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
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
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 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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… TV production is starting again. Pink Raygun is updating the Fate of TV Shows After the Strike with post-strike premiere dates, season lengths, and cancellations. … On March 28th at 10 pm, the SciFi Channel will air two Battlestar Galactica specials: Battlestar Galactica: Revisited, which will fill in viewers on the last three seasons, [...]
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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are making their first-ever joint convention appearance at this year’s WonderCon. They will be joined by Chris Carter (creator) and Frank Spotnitz (producer) to promote the new X-Files movie. Other Film Guests: Kristen Bell (yes, Ms. Veronica Mars) and Jason Segel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall Brendan Fraser from Journey To [...]
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By Melissa Voelker It is funny how no matter what, things from the past will always come back to bite you in the ass. Even if it seems like they are a good memory, a good lesson, it never seems to turn out that way in the future when they revisit you. Though she knows [...]
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by Melissa Voelker It’s another week, and another chance for Cromartie the evil terminator to continue rebuilding himself after the wreck the Connor crew made of him. And it is another chance for John Connor, one day savior of mankind, to pout. Related Stuff:
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by Melissa Voelker It is dreaming with Sarah Connor again, as she fantasizes about killing the scientists that invented the nuclear bomb. As usual this turns into a nightmare about terminators, and as usual ends badly for her. When she wakes up she and John hash out the real reason the resistance fighters were sent [...]
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by Melissa Voelker Now ensconced eight years in the future, the Connors try to go about life as normal – for them. John sulks and pouts, and with his new Emo hair style it seems he has assimilated into 2007 pretty well for only being there three days. Cameron breaks up some sulky mother son [...]
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By Melissa Voelker Finally it is time, after weeks of waiting and wondering and practicing my snarkiness, it is the first night of the special two night premiere event of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I am poised at the TV set, eyes glued to the screen, physically and mentally prepared to pounce on what [...]
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