I could tell it was the same room. The computer rack is even still against the wall (with military supplies on it instead of computer equipment).
So either she intentionally built ZeiraCorp headquarters over the site of a future Resistance base (wait, except that building was almost certainly there before the T-1001 replaced Weaver) or they reused a set and some props, which is not uncommon on scifi TV shows in the slightest.
...Actually, I'm leaning toward the latter here. That building just had an aircraft crash into it. It's not fit for habitation. The FBI will be going over it with a fine-toothed comb. ZeiraCorp will almost certainly be moving to a new headquarters in the interim. Would the same shelving still be there on J-Day?
(Wait, except that this is the future of the present where John timejumps away from that basement, so Sarah or Ellison might have set it up as a bomb shelter and possible future base site in anticipation.)
Yeah I'd say it's almost as coincidental as jumping 18 years through time and bumping into your uncle, father and the human girl your cyborg was modeled after are all walking through.
That I figure that Weaver did on purpose, or at least deliberately dropped him in a Resistance Base that she believed people familiar to him would be occupying. I'm not quite sure what she's up to with all this nonsense (I'm not quite sure that she really believes that John Henry went to the future, or if she just wanted to manipulating John into going), but it's probably best for her plans if she drops him near the people most likely to believe him instead of shooting him.
The news broadcaster says it was the 105 freeway and wikipedia has that as being completed in 1993. So I guess they could not have landed where the bank once was. Hmm.
Thanks for checking that. I figured that the odds of that area where the bank had stood being turned into a freeway in a mere eight years were slim-to-none, but it's good to have confirmation.
Do they just land in random places? Do they land where they left from?
Well, time travel also requires travel through space. The Earth doesn't hold still: in addition to the Earth traveling around the sun, the whole solar system is moving through the galaxy, the galaxy is moving through the supercluster on a collision course with Andromeda and the supercluster is moving away from everything else in the universe at speeds high enough to cause red shift. So "location" is something that can really only be defined in relation to something else... there's no fixed points in the universe.
I think that their arrival location probably has some degree of randomness. Even within the series, it doesn't seem like any two time travelers ever pop up in the same place. Some of them even pop up in really poorly-chosen places: in the path of oncoming cars on the highway in the pilot, in a speakeasy in "Self Made Man", in really exposed locations for Derek's team and the guy who'd been shot. Just getting them all to land on the Earth's surface and not underground or in space is probably a monumental task. It's possible that they have something they can fix to as a point of reference to make that easier--Earth's magnetic field or gravity well, perhaps--but it's still some pretty impressive precision that they always land in the right city. And Cameron got sent to Arizona in the pilot, unless she hitchhiked there from L.A.
The "you arrive where you left" thing just doesn't seem right to me.
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Re: argh
on 2010-05-01 04:41 pm (UTC)So either she intentionally built ZeiraCorp headquarters over the site of a future Resistance base (wait, except that building was almost certainly there before the T-1001 replaced Weaver) or they reused a set and some props, which is not uncommon on scifi TV shows in the slightest.
...Actually, I'm leaning toward the latter here. That building just had an aircraft crash into it. It's not fit for habitation. The FBI will be going over it with a fine-toothed comb. ZeiraCorp will almost certainly be moving to a new headquarters in the interim. Would the same shelving still be there on J-Day?
(Wait, except that this is the future of the present where John timejumps away from that basement, so Sarah or Ellison might have set it up as a bomb shelter and possible future base site in anticipation.)
Yeah I'd say it's almost as coincidental as jumping 18 years through time and bumping into your uncle, father and the human girl your cyborg was modeled after are all walking through.
That I figure that Weaver did on purpose, or at least deliberately dropped him in a Resistance Base that she believed people familiar to him would be occupying. I'm not quite sure what she's up to with all this nonsense (I'm not quite sure that she really believes that John Henry went to the future, or if she just wanted to manipulating John into going), but it's probably best for her plans if she drops him near the people most likely to believe him instead of shooting him.
The news broadcaster says it was the 105 freeway and wikipedia has that as being completed in 1993. So I guess they could not have landed where the bank once was. Hmm.
Thanks for checking that. I figured that the odds of that area where the bank had stood being turned into a freeway in a mere eight years were slim-to-none, but it's good to have confirmation.
Do they just land in random places? Do they land where they left from?
Well, time travel also requires travel through space. The Earth doesn't hold still: in addition to the Earth traveling around the sun, the whole solar system is moving through the galaxy, the galaxy is moving through the supercluster on a collision course with Andromeda and the supercluster is moving away from everything else in the universe at speeds high enough to cause red shift. So "location" is something that can really only be defined in relation to something else... there's no fixed points in the universe.
I think that their arrival location probably has some degree of randomness. Even within the series, it doesn't seem like any two time travelers ever pop up in the same place. Some of them even pop up in really poorly-chosen places: in the path of oncoming cars on the highway in the pilot, in a speakeasy in "Self Made Man", in really exposed locations for Derek's team and the guy who'd been shot. Just getting them all to land on the Earth's surface and not underground or in space is probably a monumental task. It's possible that they have something they can fix to as a point of reference to make that easier--Earth's magnetic field or gravity well, perhaps--but it's still some pretty impressive precision that they always land in the right city. And Cameron got sent to Arizona in the pilot, unless she hitchhiked there from L.A.
The "you arrive where you left" thing just doesn't seem right to me.