Comments on: Time Traveling Terminator http://decodesociety.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/why-the-terminator-is-bittersweet/ Geek and you shall find. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:49:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: absolutes vanguard http://decodesociety.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/why-the-terminator-is-bittersweet/#comment-51 absolutes vanguard Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:50:15 +0000 http://decodesociety.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-51 I agree with the "time traveling" concept that Terminator brandishes throughout making the plot more interesting. Take that element away and indeed it wouldn't really stand-out. Some stories have succeeded using the same formula be it a love story with a good twist (or a tragic end). I was reminded of a not-much-similar concept reintroduced for a film in the "Forbidden Kingdom" being, "a gate of no gate" where one is taken to another place and time to alter something that has gone wrong. Absent in the movie though is a sensible connecting to the present world, and I didn't really get how the real world of the present and the alternate world are inter-related (unless I got lost in the middle). The movie was okay overall. Some other movies have the same concept. I am looking forward to the day science fiction does not have to be so trapped in its own language. The future can speak in our terms given that it is speaking in our time anyways. I am also looking forward to an author with the conviction to write a science fiction novel with a heart and not just the scrambled mind. I hope the Filipino can produce such a story and offer a more than interesting narrative from a very unique point of view. I agree with the “time traveling” concept that Terminator brandishes throughout making the plot more interesting. Take that element away and indeed it wouldn’t really stand-out. Some stories have succeeded using the same formula be it a love story with a good twist (or a tragic end). I was reminded of a not-much-similar concept reintroduced for a film in the “Forbidden Kingdom” being, “a gate of no gate” where one is taken to another place and time to alter something that has gone wrong. Absent in the movie though is a sensible connecting to the present world, and I didn’t really get how the real world of the present and the alternate world are inter-related (unless I got lost in the middle). The movie was okay overall. Some other movies have the same concept.

I am looking forward to the day science fiction does not have to be so trapped in its own language. The future can speak in our terms given that it is speaking in our time anyways. I am also looking forward to an author with the conviction to write a science fiction novel with a heart and not just the scrambled mind. I hope the Filipino can produce such a story and offer a more than interesting narrative from a very unique point of view.

]]> By:   Time Traveling Terminator by The Philippines According to Blogs http://decodesociety.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/why-the-terminator-is-bittersweet/#comment-40   Time Traveling Terminator by The Philippines According to Blogs Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:37:55 +0000 http://decodesociety.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-40 [...] The theme of The Terminator is something commonplace–pessimistic futurism, human induced everything-ends-in-chaos view of the world. You see this in Matrix also. The same theme (minus the high-tech) is in Mad Max, Waterworld…and other storylines. However, what makes The Terminator interesting is the use of the time travel concept. the concept itself is not new, but the way that it is used makes it interesting. Read more . . . [...] [...] The theme of The Terminator is something commonplace–pessimistic futurism, human induced everything-ends-in-chaos view of the world. You see this in Matrix also. The same theme (minus the high-tech) is in Mad Max, Waterworld…and other storylines. However, what makes The Terminator interesting is the use of the time travel concept. the concept itself is not new, but the way that it is used makes it interesting. Read more . . . [...]

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