FantasticVSDoom

The fire just destroys the guys computer is all, it didn’t put an end to the robot apocalypse. The fact is Sarah and John are still humans and it’s not quite as easy for them to kill indiscriminately. They are not Terminators, which is why they always show the difference between the 2. Sarah couldn’t kill Enrique either, but Cameron had not problem. They also know that killing someone doesn’t really mean ending the apocalypse anyways, because it hasn’t helped yet.

Jah-Wren Ryel

If the show ran on F/X like The Shield instead of broadcast FOX the writers probably would have had Sarah kill the cell-phone sales guy. But they are obviously compormising for their audience which (despite the viewer discretion warning) wants to feel warm and fuzzy about the good guys and killing someone who hasn't done something bad yet is way too grey to keep the warm and fuzzies around.

cardaway

If you're buying into the warm and fuzzy reasoning behind the fire, then why even have the fire? It does nothing, nothing at all. IMO it's decisions like those that take it out of the original tone of the movies and ruin the show.

FantasticVSDoom

Its not any different then what happened in T2...

dhmac

The reason is that they are now in an alternate "How To Make More Sequels In Order To Make More Money" Timeline.

(That explanation works for me!)

DVD Josh

PHASE plasma rifle

And hey, only what you see here pal.

DVD Josh

What a silly comment. They had a teenage girl jump of a fucking building, killing herself, and show her dead with blood oozing from her head.

"Warm and fuzzy" enough for you?

cardaway

Gruesome for TV, yes. Stupid and unexplained subplot, also yes.

Groucho

Dreadful episode from start to finish. My main complaints have already been raised:

* Cameron in high school acting completely different than she did in the pilot. Not to mention that she looks ten years older than any of the other students.
* The sub-plot with the splatter girl made no sense whatsoever. I'm guessing there was a scene or two deleted here.

DVD Josh

Ten years older? You mean ten years HOTTER!!!!

Heat

These were the two main complaints I had about it. Why would they have her character act completely different in school, from a smart active girl to, well, acting like a robot?

I loved the pilot but didn't like this episode.

chanster

Listen folks, its been said before..but Cameron's "acting differently" was during the pilot! Ok, it happens all the time - the pilot's made, input by the studio executives is done, and then the show is launched.

Obviously the show was told to make Cameron more robotic for a purpose..the purpose will probably be explained..I'm guessing they didn't want to start the show with Cameron acting too "human" so they can show the gradual development (i.e. somewhat along the lines of data) and save some of the interesting twists on the Terminator mythology gradually then all up front.

Doc MacGyver

Bullseye.


-Doc

Peep

Yeah, let's please get over this.

My favorite recent example of this was in the pilot of the spy series "Burn Notice", where Gabrielle Anwar had a ridiculously overblown Irish accept. In the second episode, her accent is gone. "What happened to your accent?" asks her co-star. She replies something like "if I'm going to live in Miami, I'll have to start talking like the locals."

What?!?! Well, at least the addressed it. "Sarah Conner" just seems to have hoped that nobody would notice/care.

Jah-Wren Ryel

What a silly comment. The audience did not expect to fucking identify with the fucking girl jumping off the fucking building.

The audience does expect to identify with the protagonists. Identifying with a grey protagonist is not warm and fuzzy enough for broadcast primetime.

Rockmjd23

If burning down the guy's house with his computer had worked, wouldn't Cameron have disappeared? They should know it didn't help at all. Then again, after they blew up Cyberdyne in T2, they should've wondered why Arnold was still standing there. I suppose that's just rehashing old time travel arguments.

McHawkson

Yeah, so does John Connor's existence. Kyle Reese wouldn’t have been sent back from the future.

I choose to ignore the realistic and enjoy the show.

Rockmjd23

I'm trying but there's not a whole lot to enjoy so far.

Jah-Wren Ryel

Since time travel doesn't actually exist, there are no rules of casuality to be violated. Or, in other words, one interpretation is as good as another.

Rockmjd23

omg you're right!

clemente

It appears the Terminator saga doesn't follow the Back to the Future rules of time travel. No disappearing...just being stuck in the present.

Which actually makes more sense that phasing out.....to me anyway.

meshershark

Am I the only one who liked the fact that they only showed us glimpses of why that girl killed herself? It made perfect sense to me because it mirrored the same confused ignorance that John and Cam felt being new to the school. The terminator stuff is central to the show and the main characters, so we get the exposition there. The school is peripheral and the characters only dip in and out of it, just like our awareness of the whole school and what goes on there.

DVD Josh

That part of the show had a real Incredible Hulk (70's) feeling to me.

malichai

I also thought that was well done.

johnglass

I'm guessing (hoping) that whole sub-plot isn't finished. I'll even venture to say the other blond girl that he has run into from time to time at school will also be involved with the teacher, and John will do what he can to save her.