John Connor’s Character Arc in T3

I know a great many complained about the way John Connor was written in T3: RoTM, however I don’t to be honest understand why. You see having just watched the film again for I’d guess somewhere in the hundredths of times, I realized that his character arc is in fact deeper than in T2.

Yeah I went there.

Allow me to explain T3’s Connor is very different from anyplace I thought they’d take Johns’ character. When we first meet him he’s a homeless person, living wherever his motorcycle takes him. Because as far as he can tell he’s taken Skynet off the map through the destruction of Cyberdyne in T2.

This makes him into a nobody. He no longer has a point, his reason for being has been eliminated, and now he’s a man without a place in this world because his actions taken along with the others in T2 at Cyberdyne effectively as far as he can tell has killed Skynet.

Having been a homeless person I can speak to the fact that while alone one loves the order and comfort of knowing just how your day is going to go and it is quite clear that John is loving the way his life is. He likes not having to be concerned about Skynet, Terminators and Nuclear War.

So when that world erupts violently back into being, John understandably so IMHO, doesn’t want to believe it. Even though he has his original mission back, he is now at a point in his life where he’s been comfortable just living. Doing what he’s wanted day in and day out, to want to fight the re-emergence of his reality.

And as his day continues he realizes that he wasn’t meant to be anonymous, he wasn’t meant to be a nobody, he was meant to be a leader. He was meant to fight, to try and stop Nuclear War from happening. To try and stop Skynet and the Machines.

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It’s a BIG DAMN REPLICA!!

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Ross Out.

Watch Avatar in 3 and a Half Minutes! Save Money!

Yeah it’s here…yeah it’s big….yeah it’s a recycled plot.

Pretty colors…bad lines…so so CGI.

Plot Overload

Hey I just saved you money.

Ross Out.

King of the World Pouls Avatar Plot from Book?!

Well I suppose we should have expected this sooner or later. What with the Harlan Ellison/Terminator shenanigans where he was accused of Plagiarism.

In the end he put an acknowledgment to the works of Harlan Ellison blurb in the credits.

Now it appears the plot of Avatar (beside being been there done that) may have been pilfered from a classic SF Short titled Call Me Joe by author Poul Anderson.

Here’s the plot synopsis:

Call Me Joe centers on a paraplegic — Ed Anglesey — who telepathically connects with an artificially created life form in order to explore a harsh planet (in this case, Jupiter). Anglesey, like Avatar’s Jake Sully, revels in the freedom and strength of his artificial created body, battles predators on the surface of Jupiter, and gradually goes native as he spends more time connected to his artificial body.

Well that seems rather blatant doesn’t it.

What will come of it? Will Fox put some kind of credit in Avatars credits?

Or will Cameron just continue to be the 800 pound silverback and claim the world is his…and all the ideas therein.

We’ll have to wait and see.

Original Article

Ross Out.

Invasion of the Arnold Pumpkins begins early!

It’s Halloween time and for Terminator fans that means they can play their fave characters from the series away from a con and not get laughed at.

It also means that Arnold/Terminator Pumpkins are gonna start popping up from creative folk.

And here’s the first.

I'm Back...In a pumpkin.

There will be more.

Ross Out.

Unseen SCC: Preparing for the Prom

Disclaimer: This series of posts will contain a series of scenes and perhaps in the end entire episodes for download in script form to cover items that the show was unable for various reasons to show us. While some scenes will naturally be humorous this entire project and what will come after it is entirely serious. It is also a precursor to Connor Chronicles Online where I will be writing entirely new episodes for the show…AKA Season 3 and beyond. So brace yourselves for new SCC.

Int. Connor House- Living Room- Night

John finally comes back from wherever he’s been when he should have been home. And watches Cameron silently as she watches some kind of MTV style music channel on the television.

JOHN
Hey killer Robot.

CAMERON
John your mother is upset.

JOHN
What else is new?

CAMERON
I’m learning how to dance so I can
take Morris to the prom.

They both watch as hot chicks gyrate across the screen, in super duper slow motion.

CAMERON
I can do that but it’s not very optimal.

New Avatar trailer on Friday…

and it’s almost as long as the NY Post article.

Three and a half minutes.

Can’t wait to see more finished footage and I hope it rocks my world but that first teaser did NOTHING for me.

We’ll see on Friday.

Ross Out

Also….ERM…

Not doing it for me.

Excerpt from Terminator Salvation Cold War by Greg Cox

Greg Cox brings us Terminator Salvation Cold war that takes place in 2003 and 2018…the book drops in the very near future.

Below is an excerpt from Chapter 8!

Enjoy.

CHAPTER EIGHT

2018

The Terminator stalked the wilderness. Titanium legs rose and fell like pistons, never missing a step, as they waded relentlessly through the snow. Thick drifts muffled its heavy tread. The sub-zero temperature might have compromised its hydraulics, but the T-600 hadn’t bled enough antifreeze to significantly endanger its mobility. The machine had been pursuing the dog sled without pause for 5.633 hours now. It was neither bored nor discouraged. The humans had left a clear trail. They would be terminated. The only variable was when.

A small nocturnal mammal scurried away from the machine’s approach. Its optical sensors identified the specimen as Muslela erminea, the short-tailed weasel. The animal’s ermine coat was effective camouflage in this wintry setting, but failed to hide the creature from the T-600’s heat and motion detectors. Its CPU instantly processed the data.

THREAT ASSESSMENT: ZERO.

The Terminator let the weasel go. Such lower life forms were not considered threats to Skynet’s continued existence. Only humans required eradication.

The trail ascended into the mountains. From its vantage point, the Terminator glimpsed what appeared to be derelict wooden structures infesting the southwest face of a hillside, several kilometers above. Geographical records, downloaded from Skynet, confirmed the existence of a former mining installation at those coordinates. The T-600 weighed the possibility that the human Resistance had taken shelter in the supposedly abandoning buildings. The hypothesis held promise, but could not be verified without closer inspection. It would be premature to dispatch reinforcements to the site.

FURTHER INVESTIGATION REQUIRED.

New Yorker Cameron Article threatens to…

Cause spontaneous combustion of James Camerons ego.

Yes he’s great.

Yes he’s done some ground breaking stuff.

But 12 pages…seriously…12 pages?!

Better read it fast while there’s still time.

It is after all from: The FUTURE: October 26th To be precise.

And in case Cameron’s ego explodes.

Seriously though awesome guy, pleased to have met and conversed with him. And he does do amazing things.

A 12 page article though…seems more fit for the end of a career.

I’m done.

Ross

Fox Exec who Cancelled SCC admits he’s…

An asshole.

Oh me oh my does this make my day.

First a link to Airlock Alpha is in order: Blah Blah Dollhouse…look what Fox Exec says about SCC.

For those who don’t want to click through here’s the quote from PRESTON BECKMAN

“If you cancel it, you’re an asshole,” Beckman said. “If you renew it and then don’t put it back on, you’re an asshole. I’m still paying for ‘Terminator.’ ‘Dollhouse’ has a small rabid fan base that in the world of social media seems bigger than it is. We gave them another season knowing full well we were going to burn in hell if we pulled it.”

You Sir at least admitted that you made a mistake, for that I applaud you. I hope there’s something in the pipe for us SCC fans.

We’ll even take more apologies.

Ross Out.