Retardo_Montalban wrote:All in all, I thought the episode was meh. The termintors are too soft in this show. I remember in the original Terminators, all you had to do was look at a terminator funny, and he'd end ya. Ol' Johnny boy didn't even have to tell Glau to spare the banker, she just did. If Arnold was around, that bitch who tripped the silent alarm would have her index finger blown off after the alarm button was blown away with a couple of bullets.
Theta wrote:Personally I hope the show sticks more to "Terminator" than T2, if for no other reason than "Terminator" was a much better movie.
zillabeast wrote:Well. I liked it. They basically cloned T2 and decided to make a television run out of it.
Yeah, they completely retconned T3 (which I enjoyed the hell out of), but I am willing to give this thing a chance. Bear McCreary's score alone is worth watching the show for.
Theta wrote:Retardo_Montalban wrote:All in all, I thought the episode was meh. The termintors are too soft in this show. I remember in the original Terminators, all you had to do was look at a terminator funny, and he'd end ya. Ol' Johnny boy didn't even have to tell Glau to spare the banker, she just did. If Arnold was around, that bitch who tripped the silent alarm would have her index finger blown off after the alarm button was blown away with a couple of bullets.
Not the Arnold from T2. No killing because Cameron became a wimp after "The Abyss" tanked. Now, granted, he would have kneecapped her, but still.
Personally I hope the show sticks more to "Terminator" than T2, if for no other reason than "Terminator" was a much better movie.
ThisIsTheGirl wrote:Cheers CeeBee! I'll definitely check it out when it starts, but I don't have massively high hopes, I must say!
Cha-Ka Khan wrote: I also thought Summer did a good job of doing the Terminator "stare" during the fight scenes. I think back to Robert Patrick and Arnie (moreso Patrick) just doing that unblinking, steely gaze into the T-800's face as they threw each other around and into walls. Glau had that down pat.
godzillasushi wrote:I am so confused about where in the overall timeline this takes place and how that affects everything else. Like, say Conner likes this terminator chick....why doesn't he remember her at all in the third movie. If that makes sense. Like everything that happens ignores the third movie maybe. So in Rise of the Machines, he doesn't look like he's been running from 5 seasons worth of terminators or whatever. I'm sure someone will have it completely wiki'd by the end of the day anyway.
Cha-Ka Khan wrote:godzillasushi wrote:I am so confused about where in the overall timeline this takes place and how that affects everything else. Like, say Conner likes this terminator chick....why doesn't he remember her at all in the third movie. If that makes sense. Like everything that happens ignores the third movie maybe. So in Rise of the Machines, he doesn't look like he's been running from 5 seasons worth of terminators or whatever. I'm sure someone will have it completely wiki'd by the end of the day anyway.
That was the whole "gimmick" though... Cameron coming back and transporting them to the present day (2007) has mucked with the entire timeline, thus making the events of T3 null and void... and also it means that Sarah Connor may not die after all as she was dead in T3. (Or, she may die, just not in the same way at the same time).
Retardo_Montalban wrote:Theta wrote:Retardo_Montalban wrote:All in all, I thought the episode was meh. The termintors are too soft in this show. I remember in the original Terminators, all you had to do was look at a terminator funny, and he'd end ya. Ol' Johnny boy didn't even have to tell Glau to spare the banker, she just did. If Arnold was around, that bitch who tripped the silent alarm would have her index finger blown off after the alarm button was blown away with a couple of bullets.
Not the Arnold from T2. No killing because Cameron became a wimp after "The Abyss" tanked. Now, granted, he would have kneecapped her, but still.
Personally I hope the show sticks more to "Terminator" than T2, if for no other reason than "Terminator" was a much better movie.
You're right about Terminator 2. At least there was a plausible explanation as to why Arnold wouldn't kill. John Connor told him not to. In this T.V. show, the Sub Terminator just walked past a whole bunch of armed SWAT guys and broke it down to shitty guns = no threat. That was bullshit. The Terminators have no problem killing people, even unarmed people, as is evidence of Connor's foster parents in T2.
instant_karma wrote:I always thought that the Terminators indiscriminately killing anybody that got in their way back in the past was weird.
I mean, how did they know that the person they just killed wasn't in some way pivotal to Skynet's creation?
I mentioned this to a friend when we were watching T2 one time and he told me to shut the fuck up and enjoy the mayhem. It was good advice....
instant_karma wrote:I always thought that the Terminators indiscriminately killing anybody that got in their way back in the past was weird.
I mean, how did they know that the person they just killed wasn't in some way pivotal to Skynet's creation?
I mentioned this to a friend when we were watching T2 one time and he told me to shut the fuck up and enjoy the mayhem. It was good advice....
Retardo_Montalban wrote:instant_karm a wrote:I always thought that the Terminators indiscriminately killing anybody that got in their way back in the past was weird.
I mean, how did they know that the person they just killed wasn't in some way pivotal to Skynet's creation?
I mentioned this to a friend when we were watching T2 one time and he told me to shut the fuck up and enjoy the mayhem. It was good advice....
I doubt a herd of pork is going to have a hand in the invention of the most sophisticated AI in the world. The Terminators are sentient and seem to know a lot about their origins, so they'd probably use their infrared computer deal to make sure no super geniuses are harmed. I'm still disappointed at the overwhelming amount of compassion these terminators are showing. My cat is more hardcore.
Shan wrote:On the subject of Terminator 3 and how did Arnold get to be the model for the T-800 series 101, go to youtube and look up "Terminator 3 extra" as your search term (or Teminator 3 deleted scene).
It's compellingly awful, like a train wreck with body parts everywhere (metaphorically) and yet you can't look away ...
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:fucking American Gladiators.
FICKING!! I can not stress this enough....
Lord Voldemoo wrote:Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:fucking American Gladiators.
FICKING!! I can not stress this enough....
we need a new word filter.
Vegeta wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:fucking American Gladiators.
FICKING!! I can not stress this enough....
we need a new word filter.
I said that like Friday night... geez, no one ficking listens to me
Lord Voldemoo wrote:Vegeta wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:fucking American Gladiators.
FICKING!! I can not stress this enough....
we need a new word filter.
I said that like Friday night... geez, no one ficking listens to me
that's because we're distracted by your av you freak.
Fievel wrote:Watched the second episode.... I'll watch the series now. I'm semi-hooked. I like the actors, I like the characters (although Sara Conner seems a LOT weaker now), and I like the Terminator world. I hope it stays at least decent.
Lady Sheridan wrote:Incidentally, I had a real brain dead moment. I thought "Oh, 1999 to 2007, they didn't miss much at all." And then the 9/11 thing came up. Ohhhhhh.
Shan wrote:We have a programme called "The Chaser" in Australia which is a comedy show of sorts (though with biting political satire) and one of the things they did was go around the US recently and interview a lot of people and ask them questions.
Amongst the ones people frequently got wrong were:
When did 9/11 happen?
Which year/month/day did it happen?
Which cities were attacked?
So even though Pierce Brosnan got pilloried for it at the time for saying that given time, the event would start to fade from the forefront of people's consciousness; he was right. Mind you, it probably would have been better for him if he didn't bring it up at the time as it was rather close to the event.
some guy on the street wrote:Ninth month... October?
Lady Sheridan wrote:Still, I bet John Connor thought we'd have flying cars by 2007. He seemed so disappointed the future held only I-Pods.
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