Terminator: SCC episode 2

POSTED BY: farfly
UPDATED: Monday, September 22, 2008 16:28
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FARFLY

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:39 PM

Well, Cameron is definitely different but not any less beautiful.

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Although this episode was a little light on action, the storyline was moved along pretty well. A little cloudy as to why the resistance guy came back to warn about Greenway, surely the future guys must have known that he (Greenway)would be taken out by a terminator and the power plant would stay online.

KELKHIL

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:50 PM

Crap! I keep forgetting that it is back on!

That is 2 episodes shown and 2 missed by me

Some men just wanna watch the world burn

Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken

FARFLY

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:09 PM

I don't have tv so I just watch Terminator, Bones and Lost the next night at fox.com or abc.com. Terminator is at http://fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=tscc
and the first two episode are available for streaming.

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:08 PM

I liked the second episode last night. Summer Glau is really getting some amazing amount of screen time, and she is rapidly becoming "the" iconic terminator of all time. She's never looked better in her life either.

The show is showing some real promise and surprises this year. There's a lot going on, and new characters every week add to the intrigue. Funny how Summer's work is not being discussed as much here at FFF as one might expect.

LWAVES

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:00 PM

This show is one of my favourites. I'm also loving the soundtrack. Plenty of Terminator type moments and ominous sounds when the cyborgs are doing their thing, but some great softer moments as well. Bear McCreary does an outstanding job.

Cameron has definitely changed. She had an air of mystery during the first season about what her mission really was and now you really don't know where you stand with her. They are right not to trust her completely. Whether this is her own doing, the explosion or something else is just something we'll have to wait for.
One thing I really love about her character is that she does think, as she said in the episode. She isn't just a learning computer like the T-800's who can copy and adapt what they learn to a situation. Cameron seems able to figure stuff out on her own, and act on it, even if it means changing her programming.

Summer looks amazing in the show, even when she's all beat up. And that outfit at the pool table.
Giggidy, giggidy, gig-gi-dy!

Jongstraw:
Well if others don't want to write about it then that leaves more room for us to do just that.

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

WHOZIT

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:05 PM

I wonder what Cameron was thinking about when she was mopping? How to kill Johns new girlfriend and make it look like an accident?

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:16 PM

Possibly she was trying to find a way out of the "Xanatos Roulette" dilemma.

-If the facility melts down, it can't be used by the resistance (and would likely kill or poison everything in the area, including John).
-If the facility closes down, it can't be used by the resistance.

As we saw, there was a third option:
-The facility is saved, but gets automated, playing right into Skynet's intangible hands.

It's worth noting that this technically preserves the timeline: the facility had to be liberated from Skynet before the resistance could make use of it.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

RIVERLOVE

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:49 PM

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Originally posted by whozit:
I wonder what Cameron was thinking about when she was mopping? How to kill Johns new girlfriend and make it look like an accident?

I too was wondering if she could possibly be feeling jealousy towards John. Summer is ultra hot in this show. Who is dressing this gal? Give her an Emmy. I'll bet Summer never in her wildest dreams ever grew up thinking she'd be a big star playing a terminator. But she's so damn good at it!

ECGORDON

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:03 AM

I continue to watch the show mainly for Summer. I do like it for the most part, but sometimes they make it hard for me to implement my suspension of disbelief. I have no problem accepting time travel or a computer program sophisticated enough to be self-aware, or robots that can mimic human behavior. However, I am not gullible enough to believe that Sarah and Cameron could not only get into a nuclear power plant simply by showing a state issued ID but also get a job there the same day. That wouldn't have been possible even in pre-9/11 America.

DEWRASTLER

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:04 AM

Summer is great in this show for sure. Besides looking great in the bar scene, I thought it was hilarious how she beat those guys at pool. They never had a chance.

I thought the whole phone thing with the date was cool. An interesting little code they developed.

As a whole, the episode seemed to be there more as a stepping stone to set up new ideas for the future

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John's new "friend", Sarah and the cancer, Zack Ward's character from the future and the writing in the wall in blood, the new automated Nuclear Power plant

We'll see where all this goes.

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