By Melissa Voelker – I haven’t done a rant to start off with lately, but I feel like doing one this week. I am sick and tired of season finales that end on cliffhangers. I think that is really rather rude of the show creators, especially when it is a show like Sarah Connor Chronicles that may not be back next season.
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By Melissa Voelker – This has to have been one of the best episodes of the entire series. In fact it was so good, and so much better than “Today is the Day, part 1,” that I am just going to pretend Part 1 didn’t exist. That episode was dumb, and didn’t feel right to me one little bit, so it no longer exists. POOF! (I can do that; I’ve decided it’s my superpower now.)
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By Melissa Voelker
The second half of Season Two has certainly been different than what I had grown accustomed to in this series. First, there were several very character-driven episodes back to back, and then when the action and adventure returned, it was almost written WELL.
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By Melissa Voelker
I’m a bit torn this week on whether or not I thought this was a good episode. While it lacked all of that ridiculous time-travel stuff that drives me so crazy, it also seemed to lack anything that could make it . . . interesting. It was yet another episode driven by Sarah Connor’s inner thoughts and turmoil, though this time it lacked the ghost of Kyle Reese to give it a little excitement.
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By Melissa Voelker
Last week I got excited because I finally saw a terminator acting like a terminator. Catherine Weaver marched into that warehouse and slaughtered people left and right without a moment’s hesitation. It didn’t matter that they were mother’s or father’s or someone’s kid. She cut them down with her awesome liquid cyborg sword arms and then burnt down the building around the bodies. As sad as it was, I couldn’t help feeling like it was about dang time.
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By Melissa Voelker When we left our Connor Crew last year, they were fighting several bloody battles. Riley, John’s irritating and duplicitous girlfriend, had tried to kill herself by slitting her wrists on his bathroom floor. And being the young and foolish man in love that it doesn’t surprise me he turned out to be, [...]
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By Melissa Voelker
My rant this week isn’t really so much a rant, as more of a question for the writers. Why, oh why, if it was possible for you to write episodes that don’t suck, did you wait so long to do so?
By Melissa Voelker
This week my rant is all for Fox. Fox, why do you hate your own programming? First you buy shows and announce that you will be their new best friend, and then you start to hurt them. Its like you are the ultimate abusive boyfriend.
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By Melissa Voelker
My rant this week is all about promos. Leading up to the episode last night, Fox kept airing a promo for it that promised “Someone will DIE!” I hate these types of promos.
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By Melissa Voelker
This week I can’t start with an opening rant because my head is already about set to explode over the show and I don’t want to aggravate things further. So we will get right into the new episode’s events. The Connor Crew is after another person whose name is part of the bloody list splashed across their basement wall. They aren’t sure if this new guy, Dr. Sherman, is a goodie or a baddie, so after finding out that he is a family counselor they decide to go undercover as a family that needs counseling (like that is a stretch).
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By Melissa Voelker
This week’s opening rant is all about product placement. Normally I have no problem with it, as I understand it is an important part of how TV shows make the money they need to stay in production and on the air. So when I see characters using specific kinds of computers, or drinking certain sodas, or eating at recognizable restaurants, I just accept it as part of the process. But when product placement is shoved in my face and down my throat and then twists around in my insides, I stop being so accepting of it.
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By Melissa Voelker
This week my opening rant will be about the insanely stupid narration that opens the series this year. Just because you find a guy with a moderately grave sounding voice doesn’t mean you should have him spouting out background info for the show every week.
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By Melissa Voelker
Before I recap last night’s episode, I have to get something off my chest. Last season, though I had a problem with the constant time-travel hooey that seemed to occur in just about every episode, I found this show to be relatively watchable.
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By Melissa Voelker
After somewhat recovering from last week’s chase-fest, the Connor Crew has gotten basically back on their feet and is ready to go on trying to save the world. Sarah has gotten them a new house/base of operations, Cameron no longer needs to staple her face wounds shut, and John is going back to school like a good teenager.
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By Melissa Voelker
Last season ended with a bang – literally. Cromartie the evil cyborg killer had just wiped out an entire squad of highly trained FBI agents and was holding a gun to Agent Ellison’s head, while Cameron the girl-bot was blown up in Sarah’s Jeep after it was discovered that the Connor Crew might be in trouble from a sneaky deal gone wrong. Viewers were left with quite a cliffhanger – would Ellison be the first main character casualty in this new age of regular main character casualties in TV drama?
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by Melissa Voelker Here it is, the big payoff that the long and strenuous season has been building toward. After weeks and weeks of watching and – wait, has it even been weeks and weeks? Looking back, it doesn’t feel like this show has been on long enough to have a season finale yet. Has [...]
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by Melissa Voelker Normally when I watch “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” I do it with my MacBook in my lap so that I can write down all of the details of the show as they happen. But this week I decided I would try an experiment. If this show is really any good, I [...]
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by Melissa Voelker It is time to find out if the second Reese sent back through time by John Connor will live a bit longer than his brother. He’s in pretty bad shape, but with Charley Dixon’s help they may be able to keep him breathing for a while. At least long enough for him [...]
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