Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesSelf Made Man
Original Air Date – 1 Dec 2008
Tara – TwoCents Staff Writer
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It's teenager week on Terminator as Cameron and John stay out all night while the adults sleep. Cameron uses this time to do research and stop an assassination while John, well, John goes to a party and makes out with Riley. Humanity is doomed.
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It's teenager week on Terminator as Cameron and John stay out all night while the adults sleep. Cameron uses this time to do research and stop an assassination while John, well, John goes to a party and makes out with Riley. Humanity is doomed.
ReplyDeleteThe episode starts with a flashback to a speakeasy in the 1920s. There's drinking and dancing and flappers and a really big fire that takes out most of the occupants. This will be important later.
Not so important later? Sarah. Who shows up in the episode just long enough to ask Cameron to do some laundry, since Cameron doesn't sleep. John makes a wise ass remark, so Sarah throws the laundry his way instead and heads off to sleep... I guess. We don't know, because that's the last we'll see of her in this episode.
John gives Cameron back the laundry reminding her that she really doesn't sleep. Nice. Cameron really needs a union rep. Cameron doesn't object or mention that her evenings are actually quite full, because it turns out that she's been bribing a librarian, Eric, to let her into the library at night to do research. Librarians have night shifts? Really?
Eric and Cameron are clearly very well acquainted; he even asks her how things are going with John and Riley. During her research, Cameron stumbles on a picture of a terminator taken in the 1920s after a fire at a speakeasy. She begins to wonder just what a terminator was doing in the 1920s, outside a burning speakeasy, staring at the stars. As do we all.
It doesn't take her long to figure it out. With Eric's help, she discovers that the terminator went by the name Stark and became a famous building developer. A developer who managed to put his main competition, another developer named Chandler, out of business. In a not-so-coincidental coincidence, Chandler's son, Will, was killed in that same speakeasy fire.
After a watching an eyewitness account of the fire, Cameron realizes that the fire was an accident—the terminator's time machine caused it. She also realizes that the terminator came back at the wrong time: about 90 years too early. Reading Will's obituary, Cameron learns that Will's dream was to build a specific building. Upon his death, his father bought the land and decided to turn it into a memorial garden.
Stark needed that building to exist, so he put Chandler out of business and built it himself. Cameron heads off to the building, which was closed for repairs after an earthquake, to discover that it is scheduled to reopen on New Year's Eve in 2010. She realizes that this is a set up for an assassination and punches through a wall to find Stark patiently waiting for 2010. They fight. He loses.
And Cameron loses her friend. She tells Eric, who is in a wheelchair, that his cancer is back. He doesn't take this news well at all and the next night when she comes back to the library, he's no longer there. Fortunately for Cameron, his replacement is also bribable with donuts. She doesn't look too torn up about it.
Meanwhile, John heads out to “save” Riley when she calls him in a panic. Of course, it's just another manipulation, because Riley is just fine and at a party. She gets John to stay for awhile, but when a first-person shooter game brings up too many memories, he wants to leave. Unfortunately, Riley's new male friend thinks that she stole his lighter (which she totally did) and tries to get it back. John takes him down and starts beating on him until Riley pulls him off. This gives Riley just the chance she needs to manipulate John into kissing her. Nice.
This was a weird episode, because there was no Sarah, but I still enjoyed it. What did you think? Are you rooting for Cameron to take out Riley as much as I am? Do you think it's only a matter of time before Cameron's chip goes bad? Leave your Two Cents below.
Yes, please! Make Riley go away! Ugh!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was weird, too, that Sarah wasn't really in this episode. I mean, it's her Chronicles, isn't it?
Still... a funky little episode. I liked it.