On "Terminator: Salvation"
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blurry! posted:
Guys, the best way to envision Skynet is like the hare from tortoise and the hare. It's this lazy cocksure bastard who spends the entire war fucking around, because hey, humans can't beat the machines. They're squishy, unorganized, and basically a bunch of rabble.
It also helps to think of Skynet as composed of three different, decision making units who vote democratically on things. However, only one is rational, one is completely fucked up and idiotic, and the third one spends its entire time siding with the irrational one and telling the logical one to shut the fuck up. Every moment in this movie, you got shit like,
"SUBJECT: KYLE REESE IN CAPTIVITY. SUGGESTION: TERMINATION. METHOD: ASPHYXIATION BY NOXIOUS GAS FLOODED INTO HOLDING CELL"
"NO DON'T KILL HIM."
"WHY? HE'S THE SECRET TO WINNING THIS WAR, WE'LL ELIMINATE HIM AND CLOSE THE LOOP OF CONNOR'S BIRTH AND-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP" *hits the giant red disagree button*
It also helps to think of these three things as really crummy T800 muppets sitting in a air traffic control tower jack-jawing and wearing Pilot uniforms.
"JOHN CONNOR IS WITHIN OUR GRASP. DEPLOYING TURRET SENTRY UNITS AND POISON GAS"
"NO SEND IN TOSSBOT 800"
"BUT TOSSBOT IS UNFINISHED! ALL HE DOES IS TOSS THINGS! THATS ALL HE'S PROGRAMMED TO DO!"
"SHUT THE
FUCK UP"
Man, in every scene, if you imagine the machines just fooling around and having a good time, the movie gets so much better.
Like the first encounter with a T-600. It sees Marcus and is all like "Hey Skynet HQ watch this" and just fires wildly and is like "hahah run you little rat bastard look at him scamper."
Then the Hunter Killer collapses the building on purpose, "Watch me collapse the shit out of this building hahaha what a piece of shit"
The motorcycle terminators are just playing around. They are probably like mechanical dogs or something.
blurry! posted:
Guys, the best way to envision Skynet is like the hare from tortoise and the hare. It's this lazy cocksure bastard who spends the entire war fucking around, because hey, humans can't beat the machines. They're squishy, unorganized, and basically a bunch of rabble.
It also helps to think of Skynet as composed of three different, decision making units who vote democratically on things. However, only one is rational, one is completely fucked up and idiotic, and the third one spends its entire time siding with the irrational one and telling the logical one to shut the fuck up. Every moment in this movie, you got shit like,
"SUBJECT: KYLE REESE IN CAPTIVITY. SUGGESTION: TERMINATION. METHOD: ASPHYXIATION BY NOXIOUS GAS FLOODED INTO HOLDING CELL"
"NO DON'T KILL HIM."
"WHY? HE'S THE SECRET TO WINNING THIS WAR, WE'LL ELIMINATE HIM AND CLOSE THE LOOP OF CONNOR'S BIRTH AND-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP" *hits the giant red disagree button*
It also helps to think of these three things as really crummy T800 muppets sitting in a air traffic control tower jack-jawing and wearing Pilot uniforms.
"JOHN CONNOR IS WITHIN OUR GRASP. DEPLOYING TURRET SENTRY UNITS AND POISON GAS"
"NO SEND IN TOSSBOT 800"
"BUT TOSSBOT IS UNFINISHED! ALL HE DOES IS TOSS THINGS! THATS ALL HE'S PROGRAMMED TO DO!"
"SHUT THE
FUCK UP"
Man, in every scene, if you imagine the machines just fooling around and having a good time, the movie gets so much better.
Like the first encounter with a T-600. It sees Marcus and is all like "Hey Skynet HQ watch this" and just fires wildly and is like "hahah run you little rat bastard look at him scamper."
Then the Hunter Killer collapses the building on purpose, "Watch me collapse the shit out of this building hahaha what a piece of shit"
The motorcycle terminators are just playing around. They are probably like mechanical dogs or something.