The two cows discuss time travel, religious themes, and the nature of sequels in this action-packed episode. 

It’s fitting that the best sequel ever made is a meta-reflection on dualities and copies. Here, the basic conflict of the first movie is transposed from human vs. machine to reproduction vs. original, as the humans fight against bureaucratic structures and their own drive to create in order to avoid destruction at their own hands, all while hunted by the ultimate reproductive machine and protected by a reproduction of something originally designed to hunt them. 

This is also a movie about cyclical dualities: man/machine, parent/child, creation/destruction, past/future. The immaculate conception closed causal loop of John Connor’s birth from the original is revealed to be just one side of the equation: Skynet’s own existence is due to a closed causal loop as well—their shared origins presaging their  intertwined fates. // Blobcat

I swear I will not kill anyone. 

Terminator

                 

The two cows go to confession with Martin Scorsese’s Boston crime drama. 

Two men from the same working class Boston neighborhood fall under the spell of false prophets and the promise of power, autonomy, and comfort that a life of crime or civil service offers. But spiritual salvation is not forthcoming when your boss is the devil, or a crass bureaucrat. It’s tough out there for guys with shoulder chips and low-T, but somehow I think they’ll manage. // Blobcat

Patriot Act, Patriot Act! I love it, I love it, I love it.

Cpt. George Ellerby