From the Earth to the Moon was one of my first DVD purchases, and is still the most I've spent on a DVD set to date (I keep looking longingly at the I, Claudius set, though...). I remember seeing the "1968" episode in its first run at my dad's (he had HBO) and enjoying it, but bought the set just because I'd heard how good the entire series was, and I was right to do so.

The weakest eps (for me) are the ones on Apollo 7, Apollo 13 (although concentrating on the media was an interesting approach, it didn't really fit in with the rest of the series), and Apollo 16 (even though the wives did deserve their own episode, I just don't go back and rewatch it at all). My favorites are Apollo 12, the LEM ep, Apollo 15 (for the sheer scientific geekery of it all), and the gut-wrenching Apollo 1.

the LEM ep

SPIDER!!!

"What you did was good. Not this...this is bad."

Love that series. Like woah I love that series. Except the final episode.

I *LOVE* the final episode.

So there.

What exactly is the premise of this AFI 100? Just the greatest films? I love to disagree with these (though I can't fault a large number of choices, except maybe as top 100), but they aren't giving me any context (especially when they flashed back to the last decade of AFI topics).

I always liked the stuff happening in Houston

What I liked about that part of the film was that those characters most of them didn't even have last names (if they even had first names), but they were well-cast and distinctive and looked like real people and plausibly geeky. (Also, Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason, and hearing geeks talk nasal-Chicago is twice as funny.)

What exactly is the premise of this AFI 100?

Morgan Freeman's introduction explained that it's still the 100 greatest American films, but that the list has changed in the past 10 years, to reflect attitudes, add new films, etc.

It shames me every time I watch one of these things how many films I still haven't seen, or have only seen bits and pieces of. Probably watching shows like this.

This just in: Knocked Up is really funny.

I *LOVE* the final episode.

Pffft. Like you're normal.

I like all the Harrison "Jack" Schmidt stuff in both the final episode and the Apollo 15 ep. The fact that NASA caved in and put a geologist on the moon in the final moon shot was a victory for all science geeks!

Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason

Was he the kid genius who worked Ken Mattingly on the start-up procedure? If so, he was HAWT!! When I first saw Apollo 13 in the theater, I told my mom afterwards that the guy who played that NASA guy was drool-worthy, even in those horn-rim glasses.

IRL, that NASA guy was also the one who saved the Apollo 12 launch by telling the astronauts to "Try SCE to aux," as shown in From the Earth...:

"FCE to aux? What the hell is that?" Pete
"No--SCE, not FCE..." Mission Control
"I know what that is!" Al, who saves the day