The crew didn't know the first planet was a water-world?

No. Miller's team sent the "thumbs up" signal, meaning they thought it was inhabitable.

So what's your point? That Coop's team should've had much more advanced equipment? Why?

I think the oddest part is deciding to land on the water, and of course flying so high above the surface without noticing the enormous waves that are the only feature on the planet.

This movie places a lot of emphasis on HAVING to land on planets to collect data that has already been gathered, even when the beacons are still active. If the beacons were sending the data out, then no landing is necessary.

The only problem with data is that it couldn't go back through the wormhole, but that problem is gone once they pass through the wormhole. Simply having the beacons transmit the data would have prevented anyone from having to RE-LAND on every planet that had ALREADY been landed on.

Also, realistically, they would have done some analysis of the planet from orbit before ever deciding to land.

Oh yeah, and they send out an astronaut to trudge through that water on a planet with higher gravity --- Why not send out the robot to retrieve the beacon? Notice how they waste time waiting for Amelia to reach the beacon, and then finally send out the robot to rescue her AND get the beacon, which it accomplishes in seconds.

Imagine if they'd just sent the robot out... But no, see, these people don't know how to use robots. The planetary analysis was nothing but collecting samples and seeing if the planets were livable, so robots could have done that DESPITE the crazy Dr. Mann's assertion that robots couldn't do it. They could have even had oversight or remote control from a scientist in orbit.

The amount of "we have to land on this planet" going on in this movie is idiotic, especially for a race struggling with resources and time. The movie is not very well thought out.

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It was only a couple feet deep in the area they landed at. Humans can live above water, or in it, we can adapt to non land or build in or above water if necessary.

If you remember due to the enormous time dilations Dr. Brand surmised afterwards that Dr. Miller had arrived only a mere few hours before they arrived, so they had no idea what happened on the surface or what they were going to find, they only knew Miller planet had the resources to support human life.

the problem I had was they chose to go there *first* for no real reason. if you have a choice to go to three different places, and one of them has a catch that you lose insane amounts of time (potentially centuries, millenia, or worse if they get stuck long enough), you don't go there *first*, you go there *last*.

This was one of the weakest parts of the movie for me in terms of the logic. These "science" people go to a planet completely unaware there are huge tidal waves. It's not like they even speculate between them that this could be a factor on that planet with those sort of conditions. Then when they get there they act like idiots who seem to take time plodding through water to salvage a signal when they could get their much quicker robot to do it, while somehow oblivious to the massive wave creeping up behind them until it takes for their pilot who isn't even outside looking around, to point it out to them. Then more idiocy as one stands around waiting for a wave to catch him rather than use the adequate time he has to get on board.

Isn’t the time dilation a big factor here? Anything viewing the planet from afar will see things on the planet as stationary because things will be moving so slowly up an exterior observer. Massive waves will look like motionless mountains. Anything sent to the planet to collect data would take years to relay it.

I think the planet’s proximity to the black hole should have automatically ruled it out as not viable long term, but they felt that since they were right there, it made more sense than hoping they had enough fuel to come back if the other two didn’t pan out.

A shame because had they known they could've packed an aluminum tinny and done some fishing.

Seems fair to say the crew, the astronomers, and the writer didn't know much.