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Secret Revelations from the Future in Terminator Alternate Reality Game

We've written before about the Sarah Connor Chronicles alternate reality game (ARG), where players film themselves acting out the roles of workers at a corporation called Einitech Labs. Enitech has discovered a way to photograph pictures of the future using "tachyons." At first they just see newspapers that are several months in the future, but slowly they begin getting pictures of San Francisco in a post-apocalyptic state. And then they start getting stalked by robots. Each episode contains a puzzle, and this special BoingBoing TV episode of the ARG is no exception. Peek below to get the secret subliminal message.

What does it mean? Why are those robots chasing everybody? Will San Francisco really be reduced to a pile of rubble? Maybe if the Sarah Connor Chronicles is renewed, we'll find out.

Sarah Connor Chronicles ARG [BB TV]

9:30 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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Seth L at 09:46 AM on 03/11/08
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I have nothing but bile for ARG's.
Foggynotion at 09:49 AM on 03/11/08
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@Seth L: I enjoyed the one that LOST did between seasons 2 and 3.

I watch The Sarah Connor Chronicles but had never heard of this ARG. Oh well.
tetracycloide at 10:22 AM on 03/11/08
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i know it's cliche to say but i honestly want the last 5 mins of my life back. that. was. awful.
Garrison Dean, King... at 10:23 AM on 03/11/08
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Whoah.. thats pretty good. Actually quite scary at points. I like the Sarah Conner show, but this makes me wish it was a little less polished.
Garrison Dean, King... at 10:29 AM on 03/11/08
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Thats not a secret code, its a screen shot from lolasians.com
Seth L at 10:43 AM on 03/11/08
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@Foggynotion:

I followed the season 1 to 2 one, and was kinda excited, because it felt new, but it's all just fan fiction with a bit better funding, right?

I mean, Lost likes to say the ARG stuff fits the show, but have they ever really addressed it?

If I'm going to be wasting time on marketing as entertainment, I don't want to work for it.

Sorry, I stayed up too late playing Smash Brothers.
Annalee Newitz at 12:41 PM on 03/11/08
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@Seth L: If an ARG becomes it's own entertaining thing, how is it any different from a typical TV show? I mean, all TV shows are paid for by advertisers and studios. It's all commercial culture.
Seth L at 01:57 PM on 03/11/08
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@Annalee Newitz:

I see a TV show as entertainment supported by the advertising, which can be ignored easily enough.

Almost every ARG I've encountered is advertising in an of itself. It's selling the TV show or whatnot. That's fine if the ARG is entertaining but 99% of the ones that I have encountered do not offer a reward enough to compensate the time spent..

I'm just speaking from personal experience. I mean, I watch entertaining commercials, I have nothing against advertising as entertainment.
SomeAudioGuy at 12:28 AM on 03/12/08
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I was actually really digging it (creepy) until Mike got capped (kinda silly).

Throw in Michael Bay making things "awesome" and spider walker thing, and I'm totally not in the moment...

Hmmm, should I have said Spoiler Alert?