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fembuckFrom now on my nickname for Sarah is going to be Pancakes.
I fuckin love this show.
Summer Glau is perfection. In the scene with her lacing up those shoes I was like "how is it possible for one person to be so incredibly perfect?"
Pancakes makes pain beautiful. Seriously, Lena sells pain like there's a Fire Sale going on or something. She's good man.
BAG can act.
This show withholds hugs masterfully.
The producers of the show were talking about how they are more interested in the characters then explosions, and about how they respect their audiences intelligence and refuse to dumb down the show at WonderCon, and tonight's episode was a perfect example of that. Mad respect for the creators and runners of the show. Mad respect.
If this doesn't get renewed for a second season I am going to go batshit all over the FOX network. They cannot do this to me again. I need my Caminator and Pancakes dynamic duo of sexy and violence every week. I need.
I fuckin love this show.
Summer Glau is perfection. In the scene with her lacing up those shoes I was like "how is it possible for one person to be so incredibly perfect?"
Pancakes makes pain beautiful. Seriously, Lena sells pain like there's a Fire Sale going on or something. She's good man.
BAG can act.
This show withholds hugs masterfully.
The last scene of this episode was perfection. "...if they can do that they won't have to replace us. They'll become us" and then the lingering shot of Cameron dancing in the fading light of day. Seriously, after that scene I don't think there are words enough in the English language to describe my girlcrush on Summer Glau. I'll be a sap and say it, I had tears in my eyes her dancing was so beautiful, and when I saw Derek's reaction, when you saw the realization in his eyes that whatever Cameron is she is not only a machine, not only a thing, but a conscious being capable of emotion and expressions of beauty, I was ... damn, show. Damn.
Seriously, I was moved by Brian fucking Austin Green's acting. You know a show is impressive when that can happen.
Hell, the last 15 minutes of this episode killed me.
I was totally into Cameron and her girl!crush on Maria, and was all "awww' when Cameron was peaking around the corner watching Maria dance. The very scary robot from last episode was completely erased from my mind by Summer's doe-eyed awesomeness, and then came the scene when they met up with Dimitri and after completing her mission Cameron just walked away and left Dimitri and hot!Maria to their deaths. All I could think over and over again was "fuckin hell, Cameron".
Between the scene in the dance studio and the breakfast scene with Derek and the ending scene with her dancing, this was a whirlwind episode for Cameron that has left me completely and utterly fascinated by her, and scared shitless of her as well. To have this 'perfect creature' as Sarah called her, that is capable of wonder and expressions of emotion that can also be capable of passionless acts of apathy and cruelty is terrifying. I mean, she sucks you in with those eyes and that guise of innocence but underneath there is something alien and cold and it's magnificent to watch.
I have to say, I felt like John was being a whiny bitch for most of the episode and when he was all "yeah, I remember it. It's the day you stopped being my Mom" I wanted to smack that kid upside the head. However, about a minute later I was all choked up for both him and Sarah. I thought that scene between them in John's room and then outside together burning the hand was beautiful. Sarah's voice-over about how she was no longer a hero in his eyes, the shame and desperation for forgiveness that was pouring off of her in the bedroom. The thigh squeeze. I was like "John, hug your mother" but at the same time, it's like how fucked up is that situation, how controlled have they had to be for years to just survive and it seemed fitting that even after that moment of bonding there was still distance and pain, because that is there reality.
I love Bruce Davison. I think he's in like every show produced on television right now, and that's okay by me. When he was describing the attack on the mental hospital from T2, I was riveted. Especially when he was talking about T-Arnie reaching out telling John to "Come with [him] if [he] wants to live" and it being like the hand of God. Damn good acting, and writing.
And the imagery afterwards with the rain, and then later on with Sarah appearing through the fire like some dark angel, holding her hand out to Ellison to save him. Damn, show. Damn.
Though I do have a question about the rain thing. Was it just like a really convenient natural phenomenon, or was the show suggesting that Pancakes is like Storm and can summon weather for dramatic purposes? It was beautiful, I was just like [Urkel voice] Did Pancakes do that? [/UV]
And for sheer badass-ness, I have to mention the sex on a motorbike and in leather boots that was Cameron. I just loved that entire sequence. It was just pure cool. It was visual porn and I loved it. From the second they showed her getting off of the bike to the moment she left the evidence room I was just like "this is cool, this is fucking cool, I love this shit. Cool!"
Hmm, I feel like I should find something to pick on lest I come across as being biased. Okay, I've got one. I'm not a purest by any stretch of the imagination, but the recreations of the hospital scenes from T2 made me cry a little. They just did not live up to the original. I love Lena, but she didn't manage to get Sarah's crazy and fury and desperation out. I was all like, "why does Sarah look so well coiffed and lickable? She should look homicidal and batshit!" It was mean of the producers to do that to Lena. It's already hard enough for her being compared to Hamilton already, and to make her try and redo those scenes was just mean. Hamilton was perfection during the Hospital stuff in T2, you gotta just leave that alone. You gotta just recognize how awesome that was, and just leave it alone.
Beyond that, I can't even really think right now, I'm so in love with this episode. I'm sure more will come to me later that I wish I'd written, I mean I think I remember some funny bits from the beginning but I can't even think about it now.
Damn, show. Damn.
SEASON FINALE?!?! *SOBS* *SOBS LOUDER* Fucking FOX, man, you can't take this away from me already. I want more! *CRIES*
Seriously, I was moved by Brian fucking Austin Green's acting. You know a show is impressive when that can happen.
Hell, the last 15 minutes of this episode killed me.
I was totally into Cameron and her girl!crush on Maria, and was all "awww' when Cameron was peaking around the corner watching Maria dance. The very scary robot from last episode was completely erased from my mind by Summer's doe-eyed awesomeness, and then came the scene when they met up with Dimitri and after completing her mission Cameron just walked away and left Dimitri and hot!Maria to their deaths. All I could think over and over again was "fuckin hell, Cameron".
Between the scene in the dance studio and the breakfast scene with Derek and the ending scene with her dancing, this was a whirlwind episode for Cameron that has left me completely and utterly fascinated by her, and scared shitless of her as well. To have this 'perfect creature' as Sarah called her, that is capable of wonder and expressions of emotion that can also be capable of passionless acts of apathy and cruelty is terrifying. I mean, she sucks you in with those eyes and that guise of innocence but underneath there is something alien and cold and it's magnificent to watch.
I have to say, I felt like John was being a whiny bitch for most of the episode and when he was all "yeah, I remember it. It's the day you stopped being my Mom" I wanted to smack that kid upside the head. However, about a minute later I was all choked up for both him and Sarah. I thought that scene between them in John's room and then outside together burning the hand was beautiful. Sarah's voice-over about how she was no longer a hero in his eyes, the shame and desperation for forgiveness that was pouring off of her in the bedroom. The thigh squeeze. I was like "John, hug your mother" but at the same time, it's like how fucked up is that situation, how controlled have they had to be for years to just survive and it seemed fitting that even after that moment of bonding there was still distance and pain, because that is there reality.
I love Bruce Davison. I think he's in like every show produced on television right now, and that's okay by me. When he was describing the attack on the mental hospital from T2, I was riveted. Especially when he was talking about T-Arnie reaching out telling John to "Come with [him] if [he] wants to live" and it being like the hand of God. Damn good acting, and writing.
And the imagery afterwards with the rain, and then later on with Sarah appearing through the fire like some dark angel, holding her hand out to Ellison to save him. Damn, show. Damn.
Though I do have a question about the rain thing. Was it just like a really convenient natural phenomenon, or was the show suggesting that Pancakes is like Storm and can summon weather for dramatic purposes? It was beautiful, I was just like [Urkel voice] Did Pancakes do that? [/UV]
And for sheer badass-ness, I have to mention the sex on a motorbike and in leather boots that was Cameron. I just loved that entire sequence. It was just pure cool. It was visual porn and I loved it. From the second they showed her getting off of the bike to the moment she left the evidence room I was just like "this is cool, this is fucking cool, I love this shit. Cool!"
Hmm, I feel like I should find something to pick on lest I come across as being biased. Okay, I've got one. I'm not a purest by any stretch of the imagination, but the recreations of the hospital scenes from T2 made me cry a little. They just did not live up to the original. I love Lena, but she didn't manage to get Sarah's crazy and fury and desperation out. I was all like, "why does Sarah look so well coiffed and lickable? She should look homicidal and batshit!" It was mean of the producers to do that to Lena. It's already hard enough for her being compared to Hamilton already, and to make her try and redo those scenes was just mean. Hamilton was perfection during the Hospital stuff in T2, you gotta just leave that alone. You gotta just recognize how awesome that was, and just leave it alone.
Beyond that, I can't even really think right now, I'm so in love with this episode. I'm sure more will come to me later that I wish I'd written, I mean I think I remember some funny bits from the beginning but I can't even think about it now.
Damn, show. Damn.
SEASON FINALE?!?! *SOBS* *SOBS LOUDER* Fucking FOX, man, you can't take this away from me already. I want more! *CRIES*
The producers of the show were talking about how they are more interested in the characters then explosions, and about how they respect their audiences intelligence and refuse to dumb down the show at WonderCon, and tonight's episode was a perfect example of that. Mad respect for the creators and runners of the show. Mad respect.
If this doesn't get renewed for a second season I am going to go batshit all over the FOX network. They cannot do this to me again. I need my Caminator and Pancakes dynamic duo of sexy and violence every week. I need.
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Date: 2008-02-26 09:10 am (UTC)Cameron was awesome this episode. When I saw the previews, I didn't even realize that the 'female Terminator' was Glau! What I find interesting is she is Sarah to the extreme. Where John is Sarah at the other end of the spectrum, Sarah's humanity so to speak, Cameron is that other end - cold, calculating, willing to do what it takes. Cameron frightens Sarah, not because she's a machine, but because she is what Sarah fears she's turning into.
This is not to say that Cameron doesn't have depth or layers. She does. It's being with Sarah and John that will, eventually, give her her humanity. And what happens to Cameron then? What happens when she realizes she *does* have a soul/feelings/emotions?
Sarah's voice-over about how she was no longer a hero in his eyes, the shame and desperation for forgiveness that was pouring off of her in the bedroom.
Oh God, I love the Sarah/John relationship. Although, I think Sarah's wrong. John does think she's a hero, at least, Future!John does. This is pure fanwanking and speculation on my part but I think Future!John's mission is to save his mother, that the reason humanity failed and the machine's won is because Sarah died of cancer. Why else send his mother into the *future*? And I'm totally looking forward to that reveal
Then there's Sarah and, like you said, her guilt and desperation. How she wants to love him like she feels a mother should but can't out of fear that it will make him 'soft'. And yet, it's John's 'softness', his humanity, that makes him the leader that he is. Because, really, what's the point in being the savior of humanity if you don't give a shit who lives or dies.
And, well, if you're gonna nitpick about the movie comparisons, I'll just dip into the shallow end. As in - Sarah's fashion sense. I loved the scarf, it gave me nice Imagine, Me & You/Luce flashbacks. I love that her wardrobe has this retro '80's look to it. It's like Sarah's been concentrating so much on preparing John for the end of the world her fashion sense has been put on pause.. since 1987!!
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Date: 2008-02-26 10:31 pm (UTC)I know. She looked blonde in the trailer. I was pleasantly surprised that it was her too. I don't want her to lose her uniqueness as everyone's favorite female Terminator (from the TV-verse).
What I find interesting is she is Sarah to the extreme. Where John is Sarah at the other end of the spectrum, Sarah's humanity so to speak, Cameron is that other end - cold, calculating, willing to do what it takes. Cameron frightens Sarah, not because she's a machine, but because she is what Sarah fears she's turning into.
Dude, I think you kind of exploded my mind with this. I'd never really thought of it that way, but it makes Cameron's dynamics with each of them (esp. Sarah) and her development that much more fascinating.
And what happens to Cameron then? What happens when she realizes she *does* have a soul/feelings/emotions?
*rubs hands together* I don't know but I want to find out. This is why FOX can't take this show away from me. I need to find out the answers to these questions, I need to see her develop, and see them all struggle with the ramifications of it. *sigh* I dig this show muchly.
I love the Sarah/John relationship.
Word.
Although, I think Sarah's wrong. John does think she's a hero, at least, Future!John does. This is pure fanwanking and speculation on my part but I think Future!John's mission is to save his mother, that the reason humanity failed and the machine's won is because Sarah died of cancer.
So true. I think that Future!John is convinced that if his mom was around that together they would have been able to figure something out, to do something that would have stopped it all, and that her absence in his life was critical to the fall of humanity. Future!John no doubt has much more perspective, and as much as young John looks up to his mother, I think his future self fully realizes just how incredibly strong Sarah really is/was.
Also, she's his mom. She's his MOM. 'Nuff said. Who wouldn't use a time machine to save their mother from something like that if they could?
How she wants to love him like she feels a mother should but can't out of fear that it will make him 'soft'. And yet, it's John's 'softness', his humanity, that makes him the leader that he is. Because, really, what's the point in being the savior of humanity if you don't give a shit who lives or dies.
John's realized this. I think Sarah is still struggling with it. She's just too scared of losing him. I love that we're seeing their relationship shift and grow now, that they're becoming more equal, because I think John will begin to be able to teach her this. That its not just that he lives, but the type of person he becomes.
I love that her wardrobe has this retro '80's look to it. It's like Sarah's been concentrating so much on preparing John for the end of the world her fashion sense has been put on pause.. since 1987!!
LOL! I love that it was probably Lena who insisted on the scarf as well. I think I remember an interview were Lena said that Luce's wardrobe was pretty much all her, including the scarf love. She rocks the look though, and should keep up the good work if she is influencing Sarah's style. Especially the assrageous jeans.
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Date: 2008-02-27 01:40 am (UTC)Yes. That and Future!John lost Sarah at 16. Was unable to stop Skynet and the war with the machines, and was stuck in a bunker for 10 years with
a lesbianClea Duvall. Yeah, if I was a guy, I'd be crying for my mother too!Who wouldn't use a time machine to save their mother from something like that if they could?
What cracks me up is Future!John is practically moving heaven and earth to save his mother. Kyle Reese, on the other hand, might as well have 'sperm donor' stamped on his forehead!