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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2.04
Submitted by Casey on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:42.
This show makes it increasingly harder to call myself a fan.
In the fourth episode of this season, the writers decided that we need to see some more of the softer side of Sarah Connor and more of the damage done to Cameron from last season's finale. Cameron and John head out to the grocery store, Sarah takes the pregnant landlord to the hospital.
I kid you not.
On the good side of things, the Cameron story angle this week was at least interesting. It would appear that she was damaged more than anybody thought and we're looking at another possible 'KILL JOHN CONNOR' order reset. It would appear that the memories of the human that Cameron was designed after, 'Allison from Palmdale', have begun to resurface. Flash backs to another person's life plague Cameron throughout the show causing her to forget that she's in fact a killer robot from the future. It was interesting in that we see some of the methods that the bots use in the future to create their infiltrator androids. They also drop hints towards Cameron's original alter ego having something to do with John; we just don't know what yet. We've already visited the re-programming plot tweest once this season, I hate to see it again. At least they brought some interesting plot points to the table.
On the bad side of things, why oh why do we need to watch a full hour of Sarah sitting at the hospital with a pregnant lady! Sure, they're trying to showcase a softer side to the character and her struggles with trying to raise a son who is going to become the resistance leader that saves man kind. You know what? Freaking get over it. That's pretty much all you've shown us this season! What happened to the crazy ass kicking Linda Hamilton version of Sarah? This one's as emo as her kid.
There isn't much of John here either. Just him running around trying to find Cameron. Really, this whole episode just felt off completely from what they built up over the last season. They bring back Catherine Weaver for some screen time, but by god they still haven't bothered to do much of anything exciting with her yet. All she does is talk a lot and drop cryptic hints. Somebody wake me up when she finally kills somebody or does something evil.
I swear, this show is starting to border on the "O.C." for the SciFi set.
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This episode was definately
This episode was definately an all time low for the series. After last weeks episode where they actually had some action in it I thought things were picking up but this one was an hour long yawn-fest. There portraying Sarah the complete wrong way, this is not the Linda Hamailton Sarah Conner, she wouldnt give two fucks about her pregnant neighbour!
And I dont get the Cameron thing, I mean surely she wouldnt have memories of being a human when she never has been, I appreciate she may know her 'donors' origin but wouldnt have her memories implanted. Im thinking I'll give this season a couple more episodes to pick up and if not Im done with it.
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I thought it was great.
I surprised you guys hated this episode so much. I thought it was one of the best episodes of the show so far. Sure it was heavy on the character development and light on the 'splosions, but I think TV shows are better suited at doing characters than action.
I loved the story with Cameron and the glimpses of the future/her past (damn you, time travel). I especially liked the idea that there might be a rebel alliance within Skynet of machines that want peace. That would be a very interesting development for the show.
The stuff with pregnant Busy Philips at the hospital did sometimes border on gushy but even though there's a tendency to think of Terminator as only being about robot skeletons blowing shit up, motherhood is one of the central themes of the franchise. I'd like to see the show go more into the question of whether Sarah primary motivation in protecting John to save the world or because he's her son and she loves him.
But that's just me. I'm happy to leave the action to the films where they've got the budget to make it work. I'm not saying they should cut it out altogether, I just don't think it should be the focus of the show.
Character Development
I'm all for character development but I don't like the way they're developing Sarah & John. The biggest hurdle they're facing is they're trying to show Sarah in a different light, but she was already set in a distinct light by the movies. I realize TV and Film are going to differ some, I'm just not happy with where they're taking Sarah. They're overshadowing what Sarah Connor became by the time the rebellion started. It's hard to see how she's going to wind up at what the movies told us she'd be vs. where she's at right now. Nit picky, maybe.
I still liked the Cameron flash back bits. Like Peloquin said, I don't understand why she'd have the human Allison's memories. I do like the rebel machine angle though. The stuff with Cameron's programming being screwed up could be interesting too, but they've brought it back too soon after the blew their load on it with the season premiere. I just wish they would have given it a little bit more time before they revisited it.