The first generation had little impact on my young mind. The main impact was in the second generation. When the T-1000 (translated into a 1000-type robot at the time) passed through the iron gates, the hand knife (borrowed from a manga by Haruto Umezawa) The words of "The Arrival of the Son") were shivering when inserted into a person's head, so much so that throughout the whole year, I thought foolishly that there was a cloud of liquid metal in the three-dimensional world, in the natural gas pipeline, in the In the water pipe, in the corner of the corridor, they would attack me through the security door at any time, and I even dreamed of this scene more than once. Fortunately, the next year was the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Fascist War. The shocking scenes brought by the panoramic war movie of the Soviet Union made me forget the horror brought by the second generation of "Terminator", and it also saved my young heart. The anti-fascist heroes are great.
With the passage of time, the third-generation game was launched shortly after high school. At that time, the closed-circuit television station no longer broadcast foreign film and television dramas, and the Internet was not developed to the current level of downloading in seconds. It was not until many years later that the fourth-generation game "Terminator" 2018" landed in China, and I began to look for my childhood memories. I found the first two episodes from the Internet and re-watched them. I found the third episode as a supplementary lesson. There is no Uncle Arnold in the fourth generation, so I haven't watched it yet.
In the first and second generations, the destroyer of the world - the computer system Skynet was created from the wreckage of the T-800 that was destroyed in the first and second generations. It can be said that there is a very interesting place here. The destruction of mankind comes from The extreme worship of science by human beings is the imitation of advanced war machines. In history, the science and technology that brought good news to mankind were all first used in war-related occasions without exception.
In the third generation, the Skynet system no longer exists in a certain computer, but in all terminals on the Internet. This is just like Horkheimer and Adorno said that in every corner of the cultural industry, there is alienation. Everyone is a victim of various social problems and phenomena, but everyone is also a bearer. . Because everyone lives and works according to the rules that create problems and phenomena, our way of life is also creating such and other problems. Just like what Mr. Lu Xun said about "cannibalism", it is not that a certain person eats a certain person or a group of people eats a certain group of people, but we are eating everyone around us while being eaten by others.
In the "Genesis" of the Five Dynasties, the story has entered the intersection of multiple timelines in the concept of "chuanliu".
First of all, at the beginning of "Genesis", back to the story of the purpose of a generation, at the end of the war in 2029, Skynet sent a T-800 to travel to 1984 to execute the task of assassinating Sarah, and the resistance soldier Reis volunteered to protect Sarah. Pull, jump into the time machine. Just at this moment, this time line changed. When Reis was about to travel through time and space, the Skynet of "Incarnate" appeared and occupied John's body.
When Reis traveled to 1984, he found that the characters of the story had changed, there was T-800 (Uncle Arnold) who appeared as Sarah's guardian, and there was even another killer T-1000. The new story unfolds from here. After a series of twists and turns to eliminate all killers, Reis and Sarah decided to go to another time and space, 2017, which is the timeline where the new version of Skynet: Genesis was born, of course in There is also a T-800 as a guardian (Uncle Arnold with white hair, which is distressing), and more importantly, at the beginning of the story, John, who was occupied and transformed by Skynet on the timeline in 2029, He also came to this time and space, and of course, there was little Reis who had never experienced war in his childhood. As a result, three or more people on the timeline successfully converged on this undeleted timeline, and the story officially began.
In Wudaimu, what people criticize is nothing more than writing a situation that has never appeared in previous scripts, such as T-800, which will get old in appearance; . In fact, we don't know how to complain about these slots. This just proves that we couldn't grasp or even foresee everything now.
Just like the writers, directors and audiences living in the present can't predict what the technological development will look like in 15 years, just like the TV version of "EVA Neon Genesis Evangelion" produced in the 1990s, the people in the play in 2013, no matter what Whether it was Rei Ayanami or Misato Katsuragi, they both had flip phones with 2-inch screens, 9-button buttons, and antennas. When I rewatched them in 2012, I already thought that such technology in 2013 was "unbelievable". If Anno Hideaki in the 1990s could have foreseen the development of wireless communication terminals, he would not let people in the era of man-machine synchronization still hold the old "big brother".
Of course, putting aside these props and character design issues, changing and converging the timeline is not only the brain hole of the directors, but also makes me feel that any small factor will make the development of things deviate from the original expectations. not to mention that the plot has undergone many incredible changes according to the needs of the director. For example, the "Tao incarnate" Skynet mentioned above
said that, as a commercial film series, if the original closed-loop script can be continuously To continue writing, the best way is to change the timeline - to write a rumor The story of the new history, of course, when you see the end of each movie, you will find that although the protagonists of each time-travel story have completed their tasks, there is no clear ending, but "the road is long, and I will seek it up and down" .
From an audience's point of view, it doesn't matter whether the development and ending of the stories are different or even contradictory, or whether there is any inevitable connection in the plot. Just like the "flow" of time doesn't matter whether it can be changed, because we can't make an objective and fixed standard for the "flow", so it is impossible to talk about whether to change or not, there will always be one reason or another to change. The evolution direction and rhythm of the real object, then all the results that have not appeared are also unknowable.
PS: The brain hole of the article is a bit big. It was written in a hurry within an hour and a half. After reading "Terminator" one, two, three and five, I always like to go to Adorno's "Dialectics of Enlightenment" and "Chuanliu". ", Benjamin's "constellation" to associate, can be regarded as a blind brain, a matter of opinion. In fact, it is mainly for rushing work for tomorrow's job search, so it is indeed a bit unserious.
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