I'm also kind of disappointed that Cameron ran and left Sarah behind, when she could have easily turned the streets into a river of blood. I understand that there are good reasons for the retreat, but it would have been cool is see her engaged in wholesale slaughter. She's a terminator, it's what she's made for.
Unless Sarah is meant to be captured by the police.
Maybe Cameron called the police because Sarah was bring a pain in the rear.
But I'm more concerned with the ratings impact of T:TSCC's less than action-packed nature. A big portion of the Terminator audience is men who like gunfights, chases, and and explosions. While the current series has a great story, the general lack of gunfights, chases, and explosions has to be hurting it in that demographic.
T:TSSC was marketed as a killer robot girl with guns series, with a woman and a boy in there somewhere. Being a robot girl with guns series implies stylistic John-Woo style action, with guns, lots of guns, dual fully automatic pistols, dual miniguns, dual
GAU-8 Avengers, with Robot Girl doing backflips on a motorcycle while shooting people and robots with matching custom-engraved GAU-8 Avengers as doves fly overhead.
That's the sort of thing that makes a successful television series, when paired with good writing. T:TSSC has the good writing, and the emotional contemplation is great, but emotional contemplation and 4000 pound gatling guns wielded with one hand are not mutually exclusive concepts.
All great action shows and movies combine powerful emotional contemplation with awesome gun fights, awesome chases, and awesome explosions. Die Hard, both Terminators, Lethal Weapon 1 and 2, Bad Boys and it's time-honored squeal, True Lies, Point Break, Speed, The Matrix movie that didn't suck, and everything that John Woo ever touched - These are the exemplars that the writers, directors, producers, and showrunner should be looking towards.
They've got the awesome plot, but they missed the boat on awesome style, and awesome action. And Cameron opening up a can of Terminator whoop-ass on a couple hundred woefully underarmed cops, leaving nothing but corpses in her wake, is just what this series needs to get that awesome. And doing so with a rotary cannon too big for any human to lift would just be even more awesome.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I really want to see Summer Glau shoot things with a rotary cannon and I think a lot of other people do, too. Is Summer Glau shooting things with a rotary cannon too much to ask for? Can't the producers see how important this is?
