"Last year she got me a flak jacket."
Those Reese boys like blowing shit up, don't they?
Sarah: What's for dinner?
Kyle: Plastique.
John: I guess that's why they say you can't fight City Hall.
Derek: Whoever said that obviously didn't have enough plastique.
I've been a little behind on The Sarah Connor Chronicles because I've been taping them and not watching them live, but I was finally caught up in time to see the last two eps when they aired. And they were so good that I kind of can't stop thinking about the Terminator-verse and I have to talk about it before I bust.
I have big love for the first two Terminator movies. I saw T2 before T1 because John dragged me to see it when it came out. I remember sitting with him in the theatre before it started while he told me the story of the first movie so that I'd know what was going on. I didn't see T1 until much later, after I had discovered Michael Biehn and was in the process of watching every movie he'd ever made (some good, some so not good). My love for the Reese/Sarah story is right up there with Han/Leia and Korben/Leeloo. So, yeah. A little attached to these movies and their characters.
I was worried about how the series was going to play out and how I'd feel when they inevitably retconned the movies but I have to say, I have really enjoyed it. I couldn't imagine anyone but Linda Hamilton as Sarah, but Lena Headey kicks ass in her own way and I've come to love her Sarah as much as I do Hamilton's. I was worried about John being emo and whiny and... well, he is a little emo, but not so much that I can't deal. Plus, I loved Thomas Dekker in Heroes and I'm seeing a little more of his Zack-awesomeness in every episode. Obviously, Summer is the bomb (no pun intended) and I expected nothing less. And if you had told me in 1993 - when my housemates and I watched 90210 almost solely to mock David Silver and his big hair and parachute pants - that I would one day totally crush on a character played by Brian Austin Green... I would have laughed until I cried.
They've definitely made some changes to the original story that I wouldn't have, but I find that if I don't think about it too too hard, I really don't care all that much. I actually like that the timeline has become sort of murky and hard to follow. That makes sense to me when you've got people bouncing around in time and changing things as they go along and trying to steer things in one direction or another. It doesn't need to make perfect sense for me to enjoy it.
Last night, my favorite and least favorite moments both involved John and Derek. I loved their conversation when Sarah and Cameron went into the cafe to contact the guy with the Turk. When John said, "One of the girls is harder than nuclear nails..." and Derek followed it up with, "...and the other one's a cyborg." I think that was the moment I started loving Derek Reese.
My least favorite was the scene in the park at the end. I loved that Derek took John to see Little Kyle and I loved the whole bit about how he saw Kyle every time he looked at John. What I hated was the line about Sarah being Kyle's type. It's a little thing, but it brought my brain to a screeching halt and ruined for me what was otherwise a really beautiful scene. Because a) Sarah is a vastly different person now than when Kyle met her, and b) I somehow doubt that the Kyle in T1 had a type, mostly because c) she practically had to club him in the head and drag him around by the hair before he got that she was into him. Like I said, it was a little thing. I just didn't like it. If Derek said anything about Sarah and Kyle, I wish it had been something about Kyle carrying Sarah's picture around with him everywhere he went. It would have fit with both the series and the movies and it wouldn't have broken my brain.
Sarah beating the ever loving crap out of those City Hall guards made my night.
And for some reason, Cameron waggling her fingers at Sarah when asked about the nail polish smell just cracked me up. Stone cold blank look still on the face, waggling fingers. "Doing Spirit Fingers helps the polish dry!"
Oh, and FBI guy! I'm really glad he lived through the Chromartie slaughter. I like him.