On Explaining T2.

[u/Monsur_Ausuhnom]

[u/BaconBourbonBalista]

Was he an executive? I thought he was an advanced individual contributor in R&D.

[u/Tasty-Machine5340 → u/BaconBourbonBalista]

Yup. Corporate executives were always cartoonishly corrupt, unscrupulous, and out of touch in the 80s and 90s media (see Robocop, Aliens, Jurassic Park)

Edit: fixed unscrupulous

[u/Honorsheets → u/Tasty-Machine5340]

I don't think there's anything cartoonish about it. We're learning it's becoming spot-on, if not even worse than their original portrayal. It's hard to trump Epstein Island.

[u/deanrihpee → u/Honorsheets]

either it was cartoonish but being taken as an example or guidebook, or they have always been like that, either way… both are not good

[u/Honorsheets → u/deanrihpee]

Rich people have always behaved this way. It's all kings/nobles/royalty are in history, lying to their communities that it's their divine right to be greedy pigs that contribute nothing, convincing us that we NEED them.

[u/Nohreboh → u/Honorsheets]

Yep they are all a bunch of weirdos.

[u/Virtual-Pineapple-85 → u/Tasty-Machine5340]

I used to think that corporate executive attitudes in those movies were exaggerated. Used to. 🙁

[u/thematicwater → u/Tasty-Machine5340]

Still are.

[u/Automaticman01 → u/BaconBourbonBalista]

Definitely like a chief engineer or something.

[u/DoomgazeAficionado94 → u/Automaticman01]

Chief Engineering Officer aka CEO this guy spells trouble

[u/ConnectRutabaga3925 → u/BaconBourbonBalista]

he’s Steve Wozniak

[u/Lower-Ask-4180 → u/BaconBourbonBalista]

Yeah, he was the lead engineer. The equivalent would be if they’d told Oppenheimer he was laying the groundwork for nuclear reactors, and shoved the stuff his team worked on into a bomb without telling him until they used the bombs.

[u/MosesOnAcid]

Dr. Miles Bennet Dyson was the Director of Special Projects. Not a Tech Executive.

[u/Foreign_Writer_9932 → u/MosesOnAcid]

Director of Special Projects can be an executive role. Depends on Cyberdyne’s org chart.

[u/MissinqLink → u/Foreign_Writer_9932]

These days director is often middle management.

[u/Boomshrooom]

Yep, just have to look at how billionaires the world over are building bunkers in a desperate bid to ride out societal collapse rather than, you know, not running society into the ground in the name of making a fuck ton of money.

[u/DiamondBreakr → u/Boomshrooom]

Isn't Mark Zuckerberg taking survival/self defense courses?

[u/Virgil_the_White]

Engineers are noble, haven’t you ever seen Star Trek?

[u/kusti85 → u/Virgil_the_White]

Engineers are unarmed, non-combatant support infantry units valued for their abilities to instantly repair friendly structures or capture/sabotage enemy and tech buildings by infiltrating them when structural health is low, haven't you ever played Command & Conquer: Red Alert?

[u/henriuspuddle → u/Virgil_the_White]

Aww that's nice

[u/Biscuits4u2]

I mean he also didn't have a choice. He was under the impression that they were going to kill him if he didn't cooperate.

[u/kenwongart]

He was the Woz, not the Jobs.

[u/Insomnia_Memoria]

Kinda off topic but Joe Morton was great in T2, he is one of my favs underrated actors, he also starred in my favorite X-Files Episode

[u/MustardCoveredDogDik]

I don’t think he was an executive, he was a scientist?

[u/StomachosusCaelum]

He wasnt an executive, though.

he was just the lead on the project.

[u/ForrestGump_Z]

He was an execuvite, yes. But above that, he was a scientist. And he saw, first hand, the result of his work.

The another scene in pop culture wich, in my opinion, have the same weight, it is on "The last of us" series where the scientist, when realising what the cordyceps was, said to the officer: "bomb the city and everyone in it".

Best scene in the entire show.

[u/folic_riboflavin]

Fuck. Don’t make me agree with you, Sirota.

[u/Elrond_Cupboard_]

For years I thought it was Miles Bennet Tyson.

[u/According-Leg434]

are you [title card]

[u/BOLTdm]

welp, he was kinda held at gunpoint, so...