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I watch all the apocalypse movies.

Just didn't dig rise of the machines that much.

I thought the injecting nano-bots from the future into the past systems, kind of ruined the idea that we rushed into our own disaster. It made it seem like the robots rose up because they were influenced by the future sending tech backwards, instead of 'emerging' on their own.

Which to be pedantic with myself. I think is different than in T2, where we the current present day humans were just analyzing a bit of tech from the future. We rush into our undoing, inevitably.

I think the real life , kind of slow role into disaster we can see coming is actually feeling more scary. Our current reality is now more scary than fiction. Life imitates Art?

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Be mindful of cultural trends and retconing your own mind. Nanobots (or nanites, or nano-tech) is a trope that came much later in cinema.

That trend was definitely influenced by some T3 stuff, however, in T3 terms, the Terminatrix is still bound by the more general idea of mimetic polyalloy.

Therefore, we can't say T3 uses nanobots.

Also, be mindful of nuanced representations of technology in movies. What we perceive to be robots, often, are not meant to be taken as that. They instead represent a general concept, often materialized into a character.

For T2, that concept is a clash between counter-culture (represented by the T-800) and state opression (represented by T1000), roughly. In the real world, both movements are artificial inserts into the collective consciousness. It's not as clear cut as I'm explaining, and there are other superimposing representations on top of it, but it should be enough to get the idea.

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The impression I get, is that you're waiting for me to explain that T3 is actually a story of us running into disaster, and you have some sort of expectation in regards to how I would do that. If that's the case, I'm sorry to disappoint you!

i gave up on expectations a few posts ago.

for T3, there is a scene towards the end, where Terminatrix is shown injecting something into the present day robots. It was little sparkly things, and then present day robots started killing everyone. I assumed these are 'nano bots'. She took control.

I didn't like that the present day machines only rose up and started killing everyone after she did this, they didn't have any 'emergent' moment and gain sentience. As far as I know, none of the Terminator Movies went back and showed 'achieving consciousness' and deciding to kill all humans.

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T2. Where the present day humans studied the damaged chip left from T1. And rushed head long into disaster. The present day humans were rushing towards tech development at all costs, just like in todays world, regardless of risk. So I thought T2 was more similar to today.

All Terminator movies feature a storyline in which humans were rushing tech development at all costs. That's... the main thing.

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