Yeah, I slipped that one in for silly. Obviously it is not evidence in the same way the other points I mentioned are.
Weaver deactivates Cameron?
Fine, Cameron is deactivated by SOMEONE while being in Weaver's secret lab. Is that better?
But I'm given more pause by John Henry haring off to the future
Only if he wasn't sent into the future by Weaver, which we have no evidence for except that Weaver said she didn't send him. The whole final scene in the lab consists of data that can't be easily explained, plus Weaver with an explanation that is just so tailored to make John want to believe it. And as soon as they leap into the future, Weaver disappears on her own plan.
"raise an emotionally secure Skynet that feels an inhibition about murder"
I'm not sure this is clearly her goal at all. It's something she keeps getting pushed toward by Sherman and Ellison, but with Sherman she was pursuing stability, getting John Henry out of a computing glitch in any way she could, and with Ellison she was pursuing controllability, a machine that wouldn't destroy things that were still useful to her like Sherman. It's easy to rationalize John Henry without framing the narrative the way she has led Ellison to believe it.
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Yeah, I slipped that one in for silly. Obviously it is not evidence in the same way the other points I mentioned are.
Weaver deactivates Cameron?
Fine, Cameron is deactivated by SOMEONE while being in Weaver's secret lab. Is that better?
But I'm given more pause by John Henry haring off to the future
Only if he wasn't sent into the future by Weaver, which we have no evidence for except that Weaver said she didn't send him. The whole final scene in the lab consists of data that can't be easily explained, plus Weaver with an explanation that is just so tailored to make John want to believe it. And as soon as they leap into the future, Weaver disappears on her own plan.
"raise an emotionally secure Skynet that feels an inhibition about murder"
I'm not sure this is clearly her goal at all. It's something she keeps getting pushed toward by Sherman and Ellison, but with Sherman she was pursuing stability, getting John Henry out of a computing glitch in any way she could, and with Ellison she was pursuing controllability, a machine that wouldn't destroy things that were still useful to her like Sherman. It's easy to rationalize John Henry without framing the narrative the way she has led Ellison to believe it.