denial xD
ok sorry you summoned the babble now but seriously I've read the book after seeing the movie and while in the movie you can get a bit of the impression Grace is just some guy that got there by poor chance of bad luck of eh will do without training
but the book. oh the book has a space and subtlety of a steel pipe to the face to show in detail that had he ever volunteered he would be 1 choice from the get go. it kinda reads like a horror story in a way with the noose getting slowly tighter around his neck while he is all happy to help all these wonderful smarter people solve the proplems
like one of those characters you want to grab by the shoulders and shake like stop being even more useful and perfect for the role
and the astronaut training I meant there is the pool thing. movie!Grace is adamant he haven't even done it while book! Grace had a sudden paragraph apropos of nothing of not only doing the pool thing
that denial master was stoked he was doing the pool thing in an actual NASA pool with the 1:1 scale ISS behind him where actual real astronauts trained
(you are actually just now learning how to be actual real astronaut you dumbass!)
but that's not all. oh no. in that scene he is testing and perfecting the equipment so later he can teach Dubois and Shapiro how to use it
oh yeah master that shit and be the #1 expert in another thing. sure. +1 to actual invaluableness. sure that won't come back and bite you in the ass
so yeah. I've got feels about this scene
and also this scene goes fluently to Dubois and Shapiro failing at inviting him to threesome
and I was like uhuh. everybody is right. that man is so aroace. and I have a lot of feels about that also