Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x03
Jan. 21st, 2008 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiI wasn't going to post about this tonight, but I have a few random notes
They need to keep Mrs. Dyson (whose first name has slipped my mind) as a recurring character, because I love that she's so reluctant to help, without that making her evil. Although if she and Sarah were to team up to fight crime, I would not object to that. And someday, they're going to have to show Sarah Connor killing someone she doesn't know for a fact is evil. Not that I minded the solution here, but someday it's going to have to happen if we're going to believe in who the character is.
I am perfectly willing to handwave science for the purposes of horror, so the skin-graft and stolen eyes Terminator subplot worked really well for me -- in the sense that I hugged my pillow and went "ew!" and "yikes!" a lot. Terminators are scary to me!
The high-school subplot interested me a little -- that is, I like that going to school is a real challenge for them, and particularly for Cameron. But the bullying subplot will need to be good, if it continues. I like how John is kind of growing into heroism in small steps, while laying the big burden on his mother.
"Don't kiss me. Or anyone else." Ha! oh, show, why must you tease me with the slash? Also, I like the brother-sister vibe that John and Cameron have in this episode, especially in the classroom.
I have a larger world-building question, though -- if they succeed, then Reese would never have come back, because there would be no time travel. John wouldn't exist, and Sarah would be back in her old life. So what I'm wondering is -- can they ever know whether or not they succeeded? Because success ought to undo everything about who they are: they would have no idea that the threat had ever existed.
Time travel paradoxes give me a headache, but I like the idea that they can never know whether or not they've won.
They need to keep Mrs. Dyson (whose first name has slipped my mind) as a recurring character, because I love that she's so reluctant to help, without that making her evil. Although if she and Sarah were to team up to fight crime, I would not object to that. And someday, they're going to have to show Sarah Connor killing someone she doesn't know for a fact is evil. Not that I minded the solution here, but someday it's going to have to happen if we're going to believe in who the character is.
I am perfectly willing to handwave science for the purposes of horror, so the skin-graft and stolen eyes Terminator subplot worked really well for me -- in the sense that I hugged my pillow and went "ew!" and "yikes!" a lot. Terminators are scary to me!
The high-school subplot interested me a little -- that is, I like that going to school is a real challenge for them, and particularly for Cameron. But the bullying subplot will need to be good, if it continues. I like how John is kind of growing into heroism in small steps, while laying the big burden on his mother.
"Don't kiss me. Or anyone else." Ha! oh, show, why must you tease me with the slash? Also, I like the brother-sister vibe that John and Cameron have in this episode, especially in the classroom.
I have a larger world-building question, though -- if they succeed, then Reese would never have come back, because there would be no time travel. John wouldn't exist, and Sarah would be back in her old life. So what I'm wondering is -- can they ever know whether or not they succeeded? Because success ought to undo everything about who they are: they would have no idea that the threat had ever existed.
Time travel paradoxes give me a headache, but I like the idea that they can never know whether or not they've won.
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Date: 2008-01-22 06:25 am (UTC)I must say I'm also liking the fact that the other FBI agent is also not a white male. And that they're not antagonists, really: the white males in this universe are most present by their absence.
... now if only there were some Asians around? That would be cool.
Liked this ep a lot. And I suspect that the figure in the window at Andy's house was that mysterious 4th resistance fighter.
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Date: 2008-01-22 08:37 am (UTC)Also, is it just me, or does Lena Headey redline the chemistry gauge with absolutely everyone? I thought the phone-store/car-window scene was smokin'.
Terissa(?) Dyson really needs to be a regular, as you said.
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Date: 2008-01-22 06:37 pm (UTC)I would but Sarah/Terissa (?) slash, too. Just saying. I mean, it would be hot.
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Date: 2008-01-22 11:29 pm (UTC)Hm.
Oh, and definitely, Sarah/Terissa. Definitely.
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Date: 2008-01-22 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-22 06:26 pm (UTC)(I'm beginning to feel like SCC will be my antidote for all the things that sometimes bother me about SPN canon -- I love Ellison, and how smart he is, and I liked his interaction with the other FBI agent and her tunnel-vision. I love that Ellison is still chasing them, and can't wait for him to catch them.)