My quick take on the second season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is that it looks like it hasn’t missed a beat from season one’s storyline. It also adds some interesting new facets to the story that should give our pursued protagonists quite the challenge and new goals to keep them busy.
It is probably going to be on par, and if done right, better than season one, now that the show has it’s feet under it.
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Season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TTSCC) picks up exactly where the season 1 finale ended and continues the momentum of the story. Last season, the closing episode was hard hitting and action packed. This season opener is a bit less action packed, but some definitive tension, new story lines and some interesting character interactions take place. Let me explain, but be warned, DVR SPOILERS lay ahead if you are planning on watching at a later time.
The jeep has exploded, Cameron (Summer Glau) is rebooting. Two men attack the house and put John and Sarah Connor (Thomas Dekker and Lena Headey) down hard, looking for the hard drive that John’s been hiding. They find it but then Cameron gets back in the house and takes one of them out downstairs and by the time she gets upstairs, Sarah and John have dispatched the 2nd man.
Cameron’s programming has been damaged in the explosion and now she’s setting about to terminate John Connor… Here we go again! The Connors escape and go on the run from her and most of the episode is dealing with this persistent, slow, methodical chase that terminators are known for!
Remember the cop massacre at the hotel? Cromartie (Garret Dillahunt) exhibits some non-terminator like behavior and leaves FBI Agent James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) alive after taking everyone else out.
Ellison let’s it be believed that the body of the human who Cromartie took the identity of is the gunman. He wants the pursuit to end here, because he knows what he’s dealing with.
Charley (Dean Winters), Sarah’s ex-fiancé is trying to locate the duo and encounters Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green), John’s uncle and together they try to go find John and Sarah.
Cameron relentlessly pursues the duo through the city, until they pin her between two trucks and pull her brain chip, deactivating her. Cameron tries to dissuade John from deactivating her, pleading that she’s fixed, that she loves him. The plan is to burn her and her chip.
We have a new playa folks! Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson) is the CEO of ZeiraCorp. ZeiraCorp is a cutting edge, high-tech company. She ends up buying Andy Goode’s Turk computer and starts to reorganize ZeiraCorp staff afterwards into a new work team called Babylon. One particular employee, a Mr. Tuck, isn’t very happy about the reorganization. There’s something about her that irks me.
My irksome feelings are validated… but that’s for later.
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Wow, I must be a mindless idiot. Did we watch the same show? I think it is a piece of art and have watched it several times now.
I loved the opening sequence and song. I was touched by the robot love scene. And I was intrigued by the robots religious talk. Robots talking religion is all new to me.
I think Summer Glau has been doing an amazing job playing an emotionally enhanced terminator. Its a fine line to walk on and I think she’s doing great. Obviously after John’s bonding with T2, he worked to make a more personal protector and companion to send back.
Lack of Continuity!? Do you have to go there? Either you accept it or you don’t. The list is endless. The biggest is that John could never have been born. In order for John to be born he has to send his father back in time, which wouldn’t be possible the first time around because he wasn’t born. Technically the first time Reece may have been sent back by someone else, but the odds of him hooking up with Sarah Connor and having sex with her in that hotel at that specific time to fertilizer her egg with just the right sperm is certainly a stretch. And the time machines inability to send mechanical devices and weapons? How do terminators get sent back? Oh they are surrounded by meat. Just wrap a laser gun with a steak and if the tissue has to be living then just shove it up a cows ass. (Yeah ok, I never saw any cows in the post judgment day world, and I don’t recommend shoving foreign objects into livestock, but you get my point.) What am I arguing here!? The whole series is based on time travel. Completely unbelievable. So just move on and enjoy the story or watch something else.
Why did John put the chip back in? Because Cameron is his friend and because he needs her strength and abilities to stay alive. Why did John give Cameron the gun? For starters it probably wasn’t loaded. If it was, then John’s spidey sense told him it was okay and by giving her the gun he could clear Cameron’s image in front of everyone involved. Lastly, like the great Morpheus said, “Everything happened the way it had to happen because we are still alive.”
Anyways, deep down the truth of all this is that I am such a geek that I Love robot porn. It all started at a very young age with the t.v. show small wonder with V.I.C.I.. I had such a crush on her. Next was Chun Li from Street Fighter, technically not a robot but a video game is close enough. After that was the fembots from Austin Powers. Then there was that hot animated chick Aki Ross from Final Fantasy: The ghosts within who made it into maxims hot 100. Next was Chodes sexbot “Six” from Tripping the Rift, what a hot number she was. And lastly we have our dear Cameron professing her forbidden love to John Connor while crushed between two cars. I’m sorry but I think that’s hot. I guess I am a freak. So be it. I can’t wait till judgment day, so I can order my own Cameron from Skynet’s catalogue. How much do you think one runs for?
Look we are all disappointed they couldn’t get Linda Hamilton. Its a shame I agree, but what can you do but look over it. Once again John Connor is a wuss just like the second movie. But let me tell you something. Young Anakin was a wuss, Young Luke Skywalker was a wuss and yes even young Arnold Schwarzenegger was a wuss. Why do you think he worked out so much? He just got his ass kicked a few too many times. So kids are wusses, just a fact of life. Well except for Spartan kids. Green does a great job playing Reese, Cameron does her part and Ellison plays out his character well for what they give him.
I like the show. I’ve been waiting all summer for it come back on and I wasn’t disappointed. But apparently I’m a mindless perverted idiot with no taste. Fortunate for me I’m the target audience for Mindless Crap Entertainment Incorporated of America.
LOL 790, I know you liked T3, don’t let my comments rub you the wrong way, it’s my opinion.
I’ll love for the T-X to show up and for some reason, the T-X’s mission goes against the T-1000’s mission, so they end up fighting and the T-1000 completely owns the T-X since it has no solid parts to get destroyed.
I will save that episode and play it back over and over as proof of how superior the T-1000 is over the T-X, lol.
Well, unless there so happens to be a big pool of molten metal, then the T-X might have a shot.
Were good Ken J,,,
Btw, the T-1000 is no match, for a fully functional TX unit,,,
If you get a chance freeze frame all the on-board weapon selections the TX went thru after the collision with the Semi.
Quite a variety,,,
You can see that its fully capable to Terminate a T-1000.
LOL, what would it “destroy?” I saw the retarded weapons, what, a flame thrower? It wasn’t even very directed, it’s like one of those cheap movie propane props, not a high temperature flame thrower at all. The flame dissipated within 5 feet. Won’t have an effect on the alloy T-1000 is made of. Projectile weapons? LOL, the T-1000 laughs at that. What else was there? Was there one that shot out electricity or something? What will that do?
Here’s some of the on board weapons the TX carried.
Besides the Flame Thrower,,,
EMP Generator.
Hk-54334 (Modified).
KLD-Magnum Repeater. IAD-Chem Tech.
Laser X-Ray-Burst gun.
Nano-Disrupter (222).
P31-Caustic Shells x231.
Tracking E-Blaster.
Twin Barrel Gun.
XFLRG 44mm.
M41A Pulse Rifle.
Finite Rapid Cluster Gun.
HDE Predator (333b).
CGYS Needler.
783-Chain Repeater.
ADMOR BioBlaster.
223 Automatic Stopper.,,,
and a
Bio-Rail 32SR-9 (Modified).
I’m sure one of those weapons would take out a T-1000.
Um, is any of that supposed to mean anything? No, I’m not trying to be smart, I’m seriously wondering, they all sound like a bunch of made up sci-fi stuff to me…
Funny she never used any of those things in the movie beyond that one scene. Weird if the T-X is so capable of destroying the T-W how come it wasn’t even able to take on the T-V.M and two humans? If only she used any of that sci-fi mumbo jumbo huh?
Mumbo jumbo,,, (how dare ya).
I guess you have a small screen,
(No pun intended)
All you have to do is pause the film (T3) 2 times during the HUD scene to read all that mumbo jumbo…
Do the research !!!
Before you claim to be a fan,,, lol
But… I’m NOT a fan of T3… Thought that was clear…
So basically, it IS all made up sci-fi mumbo jumbo. If none of it is used, and none of it is explained, then none of it is of any consequence.
If in T2 all they show is a list of possible things the T-1000 (T-W) can do and never show him doing it, does it really matter?
Heehee,,,
Well the fact that the TX came after the T-1000 would insure it had a way to disable it with one or more of those weapons.
Keep in mind the TX would be able to shift inbetween those weapons at optimal performance.
The article talks about if the robot is developing feelings, aswell as Hank’s post about “robot love.”
I took that scene to just be a trick. One thing I don’t understand is the inconsistency of Cameron’s program. In the pilot and in this premiere we see a T-888 that’s fully capable of realistic impressions of human interactivity; however, in every other episode she’s as clueless as Arny.
Oh, and Hank, did you really just give us a history of your sexual fantasies? Also, you have any proof that Arnold was a ‘wuss’ and got beat up too much, or is that just speculation that all muscle-bound people must have a vendetta?
Rev
I agree with you there reverend. I once saw an article with an interview from Summer her self and she even admitted the first episode was a little tricky with the acting extremely human and then the complete 360 in episode 2.
Hey Rev
By no means is it a complete list. But I certainly have a thing for robot women. Um… the story about Arnold, its been a while, but I recall a documentary years ago where they mentioned Arnold being bullied as a child, but who hasn’t? I mean even Andre the Giant had to take a lot of crap his whole life. Anyways I mostly attribute muscle building to a core of vanity, but thats just me, I’m sure there are lots of reasons.
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