As it was the film just peppered me with questions as I watched from the outset . I know a little about astronomy and space exploration and if you are attempting to pass a story off on me as a credible scientific take on one, you need to make some respectably logical choices in the script based on the science as we know it today.
Didn’t anyone at Nasa think that a telescope would be handy in the Ranger to make some reasonable planetary observations before they went charging down there for a landing? Does a test pilot think it’s ever a great idea to land his spaceship in an unspecified depth of water when he can’t even see the other craft he’s looking for.? Are “giant solid ice clouds” ever a good idea to have hanging over your head on a windy day? They travelled (via the worm hole)to another galaxy as provided by super intelligent beings. Aren’t there enough stars with habitable planets closer to Earth here that would have been a better choice?And isn’t our own Milky Way filled with black holes? And why did nobody go through to rescue Brand before Cooper returned ,it was, after all ,the habitable planet the human race was looking for. Instead they built the little house on the prairie . And how come Cooper could suddenly think he would reach er in just another Ranger that he pinched from that massive O’Neil cylinder?
Even at the beginning with the messages I thought, a drone comes down near a lake and cornfields. Is it going to be used at some point to observe mathematical symbols carved in either of them, by the gravitation waves or the combine harvesters ,(afterall its more noticeable than just dust or a “broken” second hand on the watch,hell even mine does that when the battery is running out!!! ) . Nope, because its more tear jerking if the guy is yelling at the image of himself being an idiot for leaving his daughter. The code leads them to a secret Nasa base (not that secret if they are launching bloody rockets from it, they tend to stand out abit! ).In there ,as theoffice door slides open, there’s an Apollo Saturn rocket "hiding" behind it. And they needed that just to take up a Ranger ? Isn't it built to land and take off again from planets with a greater gravity than Earth? Talking of which, launching that rocket from inside that tightly enclosed space? station like a firework in a bottle is going to cause a bit of damage isn't. You're going to need a new office at the very least!