![]() ![]() One of the reasons he was chosen for the flight was that with the exception of his elderly mother, he had no real ties left on Earth. In the aftermath of that loss, he had embarked on a long-term relationship with Robert's girlfriend Betty, which ended shortly before Discovery departed for Jupiter-though he left her a son, who was originally attributed to her husband after Dave. Dark and Troubled Past: The 2010 novel reveals some of his pre-series history: his older brother Robert died while trying to explore a lake by diving-they were using a common garage air compressor with a snorkel mouthpiece attached to breathe, which concentrated carbon monoxide in the air flow to deadly levels, with David at the controls when Robert dived.Cold Equation: When HAL opens the pod bay doors in the novelization, Bowman makes the decision to leave Whitehead to his death and save himself given the circumstances, he had little choice.Broken Bird: In the 2010 novel, Curnow described him as ".a bit of a cold fish-not unfriendly, but whenever he entered a room, the temperature seemed to drop by ten degrees." Considering some of his past trauma, as mentioned in tropes below, it makes sense that he would be socially withdrawn.Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: See above.And Your Reward Is Infancy: Bowman becomes the Star Child at the ending of the film.It appears that that will turn out to be Bowman's purgatory, but it's ultimately averted as Bowman Ascends to a Higher Plane of Existence. The journey reduces him to a quivering wreck-then he appears in the alien hotel room as an old man. And I Must Scream: The flash-cuts of Bowman's horror as he's taken Beyond The Infinite.To be fair, had he stayed with the three cryonauts, he would have died as well.Adaptational Heroism: A minor case, but in the novel he doesn't go out to retrieve Poole's body, and leaves the three astronauts in cryo to their deaths when HAL vents all of the air from the ship.The mission's last living human survivor, he is swept up in the Firstborn's ancient experiments in advancing intelligent life, rising to a non-corporeal existence as the so-called Star Child, and continues to have an influence on events through the series. The commander of the Discovery spacecraft and its mission to Jupiter. ![]()
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