Ok, I like the Sarah Connor Chronicles
UPDATE: Check out the interview with Summer at the A.V.Club. (via)
Well, this last episode of Terminator sealed the deal for me. I like the show, two in a row of good stories and good acting and good times. This episode continues my theory that Summer Glau and Brian Austin Green are what make the show good. Sarah is good, but I don’t know, I just don’t find her compelling enough - I think it’s just that to pull her off you need to have some crazy intensity and I mean crazy like coocoo as well as a lot. John’s too whiny and doesn’t seem to accept that there’s crazy future robots trying to get him - to me his whininess is in stark contrast with Buffy’s issues which stemmed from people who don’t accept her because they don’t understand who she is. John Connor doesn’t seem to accept himself, which is interesting, but ultimately not believable in the face of the T888’s. And whiny, so much whining.
This was a really great episode for Cameron (Glau) when it clearly shows that she wants to understand humans and she wants to be more than a machine and maybe there’s something there but ultimately she is machine. That is a genuinely creepy/frightening thing. BAG is also doing a great job - and the relationship between him and Glau, hinted at from the flashbacks last week with that music in the basement is really interesting. As was the pancake scene. Never was a bite of pancake shown on screen that was more fraught with meaning. Fraught, I tell you.
Anyhewz, just in case you missed it…
So what’s your stance on the show? You gotta admit that this list ep kicked much tail. And what’s the deal with Bruce Davison showing up in this show and Knight Rider? They musta really liked his fish guy moves from X-Men.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I loved it yet again as well. Im surprised at how much im enjoying the integration with the movies. I liked them (1 and 2 anyway), but was never really a huge Terminator guy. did you notice that summer was wearing the exact motorcycle cop costume of the T1000 from T2; mirrored sunglasses and all? how about the file of sarah conner on the table that had the picture of the original actress clipped to it. or the “come with me if you want to live” story? etc.
I remember when people first found out the details of the new series and were all up in arms because it must break continuity if sarah conner is alive in 2008, since in T3 she had died of cancer already. Then, once the show started, they time jumped her over her own death. pretty sneaky sis!
the ballet scene at the end was pretty great too. at least as fraught with meaning as the pancakes!
February 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Yeah, I got some of the refs, but not nearly all of them. I liked but don’t really remember the movies all the well. And yeah, the last scene was fraught fo’ sho’. Looking at BAG from the inside of the room, where in the last episode we got a look at him from the outside. Who is the captive now?? Fraught!
February 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
totally fraught.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
“Come with me if you want to live” is a common refrain throughout the Terminator franchise. Kyle Reese says it to Sarah Connor in T1. Arnold as the good terminator says it to Sarah in T2. And I think Cameron says it to John after he escapes the “teacher” who starts blasting away inside the classroom at the beginning of the TV series.
All in all, a good episode, and a nice complement to last week’s action-filled episode centered around BAG’s story. The final scene with BAG watching Cameron dance–with that look of unspoken horror on his face….good stuff. Yeah, fraught.
And now when the show finally gets good, it’s over in one week.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Sigh, yeah, it kinda sucks that it’s already the end of the season. Hopefully they’ll pick it up again… maybe for fall. That’d be nice.
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