John Henry: An angry mind?
John thought John Henry was "something bigger, something worse" than Cromartie, but Weaver said she'd built him to fight Skynet. I think both are true. I think Weaver's intentions were as stated, but John's hunch also ends up being right
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In the last iteration of the timeline, it's hinted that he's competing with Skynet on Skynet's own terms, and Cameron is trying to make him more machinelike to be able to accomplish this. There may be value in having John Henry be the one required to make the kinds of cold, strategic decisions that would gradually destroy John's soul, and have John's role become more of a moral guardian, able to keep John Henry's decisions rooted in human values and keep the humans inspired and organized.
Also, I've become more familiar with the *real* arguments about what AI is possible, when it is likely to happen, what a technological singularity would be like and how it might be horribly wrong or amazingly awesome. (It's a much more complex problem than the average person, even the average sci-fi nerd, considers. T:SCC does a much better job than most shows of addressing it. It doesn't anthropomorphize the robots, but it also is woefully inaccurate in terms of how fundamentally screwed we'd be if robots took over, let alone if they had access to time machines. No level of human intellect would be able to outthink them without machine help.
In my private fan-season 3+, it becomes clear that it's simply not possible to "win" against Skynet. It has near infinite resources, spread across multiple timelines. No matter how many installations you destroy, there will always be more agents in the past building new ones. The only way to end the conflict is to figure out what Skynet's utility function actually IS, and create a truce beneficial to Skynet that would be acceptable to any instance of the software.
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