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lifeonqueen) wrote2009-03-30 10:51 pm
lifeonqueen) wrote2009-03-30 10:51 pm
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles, "To the Lighthouse"
Okay, I love my grim, family drama with killer robots.
I have terrible existential angst-related writer's block but I love, love, love this show.
I think after 29 episodes, I may even be able to watch without being overcome with anxiety about how they handle Sarah's character - hey, I've already suffered through TERMINATOR 3 and one crappy, off-screen, out-of-character, throw-away death and that kind of thing scars a girl. When Josh Friedman said before season two began that he didn't know if you could build up John without tearing Sarah down, he lit up all the warning lights on my control panel. But in the last couple of episodes, I finally get what he meant, that the process of tearing Sarah down and building John up are actually the same thing, that it's about taking away what is extraneous and revealing what is essential to these characters. For John it means growing up and putting aside his child's illusions about his mother, what his life should be and himself. For Sarah, it means setting down the baggage of the last 17 years and accepting what she can't change and fighting like hell to change what she can.
God, I love this show.
I have terrible existential angst-related writer's block but I love, love, love this show.
I think after 29 episodes, I may even be able to watch without being overcome with anxiety about how they handle Sarah's character - hey, I've already suffered through TERMINATOR 3 and one crappy, off-screen, out-of-character, throw-away death and that kind of thing scars a girl. When Josh Friedman said before season two began that he didn't know if you could build up John without tearing Sarah down, he lit up all the warning lights on my control panel. But in the last couple of episodes, I finally get what he meant, that the process of tearing Sarah down and building John up are actually the same thing, that it's about taking away what is extraneous and revealing what is essential to these characters. For John it means growing up and putting aside his child's illusions about his mother, what his life should be and himself. For Sarah, it means setting down the baggage of the last 17 years and accepting what she can't change and fighting like hell to change what she can.
God, I love this show.