I'm sorry, Dave.

I watched a lot of good old SVU today. It's amazing how, even though I'm watching episodes from last year, it seems incredibly dated. Maybe SVU is just sort of a dated show.
I also just finished 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's actually my first time watching it all the way through, though of course I'm familiar with the whole HAL concept. I was... surprised. I was surprised, first of all, by the weirdly slow pace that the entire movie went at, even the dialogue. I think a movie made these days with that sort of pace would bomb... and I have to admit the idea that Generation Z has incredibly short attention spans may be proved by my impatience with this movie. Or not. Maybe people in 1968 found it incredibly slow, too.
HEY! I'm actually talking about something zeitgeisty, for once. Awesome.
And, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I was confused from the point where- SPOILER! (Seriously? The movie has been out for 43 years.) Dave turns HAL off... until the end. Because I'm dense. Really, though. So, my interpretation of it is that Dave kept on going to Jupiter, and then the black thing was actually a wormhole, and Dave goes through it, and it ages him, and then, like, the white room with the art deco furniture was like, Dave's afterlife, and all the different people are actually him, aging, including the baby, which is... also him? Like, he's reborn, or something?
I don't know, I was confused. I didn't talk to the person I talked to yesterday again today, though I did read his blog... weirdly, he also posted about artificial intelligence, which is a little bit of a freaky coincidence.
Additionally, I do feel much better today, though I still have to work on summer reading. So, that's stressful.
11:11. Make a wish.