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Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Feb. 21st, 2011 09:27 pmI have just finished watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
... *blinks a lot*
... brb, brain rebooting...
Twisty goodness.
Some of it I could see coming, but only from one episode away.
That ending... that's not an ending. That's no fair as an ending. That's like a bazillion beginnings in a stack.
Also, it's like totally the opposite of a Blakes 7 ending.
I like it.
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That was psychologically deep, consistently complex, interweaving, fair play puzzle pieces, engrossing storytelling, with a female character in the title, half the characters women, and a story focusing on motherhood and arse kicking as necessarily intertwined things. Plus there were great action sequences, things blew up, Summer Glau kicks things, and sometimes shiny metal walks around. That is such an excellent show.
Also, I'm vaguely regretting not having spread the episodes out more so I could do more thinking between episodes. Except the what-happens-next urge was far, far too strong.
... so now I'm making eep noises about how come that's the end of the disc and the box and the show...
*big sigh*
The whole setup is just fanfic bait. AU central. The ending throws it all wide open, that tension there's always been between is it predestined or was No Fate true, it comes down hard on No Fate. Anyone can go back to any point in time, with all the knowledge we the viewers have, and start over. The gift to writers in that... oh so much possibility!
... and yet when I start figuring how to play with it, I like the characters we know too much to want to jump in and boot their timelines. Every intervention creates an AU, there's no way to do it without creating new people with familiar faces. We lose everyone we love.
... *blinks some more*
... brain still working on it...
... *blinks a lot*
... brb, brain rebooting...
Twisty goodness.
Some of it I could see coming, but only from one episode away.
That ending... that's not an ending. That's no fair as an ending. That's like a bazillion beginnings in a stack.
Also, it's like totally the opposite of a Blakes 7 ending.
I like it.
( Read more... )
That was psychologically deep, consistently complex, interweaving, fair play puzzle pieces, engrossing storytelling, with a female character in the title, half the characters women, and a story focusing on motherhood and arse kicking as necessarily intertwined things. Plus there were great action sequences, things blew up, Summer Glau kicks things, and sometimes shiny metal walks around. That is such an excellent show.
Also, I'm vaguely regretting not having spread the episodes out more so I could do more thinking between episodes. Except the what-happens-next urge was far, far too strong.
... so now I'm making eep noises about how come that's the end of the disc and the box and the show...
*big sigh*
The whole setup is just fanfic bait. AU central. The ending throws it all wide open, that tension there's always been between is it predestined or was No Fate true, it comes down hard on No Fate. Anyone can go back to any point in time, with all the knowledge we the viewers have, and start over. The gift to writers in that... oh so much possibility!
... and yet when I start figuring how to play with it, I like the characters we know too much to want to jump in and boot their timelines. Every intervention creates an AU, there's no way to do it without creating new people with familiar faces. We lose everyone we love.
... *blinks some more*
... brain still working on it...