Re: 1st Season Terminator TSCC - Queen's Gambit - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:10:06 -0600, James Squire <JamesSquire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>George Avalos wrote:
>> "Queen's Gambit"
>> 2-11-08 T:TSCC
>> 
>> 5 stars (Slav)
>> 
>> 0-1 stars (Marshall)
>> 
>> -George 
>> 
>> 
>I give it 4 out of 5.
>
>I like this show so far, but a tiny nit to pick: "Zugswang" doesn't mean 
>anything like what John Connor said it meant.  If writers are going to 
>use sophisticated terminology, they should do their homework and use it 
>correctly, especially since the term is not unique to chess.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang

That was the Only thing that bothered you about the chess stuff?  Maybe
I'm
old fay****oned, but since when do even competent human competitors have to
carry the game all the way to checkmate (and a computer program that can't
see inevitable mate at least two moves away isn't competitive with top
human players).  And a computer program falling for a queen sacrifice that
leads to mate in two?  Not overlooking immediate stuff is what computer
programs do best.

Still and all, I just ignored that nonsense and let my paranoia run free.
Pretty much everyone saw the guidance counselor twist, they could only
have
made it more obvious by him asking Cameron, 'she didn't mention me, did
she?'.  True paranoia is suspecting the nurse/wife is secretly a
terminator
searching for the Connors (except she p***** so much better than the other
terminators we've seen in the series).  Also there's the question of
whether '9 miles of bad road' girl is just a side-plot or is going to be
connected in to the main arc (maybe she's the mad scientist's beautiful
daughter).

And hey, Cameron has a stash of magic metal, and a responsimeter.  I think
she going to make a pet (we all saw how she looked at the robot dog) :)




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