The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[selenak]

So now I have another Fox show with a renewal to fret about. Let's forget dangerous precedents for the moment, though, and celebrate a splendid first season. Unspoilery, I can say that what impressed me most and hit my narrative kinks is the ensembleness of it all. This show has a knack for a) giving its regulars interesting personalities and

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[selenak]

Sadly, the ability to create art and appreciate beauty hasn't yet stopped anyone from wanting to destroy other people (see also: human history in its entirety, one doesn't even have to limit this to the 20th century or Hitler the Wagner fan), which I think Sarah would be aware of. Hence my interpretation of what she meant.

[lakrids404]

David Brin wrote a novella, where one of solutions humanities, to the development of transcendent machine intelligence, was to raise the robot as human. So our culture and values would become theirs. With that in background in my mind, I also like Handyhunter, took that scene, as a positive one (and slightly creepy).

I really don't see any other solution to Sky-net problem, than changes it's view of humans to partners instead of competitors. Because at most they could one slightly stop research in AI development at this point. Andy could create a proto AI, with stock hardware, what could an Andy type create with stock hardware 10 year from now?, if the development speed continues the hardware would roughly be 64 times faster than today

[selenak]

My nitpick is it's been eight years since Charley has seen them and he doesn't say anything about John looking the same as when he last saw him? Or did he and I just missed it?

He didn't the first time he saw John again, but it can be argued then he was just too shocked by seeing John at all (given that John was supposed to be dead along with Sarah). The second time, he got the full explanation including robots and time travel anyway.

I loved it, yet I would have liked a scene of Derek finding out that John was his nephew. But really, the scene worked very well as it was.

Necessity of writing, it'd say. If we the audience would have already known that Derek knew, we wouldn't clue in at the same time John does.