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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 4459828" data-attributes="member: 32545">I was a big fan of the show during the first season.  The beginning of this season wasn't, I thought, up to the same standard as the bulk of season 1, but that may just be nostalgic memory kicking in.  All in all, I was pretty happy with the episode.  I'm not sure why any of the things posited as being problematic are supposed to actually be problematic...The path Skynet is taking to get itself built seems fairly logical.  Skynet was going to be built using the remains of the terminator from the first movie.  The second movie took care of that, so Skynet had to take steps to see to it that it still got built (I'm not even going to touch the problems with causality).  Hence the Turk and the military contracts.  Season 1 of the show screwed up that plan and presumably taught Skynet that any attempts to nudge humans into building it were going to get screwed up by the Connors.  So the obvious step is to just take care of the whole project from the ground up.  I'm assuming that the reason that Skynet doesn't just send a fully-fledged instance of itself back in time is that it's too big to fit inside a terminator.  Sure, it could grow a flesh coating over itself and then get sent back... but the movies and the show make certain concessions to drama that don't really make any sense when it comes to the whole time travel thing.Anyway.  They had a terminator in the first season who had posed as a normal man long enough to get married and lead a basically typical life.  Obviously they're capable of infiltration.  I think one of the flash-forwards in season 1 even mentioned that they were getting better at pretending to be human.  I assume that the corporate terminator killed the head of the AI department because it was the easiest way to prevent him meddling in her plans.  Most large corporations don't have a 'boss', they have a board of directors.  She probably didn't have the authority to just fire the guy outright and if she let him influence the other department heads they might get enough votes on the board to fire her instead.  The guy that the dead AI head was talking to in the bathroom even said that she'd only been there for a few years, so clearly the company wasn't under direct terminator control.  They're just using it for the resources.I didn't have any problems with the whole Cameron chip thing.  I was initially really disappointed when she went bad, just because it was such an obvious move and I was worried that this season was going to be the 'Let's Run From The Better Terminator' version of last season's 'Let's Run From A Terminator'.  They spent a large part of last season trying to hammer home that Cameron is either different from other terminators or that terminators in general are different from how we've seen them portrayed.  Remember the bit where she learns ballet and how if machines could learn Art then they weren't really machines anymore?  I thought that the whole 'the machines are becoming human' theme was supposed to be a pretty heavy one for the series as a whole.  I didn't get the impression that John thought he had fixed the chip.  He'd cleaned it, but he was hoping that when she said she was fixed before he deactivated her, she meant it.  And, based on the little 'TERMINATE .... TERMINATE OVERRIDE' thing on her HUD after she woke up, I assumed that was what happened.  She had consciously reprogrammed herself not to kill him.  If he'd fixed it by poking it with a toothpick he never would have registered as a target after she woke up.So yeah, I liked it.  I'm really glad that they're setting up some new badguys and that they left the FBI agent who knows what's up alive.  I don't think season 2 should just be season 1 again and they don't appear to be planning on disappointing me.</blockquote>

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