Well, I guess a series like this requires enough suspension of disbelief to make details such as this one irrelevant :).
What is that accent?
I’m not placing it.
Machines may not feel pain (although ironically, they feel irony) but I do. Your harsh words have saddened me and made the thread uncomfortible for everyone else.
Couple of reasons I can think of:
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Most of the airports, Radio Shacks and comic book ad mail order centers were probably destroyed in the war, leaving a shortage of handy metal detectors.
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They may have used metal detects when they were available, just not in the handful of relevant scenes we saw.
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There are plenty of legitimate reasons humans might set off a metal detector -plate in the head, shrapnel, whatever, that might make detection less accurate.
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A metal detector wand requires you to get right next to the potential Terminator (leaving you vulnurable to having it shoved through your forehead) whereas a dog seems to be able to detect them some distance away.
The actress was born in Hong Kong so I’m guessing it’s a sort of English/Chinese accent.
Actually, the “multiple timeline” angle creates a solution for this one.
Cameron and DillingeNator might be from different timestreams; in his, the infiltrator model won’t set off metal detectors, but in hers, they will.
Unfortunately, “multiple timelines” solves so many contradictions it could make a show unwatchable.
Time Cop, anyone?
That’s too bad for you, I guess. I feel fine. However, for everyone’s benefit I’ll be kind enough to not post it three or four more times.
Referring to the movie or the long, lingering shots of Van Damme’s ass?
-Joe
Do we have to have one big huge behemoth thread for the entire season? I DVR and watch it late so I never have much to contribute, but I enjoy reading what people have to say. With this gargantuan thread, I just can’t keep up and have long since given up trying to read it. Every other show has a new thread for each episode, why is this one different?
I’m not sure where you’re going with that question…
but, if you were asking me whether or not I’d rather be on an earth overrun with serial-killing machines or an earth overrun with lingering shots on Van Damme’s ass, I’ll have to ponder for a few days and get back to you.
Does anyone else think that the fact that both Cameron and Stark (heh Iron-Man) were using 3 stars as their guide for calculating dates, mean that Sarah’s 3 dots are actually a date using those same stars?
I guess another possibility is that they’re throwing in red herrings with regards to the three dots so we all end up as insane as Sarah trying to work out their meaning…
I actually really like these eps - the Terminators are interesting enough characters that it’s fun to see them developed a bit.
I think the feeling is that this show doesn’t have a strong enough viewership on the Dope to warrant individual episode threads.
I don’t know, this thread is up here pretty religiously after every episode. It’s not like Smallville which has to be packaged in with Supernatural if and when there is a thread. I think there are a lot of fans around here.
:rolleyes:
Yes, I like seeing the Terminator characters develop something other than their ironic sense of humor and their database of clever one-liners.
The problem with “multiple timelines” is that it renders the entire series and all the movies moot. What’s the point in sending anything back in time if it can’t change Skynet’s present? For the most part, the movies were pretty good at making the whole think a self fullfilling prophecy.
If I were John Conner, I would just be incredibly reckless and just do what the heck I want, knowing that I save the world in 20 years. So Cromartie or some other Terminator finds me. Fate must dictate that their gun will jam, their exoskeleton breaks down, Cameron or someone saves me or an anvil falls out of the sky for all I care. Something will intervene and I will continue on to fulfill my destiny.
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Does anyone else think that the fact that both Cameron and Stark (heh Iron-Man) were using 3 stars as their guide for calculating dates, mean that Sarah’s 3 dots are actually a date using those same stars?
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This is an intriguing possibility, Wilhelm.
I loved the Dillingernator in the wall, all this time, just…waiting.
It’s a mid-Tasman accent - part Australian, part New Zealand.
As a Kiwi myself, I grew up with that accent all around me, and every so often an actor on local TV would have a precise lilt that would sound like seriously atrocious acting, which would drive me insane with its weak melodrama.
And she’s got that kind of accent. Really irritating.
I don’t think that that’s what multiple timelines imply – there aren’t different futures existing concurrently, but different versions of the future, meaning that nothing is set in stone (which is exemplified by the various future people coming from different futures); so there’s no guarantee that John will live, only that there are versions of the future in which he did (will have done?).
Each episode produces an average of 30 new posts to the thread. I think that’s more than enough for each episode to get its own thread.
Right, what I’m saying is that if there are different versions of the future, why send back Terminators to change the past? It doesn’t change Skynet’s fate. It just creates another future where Skynet wins.
Time travel and paradoxes, how unusual :). There are a few ways that time travel could avoid paradoxes, but the show doesn’t really follow any of those rules, so we get plenty.
I would agree, although I have to confess that it is kind of nice not to have to subscribe to a new thread each week.
That thought did occur to me, and then I thought that the writers were trying to get us to believe that a dying man, using his own bloody fingers, could place the dots accurately enough to indicate a specific date, and I got so sad I buried the memory.
Thanks for bringing it up again…