[ SECRET POST #4003 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4003 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

she chose the programming that told her to protect him

Nah, I think it could easily be argued that the override just sort of kicked in the way it did before her chip got damaged. She always had the terminator in her, and we saw that once she rebooted after the explosion. Where was her fantastic decision-making and self-awareness during most of the season 2 premiere episode?

I agree that it was probably designed to be a love story, but I don't think it was designed to be a love story in the classic way that we often see between two human characters, and that's what was supposed to be intriguing about it.

Though I say all of this as a John/Cam shipper lol so I, admittedly, may be blinded by what I've come up with in my own way of adapting to read this ship as canon through re-watches.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think anything but the base-level terminator aspect of Cameron's "mind" was conscious for most of that episode. Then John jammed her head between two vehicles and took out her chip. When he put it back in, both the terminator and the protector parts of her were conscious. Maybe because of the impact of the car, maybe because of the reboot, maybe something else - who knows. On her system screen we see that the predominant command at that moment is to terminate, but then she doesn't, she overrides the command. But the thing is, she was running two subroutines at once, and she acted on the secondary one rather than the primary one. As far as we're ever told in the show, that doesn't happen. Terminators are good as long as their secondary programming holds; when it fails, they revert, end of story. The fact that Cameron was of two minds in that moment was not standard to her programming. It was new. She was conflicted.