Post by brightside on Nov 30, 2008 20:52:55 GMT -5
I hope you all don't mind if the new guy gives his ideas and thoughts on Pinbacker
(note that this is all speculation on how I think it could have happened)
First of all, I think on the original mission Pinbacker was a very level-headed, calm captain. Stoic, if you will. Much like Kaneda was with Icarus II. The crew respected him the same way Icarus II did with Kaneda. Pinbacker though is enamored with the sun, much as Searle was. Perhaps he first admires it for its beauty, knowing that if he fails, he will be among the last to get this close and see the sun how it really is.
Perhaps something happened to the ship. A solar flare struck it perhaps. The computers went down, and they weren't able to deliver the payload because of it. Unable to send an SOS back to Earth, the only thing they can do it just orbit around, perhaps hoping a rescue mission will eventually come. Pinbacker however begins to slowly lose his mind, knowing he won't be able to return home, so his viewings of the sun increase. (Maybe he has a wife at home, someone he misses terribly. Shades of Harvey...) Now, judging from the deleted scene where Pinbacker sits and talks with Capa, he mentions that he didn't believe in God at first. I believe him, but being stuck in space and without any psychiatric help aboard when an obvious disaster has happened, he slowly loses it, and starts to believe that he sees God in the sun itself.
The crew, still loyal to Pinbacker and unaware of his detiorating mental state, perhaps follow him to the observation deck as he has "something to show them" (perhaps he believes they can see God too, or maybe he had more sinister plans in mind, but I'm going with the good intentions.), and when he opens it, he does so at an unsafe percentage. Perhaps, under his delusional belief, the percentage needed to see God. The crew is incinerated. Realizing he's killed everyone, this drives Pinbacker over the edge even more, leading him to make that last transmission the four see when they board the Icarus I.
A question I have is this, what was his nationality? His accent sounded a little German to me, and Pinbacker does sound like Germanic name. Could he be German/Austrian? I'm not great with accents though, so maybe someone could shed more light on that?
Now, one thought I have, did Kaneda any chance know Pinbacker on Earth? Maybe part of his obsession with the Icarus I was how Pinbacker, an obviously great captain (I don't think they'd send someone up to captain a mission like that who was anything below "great"), someone his equal, couldn't deliver the payload. Maybe he wonders what happened to the man he may have trained with on the Icarus project? Perhaps they had some sort of a backstory together, fueling more into his interest of the Icarus I failure.
Just some musings on what I think, I may be wrong. I just wanted to give a possible backstory that had Pinbacker as an initial good guy, someone, well, normal. Not what we saw in the film. It may be a bit of a stretch, but hey, why not?
(note that this is all speculation on how I think it could have happened)
First of all, I think on the original mission Pinbacker was a very level-headed, calm captain. Stoic, if you will. Much like Kaneda was with Icarus II. The crew respected him the same way Icarus II did with Kaneda. Pinbacker though is enamored with the sun, much as Searle was. Perhaps he first admires it for its beauty, knowing that if he fails, he will be among the last to get this close and see the sun how it really is.
Perhaps something happened to the ship. A solar flare struck it perhaps. The computers went down, and they weren't able to deliver the payload because of it. Unable to send an SOS back to Earth, the only thing they can do it just orbit around, perhaps hoping a rescue mission will eventually come. Pinbacker however begins to slowly lose his mind, knowing he won't be able to return home, so his viewings of the sun increase. (Maybe he has a wife at home, someone he misses terribly. Shades of Harvey...) Now, judging from the deleted scene where Pinbacker sits and talks with Capa, he mentions that he didn't believe in God at first. I believe him, but being stuck in space and without any psychiatric help aboard when an obvious disaster has happened, he slowly loses it, and starts to believe that he sees God in the sun itself.
The crew, still loyal to Pinbacker and unaware of his detiorating mental state, perhaps follow him to the observation deck as he has "something to show them" (perhaps he believes they can see God too, or maybe he had more sinister plans in mind, but I'm going with the good intentions.), and when he opens it, he does so at an unsafe percentage. Perhaps, under his delusional belief, the percentage needed to see God. The crew is incinerated. Realizing he's killed everyone, this drives Pinbacker over the edge even more, leading him to make that last transmission the four see when they board the Icarus I.
A question I have is this, what was his nationality? His accent sounded a little German to me, and Pinbacker does sound like Germanic name. Could he be German/Austrian? I'm not great with accents though, so maybe someone could shed more light on that?
Now, one thought I have, did Kaneda any chance know Pinbacker on Earth? Maybe part of his obsession with the Icarus I was how Pinbacker, an obviously great captain (I don't think they'd send someone up to captain a mission like that who was anything below "great"), someone his equal, couldn't deliver the payload. Maybe he wonders what happened to the man he may have trained with on the Icarus project? Perhaps they had some sort of a backstory together, fueling more into his interest of the Icarus I failure.
Just some musings on what I think, I may be wrong. I just wanted to give a possible backstory that had Pinbacker as an initial good guy, someone, well, normal. Not what we saw in the film. It may be a bit of a stretch, but hey, why not?