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Great Start[]

Well, I should probably go to the many forums to rave about this premiere episode, but I just wanted to say: THIS EPISODE ROCKED!!!!. Especially at the end with Shirley Manson's character... very exciting stuff! Josh Friedman setup soo many possibilities... I wish FOX will let him have a 24 episode season instead of 13. — Jeiara 04:33, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

The Q & A[]

The point of the questions is to get answers. Especially to the things we don't have answers for. If it takes time to develop the answers, fine. That's what we expect, not "instant" answers to "obvious" notions. When the latest answers raise questions of their own, is that not the forum for it? Ask the Question up front, discuss the possibilities in the talk pages, reach a consensus of opinion (or be graced by a later factual reveal) and then posit the answer to the question. Right?Fulongamer 01:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

You're right. I guess it just bothered me that some of the questions seemed a bit self-referential, like "What other examples of this unit's biblical fixation are evident?" That would be perhaps better handled as a note?
In any event, I don't mean to quibble. You and Darth have done an amazing job with this page, and everyone has really been working hard to make it great - it's really exciting! --Kanamekun 06:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

The Notes[]

No voiceover?

That is correct, the Season "Title" introduction has an unknown male voiceover, and the opening act sequence is silent except for the musical overlay of the Samson & Delilah soundtrack.Fulongamer 06:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks for the confirmation! --Kanamekun 06:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Character Development[]

Cameron: All evidence seems to point towards Cameron reverting to her Skynet settings, however, fan speculation has raised a compelling theory that Cameron has simply developed a dangerous disposition. It is my belief that Cameron's goal in the first episode is to seek revenge on Sarkissian and all those associated with him. John and Sarah, being compassionate people, try to find Sarkissian before Cameron does. Meanwhile, Cameron hunts down Sarkissian's thugs and learns his location. John and Sarah find him first and, after an interrogation, learns what happened to the Turk. Cameron arrives and finds the Connors protecting Sarkissian; this is where the trouble begins.

The two sides of Cameron's personality collide; human and Terminator. Her human side is filled with rage and paranoia after the explosion, she doesn't know how to process these feelings so she reverts back to her Terminator instincts which disrupt her orders to protect John. She sees John as a threat to her, because he is protecting Sarkissian. This prompts her to hunt him, hence the whole ALLIES BECOME ENEMIES slogan. She chases him and Sarah across the city and eventually overturns their car in a levy. Sarah probably holds Cameron off while John escapes, resulting in Cameron beating Sarah into submission.

Details get a little hazy from here on, but I get the impression that, by the end of the episode, Cameron is still at large.

John: From John's POV Cameron has gone rogue and the sweet naive Terminator he knew is gone. When he finds Sarkissian, John viciously beats him for planting the car bomb. Despite suffering multiple injuries as a result of the car chase, John resolves to become the man he is destined to be, and intends to save/stop Cameron.

Sarah: Sarah believes that Cameron has "gone bad" and will kill John if she finds them. She comes to the conclusion that Cameron must be destroyed, something John has trouble accepting. Little more is known about Sarah as the promos focus on Cameron and John primarily. However, one clip shows Sarah in a restaurant. This may be the end of the episode as John expressed an interest in Episode 109: What He Beheld, which ends on the same day that 201 starts, that he wanted to go out for a birthday meal.

Okay, so this is my theory, correct me if I've missed the mark. Either way I think it offers an interesting insight into the core of Season 2. This time John will be the protector while Cameron will be the one in need of protecting. Darth Raivon 12:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Well looks like you were totally off. A valiant effort I must say. I leave it for you to delete/correct your synopsis at your earliest convenience--Illwill 03:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I'll tell you what, one character in need of some development is Sarah. After all these years she still hasn't taken any kind of offensive driving course? Behind the wheel in a crisis and she crashes the car again, and again, and again (at least the last was intentional). I hope this isn't going to devolve into a running (pardon the pun) joke.Fulongamer 03:45, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Apparently so, but it is nice to proven wrong sometimes. Cameron was awesome. Darth Raivon 11:48, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

2 minutes[]

Maybe it is a PAL/NTSC video playback thing, but it seems that the "2 minutes" of Cameron's blackout are less than one minute. Well, all for the drama :-). Compare "Alpine Fields" where Cameron need far more than two minutes to reboot. -Wikicide 15:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Gallery[]

Babylon[]

In the real-world references is Project Babylon connected to the Tower of Babel, and it has a reasonable explanation (source:Genesis 11:4-9 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth." 5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men had built. 6 Then the LORD said: "If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do. 7 Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says." 8 Thus the LORD scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. It was from that place that he scattered them all over the earth. --Realtking (talk) 00:06, September 1, 2015 (UTC))
But there's another biblical connection to this name: The Whore of Babylon – Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth. Prominently featured in the Book of Revelation, also known as The Apocalypse.
Though I don't have such a useful explanation like given with the first connection,

  • "The Great Whore",
  • illuminated in purple and scarlet (take a look at Shirley Manson's hair color),
  • mother of abominations,
  • referenced in "The Apocalypse",

are all hints for a possible connection, I think. (Though I don't know the story arc behind the second season until now.)
Should/could this be added? -- CompleCCity (talk) 08:33, July 6, 2015 (UTC)

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