Terminator: TSCC... great show :(

[Sephiroth]

after recently re-watching S2, I have to say some of the "rambling" you give the show credit for goes away if you watch it episode by episode instead of one episode a week over 3 months, a 6 month break and another 3 month interval, it also lets you notice alot going on in the background, (the pregnant neighbor was in the film that the actor who's face Cromartie stole, it's obvious that Cameron has been through the time cycle a few times and was nearing the end of her operational lifespan)

 

[Rowan Sjet]

That's not a double post btw, Seph is making a comment on the circular nature of time on the show.

 

[David cgc]

(the pregnant neighbor was in the film that the actor who's face Cromartie stole, it's obvious that Cameron has been through the time cycle a few times and was nearing the end of her operational lifespan)

It never occurred to me that John might've been using the same copy of Cameron every cycle. I'm not sure what I assumed, since everyone who arrived after Cromartie would've been from a timeline where John had her as his teenage buddy. I guess I didn't trace the implication the whole way through.

I did enjoy the idea that the future was constantly being changed by each incursion from the future, and the timeline being continuously revised or split into different versions (how do you think "The Terminator" played when it was with the Kyle Reese that came from a timeline where John and Cameron were all buddy-buddy?). I thought it might've been an interesting way to play a novel or history text or something, going through each cycle (especially the very first iteration, since it would've had to have Kyle Reese coming back from a future without John Connor and creating the cycle completely by accident). I assume the premise of the show is that we would've seen a terminal timeline, where either John or Skynet succeeds in preventing the other from starting to go back in time and continue peeling off new branches in the timeline.

It also cunningly allowed every other, mutually contradictory Terminator spin-off to be incorporated into its canon and a different iteration of the timeline.

 

[Ryan8bit]

It was a pretty mediocre show, which is why it was canceled. None of the time travel made sense, a lot of the religious allusions were lame, hugely contrived mysteries were presented without any intent of being solved, and it often failed to hit the mark on what made Terminator good in the first place. There were some good things, like the music, the production standards for television, and a couple of the actors, but these things were way overshadowed by its ridiculousness.

 

[Sephiroth]

it's kind of obvious in that episode with the terminator that went too far into the past, first there is her remembering that senator's termination (but Seph, she could have had that video clip in her database from a news article) She also knew details about her friend's cancer, when it's established she can't detect if Sarah has cancer or not

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

My guess is that ultimately Sarah's cancer would have been overcome by transferring her personality into an advanced Terminator similar to Weaver. Sarah Connor's journey would have been to accept and become what she had most feared.

 

[reversepolarity]

I really didn't expect much from this show, but i was pleasantly suprised. I for one look forward to the day when we can make robots that look like Summer Glau do our bidding. :P

 

[hamudm]

after recently re-watching S2, I have to say some of the "rambling" you give the show credit for goes away if you watch it episode by episode instead of one episode a week over 3 months, a 6 month break and another 3 month interval, it also lets you notice alot going on in the background, (the pregnant neighbor was in the film that the actor who's face Cromartie stole, it's obvious that Cameron has been through the time cycle a few times and was nearing the end of her operational lifespan)

Agreed and I think it goes for a lot of shows with any kind of continuity that's required. You can forget a lot of the nuances that make a show special during an extended hiatus, leaving you to only remember and reflect on what the viewer perceives as the "worst" aspects of the show.

 

[WillsBabe]

I think T:SCC was a bit hit or miss show. I thought parts of it were poor and misjudged. Other parts I felt tried really hard. On the whole I would have liked to have seen a lot more of it. My favourite characters were Weaver and Savannah, and I wanted to see more of them. I enjoyed their story with John Henry much more than what was happening with Sarah and co. Also: Uncle Derek was very cute.