The new season of Terminator The Sarah Connors Chronicles is moving along at a good pace. Good guys and Bad guys are pretty clear cut here. With the exception of John Connor’s ‘sister’ who had a bit of a bad turn during the season opener.
Since The Writer’s Strike brought the first season of Sarah Connors to a premature end, the Season Two opener did some quick clean up with what looked to be a lot more complex story element. Namely Cameron, the friendly Terminator, getting blow up in a car bomb. I was expecting something along the lines of a complete rebuild, much as Bad Guy Cromartie had to do. Turns out getting blow up is not that bad after all and Cameron was her same old chipper self in no time.
In the Future we see that life is hard for the remaining Humans and that Machines easily outgun and outnumber them. But in the Present, those scales should be reversed. The fact that the current model of Sarah Connors is using hand guns and low caliber machine guns to fight Terminators that she knows can only be destroyed by overwhelming force is a bit odd. Well, if she wanted to destroy Cromartie she would have some of those cool toys from the Discovery Channels Future of War series. But then, you can’t have the same villain chugging along each week if you kill him, can you? And having countless people/machines hop back from the Future can only make the whole story line of John Connor saving the world weaker and weaker.
I am not a fan of the new Villain T-1000, this is treading on even more serious Paradox ground than usual. If a Terminator creates Skynet so he can send Terminators back in time to create himself this forms a never ending loop-a Groundhog Day that last a few decades instead of a few hours. But then-all the Terminator stories after the first movie have screwed up a closed universe that worked perfectly as it was.
Still, I like Terminator The Sarah Connors Chronicles and want the show to remain on the air as long as possible. I like Science Fiction, even not so great science fiction. The effects for the show are really good and the story lines have been, well-the effect are really good.
