Sarah Connor Chronicles recap: Pilot
Well, finally something new hit television land Sunday night. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles made it’s premiere on FOX Sunday night, with the second episode to follow tonight after an all-new Prison Break.
The story is this:
Sarah and John Connor are still on the run after the events in Terminator 2, trying to stay hidden from society so that there is no way they can be found. Apparently the things that happen in Terminator 3 wont be taking into account during this series, which is fine with me because I tend to forget it ever happened.
In the pilot, Sarah fears that they are in danger and leaves a guy whom she loves and has just asked her to marry him. Whether she really feels that, or more exactly fears being tied down and unable to move at a moments notice, she takes John and they head to New Mexico.
The man she was with takes her picture to the police, which puts her into the system. Somehow, this alerts an FBI agent named James Ellison, who recaps the stuff that happened in Terminator 2 for those that forgot.
Along with the FBI, the entering of Sarah Reese into the system also alerts an evil terminator on the hunt for John. With Sarah making a mistake of not changing her alias, it was easy for him to find them in New Mexico.
On his first day of school, John meets a cute girl named Cameron, who we all know is a good terminator sent to protect him. She seems way more human than any we’ve seen before and all we get from her is that she’s “a new model.”
With the news that Skynet was somehow not destroyed with Miles Dyson from T2, the go to his wife’s house to find out if she knows anything, which she doesn’t. Cameron has no idea who built Skynet, and apparently no one does in 2027, which is where she is from.
So they decide that instead of running and running, they’ll try to find out who built Skynet after Miles Dyson died.
Cameron ends up taking them to a bank that was built in 1963. She reveals that John sent someone back in time to 1963 to build the parts for the time machine that they use to send people back. That person also left the parts for a frakking awesome gun, which can be used to destroy terminators.
Sadly, it only got used once as the terminator arrives at the bank where they are constructing the time machine device and Sarah blows it away while the time warp encompasses them.
You cannot take anything with you across time, which is why the parts had to be built.
The trio lands in the middle of a freeway in 2007 with their new mission to find Skynet’s creator. Of course some dopey kid catches Sarah on camera, so James Ellison sees it and so does her long lost boyfriend, who is now married.
Whew, that was a lot to go over and digest.
I have to say, I really liked it. I thought Summer Glau was pretty solid as Cameron. Obviously the creators want to give her more of a human feel, otherwise she’s going to get boring after awhile.
But Lena Headey (from 300) was one of the best parts I felt. She has a great voice, which was used at the beginning and end as a narrative means. But she’s got determination and grit, and is a great casting choice. She’s probably who they could have used in Bionic Woman and made it a little bit better.
John Connor, played by Thomas Dekker, seemed to grow up by the end and I have hopes that he will be a good character eventually, but I really feel the two women are the stars here.
The special effects were on par with anything on TV right now.
The only thing that really didn’t “grab” me was their mission to find Skynet’s creator. This is supposed to be their “mythology” thread in the series, which will give us new information here and there and be a mystery that they’ll solve over time.
I felt a better hook could have been given, but we’ll see how it goes.
What did you think? Did you like it? Hate it?
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