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Every scene she’s in, I keep expecting her to be revealed to be a Terminator.
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Every scene she’s in, I keep expecting her to be revealed to be a Terminator.
And to think, just moments before that happened, I was thinking “Cameron should go on a course of antibiotics since they opened her scalp.” That incision is now the least of her worries!
I practically recoiled when I realized they were watching young versions of Derek and Kyle. I’ve watched/read so much time travel fiction where that kind of thing will cause the universe to explode or something.
Loved the scene with the SWAT team, and with the ex-boyfriend paramedic rushing to the scene when he realizes what’s about to happen.
I’m really glad they showed the 888 killing his “wife” in the end - I was sure they were going to show him developing affection for her. Sarah needs to make sure John sees that recording too, because he’s becoming pretty fond of Cameron.
When he was closing the incision, I half expected him to ask for a stapler.
Maybe not after the gasoline truck explosion :eek: .
It was pretty hard for Cromartie to get another face.
When Cameron first met her, they sort of bonded, had a long conversation. I think that Cameron sees her as a “friend.” I think it’s part of the evolution of Cameron’s soul.
In T2, John bonded with the Terminator and eventually saw him as a father-figure. I like that the leader of the human resistance against the machines actually harbors love for them on some level. He knows it’s taboo, but yet, he can’t help himself. I feel that if the writers end up making him fall for Cameron, that’s true to his character, and might show some interesting development on the side of AI being capable of or developing emotion.
Although, yeh… after last night, she’s gonna look like a burn victim (ala, The Man Without a Face). It’ll be interesting to see how she might get her good looks back.
I liked it very much. Thank you for your cooperation.
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I’m sure you meant this as a joke, but three years ago I lost a kidney to cancer and the 8 inch scar I got, including the very nice healing, is dueto “staplers” or rather special metal clamps. Just sayin’.
I was searching, as I wanted to start a thread saying that TerminatorTV suddenly started showing quality, after muddling along for the first five or six episodes. Nice shades of grey, better plotting and directing. All in all, I’m gonna miss it for the hiatus or if it never comes back.
I think it beats T3 in all ways possible and it’s good that the producers decided to ditch that for the sake of continuity (same producers since T1, I think).
It’s not as good as all the great TV that’s happening, but as popcorn tv goes, it holds its own.
While I haven’t seen the ratings book myself, articles I’ve read indicate Terminator is doing well enough to be renewed. (Although the Baba Wawa special on the Royals won its slot Monday, which can never be good.)
All in all, I thought it was pretty good. Getting to watch your dead dad as a five-year-old has to be the best birthday present ever. The FBI raid was a beautiful piece of TV.
And we have plenty of things to ponder for the next season. Who the heck was the guy posing as the owner of the Turk? Who is Sarkossian and how did he track down the Connors? And how burned will Cameron be after the blast?
I agree. It was interesting to see Cameron making conversation with John just because “she felt it was something she ought to do.” She keeps being told by the humans that she has no soul, and it looks like she’s exploring the concept. I hate to bring up any comparison with Lt. Cmdr. Data from ST:TNG, as it doesn’t seem she has the same degree of self-awareness, and Data actually yearned for emotions (and actually reveled in them once his chip got installed) but it seems she’s on some journey of self-discovery, what with her practicing ballet the week before, after she got the information from the Russians. Yet she’s still capable of killing guys and stuffing them in trunks. I wonder if she had some kind of bond with the older John in the future and is attempting to recreate the same kind of bond with his younger self?
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8 million viewers isn’t bad, it just has to be balanced against costs. Fox could probably get the same amount of viewers showing guys kicking each other in the nuts, or whatever. But I hope I’m wrong. T the SCC isn’t a great show, but it’s entertaining and could improve given time.
They can rebuild Cameron using the flesh-regenerating technology Cromartie used.
I have to say I wasn’t a big fan of using Johnny Cash during the gunfight. I like Johnny Cash, and I like shootouts, but they just didn’t go together for me. YMMV, of course.
If you watch the extended version of Terminator 2, there’s a scene where Sarah altered Arnie’s chip to allow him to learn human emotions. (Or something. It’s been awhile.) This made a little more sense than Arnie suddenly learning morality and the value of life the way he did in the theatrical release. Maybe Cameron went through the time machine pre-modified.
I have to agree. But then again, I believe it would have worked had they edited in some echo and white static.
I think the Johnny Cash sequence was genius. His voice sent chills up my spine…it was more apocalyptic than any canned musical score could have been.
I agree, the Johnny Cash scene was just excellent. I just rewatched it on Fox’s website (after fighting through 15 “Bones” commercials just to get to that part).
I’ve loved the show so far, and think it has potential. I think the reason it will stay around is this - as we all know, Fox loves to cancel shows. Especially shows that require some thought (i.e. Arrested Development) or sci-fi shows. But, Terminator has history to it, and most people don’t associate it with “sci-fi”, they just see it as a really cool movie with futuristic killing machines. It also has the extremely-successful movies backing it, and to be honest, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s legacy. And the plots aren’t terribly difficult to follow - sure we like to discuss and theorize about the whens and whys, but in general the average Fox viewer can turn it on, watch it, and be entertained. So I’m really hoping it makes it, considering most shows I watch tend to get cancelled within a year or two.
•Oh, and before I forget…
Maybe it was just a forshadowing of the car bomb, but did anyone else catch the special attention made to Cameron putting the key in the Jeep’s ignition? “Are we learning yet?”
I liked the Johnny Cash sequence also, but I was surprised that the SWAT team members were all dead.
Someone want to explain why the car bomb at the end? The explosion wasn’t nearly big enough to kill Cameron, so what was the point? Why let them know he found them, rather than stalk them, and take out John when he got a chance?
I’m just curious as to how many people there are like me, who haven’t seen the movies and don’t know any of the backstory. And with that given, do you like the TV show?
Through some quirk of the space-time continuum, I haven’t seen any of the Terminator movies, despite being an avid scifi fan. The only backstory I know is what I’ve read in the SCC show threads here. I like the show.
I don’t pay too much attention to details–that’s never useful for Hollywood science fiction. The characters are interesting. Sarah is paranoid, irrational, and hyper-protective of John. John is a teenager who wants to get out from under his mom’s thumb. Cameron is an innocent who kills. As long as they keep focus on the character and let them develop naturally, I’ll stay interested.