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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 21:56:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 21:56:46 1984
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2010 was just okay.  It was faithful to the book, except that they
added a silly nuclear war tension, and narration which hurt 2010 as
much as it hurt Blade Runner.

SPOILER WARNING!

The mistake occurs when the expedition discover why HAL killed the rest
of the Discovery crew.  It is revealed that the National Security
Comission (a future NSA?) implanted the knowledge of the monolith into
HAL (causing inner conflict and therefore malfunction in HAL) without
telling Heywood Floyd.  In fact he repeats "they didn't tell me" over
and over again.  BUT in 2001 he *did* know.  Proof?  After HAL was
disconnected a prerecorded briefing message was displayed on a monitor,
and in that briefing Heywood Floyd said:  (I have this scene memorized...)

	"Good afternoon gentlemen.  This is a prerecorded briefing made
prior to your departure, which, for security reasons of the highest
importance, has been known on board, during the mission, only by your
H-A-L 9000 computer.  Eighteen months ago the first evidence of
intelligent life off the earth was discovered on the moon near the
crater Tycho.  Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed
at Jupiter, the four million year old black monolith has remained
completely inert.  Its origin and purpose still a total mystery."

So...In "2001" Floyd says that he told HAL about the monolith, and in
2010 he violently denies that he did...

Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP)   University of Waterloo   (519) 885-1211 x3870