Aside from thinking that he's hot ... :P Derek brings so much to the series for me - for one thing, he is a human counterpart to Cameron, a human Terminator, because he is so scarred by war and by the desperate need to make things right and save his brother. For another thing, he is a living reminder of what the Apocalypse will bring - Sarah only knows of it from what Kyle told her, but Derek lived it. And in some ways, he's a living example to John of maybe what he should NOT grow up to be - Derek was younger than John is now when the world ended, and it's pretty clear that being a soldier from that age has ... made him not quite right in the head, yes? AND he knows future John (but wasn't programmed by him the way Cameron was.)
I like that he's so dark a grey, that he'll kill without mercy because he's seen what will happen and to him the ends more than justify the means (because it points up that Sarah is not like that), and that he is as inhuman in some ways as Cameron is, but in other ways, of course, he is extremely human (his great love for his brother, his desire to repair his mistakes, etc.) I also like that he's an adult human from whom Sarah doesn't have to hide (in fact, he makes Sarah looks like the sane one!) - Sarah needs that (I suppose Charlie also fits the bill, but Sarah has a lot of guilt about Charlie and she doesn't about Derek.)
So ... that's why I love Derek.
I love all the other characters too, though, which is not always the case for me with shows. But I adore Sarah and Cameron and Charlie and Ellison. John is probably my least favorite character of them all, but even he's growing on me
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Date: 2008-09-11 12:37 am (UTC)I like that he's so dark a grey, that he'll kill without mercy because he's seen what will happen and to him the ends more than justify the means (because it points up that Sarah is not like that), and that he is as inhuman in some ways as Cameron is, but in other ways, of course, he is extremely human (his great love for his brother, his desire to repair his mistakes, etc.) I also like that he's an adult human from whom Sarah doesn't have to hide (in fact, he makes Sarah looks like the sane one!) - Sarah needs that (I suppose Charlie also fits the bill, but Sarah has a lot of guilt about Charlie and she doesn't about Derek.)
So ... that's why I love Derek.
I love all the other characters too, though, which is not always the case for me with shows. But I adore Sarah and Cameron and Charlie and Ellison. John is probably my least favorite character of them all, but even he's growing on me