Question: does Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles have a final ep with any closure at all?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 02:54
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Quote:Oh I get that. And for many or most that IS a great ending.
Originally posted by ecgordon:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Uh, not really.
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Did you like the open-ended finale of Angel?
Seriously? One of the best finales in TV history? Perfect ending for Angel, because no matter what he did he would never be able to fully atone for what he had done. His fight would never be finished.
But I'm CLOSURE MAN! Unable to leap tall tales without dangling threads bound!
In my mind, Buffy, The Prisoner & TNG had the best final eps ever.
Dark Angel's at least pointed toward hope, so I could deal.
Angel's left me wanting more, and not in the good way.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Angel's left me wanting more, and not in the good way.
The laughing Chrisisall
I think Angel had a fantastic ending that fitted the show. But I also agree with you in wanting more. To me, and I'm sure many others, it ended two seasons too early. There were still stories to tell. TSCC has a similar feeling although they end differently.
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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Quote:Don't worry about unresolved cliffhangers or money. I watched both seasons of Terminator and I know where season seven ends. There will be a Terminator master computer self-destruct sequence. To win the War, John Connor must decide to either sacrifice Cameron, the female sex-robot who loves him completely, or the real woman who likes him a tiny bit, Allison Young, the virgin that Cameron is a clone of. John must choose which one dies. One of those characters played by Summer Glau will get a nifty death scene in the final episode.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I need to know if I should sell stuff to buy TSCC to sate my Terminator thirst-
BUT, if the last ep of season 2 is too cliff-hangar-y, I can't handle it.
And Sarah Connor also must die if this crazy plan is to succeed! (Afterward, above the radioactive ruins of LA, there will be a beautiful rainbow to symbolize rebirth.) I feel it will be Cameron kissing John as they admire that rainbow together in the final scene.
Now that you know the omega ending to the series, enjoy the first two seasons of TTSCC.
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The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by two:Quote:Don't worry about unresolved cliffhangers or money. I watched both seasons of Terminator and I know where season seven ends. There will be a Terminator master computer self-destruct sequence. To win the War, John Connor must decide to either sacrifice Cameron, the female sex-robot who loves him completely, or the real woman who likes him a tiny bit, Allison Young, the virgin that Cameron is a clone of. John must choose which one dies. One of those characters played by Summer Glau will get a nifty death scene in the final episode.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I need to know if I should sell stuff to buy TSCC to sate my Terminator thirst-
BUT, if the last ep of season 2 is too cliff-hangar-y, I can't handle it.
And Sarah Connor also must die if this crazy plan is to succeed! (Afterward, above the radioactive ruins of LA, there will be a beautiful rainbow to symbolize rebirth.) I feel it will be Cameron kissing John as they admire that rainbow together in the final scene.
Now that you know the omega ending to the series, enjoy the first two seasons of TTSCC.
Errr....where did you get that 'ending'?
Doesn't make a lot of sense especially about John choosing who to sacrifice. Kinda spoilery as well in a minor way if you haven't seen the show.
So either you just made it up, it's a jokey post or you've lost the plot. I vote for the last one.
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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Quote:It is not either/or. It is a joke. And I made it up. And the plot was found (not lost) at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TemporalMutability
Originally posted by lwaves:
So either you just made it up, it's a jokey post or you've lost the plot.
Oh, I have no proof, but Summer Glau is not virgin.
Does that spoil TTSCC for people?Select to view spoiler:
"When you're dealing with Time Travel, it's important to establish whose rules are in play: Is this Twelve Monkeys rules where you can't change shit, or Back To The Future rules where you can change shit but the timeline is kind of easygoing about it, or Terminator rules where you can change shit, but maybe you can't change shit and then you make a god-awful TV series and Christian Bale yells at someone?"
—'Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, on time travel rules
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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You will want to purchase the DVD if for nothing else...the final episode with Summer laying on the bed asking John to do something for her. That was over a year ago, and I still think about it!
Lena Heady (Sarah Connor) just never connected in the role for me. I found her acting style very stilted. The rest of the cast was good, and the show was really starting to look like something great....then it just ended.
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I really don't see any reason to watch this series. It's really pretty bad. There are maybe 4 cool episodes in the entire run. For the most part it's just terrible acting and terrible plot. The production quality is pretty laughable too. They had this whole episode with chess being a large focus and they apparently couldn't find a single person who has ever played chess to consult. They created a chess program with the pieces on the wrong color squares. They had a voice over by sarah saying chess is a game of total annihilation (or something along those lines) which is just completely wrong. That's pretty much the standard for the series. It just shoots from the hip and doesn't take the time to do things right.
The ending was a cliffhanger but I agree you can pretty much make up the rest of the show without seeing it. Which also shows how bad the show is. There are no plot twists or anything shocking in there. It's just "let's fight the machines but you know not really fight them because then we'd get to the end of the series...so let's stall...enjoy".
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Quote:While working I was thinking about the dumbest plot point in TTSCC. It would be in episode 2, season 1, when the roadside trash picker finds a Terminator skull, where it has been sitting for years. The body has been in a automobile junkyard. And when the two are reunited, all hell breaks loose!
Originally posted by Zeek:
The ending was a cliffhanger but I agree you can pretty much make up the rest of the show without seeing it. Which also shows how bad the show is. There are no plot twists or anything shocking in there.
That does not match the mythology of how bare metal objects, like a metal skull, can not be sent through a time bubble, which is used in episode 1 as an excuse to strip Summer Glau naked in the middle of a freeway. And why would the police dump a Terminator torso found at a crime scene? Where are the smarter FBI?
The easy fix for this stupid plot mistake is to send, at the same time, more than one identical Terminator to hunt for the Connors. The writers would not have needed to re-shoot the pilot episode. But if they had (and they did when they replaced the actor playing Charlie) the pilot episode could have Cameron killing two and Sarah killing one more rather than running from the same Terminator, again and again and again.
I would prefer to see Summer Glau holding a Terminator's computer chip and sadistically saying, “Cromartie is completely helpless. Without a mouth, it can't even scream when I do this.” John and Sarah are horrified as Summer Glau zaps the chip again and again. That's more sanitary torture than on 24 and with an actress as good as Summer, it would be as shocking. She can display some very unhealthy emotions -- joy at another's pain.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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The cromartie thing was just a terrible plot device. They were taking out terminators one or more per week and yet for some reason they were super scared of cromartie.
The terminator of the week plots felt so pathetic on their own but then to have one terminator who's somehow more scary than the others is just silly with no reasoning.
I mean you could look at Buffy and say she killed vamps like they were nothing except when it came to spike, drusilla, and angel. Though I think they pretty well explained that those three were particularly deadly. When it comes to machines in the terminator world there's really no reason why one terminator of the same model should be any more deadly than another. If they had given a reason that might be fine. They chose not to and it was just silly.
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Well, a lot of the Metal they ended up fighting were "builders" --sent by Skynet to ensure its own creation. Sure, when they spotted John, hardwired "kill on sight" programming took over, but that wasn't their original mission.
Cromartie, OTOH was a targeted Connor-killer, and displayed a fair mount of adaptability --and he had identified Cameron, who tended to be their secret weapon against the others. He also knew more about them in particular (including the "John Baum" alias), and was able to preserve the element of surprise (they kept catching glimpses of him after he'd already moved on, but they couldn't get ahead of him [no pun intended]).
And as for Cromartie's head surviving the time portal; I have a theory about that. It was only actually in the portal for a split-second. We don't actually know how long it takes inorganic matter to break down, or at what point in the process (open/create portal, clear target area, transition travellers to target time, close portal) the actual breakdown occurs.
Think of it like a fly slipping through an airtight door; the fly cannot open, move, or close the door, but it can slip through while I open the door to walk through.
It's possible the skull was a little charred or damaged, but not enough to be really noticeable to a non-specialist or impair its function.
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