Sarah Connor - will it… be back??
So the finale. To me it was a mixed bag, I was all iffy pretty much through the whole first half - a throwback to the boring early episodes. I think this was largely because it had mom and son on screen most of the time. They just aren’t good at the show, it seems to me. The second half was pretty good, not as good as last week’s but still a worthwhile effort. Definitely good enough that I’ll be quite disappointed if Fox doesn’t pick up the show.
It’s well documented that I think that Brian Austin Green and Summer Glau are the good parts of the show. I’m going to have to add to that the FBI agent man - he’s good. He plays it low key but you still see that there’s passion there. I think that’s pretty hard to get right - I think he’s at his best when he’s talking to people trying to get information out of them that he knows they have, he’s got subtle expressions and what not that just works for me. The annoying interspersing of watching the robot memories through the whole thing annoyed me, but that’s life.
For realz, though, with this episode all you David Silver doubters have got to give it up for Mr. Green. Come on! When he saves the day when the bad guys got the gun to whiny boy’s head? That’s what I’m talking about - he just isn’t conflicted. He knows what he’s got to do. And the episode did the characters a solid by not having any discussion about the event in question. And the big finish while quite cliched and contrived what with the music and the pool still worked for me and the thing with the T888 and the detective? Yeah. Good times. Just in case you didn’t see it:
And while I didn’t play it, I’m pretty sure I’d be dead right now if I had played the Sarah Connor drinking game!
March 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
i thought the second hour was great. specially the pool scene. im worried that they ended it like they did (tyring not to spoil too much here) so that they could replace summer if they have a next season and she is not available. they could do it without changing the make up of the show. i hope im wrong. but that rarely happens.
also, i disagree on 2 of your points.
1) im getting to like john conner. he shows improve.
2) some of the T888 memories were kinda neat. maybe they overdid it, but the concept was great and there were some interesting moments.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Yeah, I liked the pool scene, too - even though my brain was trying to make me be annoyed. My heart ruled the day. :) It just seemed so out of place - like they just watched Face Off or the Soprano’s or something and were like, hey… we can play slow music over the fight scene! But still, I liked it.
I suppose we’ll just have to agree that your dumb - as regards John Connor. :)
And with the T888 - I liked the effect and it only annoyed me a little that they contrived to have the right parties watching just the right segment at just the right time in the show. *shrug*
You gotta admit, though, that the first half was kind of a bust.