Advice Meme
Mar. 30th, 2009 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakAsk any character I've written or RP'd for advice, and they will provide it, advice columnist style. Your problems or fictional characters' problems both welcome. Management is not responsible for the results of following said advice, especially if coming from the likes of Londo Mollari.
...in other news, I loved the most recent Sarah Connor Chronicles episode so much I've rewatched it twice. It strikes me that Sarah's opening monologue about child!John's favourite fairy tale in the jungle, the story of the old man of the forest, who starts by hunting down all the animals mercilessly and destroys everyone in his way, then is punished by the gods who make him into the protector of the animals and ensure he'll have to protect, save their lives and be vigilant forever, is on one level an obvious allegory to what happens to the Terminators of the title when Future!John reprograms then. (On that note: I wonder at which point in his personal history John will aquire this skill, and if he's the only one who can do it or whether other human resistance fighters share that knowledge as well.) It's the plot of T2, and Cameron's fate: the deadly menace turning protector of what it has previously hunted. But in a more complicated way, this is also John's own story. By his very existence, he has caused death since before his birth, and often to people he cares about. He's going to cause more (human) death in the future; but he's also going to save and protect humanity, that role he's been trained for by his mother all his life, and there is no way out of this for him save his own death; and consider his paradoxical relationship towards machines in this light. What he really has been trained for from birth, at its most basic, other than saving his own life, is to fight and take out Terminators. But in the future, he'll figure out a way to reprogram at least some of them and will include more and more among the people he's in charge of, and offer whatever group that T-1001 was representing to become allies, all of which is ensuring the survival of those machines as well.
...in other news, I loved the most recent Sarah Connor Chronicles episode so much I've rewatched it twice. It strikes me that Sarah's opening monologue about child!John's favourite fairy tale in the jungle, the story of the old man of the forest, who starts by hunting down all the animals mercilessly and destroys everyone in his way, then is punished by the gods who make him into the protector of the animals and ensure he'll have to protect, save their lives and be vigilant forever, is on one level an obvious allegory to what happens to the Terminators of the title when Future!John reprograms then. (On that note: I wonder at which point in his personal history John will aquire this skill, and if he's the only one who can do it or whether other human resistance fighters share that knowledge as well.) It's the plot of T2, and Cameron's fate: the deadly menace turning protector of what it has previously hunted. But in a more complicated way, this is also John's own story. By his very existence, he has caused death since before his birth, and often to people he cares about. He's going to cause more (human) death in the future; but he's also going to save and protect humanity, that role he's been trained for by his mother all his life, and there is no way out of this for him save his own death; and consider his paradoxical relationship towards machines in this light. What he really has been trained for from birth, at its most basic, other than saving his own life, is to fight and take out Terminators. But in the future, he'll figure out a way to reprogram at least some of them and will include more and more among the people he's in charge of, and offer whatever group that T-1001 was representing to become allies, all of which is ensuring the survival of those machines as well.
