2012: A Blog Odyssey

_A few months back, I watched 2001: A Space Odessey. It was…strange. I didn’t really enjoy it…but I didn’t dislike it. I could see the appeal and the skill level of the involved parties was apparent…but…it was just too out there. It was an unflinching, uncompromising view of what science fiction would be like if all that shit occurred in reality: We probably wouldn’t understand it. Giant black monoliths appearing out of nowhere? Yeah, that’s cool. It’s artistically amazing, but as a narrative…it doesn’t work that well. There’s a reason the most cited part of 2001 is the Jupiter Mission segment with HAL being a dick.