I finally viewed 2001: A Space Odyssey

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I agree with what you quoted, for the most part. With that in mind, the story would have been a lot better if they had the issue with HAL. Just have the crew of the Discovery find the monolith, have something go wrong that kills the crew other than Bowman and have him enter the monolith. Having HAL do what it does without any kind of explanation just throws a huge kink in the story that it does not need.

Also, we do not really know what the star child is or represents. We can have theories, but we don’t know. There’s no way to know if it’s a superior life form, if it’s an angel, a superman as is mentioned. It might be just a symbol that doesn’t exist at all. After watching /reading 2010, you know for sure, but not before that.

Great - I do like the star child as just a symbol of regeneration, purpose, affirmation - sound of one hand clapping. (I guess I am ok with it being the astronaut) Unfortunately I don’t have much interest in 2010, but am happy to know there is some wriggle room on the space baby.

I am actually a little worried that, because of this thread, I now know so much more about the rather sad little science fiction plot, it will ruin the movie for me…