Comments | roxybisquaint: Gymnastics ends at 5:30

roxybisquaint

Gymnastics ends at 5:30

Oct 21, 2010 05:49

The idea of Sarah working with Ellison isn't something I find plausible, but I expect it to happen anyway. Why? Because I think that was always Ellison's intended role. I don't mean he was meant to be Sarah's permanent partner (No, God no); I mean to be an ally to some extent, at least for a while. The character changed course, though, and by the ( Read more... )

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always engaging Roxy anonymous October 21 2010, 10:59:37 UTC

Roxy, in the absence of a season 3 I always enjoy reading your musings on how you think the story should logically pan out. Entries like this one are always a fascinating read. Hell it's a disappointment to reach the end of these "wacky theory" posts because I want them to keep going for page's more. Similar to watching a show you like that ends on an awesome cliffhanger.

That's enough sucking up from me :)
Keep on writing, keep on musing, keep on thinking about TSCC.

Regards,
Someone Anonymous... or maybe Claire Young... or maybe...

Re: always engaging Roxy roxybisquaint October 21 2010, 20:40:53 UTC

I love that other people still love thinking about this stuff as much as I do :)

I can't help myself. If I ever lay out a final, all-encompasing theory on how everything plays out, I think I'll be really sad. Or maybe I'll just start fresh with a totally new storyline. In the meantime, I'll keep having my fun playing with what we got left with in TSCC.

Hungry Plot Bunnies tackdriver56 October 21 2010, 15:16:30 UTC

The writers are free to explore this scenario. I don't remember any divot in the concrete floor at Zeira Corp before T-Weaver and John Connor jumped.

Judgement Day had clearly happened when they arrived in the future. That implies that Sarah, Ellison, John Henry, Cameron-in-the-Turk, Terissa Dyson, Savanah Weaver, Matt Murch, Jesse, and All the King's Horses failed miserably. The writers could follow that train-wreck to the bitter end (a la Derek), before John Connor resets the loop by sending someone back with knowlege of how to intervene.

If the show jumps back and forth in time between John and Sarah, is it still her chronicle?

Re: Hungry Plot Bunnies roxybisquaint October 21 2010, 20:35:40 UTC

There's nothing I can do about John jumping to the future even if it does split the story for a while. But Sarah can be in the future too, having gotten there the natural way through time progression. If she's in both the present-day story and the future story, then yes, it can still be her chronicles.

The failure is something I still need to work through. Sarah fails (at least until John comes back to free up the future again), so her story has to focus more on why she fails, not the fact that she fails. I've got ideas. Nothing settled yet, though.

Re: Hungry Plot Bunnies tackdriver56 October 21 2010, 21:13:39 UTC

"Sarah can be in the future too
That's an interesting point. I've been pinned to the "Sarah dies of cancer soon" theory. Odd that nobody recognizes the name John Connor, if Sarah survives J-Day.

I think exploring *how* Team Connor fails (is) could be an interesting and worthwhile exercise, contrasting her "no compromises with the machines", no spare parts for Cameron, etc., while John's more collaborative attitude.

Revealing, and contrasting, the shortcomings of each philosophy would be really cool, IMHO.

Re: Hungry Plot Bunnies roxybisquaint October 25 2010, 19:17:09 UTC

Odd that nobody recognizes the name John Connor, if Sarah survives J-Day.

I think exploring *how* Team Connor fails (is) could be an interesting and worthwhile exercise, contrasting her "no compromises with the machines", no spare parts for Cameron, etc., while John's more collaborative attitude.

Well this wouldn't be a "team Connor" failure since Derek's dead, John's in the future, Cameron's potentially out of commission for a while... So it's really just Sarah's failure to stop Skynet. I hate that the show forced that on us, but they did, so I'm working with it.

The contrast of Sarah and John's approaches is exactly what I think season 3 would've been (my vision of a continuation anyway). I see John's view as even more flawed than Sarah's but somewhere in between the two is the right path (kind of like the end of T2).

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phantomwriter05 October 22 2010, 06:32:03 UTC

LOL ( ... )

roxybisquaint October 25 2010, 20:34:36 UTC

My theory has always been that of Star Wars like Plot at least in season three in which Savannah is sort of the apprentice of Sarah's till she goes nuts and decides to go about a different way to save the future and Sarah ends up being a little like Kenobi in a new hope about the time John arrives in the future and is reunited with Momma ... which leads to John (the real savior) and Savannah (The pretender) to duke it out, but the T-1001 has already been created thus it all returns to the "will you join us?"

Hee. My only Star Wars comparison came into play when I was pushing my secret daughter crack theory way back when Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep aired... There is another. John has... a sisssssster :D