{"id":160,"date":"2008-06-07T11:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/07\/box-watch-update-the-sarah-connor-chronicles\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T04:16:46","slug":"box-watch-update-the-sarah-connor-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-update-the-sarah-connor-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch Update &#8211; &#8220;The Sarah Connor Chronicles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraged by <b>Mr Reid<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/18\/point-click-8\/#comment-4560\">remarks<\/a>, The Goddess and I watched the second and third episodes of <i>The Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/i> the other week. The promising story threads &#8211; like the possibility of Summer Glau&#8217;s cyborg growing a heart a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T2<\/a>, and the ticking clock of Sarah Connor&#8217;s terminal cancer &#8211; were a little undone by small details regarding the &#8216;mystery&#8217; terminator: if it&#8217;s putting itself together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0129167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Giant<\/a>-style, how the hell does it &#8216;see&#8217; to find its missing head? and what happened to the &#8220;only living flesh can be temporally displaced&#8221; rule, hm?<\/p>\n<p>After the second ep:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">ME: That <i>was<\/i> better than the pilot.<br \/>\nGODDESS: I&#8217;ll try another episode.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>After the third ep:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">ME: Okay, it slid back a bit &#8211;<br \/>\nGODDESS: You&#8217;re on your own.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Now, with the fourth and fifth eps under my belt, I have these to say about the series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Those annoying little details are accumulating. When you&#8217;re about to pull back from recce-ing your enemy&#8217;s lair, having a loud argument over what to do next instead of <b>getting the hell out of there<\/b> is Asking For Trouble. As for Master Connor, after leaving the house in ep two, wanting to save the suicidal teen in ep four, and getting locked in a bomb shelter with a terminator in ep five, is he really our only hope? Not a quick learner, our John.<\/li>\n<li>But the storylines have me hooked: how will the black FBI agent put the clues together? who&#8217;s got the Turk CPU? how many more resistance fighters and terminators are out there? how much more sentient will Cameron become? how will Sarah get cancer? how&#8217;s it going to work with her lover From Before <i>and<\/i> Kyle Reese&#8217;s brother? how many time-travel conundrums can you squeeze into a television series?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not appointment television but I&#8217;ll hang in there. Maybe my expectations of a television spin-off of a (two-thirds) great film franchise are a bit high. But if John goes off the reservation one more time, the Connors are on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraged by Mr Reid&#8216;s remarks, The Goddess and I watched the second and third episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles the other week. The promising story threads &#8211; like the possibility of Summer Glau&#8217;s cyborg growing a heart a la T2, and the ticking clock of Sarah Connor&#8217;s terminal cancer &#8211; were a little undone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-update-the-sarah-connor-chronicles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Box Watch Update &#8211; &#8220;The Sarah Connor Chronicles&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}