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Random rambling and (not quite) bullet points.
-- Cameron and Sarah continuing to mirror each other, foils and control groups. The places where Cameron fails, attempting to inact humanity (learning to dance) but that impulse ultimately being trumped by programming (abandoning the Shipkov's), and where Sarah succeeds (saving Ellison) but also ultimately fails (signing away her parental rights -- a failure for John).
-- As soon as Cameron gave Shipkov the diamond and we see the thugs getting out of the car, I thought, she's going to let them die. It isn't her mission to protect them. It's startling in it's cold-bloodedness, especially framed by Cameron's interest in dancing (see above). Is Cameron expressing her soul? Can the machines learn to do so? What is the equation for soul. SkyNet, we learned in the last episode, was paranoid and afraid, human emotions. If the computer can learn fear and specifically a fear for its own survival, human descriptions granted, why can't they learn other emotions and behaviors. What is Cameron expressing at the end while she dances alone? Why does she dance? What does that fulfill for her. Watching her watch Maria/Marina/what was her name I am reminded of her as Tin Man and Pinocchio.
-- As much as the Terminator's are learning computer's, and with what we know about SkyNet via Andy Goode's confession in the previous episode, I still wonder how much the machines comprehend of the philosophical aspects of being human. Cameron is seeking something, but her ability to mimic humanity, indicating that she is learning, is continually disrupted by reminders that she is *not* human. Is there a conflict between the machines learning to be human and their programming? Does that crises of awareness cause the machines to "go bad"?
-- I still don't like the re-shot scenes from the movies. Jonathan Jackson as Kyle Reese reads all kinds of wrong. He's too young and too baby faced, for one. Lean Headey isn't desperate or frantic enough and I was reminded too forcefully of Linda Hamilton. Lena Headey's Sarah is more functional, Hamilton's was not. Hamilton was more like Derek Reese. Shell-shocked, riding the knife's edge of sanity, negotiating the terrain between becoming machine in order to defeat the machine and being human.
-- I want to know what kind of brain washing went on in that basement and if it took hold. I find that I absolutely do not trust Derek. Just because he's human doesn't automatically establish his status as a good guy. I'm just as suspicious of him as I am of Cameron.
-- what are the details of Cameron's mission and what does she know about Derek Reese? What is there *to* know about Derek Reese?
-- The hand of god. AKA The Demon Hand. The devil created by man. Someone will do a better job of tying Nietzsche to all of this, but I'm thinking that if God is dead and man has supplanted him and begat in his own image than Man is the next in line for death, destroyed by the hand of his creation. In turn, the machines become gods, creating more machines who are then appropriated and re-programmed by humans leading to the machines (SkyNet) destruction.
-- Duality. The hand of god and the demon hand are one and the same. Sarah extends her hand, extends salvation, while Cameron does not. Perhaps, she was never capable of doing so and the Hand of God must be specifically programmed. Dr. Silberman doesn't extend that hand, either. The T-100 extends his hand in rememberance of Kyle Reese, he repeates Reese's words. The Terminator's are incapable of understanding or expressing the depth of human emotions in order to invest the gesture with any real meaning. Dr. Silberman does that for us. Interprets the act. Human understandings layering mechanics. The Hand of God, then, is man's own hand (?).
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cofax7 mentioned that she didn't buy Sarah believing that she was giving up her rights to motherhood as opposed to Sarah manipulating the situation. I agree. Although, perhaps, that is another glaring difference in Hamilton and Headey.
-- Cameron and Sarah continuing to mirror each other, foils and control groups. The places where Cameron fails, attempting to inact humanity (learning to dance) but that impulse ultimately being trumped by programming (abandoning the Shipkov's), and where Sarah succeeds (saving Ellison) but also ultimately fails (signing away her parental rights -- a failure for John).
-- As soon as Cameron gave Shipkov the diamond and we see the thugs getting out of the car, I thought, she's going to let them die. It isn't her mission to protect them. It's startling in it's cold-bloodedness, especially framed by Cameron's interest in dancing (see above). Is Cameron expressing her soul? Can the machines learn to do so? What is the equation for soul. SkyNet, we learned in the last episode, was paranoid and afraid, human emotions. If the computer can learn fear and specifically a fear for its own survival, human descriptions granted, why can't they learn other emotions and behaviors. What is Cameron expressing at the end while she dances alone? Why does she dance? What does that fulfill for her. Watching her watch Maria/Marina/what was her name I am reminded of her as Tin Man and Pinocchio.
-- As much as the Terminator's are learning computer's, and with what we know about SkyNet via Andy Goode's confession in the previous episode, I still wonder how much the machines comprehend of the philosophical aspects of being human. Cameron is seeking something, but her ability to mimic humanity, indicating that she is learning, is continually disrupted by reminders that she is *not* human. Is there a conflict between the machines learning to be human and their programming? Does that crises of awareness cause the machines to "go bad"?
-- I still don't like the re-shot scenes from the movies. Jonathan Jackson as Kyle Reese reads all kinds of wrong. He's too young and too baby faced, for one. Lean Headey isn't desperate or frantic enough and I was reminded too forcefully of Linda Hamilton. Lena Headey's Sarah is more functional, Hamilton's was not. Hamilton was more like Derek Reese. Shell-shocked, riding the knife's edge of sanity, negotiating the terrain between becoming machine in order to defeat the machine and being human.
-- I want to know what kind of brain washing went on in that basement and if it took hold. I find that I absolutely do not trust Derek. Just because he's human doesn't automatically establish his status as a good guy. I'm just as suspicious of him as I am of Cameron.
-- what are the details of Cameron's mission and what does she know about Derek Reese? What is there *to* know about Derek Reese?
-- The hand of god. AKA The Demon Hand. The devil created by man. Someone will do a better job of tying Nietzsche to all of this, but I'm thinking that if God is dead and man has supplanted him and begat in his own image than Man is the next in line for death, destroyed by the hand of his creation. In turn, the machines become gods, creating more machines who are then appropriated and re-programmed by humans leading to the machines (SkyNet) destruction.
-- Duality. The hand of god and the demon hand are one and the same. Sarah extends her hand, extends salvation, while Cameron does not. Perhaps, she was never capable of doing so and the Hand of God must be specifically programmed. Dr. Silberman doesn't extend that hand, either. The T-100 extends his hand in rememberance of Kyle Reese, he repeates Reese's words. The Terminator's are incapable of understanding or expressing the depth of human emotions in order to invest the gesture with any real meaning. Dr. Silberman does that for us. Interprets the act. Human understandings layering mechanics. The Hand of God, then, is man's own hand (?).
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cofax7 mentioned that she didn't buy Sarah believing that she was giving up her rights to motherhood as opposed to Sarah manipulating the situation. I agree. Although, perhaps, that is another glaring difference in Hamilton and Headey.
