Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread

Shirley Mansen's a much more intimidating and competent T-1000 than Agent Dogget ever was.

Except for Cameron, all the cyborgs of TSCC are more impressive and competent than those of the films, methinks.

 

As much as it sucks that the show was moved to the Friday night death-slot, I'm thrilled that it's finally paired with a fun show. Prison Break was teh boring.

 

It sucks that this show has been moved to Friday nights and I work Friday nights

Just got done watching the latest episode. Interesting...

Its been almost two weeks now since I got into the show. I couldn't get back into Lost cause I missed so many episodes b/c of work.

Lena is so...awesome. She hides her accent very well. She's beautiful.

 

hulu.com for the shows.

thats how I caught up on them.

oh and I liked how you didn't know what was a dream and what was reality.

She probably saved that guy that pleasure of getting speared by Shirley manson or running for a while before a terminator got him and his wife.

 

Well when I was watching it, I got the sense of what was real and what wasn't. The drug that guy injected into Sarah really messed up her head...her mind.

 

I really thought this episode was great. A huge improvement from last week's episode, and it looks like a setup for a mid-season finale (or is this the second half of season 2? It's been so long I can't even tell)

Throughout that whole catfight I was torn, I didn't know who I wanted to win. I eventually decided I wanted the winner to be Razor (I wonder how long it'll take for that identifier to wear off the actress?) and the music suddenly changed from the dramatic fight score to a sad dirge while Riley was beating her with that big white thing (cricket bat? table leg? ivory tusk? giant vibrating women's toy? I couldn't tell) and I thought that Riley was going to be the one walking away. Bear McCreary sure tricked me on that one.

I've got a new hypothesis that the show's perpetually laconic and emotional style, punctuated with the occasional moment of action and gunfire, is a major reason that the TSCC has always suffered in viewership. The name Terminator implies lots of action and adventure and robots and explosions and cool effects and stuff, and the general audience (myself included up until recently) can't really separate that image from TSCC's defining features of quiet bizarre family drama, character studies, and subtle, meandering, long-term plotlines. But if they had tried to go completely gung-ho robot-smasher Bruckheimer 'sploshun fest, the show would have shot its proverbial wad long ago, assuming that it could even stick to a budget, and then there would be no show at all.

 

Ah, but just because YOU know that, doesn't mean that 99% of the potential viewing audience does

 

Terminator continues to impress me. With Galactica ending tonight, Terminator is now the only show I feel any great desire to watch. This current plot line is great. And bravo to John for going to see Riley's body and looking at the wounds, and for apologizing to Cameron. Interesting to see the start of Jesse's hatred of the machines on their side.

And I like that reference early on in tonight's show to John Conner, from one of the sub crewmen - that Conner is playing a giant chess game with Skynet. I'm curious about the T1000 who was on the sub, and wondering what that was about. Did Conner ask the initial question, or did it approach them? Did it already know what it was going to decide, or was it considering things?

Also, best commercial break ever: as Derek pulls the trigger, the commercial break starts and shows a book titled the "Book of happy endings."

 

I've got to agree. Except that it's much further ahead of Lost.

In any case, the scene with John and Jesse was fantastic. It was another of those scenes that the show has been building towards, showing John as John Conner, Savior of Humanity. I felt almost sorry for Jesse, having to face down John like that.

The last scene was also good. When John finally lets himself cry, Cameron is unable to provide sympathy. His mother, for all her objections about everything he's done in the last few days, is the one who holds him. Cameron sits there, staring straight forward. Another great scene.


Also chilling to find out just how far ahead Ms Weaver has planned, regarding employee terminations (is that even a pun?).

 

wild theory:

the T1000 on the sub is the same one that's gonna be sent back and eventually look like robert patrick.

yes i'm basing this solely on the little finger wiggle but i think it makes for a good theory. john is possibly trying to get it on his side instead of it going back to kill him in T2.

yay/nay?
-doodie

 

Interesting that John Connor was going to try and get the T-1000 to join the resistance

 

this is the best. these shows are so cool. i like sarah connor a lot.

 

the way the people on the sub didnt know what it was and the way it arrived in a box makes me think it was a prototype. but then if it was a prototype why would the machines just hand it over to jon. infact why did the terminators just hand the box over anyway? they werent trading...
-doodie

 

We need an SCC banner here


Huh, for some reason I thought this was the season finale Haven't checked in a while, just watched.

The ending to the last one was great. Just after Derek tells Jon how in the future they want him to be human, he lets it all out. SCC's John Connor is awesome and Salvation's Bale has big expectations to fulfill.

Dammit, I still don't have T2 on DVD

 

Not urgent, so I can't be bothered to look through the versions and buy one. And the rating might make amazon.de difficult. Dunno.

[edit]Alright, fine, I ordered it [/edit]

I wouldn't have thought so anyway