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

In article <v0l3r3l0vip2utvdpdn9klmh04gi7qmfgp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 William George Ferguson <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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).

Which mad scientist?
> 
> 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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