In the war between teen romance and space, Ellie will pick space every goddamn time, no matter how horrible the acting, so it is not in Tess's strategic interest to propose a marathon to compare. She will, however, die on this hill, as there are few opinions she won't mercilessly defend.

"Didn't take you for a kids' movie kinda guy, Texas," she says, with a smile.

To Ellie:

"It's barely about space, anyway. It's just people talking about trade routes and aliens keeping people as slaves."

It has been twenty years, but is she wrong? She has not even considered it.