The Sarah Connor Chronicles- should it be Terminated?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:36
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
It's somewhere below those, in my viewing heirarchy.
Yeah. I am glad they didn't cancel it. But if given a choice between canceling T:SCC or say, New Amsterdam, I would have chosen to cancel T:SCC. They've cancelled better shows--as everyone here can attest to, much much better shows.
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Chris -
There are many good in-the-moment moments, and Summer is stunning, of course. But the overall story is full of holes, and, imho, rather poor. Doesn't get much better, though I do have hope for future episodes. Cause hope is good.
Those in-the-moment moments are entertaining enough that I'll continue to tune in, and you should too. But you'll be happier if you can turn your brain off and not expect things to make sense. You know. Plot things. Characterization things. Those... can come or go.
Grain of salt: I'm a fan of logic, more so than most folks, and tend to be rather critical of my TV entertainment. 
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A linear progression of logical events is impossible when rival factions keep futzing around with time.
they can entirely 'delete the loop' that encompasses T3 (and basically did, when they jumped Sarah past her own death.)
For that matter, they can still kill Sarah when she's six years old, or whatever.
Or re-fight each and every battle til it comes out JUST the way the winning faction wants it...
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Show is underwhelming. It does get a little better, but it's still pretty bad overall. I watch it because it has Summer and there really isn't much else to watch anyway. I wouldn't shed a tear if it disappeared and never came back.
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Quote:Me too...I'll give it more looks, but I ain't buyin' the DVD.
Originally posted by mal4prez:
Grain of salt: I'm a fan of logic, more so than most folks, and tend to be rather critical of my TV entertainment.
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I have been unable to watch this series like most and when I do it will be because I either catch it on the Sci Fi channel when it becomes syndicated, or because I buy the DVDs later on like I did with Firefly. My schedule does not allow me to watch much prime time television and I am about to buy the first season of Heroes to see if I like it, like I did with Firefly.
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Quote:I like (a LOT) & own Heroes 1st season...2nd (not quite as good) season comes out end of month, but the third season looks to be GREAT.
Originally posted by rallem:
I am about to buy the first season of Heroes to see if I like it, like I did with Firefly.
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Grain of salt: I'm a fan of logic, more so than most folks, and tend to be rather critical of my TV entertainment.
Yeah, I wasn't the hugest fan of the Terminator series of movies, but wasn't one of the big caveats the idea that they had to send the terminator back wrapped in flesh because they couldn't just send a machine back in time? That idea gets blown all to hell in the very first episode of "Sarah Connorcles" when the terminator's bare metal head gets transported right behind them!
In a series that took some heavy liberties with physics and logic, the show seems far too willing to just throw such logic out the window - where it will, of course, fall upward and land on the ceiling!
I still watch it, but it's hard sometimes not to just should out "Aww, HORSECRAP!" Of course, if I did that, folks might think I suffer from Touret's. :)
Mike
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Quote:For me, it's not even the physics and such. I'm ready to accept that time travel stories can't be scientifically air tight. Because, you know, it's time travel. It's not scientifically possible, at least not in a way that's convenient in storytelling. My problem with T:SCC is more like... well, here's a conservation I imagine having with a show writer:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
In a series that took some heavy liberties with physics and logic, the show seems far too willing to just throw such logic out the window - where it will, of course, fall upward and land on the ceiling!
Writer: Wouldn't it be cool if *this* character showed up *here* and *these* events happened? Yeah, that's a cool scene! Ain't it great? Don't you love it?
Me: O. K. So, why would this character come here, now, and do that? Don't they know better? Couldn't they just...
Writer: Um... But it's COOL! See? Summer did something COOL! And she's hot! And John Connor is hot! And Sarah Connor is hot!
Me: *Never mind.*
(And just watch me not buy the DVDs LOL!)
Which I guess is all my way of saying that it's contrived. And sorry I don't recall any examples, the plot hasn't stayed in my head. (Why would it?) I just don't feel like there's someone loving this story enough to put a solid framework behind it, take the time to really think it through and fill out the details. Not like Firefly where they invented a whole damned card game so one little bitty scene would feel more real.
BTW: I hadn't ever thought that the "wrapping in flesh" was to get the time travel to work. (Sounds kind of fanwankish... or maybe a rule put into canon during the TV show?) I thought the human looking Terminators were made because they were more effective, since they could blend. And didn't what's his butt (John's dad) say that *nothing* mechanical could go through? No caveats given? I always took that to be just a lame little slip, let in the script because the viewer couldn't see the mechanical stuff inside Ahnold (not till the end when all the exposition is a done deed) so the inconsistency just wouldn't occur to us. Which, honestly, it didn't for my first several viewings LOL!
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Well they can futz with time. Its about time travel. They can pretty much do anything they want. The only thing I really don't like is the person playing Sarah. i just don't think she is right for the part.
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