John Henry, where's your trousers?

[roxybisquaint]

You guys already know that I don't think John Henry time-jumped. I think he used Cameron's chip (or repaired and used the water cooler terminator's chip) and left Zeira Corp to go find his AI brother in present day. This post isn't really about that theory, though. This time, I'm just analyzing the situation.

"You can't bring anything through when you come—not weapons, not clothing, nothing."

If John Henry did jump, where is his clothing? It should've been in a pile on the floor, but it wasn't. Clothing doesn't go through, so it either gets disintegrated by the time bubble or left behind by the time bubble. Since Cameron's clothed body was sitting there in the chair (and the chair and table were there), we can rule out disintegration. She was clearly within the sphere of the time bubble when Weaver and John left, so she would have been within the sphere when John Henry left too. Yet Cameron's body was clothed and intact and John Henry's clothes were not there.

Was that a hint that he didn't actually jump ahead or was it just a gaff?

Comments

Re: Bank Vault TDE

[roxybisquaint.livejournal.com]

Never mind that there was a "not really" nuclear plasma rifle ("Hope") in the bank vault bubble when the TDE was activated.

Oh hey! Now that's actually an explanation I can get on board with. I have always rolled my eyes at the notion that the bank vault was rigged to blow when the TDE was used. I just don't buy explosives sitting in a bank for decades. It's too risky. But the plasma rifle... yeah! I can believe the that when the "not really" nuclear isotope solution encounters the energy of the time bubble departing, it could have enough of a reaction to blow the bank to bits. Nicely done!

Re: Bank Vault TDE

[the-narration.livejournal.com]

I just don't buy explosives sitting in a bank for decades. It's too risky.
Oh, I don't know about that. It's not really outside the realm of possibility when you consider that people are still being killed by unexploded landmines from World War I. Modern explosives are pretty stable, and really hard to set off by accident. I mean, compared to having a time machine with super-advanced power source and a "not really" nuclear isotope sitting around....

They kind of don't need explosives, tho. The TDE or whatever was powering it was packing so much energy that all you'd probably have to do to cause an explosion is breach containment or overload it.

Re: Bank Vault TDE

[roxybisquaint.livejournal.com]

I was quite content to go with not really nuclear gun + TDE energy = BOOM. But you have to try to ruin it, don't you?

Re: Bank Vault TDE

[the-narration.livejournal.com]

That's me. Giant buzzkill. I get paid for it and everything. ;-P

There's nothing wrong with the "not really nuclear gun + TDE = BOOM" theory. It's entirely possible that firing the gun during the transfer damaged something in the TDE and resulted in the explosion. Like I said: lot of energy = big chance of going boom.

But given that the Resistance is frequently trying to prevent future tech from contaminating the timeline and accelerating Skynet (or at least the Connors are... it occurs to me that we don't know how the Resistance feels about it) and that a time machine is about as dangerous as technology can get, it wouldn't surprise me if they had a self-destruct built into it.