#Dr. Heywood Floyd

[chernobog13]

Dr. Heywood Floyd as he appeared in 2001.

Dr. Floyd as he appeared nine years later, in 2010.

Methinks the good doc has had work done.

[chronicsheepdeprivation]

For those unfamiliar with the Space Odyssey series, here’s a handy guide to help you out!

[ryan-the-thing]

3 things the Space Odssey fandom NEVER TALKS ABOUT. (As if there iS a fandom, I can't even find people)

SPOILERS!

• What the hell happened to the dead hibernating crew? I know they got thrown out too but like- where are their souls? Why didn't starchild help them out 💀💀💀 They're probably so lost & confused--

• IN THE BOOK, Dave eats blue food at the end, and it apparently was like spicy jello that tasted like dried fruit, meat and bread or something. LIKE DAMN I WANT SOME-

(I love how they described the ending<3)

• If being around the monolith makes you evolve... WHY DIDN'T DR. FLOYD EVOLVE. HE LITERALLY FUCKING TOUCHED IT?? 😭😭😭 How come the manapes evolve but not him-

[tummy-troubles-tourney]

[chronicsheepdrawing]

So I read a certain little space book...

[elzore-da-great]

Been read 2010 recently so here's Floyd, Curnow, and Chandra! This took me like 4 days lol

[pedroam-bang]

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

[stuckasmain]

Hal talking to Floyd: I can still hear his voice…

Starchild Dave: Gay, Gay, Homosexual, gay

I don’t think I’ll ever recover from 2010

[definedoctrrchandra]

“Do you think this is funny?” Heywood was furious. “What if he had stopped the count? Huh?”

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@cringeheywoodfloyd

The ending of 2010 if they had some time between Jupiter exploding and going into hibernation, but they’re much angrier with each other.

"What? You mean 'what then'?"

Chandra turns to face him, holding up the kill switch.

"I don't understand why no one on this mission seems to trust my judgement. You were the scapegoat for the failure of the Discovery mission, surely you'd understand that I was only doing my best for the crew in a very dire situation!"

He suddenly throws the kill switch across the room.

"No one seemed to have any better ideas - I have done nothing to warrant this....this attitude towards my life's work!"

Shakily sitting back into his cot, he puts his head in his hands for a moment.

"What then...well...we wouldn't be here of course. Or we would be floating dead in space at best case."

...

"I don't think it's funny no... I'm genuinely glad I'm here with you right now. I just don't understand why you have to always be so distrusting-"

[dragon-365]

*trips and falls down the stairs, scattering my shitty anthro space odyssey memes*

[chronicsheepdeprivation]

I'd like to think that the Monolith Beings didn't actually plan to destroy Earth at all.

Humanity had learned far too much about them and their experiments, as well as breaking the quarantine opposed on Europa in only 36 years ( not even a millisecond on a cosmic time scale, like telling a cat not to knock something off the table and then watching them immediately do it ) so they decided to scale back their observation of our species since we'd now begun to terraform the Moon, Mars, and Venus as well as expand to the Jovian system, possibly placing a Monolith somewhere nearby on the fringes of the Solar System where we wouldn't detect it.

Have Halman tell them that they're in jeopardy, make them think they've "won" ( any of the computer viruses that would've worked on the operating systems humanity ran by are not gonna work on the almost incomprehensibly advanced billions-year-old alien space machine, sorry ) and then "disappear".

Halman, having told Frank that their Trojan Horse deployed successfully and that they're now 'infected', wouldn't have fled to the Memory Tablet they provided either. Even if The Monolith were to be infected by something malicious, these incredibly powerful beings would of course have plenty of backups and transfers just in case something went wrong, and can't exactly trust a species with incredibly inferior technologies to harbor their observer ( or to revive and forcibly interrogate it ).

Halman likely escaped to another Monolith in case they're needed for communication and is just dormant or occasionally observing Earth as they were before but this time being much more subtle about it.

( Also, while I'm on the topic- did no one give a shit about Floyd?? His consciousness was part of The Monolith too but Frank only provided an escape for Halman- I get that he wasn't as important/needed but he's still Active, what the fuck guys??? )

[ryan-the-thing]

Heywood ironically not being able to sleep in zero-gravity

[withoutalice]

SEND ME A FANDOM meme: 2001 A Space Odyssey

The first character I first fell in love with:

Ough this one is hard because how I got into 2001 is not applicable but is also pretty relevant for this question...in this case I'd have to say HAL 9000 since I liked him across both movies on the first watch

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 

Chandra! Mostly because I got to know him better as I read more in depth about him for my rp blog @definedoctrrchandra

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 

Stop naur I love all of them!!! 😭 (but if I HAD TO choose a least fave it'd be 2001!Movie!Floyd sorry dude you were really lame compared to your 2010!Movie!Counterpart Floyd)

The character I love that everyone else hates: 

I dont really think there's a character that the 2001: aso fandom really hates; but one character that isn't talked about as much that I like is Moon-Watcher!

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

Again I love all of them!!!😭 But if I had to choose a character who was in my top tens and is no longer it'd probably be Frank. Sorry man xD

The character I would totally smooch: 

Okay hear me out but Dave is kinda fine OK ... 0_o

The character I’d want to be like: 

Literally Max Brailovsky. He's so sympathetic to Curnow and always messes up idioms like "piece of pie" (instead of piece of cake ofc lol). Also when he freaks about about the rotting meat smell on the Discovery is highkey relatable(tm) Also here's my favorite exchange between Curnow and Max (from the 2010 movie) -> Curnow: "Durak". That's me. Max: You shouldn't feel like that. Same thing happened to me first time I did this. Curnow: When have you ever done this before? Max: Never!

The character I’d slap:

the US Government for making HAL lie  🥺 

A pairing that I love:

Halman omg it gives me so many feels

A pairing that I despise:

Frank/Dave. I don't DESPISE it but I'm just indifferent tbf

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[pierre-mobilex]

Why he sitting like that😭 💅💅💅

[elzore-da-great]

Today is Hal9000's birthday if you didn't know so I made some art of him and Chandra celebrating!