Terminator: SCC episode 2
POSTED BY: farfly
UPDATED: Monday, September 22, 2008 16:28
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I feel sorry for Cameron. I think she is having these feelings that she doesn't understand. Sort of hitting the peak of puberty and having your heart broken all in the same second. I think the fact that John saved her is really bothering her, she now knows that she is his biggest weakness and biggest threat.
eta: bit slow on the uptake, just realized that was the woman from Garbage
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
FORSAKEN original
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi
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I really want to like TTSCC, but alas i'm not quite there. Its really just so... meh. Surely I can't be alone?
And has anyone else noticed Summers bottom looks a bit bigger these days? I'm not really trying to be crass, its just an observation.
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Another jarring episode. They really just want the viewer to turn their brain off and say "explosion gooooood *drool*"
The whole plot of the episode was shoddy. How'd that guy in the future work? Did he come back from a future where the power plant was destroyed to tell them that it'd be really nice if they could have a major strategic power plant like in the future Reese is from? Or was he from the same future where they have the power plant yet he knew about some guy in the past who wouldn't even be a footnote in a news article? That whole plot point was dumb.
And (*@&#$ stop with all the time travel. We get 3 movies where the machines send back 1 terminator and the resistance sends back 1 person/terminator to stop them. That makes it seem like time travel is not just like turning on a faucet. TSCC makes it seem like time travel is the most common commodity in the future. We've got so many terminators and resistance fighters flying around that they might as well just move the whole war to 2007.
Was there any explanation for how the terminator got his face to look exactly like the power plant employee. Neat trick if they managed all that in the future.
I'm starting to figure out why Sarah's character grates on me. She's trying to act tough the whole time. She's not being tough she's just acting tough. Compare her to Zoe. Zoe just is tough. Zoe doesn't need to glare at people all the time or use lines like "the other part of the equation is maybe they shouldn't". That type of stuff just makes her sound like she's trying to hard. "Maybe they shouldn't" and just walking away would have been much cooler.
Bah when does Chuck start up again? I think I'm done with this show.
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Some of us just like Sci-Fi for what it is, fiction. If you want Sci-Reality, try Nova.
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Originally posted by farfly:
Some of us just like Sci-Fi for what it is, fiction. If you want Sci-Reality, try Nova.
So, quality has no bearing? As long as it's scifi, it doesn't matter if it's Firefly, or The Phantom Menace?
How about sci-good writing?
I really enjoyed the first season, but the writing so far this year has been fairly contrived. Having characters do things that are either out of character, flat-out dumb, or nonsensical in the reality of that fictional world (even scifi needs to adhere to it's own internal logic to be successfull), just to get to the next plot point - that's lazy writing.
The ratings are reflecting the drop as well.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I can't help but to feel that some Browncoats do not want the BDH's to succeed in anything. They want to remember "their" Summer as River, and River only. They've all moved on to bigger ( not better ) things. If you love them, you got to let them go. You don't have to support them, but then again you don't need to bash their shows either. I've talked to lots of folks at work and outside that NEVER saw Summer Glau in Firefly or Serenity...and they don't care. Now they love Summer Glau for the show she is on now. I would gather that applies to Nathan, Christina, and the others too. Try to muster up some support for her, but if you can't because you don't like the show, why complain about it here.
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I like it. Which is why I feel justified critisizing a drop in quality.
It has zero to do with Firefly. I am discussing this show on it's own merits, and looking at it's own failings.
Why so quick to silence any opinions other than "it rocks!"?
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I have no problem with Summer's acting. She's doing fine with the material she's given. It's just that the material isn't very good IMO. Blind support of bad shows is not part of any browncoat mission I've ever heard of. Plus this is a message board. If we aren't going to discuss our opinions then what's the point?
I don't think anyone wants the BDH's to fail but I also don't think anyone wants to watch them suffer through poor script after poor script.
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Zeek, Story.....Good points. I didn't mean to stifle negative opinions, it's just that I want this show to do well because I look forward to seeing Summer every Monday night. Maybe I'm a little selfish.
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I want it to do well, too. I really like the ideas, characters, and actors involved.
I just want it to do well, better.
It's still early in the season, lots of time to turn things around (asusuming FOX doesn't... FOX it). It was just frustrating that after having a fair ammount of prep time for this season (with the strike and all), that they'd start off a bit sloppily.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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