AG Monday
This week: "The Terminator"
We’ll be back…with a new episode! We knew Schwarzenegger from Conan, But who was this James Cameron guy? It was a surprise hit, one of those “you gotta see this” films. Was it an action movie? A science fiction movie? Or two, two, two things in one?
Time travel! Bootstrap paradoxes! A climax in a factory! Guerrilla filmmaking! Unknown actors as the leads! Getting sued by Harlan Ellison! It’s all here.
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I saw it on TV years after it premiered, but before the sequel came out.
IMO the sequel was good on its own, but more importantly it completed the story. They really should have stopped there. But I guess we can talk about sequels next week.
So, for the first movie. Reese says at the start the terminator won’t stop. I liked that this was illustrated at the end. It gets shot up and keeps coming. It gets half its body blown up and keeps coming. It takes getting crushed by a hydraulic press for it to stop (in the MAD magazine version, a small wire then crawls out and tries to shock Sarah Connor).
The paradoxes make no logical sense. On the one hand, had Skynet not sent Arnie back, there’d be no John Connor to bother it. On the other hand, there’d be no Skynet to be bothered.
Trivia, there’s a courier company called Skynet. And a bunch of other things with that name, too
On the overall subject of AG rewatch eps, I’ve one request:
If you ever decide to do eps on either Logan’s Run or Soylent Green, I’d appreciate a heads up, preferably 2 weeks in advance, so I can rewatch them.
Just those two.
Thanks.
@Kathy: Those two are on a list of possibilities, but are not currently on deck.
In the coming weeks, we have fairly solid plans for Close Encounters, Blake’s 7 series 2, TNG season 1, and sci-fi cartoons of our youth.
@Steven L. Taylor:
Thanks!