The Terminator

It took me half my adult life to realize that The Terminator is a love story, not a cyborg-from-the-future story. All this time, murderous robots distracted me from the romance. But on to more important matters:

1. Melancholy is the appropriate mood for art in which the pre-apocalyptic Eve dooms her Adam with the burden of time-travelling back into Eden, before the Fall, in order to protect her from the Satanic lure of an unstoppable, cybernetic snake. Melancholy, or perhaps wistful rumination, because he is, after all, a hero with the knowledge of good and evil.

2. And speaking of snakes, consider the resemblance between Solid Snake from Metal Gear fame and Kyle Reese, the Adam from our Terminatorial anagoge:


Uncanny! No wonder Mr. Snake had no trouble dispelling the threat from the super smart computer bent on world domination: he had already mastered the anti-robot arts.

Slothrop: Would it be wrong to play Metal Gear 4 first, without having finished any of the previous ones? And who has the original NES version on the computer? Please send or provide link. One that works. Thank you.