I don't think Derek as wrong to kill Andy from the POV he had, but from the POV we have, I do think it was wrong. I understand that innocents sometimes die in war and it's unavoidable because you have to do what you have to do for the greater good. I get that, I really do. And Derek had every reason to believe he was saving the world by killing Andy. But because we have the Dyson thing in T2 to look back on, we already know that the death of the man most directly responsible for Skynet didn't stop j-day, so there was no reason to believe that the death of Andy Goode would stop it either. Sarah had that experience to base her decision on. Not killing Andy was the right choice from her POV. That's the interesting thing about Andy's death. It was right *and* wrong.
But it was Derek's attempt to kill the cops under city hall and his lack of emotion over killing Andy that really established him and a cold killer for me, and not a soldier with a heart of gold. And even after he remembered the horror of buddies dying in future war (in Goodbye to all that), we still got him going to kill Moishe in Brothers of Nablus (except Jesse beat him to it). I don't see how killing Moishe was necessary even from Derek's POV. He'd already covered up the thing about him mentioning Jesse by telling Sarah that Jesse was a guy from his crew that got killed.
From Derek's POV, I could maybe even give him an "understandable" pass on attempting to kill young Fisher. But the Moishe thing no. That ruins the idea that Derek was starting to differentiate between taking innocent life and taking life for the sake of the mission. So I still found it too big of a leap last week when he was so adamant that the loss of any innocent life was tragic.
I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this, but feel free to get in the last word if you want. I'll read it if you do.
Re: "Today is the Day 1 & 2" TSCC
But it was Derek's attempt to kill the cops under city hall and his lack of emotion over killing Andy that really established him and a cold killer for me, and not a soldier with a heart of gold. And even after he remembered the horror of buddies dying in future war (in Goodbye to all that), we still got him going to kill Moishe in Brothers of Nablus (except Jesse beat him to it). I don't see how killing Moishe was necessary even from Derek's POV. He'd already covered up the thing about him mentioning Jesse by telling Sarah that Jesse was a guy from his crew that got killed.
From Derek's POV, I could maybe even give him an "understandable" pass on attempting to kill young Fisher. But the Moishe thing no. That ruins the idea that Derek was starting to differentiate between taking innocent life and taking life for the sake of the mission. So I still found it too big of a leap last week when he was so adamant that the loss of any innocent life was tragic.
I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this, but feel free to get in the last word if you want. I'll read it if you do.