Jul 24, 2025
Happy birthday, Summer Glau! 💖💝💖
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Happy birthday, Summer Glau! 💖💝💖
There were things I needed to see. Things I had to understand.
If I had a nickel for every superhuman teenage girl killing machine with non-existent social skills who winds up taking up ballet as their main hobby/means of self expression I'd have two nickels, which isn't that much but yadda yadda yadda...
Vote for your favorite humanoid 🤖ANDROID/ROBOT🤖 character (includes both characters that are partially biological and those that are not)!
Data (Star Trek: TNG)
Murderbot (The Murderbot Diaries)
Breq (Ancillary Justice)
K-2SO (Rogue One)
Robot (Lost in Space)
Cameron (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
The Android (Dark Matter)
T-850 Terminator (Terminator movies)
Baymax (Big Hero 6)
C-3PO (Star Wars)
Hello. I have to talk about T:TSCC.
I have no doubt you know this, but I just noticed.
The scene in 2x22 when John wakes up to Cameron watching him and they talk mirrors the scene in 1x01 when John wakes up to Sarah. I can’t believe it took me three watches to see it. I wish I could gif it side by side, but I don’t know how to do that.
Anyway, I just had to say it to someone. Thank you for the space.
I'm delighted you're going through it with us all nearly two decades after this show aired, if I'm honest! I love that this fandom is still semi-active and still draws in new folks after all this time, so: flailing in the inbox is very welcome :D
But yes: I have noticed this! :D I'm sure I've posted about it somewhere in my meta or liveblog posts (there are just so many) but it definitely feels like a deliberate detail in a show obsessed with details. There are a few other examples like that with Cameron and Sarah, especially with respect to caretaking and who watches over John, but also with John taking care of himself more (basically moving from teenage boy to young man), like the burnt food in S1 versus John refusing Cameron feeding him in S2, and putting more boundaries between himself and Sarah and Cameron. It's partly a front or self-preservation mechanism, especially after he goes out on a ledge in 'Samson and Delilah', but it's also fundamentally him becoming more John Connor even while he's pretending to be John Baum. That's just the thing - he is John Connor - and I think he fundamentally becomes more and more his promised future self as the show goes on because it's who he is in essentials.
Does anyone have any romances between human and machine to recommend ? Shows, movies or books ? No because after all these years, I still haven't gotten over these two :
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1, Episode 1
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