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In a bid to get my Terminator canon straight, I decided to watch T1 and T2 (this will also have the added benefit of stopping ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zorana84 from making fun of me).
The Terminator: Exactly as cheesy as I remember - which is why I never finished watching it in the first place. With some fun blowing things up and killer cyborgs from the future. I still find the actor who played Kyle Reese extremely annoying.
+ Poor Sarah. She was just an ordinary girl, with *mumble*bad '80s hair*mumble* and a normal, happy life. To go from that to the mother of all mankind being chased by a terminator from the future? Yikes!
+ It's odd, watching Linda Hamilton's scared, rabbit-y Sarah in this movie. There are flashes of her strength, though, such as when she tells Kyle that doesn't want any of it, and when she just kind of believes and accepts Kyle's narrative. And, of course, when she kills the terminator.
+ Sarah Connor believes.
+ "Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it." Kyle Reese's Lesson.
+ Time travel is very strange in this universe, and I kind of love it. Because time travel as I've traditionally understood is all about not messing with the future, whereas here there is no future (fate) but what we make. The future can be re-written and re-figured. Timelines can be played with. The point is to re-write the future.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day: Now this is more like it. Thoroughly enjoyable.
+ It's some change, watching this Sarah Connor. She's craazy in the mental hospital, determined whenever she needs to be, badass and awesome, and yet so vulnerable. So scared. Always, driven by fear.
+ Thirteen year old John is alternately annoying and lovable. There's also an openness in his love for his mother which the fifteen year old John in TSCC has outgrown.
+ Both John and Sarah are acutely aware of John's lack of a proper childhood.
+ John trusts machines more than humans, because machines are constant. It perhaps starts with this T-801; or is it with Kyle Reese, who was human, who went back to the past and did not survive?
+ Sarah does not trust machines, even when they're comrades-at-arms.
+ John is what drags her back from the brink. John, with his insistence that you do not just kill people. And Sarah understands, whereas the T-801 doesn't. This explains a lot of things about Sarah and Cameron on the show.
+ Stop Skynet - that's not John's mission. It's Sarah's.
I tried watching T3 after this, but was annoyed enough by the whiny protagonist to stop watching after ten minutes.
zorana84 from making fun of me). The Terminator: Exactly as cheesy as I remember - which is why I never finished watching it in the first place. With some fun blowing things up and killer cyborgs from the future. I still find the actor who played Kyle Reese extremely annoying.
+ Poor Sarah. She was just an ordinary girl, with *mumble*bad '80s hair*mumble* and a normal, happy life. To go from that to the mother of all mankind being chased by a terminator from the future? Yikes!
+ It's odd, watching Linda Hamilton's scared, rabbit-y Sarah in this movie. There are flashes of her strength, though, such as when she tells Kyle that doesn't want any of it, and when she just kind of believes and accepts Kyle's narrative. And, of course, when she kills the terminator.
+ Sarah Connor believes.
+ "Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it." Kyle Reese's Lesson.
+ Time travel is very strange in this universe, and I kind of love it. Because time travel as I've traditionally understood is all about not messing with the future, whereas here there is no future (fate) but what we make. The future can be re-written and re-figured. Timelines can be played with. The point is to re-write the future.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day: Now this is more like it. Thoroughly enjoyable.
+ It's some change, watching this Sarah Connor. She's craazy in the mental hospital, determined whenever she needs to be, badass and awesome, and yet so vulnerable. So scared. Always, driven by fear.
+ Thirteen year old John is alternately annoying and lovable. There's also an openness in his love for his mother which the fifteen year old John in TSCC has outgrown.
+ Both John and Sarah are acutely aware of John's lack of a proper childhood.
+ John trusts machines more than humans, because machines are constant. It perhaps starts with this T-801; or is it with Kyle Reese, who was human, who went back to the past and did not survive?
+ Sarah does not trust machines, even when they're comrades-at-arms.
+ John is what drags her back from the brink. John, with his insistence that you do not just kill people. And Sarah understands, whereas the T-801 doesn't. This explains a lot of things about Sarah and Cameron on the show.
+ Stop Skynet - that's not John's mission. It's Sarah's.
I tried watching T3 after this, but was annoyed enough by the whiny protagonist to stop watching after ten minutes.