Y’all read the book? HAL goes only slightly nuts because he’s given orders to complete the mission, yet hide the purpose from the astronauts. The conflict in orders is what makes him crazy, not the tech.
When HAL is dying and trying to convince Bowman to stay alive, damn. We’re expected to hate HAL but the book really detailed how it really was just a hyper-intelligent machine following its original directives without bias.
I’ve been meaning to read the novel. The beginning part already explained a lot of the primates scene in the movie that I didn’t really know what to make of at first.
Y’all read the book? HAL goes only slightly nuts because he’s given orders to complete the mission, yet hide the purpose from the astronauts. The conflict in orders is what makes him crazy, not the tech.
Anyway, lots to unpack there.
When HAL is dying and trying to convince Bowman to stay alive, damn. We’re expected to hate HAL but the book really detailed how it really was just a hyper-intelligent machine following its original directives without bias.
I’ve been meaning to read the novel. The beginning part already explained a lot of the primates scene in the movie that I didn’t really know what to make of at first.
The movie’s great, but packing some of the concepts into film without ridiculous exposition, dunno if that could be done.
Anyway, it’s a short enough novel, give it a spin.
That was also the case in the movie…