The Definitive Terminator
What makes Terminator so compelling, more than thirty years later? Come with me if you want to think.
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Terminator on Overthinking It
Make Time Travel Great Again
We need to stop the intrusion of time travelers across our borders. When the future sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people who have a lot of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re … Continued
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Do Killer Robot Inventors Watch Killer Robot Movies?
How do two computer science nerds spend a week contemplating the nature of artificial intelligence without ever referencing Skynet or HAL 9000?
Episode 366: You Drop This Acid, You Will Travel Through Time
On the Overthinking It Podcast we tackle “Terminator Genisys” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emilia Clarke.
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Terminator 2: Did The T-800 Really Learn the Value of Human Life?
At the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, does the Terminator transcend his machinelike nature and gain free will?
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The Overview: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Watch Terminator 2: Judgment Day with the Overthinkers. Our alternative commentary track tackles the moral, religious, and philosophical themes of one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Episode 355: Give Us This Day Our Daily Chewbacca
The Overthinkers tackle a playlist of trailers for Star Wars, Batman v Superman, Terminator Genisys, and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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Overthinking The Terminator, 30th Anniversary Edition
30 years later, what makes the endoskeletal Terminator such an enduring symbol of technology gone awry?
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Her-minator: How Skynet and Samantha Negotiate Individuality, Collectivism, and the Human Condition
Nuclear weapons and killer robots aside, these two movie AI’s are different–and similar–in ways you might not realize.
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Terminator: Genesis: A Biblical Analysis of the Next Terminator Movie’s Title
Did God create Skynet in his own image?
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