Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles“Samson & Delilah”
Original Air Date – Sept 8, 2008
Tara – TwoCents Staff Writer
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Subject: John Connor. Mission: Terminate. Nothing new there, right? Except this time around, the cyborg doing the terminating is Cameron (Summer Glau). Cameron recovers from the car bomb, but she's not her usual friendly, terminator self. Instead, she's out for John's blood. Yep. It's a Cameron-Connor smackdown complete with flying cars, electrocution, and an awesome truck-terminator sandwich.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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Original Air Date – Sept 8, 2008
Tara – TwoCents Staff Writer
tara@thetwocentscorp.com
Subject: John Connor. Mission: Terminate. Nothing new there, right? Except this time around, the cyborg doing the terminating is Cameron (Summer Glau). Cameron recovers from the car bomb, but she's not her usual friendly, terminator self. Instead, she's out for John's blood. Yep. It's a Cameron-Connor smackdown complete with flying cars, electrocution, and an awesome truck-terminator sandwich.
We open right where the finale left off. Cameron is recovering from a car bomb while Sarkissian (James Urbaniak) and his henchman descend on the Connor abode. They manage to surprise Sarah (Lena Headey) and John (Thomas Dekker) and take them prisoner. While John and Sarah are being tortured, Cameron takes out the henchman, accidently spilling kerosene in the process.
Cameron kicks open the door to find Sarah and John alive and Sarkissian dead. Crisis averted, right?Nope. As Cameron focuses on John, we see that her mission is to terminate John. Sarah pushes John out of the way of Cameron's gun just as the house goes up in flames. Sarah and John use the second explosion to escape.
Cameron earns her terminator name by tracking John and Sarah to a church where a kindly, if slightly dim-witted priest, has given them sanctuary. Cameron follows a trail of blood right to a holy water electrocution trap. Before you can say “zap”, Cameron is down for the count, but the count isn't long enough for John to remove her chip.
She wakes up and the chase continues. The Connors steal a Jeep, but they're stopped when Cameron casually flips it over her shoulder. That was very cool.
The Connors are almost as tough as Terminators, though. Despite the car cartwheel, they're both alive. Sarah is pinned, so she orders John to run, which, to my surprise, he actually does. Cameron chases him into an empty warehouse where John hot-wires a truck. But, before he can pull away, Cameron finds him. Fortunately, Mama Bear arrives driving another truck. She pins Cameron between the two. Only Cameron's head is visible, but this provides John with the access he needs to remove her chip. Cameron emotionally begs for her life, but John isn't convinced by her pleas.
Meanwhile, Charley (Dean Winters) and Derek (Brian Austin Green) have caught up with each other and the Connors. Derek and Sarah try to convince John that Cameron has to be destroyed--not repaired. You think? John, who blames himself for the death of the FBI agents, isn't convinced, but finally agrees.
They get ready to burn Cameron, but, naturally, John has a change of heart. Over his mother's frenzied objections, he replaces Cameron's chip and then hands her a gun. This is the saviour of mankind, you all. Sigh. The Cameron Eye tells us that her mission is still to terminate, but that mission is quickly overridden. Less likely to be overridden? Sarah's abject horror at what just went down.
In the FBI world, Ellison (Richard T. Jones) has been placed on 6 weeks administrative leave. He meets up with Cromartie (Garret Dillahunt), who still doesn't seem interested in killing Ellison. Ellison swears that he will never lead Cromartie to Sarah. Cromartie, and I, are not convinced.
Meanwhile, we find out who has bought the Turk. There's a new player in town—a very, badly dressed red-head (Shirley Manson) who has acquired the Turk. She forms a new team called Babylon that's “going to change the world”.
Not everyone in the office is happy about this new team, and, in tried and true corporate fashion, they bitch about the boss in the bathroom. Unfortunately, in this office, Big Brother really is watching you—in the form of a commode. The commode morphs, T2esque style, into the red-haired fashion disaster. Oh. She's a terminator. That explains the horrid fashion sense. She's also sensitive about being called names and aims a finger blade at the complainer's head. You can guess the rest...
Back at Casa Connor, Sarah is making sandwiches; Derek is providing useless commentary; Cameron is asking religious questions; and John, John is cutting his hair. I guess this means that he's serious...or it means that he's bored with his hair. One of the two.
New season! New terminator. What did you think? Did you see either of Cameron's turnarounds coming? What do you think of the new terminator? Did Sarah kill Sarkissian or was it John? Was John right to bring Cameron back? Write your Two Cents below.
Not a bad episode, but I have to say, if I were a Terminator I would turn into something, ANYTHING other than a urinal. Like maybe the towel rack. Or a faucet. Anything to avoid the urinal.
ReplyDeleteThat said, my favorite Terminator of all time will still be the T-1000. I don't care if FOX wants to call it the 'T-1001' or whatever, the T-1000 will always be the best in my book. Now, if we could only get an excuse for a Robert Patrick cameo. And I think Linda Hamilton isn't too busy these days...
I know! Why a urinal? Yuck.
ReplyDeleteI'd love a cameo by Robert Patrick or Linda Hamilton!