Also, this happened

[trinityvixen]

In addition to taking in the cinematic masterpiece that is Dolph Lundgren as The Punisher, I also found time last night to watch the season two premiere of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

My reaction, as unloaded onto feiran: "SHIRLEY MANSON HAS THE AWESOMEST ACCENT EVER. ALSO, I THINK THEY HIRED HER BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T NEED WARDROBE/MAKEUP; SHE HAS HER OWN."

More spoilery reaction: Was that really the best place for her to lie about waiting to ambush that guy? What if the other guy hadn't left before he started unzipping?

And, YAY! A T-1000!!! No, shut up, I love the T-1000. I started watching The X-Files again after giving up on it because Robert Patrick was on. Shut up, he's awesome. Go watch Terminator 2 a hundred times and then pretend like you don't love him. Like when he's pretending to be John's foster mom, and the foster dad is being all douchey, and the T-1000 just switches the phone to the opposite hand so it can extend a metal spike into whiney jerkface's skull? (OMG, DUDE, YOU DRANK STRAIGHT FROM THE CARTON, YOU DESERVED IT.) Tell me you don't love that, and I'll kill you. Shut up!

I love everything about the T-1000 model. Because it appears that the T-1000 is the most put-upon, not-gonna-deal-with-your-shit, just-gonna-kill-you-now-and-like-it model to ever exist. The Arnie-bots (T-800 in the first movie, T-100 in the third, I believe) were just mostly simulating humanity whenever necessary, but, for the most part, ignoring it in favor of blowing this shit out of stuff because they could handle the damage and it didn't matter about anything else. The T-1000 was crafty, and it faked emotional responses so well, I swear to God, you could picture that this robot gets frustrated. Like, "For fuck's sake, I just killed eighty guys to get this far and you're telling me the Connors aren't even here? Do you know how badly I'm going to kill you so dead right now? And I still won't be happy because I'm incapable of being happy while my mission is still not finished? Fuck, man." Not terminating shit really puts him off his day.

And now Shirley Manson is all "PEOPLE SUCK SOMETIMES, GOD I JUST WANT TO KILL THEM OH WAIT I CAN!"

LOVE IT

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

EEEEEE!!!!!

I knew you would love her character.

I swear we need to have a massive SCC marathon and squee-session after New Year's.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling she was going to be a Terminator. (It would excuse any problems in her performing, though I think she's doing quite well.) I just didn't know she was a T-1000. WHICH IS TEN MOUNTAINS OF AWESOME.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait, Shirley Manson as in lead singer of Garbage??? @_@

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You heard it here first, apparently. :)

Yes, indeed, the Shirley Manson. In all her tweaked out glory. I swear, she looks like she walked off a video.

[equustel.livejournal.com]

Oh my frell, when I first saw a billboard advertising S2 with LIQUID METAL on it I wanted to run around in circles. HEE. I am SO WITH YOU; I love that the T-1000 'tude is still intact. She gets even better, too. As with most things in this show.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I look forward to it. Liek omg, I luv Garbage! No, really, I love everything about Shirley Manson, including the fact that, ever since the video for "The World Is Not Enough" I have been convinced that she was a robot ANYWAY.

So, YAYAYAAY. I <3<3<3<3<3<3 T-1000s times infinity!

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Is the show really that good? 'Cause I kinda hate Lena Headey. For instance, she doesn't agree with all of that stuff you just posted because she can't. She said in EW before the show premiered that she'd never seen any of the Terminator movies and wasn't going to because she didn't want it to influence her performance.

I like the Terminator 2 theatrical cut better than the Director's Cut, although there's definitely a bunch of scenes I miss from the DC. Cameron's DCs drag though. The coolest trivia is that everyone doubled in Terminator 2 is actually a twin, including Linda Hamilton, so there are no "twin" optical effects in the movie.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I found it engrossing, though I don't love Lena Headley much. For a show named for her character, she's not all that impressive. I don't think the show suffers too much for it, though, which is weird. I don't know what it is, really, but it moves along. It's got some of the elements of T2 that were great--the idea that there is hope, that you can do something to help mankind save itself from itself, that even machines can learn, et al.