tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post3531492340080317346..comments2023-01-18T13:59:53.475-08:00Comments on <center>2001: A Space Odyssey.Info</center>: Computer Malfunction (Film Synopsis Part 12)Robert E Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18391581467677241611noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-14692288869616646722012-08-27T02:44:23.964-07:002012-08-27T02:44:23.964-07:00The scene works completely without music. Refreshi...The scene works completely without music. Refreshing.<br /><br />Note that the shadows on the Betty pod seem incorrect. The Sun is at ~202 degree relative to Discovery (it is not going "straight out" from the Sun of course but has its engines off and does an ellipse intersecting Jupiter orbit). Poole approaches the antenna from "the top" so to say. When betty attacks, its front should be half in the shadow as it would have the sun on its side; it is not.<br /><br />So errors in movies happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-89806279922645284102012-08-26T15:19:51.756-07:002012-08-26T15:19:51.756-07:00> Only one of the EVA pods has an external HAL ...> Only one of the EVA pods has an external HAL eye<br /><br />This is simply not true. <br /><br />Pod#1 was used to kill Poole. It clearly has the eye-of-HAL terminal.<br /><br />Pod#2 was used to retrieve Poole's body. It can be seen that it has the eye-of-HAL terminal, it is clearly visible. Pod#2 was then lost in space,<br /><br />Pod#3 was used to approach the Orbiting Monolith (yay for redundancy!). It also sports the outside terminal.<br /><br />They are all the same pod model!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-88411632779598689282010-10-03T19:20:40.860-07:002010-10-03T19:20:40.860-07:00Thank you for your most insightful analysis of my ...Thank you for your most insightful analysis of my favorite film. Just one comment: only one of the EVA pods has an external HAL eye. The other pods, presumably specialized for surveying, have metallic cameras in place of the HAL eye in the bow sensor complex below the viewport.<br /><br />There is at least one camera on the interior of the pod. We know this because the HAL display panel in the command deck of Discovery shows a video feed from the pod interior, from the port-aft vantage point. This is the same location from which Kubrick filmed most of the pod interior footage. This is unlikely to have been a true HAL interface panel, with speaker and aluminum faceplate, since (1) the images it produces aren't from an extremely wide angle fish-eye lens, and (2) although this part of the pod interior is very poorly documented (the vantage point comes from the area of the port triangular instrument panel, which is ONLY shown in reflections from the astronauts' helmets, and through the viewport during one of the pod-rotation sequences), a HAL faceplate simply isn't there.Dalenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-52508910971987751782010-07-03T22:18:38.457-07:002010-07-03T22:18:38.457-07:00Yes, you are absolutely right.Yes, you are absolutely right.Robert E Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391581467677241611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-3202017777552584862010-06-05T10:34:47.524-07:002010-06-05T10:34:47.524-07:00I understand that there was a technical error at t...I understand that there was a technical error at this point in the film.<br /><br />Bowman takes a huge breath and keeps it in, turning his lungs into a balloon just before exposing them to a rapid depressurisation.<br /><br />He does run the risk of rupturing his lungs, although apparently an explosive decompression is 1 atmosphere is not fatal.<br /><br />He should have taken a deep breath, exhaled and then gone for it.Paul T Horgan, Englandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04691158303231484636noreply@blogger.com