No.
One of my favorite running gags on reddit: every time someone failed to assassinate Sam Altman someone would comment that it would keep happening until the timeline changed.
It won’t matter anyway, he is the money man, not the brains behind AI. Someone else would take over, nothing would change.
Yup, that’s my view of history, too–a vast sea of inevitabilities. Makes history-changing time travel narratives kinda meh.
She was caught trying to blow up a computer factory, and then they found out she was running guns from Mexico with a boy she was raising to be the messiah. With the information they had, they made the right call.
Yeah, crazy lady, figures out it’s not a data center needing taken out, but upstream, or they just make more data centers… so takes out a computer factory… crazy lady, didn’t go far enough up stream. ;D
The asylum in Terminator is so goddamn well done. I think it is possibly the Girl Bossiest of Girl Boss scenes ever, because it shows that, despite all her dedication to training, she is still at a physical disadvantage with the guards and has to be both vicious and cunning to escape. Then when she finally sees Arnold again, she collapses in terror. That is some amazing world and character building.
Nowadays, I feel like she would just one-punch all the guards, maybe lift one up over her head and throw him at another last guard, finally kicking Arnold in the nuts before deciding running away was a wiser tactical decision.
Now that you mention it, the fight choreography in T2 really is something that helps the story feel more grounded. Connor vs T1000 is certainly a good example, but the T800 vs T1000 fights are all the right kinds of klunky vs fluid, respectively. There are probably other subtle examples in this film.
The depth of the implications of that moment though… the horror, the reality of it all, the scale of it… all encapsulated in that one confirmation, a terminator. So we didn’t stop it again yet. >:,-I What a gut punch, like seeing the whole world destroyed in an instant.
“Mom! Mom! Wait! He’s here to help!”
Sure.
That’s a really good point. I bet a lot of that has to do with the original being a slasher flick rather than an action blockbuster. There’s some residual final-girl, “just because I survived doesn’t mean I’m not terrified,” energy to her character.
One of the joys of being unemployed is that I can make my day’s plans from random lemmy convos. Today: Terminator and Terminator 2.
Edit: Also Cameron wants the audience to be afraid of Arniebot and not Mercurybot, it also gives the character an arc to travel with regards to Arniebot. The reveal of Arnold as the Good Guy in T2 is really masterfully done, perhaps lost on audiences who grew up with it.
Yeah, I think people go into the movies today knowing that Arnie is the “good terminator”. But, when the movie came out he was the bad guy, and there was no reason to think that the liquid metal one was the bad guy…
Robert Patrick did an amazing job of appearing to have emotions, making him seem like the good guy, only to make it clear over time that he was only mimicking emotions to blend in and accomplish his mission.
Too bad even Robert Patrick’s amazing performance can’t quite overcome him being a cop. What was once credible disguise for being a good guy has become a dead give-away for being a bastard.
But it’s still fun to watch because even if we know, the characters don’t, and they act like they don’t and it’s filmed from their emotional perspective.
ACAB motherfuckers!
Hey can we stop posting this image made by someone who clearly never saw the movie? That’s not why she gets locked up
There is also a scene where she mirrors a Terminator.
Media literacy is lost to a lot of people it seems.
I need to see this again.
Just heard there was a student of Joseph Campbell’s on women-specific Hero’'s journey. Campbell unhelpfully told her that the role of the woman was to be the prize and that she should shut up and blow him.
Part of the heroine’s journey is abandoning her femininity for patriarchal masculinity and the end is her reincorporating masculine values of strength and independence while maintaining a feminine identity… mimicing the Terminator definitely sounds like early stages of this journey.
“AL data centers”?
Yes. All of them.
If you leave the pasta in water for too long they become al data.
Is that the kid from home alone?
The last decade or two proved all the “crazy” people of the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s correct.
There was, in fact, a shadow cabal of pedophiles attempting to take control of the US government.
They’re now in power, and there isn’t much we can do now but hope they get bored of it, because America has shown there isn’t much we won’t forgive, as long as you give a wink and a nod to the racists.
There was a Robert Redford movie from the 70s, can’t remember the title, but it was a convoluted spy thriller with a line like, “It’s the oil companies! Of course! Why didn’t I see it!”
We’ve been sleeping-walking into oligarchic fascism for decades.
The problem being that a lot of those “crazy” people that spoke about an evil cabal are the ones supporting it now and somehow don’t see it.
They’ve been in power since the 50s. 1850s.
People who don’t ash their cigarettes drive me nuts.
We used to put sewing pins in cigarettes so the ash wouldn’t fall off.
Burning the chrome was probably very toxic, but hey, they were cigarettes and we were also breathing in Tetraethyl Lead fumes and lead paint particles in the 1980s.
That reminds me of seeing this “neat trick” but with a bent paper clip instead of needle.
It was printed in a children’s comic book
The choice was intentional.
I mean, it’s realistic. I know people who were at protests, and got arrested, and when they couldn’t find a way to charge them with crimes, they put them in psych hold for a minimum of 72 hours, and there are known instances of people having this done that ended up in for long times.
NYPD got caught doing it to a cop who was whistle blowing in the late 00s.
I thought they got caught doing it more than once. But yeah, super shitty abuse of power.
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me, I’m just familiar with the one case.
I know a guy who changed his name to Al Datacenter.
Does he get free electricity in return for kickbacks & bribes?
No, but he did score 4 touchdowns in one game for Polk High!
??? Paying an electricity bills with bribes (money)??
She would have been a lot more effective if she had just slept with all the top people and blackmailed them.
Yeah, and if they don’t play ball, she could put all the evidence in a big folder called The Epstein Files and send it to the white house. That’ll show em.
She was a total badass. If they don’t play ball she has other methods of making them stop.
Like putting her cigarettes in their urethras.
I’d pay to watch that movie.
I’d pay to not.
