What about Romilly?

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2015)

After leaving the theater with a bad taste having just watched The Martian, I finally looked at the reviews and found some expressing the same disappointment with the movie but also highly recommending Interstellar. So I watched Interstellar on DVD. The sci-fi ambiance of Interstellar is more to my liking than The Martian's which is ruined by overuse of disco and Bowie. While I liked Interstellar in general, I found it very uneven. Cooper is heroic and idealistic but at times almost hysterical with unexpected emotional outbursts. Brand is an accomplished scientist but in the end admits she picks Edmund's planet for no reason other than love. And then there is Romilly who I think suffered the most for the longest time out of all the major characters. And yet there's hardly any exploration or recognition of what he did during those 23 years that he waited alone, only to be killed by, yes, The Martian himself.