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− | + | {{incomplete|Created in the future by the director of "Terminator 17, he is back and he is pissed". What did Randall mean by the comic...? Do NOT delete this tag too soon or in the past.}} | |
− | Megan | + | [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are discussing {{w|Mark Zuckerberg|Mark Zuckerberg's}} upcoming {{w|United States congressional hearing|testimony before the Congress}}. The prepared testimony was released on the day this comic was released (after?). See ''[https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/09/congress-released-mark-zuckerbergs-prepared-testimony-ahead-of-wednesdays-hearing.html Congress releases Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony ahead of Wednesday's hearing]''. |
− | + | Megan then starts talking about re-watching ''{{w|The Terminator}}'', a movie about a killer robot send back in time by {{w|Skynet (Terminator)|Skynet}}, a computer system that went sentinel (AI) and tried to kill off humans. The robot was send back to try to kill the mother of the leader of the resistance before he was born by her. In the movie the killer robot, i.e. The Terminator played by {{w|Arnold Schwarzenegger}}, looked up the mothers name, Sarah Connor, in the {{w|phone book}} of a {{w|phone booth}} to find her address. It turned out there were three Sarah Connor in the city, and he choose the two wrong Sarahs first... | |
− | Megan | + | Megan notices that it was weird, how in the movie it was a nuclear launch system that turned on humans, and build humanoid robots to hunt humans down, and then today it turned out that it was rather the modern version of said phone book that turned into our version of Skynet, {{w|Facebook}}. Cueball can only agree with her how funny things always turns out in retrospect. |
− | The title text makes the claim that {{w|James Cameron}}, who directed the first two films, was planning to make a third movie in the 1990s, which would have been the really prophetic one | + | It is unclear if [[Randall]] is: |
+ | *1. Commenting on his lack of interest in the news regarding yet another internet tool being used for purposes it was not intended for by comparing it to the much more interesting movie "Terminator". | ||
+ | *2. Pointing out that using programs in ways they are not originally designed for is actually quite common in both reality and fiction. | ||
+ | *3. Pointing out that Facebook stores names and phone numbers and could thus be considered to have a phone book database... | ||
+ | *4. All of the above | ||
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+ | The title text makes the claim that {{w|James Cameron}}, who directed the first two films, was planning to make a third movie in the 1990s, which would have been the really prophetic one, i.e. the one that would have destroyed Skynet for good. So in the future Skynet, having seen the result of this movie, wished to prevent the movie from ever being made, so it send back, yet another, robot which prevented Cameron from directing it. Instead {{w|Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines}} was first released in 2003 and directed by {{w|Jonathan Mostow}}. Although Cameron is credited for writing it, it was only for creating the characters. Since then two other movies have been made and a third is planned for 2019, all with different directors. | ||
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+ | In a [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/trivia?item=tr0744921 trivia on IMDb] it states that the studios had long wanted to make a sequel, thus this was already a plan in the 1990s, the second movie, {{w|Terminator 2: Judgment Day}}, had been released in 1991. But Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to do it unless James Cameron was directing. Cameron eventually told his friend to "take the money and run"... Maybe because a Schwarzenegger terminator was blackmailing him to sell out his greatest franchise. | ||
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+ | This comment is reminiscent of the last row in the comic [[566: Matrix Revisited]], released 9 years before this, where Randall makes it clear that he would have wished that the {{w|The Matrix}} had not had any sequels to take the original down to a lower level. Seems like he has the same feelings for the first two Terminator movies, compared to the third and later movies in the franchise. And would rather fantasize about how great Terminator 3 would have been had it been directed by Cameron. | ||
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