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9/9/08 at 11:31am
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Originally Posted by Quentin
But, if he's actually stupid enough to have feelings for a Terminator robot (I don't care if she does look like Summer Glau), it totally ruins the show. He is instantly unbelievable as the leader of the humans vs. robots.
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Originally Posted by Josh Dial
I happen to think it's completely believable, as we have, in no canon-worthy version of the Terminator lore, seen John as having an "us vs. them" mentality. In fact, it seemms quite the opposite, in that John befriended, for lack of a better term, one model (in T2), and then a different model in the series. Moreover, the latter model was directly programmed by John in the future, so it seems quite resonable to me that something just "clicks" with him regarding Cameron.
So here we have the leader of the resistence living his entire life either on the run or as a delinquent youth in foster homes, being chased by criminals, law enforcement, and murderous robots from the future. Also, he is forced to rely on said robots to protect him. All of this during the formative years of his life. I think it's fair to allow the character some latitude, and I think it fits within the larger framework of the lore as I understand (note, I havn't read Terminator comics or anything of the like -- simply seen the movies). |
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Originally Posted by Quentin
Not to mention, I've never lived in any of these worlds and just as a red-blooded male, I'm smart enough to understand that a robot can't love and I would never love a robot! So, why would this guy??
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Originally Posted by Quentin
I am in fear that they will continue along this course.
But, if he's actually stupid enough to have feelings for a Terminator robot (I don't care if she does look like Summer Glau), it totally ruins the show. |
| It is stupid things like this that really make it a chore to watch tv shows. People acting completely unrealistic. |
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Originally Posted by Ken Chan
On a practical note, I don't buy Cameron's combat-chassis-hardened noggin being punctured by that piece of shrapnel in that explosion which basically left the jeep intact. And if so, does she have a crack in her head now? If all her skin heals, can she go swimming?
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| Makes sense considering that the T-1000's default appearance was that of Robert Patrick's. |
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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
Bad Cameron was actually far more enjoyable than good Cameron but I realize she must return to good mode for the show to continue.
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| John may be the future leader of mankind but taking the risk of reactivating Cameron was a damned stupid move, if he handed Cameron that gun and she terminated him he would have only himself to blame...he's investing his emotions faaaar too much into this machine. |
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Originally Posted by LynxFX
Am I the only one that thinks this world ending technology walking around in the form of a chip is made by a company with the worst quality control department? Bang it around a couple times and it 'switches' from good to bad, bad to good. And why is just that part affected? Maybe when it jolted the terminator wants to make paper mache poodles and display them on wicker tables.
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Originally Posted by Joseph Bolus
I agree 100% regarding Cameron's emotional plea. She was definitely in "mimic mode" at that point. And it was obvious that John understood that as well. I really believe that when he reactivated her and gave her the gun it was with the hope that she would pull the trigger if she was still in "evil mode". I don't think the gun was loaded; and he could have set her on fire at that point which may have given them a fighting chance to escape.
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Originally Posted by Mikel_Cooperman
Pretty good episode but nothihng great.
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Originally Posted by todd s
Why kill that guy in the bathroom? Just bring unneccesary heat from law enforcement.
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Originally Posted by Josh Dial
So here we have the leader of the resistence living his entire life either on the run or as a delinquent youth in foster homes, being chased by criminals, law enforcement, and murderous robots from the future. Also, he is forced to rely on said robots to protect him. All of this during the formative years of his life.
I think it's fair to allow the character some latitude, and I think it fits within the larger framework of the lore as I understand (note, I havn't read Terminator comics or anything of the like -- simply seen the movies). |
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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
I personally believe that robots can never achieve human-level conciousness because they lack a soul. That's my personal beliefe, it doesn't matter how advanced they get and how much they might come close to mimicing us it will never be considered truly alive in my eyes. To me Cameron is no more alive than my toaster or my DVD player, my hot, limber and incredibly sexy DVD player.
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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
It doesn't go that deeply for me, Adam. Skynet destroyed the world because it was a thoughtless machine bent on it's own self preservation and decided to wipe us out, in the words of Kyle, "in a micro second".
At least a psychotic human KNOWS, somewhere in his mind, that it's wrong to kill someone but does it anyway, the distinction between that and Skynet is that it never understood from the get go what was right and wrong, it expended no thought at all to wiping us out. |
| I'm trying to see it from your perspective but it's hard to leave behind the baggage of how I feel about machines in my real life and the way they're depicted on the show, it's very hard for me to separate them in my head. |
| In short, for our argument, you think more like John and I tend to think more like Sarah. |
| you saw John doing something noble that speaks to how he will conduct himself as a leader with empathy as where I saw John do something incredibly reckless that could have resulted in his death thereby destroying all that Kyle, Sarah and the future resistance had been fighting for. Heck, even Cameron herself (I am aware of the oxymoron of constantly calling it "her" even though I know that it isn't human, so that isn't lost on me) stated to Sarah to not allow John to ever do that again. Dang it, Adam, now you got me goin' and talkin' like I care about this show! |
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Originally Posted by Ken Chan
Terminator canon is problematic because the movies were not entirely consistent, but that's wrong
T-1000 and T-800 are the series. Model 101 looks like Arnold. In T3, he's a T-850, Model 101 (not clear what the series upgrades are). Robert Patrick is some other model. Given that the T-1000 was the one and only advanced prototype, it didn't matter as much. Of course, you can strike the "one and only" part now -- we're making a TV show! |
| Actually the default appearance of the T-1000 is not Robert Patrick, it's a metal blob. It only took Robert Patrick's shape because that is the very first human it came across in the movie. Remember there actually was a good human cop Robert Patrick that got killed investigating an "Electrical Disturbance". |
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Originally Posted by Quentin
Sarah (his mom) absolutely has an us vs. them mentality.
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| BTW, did it seem like Summer put some weight on this season? I thought she was too skinny and frail looking in season one but she looked more filled out in the premiere, I actually bought her as a Terminator more this time which is good. |
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Originally Posted by Holadem
The matter of "machines and feelings" is older than the hills, and has been a staple of Science Fiction since... well... gee. It's seminal to the genre. See BSG for as thorough and in depth an exploration of the subject as you're ever gonna see on TV. So I don't see the need for the grave warnings about religion. The BSG thread was just fine.
I generally agree with you John, about Cameron == toaster. But the beauty of a masterpiece like BSG is that it challenges your assumption and maybe belief sets. It helps that the machine in that show are behaviorally and anatomically indistinguishable from humans, right down to their reproductive functions (and the females toasters vary from serviceable to jaw-droppingly hot! H |

