Oct

The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Goodbye to All That

The Sarah Connor Chronicles (S02E05) The game of time-travel chess continues. It seems that whenever Sarah and the gang foil one Terminator plot, another two crop up in its place (or they fulfill some sort of objective from Skynet and bring things one step closer to Judgement Day).

Observations from tonight’s episode:

How did Reese get the credentials to teach at the military school? I know being from the future gives one access to certain information, but it seems a stretch.

Gotta love the foreshadowing of the “new automated system” for the power plant.

I dug the movie reference of Arnold’s tracking of two other Sarah Connors before finding the correct one. Why didn’t the T-888 (or “Triple 8″) just use the Internet?

The other Martin Bedell (who read from the Wizard of Oz) acted somewhat as comic relief for the episode and continued the storyline in which Sarah connects with her own motherhood.

I still enjoy the future flashes. I didn’t notice any continuity with the movies in the flash forward from tonight’s episode. Was there any?

So I guess they fulfill history in this episode as well. Once Martin knows the future, I doubt he’ll drop out of the academy for any woman. I also liked how whenever he said “Baum” it sounded like “bum”, as if he was denigrating John.

I guess we know that Catherine Weaver’s ultimate goal is to help the machines win (I’m still not certain about why she picked up and killed that guy in the bar). Catheine doesn’t know about Cameron? Interesting. A wild card in the game. It could be argued that Catherine has mastered sarcasm even more so than Cameron.

Okay, I know it’s a television show, but why does Bedell look pretty much the same 20 or 30 years in the future? The difference between the ages of 16 and 36 or 46 is a pretty big one.