Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (1 Viewer)

[joshEH]

Actually, Earl Boen was approached by the series producers about reprising his role from the films as Dr. Silberman (and was interested in doing so), but Boen had just retired from the industry a couple of years ago, and ultimately decided to bow out.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I loved that contrast, even though I saw both moments coming. Summer Glau was a professional ballerina before she was hired by Joss Whedon to play one on "Angel," and it was wonderful to see that grace and poise on dislay in this episode. At the same time, leaving the brother and sister to their death after obtaining the necessary information, is such an inhuman response. The two most horrific details to me was that a) she earnestly thanked them for their information even as she left them to die, and b) the total lack of expression on her face when the screams rung out and the guns fired.

 

[Jason Seaver]

That's clearly the most interesting moment of the series. One of the themes that the show is following up from T2 is that the horrors she has faced and knows are potentially to come had hardened Sarah to the point where she was on the edge of having the same sort of amorality the Terminators have. The past couple of episodes have demonstrated that Derek and Cameron clearly think the same way a lot of the time, but Cameron, ironically, is the one interested in the world around here even when things aren't necessarily connected to her mission.

That's a separate thing from realizing that life has value beyond the fact that killing people attracts attention, and she doesn't seem to be close to that yet.

 

[Ken Chan]

Unfortunately, they blew the date, and changed the motivation.

The dates for T2 and T3 don't quite add up, but it's very clear that in T2 Judgment Day is August 29, 1997. Arnold says that's when Skynet became self-aware. It's even the code to activate the easter eggs on the DVDs. But here, they say the escape was June of the same year, and that can't be right. Not enough time for Cyberdyne to finish the chip, fly with the perfect operational record, etc.

Also, that particular time, Sarah was busting out because the cops came to tell her that Arnold had returned, so the whole idea that she did it because she signed away her parental rights dilutes -- once again -- the perfectly good stuff that happened in the movie.

 

[Bryan X]

Once again, I'm not a huge Terminator fan, so for me the references were nice. I know enough to get the references, but not enough to disect them to the point it ruins the enjoyment. I don't have to think of the TV series as a gospel tie-in. I enjoy it for what it is, and the references to the movies are nice.

Now I know how I must sound in a Star Wars thread.

 

[Greg_S_H]

I thought it was the best episode in a while. Interesting parallel between Cameron not saving the people who were helping her, and Sarah saving the agent who has been out to destroy her. I wonder if he's going to make a change now that he sees that Sarah may not be crazy after all.

 

[NeilO]

Well, the 2-hour season finale (which I hope won't be a series finale) should tell us how affected by it he was. The previews at the end of the episode don't look optimistic in this regard, but those are always deceptive anyway.

Neil

 

[TonyD]

was the cop who found the "hand of god" anyone i should remember from either movie?

 

[Chris Lockwood]

Wow- does that terminator look like Peter Krause or what?

 

[Greg_S_H]

Wow! The last three episodes have been tight! If the show keeps on at this level of quality, I'll want it to stick around a long time. I'm hoping the earlier unevenness was just first season jitters, like Star Trek: TNG or something. Tonight was really a home run, particularly the scene with John handing the ball to his father. Green is a good addition to the show.

 

[joshEH]

Yeah, Green's performance in the series has totally sold me.

Like many folks, I greeted the news of his casting with eye-rolling and skepticism, but his portrayal of Derek Reese has been badass, and a surprising showcase of his acting range. In particular, that last scene tonight of him and John at the park watching John's five-year-old father playing baseball was fantastic.

 

[Patrick Sun]

I LOL at Cameron's wink to John.

 

[Jason Seaver]

I'm kind of surprised they overlooked doing something obvious, though - they've got Cameron's brain outside of her head, they've got a computer that lets them access Terminator memory files, and they know she's been lying about/hiding some things. The end of Episode #8 seemed like prime time to do some snooping.

 

[Shane D]

kinda what i thought too. they had plenty of time to look at her memories.

i've really liked brian austin green too and hated him on 90210

 

[NeilO]

The two episodes last night were very good. I did wonder why Cromartie spared left without killing Ellison. I would think the reason is that he knows Ellison has information about Sarah Connor and wants to get to that later. Ellison should now be thoroughly convinced of the dangers of the terminators. How he is going to report on what happened there - how everyone else was killed is another question.

They definitely have built things to an interesting place and I hope they bring it back so we can see where they are going to go from there. How is Cameron going to turn back into Summer Glau?

Neil

 

[Diallo B]

i think that ellison is important to skynet's future. that is why cromartie didn't kill him.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Others have speculated that Ellison is a terminator and doesn't know it, but Cromartie does know. Someone claimed that the first shot of Ellison had him in shadow with red eyes. I don't have the pilot, but can anyone confirm or deny. There were also claims that "the terminator theme plays subtly when he is onscreen." I haven't noticed anything like that. It's a little too much of a Battlestar Galactica twist and I really hope it isn't true.

 

[Stephen Orr]

But Silverman sliced open his leg to confirm he WASN'T a terminator last week.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

That is absolutely false. The shot in question is of a terminator in a dilapidated room looking at a computer file of the Connors.

The confusion arises from the fact that Ellison is looking at the exact same file on his computer, in his FBI office. The implication is that the terminator is hacked into Ellison's computer, and monitering his computer activity.

 

[Diallo B]

right. based on that and the fact that we was choking on smoke when the house went up i thought that ellison was not a terminator. however an interesting twist would be if he was programmed to think he was human. very unlikely...