Massive news from Jon Spaihts tweet!

I don't know how he would have kept a straight face...

I love how this has become known as a "plot hole", rather than just an oddly written line of dialogue!

straight face for what? dont get you?

That makes perfect sense. It shows that David is imperfect or Weyland's contradictory (to the three laws) programming have screwed him up as did the orders to lie that HAL received.

samething happened in 2001 and very few people actually ever noticed: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSBSyvayiE]HAL playing chess with Frank[/url] tricks him into believing he is in a checkmate when he is not. The thing with that Prometheus line - and mind you, I'm one of those who considers it to be bad writing - if indeed made on purpose was inefective, because Vickers would have noticed David's mistake, as most of the people actually did. The same did not aplly to HAL's chess moment cause few people actually bothered to check that chess game.

I meant, what else could the poor man really have been expected to say? However, as a reason for it being, "deliberate", it doesn't seem to stand very straight? It seems a staggeringly poor way to try and, "deliberately", convey, "twitchy programming", to an audience, bad placement of it, and a bad decision. I have that impression supported a little bit by the fact that it actually doesn't seem to have succeeded in conveying, "twitchy programming", at all - and a lot more successful in generating a sense of, "Huh?....". On top of that, I can't help read the whole issue as a summary metaphor for a number of very particular things about the film that don't seem to actually, really, work, in the film - but that are given to have been intentional all along: where the audience have, evidently, not understood it or, presumably, just haven't given it enough thought. Those very particular things are often answered, by one means, or another, by what often appears, to me, to amount to the slightly odd-sounding excuses of a kind you might expect from a slippery Defendant on a charge he is desperately tying himself in all kinds of knots to beat...all of this, outside of the actual film and long after the event.

allinamberclad I totally agree with you. It makes little for a "wow a glitch" moment and a lot more for a "ahahah idiot" moment.

This is lame like Atlantis is lost. What a bunch of twit writers.

... I think they did not frame it properly for the audience... and left too much room for misinterpretation... unlike during T2 when the T1000 hand grasps the safety railing and takes on the color of the safety tape that was wound around the railing.

Does that mean it is or isn't Christmas day?

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Jon Spaihts is not the first writer I have seen use a trick of this nature... The author of very popular music reference book deliberetly made factual errors just to see who was stealing his material and claining it was theirs.. I would take Jon at his word here,,because it was so obviously a 'mistake'..and others on the movie production team would have call him on it..