{"id":245,"date":"2009-05-17T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/05\/how-sarah-connor-made-the-war-worse\/"},"modified":"2015-06-27T23:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T06:51:01","slug":"how-sarah-connor-made-the-war-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/05\/how-sarah-connor-made-the-war-worse.html","title":{"rendered":"How Sarah Connor made the war worse."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I watched The Terminator<\/a><\/i> (1984) from start to finish for the first time in years last night, and I was amused by the opening title card\u2019s declaration that this film would show us \u201cthe final battle\u201d in the war between humans and machines. \u201cThe final battle\u201d? Tell that to the sequel-makers.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what really<\/i> struck me were the deleted scenes, which I don\u2019t believe I had watched since I first got the DVD in 2001. And why did they strike me? Because they make it fairly clear that, on some level at least, Sarah Connor is responsible for the war.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, Sarah Connor is responsible for the war.<\/p>\n

How can this be, you say?<\/p>\n

Well, in one deleted scene, Sarah looks up Cyberdyne in the phone book \u2014 just like the Terminator looked up her<\/i> in the phone book! \u2014 and tells Kyle excitedly that they can destroy Cyberdyne and prevent the war from happening. After some arguing, and a bit of an emotional breakdown on Kyle\u2019s part, Kyle finally agrees to do this. (So you can see, in this, the seeds of Sarah\u2019s later vigilante actions in T2<\/i>.)<\/p>\n