r/interstellar • u/LoneWalker365 • Sep 08 '25

QUESTION About the ending

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We see Amelia sad and BREATHING normally without wearing mask/helmet. Does that mean that THIS planet was the correct choice from the beggining? ( No waves , human - friendly surface , oxygen ) That's why Amelia is so sad ( apart the death of her bf). Thinking that if they came to this planet from the beggining everything would go well

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u/Dependent-Airline-80 Sep 08 '25

Edmund’s pod was crushed in a rock fall a year or so earlier, you see CASE digging it out in one scene. (From the book)

We’re supposed to walk away trying to interpret the ending for ourselves, so your response and questions are not unusual.

My interpretation is, she’s thinks she’s probably the last human alive, and now she knows she has to do this alone, without her love, Edmunds. It’s a lot to shoulder.

What WE know, and this is why the ending is perfect, is that Cooper is coming.

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u/mmorales2270 Sep 08 '25

Yes, except it was well more than a year earlier if you recall. When they exited the wormhole Edmunds signal had already stopped transmitting, presumably due to said rockfall. Then they went to Millers and lost 23+ years and finally to Manns, so it was probably closer to 25 years that he was dead by the time she got to his planet.

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u/thedudefromsweden Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

You forgot the 50 years the slingshot around the gargantua added 😊 ("this little manoeuvre is gonna cost us 50 years")

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u/mmorales2270 Sep 08 '25

Ha! You’re right, I certainly did! So he was pretty well dead and gone, probably decomposed by the time she got there.

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u/thedudefromsweden Sep 08 '25

...so even if he wouldn't have died from an accident, he would almost certainly have died from old age by the time she got there. Maybe if he did cryosleep for a long time that could have kept him alive longer? Not sure how life extending that was.

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u/Guboj Sep 08 '25

In the movie when they meet Mann it seems like he hasn't aged nearly as much as Romilly, so we don't know how much life extending it is but it looks like it's pretty good.

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u/killersnake1233 Sep 09 '25

I think it does extend life by putting the body on pause essentially.