Mousetrap
I was in LA again this week for Episode 3 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is Mousetrap. I know I know, I’m the only person in the universe who watches this show so I don’t expect you to read this post or comment. I’ll try and come up with something else worthwhile blogging about – like No Heroics or the new season of Heroes, or Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (which I’m enjoying immensely BTW). This jetlag is killing me.
*** Spoilers Yeeeeehah ***
This episode was bleak. It was bleak and black and terrifying and nasty. From the first second where we see Cromartie driving out of town I knew that it was going to be an awful episode and that Charlie and his wife or both of them were going to die and I didn’t want to watch it.
But I did just in case I was wrong.
Alas I was right or wrong about being wrong, what I mean is death prevailed and it was awful and Sarah knew it was because of her but she couldn’t stop it and she was angry and frustrated but she couldn’t let those feelings go anywhere because as usual she had a job to do. Very angsty. If only they had a bigger budget and they could just blow things up instead of confronting us with drama. But at least it’s convincing drama. I’ve got to say that I find the acting in this show is so convincing that I really do get pretty tense when I watch it.
I can see now how they set up the death of Charlie’s wife Michelle in the previous episode: Ellison pays a visit to Charlie’s house and talks to Michelle and tells her what’s going on so that he can convince Charlie and Michelle to get out of town. Ellison realises that Cromartie is going to try and follow up any links to Sarah and John and he knows where Charlie lives. So the setup is that Michele is majorly pissed that she wasn’t in the loop about this. The reason I think this sets it up is that the writers had decided that in order for Charlie to stay in the show and to give him some reasons for joining the fight in ernest, Michelle would have to go. But they didn’t want Michelle to go down as a symbol of weak womanhood who just ties Charlie down and stops him from being a real man, so they put a bit of fire into her character so that we knew what she was made of in advance.
I think that Sarah is going to disapprove of John’s girlfriend Riley even more strongly after this incident and will plead with John not to get involved with people as it can only lead them into danger.
In other news, Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson) has recruited Agent Ellison to help her find terminators. What’s she up to? She mentioned her late husband, I wonder what happened to that poor soul (and the original Catherine Weaver for that matter).
Gaping plot hole of the week: Cromartie’s plan was brilliant up until the bit where he tricked John into going to the pier. What’s wrong with a dark alley where he’s got no-where to run and Cromartie could just pick him off? Also, why couldn’t Cameron do a better job of surveilling John without him knowing, surely she has super vision?
Following on from Atomic Al last week, this weeks comic relief was a clip from a B grade film called Beast Wizard VII (follow that link now!) that has become a huge phenomenon since Cromartie massacred the FBI agents. The identity that Cromartie took over was of an actor and apparently a bit of a cult fascination has arisen around him. (I told you it was a dark episode)
And here’s a tip for when you’re being chased by a terminator: terminators can’t swim, they tend to sink rather rapidly and it takes them a little while to get to shore as I suppose the water friction and mud on the bottom slows them down a bit.
[tags]mousetrap, terminator, the sarah connor chronicles[/tags]
