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I think we can all admit that "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" has had its share of ups and downs this season. For every heart-stopping murder of a main character, we've gotten an episode where nothing, absolutely nothing, occurs. As for the season finale, while it didn't tie up all the loose ends, it certainly was pulse-pounding.
I have to hand it to "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," they have absolutely no problem killing off main characters or doing other taboo things. We can all assume that John Connor will survive the series, but after killing Charley last week and doing what they did this week, I think all other bets are off.
Sarah and company left their home tonight on "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." She and John went to spend the night in a lighthouse. Lighthouses are of course your basic nondescript abode, the kind of place in which you can lay low and not be noticed. A lighthouse naturally is the exact right place to stay if you're hiding from the world.
The basic problem with "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" giving us a couple of Jesse-centric episodes in a row is that Jesse is wholly unlikable. She's evil in a slow, mundanely evil way. If she were evil in a fun, over-the-top, killing folks willy-nilly, crazy way (like when she offed Riley) she'd be far more enjoyable.
I go away for one weekend, miss one episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," and miss the moment I'd been waiting for ever since we first met Riley. I thought maybe the Terminator gods were punishing me. Well, I'm back this week, and happy to report that the show is still out of its desert doldrums, and Riley didn't magically get reanimated.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles showrunner Josh Friedman has been making the rounds to everyone who would listen over the course of this week, acknowledging that, yes, the first three episodes back from the hiatus were really slow, but things definitely pick up over the season's final six weeks. This week, we get psychology, we get action, and we get real plot payoff. It just so happens that all of that occurs with Jesse and Riley, two characters loathed by much of the fanbase. Well, I liked everything with those characters in this episode, at least. Your mileage may vary.
I think we can all agree that last week's Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles wasn't the greatest episode ever. Fortunately, this week's was far better, not wholly original, but far better.
Trying to destroy a bunch of alien machines from the future means that you sometimes have to do unpleasant things. Beyond the usual death you have to deal out, you sometimes have to do things like crashing a huge funeral for a small factory town that lost most of its employees when a liquid metal machine from the future blew up said factory. Such was the lot of the gang tonight on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Tonight, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles touched upon that which has been sacrosanct in the Terminator world -- Kyle Reese. More than one person has played John (a different person in every movie in fact), more than one has played a Terminator, and more than one has played Sarah. I guess it had to be Kyle's turn eventually.
Heading into tonight's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles I was figuring that as this was the show's last episode of the year we'd be getting some sort of big, action-packed, extravaganza. It wasn't quite "action-packed," in fact there was very little action at all, but it was still a pretty good way to close out the year. There were some surprises, some new lines of inquiry, and it left me wondering what next year will bring.
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