Hmm - something else just occurred to me... I agree with your theory, btw, that John is dead up in the future, at least in Cameron's timeline (though I don't think he's dead in Derek's timeline, actually, it makes sense Derek's seen something different than the others have)...
Josh Friedman has gone to great lengths to humanize the temrinators, to prove they can have sex and be complex and have issues, and the return of Cromartie (or whatever the heck is going on in that clip the Writer's Blog posted that you saw) implies heavily that they can get more complex as the show goes on -
What if Cameron watched John die, calling out to his mother, and she really is in love with him? What if she couldn't deal with the fact he didn't love her back (at least in her mind) and she developed a psychotic schism in her mind where she started talking to John even when he wasn't there? If so, she THINKS he sent her back to save his mom, but she just can't rectify the gap inside her programming, so she's taking orders from a John that no longer exists. Sortof Machine-MPD - she thinks he's real, but he's not, so she's effectively running the resistance. (The irony there would be thick.)
Also my roommate thinks that submarine-liquid-metal-possibly-Weaver thing was with the SkyNET schism described in Allison from Palmdale, if so, I hope so, because that makes things way more complex.
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on 2009-03-27 04:14 pm (UTC)Josh Friedman has gone to great lengths to humanize the temrinators, to prove they can have sex and be complex and have issues, and the return of Cromartie (or whatever the heck is going on in that clip the Writer's Blog posted that you saw) implies heavily that they can get more complex as the show goes on -
What if Cameron watched John die, calling out to his mother, and she really is in love with him? What if she couldn't deal with the fact he didn't love her back (at least in her mind) and she developed a psychotic schism in her mind where she started talking to John even when he wasn't there? If so, she THINKS he sent her back to save his mom, but she just can't rectify the gap inside her programming, so she's taking orders from a John that no longer exists. Sortof Machine-MPD - she thinks he's real, but he's not, so she's effectively running the resistance. (The irony there would be thick.)
Also my roommate thinks that submarine-liquid-metal-possibly-Weaver thing was with the SkyNET schism described in Allison from Palmdale, if so, I hope so, because that makes things way more complex.