Oh, that’s so true. And she was right to rely on her, even at this stage. Not just that Dani would care enough about her to not abandon her but that she’d be able to take control in the pharmacy. Like, meeting Grace and saving her and being saved by her was the making of Dani, just as Grace in turn was so influenced by her. This was literally the story of two women trying to upend time for each other.
I love Grace having no mercy for Border Patrol. It makes sense both because she’s basically a former refugee, and because those FOOLS aren’t RESPECTING Dani’s OBVIOUS!!! MAJESTY!!!
I mean, she seems to not care about any humans, unless they’re related to Dani, and then grudgingly, Sarah. But definitely a special contempt for Border Patrol. I don’t really see how anybody who’s seen what she has wouldn’t hate everything they’re about, but especially right now for how they’re dealing with Dani and why.
In one of the BTS vids they talked about the shooting of the detention center scenes and Tim Miller said that the Border Patrol characters were just doing their job, that the movie wasn’t trying to vilify anyone, but you can’t really have it both ways, to say that but then have him tearfully apologizing to the actors for putting them through that scene, and all these European extras be solemn and emotional over the real suffering it represented. It’s not like it’s just an accident that nobody’s to blame for. But I assume that’s more Tim Miller playing the political game there because he absolutely knows what the choice of filming this meant. And in the movie’s universe, there is no way Grace isn’t reacting to the very real atrocities represented by the whole situation. I don’t remember if Legion did the same thing as Skynet, but in Kyle Reese’s timeline, humans were actually rounded up into camps as well, so there’s that element of it too.
I wonder if in the future, Dani told Grace about all this. Actually, I don’t know if the Dani we saw even lived through this particular experience. But present Grace might have been old enough to know what was happening in the camps, before Judgment Day hits, and then so many years later (and then so many years jumping back), realized their threat to Dani in particular. If you grow up idolizing a person and then see how and why she’s mistreated, I can’t imagine you think kindly of the people behind it. It’s kind of funny, in the Terminator scene where you had Kyle reacting to the present, he was overcome with its beauty, but Grace is not really seeing the best of us.
I am DYING at Sarah in the second and third gifs. “Bitches what? I’m half dead over here!”
Lol!
But let’s face it, Sarah has had her suspicions about them for a while.
So I’ve not seen this new Terminator movie (or any full Terminator movie tbh) and I don’t want to. I just wanna watch your gifs and pretend it is an action movie with a WLW love story at its core. Because honestly after looking at your gifs how was this movie not a WLW love story???? Look at those gazes, those touches, the gentleness! Ugh I wish we could get the movie I imagine lol.
I knowwww! It would have been so perfect! It doesn’t take much at all to see it, right? It really–okay, I know I’m biased toward that, obviously, what else am I going to say, but I do actually still love the first and second movies, and they didn’t have any subtext, I can appreciate a plain good story. It hurt the movie to have these two similar age women forced into these roles, when it could have just done what came naturally. It had to work to no-homo a dynamic that was already established as romantic in the first movie.
I think what gets me about it so much is that what better time would there have been than now? What are these big franchises waiting for? These little background characters, that’s not progress, it’s not an actual step forward until it’s a significant part of these movies. And this franchise in particular, built on Sarah Connor, casting two more women as the new leads, why not? What would it have cost them to go all the way and just make it a love story? The people they’re afraid of already didn’t want to watch, they didn’t like that it was so female-centric and had a Latina lead and didn’t portray border patrol sympathetically. They could have done it and really stood out and be remembered forever and set a new standard.
All the same, I am glad and super grateful that Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes absolutely played up the knight/queen dynamic and gave us this much. I’ve actually not yet really dipped my toe into the fic, but I probably will get into it once I’ve fully ~experienced~ the HD movie and extras.