Watching the Sarah Conner Chronicles at the moment because I love time travel sci-fi and the "fight against big tech" feels very pertinent.
While I have been enjoying the moral quandaries the characters have been forced to reckon with, the constant reinforcement of the Great Man Theory is hella frustrating.
Am only on Episode 4 so far, so I'm yet to see if this will be too much of an issue for me to keep watching it.
I think that one of the reasons I am finding this especially frustrating is a result of reading @annaleen 's The Future of Another Timeline which was so good at confronting and challenging the Great Man Theory.
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As far as I can remember, the best that the Terminator film series managed to achieve, when attempting to move beyond the Great Man Theory deceit embedded in the franchise, was to shift it over to "Great Woman Theory" instead.
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something something → Great Man Theory → Hero's Journey → Jordan Peterson → bad.
something something → Neo-liberal "girl boss" feminism → bad.
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Annalee Newitz 🍜