Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!tekecs!patcl From: patcl@tekecs.UUCP (Pat Clancy) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: 2010 letdown (semi-SPOILER) Message-ID: <4212@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 01:22:02 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.4212 Posted: Tue Dec 11 01:22:02 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 05:23:15 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 30 All true SF lovers and tech-nerds in general should be very disappointed in 2010. Where 2001 was one of the first (or *the* first?) truly intelligent attempts to convincingly depict a not-to-distant future technology, and show a voyage through deep space with stunning and painstaking realism, 2010 is just Battlestar Galactica level cheap thrills for the kiddies. It's OK for spaceships in a vacuum to noisily roar by in Star Wars, because that's "fantasy". Its not OK in 2010; in fact, it's practically blasphemous. Perhaps the general "sci-fi" audience of the 1980's is simply unaware of the difference between Hollywood-style pseudo-science and physics. Besides sound travelling through space, other failings in the effects/realism department included: (1) "Air-braking" (passing through Jupitor atmosphere) sequence that resembled a burning marshmellow being held in front of a fan; (2) entire circumnavigation of Jupitor appearing to take about 10 minutes, yielding effective velocity very close to c; (3) people walking around normally in 0 g; (4) sloppy paint job evident on close-ups of space pod and instrument panels in Discovery; (5) "blat-blat-blat" sound (radar?) coming from probe monitor on board ship as probe nears moon, which purely for dramatic effect increases in frequency and loudness as probe nears area where chlorophyll is present, as if all their instruments were designed by Mattel. Pat Clancy {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4,allegra,uw-beaver,hplabs}!tektronix!tekecs!patcl