John Henry, where's your trousers?
Apr. 29th, 2010 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roxybisquaintYou 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?
"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?
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Re: Time Travel Conundra
on 2010-05-01 07:52 am (UTC)You know, I never thought about whether Weaver would want to prevent j-day or not. She was hoarding coltan, but we don't know if she was stashing it safely in bunkers for after j-day so she could build a population of machines, if she was destroying it to prevent Kaliba from getting it, or if she was stashing it and protecting it until she could begin building cyborgs in present day. Hmm.
It could be that she's fine with j-day happening and Skynet running things for a while because then there would be a population of metal already in existence that she can just free from Skynet directives. It's clear she doesn't care one way or the other about humans anyway. She seems to view humans the way Sarah view machines: if they're useful and do what you tell them to do, she'll tolerate them. But if they cause trouble, she'll destroy them.
john Henry, on the other hand, has some sort of bond with Savannah the same way (well not the same way) that John has a bond with Cameron. The mothers see things more black and white, while the sons see more grey area. So John runs off to the future (where Weaver is going) to save(?) Cameron and John Henry stays in the present (where Sarah is) to save Savannah. See what I did there? I totally threw the JH theory at you again :P
But anyway, yeah, I do think Savannah is a primary motivator for John Henry.