2001: A Space Odyssey/WMG: Difference between revisions

← Older edit

2001: A Space Odyssey/WMG (view source)

Revision as of 20:34, 23 January 2018

21 bytes removed , 6 years ago

m

removed Category:Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey using HotCat

VisualWikitext

SelfCloak

Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers

29,188

edits

Revision as of 21:27, 1 November 2013 (view source) prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:WMG.TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:WMG.TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license)		Latest revision as of 20:34, 23 January 2018 (view source) SelfCloak (talk \| contribs) m (removed Category:Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey using HotCat)
(4 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 16: *** Yes, but Clarke didn't reveal that the computer was named SAL until ''2010''. == ''Contact'' (at least, the [[Contact (~~Film~~film)\|film version]]) is an alternate universe of ''2001''. == The mysterious aliens who built the [[Portal Network]] in the Vegan System are the creators of the Monoliths. The aliens who made contact with Earth are one of the many alien races that have evolved due to the Monoliths. Line 29: * Over the course of the human race's evolution, we have become more infantile in proportions (neoteny is the technical term; chibi is the otaku term), which would explain the enormous space-''fetus'' part. Tying into Clarke's Third Law is that people will become absurdly powerful by modern standards, explaining why it's an ''enormous'' space fetus. And, since the Monolith caused the first jump, it would also cause the second one, natch. Probably the most boring explanation for the ending ever, but meh. Also, read the book before you watch the movie: that way, the end is a hell of a lot less Mind-Screwy. == ''[[~~Moon (Film)\|~~Moon]]'' is in the same universe as ''2001: A Space Odessey''. == GERTY is essentionly a ''nice'' version of HAL-9000. The cloning and technology seem similar as well. Line 38: == HAL's murder of the astronauts was prompted not because he was trying to cover for a mistake he had made, but because the people running the mission had specifically programmed him to do so under certain circumstances. == This was a theory put forward by [[http://collativelearning.com/2001~~<!-- 20chapter208~~%20chapter%208.html Rob Ager in his analysis of ''2001'']]. (Note his analysis covers the film only, not the book version.) The gist of the theory is this: HAL had been programmed to run subtle psychological tests on the crew all throughout the journey to Jupiter. If at any point, any or all of the crewmembers were determined to not be completely under HAL's psychological control, then HAL would have to dispose of them. HAL was sure that Frank was under his control because he had been able to beat him by cheating at chess. But Dave was a more skeptical sort, and when Dave insisted on double-checking the AE-35 unit instead of buying HAL's explanation of its failure, the crew's fate was sealed. HAL's "kill the crew" programming was then activated and he began carrying out his orders of exterminating everyone on the ship. (It may seem far-fetched that Mission Control would create a computer program that would result in the murder of an entire crew but this is a Kubrick film we're talking about. If you know anything about Kubrick's politics and other film works, it certainly wouldn't seem implausible to ''him'' that an Authoritarian Government Agency would casually terminate a crew on a mission as important as this one if it weren't completely certain of its control over them.) ~~-->~~ * But if Mission Control's top priority was maintaining HAL's authority over the crew, they wouldn't have told Dave and Frank that HAL was in error predicting the fault of the AE-35 unit. ** . Bowman, by checking the replaced AE-35 unit and seeing that it was functional, already knew that HAL was in error. HAL's control over Bowman was lost at that point, regardless of what Mission Control would have said. Line 47: "My God!" isn't used as an exclamation; it's used to identify the pronoun "it" in "My God- it's full of stars!" (For a not-so-serious example: "My chocolate- It's full of peanut butter!") == The Aliens are [[Magic: ~~the~~The Gathering\|pre-mending planeswalkers]] == And the monolith are devices that allows the ignition of the Spark without the person dying. Line 61: {{reflist}} [[Category:Wild Mass Guessing/Film]] [[Category:Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey]]▼ [[Category:WMG]] __NOTOC__ ▲[[Category:~~Two Thousand One~~2001: A Space Odyssey]]