Overhyping the undocking

I am not entirely sure what I was expecting, but the undocking of Discovery from the International Space Station in the middle of the night last night was significantly less exciting than I'd hoped. Perhaps this is what I get for being such a dork.

So after all of the hype -- and by "hype," I mean the docile NASA commentator's sporadic comments and the fiction in my own head that imagined the undocking as an Industrial Light and Magic spectacle -- the Shuttle just kind of floated away. I am sure the astronauts and the NASA folk on the ground were elated with the maneuver, but me, I just rolled over and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, this forum may have unintentionally turned into some sort of space blog, a splog if you will.