SCC: "To the Lighthouse"
Young!John's comment about Sarah's laconicity is pretty funny.
I loved the beginning of the scene between Savannah and John Weever: fangirl meets fanboy.
Wait, Jessie miscarried in her timeline and Cameron's? Considering the radicalness of the divergences, that's a little hard to believe.
Okay, let me work this out. In the future that Cameron remembers, the Cameron who talks to Jessie is her own past self, who was designed to resemble Alison from Palmdale because Alison and John trusted each other. This much is clear; Cameron says herself that she was there.
In the future that Jessie remembers, the Cameron who talks to Jessie could be either
I think it might be time to update my diagram, though.
I'm glad they're going back to talking about Cyberdine Systems. I like Cyberdine Systems.
Okay, I've always assumed that Weaver's motives would ultimately be revealed to be benevolent (which they haven't yet). The problem is, it doesn't really matter what she's trying to do, good, bad, or indifferent, because whatever it is, she's clearly accomplishing her objectives a hell of a lot better than John and Sarah are. If she's trying to stop SkyNet from killing people, then she's much closer than our ostensible heroes, which undermines their story. If on the other hand she's deliberately trying to create it, then that means John and Sarah are hopelessly outclassed, because they haven't even come close to figuring out what's going on. The exploding warehouse at mid-season made things a little better, because it allowed for a bit of crossing of paths, but not nearly enough.
"That would never happen." / "It has before." I'm intrigued.
I loved the beginning of the scene between Savannah and John Weever: fangirl meets fanboy.
Wait, Jessie miscarried in her timeline and Cameron's? Considering the radicalness of the divergences, that's a little hard to believe.
Okay, let me work this out. In the future that Cameron remembers, the Cameron who talks to Jessie is her own past self, who was designed to resemble Alison from Palmdale because Alison and John trusted each other. This much is clear; Cameron says herself that she was there.
In the future that Jessie remembers, the Cameron who talks to Jessie could be either
- Cameron's actual future self, which would mean that (in Jessie's timeline) Cameron actually has that conversation with Jessie twice. The problem with this hypothesis is that I can't think of any reason why Cameron wouldn't have stopped the catastrophe aboard the Jimmy Carter before it happened, if she knew it was coming. I suppose we can hypothesize there was some damage to her memory or something, but that strikes me as breaking the contract with the viewer. (In Jessie's timeline John wouldn't have pre-knowledge of the Jimmy Carter's fate, although he probably does in the current SCC timeline. Although there may be a way to explain the whole Jessie/Riley arc as a causality loop.)
- Another model of Cameron. This model probably wouldn't be modelled on Alison, though, because John's relationship with Alison, whatever it may be, presumably will unfold radically differently if John's already met Cameron before he meets Alison. The easiest answer is that this model of Cameron was designed to resemble not Alison, but our Cameron, who travelled back from the T3-ish timeline where Sarah dies of cancer. The question would then be what happened to our Cameron in the meantime--she could have been killed. Or else there could be any numbers of Camerons running around claiming that John trusts them implicitly. As a John/Cameron 'shipper, I don't know how I feel about that.
I think it might be time to update my diagram, though.
I'm glad they're going back to talking about Cyberdine Systems. I like Cyberdine Systems.
Okay, I've always assumed that Weaver's motives would ultimately be revealed to be benevolent (which they haven't yet). The problem is, it doesn't really matter what she's trying to do, good, bad, or indifferent, because whatever it is, she's clearly accomplishing her objectives a hell of a lot better than John and Sarah are. If she's trying to stop SkyNet from killing people, then she's much closer than our ostensible heroes, which undermines their story. If on the other hand she's deliberately trying to create it, then that means John and Sarah are hopelessly outclassed, because they haven't even come close to figuring out what's going on. The exploding warehouse at mid-season made things a little better, because it allowed for a bit of crossing of paths, but not nearly enough.
"That would never happen." / "It has before." I'm intrigued.