Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles

[Ash]

Thanks Trek!  (karma for you)

I understood that Enrique had snitched, but didn't understand why Cameron shot him.
Her taking the "terminator route" makes perfect sense now.

[Wicked Nick]

I found it funny that after the terminator had his head blown off in the first episode the head goes forward through time and lands on the side of the road, meanwhile the INTACT body is left in the past and because an obviously high-tech piece of robotics is of no importance it is thrown in trash.I found it further amusing that when the terminator was able to re-grow his skin he re-grew he was able to re-grow his muscles and cartilage in a bathtub of blood. These two examples among dozens of other inconsitancys, and factual errors in the show have proven my stance that making tv show based on the terminator movies is just a bad idea. I don't think it will last long.

[Patient7]

I think in the pilot when the robot was beating up 3 morons for clothes, John was bent too far over his nude mother too comfortably for me to be comfortable.

[Killer Bees]

I watched this last night and I must say I enjoyed the heck out of it   

My son loved the addition of kick arse Summer Glau as the good terminator and the bad guy that kept coming after them was pretty slick too.

Of course the inevitable question arose that only a teenage boy can ask:  "If John is their leader, couldn't he order the terminator to at least flash her boobs to him?"

Boys          

[ulthar]

Of course the inevitable question arose that only a teenage boy can ask:  "If John is their leader, couldn't he order the terminator to at least flash her boobs him?"

LOL.  Karma for that one...but it's for your son.   

[Torgo]

Has the show gotten any better? I thought that the 1st couple of episodes were terrible.

A co-worker who watches the show (mainly because of the lovely Summer Glau) says that it's actually gotten better.  I work on Monday nights and I forget to tape it so I haven't seen it since then.

[Ash]

For the most part it's doing pretty good!
In the episode before the last one, John Connor has to get a key that's hanging around the neck of a Terminator who is standing still in "Standby Mode".  That made for an intense scene.   

I do have a few questions for those who've been watching it regularly.  I missed a few scenes and need some answers.

1.)  What was that Terminator doing in the nuclear blast bunker?  Why was it in standby mode and how did John get in there with him?

2.)  Who was the guy in the earlier episode that Sarah roughed up and then dropped off in the middle of a minefield?

3.)  So it was Reese's brother who shot the chess computer guy in the head?
What was his reason for doing it?

[Mr_Vindictive]

For the most part it's doing pretty good!
In the episode before the last one, John Connor has to get a key that's hanging around the neck of a Terminator who is standing still in "Standby Mode".  That made for an intense scene.   

I do have a few questions for those who've been watching it regularly.  I missed a few scenes and need some answers.

1.)  What was that Terminator doing in the nuclear blast bunker?  Why was it in standby mode and how did John get in there with him?

2.)  Who was the guy in the earlier episode that Sarah roughed up and then dropped off in the middle of a minefield?

3.)  So it was Reese's brother who shot the chess computer guy in the head?
What was his reason for doing it?

1.  The terminator was guarding a military shipment of a metal that will be used to create terminators in the future.  The metal is rare after the nuclear war in the future, so they decided to hide it in a nuclear bunker.

2.  He was just a disposable character used to get the main characters to the base where John was.  No one important.

3.  No, it wasn't Reese's brother who shot the computer tech in the head.  Another terminator shot him in the head and took the "Terk" which will eventually become Skynet.  Reese's brother had gone there to take and destroy the Terk but a terminator had beat him to it.

[Ash]

Cool...  Thanks for the help!  

By the way, how did John end up in the bunker?
And I'm guessing that "Terk" is the name of the chess computer?

[trekgeezer]

Hate to tell you guys this, but it looks like the nine eps they made of this show are going to be it.  A couple of different sites are reporting that a renewal for next season looks iffy at best.

[Bmeansgood]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do you tell me these things on a holiday.

[Killer Bees]

Hate to tell you guys this, but it looks like the nine eps they made of this show are going to be it.  A couple of different sites are reporting that a renewal for next season looks iffy at best.

Just great!  Now I'll have to contend with a depressed and ranting teenager!  Stupid networks!

[Bmeansgood]

My wife has been watching S.C.C. with me and she likes it.  The other night she watched T2 for the first time and said that she likes the TV show better.  I am a big fan of the show, but I thought that was pretty darn funny.  If she were to tell me Phantom Menace was the best of all 6 Star Wars movies I would have peed my pants.

[BTM]

have a show set in 1999 jump to 2007 for no good reason.

Okay, at the risk of looking like more of a geek than I already am, I'll tackle some of these...

IIRC, the first movie said judgment day would occur in 1999.  Guessing the jump ahead was more for production reasons than actual storyline, ie, they could have the series take place today and not to worry about syncing everything (props, clothes, cars, etc) up to 1999 technology.  If they just STARTED the series in '07, then John would be an adult now, and not a senior in high school.

And, why would SkyNet send a normal terminator back to 1999 when the T-1000 did a damned good job in T-2 (he just needs to stay away from molten metal.

T-1000 was a PROTOTYPE,  Ie, only one in existence.  So, when he bought, they had to make due with something else.

[BTM]

Of course the inevitable question arose that only a teenage boy can ask:  "If John is their leader, couldn't he order the terminator to at least flash her boobs to him?"
Boys          

Well, I've often said that one of John's first questions to Cameron (Summer's character) should have been something like, "So, uh.. do you have to obey my every order, like the last Terminator did?  Cause, if so, I can think of a few things I'd like you to do..." 

I mean, after all, he IS a teenager.  (Unless of course, he's like that character he played on Heroes in more ways than we know about...)