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Terminator: Cancellation of Show Chronicles [nsf56k i guess]
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the 'awwwwhoooosh' sells it.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
Wait, why were you asking if you already knew?
I think that Cameron also eats potato chips in the premier. But she's weary about eating pizza, because she thinks it makes her look fat.
The only thing that's far-fetched is that we actually see Cromartie working with some Doc on it, and apparently the main ingredient for synthetic skin is blood. And then you sit in a pool that looks like blood and somehow your metal skeleton makes it look like flesh. And apparently the Doc was expecting a normal person to sit in there and grow synthetic flesh. I'm not an expert on biology, and I forgot what the Doc had to say about the breakthrough, but that's one thing to consider if you want to bring start a conversation on synthetic flesh.
BTW, does Skynet not want to hasten the coming of Judgement Day? Note how Cromartie is careful to destroy all the evidence of the formula.
it's internally consistent for the most part, unlike say, Heroes
so as long as it stays internally consistent i have no reason to question or try to understand the technology and how-to's of the show.
But he wasn't eating food for 70 years while he was in the wall, I think was his point.
IMO it's entirely possible that the Terminator skeleton is able to nourish the flesh around it through some technological means, though.
The base programming would assume he was dealing with post-war humans who might find the formula useful for unmasking or crippling terminators?
"Oh, Big McLargehuge wandering into our hidden underground base. Please stand still while we apply this deodorant to your face. Oh, your face melted? Get 'im, lads!"
it makes me grab my head and go PSYYYYDUUUCK
In an alternate time line, alienane technology got released and skynet was invented.
John connor finally sent himself back in time, and wrote the movie script for terminator. The Gov. freaked and limited AI technology and the release of alien secrets.
This is why we do not have the flyiing car and sex robot.
If they could delay skynet another 30 years and give us all Cameron sex robots, I'm alll for Judgement Day.
I once put a wooden stake through a guy's heart, and he died, so it's safe to assume that he was a vampire.
Ideally this special compund would not react to true human flesh.
Don't be silly. That's not a science fiction solution!
:lol: haha yeah Terminators should be absurdly easy to detect. They can't swim, they're (likely) incredibly heavy/dense, they're made of freakin metal and they set off metal detectors. A simple weight plate or metal detector at every entrance would be easier than using dogs to detect terminators. I suppose if I were going for the no-prize I'd say that Terminator physiology is enough like human physiology so that they appear human to our noses, but is different enough (i.e. rapid healing, very little bleeding, synthetic blood, grows on a metal skeleton) to be detectable by dog noses. Also you'd have to somehow posit that scales and metal detectors are less common in the future than plasma rifles
Yeah, isn't that 8 million times harder than using scales or metal detectors? I guess dogs can detect a terminator at some distance. But still it seems rather silly.
Further evidence: tonight's episode.
Poor doggy doesn't last too long though.
So is this a situation where a trial by water would actually not be made of tragic irony?
Food for the dogs is not easy to come by either.
How did the trip8 beat Cameron? And if he was close enough to throw her into the house, why didn't he attack right then?
Dogs can eat a lot of different shit. It`s not like they need to raid the Kibbles`n`bits factory to keep their dogs working. They probably just feed them whatever they eat themselves.
Or hell. Why let all that flesh the terminators are wearing go to waste? :lol:
The last few episodes were really good, but this one felt like a step back. I understand that they wanted to be less serialized this season, and while last week's episode did little to advance the story, it was still good. This one was kind of meh
Mankind has had dogs for a long ass time, they are low maintenance critters. The major advantage to dogs is they are mobile, you can bring them with you. It would be impossible for Skynet to ambush a human party with dogs.
If I had to take a shot in the dark I'd say the mechanical parts of the terminator, or the terminators power cells make noises that are imperceptible to us but dogs can hear easily. Think: vacuum cleaner. This actually isn't very far fetched, mythical future power source could make all kinds of ultrasonic noises that would drive animals crazy, since there's plenty of things in real life that do.
"He was human? My mistake."
As for the ease of detecting a terminator in the future, all he needs to do is get in the front door, and then he can start the pew pew. We have been shown enough future scenes in this series to see that only really the civilian population is living like crap in horrible conditions. The future military seem to have their stuff together, and would have all of those counter measures in place. Plus, they all seem to have metal walking around working for them in some capacity.
The civs seem to live in whatever place they can all fit and stay out of sight. And for every method they have to spot a terminator, skynet evolves the model and it starts again.
using large HK --> people hide underground
Using biped terminators on the ground --> humans spot metal from far away
Cover with rubber skin --> humans still spot them, but from not as far away
Cover with real skin --> humans use scales
Lighter models -- > humans use dogs
Skynet also builds various models for different roles. A ceramic chassis to avoid metal detectors can't take the punishment that a large metal hardened frame can. Different models for different reasons..
And dogs again : in every scene with a terminator + dog, the dog seems to die. Its like dogs are a higher priority then john connor.
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Didn't you hear them talking about Captain Charles Barkley?
I sure thought she killed him. I really don't get how she couldn't tell he was human before bonking him, though. We've seen that she's able to determine Terminators vs. humans before, using her sensors or whatever. Maybe her sensors were screwed up from getting her ass kicked?