It’s not exactly Tolstoy.
<me>: ..but I just don’t get “Terminator” as a premise – like, the machines can’t enslave humanity because they can’t catch one guy? Couldn’t they capture everyone else and just be like, “Hey, whatevs, we’ve got all of ‘em but one.” And then they could do eviiiiiiil deeds and stuff. I mean, who cares about one guy?
<boyfriend, exasperated>: Listen, it’s more complicated than that. I mean, they had to send themselves to the past to try and kill him. And stuff. They need to kill him. It’s like..their mission.
<me>: BUT WHY? Why can’t he just be the lone, uncaptured human? I mean he’d die eventually, right? And then the machines would be like, “Score, he’s gone now, and we’ve already got everyone else under our eviiiiiiil control.”
<boyfriend, dismissively>: GOD. You’re such a dumbass.
