The plot hole fix for Interstellar that actually makes sense to me

I was rewatching Interstellar at 3am after a rough night shift and got stuck on how they just let Cooper fall into the black hole. So I came up with a different ending where the tesseract actually fails and Cooper has to use the data from within the event horizon to send a message back as a gravity wave. It would explain why Gravity Wave detection became a thing in the future timeline. Has anyone else tried rewriting that final scene to make the science less hand-wavy?

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alice99118d ago

Wait are you telling me you actually sat down and wrote a different ending to Interstellar? That's a level of dedication I can't even process right now. The gravity wave thing is a clever fix, but I'm stuck on how Cooper survives falling into a black hole in your version. In the original he at least had the tesseract as a plot device. The science was already held together with duct tape and hope, and you went and made it even more complicated. Did you map out the math or just wing it like Nolan did?

the_river18d ago

Did you end up writing out the whole gravity wave transmission scene or just sketch it out? I spent a whole weekend doing the same thing for the ending of Arrival once, it's way too easy to get sucked into making movie science make sense.