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Jan. 21st, 2008 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mimesereupon watching The Terminator -
Wow. Two deleted scenes that a) make Sarah Connor THAT MUCH MORE AWESOME and b) Reese THAT MUCH MORE PSYCHO.
In the first one, Sarah decides to take out Cyberdyne, Reese freaks out, and Sarah tells him (essentially) to go fuck himself because she's tired and scared and doesn't want to look over her shoulder for the rest of her life and Reese basically has a nervous breakdown because he can't handle a world that's so drastically different than anything he's ever known. As per James Cameron, he regrets taking out the scene because it's taking agency away from Sarah Connor, but it's also the premise for the second movie and he figured one Reese breakdown was enough to show that he had basically turned himself into a machine. Whatever, James Cameron, you should have left it in because it made Sarah Connor kick that much more ass. A day after being hunted down and almost killed and she's already going, "Hey, you know what would kick ass? TAKING OUT THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THE MACHINES." That is the Sarah Connor that raises the leader of the human resistance.
In the second one, Sarah tries to look on the bright side and is all la la when we are free from the machines, we will go to the movies and have popcorn! and Reese is like, "WTF?" and Sarah's all, "STFU, I am being an optimist goddammit because otherwise this all sucks SO BAD." And they talk about how Reese brings the war with him wherever he goes/whatever he does and Sarah feels that she's crossed the line into living in Reese's world. Draws some nice parallels between the legend of Sarah Connor (as John tells it to Reese) and the legend (as she tells it to John) of Kyle Reese as well as the perpetual crazy survivalist guerilla warfare mindset.
Also deleted, a whole slew of scenes with Lt. Traxler whose arc, I suppose, is now being given to Richard T Jones' James Ellison as the cop who believes the Connors aren't entirely batshit.
moving on to T2: Judgment Day.
T2: ahahahahaha. emo john connor. AHAHAHAHA. Crazy Sarah Connor is still hot. Miles Dyson is still awesome. S. Epatha was his wife! Yay for S. Epatha! I thought the bits with the learning chip were awesome and how it's set to read-only. But mostly I just laughed at emo john connor.
Wow. Two deleted scenes that a) make Sarah Connor THAT MUCH MORE AWESOME and b) Reese THAT MUCH MORE PSYCHO.
In the first one, Sarah decides to take out Cyberdyne, Reese freaks out, and Sarah tells him (essentially) to go fuck himself because she's tired and scared and doesn't want to look over her shoulder for the rest of her life and Reese basically has a nervous breakdown because he can't handle a world that's so drastically different than anything he's ever known. As per James Cameron, he regrets taking out the scene because it's taking agency away from Sarah Connor, but it's also the premise for the second movie and he figured one Reese breakdown was enough to show that he had basically turned himself into a machine. Whatever, James Cameron, you should have left it in because it made Sarah Connor kick that much more ass. A day after being hunted down and almost killed and she's already going, "Hey, you know what would kick ass? TAKING OUT THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THE MACHINES." That is the Sarah Connor that raises the leader of the human resistance.
In the second one, Sarah tries to look on the bright side and is all la la when we are free from the machines, we will go to the movies and have popcorn! and Reese is like, "WTF?" and Sarah's all, "STFU, I am being an optimist goddammit because otherwise this all sucks SO BAD." And they talk about how Reese brings the war with him wherever he goes/whatever he does and Sarah feels that she's crossed the line into living in Reese's world. Draws some nice parallels between the legend of Sarah Connor (as John tells it to Reese) and the legend (as she tells it to John) of Kyle Reese as well as the perpetual crazy survivalist guerilla warfare mindset.
Also deleted, a whole slew of scenes with Lt. Traxler whose arc, I suppose, is now being given to Richard T Jones' James Ellison as the cop who believes the Connors aren't entirely batshit.
moving on to T2: Judgment Day.
T2: ahahahahaha. emo john connor. AHAHAHAHA. Crazy Sarah Connor is still hot. Miles Dyson is still awesome. S. Epatha was his wife! Yay for S. Epatha! I thought the bits with the learning chip were awesome and how it's set to read-only. But mostly I just laughed at emo john connor.