T:SCC: Automatic for the People: Picspam and discussion
On with the review of Season 2!
I noticed a few things this time around that, knowing what we know, might have been breadcrumbs that have been laid from the start.
We open in the church. Sarah is watching John sleep:
She hasn't slept because "what do you do with a guard dog you can't trust?" referring, of course, to Cameron.
Derek doesn't trust Cameron either.
Of course, he never did.
There's an interaction with John and Cameron and Cameron tells John he can't be trusted. He responds by saying "They can learn to deal with it." (meaning Derek and Sarah). Cameron says Not them. A clue, methinks!
Sarah tells John that he should go to school. That they all need some normal and boring.
See John not fit in anymore, seeing what he's seen, done what he's done. Look how much taller he is now than the people around him:
Enter Riley (on whom fandom is v.v. split, mostly on wanting her gone).
But there's something about her that appeals to John and he tells her they're moving and invites her home.
Sarah rented a new place from Busy Phillips (I can't remember her character name, durrr), who's RL that preggers:
Riley makes John smile:
And John smiles are exceedingly rare, y'all. Right alongside Sarah smiles. And Cameron smiles. And Derek smiles. Hmmm.
(gratuitous BAG screencap. People still call him a has-been. To them I say, STFU.)
Meanwhile, a resistance fighter from the future travels back, just as he's shot, and bursts into the Connor's new house, gasping out something about Serrano Point Nuclear Power Plant, which turns out to be a Resistance stronghold in the future. They have to stop Greenway. so Sarah and Cameron get jobs there, which brings us back to Sarah's cancer-- she would have died in 2005 if they hadn't jumped forward. Her cover name? Karen (as in Silkwood).
Greenway turns out to be a good guy.
Cameron turns out to be good at pool. Derek is good at jacking into cars just before the windshield of said car gets busted in.
Riley is still at home with John when the crew gets back. Sarah no likee this, to which John asks her, very pointedly, "When is the time for me to live my life?" And he takes Riley upstairs.
Where they talk about the future. And freedom. Which John doesn't have. As Sarah stands outside again, once again aware of the distance between her and her son.
There's concern at one point that Sarah gets "crapped up" and has to get scrubbed down.
She's late told it's a false alarm. Ha-freakin'-ha, jerk. But Greenway gets replaced by a machine overnight, he gets the plant online and then proceeds to try to sabotage it. Sarah tells Cameron who responds that she's "Thinking about what to do." This is not normal, ie she's still flawed.
All this while Riley has apparently spent the night in John's room, making him a LEGO robot and she gets his phone number and goes. John is smitten.
Sarah and Cameron eventually defeat the machineGreenway, and store his parts in a waste barrel.
But have they won?
John tells Cameron that he doesn't have to prove anything to anyone.
And we see Weaver impersonating someone else to say that the nuclear power plant will be brought online using advanced computers.
I think the Connor gang lost.
But just after Sarah wonders if she's still fated to get cancer, that she might be a timebomb waiting to go off, while Cameron wonders the same thing, Sarah finds a wall in the basement where the dying resistance fighter had scrawled a number of words in his own blood.
They have a goal. Even if they aren't united.
I noticed a few things this time around that, knowing what we know, might have been breadcrumbs that have been laid from the start.
We open in the church. Sarah is watching John sleep:
She hasn't slept because "what do you do with a guard dog you can't trust?" referring, of course, to Cameron.
Derek doesn't trust Cameron either.
Of course, he never did.
There's an interaction with John and Cameron and Cameron tells John he can't be trusted. He responds by saying "They can learn to deal with it." (meaning Derek and Sarah). Cameron says Not them. A clue, methinks!
Sarah tells John that he should go to school. That they all need some normal and boring.
See John not fit in anymore, seeing what he's seen, done what he's done. Look how much taller he is now than the people around him:
Enter Riley (on whom fandom is v.v. split, mostly on wanting her gone).
But there's something about her that appeals to John and he tells her they're moving and invites her home.
Sarah rented a new place from Busy Phillips (I can't remember her character name, durrr), who's RL that preggers:
Riley makes John smile:
And John smiles are exceedingly rare, y'all. Right alongside Sarah smiles. And Cameron smiles. And Derek smiles. Hmmm.
(gratuitous BAG screencap. People still call him a has-been. To them I say, STFU.)
Meanwhile, a resistance fighter from the future travels back, just as he's shot, and bursts into the Connor's new house, gasping out something about Serrano Point Nuclear Power Plant, which turns out to be a Resistance stronghold in the future. They have to stop Greenway. so Sarah and Cameron get jobs there, which brings us back to Sarah's cancer-- she would have died in 2005 if they hadn't jumped forward. Her cover name? Karen (as in Silkwood).
Greenway turns out to be a good guy.
Cameron turns out to be good at pool. Derek is good at jacking into cars just before the windshield of said car gets busted in.
Riley is still at home with John when the crew gets back. Sarah no likee this, to which John asks her, very pointedly, "When is the time for me to live my life?" And he takes Riley upstairs.
Where they talk about the future. And freedom. Which John doesn't have. As Sarah stands outside again, once again aware of the distance between her and her son.
There's concern at one point that Sarah gets "crapped up" and has to get scrubbed down.
She's late told it's a false alarm. Ha-freakin'-ha, jerk. But Greenway gets replaced by a machine overnight, he gets the plant online and then proceeds to try to sabotage it. Sarah tells Cameron who responds that she's "Thinking about what to do." This is not normal, ie she's still flawed.
All this while Riley has apparently spent the night in John's room, making him a LEGO robot and she gets his phone number and goes. John is smitten.
Sarah and Cameron eventually defeat the machineGreenway, and store his parts in a waste barrel.
But have they won?
John tells Cameron that he doesn't have to prove anything to anyone.
And we see Weaver impersonating someone else to say that the nuclear power plant will be brought online using advanced computers.
I think the Connor gang lost.
But just after Sarah wonders if she's still fated to get cancer, that she might be a timebomb waiting to go off, while Cameron wonders the same thing, Sarah finds a wall in the basement where the dying resistance fighter had scrawled a number of words in his own blood.
They have a goal. Even if they aren't united.