And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:50:26 -0000, nemesis  

<nam### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:

> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:51:34 -0000, nemesis
>> <nam### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:
>>
>> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Oh, is *that* why they went there? (And that's where "there" was..
.)
>> >
>> > I think that's pretty obvious, no?  All that space ballet until the
y  

>> get
>> > to the
>> > moon and Dr. Floyd is told of the discovery... then, it cuts to a  

>> manned
>> > mission to Jupiter where the tripulants are actually unaware of the
  

>> real
>> > mission, confided to HAL alone:  to search for the giant monolith n
ear
>> > the
>> > giant planet.  Eventually, the crew's mission conflict with HAL's m
ain
>> > mission
>> > and the AI becomes "paranoid", so to speak.  The shit hits the fans
  

>> and
>> > it's up
>> > to Dave to turn off HAL to save his life.  In the process he discov
ers
>> > the real
>> > purpose and gets to the monolith to know the truth.  The bad acid t
rip
>> > could be
>> > seen as the monolith opening a worm whole and getting Dave closer f
or
>> > inspection
>> > by the creators...
>>
>> I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic
>
> I was not.  I just described the plot.

and you didn't spot all the sudden jumps you described?

>> See the monolith teaches the apes how to build spaceships out of bone
,

I know, really I do.

> Is it so hard to get it from the movie?

You've got to admit it's a long cut-jump.

> I guess some people have trouble with continuity in non-linear plots..
.  

> for
> instance, I showed my ex-wife this strip:
> http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF162-Executive_Decision.jpg
>
> and she had trouble figuring it out...

Bye-bye Earth heh.

>> Meanwhile on a flight to Jupiter the controlling computer goes
>> mad and starts singing "Daisy, Daisy" until the one member of crew wh
o
>> hasn't died from bashing his head against the wall pulls the plug and

>
> that's sarcasm.

As was the bit before it.

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Phil Cook

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