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http://www.fmqinc.com/terminator-cancelled/


The prison escape sequence was awesome.

I have a question though. Obviously the time travel field only lets flesh through and destroys clothes. But what about Catherine Weaver, who is neither human, nor wearing clothes. Why did she lost her "clothes"? She wasn't wearing any! She's basically Odo. Her clothes are an extension of her body which is just a soup of liquid metal. And how did she get through but Cameron did not? Am I missing something completely?

Also, I love John Henry. He fast became my favorite character aside from Cameron.

So, at the end when the guys didn't know who John Connor was, were they joking, or did he go forward to a time before John was the big guy then? In other words, did they just create that timeline in which John becomes the leader?

No. Arnold was a solid robot Terminator that actually NEEDED clothes.

Weaver is a T-1000 style liquid robot. She doesn't wear clothes. At all. She's a changeling. Like Odo on Deep Space Nine she simply changes her body to look like clothing. There's really no reason she would have lost anything in the trip. In fact, making her keep her "clothes" would have been more consistent with logic.

Jasoco wrote:

No. Arnold was a solid robot Terminator that actually NEEDED clothes.

Weaver is a T-1000 style liquid robot. She doesn't wear clothes. At all. She's a changeling. Like Odo on Deep Space Nine she simply changes her body to look like clothing. There's really no reason she would have lost anything in the trip. In fact, making her keep her "clothes" would have been more consistent with logic.

Well yeah - considering she morphed to protect them, the clothes she was wearing wasn't real.
I'm pretty sure the liquid metal terminator in T2 also came through as naked flesh though - even before taking on the persona of the first cop he killed.

resedit wrote:

Jasoco wrote:

No. Arnold was a solid robot Terminator that actually NEEDED clothes.

Weaver is a T-1000 style liquid robot. She doesn't wear clothes. At all. She's a changeling. Like Odo on Deep Space Nine she simply changes her body to look like clothing. There's really no reason she would have lost anything in the trip. In fact, making her keep her "clothes" would have been more consistent with logic.

Well yeah - considering she morphed to protect them, the clothes she was wearing wasn't real.
I'm pretty sure the liquid metal terminator in T2 also came through as naked flesh though - even before taking on the persona of the first cop he killed.

I haven't seen T2 in years, but did he steal the cops clothing? If so, then the writers created a huge hole in the logic of the franchise that I had hoped the show would have fixed. But they didn't.

Also I was hoping Cameron would go through again as well for this very reason.

We know Terminator 2: Judgment Day happened in 1995. In the opening narration (of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) John Connor says that he was attacked by the T-1000 when he was 13 years old. This is an inconsistency. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Connor was only 10 years old, as shown on the police computer when the T-1000 accesses it.

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline

Jasoco wrote:

I haven't seen T2 in years, but did he steal the cops clothing? If so, then the writers created a huge hole in the logic of the franchise that I had hoped the show would have fixed. But they didn't.

The T1000 is a mimetic polyalloy. All he has to do is sample something by touch and he can mimic its appearance.

'Mimetic' as in mime, mimic. Late in the movie, after damage, he begans to lose control somewhat and starts mimicking on contact- as when his hand is on a railing and his arm looks like OSHA safety tape.

I think it's in all, tho there may be more in the director's cut. IIRC it was that way in the theater, certainly some parts were- feet molding to the stairs, sticking to railings, 'rippling' after one fight. All after the 'hasta la vista' freezing/shattering.

Reminds me, I need to look at some of the Extreme Ed., with both regular and WMV HD discs. I've never seen the latter, but I can probably copy parts to a HDD and sample the quality.

I once dropped acid and watched T2 on HBO. I'd expected all the liquid metal effects to be super cool, but it wasn't all that great.

Unfortunately, they showed The Handmaid's Tale next, and then Steel Magnolias after that. Both were enormously depressing. Then the sun came up and I had to go to work. That really sucked.

matt wrote:

If John Connor went to the future rather than having grown into it, then maybe the Kyle Reese he sends back wouldn't have that picture.

except in the series, they made a point of John finding the picture and keeping it.

The drones continue to plague our skies!


http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread456076/pg1

By the way, if you happen to actually read through that thread, I'm the saucer kook calling himself "Flightsuit."

user wrote:

I just saw the last episode. CANCELLED?

Those stupid Fox smurfs.

I don't think I'm going to bother investing any effort into another series from Fox.

Did they make enough episodes for syndication? It'll likely make more money on the back end, that way &/or from DVD sales than it ever brought in in ad revenues.

The Simpsons aside (perhaps as something to the contrary to point to or as a prestige, marquee show), I've a hunch that's the whole point of Fox programming.

resedit wrote:

The whole 3 dots tangent was a little weird and IMHO really missed the mark - but the rest of the series rocked.
I hope someone (sci fi channel maybe ??) buys the rights to the series and makes a season 3.

They probably would have explained it in Season 3. But it seems pretty obvious that basically, the 3-dot people were working for the actual Skynet, in its infancy. John Henry was created by somebody else sent back to stop Skynet by creating another one, but with ethics.

I, however, would rather not have a third season, than have one made to the Scyfy channel's exacting *cough* quality standards.