Tonight on Sarah Connor: Born to Run
April 10, 2009 by Cynthia
Tonight is the season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it’s called “Born to Run.”
Last week was pretty much a game changer. Sarah was arrested after making contact with Ellison and. . . sob. . Derek was killed. Now John’s headed for a face-off with Catherine Weaver. Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that we’ll be coming away with more questions than answers? And what are the chances that we’ll get another season to continue this tale? Sigh. I don’t think I’m going to be a happy camper when all is said and done.
We’re watching, we’re watching, we’re not throwing things at the TV. . . .
Need to get up to speed? Click through for a video recap of last week’s episode.
John (Thomas Dekker, L), Ellison (Richard T. Jones, C) and Sarah (Lena Headey, R) head into Zeira Corp in the “Born To Run” season finale episode of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES airing Friday, April 10 (8:00 PM-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: FOX
Season finale was off the hook. It was a BSG season 2 type ender. I’ll miss this series. Why can’t SciFi channel [or SyFy, puke!] pick up a series like this instead of spending money on all those C-, crappy CGI movies it keeps putting out?
I certainly do wish the show will return for another season. The problem today is that networks expect a show to pull over 10 million viewers on average. The reason that no longer works is because we have more channels than we have had ten years ago, causing the viewership to spread overall. Another reason is that we are living in a “I want it now and I want it fast” nation, where we think everything should happen in the speed of light. If we used today’s standards 20 years ago, we would not have the hit shows we enjoyed such as Simpsons, Seinfeld, Fraiser, and many other shows. Terminator may have been slow in mid season, but the series has found its direction, and needs to be given time to grow its audience. This is a series that can find a home in syndication as well, giving hope for the series survival.
It will be a real shame if this series is canceled. It’s true that many people don’t watch it because it is assumed to be action only. However, it has repeatedly shocked me from the first episode, how witty and complex the writing is.
Do you remember the first episode where a character hid behind an old Archie Bunker chair and that stopped all the bullets and they went to commercial break. They deliberately set all the geeks up to be complaining (Like I did) over the whole commercial break about how stupid it was for a chair to block the bullets. Then when they came back, there was a background conversations between two cops about how the chair was lined with kevlar and can you believe that.
That was a message of things to come. The complex time line on this is incredible. I just realized last episode what was really going on and how I had been eagerly mislead for the last 5 eps.
Can we talk about the twisted plot here? I’ve not seen the finale yet and I wonder how much more it reveals. I’m fairly certain I’m right. Last week’s episode made it even more obvious.
Throughout the season there were times when things were unfolding too slowly and I was ready to give up because I was just losing patience with show, despite wanting very hard to love it. Although I didn’t “love” it, I enjoyed it very much as a sci-fi offering. And I was very impressed with this finale and the possibilities set up in the event of continuation for another season. But unfortunately, it’s FOX, which is notorious for mistreating its sci-fi shows. It’s really a shame if we don’t get to see the rest of this story play out.