NEWS: The Terminatrix Deconstructed

She's often described as a dominatrix, but that's just because of her costume. There was hardly any sadomasochism in the show, and the sex often didn't advance any human relationship subplot. Like her taste for violence, the sex was rooted in anarchy. In the "Gravity" episode, Aeon and show's antagonist, Trevor Goodchild, who sometimes fights Aeon and sometimes makes out with her (and in one episode, shoots her point-blank in the face) are traveling in parallel vehicles — he on a bullet train, she in an airplane beside it — inches away from each other, both their heads out their windows, sucking face at a thousand miles per hour. Like a hyperreal depiction of real-life sex, the reasons for the characters' encounters were usually ambiguous, their relationships unclear, and the act itself rarely pretty.