Discussion: IMPORTANT: John apparently saved Cameron...and she loves him for it...

"It may not be a love, per se......but a kind of loyalty to him.

You saved me, now im in your debt....type of situation.

We really dont know at this point whether Cameron can feel love or any emotion....she is still in an early stage of learning. So I would have to say her being able to love........while not impossible and may indeed happen.....is not clear just yet."

"I would think that if they are allowed to continue on past Season 2... which is now up in the air because of a possible strike... then Cameron will probably continue to evolve.

The question then becomes will John and Cameron be allowed to actually "hook up" in the series because she has become advanced enough to show real enough emotions, and John is actually smitten with her?

They seem to be hinting that Cameron will, in a sense, be rattled because of the explosion and that, to me, indicates that she's traumatized in some fashion like a real human would. This would indicate emotional awareness to me. Maybe John has to help her deal with it so she's back to "normal" sooner or later.

I sort of get this vibe from the snippets of what Josh and the cast have stated recently. "

"I would think that if they are allowed to continue on past Season 2... which is now up in the air because of a possible strike... then Cameron will probably continue to evolve.

The question then becomes will John and Cameron be allowed to actually "hook up" in the series because she has become advanced enough to show real enough emotions, and John is actually smitten with her?

They seem to be hinting that Cameron will, in a sense, be rattled because of the explosion and that, to me, indicates that she's traumatized in some fashion like a real human would. This would indicate emotional awareness to me. Maybe John has to help her deal with it so she's back to "normal" sooner or later.

I sort of get this vibe from the snippets of what Josh and the cast have stated recently. "

"That sentence perfectly describes the mood I've been in for the last couple of months. Couldn't bring it into words as you did but that hits the spot. Amazing how 9 episodes can have such an impact. "

"I think that in the future, John reprograms the terminators to help them not out of love but out of a sense of protecting human soldiers and also as a way to upset skynet by using its creations against it. However, when Cameron came along, John understood that it wasn't just a newer model but rather a revolutionary model and not only reprogrammed her but actually was with her 24 hours a day. Even though he had great memories of Uncle Bob, he could not reprogram a terminator so he would act like his friend, his father or anyone he could interact in any other way than a general and a soldier who must follow his orders (up to the point where they go bad...) But with Cameron it was different, she (not it) was different. He started to let his guard down with her, and she started to gain his trust. This was obviously NOT well seen, much less accepted by many of his soldiers (Derek comes to mind...) so (to steal a phrase) people fear what they don't understand, and decided to "decomission" Cameron. John stopped them. He gets killed saving Cameron. Cameron feels bad. She comes back in time to help John out of love for him. But since present John is not the same as future John maybe now that love can evolve, change, or simply be transformed into respect."

"Are you saying that after John saw in Cameron a terminator that really had the potential to be a force for good for mankind.......perhaps even that's why he put his heart and soul into her reprogramming and he wanted her to be special; she wouldn't make the most of a second chance at being around him? At caring about him?
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, One moment; Would you capture it or just let it slip?
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