Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Complications
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S02E09) The Connors never really had an easy life, where everything was simple and they didn’t have to worry much or look behind them constantly. In fact, quite the opposite, with the future war they’re already fighting, the doom of being the only hope of Mankind and future leader of the resistance, resistance against killing robots, some of which have been sent back in time to kill you, nothing less.
It’s easy to see why they would get headaches already, but as this episode’s title indicated, that was nothing, because now things are getting complicated. Last week they finally managed to get ride of one of their main enemy at the time, Cromartie. They killed it, destroyed its chip, but the body was only buried for the time being.
But that’s not enough, and this week John and Cameron went back to Mexico to take care of it, Sarah staying at home as she was sick. Now there’s always so many things happening to those people I guess you can see why they’d forget about some stuff, and for instance it’s perfectly okay no one bothered to care about Riley, where she was, what she knew, what she might want to find out. Plus, I’m sure we’ll see her back soon enough.
But Cameron, Cameron is in their lives 24/7, and she’s a killing machine from the future. They put a lot of faith – and trust – in her, despite her attempt to kill them at some point, or the fact that she recently forgot what she was and thought she was actually human. I would really like them to care about this, especially when her behavior gets so, say, “odd.”
Because if at times she is and acts in complete robotic manners, with an emotion-less face, this week she had that smile on her face on the drive back to Mexico with John, proving that she’s either getting really good at imitating human emotions, or there’s something else there. The possibility of a damaged chip has been thrown around a few times already, and as she explained how she could indeed feel (sensations, if not emotions), because she’d be worthless otherwise, as she told John how he really didn’t understood how she worked, all that with that otherwise lovely smile on her face, one has to wonder what’s going on inside that pretty head of hers.
But while she couldn’t understand basic human emotions, like compassion or what Sarah did turn the turtle around, when after beating Ellison unconscious she just went and flipped him over, just like one big turtle, because John felt sorry for him, it was pretty creepy, wasn’t it? I guess she still has a few things to learn about compassion and other human emotions…
As Sarah was having nightmares and wondering about the three dots she probably saw earlier on the bloody wall in their house, as she was going over how it was her fault because she couldn’t kill someone when she should have, John was making a somewhat similar mistake by refusing to “find out for sure” and deciding to trust Ellison, and not even bothering to have Cameron to look around, eventually being fooled.
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