Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x02

[vaznetti]

Still good. I'll be back next week.

I think that actually, Sarah and John would have been a lot more lost by the way the world changed than they seemed, but it would have got in the way of the story. And I can handwave it, given the way they live.

I really liked that characters from the first episode turned up again, too. And the cancer, from T3, which I'm not sure I've actually seen. And there were some nice moments -- especially with Cameron outside Carlos' house, and the way she mimicked the other woman. I like the balance of knowledge and ignorance, in her and in Sarah -- that Cameron, for all her knowledge, is as much at a loss as Sarah sometimes is.

Someday, Cameron will kill someone who really is innocent.

Also: Lawrence, Kansas? Was that absolutely necessary?

I was a little worried, of course, when John took off on his own, there, but it worked out differently than I expected, and I liked it. It was still impulsive, but it was understandable.

The thing about the franchise is that I find the terminators really scary, because they're so hard to destroy -- the scenes of the terminator reassembling itself really freaked me out. So I find myself caught up in the tension of the whole thing, too.


I'm sure I have other things, but I need to sleep now more than I need to figure out what they were. At some point, I'm also going to want icons.

Comments

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I will totally be back next week. I think I have hearts and stars in my eyes.

The cognitive dissonance from time displacement is something I'm hoping they'll get into more. Because the world *has* changed in the past eight years, beyond the geopolitical situation. And no matter how uncertain their lives have been, they'll have to experience moments where they blink and think "what the hell???"

Cameron outside of Carlos' house was awesome. As was Sarah when she came out yelling to distract the cop.

At least in this case, the Kansas was an Oz reference?

[vaznetti]

I'm sure the Kansas thing is an Oz reference -- they were flying thick and fast in the episode -- but I still giggled.

And no matter how uncertain their lives have been, they'll have to experience moments where they blink and think "what the hell???"

Absolutely -- about big and small things, I think.

Another scene I really liked was John setting his cellphone message -- how he went through normal, and got all the way to the savior of the world stuff, and then shut down and left the most impersonal message he could. That was a great character moment, the way he fell right back into reality there.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I loved the cellphone scene too - John's angst is EPIC. Watching him deal with all this craziness is going to be so much fun!

[medie]

*nods* yeah, I think they would have been thrown too, but yes. I can buy it. For now anyway.

Lawrence, Kansas. See. Now they're just teasing us!

and gah, *nods* the Terminator reassembling itself? That's the part that freaks me the hell out. It's like something out of your nightmares. They just keep coming. *SHUDDER*

[vaznetti]

and gah, *nods* the Terminator reassembling itself? That's the part that freaks me the hell out. It's like something out of your nightmares. They just keep coming. *SHUDDER*

I know! And with the dead man's face all covered up! And the way they can't be destroyed! I had forgotten just how scary that is.

[medie]

Dude, that part completely freaked me out! It reminds me of the part in the first movie where the damn thing rises up out of the machinery.

[hossgal.livejournal.com]

They keep throwing in things from the movie - the cancer, the dogs, Reese being dead, the arm tattoos - and by throwing in, I mean building on the foundation of the universe in a way that seems carefully thought out.

I think that actually, Sarah and John would have been a lot more lost by the way the world changed than they seemed, but it would have got in the way of the story.

Yes, yes, and I agree that I can handwave it.

Besides, I already had that gut-clench of tv-show induced make it not have happened, make it not real, make it not happen in FS's Terra Firma.

Lawrence, Kansas? Was that absolutely necessary?

...yes?

*is still in love with SPN*

I do so hope this show stays good.

- hg

[vaznetti]

I hope the show stays good as well -- I really want to see them building something coherent, within the limits of the canon -- I mean, the fact that the timeline is incredibly unstable, and the future is completely changeable. But I like the way they're working in all the possibilities.

I laughed at the Lawrence thing, especially after the way everyone on my friends list went straight to the SPN crossover possibilities after the first episode. Not that I would object to that in any way whatsoever, but it amused me.

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

I just read in EW that its all being done by the folks who did T2. And they're just ignoring t3 and going on like it didn't happen really.

They missed Sarah!!!

YAY!

Must get icons.

[vaznetti]

That's excellent news -- and of course, they can ignore T3 within canon now, because of the time-shift.