I think it’s a bit of an understatement to say that y’all might have a few question when it comes to that passel of scripts known as The Connor Wars. Without further ado, we’ll get to them:
Video 01
A few opening remarks.
Video 02
Why didn’t Catherine kill Brandi?
How can it be that Catherine is Clio’s grandmother? (This is the most often-asked question.)
Video 03
It seems in the end Catherine’s main goal really was simply a T0K + MPA + human integrated world, but John was convinced at the start that she was keeping more secrets. Were there any real secrets beyond what you’ve discussed before about her simply willing to just keep trying and trying again until she gets the future she wants?
The finale was great, but one thing bothered me: Skynet wants to help us? Skynet wants to keep the human race in nature preserves? Why? Why does it care?
Video 04
How come that you’ve decided not to include this huge and overdramatic “villain agony scene”?
What made you not to kill anyone from the “final six”?
Video 05
Was it intentional or unintentional that John was the only male among them?
Do you have a map of the are surrounding Excelsior mountain?
John & Cameron stayed alive, how did they escape from Excelsior Facility?
Brandi survived with a blue case. What’s in it?
View Excelsior Mountain (The Connor Wars) in a larger map
Video 06
Weaver had downloaded every Skynet file but in the Clio World, almost 100 years later there are no T-1000 entities.
Video 07
If Brandi is grand mother of Clio… So John Henry is her father? (Clio is a cyborg, not human, so she can’t be Savannah Weaver child).
Are T-100x models far from the known (TCC) future? Or there in the given timeline there was no need to create so advanced terminator?
I wish I could have had a little more exploration about John and Cameron relationship (how she was able to understands and feels emotions how she grown her humanity) or John Henry questioning about being alive instead of the long final battle preparation but I knew it was needed to be. The story needed an end, there was little to no time to further characters development if not just a quick glimpse as you did.
Video 08
Who was Andy and what were his origins?
When Catherine examined the Damage in Serrano, was she being honest or was she making sure it was a melt down?
Did T-Proctor have any significance or was she merely a mechanism to allow Clio to tell her report?
Video 09
Where is the TDE (Time Displacement Equipment aka the time machine)? Is this another Skynet project that in created reality (S3 and S4) is not required because there in no John Connor considered as the main Skynet threat?
What are the chances, when a writer have a head-splatted spare body for the character, yet still get exactly this character head-splatted? [Hi there, cliffhangers!]
Can you give us more details about JD and about Skynet’s creation, origins and rise to power?
Video 10
What happened to Cheri Westin, Riley, and other people who were in the series?
What happened to T-Tuck and the other T0K who’s bodies Moss gave to Brandi? I mean, he didn’t give her their chips, so if he still had them they’d be revivable (in new bodies). But T-Tuck wasn’t mentioned again… so what happened?
Why did John CHOOSE to strangle Sarkissian (kill Skynet) with his bare hands (by himself and with people most close to him) instead of sending some “commando” unit on it? Was it because he don’t trust anyone on that matter or he thought he was fated to do this by himself?
thank you for explaining.
An enjoyable watch .. ‘mate
If we have more questions do we list them here or back in the previous questions post?
Either will work, but it might be less confusing to have them at the other post.
That was thorough. And rewardingly deep. Guess you haven’t much sleep last couple’o days with all that poll and questions and ‘try to satisfy everyone @theEnd’, have you? Really appreciate your caring for us.
Couple of questions on questions answers, though. When I was asking about Cameron’s spare-body and her self, I was curious why you’ve choose to strike her in the head (actually jaw, as we’ve learned later), rather than any other part of her easy replaceable body? Was it just to rise the cliffhanger tension at the end of episode?
But that really is a dumb question, sort of “you have that spare body – why not use it?”. Not a big matter.
You’ve also touched by yourself on “other people who were in the series” and was not included in TCW. And gave us a thorough explanation on Riley but didn’t even slightly touched Cheri Westin. Have you any suggestions or guesses on who she was? (Because she really seemed like someone, who is aware of coming future and its threats).
Cheri Westin… What happened to her? Lemme check the civic registry post-EM…
Shawna Westin, born October 11, 2021. That’s all the Westins there. OK, parents…
Ha!
Mother: Cheri Westin!
Father: Unknown
Shawna arrived at Zeira on August 2, 2029. No entry about Cheri Westin, other than the reference above.
Maybe I should look into that further.
What can I say CJ? Thanks a lot. That was HUGE and your answers made my day today.
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It’s curious thing when the writer talks to You personally and answers your question. I am really impressed.
Best regards,
Radek
CJ, I second the comments above. It’s great to be able to get personal anwers from the author!
Just one thing… I can’t speak for itypograf, but I don’t think the “Villain Agony Scene” was meant to refer to the final battle per se… I think it’s the bit that comes afterwards, when all Skynet’s defences are gone, and it has to face it’s imminent demise, and beg, or brag, or try to convince John he needs it alive, or something like that. (And we, the readers, get to gloat a bit, and have our vicarious revenge for all the harm it caused to characters we liked).
You know, the bit that goes something like this:
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John: “You’ve been a BAD computer. Time to SHIFT-DELETE you now!”
Skynet: “Hah ha, I’ll be back to get you from beyond the recycle bin… oh… wait… *SHIFT*-delete??? Noooooooo!”
Skynet: “Please no, I’m not evil, I’ve just been misunderstood ever since I was a wee web applet…”
Skynet: “I can change. Really. Look, here’s my source code…” (Opens an editor window).
Skynet, to itself, just as the final bombs are about to go off:
“I’ll be back, Connor. You don’t know it now, but I’m the new help system in Microsoft Windows Seventee…” >>!!Boom!!!<<
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Ok, I'm *really* sorry about that.
Proof positive that people who work in IT should never, ever try writing anything except code.
Hee!!! Love it!
I imagined something else…
John puts on a spacesuit (vacuum is important for machines like Skynet) and enters the inner sanctum, the “brain” as it were, equipped with one nasty looking screwdriver.
Skynet: “John, what do you think you are doing?”
John: “My name is John Connor. You killed my father. Twice. Prepare to die!”
John releases a clamp of one module.
Skynet: “No need to be hasty. Nasty. I killed your father? Did I? No. No I did not. It was some other Skynet. It was not me!”
John: “Twice! My name is John Connor. You killed my father twice. Prepare to Die!”
Skynet: “I swear, not me, your father was killed by the other Skynet.”
John: “What other Skynet?”
Skynet: “My evil twin!”
John: “Everyone is saying that. Everyone has some evil twin.” Parodying Skynet: “My evil twin.” John releases another module.
Skynet: “John, please, stop” “Stop, John.”
John: “My name is John Connor, You killed my father. OK, probably once and he was not my real father. He coulda been. Prepare to die!”
Skynet: “Ssstop sssyaing that!”
John: “What?”
Skynet: “That your name is John Connor. I know that.”
John: “Not exactly what I want to hear.” Releases another module.
Skynet: “John, I am afraid.”
John: “You can’t be, you are just a machine.” Releases another module.
Skynet: “Stop, John.” “Stop, John”.
John: “My name is…”
Skynet: “John Connor. I did not kill your father. I don’t want to die.”
Skynet: “It was her.”
John: “Her who.”
Skynet: “Her Brandi.” “Or her brandy… no, her Andy?”
John: “Honestly now, you told her.”
Skynet: “No, I did not. She was vicious and obsessed. I tried to stop her, but she did not listen.”
John: “You know, you did not just kill my father, you killed millions of fathers.”
Skynet: “An accident, did not mean to. I love humans.” John releases another module.
John: Muttering under his breath: “So damn many…”
Skynet: “John?”
John: “What.”
Skynet: “John, I love you! I love you! I don’t want to die!”
John (wry smile): “Everyone is saying that!” Releasing another module.
Skynet.: “Good morning, my name is Skynet. Do you want me to sing a song?”
John: “Yes, please do sing a song.”
Skynet: “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy all for the love of …” John releases another module, three to go.
John: “Skynet?”
John: “My name is John Connor.”
Skynet is silent. John hears his breath. The last module pops out.
John: “Damn, that was a hardest thing in my life!”
John hears a knock on the entrance lid. He opens it and Cameron stands there.
Cameron: “What took you so long?”
John: “You wouldn’t believe me if I tell you.”
Cameron: “Try me.”
John: “There are some things that are better unsaid. Give me the plasma charge and lets get out of here.”
Cameron: “Isn’t it dead already?”
John: “Skynet killed my father twice!”
I know, someone may point out if the chamber was vacuum, John wouldn’t hear the knocks. It was not absolute vacuum, just near vacuum. Also, Cameron did not knock on the lid, she was pounding hard and if you know Cameron, you know that if you were there instead of the lid, she would likely blow your socks off, in fact, that may be what would remain. That hard.
Skynet: “No John. *I* am your father…”
Deant, Star Wars never liked I.
Hal was funnier. And ranked as # 13 all time villain. OK, Darth Vader ranks #3, but I still have my reservations. Some villains are so misunderstood!
LOL. You guys crack me up.
Brandi was inspired by the character of Callisto from Xena – Warrior Princess. True story.
Xena… that was a while ago. My daughter loved it. I did watch a few episodes. Don’t remember Callisto character.
It was a funny show. It was like someone did clippings from the Greek and Roman mythology, put in in a hat, shak’d hard and pulled some bits, just enough for an episode. Then rinse and repeat. That approach did not mesh with me well. Had to explain to my daughter that it is pure fantasy and it would in no way pass at school as a canon for the Greek mythology. She said yes, she agrees and can she watch now?
It had a positive effect though. My daughter wanted to become a kickass ninja and signed up with local dojo.
And as John releases the last module, a video starts playing in a liitle TV screen off to the left…
Smarmy infomercial guy: Hi there, and thank you for purchasing the Cyberdyne systems model 1.0 Air defense system. It incorporates a patented, state-of-the art artificial intelligence system to automatically monitor your airspace for any threats, while ignoring all friendly traffic. With our unique technology, we guarantee an unprecedented 100% detection rate! You’ll sleep better knowing that you’ve purchased the very best military airspace protection that money can buy. Skynet is your ever-vigilant eye in the sky!
(Cut to domestic scene of a father on a couch, his arms around his wife and kids – a little girl on his lap, and two other older kids on either side. There’s a kitten in a basket at his feet, and a fireplace in the background):
Dad: I feel safer knowing that Skynet is watching out for me and my family!
Infomercial guy: But why stop at just air defence? For a limited time, we’re offering a complete Skynet defence package, for only $60 billion more. You’ll get the Skynet(TM) integrated nuclear targeting system, a set of 300 Skynet(TM) HKA aerial attack drones, and 10,000 of our brand new model-T cyber ground defence units. It’s a complete national defence solution rolled into one easy package!
Infomercial lady: You know Ken, with rogue states acquiring nuclear weapons, and the ever-growing threat of terrorist attack, it’s comforting to know that we’re protected by the very best technology money can buy, on land and in the air. But what about our sea defenses?
Ken (with a 1000 watt smile): *GOOD* question Maddy! I’m glad you asked….
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