I saw the 2001 movie in 1983--went down that psychedelic flashing light tunnel scene and when I woke up it was December 31, 1999. I don't know how they did that but I need the kind of help Dan Davis got in Door Into Summer.

Interesting concept but Heinlein and Clarke are like oil and vinegar. To have a three million-year flash forward of life evolving from primordial sludge interrupted by bacchanalian orgies would just be wrong.

You're right, of course. Still, though Clarke was good for the big ideas, nobody tells a story like Heinlein. 2001 sure could have used some of that story telling ability. I wonder if the real oil and vinegar mix wouldn't have been Heinlein and Kubrick.

I finally got to see several episodes of this series this weekend and I was
very disappointed. The only high point was the brief clip of RAH talking
to Cronkite.

POS(F) was an immense disappointment, but then, the 'history' and 'science' and 'sf' channels have all bombed out big time when it comes to delivering what they originally promised. 90% or more of their programming is glorified by calling it drivel.

Let's start with the feyly renamed SyFy, which, from what I see from a distance, appears to a be a spindle for an endless number of ghost-hunter shows.

Everything else has fallen for endless iterations of these formulaic 'history' shows which are comprised of a slightly silly take on a person or topic and filled out with equal parts cheezeball 'reenactment' and bottom-scraping talking-head time. In the end, we've seen 22 minutes or so of moving images and about three paragraphs of content. And it's EVERYWHERE.

I just would have expected more from Ridley Scott. Guess nott.