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Roger1000
Roger1000
Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 7:40 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 7:40 PM EST
Why don't have wireless internet hacking abilities. Oops Do you find this valuable?    
Keyword tags: Science Summer Glau Toaster

MetalHunter
1. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 7:43 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 7:43 PM EST
"Why don't have wireless internet hacking abilities. Oops"
Like your toaster... ;)

Roger1000: "Cam is a really toaster"

I consider this phrase offensive language! Cameron is a Cyborg, not your toaster! Please, to apologize! 1  out of 4 found this valuable. Do you?    
warriormind
warriormind
2. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 7:58 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 7:58 PM EST
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you asking why they don't have a built wireless network card? My guess would be there their aren't many wireless networks in the future, and Skynet sends these T's to different periods in time, most of which wouldn't have wireless hotspots. 2  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    

Veran
3. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 7:59 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 7:59 PM EST
What's an incongruity? 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
warriormind
warriormind
4. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 8:22 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 8:22 PM EST
He means that the lack of wireless doesn't make sense. It is incongruent with what he would think a Skynet like entity would include in a terminator like robot. Do you find this valuable?    
Sara1986
Sara1986
5. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 9:06 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 9:06 PM EST
Because it works two ways. You can also trace them through wireless networking. No firewall is hackproof. 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
ShiningPathofLight
ShiningPathofLight
6. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 9:14 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 9:14 PM EST
Perhaps the Terminators are equipped with some kind of wireless communication device, IIRC they've never shown us how Terminators communicate with one another in fact whenever we have seen 2 of them together they just stare at each other. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
tommy-minou
tommy-minou
7. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 9:43 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 9:43 PM EST
I've just been watching the Series 1 Ep 1 blockbuster - it's such a great episode, it's as good as any action movie going.
But - a couple of 'incongruities' with later eps - eg
* Cameron's eyes flash blue, and Cromaties flash red - that doesn't happen anymore.
* Cromatie touches Sarah and then can impersonate his voice - something lifted from T1 and T2 - why is this party trick never used any more - there's countless times it could be. Do you find this valuable?    
JMHthe3rd
JMHthe3rd
8. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 10:16 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 10:16 PM EST
For some reason Cam didn't use it in S&D. Instead she tried to get Sarah to call John. Of course, she was pretty damaged; maybe she couldn't? Do you find this valuable?    

Veran
9. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 10:24 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 10:24 PM EST
"I've just been watching the Series 1 Ep 1 blockbuster - it's such a great episode, it's as good as any action movie going.
But - a couple of 'incongruities' with later eps - eg
* Cameron's eyes flash blue, and Cromaties flash red - that doesn't happen anymore.
* Cromatie touches Sarah and then can impersonate his voice - something lifted from T1 and T2 - why is this party trick never used any more - there's countless times it could be."
Cromartie was simply choking Sarah to keep her quiet. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
ShiningPathofLight
ShiningPathofLight
10. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 10:39 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 10:39 PM EST
"For some reason Cam didn't use it in S&D. Instead she tried to get Sarah to call John. Of course, she was pretty damaged; maybe she couldn't?"
The liquid terminator did the same thing in T2, when it was clearly obvious it could imitate anybody. Do you find this valuable?    
andyxl987
andyxl987
11. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 10 2009, 11:45 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 10 2009, 11:45 PM EST
The T-1000 when in that scenario was damaged to the point that it's mimetic poly-alloy was failing. There's a couple of bits which are shown in the directors cut, including his hand getting stuck momentarily whilst adapting to a handrail and also his legs were camouflaging with the floor when they shouldn't have been. As JMHthe3rd suggested, maybe Cameron was too damaged to imitate Sarah at that moment. Do you find this valuable?    
NagirracNaes
NagirracNaes
12. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 1:08 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 1:08 AM EST
"I've just been watching the Series 1 Ep 1 blockbuster - it's such a great episode, it's as good as any action movie going.
But - a couple of 'incongruities' with later eps - eg
* Cameron's eyes flash blue, and Cromaties flash red - that doesn't happen anymore.
* Cromatie touches Sarah and then can impersonate his voice - something lifted from T1 and T2 - why is this party trick never used any more - there's countless times it could be."
it was used in 'Mousetrap' 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
warriormind
warriormind
13. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 1:23 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 1:23 AM EST
Cameron's eyes also glow in Dungeons and Dragons 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Roger1000
Roger1000
14. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 3:04 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 3:04 PM EST
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I consider this phrase offensive language! Cameron is a Cyborg, not your toaster! Please, to apologize!"
I apologize what I meant to say is that she is toasty hot complicated flawed piece of Metal. She has John Issues, she knows a lot more about future issues than she reveals. She runs secret missions that she never debriefs the Connors on.

Incongruities are a media term where the plot goes off on a tangent or departs from the "Mythology". Visually it can happen when her shirt is the wrong color or a wound moves from the right hand to the left hand. Also Toaster is a Battlestar Galactic term that refers to human form Cylons. Now those are some hot cyborgs that are not Metal.

Early on Cameron couldn't go through the school metal detectors because of her endo-skeleton. As for the lack of bluetooth or cellular interface capacity in Cameron and other terminators, I imagine that it is something the writers have intentionally avoided. Of course she can't find a bestbuy with any off the shelf toaster parts.
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ShiningPathofLight
ShiningPathofLight
15. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 4:19 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 4:19 PM EST
"Cameron's eyes also glow in Dungeons and Dragons"
Are Cameron's glowing blue eyes a result of something future John did to her? Are the glowing blue eyes used as an indicator that a terminator has been reprogrammed? Or are the blue eyes an advancement made by skynet, an improvement of some sort over a T-888? Do you find this valuable?    
NagirracNaes
NagirracNaes
16. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 4:29 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 4:29 PM EST
"Are Cameron's glowing blue eyes a result of something future John did to her? Are the glowing blue eyes used as an indicator that a terminator has been reprogrammed? Or are the blue eyes an advancement made by skynet, an improvement of some sort over a T-888? "
It's because they are pretty. Do you find this valuable?    
summerglau4ever
summerglau4ever
17. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 4:30 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 4:30 PM EST
"Are Cameron's glowing blue eyes a result of something future John did to her? Are the glowing blue eyes used as an indicator that a terminator has been reprogrammed? Or are the blue eyes an advancement made by skynet, an improvement of some sort over a T-888? "
Because she is a T-X Model(i think) and they are better than T-888 Do you find this valuable?    
ShiningPathofLight
ShiningPathofLight
18. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 4:31 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 4:31 PM EST
"It's because they are pretty."
That too of course;) Do you find this valuable?    
summerglau4ever
summerglau4ever
19. RE: Terminator incongruities
Jan 11 2009, 4:32 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 11 2009, 4:32 PM EST
I think Green would be cool too Do you find this valuable?    
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