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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Sarah Connor vs. Death in Two Forms

In the Terminator 3 movie, we learn that Sarah Connor died of cancer (leukemia) in 1997 (after the original Judgment Day). In Episode 1.2 of the alternate-timeline current television series, Cameron tells Sarah that she died of cancer in 2005 - Sarah, John, and Cameron have time leaped from 1999 to 2007...

Episode 2.20 focuses, in part, on whether Sarah has not only leaped past her death, but left it in the past. Her body, in the first place, succumbed to cancer. But perhaps the trip through time changed something in her bio-chemistry, some subtle change in her generation of cells which bypassed the cancer. Her stress level has certainly been high after the time jump, but it was high before. No difference there. But could there have been some healing effect in the time travel itself...

Sarah discovers a lump in her breast. This brings her closer to Charley Dixon - Sarah has brought John there for some safety - but the lump turns out to be a tracking device...

Which brings us and the story back to the death that hunts not only Sarah, but John, Cameron, Derek, and everyone trying to stop Skynet, every minute. Charley once again becomes part of this fight. He heroically fights off of a Terminator attack long enough to save John...

Two more episodes left in Season 2 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and it's getting better with every episode.



See also 2.1 Cameron's Back ... 2.2 Firing on All Cylinders ... 2.3 Who, Truly, Is Agent Ellison? ... 2.4: Meet Allison ... 2.5: Unpacking the Future ... 2.6: Terminator Mom, Human Daughter ... 2.7: The Saving Robbery and Cromartie ... 2.8 Perspectives and Death ... 2.9: An Idiot's Guide to Time Travel in The Sarah Connor Chronicles ... 2.10: Riley Lashes Out at Facebook ... 2.11: Cameron Meets A. E. Housman and Andre Bazin ... 2.12 Sarah Connor Chronicles in Triple Time ... 2.13: Space, Time, and Blogging in The Sarah Connor Chronicles ... 2.18: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the Life of Riley








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5 comments:

M.P. Andonee said...

What a fantastic episode Paul! I did not expect Charlie to die. Somehow, I expected him to survive.

Are you starting to get the idea that John Henry, the ex-FBI guy James Ellison and the liquid metal company woman Catherine Weaver are actually there by John's plan as well? For the first time, in this episode, that's the impression I got, that John Henry and Catherine Weaver are NOT bad terminators, but rather good terminators, trying to prevent the rise of Cyberdyne Systems....

Hmm... Interesting.

Unknown said...

At the beginning of the episode we see Sarah ditching Derek because he made a mistake and put John in danger. Then in the end Sarah gets Charlie killed and puts John in danger.

tvindy said...

Since Sarah knows she is likely due for cancer sometime soon, she should be more proactive. We haven't seen her do much about it in recent episodes. I don't recall if the original cancer was breast cancer. If it was, she should at least be getting a monthly mammogram to catch it as soon as it appears.

Eric said...

Paul,

I don't think Charlie was fighting off a Terminator, I think it was a person who worked for the company that owned the blown up warehouse. The other guys in the same uniforms that attacked Sarah, Derek, and Cameron, were all killed pretty easily and were clearly humans, so I think the guy who killed Charlie was a human also.

Paul Levinson said...

Eric - good point - I had assumed they were Terminators, but you're right - they were killed too easily to be T's.

TVindy - good points. I guess the impression we're supposed to be getting is Sarah is too consumed with protecting John to take care of herself.

Lo - good point, too!

MP - Interesting possibility - but I think the more likely explanation for Weaver is she's testing for weaknesses, so she can make Cyberdine stronger. Ellison is definitely good, though - he's genuinely hoping to make Cromartie into a good Terminator.

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