Re: T3: Timeline Problems - SPOILERS

Jay Browning <moviewriter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <ronaldinho_m-92AE66.10165214072003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ron
> <ronaldinho_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article <140720030335166946%moviewriter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Jay Browning <moviewriter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > In article <ronaldinho_m-A80EB8.12122913072003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ron
> > > <ronaldinho_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >  But he didn't know the nature of Skynet, did he? John had to tell
him, 
> > > > "Skynet is the virus."
> > > 
> > > but he did know that there was no core to destroy. Because SkyNet
> > > wasn't one machine but the software that was linking all computers. 
> > 
> >  Of course. But this just gets to my original point, which is why did
he 
> > land on that particular lie to send John to the fallout shelter,
rather 
> > than just tell them that it's unstoppable?
> > 
> 
> the guy had been shot, he was in pain and dying. For all we know, that
> would have been the next thing he said if he had had a chance. It's
> another classic action cliche, don't let the dying guy have the chance
> to say everything he needs to say so the hero has only half the info.

I would have preferred the classic Get Smart cliche where John kneels
down and puts his ear to the General's lips to hear his last dying
words, and when he stands up and Claire Daines asks him "What did he
say?", he replies "He asked me to get my knee off his chest".