T:TSCC and other excessive acronyms
Jan. 16th, 2008 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguySo Cynra & I watched the new Terminator series on Sunday & Monday. As an SF show on Fox it's got limited chances, but I'm looking forward to seeing what they do.
The pilot was interesting. Good casting on the Connors, and I like Summer Glau as Cameron the Terminator (Get it? Cameron? After James Cameron? HAH!).
The plot tended to have more than a few strange abberations in it.
Okay, so, apparently there have been dozens of people sent back in time. I want to know what the order was. Was it First Terminator, T-1000, T-X, Globs of Other Terminators, then in marches Connor and the crew and they send back Reese, Good Terminator 1, Good Terminator 2, Good Termiantor Glau, Oodles of Resistance fighters?
Seriously, they should have just sent five terminators and a squad of guys to guard Sara and John from the moment of his conception. Hell, send back Reese, let the events of T1 happen, then send back a Tec-Com platoon and a dozen Arnies. As it is, it's turning into the end of Bill & Ted 2. "John, the Terminators have sent a horde of robots back int ime to kill you, in addition to the first three!" "Oh yeah? Well, I'll send a technician back in time to 1963 to build a gun and a time machine!" "Why not a bunch of guns and let Kyle know where they are?" "Because you didn't suggest that until he'd already gone back!"
There's also a bit of strangeness in that the time machine they use to go forward. The Terminator gets asploded by the not radioactive gun, and its head flies into the time sphere and ends up in '07, as a McGuffin. Now, the reason you slap skin onto a terminator, in addition to being good for surveillance, is that inorganic material can't go through time. How did the head make the trip?
edit: Cynra posits that the fleshy covering was removed after it exited the time sphere. She is too forgiving.
Nerd quibbling aside, it didn't suck. Nicely paced, and seemed faithful to the feel of the first two films.
Nice to see a Terminator made of chocolate, after all.
The pilot was interesting. Good casting on the Connors, and I like Summer Glau as Cameron the Terminator (Get it? Cameron? After James Cameron? HAH!).
The plot tended to have more than a few strange abberations in it.
Okay, so, apparently there have been dozens of people sent back in time. I want to know what the order was. Was it First Terminator, T-1000, T-X, Globs of Other Terminators, then in marches Connor and the crew and they send back Reese, Good Terminator 1, Good Terminator 2, Good Termiantor Glau, Oodles of Resistance fighters?
Seriously, they should have just sent five terminators and a squad of guys to guard Sara and John from the moment of his conception. Hell, send back Reese, let the events of T1 happen, then send back a Tec-Com platoon and a dozen Arnies. As it is, it's turning into the end of Bill & Ted 2. "John, the Terminators have sent a horde of robots back int ime to kill you, in addition to the first three!" "Oh yeah? Well, I'll send a technician back in time to 1963 to build a gun and a time machine!" "Why not a bunch of guns and let Kyle know where they are?" "Because you didn't suggest that until he'd already gone back!"
There's also a bit of strangeness in that the time machine they use to go forward. The Terminator gets asploded by the not radioactive gun, and its head flies into the time sphere and ends up in '07, as a McGuffin. Now, the reason you slap skin onto a terminator, in addition to being good for surveillance, is that inorganic material can't go through time. How did the head make the trip?
edit: Cynra posits that the fleshy covering was removed after it exited the time sphere. She is too forgiving.
Nerd quibbling aside, it didn't suck. Nicely paced, and seemed faithful to the feel of the first two films.
Nice to see a Terminator made of chocolate, after all.
