Gift Vid: Skynet: Life in the Balance - for ghost lingering

[chaila]

Title: Skynet: Life in the Balance
Recipient: ghost lingering
Vidder: seekingferret
Music: Philip Glass, "The Grid," from Koyaanisqatsi
Summary: "John Henry processes more information in a minute than we do in a lifetime. A millisecond for a supercomputer like this, it's almost like forever to us."

~Matt Murch, ZeiraCorp

A musical essay on Skynet

Notes: Warning for effects that probably count as strobing, albeit fairly slowly. Thanks for chaila for beta help.

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[chaila]

I wondered if anyone would tackle the tall order of a Skynet vid! It's an interesting choice to do it as a Skynet point of view vid and focus on the patterns and the bird's eye view (so to speak!), and not even use the Terminators, which makes this feel very detached and mechanical. And there's definitely a sense of time slowed down, or a few moments drawn out, and how Skynet would "see" and process things.

[seekingferret]

Yeah, Skynet looms over everything in the show, but it's not exactly obvious how to sketch out its story since the main characters in the show certainly don't understand its purposes. It was fun to make this vid, and I appreciated your help!