how else would u propose to stay in touch...

smoke signals?



>Not trying to be argumentative here, because, as I've said, I
>haven't followed the show much. While I did find the John
>Connor goes to school bit a little Dawson's Creekish--I would
>have much rather seen him learning how to use a machine gun in
>Nicaragua--it was the small details that bugged the bejesus
>out of me. I won't make some long list, I'll take one
>representative example:
>
>Mama Connor running out to buy mobile phones for the family.
>
>I shook my head like an etch-a-sketch and was like, what in
>the holy hell is she doing? That's Skynet!
>
>Now, I understand that the Sarah Connor from T2 had to regain
>some of her humanity, particularly to be the Sarah Connor from
>the Chronicles, but she wouldn't become stupid! The thing she
>is trying to foil is the massive global communications network
>that is sending, from the future, assassin robots to kill her
>and the only hope for humanity, and she's going to purchase
>for herself and her son a direct connection to the massive
>global communications network? A device that, if not equipped
>with GPS, can at least be used to triangulate their positions
>within a few blocks so long as it's turned on? Not to mention
>this network's potential ability to monitor their plans
>through saved voice message and text message and possibly even
>live voice? Even if she knows Skynet doesn't technically exist
>yet, there is a reasonable enough chance that once Skynet
>comes online, it will have access to at least some of these
>records that can then be used as information to pinpoint her
>locations and movements in the past to better target her and
>her son for termination.
>
>And even if that scenario is a little far fetched, is she
>really going to take a chance with the survival of humanity
>for the sake of the convenience of a cell phone? For T2 Sarah
>Connor, the answer is an unequivocal "hell to the no!" She was
>way smarter than that, even at her most paranoid delusional
>(which we all know wasn't paranoid delusion at all, she always
>had her head on straight). I absolutely couldn't buy into her
>turning all stupid and trusting of technology. The had the
>best reason in the world to play Luddite.
>
>It's a small detail, but it is so fundamental to the entire
>premise of the character and the show and they futzed it up.
>
>That and much more is why I wrote that show off early.
>
>box