Terminator 2.04: Allison From Palmdale
My immediate reaction to this episode? WOW! Whoever wrote this episode was a genius. This came out of left field and opened up and entirely new set of questions. I can only speak for myself, but it was almost as good as "Sampson and Delilah" in terms of the Cameron story line.
The fact that a terminator could have such a powerful memory lapse is shocking. Some people might think that she was pretending, but I don't think so, if for no other reason than the fact that there does not seem to be a purpose for her to fake it. The question now is, what does this mean about her mission? We've now seen that she is was an infiltrator in the future, designed to penetrate John Connor's inner circle by impersonating this Allison. However, is that still her mission? We know that this is her initial mission, but her programming overrides this. Now that she's experienced these memories from the perspective of Allison, and taken on the persona of the infiltrator, has she changed again? Yet, she doesn't kill Jody, so has she just gone back to the Cameron we knew before the explosion?
Can't wait to find out.
-Faith
1 comments:
I think she has gone back to being the Cameron we know, albeit with a new level of insight. In "Samson & Delilah" she broke free from her programming and chose not to terminate John. Here, she not only stopped herself from killing Jody, but told John what she knew to be a lie. She is becoming independent, questioning orders she would have blindly followed in the past and making choices that, as Weaver would say, go against the flow of traffic.
I agree with you, it's a fantastic episode. If there's anything missing, it's a final tag where we see Derek sitting alone in the house. He looks around at the empty rooms and grunts, "Where the hell is everybody?"
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