(S02E04) This story focused more on the individual members of the Connor team, particularly Cameron. I was glad about this for two reasons. First, more Summer Glau. Second, I think the flash forwards make for very good, interesting episodes.
At first, I was a little taken aback by Cameron's display of emotions. Since when can Terminators shed tears? I suppose it sort of makes sense given that she's an infiltration unit, but it seems kind of a stretch.
How did Catherine Weaver have a daughter? Is she another robot? On a side note, it turns out the girl who played Catherine Weaver's "daughter" has her own website. I suspect we'll see more of her character in the future.
I admit I was a little fuzzy about the reason Ellison accepted the job with Zeira Corp. I know he's unaware that Weaver is a T-1001, but the company is suspicious at best. Can anybody shed some light on his reasoning?
I just knew Cameron would end up killing Allison. I also liked how they inferred that Allison and John were, shall we say, more than friends in the future (something other people I've spoken with about the show have suspected). It would make sense for the Terminators to try and copy her. Summer Glau puts on an excellent performance as both roles and as she progresses from human back to machine.
The ending was very ominous. Did Cameron learn how to lie? Has the shock reverted her back to her original programming and she's going to infiltrate and destroy the resistance? I would guess not, otherwise she would have snapped John's neck in the car. Unless her motives are more subtle, like Catherine Weaver.
Overall, a very good episode with good character development.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
9-29-2008 @ 11:10PM
bsgfan2003 said...
It's so nice to see Summer Glau really acting!
This is the episode I was waiting for in terms of story line.
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9-29-2008 @ 11:27PM
Carissa said...
This episode freaked me out a bit...I was thinking robocop terminators. Could there be some bigger story out there via the terminators? I like that John Connor created Cameron after someone he may have loved. And I also wonder if she wasn't turned into a terminator herself. Hey - it could happen. It's tv!
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9-30-2008 @ 9:06AM
litehousebeacon said...
Carissa-
John didn't create Cameron. Skynet did. They are the ones who based her on Allison, so she could infiltrate the resistance.
And if Allison was supposed to be 16, since it is said on the show that Cameron is believed to be 16 by outside observers, I don't think John was in love with her.
And even if she wasn't he still has 17 years on here, since she wasn't even born yet.
9-30-2008 @ 11:58AM
Beth said...
If she's born July 22, 2007 (assuming the b'day was true and that the show is still in nov/dec time like last week) she'd be 20 in 2027... not 16. I would have personally liked Allison to be a few years older- closer to Summer's real age perhaps.
9-30-2008 @ 12:21AM
Marc Morrison said...
Anyone find it strange how "Allison" and "Cameron", are taken from Dr. Allison Cameron from House?
Just a thought.
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9-30-2008 @ 12:49AM
superbagman said...
Cameron is taken from James Cameron. Allison is just a name. I think you are reading into a coincidence way too closely.
9-30-2008 @ 1:36AM
Charles said...
I think that the T-1001 took over Weaver's life after she and her husband died. Probably had something to do with the crash as well.
I'm guessing that the new terminator-mommy has a lot to do with why the daughter is so distant. I imagine that some emotionless killing machine replacing your mother would really screw a kid up. :)
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9-30-2008 @ 2:25AM
Secret Asian Man said...
Sounds right to me.
Mini-Terminator... How silly.
10-01-2008 @ 8:01AM
Skater3900 said...
I agree. This would lead to why she has a history for agent Ellison to look up. It looks and sounds like she killed the husband and the wife and took over her life.
10-05-2008 @ 1:07AM
Tom said...
A great answer that I never thought of until your post. The crash killed both, but the T-1000 took the place of Weaver, probably caused the crash to take the position in the "company."
Kind of makes this week's poll moot!
9-30-2008 @ 4:23AM
scotty said...
Hmmm... could Weaver be, somehow, in fact the same liquid Terminator from the T2 movie (the one played by Robert Patrick)? The timelines here are confusing me, but could this work?
Speaking of Robert Patrick: I think the actor should eventually appear on this series -- not playing the liquid Terminator... but as a normal human character, who in the future is used by Skynet to create the liquid Terminator.
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10-02-2008 @ 11:20AM
Devin said...
If i'm recalling T2 correctly the T1000 didn't have a 'look' when he showed up, but Robert Patrick playing a cop investigated something strange going on and came across the T1000 who killed him and took his appearance as a police officer for his mission.
10-03-2008 @ 2:20PM
Lord Helmet said...
In T2, when the T-1000 first ports in from the future, he looks like Robert Patrick. At the beginning of the movie, we're supposed to think Robert Patrick is another human protector of John, a la Kyle Reese.
The "Catherine Weaver" T-1000 probably showed up looking like someone else, and then was able to take on her appearance after killing her.
9-30-2008 @ 4:55AM
Rhomboid said...
I thought it was touching and well-done how we got to see all these stages of Allison's life condensed into one episode: as a fetus, as a child coping with judgement day, as a soldier, and her eventual death at the hand of a terminator. Seems to me like television writers are always striving for ways to pull off the "major character dies but not really" kind of storyline and most of the time you end up feeling cheated at the end: "it was all a dream" or "alternate universe" and so on. But here I didn't feel cheated at all and I really was moved to see her die with her final act of trying to protect John by not talking.
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9-30-2008 @ 12:13PM
dark0823 said...
Waiting this for long time
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9-30-2008 @ 7:23AM
Alex99 said...
Cameron already knows how to lie. Dialog from last season:
John: "Do you lie to me?"
Cameron" "Sometimes".
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9-30-2008 @ 8:50AM
0megapart!cle said...
I can't be the only one who thinks they really didn't pull off the whole, "Cameron has the life story of her human likeness embedded in her, and this is why". They tried to explain it as the interrogation, but Cameron didn't get the kind of details she remembered, from Allison during the questioning. I assumed early on that they were going to say that she just copied Alison's memory onto her chip, but an interrogation getting that kind of detail of her running away from the Terminators early on doesn't make sense.
Also, was Sarah basically trying to convince the pregnant woman to raise the child alone so that the cop wouldn't be around? That kind of sucked, especially when she said that pregnant woman wouldn't be alone, because Sarah would be there. Yea right, as soon as the Terminator finds them (when, not if) they are gone, and pregnant girl is alone again. Selfish much?
And I guess Cameron is going to stay the emotionless robot now. I was hoping the character would retain some of the humanity from her memories.
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9-30-2008 @ 12:04PM
Linda said...
I was thinking maybe they were slipping the "I'll be there for you" as a way to possibly add her and her baby into the mix of characters. A bit of a stretch but you never know...
Also, Cameron's whole "I love you John and You love me" from the season opener suggests to me that there is still more Allison/Cameron/John history that we will eventually learn about (I hope).
9-30-2008 @ 10:19AM
Bodarim said...
Allison is special to John because Skynet makes Cameron to infiltrate the Resistance. John then reprograms Cameron to protect him in the past. That is the importance of Allison not because they are in love but because she is an asset to saving the future.
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9-30-2008 @ 3:57PM
mayorjimmy said...
holy crap, NOBODY else caught on that Cameron was built by a 3rd party? She even said it. She said that there was a group who didn't want to destroy mankind. There's a machine civil war in the background. This helps to explain just why there's machines like Weaver around.
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