Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1, episode 4

[meganbmoore]

No, I didn't forget about it, get sidetracked, or kept watching and stopped posting.  I just worked 66.55 hours this week (number isn't random, I looked at my timeclock before leaving) and didn't have time to watch.

I really hope that we have proper intro credits for season 2.  The voiceover was a cool sendup to T2 at first, but is getting old.

I begin to understand what some people mean when they say they get very concerned when Ellison is in danger.  There he was, talking to Comartie(sp?)  thinking he was the actor guy when Comartie had just killed him.  "Nonono!"  *flail flail*  "You are telling him you know about him and probably no one knows you are there and he can ounch your head off!"  *flail flail*

And I am deeply amused by mini!Ellison.  On the one hand, he kind of needs to be slapped.  On the other, not really, because you know Ellison was just like that when he was a young FBI whippersnapper.

The main story for this episode was John's moment to shine.  And, as adamant as I am that I don't want this to become "John Connor, Savior of Mankind"* he needs those.  For all the he's The Special Special Princess Chick, we have to be able to buy that he leads armies in the future.  Ignoring Sarah and sneaking back into the warehouse was very much Not Smart, no matter how you look at it or how well it turned out, but it was understandable.  And he got to fight someone!  If briefly.

And I dearly love this episode for catering to my somewhat long held (half-theory from T2, now full blown) belief that the Terminators actually created themselves.

And Cameron keeping a piece of the metal (but where did she hide it?)  makes me rub my hands together in conspiratorial glee.

I like John blaming Cameron for the girl's death (And does anyone else think that, if she really was sent back by John, he programmed her to do things like that to force hard lessons on himself?  I'm starting to think that future!John created all his own personal angsts and tragedies to make sure he became a Proper Angsty Rebel Leader.) and Cameron not caring.  And I love how well Cameron and Sarah work together as long as they're not, you know, having to talk to each other about normal person stuff.  It reminds me of T2 when John was plotting a nice little White Picket Fence existence with his strange little new family and they were plotting underground bunkers and weapons training, and how to kill each other if there was the teeniest misstep.

And I am happy for the further evidence that John's childhood had bedtime stories and teddy bears mixed in with apocalyptic babbling and having to assemble 5 shotguns before dinner.


*Something I actually have slight doubts about.  Such as: did he not know how the Terminators came to be, or did he know and choose his life and his mother's over millions of other lives?  And we're also getting closer and closer to John being the human with the most knowledge about building Terminators, though I really hope they don't go that route.  I highly doubt they will, though.As you can see, this show gives me conspiracy theorist glee.

Comments

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Something I actually have slight doubts about. Such as: did he not know how the Terminators came to be, or did he know and choose his life and his mother's over millions of other lives? And we're also getting closer and closer to John being the human with the most knowledge about building Terminators, though I really hope they don't go that route.

Yeah, John being any sort of villain, after all the effort people have put into saving him and protecting him, would just be a massive middle finger to the characters and the audience. Total jump the shark moment, although maybe good for a darkfic.

My theory: Future!John's trying to start a stable time loop which in some way improves history. That doesn't mean he won't be ruthless as all hell about it. He could force Judgment Day sooner or up the body count in some way so that the war would be over quicker. That'd be a pretty cool twist on the old "future me is evil!" plot. Future!John thinks Judgment Day is inevitable, while Present!John and his two mommies think it can still be stopped. Cue temporal shenanigans...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think the endgame John won't be the shiny hero everyone thinks he is(the simple fact that we know he'll eventually deliberately send his father back in time to die is proof that he isn't as pure and wonderful as said father thought), but still ultimately trying to save humanity. Though I do like the idea of him causing his younger self all this angst to make sure he ends up the way he should.

(See, I love to theorize about John, I'm just not interested in anything that's all about him.)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much how I think John should work. He's got to make hard choices, and he's growing up knowing he has to make them.