I love, love, love Rob Ager/Collative Learning, but holy fuck, some nights he'll make me spray my Horlicks all over the monitor

Couched in unfailingly articulate, amiable delivery, his essays launch wild overreaches with painterly grace - as entertaining as the classic films he analyses! Five-star unintended (?) hilarity!
https://youtu.be/QdkvLMeorcM?t=58"Does the shotgun concealed in a box of flowers symbolise a theme of love for the young boy he is going to protect?"It's a visually striking means of concealing a shotgun to split a motherfucker's wig with. That is Ahnuld's job: approach his target, then shoot them repeatedly in the face, using firearms concealed about his person. A gift of flowers for a young boy would get Ahnuld partyvanned, compromising his efficiency. If it is symbolism, it is wrenchingly contrived Mr. Ager! Not to mention redundant, with T2 marking its theme of emergent artificial humanity quite overtly! :O
I am 95% recalling Cameron & Wisher's T2 script - floridly peppered with overture, a fun read - describing Ahnuld as resembling
"A hunky guy on his way to a hot date," striding through the mall with roses tucked under-arm.

Part of the joy that I get from this boy is his innocent laugh and style ♫"You okay?"
"Fine. *glance over shoulder; return* Say, that's a nice bike.""There was no need for the T1000 to express his admiration of the motorcycle! Clearly, he
LIEK the motorbike."
I see this from a lot of T2 fans, re: Patrickbot. The T1000 is an unfathomably advanced mimic from the distant future. For narrative purposes, his ruse is absolute, obviating the line between imitator and object. If Ahnuld is ammonia, jarring to the unaided senses -
Your clothes. Give them to me! - Patrick is carbon monoxide; not merely harder, but outright
impossible to perceive. And so, he maintains a human grace we find curious, and his victims never find at all.
This quasi-supernatural terror - a faceless assassin, striking at leisure, melting back into the milieu with an ease undreamed of by his hopelessly outmatched counterpart - is integral to T2 on multiple levels, Rob Ager! By fixating on the excellence of Skynet's ruse, over its narrative function, you and others are pissing up the wrong tree! :O You will only be
showered in piss!
^ Not far from the warmthless white glare of HK searchlights piercing the nighttime battlefields of humanity's sad future. T1+2 are handsomely shot films, legit."ADDENDUM: THE FLOWERS MIGHT ALSO BE A REFERENCE TO POPULAR 'ROCK MUSIC GROUP' 'GUNS AND ROSES' WHO FEATURE PROMINENTLY IN THE FILM'S MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK"Now that is more like it!

Give me that old time rock and roll! Might
You Could Be Mine represent fatherly themes towards the young boy he is going to protect?

AHNULD could be
HIS DAD :O A good thing, as delinquent John is
WAY OUT OF LINE!
Make you move like an animal ♫
Making noise like an animal ♫
Might
You Could Be Mine's
hardcore bareback fucking theme be a reference to Ahnuld's unexpected fatherly role? Wait. This is genuinely addictive. I'm gonna end up like POPEYE DOYLE in
THE FRENCH CONNECTION 2. 
<3 this dude. Great taste in films, keen observations, occasionally batshit ridiculous to always entertaining effect - you will never leave empty-handed!
