# Interstellar - need last five minutes in detail (spoilers, obviously :)) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239 "2014-11-10T14:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![starryspice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@starryspice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starryspice)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/1 "2014-11-10T14:11:55Z")
So I went to watch Interstellar this past weekend and although we wanted to go to the 9:30 showing, it was sold out as was the 10:00 showing, so we went to the 10:30 showing instead. In the meantime, I had an insanely large margarita. Couple that with a three-hour movie…I lasted almost til the end, but then I just couldn’t wait any longer, and I ended up missing the very last five minutes of the film. Doh! I left as Cooper woke up in his hospital bed, walks over to the window, and finds out that he’s on Cooper Station. When I came back in, credits were rolling. My husband filled me in a little, but what I really want is a detailed account of the last five minutes. By the way, I loved, loved, loved this movie. I’d really prefer to leave any commenting on the science, acting, dialogue, etc. for another thread. I just want to be able to finish the movie in my mind. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/2 "2014-11-10T14:45:35Z")
You missed the David Hasselhoff cameo? Tragic. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/3 "2014-11-10T14:52:29Z")
I’ll try. He was brought to a replica of the farmhouse, which was set up as a sort of museum. Corn was growing outside. I think that his daughter had told them that he loved to farm. (I think that he was expected to retire there.) He visited Murphy, who was on her deathbed and surrounded by her family. She told him that a parent shouldn’t watch his/her child die, so she sent him away, suggesting he visit Brand. A guy is walking through the hanger and notices one of the one-man spacecraft is missing. And we see Brand standing on Edmund’s planet, looking out, and not wearing the helmet. (So the air is breathable.) A large station is behind her. Edmund’s patch is on the ground, presumably marking his grave. So she’s alone with all of those embryos. ---
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/4 "2014-11-10T15:43:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > And we see Brand standing on Edmund’s planet, looking out, and not wearing the helmet. (So the air is breathable.) A large station is behind her. Edmund’s patch is on the ground, presumably marking his grave. So she’s alone with all of those embryos. I don’t believe she was all alone. Murph knew about her. Certainly they sent people to help. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/5 "2014-11-10T17:02:41Z")
Murph forgives him on her deathbed and tells him that she always believed he would keep his promise to come back, and then sends him away. He rebuilds the robot and takes a ship to go find Brand on the last planet. (The thing about him loving farming was Murph’s little joke.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/6 "2014-11-10T17:41:02Z")
> [@ethelbert](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > And we see Brand standing on Edmund’s planet, looking out, and not wearing the helmet. (So the air is breathable.) A large station is behind her. Edmund’s patch is on the ground, presumably marking his grave. So she’s alone with all of those embryos. > > I don’t believe she was all alone. Murph knew about her. Certainly they sent people to help. Probably correct but we saw her alone. Presumably given that Cooper Station was located near the wormhole, the process of evacuating Earth was well underway. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/7 "2014-11-10T19:32:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Probably correct but we saw her alone. Presumably given that Cooper Station was located near the wormhole, the process of evacuating Earth was well underway. I don’t understand Cooper’s rush to reach her, then. He could stay with the colonists and get there safely, or fly off alone and maybe get there a little sooner at considerable risk. Or maybe it would take years for the colonists to get there. Or maybe they weren’t going there at all. _What the fuck was going on at the end of the movie?!_ ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/8 "2014-11-10T19:46:38Z")
TARS went with Cooper to see Brand. In Brand’s final scene, you could see in the background that there were vehicles and other things. They must have supplied her or Edmund somehow. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/9 "2014-11-10T20:49:46Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I don’t understand Cooper’s rush to reach her, then. He could stay with the colonists and get there safely, or fly off alone and maybe get there a little sooner at considerable risk. > > Or maybe it would take years for the colonists to get there. Or maybe they weren’t going there at all. > _What the fuck was going on at the end of the movie?!_ The one thing that confused me was where the humans were going. Jonathan Nolan says in [this](http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/08/jonathan-nolan-interstellar-spoilers) interview that the wormhole had closed but that the Future Humans had given humanity enough clues to abandon earth successfully but that the rest was up to them. I totally missed the part where the wormhole had closed-I thought it was just the tesseract inside of the black hole that had been closed off. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/10 "2014-11-10T20:59:38Z")
Did you see 2001: A Space Odyssey? Pretty much same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/11 "2014-11-10T23:35:32Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > The one thing that confused me was where the humans were going. Jonathan Nolan says in [this](http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/08/jonathan-nolan-interstellar-spoilers) interview that the wormhole had closed but that the Future Humans had given humanity enough clues to abandon earth successfully but that the rest was up to them. > > I totally missed the part where the wormhole had closed-I thought it was just the tesseract inside of the black hole that had been closed off. If the wormhole has closed, Cooper will never reach Brandt, even if he heads in the right direction at light speed. At best, he finds the distant descendants of the colony she started who by then will probably have evolved so much that they can control the 5th dimension. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/12 "2014-11-10T23:50:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If the wormhole has closed, Cooper will never reach Brandt, even if he heads in the right direction at light speed. At best, he finds the distant descendants of the colony she started who by then will probably have evolved so much that they can control the 5th dimension. Thanks very much for that explanation. The writer of Interstellar says exactly that in the link I helpfully posted. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/13 "2014-11-10T23:56:09Z")
I gather you’re being sarcastic, but I have no problem admitting that I didn’t click your link - I took your word for it that Nolan said the wormhole had closed, and even without deeper analysis that adds another nonsensical element to the film. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/14 "2014-11-11T00:03:18Z")
Huh… if the wormhole closed, then the last thing that actually makes sense in the movie is when the OP left. Unless, of course, you theorize that he never woke up. That seems to be a common thread in Nolan movies. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/15 "2014-11-11T00:05:12Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If the wormhole has closed, Cooper will never reach Brandt, even if he heads in the right direction at light speed. At best, he finds the distant descendants of the colony she started who by then will probably have evolved so much that they can control the 5th dimension. Given that the wormhole led to a totally different galaxy, there would be zero chance he’d get there before dying even at FTL speeds. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/16 "2014-11-11T02:20:56Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > Given that the wormhole led to a totally different galaxy, there would be zero chance he’d get there before dying even at FTL speeds. Well, the movie incorporates time dilation and suspended animation, so that might not be a problem. Him getting to the planet in anything less than 2.2 million years is a wrinkle, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/17 "2014-11-11T08:39:53Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, the movie incorporates time dilation and suspended animation, so that might not be a problem. > > Him getting to the planet in anything less than 2.2 million years is a wrinkle, though. It’s science fiction, not _Nova_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/18 "2014-11-11T10:57:46Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, the movie incorporates time dilation and suspended animation, so that might not be a problem. If you have a ship that can accelerate at 1 G indefinitely, you can get anywhere in the galaxy within a human lifetime. With a touch more acceleration you can get anywhere in the universe. Unfortunately, for everyone else you’re still travelling at less than one light-year per year, so you’ll be a bit late to the party by the time you get to the next galaxy over. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/19 "2014-11-11T11:04:34Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > If you have a ship that can accelerate at 1 G indefinitely, you can get anywhere in the galaxy within a human lifetime. With a touch more acceleration you can get anywhere in the universe. > > Unfortunately, for everyone else you’re still travelling at less than one light-year per year, so you’ll be a bit late to the party by the time you get to the next galaxy over. Such a paradox: you’re traveling so fast, but so slow. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239/20 "2014-11-11T12:17:30Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > It’s science fiction, not _Nova_. Now that you mention it, it seems like the movie’s producers hired an astrophysicist as a consultant, but fell asleep halfway through his presentation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interstellar-need-last-five-minutes-in-detail-spoilers-obviously/704239.md?page=2)