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lordjedi
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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Date created
7-Mar-2008, 1:15 AM
Am I the only one that didn't like some aspects of the last two episodes? First, they take the highly advanced CPU and stick it in what appears to be a PCIe slot. If the original Judgment Day was August 29, 1997, I think it's safe to assume that the technology would not necessarily have gone in that direction. I know it's a nitpick, but I have a real problem when they do that in shows like this. Yeah, let's use a piece of tech from 2007/8 to read an advanced piece of tech that was probably not designed for the tech from 2007/8.

My second problem was right after that, they start invoking Moore's law. Again, if the CPU from 1997 were that far advanced (we're led to believe in T2 that it was the most advanced thing they'd ever seen), it would be light years ahead of a PCIe slot.

Third, I'm having a hard time accepting the "Sometimes they go bad, no one knows why". So they were able to reprogram a terminator (T2), set it's CPU to read only, and make it not kill people and follow orders from John Connor, yet it might "go bad"? It's a computer. I didn't really even like the terminator in T3 being able to override the programming that the other one gave it (one among many problems with that movie). But since they're disregarding T3, then that never happened.

I just don't think we needed this whole subplot of Cameron acting shady and a T-888 integrating itself into a marriage. I'll probably watch it some more, assuming they bring it back. I just hope they stop trying to use today's tech to access advanced future tech.