Enjoyed the movie - I knew going in it was at core a teen age love story.
However - One distraction.
The time it would take for communication data to reach Earth from Mars, and vice versa, is at least ten minutes depending on the distance between the two planets at the time.
The distraction is the real time conversations that could not happen. There would be at least a ten minute wait to get a response, not the immediate responses shown in the movie.
No one questions this in the Star Trek universe. They get a pass because they describe it as subspace communication.
shareExcept this is supposed to be set in a relatively current year--the memorial for Gardner's mother shows her date of death as 2018. So at the very most, Gardner and Tulsa are talking somewhere in 2023-2025. And, okay, maybe communication will improve enough by then to make that plausible, but ATM, not so much based on current technology and likely advances in the next 16 or so years.
Good thought, but missed the mark a bit.
I wasn't trying to hit a "mark." I was merely illustrating that this also doesn't seem to be an issue in other Sci-fi universes.
Though, I doubt even in the 24the century communication will be that instant over vast distances--but you have to suspend your disbelief. It is Star Trek, after all.
The Martian was about the only one that addressed the communication lag properly.
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