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Chapter Two, Page 16

threeeyeswurm

on May 21, 2009

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I had a lot of fun painting this one, I've been trying to convince Wei to let me paint sunset lighting for a while. I really like how it turned out and I got to play with a palette of colours that is much different from the usual. So, that's the page. Do leave us some comments if you stop by, we're looking forward to hearing from all our readers, even if it is just to banter.

Now cue my giant Terminator bitchfest. The Salvation movie sucks. Sorry guys, Wei and I saw a matinee on opening day and it blew hardcore. The commercials were so promising until the night before it opened when they started playing commercials that only crappy movies play. You know, the ones where random guy A and random guy B from movie review organisations no one has heard of or cares about are quoted as saying the movie is a "non-stop thrill ride!" or "The action movie of the summer!" Ugh. Worthless crap. To make matters worse, I found out on the same day that the Sarah Connor Chronicles, perhaps the best thing to happen to the Terminator franchise since T2, was cancelled and not filming a third season. I was left alone, in the wood of cyborg, time travelling, paradox science fiction without any food, water or a clue as to where I was going. In the most metaphorical sense, I felt lost. Wei is sad too, all he sees is potential wasted and the impossibility of them screwing up another movie manifest into a reality. Terminator is over, all we are left with is a sense of deep loss and nostalgia for its past greatness.

There are particular reasons as to why Salvation sucked. Mostly in the areas of character development, plot cohesiveness and the general motivations for the characters to do anything that they ended up doing. For a brief period afterwards, Wei could only exclaim, "What the hell? Kyle Reese? He was the most unbelievable motivation for anything ever." I, personally, echo Ebert's opinion on this one, "Believe me, I would have enjoyed traveling forward through time for two hours, starting just before I saw the movie."