How did those who read the original work view the Project Hail Mary (movie)? Questions?

Regarding "Project Hail Mary," I have posted onceat the stage where I had read the original work and watched the movie trailer. At that time, I expressed various concerns regarding the film adaptation.
(Below, I am supplementing various points while basing this on my post for the BLACKHOLE feature.)

There are two main charms I felt in the original work. The first is the excitement and joy of discovery that a scientist feels, reaching the truth through observation and experimentation. For example, I was thrilled by the part at the beginning where Grace, having lost his memory, notices the difference in the speed of objects falling from a table, conducts the experiment 20 times, takes the average, and realizes, "This isn't Earth!"

The other charm is the buddy story aspect of teaming up with an alien to solve problems. So, after reading the original work and watching the movie trailer, I had doubts like, "Is it okay to reveal this many spoilers?" and at the same time, I harbored a fear that the movie would only have the buddy story elements. (See my previous post for this.)

And that fear became reality. Aside from the part where he makes a darkroom with Rocky to contain the astrophage, I felt there wasn't much of the real thrill of science, including the aforementioned experiments. This is a trivial part outside the main plot, and since there are a mountain of other episodes that need to be picked up in a limited time, it is unavoidable. Speaking of details, it was also a shame that the slapstick where Grace couldn't answer his own name because he had lost his memory and couldn't proceed was cut.
The reason I wanted these scientific elements included is because conspiracy theories and impression-based arguments that are not based on data or scientific methods are rampant, aren't they? I was hoping this would be a good counter-work to that.

However, even so, I want to give this film adaptation a passing grade. This work covers all the main parts of the long story, and because of that, it is sometimes called just a digest. But I think it is well done considering the length of the original work, as the tempo is not too fast and it picked up all the major elements. Because it is a digest, there were parts where explanations had to be omitted, but I was impressed that those parts were made understandable through visuals alone (for example, the model of the star relationship that Rocky gave as a gift at first, or the part where Grace, who was saved by Rocky and had fainted, wakes up and follows what looks like Rocky's bloodstains).

Also, even without the name incident, it was good that they included plenty of other funny parts, and even as a buddy story, it was a restrained production without screaming the other person's name (like Lipo-D?) or having strange appeals to friendship or becoming too much of a tear-jerker. With this, the anxiety I felt when watching the trailer disappeared.

So, in summary, I would like to evaluate it as having done its best as a film adaptation, even though it couldn't capture all the real thrills of the original work.
Since there are characteristics of printed text expression and visual expression, even if you force what is interesting in print into visuals, it might not be utilized, and vice versa. Therefore, my conclusion is that they should complement each other. Of course, Rocky's surprise only happens once, so it becomes a chance only for whichever one you read/watched first.

Also, regarding the cast, Sandra Hüller was good. I thought when I read it that Stratt in the original work has an image of being cold-blooded on the surface, but actually has a human side inside, so this felt like a perfect fit.

And that is my impression up until watching BLACKHOLE. After that, I watched Tomohiro Machiyama add commentary on this work from a religious perspective, and Dr. McGuire (Ryutaro McGuire) add commentary from a scientific perspective.

According to Mr. Machiyama, this work is based on the Bible (New Testament), and Grace is Christ. I would like you to watch the video for details, but for me, who could only read scientific things from this work, it was an eye-opening commentary.

On the McGuire Channel (the above is only the free part), he adds commentary from a scientific perspective on various details, including the original work. This was also an excellent piece that satisfied our intellectual curiosity, which is not found in other distributions. This is exactly what I wanted.

Added on 5/28. The first publication of this article was on 3/30. After that (4/2), a review of this movie was developed in the "Weekly Movie Review Movie Watchmen" segment of RHYMESTER Utamaru's radio show "After 6 Junction 2," and it was confirmed that he has almost the same opinion as me as someone who has read the original work (he used those exact words). This is an excuse that "I didn't copy Mr. Utamaru, those who have read it will have this kind of impression!"