Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2x11 Self Made Man

[Lady D]

Pathetic? That's one way to put it... another way to put it? AWESOME!!!

Seriously, that is so cool that you know this.

awwww...

[deathbytray]

Except that dramatically altering the past could prevent Skynet from ever coming online. Not to mention that if humanity is wiped out, who's going to build the machines in the first place?

I thought we have established that machines or humans going back to the future and doing things that drastically alters the past thereby threatening their very own existence is pretty much par for the course in this series?

[BadgerSpoon]

I thought we have established that machines or humans going back to the future and doing things that drastically alters the past thereby threatening their very own existence is pretty much par for the course in this series?

Well yeah, but Skynet doesn't know that. Machines aren't especially good with lateral thinking.

[BadgerSpoon]

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Creep Village of the Damned kids:



I think Thomas Dekker is the one in the turtleneck.

[deathbytray]

Or one and then the other.

Actually, as I was watching the episode, I was thinking:

"She is talking to Eric way to candidly. He knows A LOT about what she was looking for. If anything happens at Pico Tower, he's gonna call the cops. He is a security risk... oh, crap... Cameron is gonna kill him when they are all finished."

Now I realize he didn't show up, and remembering how much the thought of his cancer returning scared him... I suspect Cameron's words really affected him and he commited suicide.

The only question is... did Cameron say those words, knowing those words could perhaps steer him toward suicide?

[Lady D]

how can you tell?

[Lady D]

Actually, as I was watching the episode, I was thinking:

"She is talking to Eric way to candidly. He knows A LOT about what she was looking for. If anything happens at Pico Tower, he's gonna call the cops. He is a security risk... oh, crap... Cameron is gonna kill him when they are all finished."

Now I realize he didn't show up, and remembering how much the thought of his cancer returning scared him... I suspect Cameron's words really affected him and he commited suicide.

The only question is... did Cameron say those words, knowing those words could perhaps steer him toward suicide?

I sooooo thot that too

[BadgerSpoon]

Actually, as I was watching the episode, I was thinking:

"She is talking to Eric way to candidly. He knows A LOT about what she was looking for. If anything happens at Pico Tower, he's gonna call the cops. He is a security risk... oh, crap... Cameron is gonna kill him when they are all finished."

Now I realize he didn't show up, and remembering how much the thought of his cancer returning scared him... I suspect Cameron's words really affected him and he commited suicide.

The only question is... did Cameron say those words, knowing those words could perhaps steer him toward suicide?

I can't imagine that she would have that much to chance. If she knows anything about human nature, it's that sometime we do things that are completely unpredictable. Nuke him from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.

[deathbytray]

Well yeah, but Skynet doesn't know that. Machines aren't especially good with lateral thinking.

The temporal causality of past actions in this series is really, really messed up. I'm competely confused by it. I don't think the writers know it either. They are just making this shit up as they go along.

[BadgerSpoon]

how can you tell?

You mean the kids? Just my vague recollection of the movie. He and the girl in the front were more significant characters than the others, so they stand out in the crowd. Plus the shape of his face is similar....