Seems like an interesting season coming up. Based on the previews, Cameron goes haywire. That singer from Garbage playing a CEO.
Read this interview from the Producers with regards to Summer Glau’s Cameron.
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“One of the things that the Cameron character is going to go through this year is as opposed to learning what it’s like to be human, she’s going to be learning what it’s like to be a robot, if you can get your mind behind that,” Wirth said. “We are trying to transcend that dynamic, that the machine simply wants to feel emotion,” Middleton elaborated. “We’re thinking that she’s perceiving her existence as unique from that of human beings, and what she can experience and how she relates to the universe is unique to her, and that causes a lot of interesting conflicts between her and the human beings in our cast. So it’s not about making her be more human, it’s about how she becomes more Cameron.”
I’m curious how Cameron survives being blown up. I suppose they just rebuild her, but considering she’s an advanced model, I don’t know how Sarah or John would know how to do that.
Edit: Just read the article. They are saying she was just engulfed in flames? Maybe I’m misremembering, but the car blew up, right? Like shit exploded and car parts went flying.
She’s a Terminator. Just some dead skin. Nothing that won’t grow back. Those Skynet machines are made of Coltan (According to the series). A very hard metal.
If it were just a fire, maybe I’d agree. But it was an explosion. I mean even Chrome Artie’s head blew off in the bank explosion (granted the bank was rigged by The Resistance so they knew how much firepower was needed). But it seemed like the kind of thing that would do more damage to Cameron than just skin melting off.
Just rewatched it on Hulu, didn’t seem like a big enough explosion to kill Cam, but it was definitely enough to do some serious damage. I mean, we know she’s coming back anyway, so it’ll be interesting to see how they manage to patch her up.
I finally caught up on this show and I’m thinking that at worse Cameron should walk away with not much more than some burnt off skin. Then again, the Terminators in this show seem far less durable than the ones from the movies. I mean, Arnie took some serious abuse in order to lose a piece or two, including the chopper pile-up at the end of T3 which left him no worse for wear, while one feller in the show lost a hand just by grabbing on to a passing truck.
All Cameron walked away with was a open wound on her face? Credibility, stretched. I’d take burnt skin and charred clothes at this point.
Gotta say, pretty terrible opening. The slow mo music montage almost did me in right there. And John and Sarah can think to rig a trap for Cameron, but they can’t think to get a tool sharp enough to cut into her endoskeleton? Boo.
OK, the show is looking up. Pretty obvious Manson was a terminator, but a T-1000? Pretty sweet. I guess this makes her more advanced than Cameron. That’ll make for good TV considering the previous models were less advanced than Cam.
I’ve seen some pretty stupid stuff on scripted TV in 29 years, but John handing the gun over to the terminator, and Sarah just standing there watching (!) may have taken the cake.
Doesn’t mean I’ll stop watching, however. This show’s too much of a guilty pleasure, and I’m kind of a Terminator nerd.
One last thing. VFX on television have really become damn good in recent years, but it’s surprising that the T-1000 morphing STILL looks better in T2 even though that was made in 1991. Damn, that’s coming up on 20 years - I suddenly feel old…
Loved the intro with the music (so finding that song) and how the big bad Sarah Conner got taken down by a buncha thugs and ended up breaking down at the end. I really like what they’re doing with John’s character and making him more of a man and a leader. Admittingly, I would have been happier if it turned out the gun was empty…
Hope Brian Austin Green sticks around a lot longer and I’m diggin the T-1000 storyline. … really great first episode for this guilty pleasure.
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Hopefully I’m not completely missing your sarcasm here, but Cameron was still trying to kill him at that point and she was lying to him, right? She still knew John had some horny teenage love for her and she was exploiting that, as John and Sarah said she would in the helpful priest’s kitchen.
Totally thought Shirley Manson would be hiding in the stall at the end, a la Robocop. Her reveal as a T-1000 totally caught me off guard.
I thought they were doing the Robocop gag as well. This is a very entertaining and occasionally stupid show. Tonight’s premiere was almost as bad as the first two episodes of the first season, but it didn’t go to those depths. I’m digging where the season is going, but I hope B.A. gets to be badass soon.