Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2 premiered this week on FOX. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the series, Terminator: tSCC is a TV series based on the Terminator franchise picking up where Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off. A new Terminator named Cameron (Summer Glau) is sent back in time to protect young John Connor (Thomas Dekker) from Cromartie (Garret Dillahunt), a second Terminator sent through time to kill John, the future leader of mankind in the war against the machines. John is acompanied by his mother Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green) - John's uncle from the future. Together they do what they can to survive and take down Skynet, the computer system that destroys the world, before it is created and stop judgement day.
When the series premiered earlier this year allot of people, myself included, were sceptical as to how the Terminator franchise would be strong and rich enough to support a TV series. The premise of the saga is rather thin, but now that season 1 (cut short by the writers strike) is over and season 2 is at our doorstep one thing is certain: creator David Nutte knows what he is doing and that the Terminator saga has allot more to offer.
The season 2 premiere goes deeper into the Terminator saga by introducing Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson), the CEO of ZeiraCorp, a company that deals in advanced technology projects. She is a cold and calculated woman who seems to have an almost romatic view of machines and the orderly structure they represent. But Catherine Weaver hides a secret that is by far the best twist the series has given us so far. It would seem that the first seeds of Skynet is about to be planted and time is running out.
The episodes main focus however is Cameron gone bad as, after being caught in a car bomb, "her" main processing chip has been damaged. Now she has reverted back to her original programming: eliminate John Connor. Now John and Sarah need to escape a Terminator that knows everything about them and can forsee their every move and John needs to bring him self to try and kill the one person, no matter how arteficial, he could call a friend.
The series seems to look closely at the relationship between man and machine (something explored in T2 as well) as John obviously seem to have strong emotions towards Cameron and this territory is well explored in this episode. As friend becomes foe John clearly struggles with being able to kill cameron and in the end does something that puts both him and Sarah in great jeopardy.
Terminator season 2 premiere marks, in my opinion, the best episode of the series so far. It examines some very complicated issues (like what it means to be a machine and the relationship between man and machine for better and for worse) as well as bringing us great action and some twist and turns that will set the course for the future of the series.
Lastly I just want to let you know that the second Quantum of Solace (Bond 22) trailer is out and is looking fantastic. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQW2MtibAmk
2 comments:
Nice Blog my friend!
Personlig har jo min blogg vært død i litt over et år nå, men jeg har vurdert å ta opp igjen tråden... Vet bare ikke hva jeg skal skrive om :p
Have a good one mate :)
Espen H has been harrassing me about TtSCC for a good long while now. He loves it, and insists that I will like it. I guess I have to relent soon.
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