The Terminator Post
It's once again been quite some time since I've posted. This has been the longest gap between postings in the nearly six year history of this blog. Today I am going to be posting about a show that I have been very into for the last year. That show is Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. There has been two seasons of this show now, but the first was somewhat short due to the writers strike last year. Sadly, it was announced that the show will not be returning for a third season.
The first season of the show was good and set up a lot of the story for how the show would proceed. Things like the Turk, which is the computer system that eventually becomes the brain of John Henry. It also setup the creation of the character of Derek Reese among other things. I felt it was a good continuation of the events of Terminator 2. This season didn't introduce anything to mind-blowing, but offered some good solid story lines.
The second season was a bit interesting. At first, they got away from doing a long story arc and instead had a lot of self-contained episodes. This worked alright for the most part, but also made it hard to progress the story line along. Around mid-season, things went back to a story arc, but I think this is where things went bad for the show. They got really obsessed with this "three dots" dream that Sarah had and also just her dreams in general. This caused problems because there were a few episodes that were uninteresting, and also made no sense whatsoever if you had no watched the prior episodes. I also think the inclusion of Riley (John's girlfriend) on the show was somewhat detrimental cause she never really seemed to add much to the story.
Near the end of the second season however, things got really good again. There was a two-part episode that was really intense, and the last two episodes had a lot of action. The final episode was pretty interesting and explained a lot of what was going on in season two. One thing I'm glad they explained was what exactly Catherine Weaver (the T-1001) was doing. It actually turned out my predications were correct when she explained that she was creating a Skynet-like system to help fight Skynet. While this was really exciting for someone who is really into the whole Terminator mythology, I can see where the show could be getting really deep and hard for new viewers to get into. They were also making mentions of the fact that the timeline kept changing and how Jesse and Derek were from two different futures which was also going to complicate things for the casual viewer. The last ten minutes of the last episode got really crazy though and had a pretty unexpected ending. Cameron ended up placing her CPU into John Henry and traveled to the future. Then Weaver and John went to the future to try and retrieve her. None of this really made and sense as to why Cameron would have done that, or what they expected to accomplish by going after her. They also once again made time travel seem way too easy to do.
After that ending, I'm not entirely sure how another season would have even continued. There would have had to been a really interesting story to explain all that and get the show back on a somewhat normal track. However, it looks like that won't be happening anyway now.
On another Terminator note, the movie Terminator Salvation is coming out on Thursday. I am so excited about this. I bought tickets about a week ago to see the midnight showing of it with Rachael.
The first season of the show was good and set up a lot of the story for how the show would proceed. Things like the Turk, which is the computer system that eventually becomes the brain of John Henry. It also setup the creation of the character of Derek Reese among other things. I felt it was a good continuation of the events of Terminator 2. This season didn't introduce anything to mind-blowing, but offered some good solid story lines.
The second season was a bit interesting. At first, they got away from doing a long story arc and instead had a lot of self-contained episodes. This worked alright for the most part, but also made it hard to progress the story line along. Around mid-season, things went back to a story arc, but I think this is where things went bad for the show. They got really obsessed with this "three dots" dream that Sarah had and also just her dreams in general. This caused problems because there were a few episodes that were uninteresting, and also made no sense whatsoever if you had no watched the prior episodes. I also think the inclusion of Riley (John's girlfriend) on the show was somewhat detrimental cause she never really seemed to add much to the story.
Near the end of the second season however, things got really good again. There was a two-part episode that was really intense, and the last two episodes had a lot of action. The final episode was pretty interesting and explained a lot of what was going on in season two. One thing I'm glad they explained was what exactly Catherine Weaver (the T-1001) was doing. It actually turned out my predications were correct when she explained that she was creating a Skynet-like system to help fight Skynet. While this was really exciting for someone who is really into the whole Terminator mythology, I can see where the show could be getting really deep and hard for new viewers to get into. They were also making mentions of the fact that the timeline kept changing and how Jesse and Derek were from two different futures which was also going to complicate things for the casual viewer. The last ten minutes of the last episode got really crazy though and had a pretty unexpected ending. Cameron ended up placing her CPU into John Henry and traveled to the future. Then Weaver and John went to the future to try and retrieve her. None of this really made and sense as to why Cameron would have done that, or what they expected to accomplish by going after her. They also once again made time travel seem way too easy to do.
After that ending, I'm not entirely sure how another season would have even continued. There would have had to been a really interesting story to explain all that and get the show back on a somewhat normal track. However, it looks like that won't be happening anyway now.
On another Terminator note, the movie Terminator Salvation is coming out on Thursday. I am so excited about this. I bought tickets about a week ago to see the midnight showing of it with Rachael.