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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
so I'm caught up on the series, and I have to say it is slow in getting started.
I believe that the series is setting up enough foundation to create a believeable space to work within. Right now, the terminator lore is very simple, 2 terminators go back in time, one protects, one hunts. But now they are establishing more background and exploring the rest of the lore and letting ways of stopping skynet happen in ways like a chess game.
They killed the guy who does the CPU in T2, but as they said in one of the teasers "didn't alter the time enough."
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What really bothers me, though, is that Spoiler: Cromartie shouldn't even be there. The series builds on the world established in The Terminator and Terminator 2. Right from the original film with Kyle Reese it's been stated that only organic material can go through the time portals. This is reinforced in the show itself when Sarah, John and Cameron jump ahead to 2007 - they all show up naked. Cromartie's head shouldn't have been able to go through. This isn't a minor issue, it's a glaring inconsistency and given that they seem to be setting up Cromartie as a major villain it seems like kind of a big problem to me. This is the largest of many plot holes that I've spotted in the first four episodes, and I think it's pretty telling. If the writers can't even maintain a consistent mythos in the same bloody scene, it would seem to me that they're not trying very hard.
I truly believe what I said above; this show is a vehicle to cash in on all the Summer Glau fanboys more than anything else.
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