A whirlwind of dreams and reality mix to reveal how difficult it must be to be Sarah Connor. She views the world in her own special way. Mostly, though, her world revolves around John. John and Cameron. But mostly John. If only that world were larger, I’d likely be giving a better review.
Read more...Welcome to this week’s podcast for Season 2, Episode 16 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: “Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep”. This is meant to be played along with the episode video (cuing instructions are at the beginning of the podcast).
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With just seven episodes left in the second season of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles, creator Josh Friedman published a post on the official blog. It’s an instructive read from the head of the creative team about what it’s like from where he sits, and teases about what’s to come.
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Can a moment of clarity be found in a hallucination? Perhaps, if you’ve been jailed in a mental institution for a couple of years because you told the truth about killer robots and nuclear Armageddon, that’s the only place where you can find your moments of clarity. Sarah Connor only knew Kyle Reese for two days, but they loved a lifetime’s worth. It’s hardly surprising that when she needs to turn to someone for advice, it would be Kyle.
Read more...Welcome to this week’s podcast for Season 2, Episode 14 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: “The Good Wound”. This is meant to be played along with the episode video (cuing instructions are at the beginning of the podcast).
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It took almost thirty years, but the inevitable war of attrition finally resulted in Skynet breaking the fighting will of the humans. The cost to robotics was high but proved to be sustainable in the end. Skynet can finally relax. To what end? With the war over, what’s next on Skynet’s agenda?
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What if Cameron and a group of like-minded terminators didn’t want the extermination of humans, and were willing to stop the fighting? If Cameron was able to convince future-John of this, and if together the Humans and the non-Skynet Terminators managed to defeat Skynet and its minions…then what?
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The Connors manage to prevent the creation of Skynet. Policies are put in place to prevent any A.I. from having complete control of military resources. All personnel and terminators sent to the past from different timeline(s) are killed in their own fashion…all except one: Cameron Phillips. If victory is gained and Cameron survives, what becomes of her?
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In forums and in fan fiction you find a significant amount of words devoted to the subject of Terminator’s John and Cameron and their unique relationship. It is one of those fun polarizing issues that sparks a lot of fan interest. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it… including me.
Read more...The last we saw of Riley Dawson, at the mid-season finale, she was lying on the bathroom floor after having slashed her wrists. Was this the end? Probably not. If not, then where does she go from here?
Read more...One of the themes of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been that of going rogue. There seems to be a desire to break with the status quo and forge ahead on personal paths. I’d like to look at some of what has gone on, speculate about what we do not yet know, and try to look ahead at what may develop.
Read more...Continuing from Part 1, we look at how we might develop the important threads that will keep the season 2 storytelling of TTSCC tight.
Read more...On the surface it seems sort of silly to devote so many words to whether or not a fictional robot can feel emotion. Thing is, this fiction close enough to coming reality that we have to ask the questions about AI thought, and what we will do about it.
Read more...TTSCC finds itself in a place that a lot of scifi shows end up in their second season: producers not delivering on fan expectations. Fans have a funny way of developing their own ideas about a series. I’d like to use these opinions as a sort of jumping off point for discussion.
Read more...We finally have a full season order’s worth of episodes in the can for Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I can think of no better time to make up my list of the best episodes so far. Plus – vote for your favorites.
Read more...Analysis and opinions of the season 2 episode “Self Made Man” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Read more...Analysis and opinions of the season 2 episode “Brothers of Nablus” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Read more...Analysis and opinions of the season 2 episode “Automate for the People” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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