Late night thoughts...

[lizardbeth]

Possibly only rose_griffes will appreciate the awesomeness of this, but last night I had this moment of realization.

John Reese -- he of the show with the semi-sentient computer...

John Reese -- FATHER OF DEREK AND KYLE REESE y/y?



I just suddenly want the AU where Skynet sends a terminator back to kill him because he's going to be the grandad of the future messiah of humanity, but the records were incomplete and it expected a soft target.

The connection with the Machine also suggests something Skynet-ish, even if the Machine is actually the Anti-Skynet. It's programmed to find out threats and report them; it seems logical to me that this wound manifest in an AI as a desire to protect humanity, especially if it discovered that Killer Robots from a Post Apocalyptic Future were murdering people in the present. (you could make the argument that the Machine would also see how much humanity sucks and develop evnetually into something that would want to destroy humanity, but I like the irony of the Machine becoming self-aware because it wants to protect humans, having learned that from its programmers and handlers/agents. (the producers do talk about the Machine having at least some sort of awareness, and certainly a POV).

But really, the part that got me is thinking of Reese fighting a triple eight:

"Finch, why is the actor of "Beast Wizard" attacking me?" lol

okay I realize the T-888 wouldn't actually look like Garrett Dillahunt without the changes Cromartie made, but it would still be funny. Actually the thought of Reese in some cheap hotel watching Beast Wizard with a bad dub is funny all by itself.

This would of course lead directly to an AU where John would teach his sons all about weapons and fighting, since he'd know Judgment Day was coming, too. And thus we'd get JOHN Connor named for his grandfather and it'd explain how the timeline shifts to turn Nick Stahl into Christian Bale....

And, um, hi, new TVD friends! I would say I don't make up crack like this all the time, BUT THAT WOULD BE A LIE.

MY BRAIN. You're welcome.

Comments

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

It could all make sense with a healthy dose of timey-wimeyness. :)

I hadn't thought of the computer connection, but I did wonder why I had all these messed-up characters named Reese. (Derek, Kyle, Dani from Life. Hmmm....)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I think Reese is like the "Sam" of last names -- it seems to be some sort of collective default name... (though it wouldn't actually surprise me to learn the PofI PTB named Reese that in deliberate homage of Kyle and John Connor, both because of the computer and to play on the Bale connection btw Batman and Terminator)

and er, I may have 1K of this already. o.O