Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Adam Raised A Cain
By fred | April 5, 2009
(S02E21) Warning: this episode contains a very high level of awesomeness. Seriously, you’ve been warned. I didn’t get to see this episode (or Dollhouse, still sitting on my DVR) as early as I usually do, but the wait was worth it. To sum up this episode in one word, I’d say ‘wow’
It’s what I’ve been saying watching this episode, and it’s what I’ve been left feeling as it ended and had me looking forward to next week like rarely before.
I’d say this might have been the best episode of the season, and that for many reasons. There are things we thought would never happen that finally did this week, and others that probably on one saw coming that did too. Even better that all of that taking place during this episode, might have been the way it did, which is a way you don’t get to see that often on TV, because writers don’t dare to go there.
I mean that first scene, beginning of the episode, the credits haven’t even yet been shown, John, Sarah, Derek and Cameron walk in to rescue the poor Savannah as a Terminator is – for some reason – coming to get her (or kill her) and despite its best effort John Henry wasn’t really successful at keeping her safe. Derek walks in, the T500 shoots, once, between the eyes. Derek is dead, moving on.
Just how freaking awesome was that!?? I mean it was terrible, I liked Derek, he was a very interesting character, but that death was all the more shocking because it has that realistic, no-BS tone to it. No heroic act to save John and sacrifice himself for the future, no bullets in the chest as everyone usually does, even trained assassin (*cough* Sayid *cough*), so that he could make a little goodbye speech spitting blood. None of that, he didn’t even see it coming, and the whole thing lasted merely 3 seconds.
It was rough, it was shocking, and it was a “detail” as we’re in the middle of an attack, Cameron (finally) getting to fight with another Terminator while John gets Savannah and runs away before the police gets here. All of that, such major development going on, and the credits weren’t even done yet! You gotta hand it to the writers, even though we’re getting near the end of the season (and hopefully just the season), it wasn’t an obvious choice to make things go down that way, but they did, brilliantly so.
(Quick note: I guess technically, if there was a third season we could get Derek back, or “another” Derek. It’s been established he and Jesse weren’t coming from the same future, to technically it should be possible that another Derek gets sent back to the past, aka our present. I just really hope it won’t happen, though, because it would really cheapen everything, not just his death but everyone else’s.)
Even better though, was that this breathtaking scene was only the introduction to this wonderful episode. Things didn’t end there, that was only a beginning. Because now that they had Savannah, the Connors could finally get an update of what’s been happening around Zeira Corp, finding out that the body of their old pal Cromartie was still around and being played with, by “someone” they call John Henry, whose been receiving lessons from one ex-FBI agent Ellison.
The same Ellison they agreed to give the girl back to, and who might have had something to do with Sarah ending up being arrested by the police. I don’t think he did, I think he was played either by Weaver or John Henry, or simply followed by the police. But that’s not gonna matter to John, who might not have killed him right there only because there was a little girl next to him, and quite frankly given Ellison’s action of late, I’m not sure his death would be a bad thing anyways.
One has to wonder, though, what the Hell is going on with that little girl?? Why is Savannah so important to those I believe to be the future Skynet, that they sent a freaking Terminator after her? Was the plan to kill her, or get her? And either way, why? Who will Savannah grew into, what will her part be in the upcoming war?
I really hope we will get another season of this show, because it is one of the best thing on television right now, and it looks like either way, next week things will end with a bang!
What did everybody else think?
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Why is Skynet (?) after Savannah? It knows that John-Thomas is at Zeira, and that Weaver is behind it. It thinks it can get leverage on Weaver using Savannah, not knowing that Weaver isn’t really Weaver. But how come it now has T-888s (not T500s) as minions? Last episode it only had humans, (we know it’s the same entity, same water company cover) and had to hack John-Thomas to know how to de-chip Cameron. Not even Skynet could go from a blueprint, no matter how detailed, to a T-888 assembly line overnight. There are too many technologies and materials (Coltan) that need to be in place. And human minions are cheap — opposite reasoning to why John Connor uses robots; to Skynet terminators are expensive, humans are cheap.
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I don’t think the Terminator in this episode was built in this time. I think it was one of the ones sent from the future – like the one in the coltan factory from season 1, or the one that started its own construction company in the 1930s – programmed to work alongside other humans, without those humans realizing it was a machine.
I think the Terminator that went after Savannah wasn’t from the present, but was one of the ones sent back from the future, like the one in the coltan factory from season 1, or the one that started his own construction company in the 1930s. They were programmed to work alongside humans, without being recognized as machines.
And remember, Savannah’s “mother” is a T-1000. If there’s any chance a kidnapper might run into her during the operation, a Terminator stands less chance of getting shishkabobbed by her finger.