Summer Glau's new show: Sarah Connor Chronicles

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BADKARMA00

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:51 AM

I realize this is a novel approach, but it is a new series so:

Have any of you thought about just trying to enjoy the show?

Seriously?

Bad_karma

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:11 PM

Watched the 3rd epsiode last nite....not really sure what the hell I'm seeing or what is going on. I like Summer...that's all I really need for now....but the show needs help...and fast...
Opening intro is lame: Lena's voice-over is feeble and weak.
Dialogue is mundane and a tad boring.
Plot....yikes, where do I start? Seems like all the elements of everything that preceded it are right there for them to interact with; Dyson's widow, programmer guy, etc. This show needs to go somewhere...fast. It needs to get us to care about something, or someone. Right now I don't...again, except for Summer ( I love her look in this) I'm hangin' on out of respect for the Terminator sub-genre.

HIXIE129

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:16 PM

I lover River, but I think this show stinks, its written badly, the visual effects aren't great and I am tired of the whole terminator thing, its old... I think that this show can't last for another season.

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:35 PM

I think this show needs some new elements. If the show could occasionally jump ahead to the future and we could see SkyNet, that might be interesting. Might also be interesting if we could see how changes in the past(our present) affect changes in the future. What does SkyNet look like? How are it's commands carried out? Show us the time travel apparatus, or at least explain how it wasn't destroyed by the resistance as Kyle Reece originally described.

SMAUG

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:36 PM

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About the only thing I can think is that possibly the blonde girl John talked to a couple of times is a bad Terminator, and was trying to draw him and Summer--err

Very doubtful.. if she was a "bad" terminator.. ALL she would do was aquire her target and KILL with no regards to anyone or anything else unless it was in the way. Terminators don't play "games". They only have one purpose.

After last nights episode.. I think they really need to find a direction.. FAST. The show seems to be all over the place with no real "feel" to it yet. It doesn't have a rudder yet.

I am beginning to see that Summer's ability to smile, flirt, engage in a real human like way... was simply a device in the first episode to temporarily decieve the "casual" audience who didn't already know that Summer was playing a terminator.. and doesn't seem to have any real plot reason behind it.

If she was able to act so "human" like in the first episode.. even if it was to get close to John... she sure couldn't pull it off last night when she was at school with the other kids. Actually she didn't act "human" at all.. even when just talking to John. As a matter of fact John had to keep telling her to not act like a "freak".

Also last night... the whole terminator "getting" a new skin. Ok.. I thought the "science" behind it was fine... what I didn't buy though was this Scientists willingness to just blindly go along with this masked stranger who broke in and assaulted him. ESPECIALLY after seeing the terminator endoskeleton. Ok.. I can see him facinated of course by both the skin "forumula" and a fully autonomous android.. but I would have to believe survival instincts would intially at least make you causious and asking a million questions first before just jumping in and "helping".

I just thought him helping so fast and not being freaked out at all was a little weak. I think it would have been better for the terminator to simply remain covered in clothing and never getting "skin" back.

The best part of the episode was the brief moral delima they showed of weither or not to kill someone who they don't have absolute proof weither or not that person has anything to do with the building of Skynet2. Weither he is "innocent" or not.. he will most likely be dead in 4 years anyway if you don't stop it... so do you just kill him just in case... or do you try to find out for sure?

Ok... maybe that is the SECOND best part of that episode.. with the first one being the 2 seconds of Summer walking by in her underwear.

Saying this now.. I realize this is probably going to be the "direction" of the show. They have several photos of people who SOMEHOW may or may not be connected to Skynet2.. so that's probably going to be an ongoing thread to one by one investigate each of them.. with the moral delima of weither or not to kill them based upon what limited knowledge they can find out. Second ongoing story will be weaving in the mundane aspect of everday life (jobs, school, etc.). Third aspect will be staying on the run after they find out the terminator who was chasing them in 1999 is still alive.

But who knows... like the show just seems to be a little all over the place right now.. but I will still continue to watch to see if they get there legs...

Smaug...

MUGGI

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:33 PM

I thought it was the best episode yet, but that's still not going to make the show good..

The "grow skin instantly through bloodbath" thing was LAME. They should have just left him skinless..but I'm assuming budgetary reasons dictated him being human again.

I'm also waiting for an explanation as to why Summer can be flirty and cool the first episode, and completely high-school socially inept now..

ASARIAN

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:06 PM

Zeek, I agree with everything you said. The show just ain't doing it for me yet, either.

Lets face it, Summer is cute as punch. But if it weren't for her, I wonder how many peeps would love it equally as they do now. Also, "Come with me if you want to live." Yeah, it was funny. But it weren't meant to be funny. It was comical, almost; but in a bad way.

And I'm a sucker for canon. Call me spoiled after Firefly, but it's hard going back to watching shows riddled with holes. And severe internal conflicts or highly sloppy plotlines, like leaving a whole cache of future stuff in a vault. I'm sorry, but my mind needs a modicum of internal consistency. And plausibility. Terminators walking around with no head, then walking into a house and grabbing it off the mantlepiece, I'm not sure what target group they had in mind that will go: "Ooo, good SF!" But I'm fair certain I'm not not in that category. You think that's a commentary on me? Why, I hope it is!

I really don't wanna stomp on this show. In fact, I *wanted* it to be really good; unfortunately, it ain't.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

GROOSALUGG

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:08 PM

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Originally posted by Smaug:
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About the only thing I can think is that possibly the blonde girl John talked to a couple of times is a bad Terminator, and was trying to draw him and Summer--err

Very doubtful.. if she was a "bad" terminator.. ALL she would do was aquire her target and KILL with no regards to anyone or anything else unless it was in the way. Terminators don't play "games". They only have one purpose.

Unless she didn't know what he looked like and was hoping to get him to reveal himself. Yeah, probably unlikely, but it was the only thing that occurred to me at the time (or since, in fact).

There's just gotta be something more important to those paintings than simply a fellow student taunting that girl after finding out she had an affair with a teacher or something. Why include it in the show at all if that's all it was? And there's something odd about that blonde girl. She's too stiff, and too serious. I say she's either a Terminator, or a resistance fighter... or just a regular ol' manic-depressive teenager.

SMAUG

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:53 PM

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There's just gotta be something more important to those paintings than simply a fellow student taunting that girl after finding out she had an affair with a teacher or something. Why include it in the show at all if that's all it was? And there's something odd about that blonde girl. She's too stiff, and too serious. I say she's either a Terminator, or a resistance fighter... or just a regular ol' manic-depressive teenager.

Well.. I'm starting to think the whole "John going to school at ALL" is really wierd. I mean.. why? What is high school going to teach John about guerilla warfare, surviving after an appocolpse, and leading resistance fighters? Plus just being in public like that is just more visiblity where they could get caught? Isn't John still on the wanted list for blowing up Cyberdyne? Let alone staying low in case there are more terminators.

There just seems to be lacking a sence of urgency in this show. I don't think they have to tone it down just because it's in a longer format. I mean... 24 is a full throttle every episode. I would think that Sarah would have John learning (with Summer's help), how to build bombs out of everyday chemicals, how to lay low, how to pick locks, how to survive with no food, etc. etc. Basically a combination of survival and guerilla warfare. Not english lit class.. or high school chemistry.. etc.

Yea... and the whole lead up to some girl commiting suicide at school just to have a 2 second conversation about being a hero? That was just plain wierd.

I don't know how much the writer's strike is effecting the show. I read that it was being made without a show runner. So I don't know how much that is effecting the final product.

I mean.. I want to like the show.. I really do.. but they better find their groove.. FAST. All the loopholes, inconsistancies, disregard of canon (even there own), lame elements, etc. is going to kill it quick. I don't know how many episodes they have in the can.. but even if ratings are "ok".. I am not getting a vibe of a show that's strong enough to last.

Because it's fox... maybe that means it will be on for years...

Smaug...

WINDSTRUCK

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:04 AM

I am not sure if anyone has ever read my post about the Cameron smiling, flirting Cameron from the first episode and the current robotic Cameron, and that they are not the same Cameron. No one seems to want to indulge me in this. Hehehehe...

Although, the Summer line, "I fooled you", seemed to contradict my theory on the 2 Camerons. But it would be really a good direction to have 2 Camerons. Or the writers sure fooled us with directionless plots.

The skinless terminator, should just remain skinless. I don't get the idea of presenting formula to the FEARLESS scientist just to get his skin back. Although, this would lead to Cameron might lose her skin one of these days and they'll use same tech to restore her a possibility. But it still, it was awful writing.

My fave scene was the metal detector. Bad delivery but enjoyable to watch. Conversation is awfully weak all throughout the episode.

The jumper - another direction. The writers are trying to say something but we're having problems listening. Or they're totally talking in gibberish.

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