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lizbeeI haven't had much to say about SCC lately, because it's had me all ... thinky. I just made a whole lot of handwritten notes, to whit:
Catherine Weaver -> secretly a T1001. Apparently not Skynet affiliated. Probably the T1001 from the USS Jimmy Carter, who refused Connor's offer of an alliance.
The Weaverbot runs Zeiracorp, which seems to be a parent company for Calida (spelling?), which oversees the legendary Warehouse in the Desert that was making strange metals and Skynet drones. Weaverbot shuts down the warehouse (with extreme prejudice) when she learns that its staff are discussing their chromium transports over an unsecured line.
Calida agents dog Sarah and her people, including kidnapping Sarah and planting a transmitter in her breast. (And may I say it's unspeakably cunning to take a terribly common female fear, and then twist it into Sarah's worst nightmare?) But the agents don't make their move until after John Henry has been infiltrated by -- what? A parallel AI, developed from Cyberdyne's systems, rather Andy Goode's Turk? Goode worked for Cyberdyne, and presumably based part of the Turk on what he learned there, so it might be possible to think of John Henry as Skynet 2.0. If the unknown Cyberdyne AI really is going to be Skynet.
Anyway, it seems to be the attack on John Henry that triggers Calida's people to move on Team Connor. But the Weaverbot doesn't seem to have anything to do with that, and we've not had the slightest hint that she's interested in the Connors, except as a failed case of Ellison's.
And why would the Weaverbot, who is not a Skynet agent, be creating drones in the desert? (On the other hand, why not? It's not the hardware that's at issue, it's the software controlling it.)
Furthermore: the Weaverbot has demonstrated that she can retrieve customised machines from the future, when needed. All the Calida agents we've seen are human. From whom are they getting their information on extracting Cameron's chip? (Not to mention triggering her 120 second reset cycle.) From the "brother" of the being at the other end of the phone -- presumably John Henry. That is, I think they're communicating with the Cyberdyne AI, not John Henry, who is still young and somewhat lacking in initiative.
So ... if Calida is under the indirect oversight of the Weaverbot, does all this mean it's been somehow infiltrated by the Cyberdyne AI? It would make sense, for a sophisticated and advanced AI to have more than one route of attack, in terms of gaining control over it's "brother". Does it see Zeiracorp as an enemy, holding John Henry captive?
Or is it Skynet itself, manipulating the development of both AIs -- back up plans to ensure its own evolution? Saving its grandfather's life by using its great-uncle as a substitute? I tried to create a family tree for John Henry, but it kept circling back to Skynet. Damn time travel.
Now my head hurts, and I'm teh confused. All AI kerfuffling aside, I thought this episode was slow, but eventually worth it. I'm sorry that Charley's dead, but he had an arrow on his back from the pilot.
Catherine Weaver -> secretly a T1001. Apparently not Skynet affiliated. Probably the T1001 from the USS Jimmy Carter, who refused Connor's offer of an alliance.
The Weaverbot runs Zeiracorp, which seems to be a parent company for Calida (spelling?), which oversees the legendary Warehouse in the Desert that was making strange metals and Skynet drones. Weaverbot shuts down the warehouse (with extreme prejudice) when she learns that its staff are discussing their chromium transports over an unsecured line.
Calida agents dog Sarah and her people, including kidnapping Sarah and planting a transmitter in her breast. (And may I say it's unspeakably cunning to take a terribly common female fear, and then twist it into Sarah's worst nightmare?) But the agents don't make their move until after John Henry has been infiltrated by -- what? A parallel AI, developed from Cyberdyne's systems, rather Andy Goode's Turk? Goode worked for Cyberdyne, and presumably based part of the Turk on what he learned there, so it might be possible to think of John Henry as Skynet 2.0. If the unknown Cyberdyne AI really is going to be Skynet.
Anyway, it seems to be the attack on John Henry that triggers Calida's people to move on Team Connor. But the Weaverbot doesn't seem to have anything to do with that, and we've not had the slightest hint that she's interested in the Connors, except as a failed case of Ellison's.
And why would the Weaverbot, who is not a Skynet agent, be creating drones in the desert? (On the other hand, why not? It's not the hardware that's at issue, it's the software controlling it.)
Furthermore: the Weaverbot has demonstrated that she can retrieve customised machines from the future, when needed. All the Calida agents we've seen are human. From whom are they getting their information on extracting Cameron's chip? (Not to mention triggering her 120 second reset cycle.) From the "brother" of the being at the other end of the phone -- presumably John Henry. That is, I think they're communicating with the Cyberdyne AI, not John Henry, who is still young and somewhat lacking in initiative.
So ... if Calida is under the indirect oversight of the Weaverbot, does all this mean it's been somehow infiltrated by the Cyberdyne AI? It would make sense, for a sophisticated and advanced AI to have more than one route of attack, in terms of gaining control over it's "brother". Does it see Zeiracorp as an enemy, holding John Henry captive?
Or is it Skynet itself, manipulating the development of both AIs -- back up plans to ensure its own evolution? Saving its grandfather's life by using its great-uncle as a substitute? I tried to create a family tree for John Henry, but it kept circling back to Skynet. Damn time travel.
Now my head hurts, and I'm teh confused. All AI kerfuffling aside, I thought this episode was slow, but eventually worth it. I'm sorry that Charley's dead, but he had an arrow on his back from the pilot.
