When i start watching a show on Netflix instant, the only thing i really look at is the rating and the description. I don't look to see how long it runs or how many episodes it has...i just watch it.I was extremely frustrated when Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ended on a cliff hanger. Eager for more, I went and looked up when the next season would be out. Except i couldn't find it anywhere. I started Google-ing and lo and behold FOX has struck down yet another awesome sci-fi series.
Between Firefly, Dark Angel and now T:SCC......I have solidified an extreme hatred of FOX.
That and at this point, i think that any sci-fi writer or producer should avoid FOX like the fricken plague.
It's too bad; i was really enjoying the show. Once i got over the "Summer Glau, while an awesome actress, can't weigh more than 100 pounds!" and there she was, taking on guys that were three times her size and kicking ass. I forced myself to just go with it and began to get into the story arcs. I wondered what her place was in the future with John Connor, if Sarah would survive, if they could stop Judgement day or if it was inevitable...and they could only delay it. It was an intriguing plot.
But there's no more of it. Damn.
I did like the made up story ending that one of the threads featured and i'll just make do with this so i can have some closure:
John connects with Alison and his Uncle BAG in the future. They find Danny Dyson, being held captive by Skynet to help Skynet build and maintain their computers and equipment. Dyson gives our team the answers they need to destroy Skynet in the past.
With the help of Dyson, John, Alison, BAG and Cameron/John Henry access the Skynet time machine, but at the cost of Dyson's life (mirrors his dad's demise).Once back in 2007, they reconnect with Sarah, 'Catherine Weaver', and Agent Ellis. Together, they destroy whatever the McGuffin that is Skynet is, but both BAG and Cameron/John Henry die in the process.
John has a touching moment with Cameron/John Henry before it's destroyed. Judgment Day (and the god-awful Terminator 4 movie) are averted. 'Catherine Weaver' turns to liquid metal, and slinks away to the bottom of the ocean, to await a time in the future when humans are ready to use technology like her without destrying ourselves.
Ellis provides new identities for John, Alison and Sarah to live out peaceful lives.
In a voice over epilogue, John remarks about how he and Allison are married with a son, and how his mother died of cancer several years after 2007, but that she lived long enough to see a future without Judgment Day come to pass.
Anyway, i couldn't fall asleep last night and the subject of time travel began to bother me. I began to wonder which direction i would choose to go; forward or backward.
If you had a time machine, would you first jump forward or backward?
Personally, I think i would rather go forward. Mostly so that i didn't inadvertently cut myself out of existence. And naturally that brought on the theories about alternate realities, and if i wrote myself out of existence, would i be there in the first place to go back.....
Perhaps you can see why i only got about three hours of sleep last night and eventually did dream about Doc from Back to the Future....cause if he says it, it must be real, right?!
Now i'm running solely on coffee.
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ReplyDeleteI loved Sarah Connor Chronicles! I was particularly intrigued by Catherine Weaver and her John Henry project. For a while I thought it was going one way, and was so mad at Ellis for helping out, then we figured out what she was doing and it was so cool.
FOX has canceled a lot of shows too early, but other networks have made their bad choices, too, like ABC canceling Pushing Daisies :( Recently, FOX renewed Fringe for a fourth season, so I can't be too mad at them at the moment.
I also was intrigued by Catherine Weaver. Partially because no one figured out she was a machine though there were a lot of things that were just plain eerie about her. I thought Agent Ellis would have figured it out once he knew that she knew about the machines.
ReplyDeleteI don't have cable, so i have to rely on what's available on netflix instant. Maybe i'll check out some of the early episodes of Fringe as my next Series du jour. Thanks for the recommendation.