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Wikipedia’s right about that - he wasn’t always HAL. At one point, he was a she named Athena! But Clarke has maintained that HAL stood for Heuristic-ALgorithmic, which describes the type of computer HAL was in technical terms. He says the IBM lettering thing was just a coincidence.

He actually didn’t, but that misconception has persisted since the film and book were first releases.

I did - halfway brilliant and halfway brain dead. Worth watching but could have easily been so much better.

I wanted to watch this but have been very turned off by the reports that it’s much more of a family drama than a show of space exploration. I long for a show about realistic space travel that focuses solely on the missions and the professionalism of the crew as they undertake those tasks. I...