Judgment Day

[wkgreen]

Hello Folks, another Judgment Day Story winging your way! Enjoy.

All the Roads Taken by wkgreen

Comments

[darxe]

Loved the thoughts of all. I REALLY liked John finally realizing that it isn't about HIM... Nice work.

[wkgreen]

Thanks. :) John needed to show why he becomes a leader. :) thought I would give him the opportunity.

Thanks for commenting! :)

[masque101]

One day, infinite possibilities. This was the story that gave me the tagline for the promo, so thank you for that.
And thank you for the story. It was wonderful seeing each of the characters immediate thoughts, their most important feelings playing across their minds. But John's realisation was my favourite, mostly for the evolution of a character that I always felt was sorely lacking in the series. He was a teenage boy, he was meant to be moody, it was sad that we never got to see him become the leader he was destined to be, but I think we got a glimpse of him here.

[wkgreen]

Glad to provide inspiration! :)

Took me a couple of days to figure out each them, but then they wrote themselves. :)

Thanks for commenting :)

[zennie]

Nicely done, and an actual likable John. Now I've seen everything!

[wkgreen]

Oooo.. I got Zennie to like John, I had a good writing day! :D

Glad you enjoyed the story Zennie. :)

This touches on something I felt the show missed.

[darkwyldchilde]

I've always felt that the term "Judgment Day" wasn't about humanity being judged by Skynet, but simply judged. We've gotten arrogant, assured of our infallibility. Skynet could simply be seen as a manifestation of that.

I always felt Judgment Day was about humanity having to prove it still had a right to exist, had a value to it.

Here John Connor was judged and showed himself worthy.

Re: This touches on something I felt the show missed.

[wkgreen]

Hmmm... never thought of it that way darkwyldchilde, very good observation! And yeah, John finally steps up.

Thanks for commenting :)

Re: This touches on something I felt the show missed.

[darkwyldchilde]

I think it's why Judgment Day kept happening. On some level it's self inflicted. I'll try to contain the arm chair philosopher as much as possible, but as our technology gets smarter we get dumber.

I'll fully admit I use my smart phone to make up for my utter lack of a memory, but we have people getting seriously injured because they were too busy texting/emailing/uploading something to You Tube.

It's those people who WANT a computer to take care of all their menial tasks so they can spend more time texting/emailing/ and uploading stuff to You Tube.

If someone came along and told them that computer was going to up and kill them one day that person would get locked up. Not so much because they considered it impossible, but because on some deeper level they would rather listen to those saying it's completely safe.

Because yeah the world could blow up, but if it works they would have more time to play Halo Reach.

Re: This touches on something I felt the show missed.

[wkgreen]

Yup, human history will have certain things happen, because most people do not consider their actions, except for any relation to themselves. People also do things by habit, without thinking of consequences. This is why history repeats itself.

[wkgreen]

Thank you. :) And thanks for commenting.