Gaff. The set was too small to have an area completely set aside for a time-travel bubble, so they left Cameron and the table there when they shouldn't have. That's all it is, I'd lay money on it.
The thing is - This is what I LOVE Cameron (director)'s method of time travel. It solves SO many problems I have with most time travel - What happens to the air where you were standing? What happens if you accidentally time travelled into a rock? All that shit is resolved - if you appear at a truckstop, the time machine *carves* that truck apart as you enter. There's no messy worrying about matter sharing the same space - a molecule-size bubble appears, then rapidly expands, annihilating all matter in its path.
Mind you, that doesn't explain how annihilating matter like that doesn't result in a fission explosion, but I'm letting that go.
Anyway - we've *never* seen the outgoing trip, just the incoming trip. Your friend is right, I own the first draft screenplay to Terminator 2, in which Kyle is naked because he has to be naked, and then he steps into some floating rings and they descend into a tunnel. But you're right, that never made it to screen. Thus, I'm prepared to accept almost any model they want to make for out-going time travel wormholes. In the premiere, I was shocked they could time-travel without concentric rings like in the screenplay, but that's not how it is in TSCC, as you said.
The pseudo-scientist in me finds it objectionable for scientific and utter *hotness* reasons that when the gang walked into the time vortex, the time vortex didn't immediately disintegrate their clothing. "Nothing dead will go," said Kyle - so how is it that they're walking INTO the time vortex and they're not naked? The field should have stripped off their clothing, the outer layer of skin (and hair, Kyle should have been bald, but I'm letting that go too), and then sent them. It makes no sense.
Plus, I think Sarah shooting the Terminator while nude would've been the hottest thing ever done :D
But my point is, the outgoing wormholes in TSCC have *never* made sense by the rules, since the premiere, so I'm prepared to forgive the Cameron-still-exists-instead-of-being-vaped theory.
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Bit of an essay, but I like to think about these things.
on 2010-04-30 03:17 pm (UTC)The thing is - This is what I LOVE Cameron (director)'s method of time travel. It solves SO many problems I have with most time travel - What happens to the air where you were standing? What happens if you accidentally time travelled into a rock? All that shit is resolved - if you appear at a truckstop, the time machine *carves* that truck apart as you enter. There's no messy worrying about matter sharing the same space - a molecule-size bubble appears, then rapidly expands, annihilating all matter in its path.
Mind you, that doesn't explain how annihilating matter like that doesn't result in a fission explosion, but I'm letting that go.
Anyway - we've *never* seen the outgoing trip, just the incoming trip. Your friend is right, I own the first draft screenplay to Terminator 2, in which Kyle is naked because he has to be naked, and then he steps into some floating rings and they descend into a tunnel. But you're right, that never made it to screen. Thus, I'm prepared to accept almost any model they want to make for out-going time travel wormholes. In the premiere, I was shocked they could time-travel without concentric rings like in the screenplay, but that's not how it is in TSCC, as you said.
The pseudo-scientist in me finds it objectionable for scientific and utter *hotness* reasons that when the gang walked into the time vortex, the time vortex didn't immediately disintegrate their clothing. "Nothing dead will go," said Kyle - so how is it that they're walking INTO the time vortex and they're not naked? The field should have stripped off their clothing, the outer layer of skin (and hair, Kyle should have been bald, but I'm letting that go too), and then sent them. It makes no sense.
Plus, I think Sarah shooting the Terminator while nude would've been the hottest thing ever done :D
But my point is, the outgoing wormholes in TSCC have *never* made sense by the rules, since the premiere, so I'm prepared to forgive the Cameron-still-exists-instead-of-being-vaped theory.