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> 2)  John Lithgows walk in space ("Pant Pant!").  Come on, you think anyone
>     responsible for Discovery's design and construction hasn't been
>     spacewalking around the Earth or Moon for most of his time?  Really
>     stupid.

   I don't think that that's all that valid.  How many of the designers of the
Lunar Lander or the Space Shuttle have ever flown in them?   He probaly did
everything with computer simulations safe and sound in his office in Mountain
View.  I thought his panic was a nice touch, I loved it when he looks "down"
at his feet and he seems to be just hanging there umpteen miles above Jupiter.
   Incidently, when he finally reaches the Discovery, wasn't the section of
hull were he touched labeled "airlock"?

> 3)  Destruction of Jupiter... really made you feel the power it would take
>     to do this.

   I was disappointed that when we see the monoliths on Jupiter that the movie
doesn't actually show them reproducing (doubleing in thickness then splitting
in half).  It just doesn't show what's actually going on, didn't give me the
feeling of how the planet is just being totally inundated with these things.

-- 
Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

"It's sort of a threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
  myself but I'm told they can be very effective."