I really enjoyed the pilot episode, and then the next two were both comparatively lame. The second episode especially...
1. The terminator head somehow spits out through the time gate. Even though the base premise for the entire fiction is that exposed non-living material can't transport. Did no one think about this?
2. Summer Glau specifically states that they came out "same place, different time". We're supposed to believe that an LA corner bank that's existed for 40 years got bulldozed and replaced with a freeway in the last 8? And furthermore, that the cops all ran into the bank vault in 1999, found a time machine, a decapitated robo skeleton, 3 sets of empty clothes, and an lightning throwing future gun and just... dragged it all off to the dump?
It would have been FAR better if the pilot episode terminator had been found and reassembled by a new Cyberdyne-like company that becomes the new main threat. I also thought the same thing about the terminator skin quest - he both had the skin-making formula and had passably disguised himself as a biker. What's the point? And what was the point of showing us the bathtub reveal after the cops had been to the scene of the murder? You already know the terminator had everything he needed except human eyes...
I just found the whole thing to be generally weaker storytelling, unfortunately.
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Date: 2008-01-29 08:00 pm (UTC)1. The terminator head somehow spits out through the time gate. Even though the base premise for the entire fiction is that exposed non-living material can't transport. Did no one think about this?
2. Summer Glau specifically states that they came out "same place, different time". We're supposed to believe that an LA corner bank that's existed for 40 years got bulldozed and replaced with a freeway in the last 8? And furthermore, that the cops all ran into the bank vault in 1999, found a time machine, a decapitated robo skeleton, 3 sets of empty clothes, and an lightning throwing future gun and just... dragged it all off to the dump?
It would have been FAR better if the pilot episode terminator had been found and reassembled by a new Cyberdyne-like company that becomes the new main threat. I also thought the same thing about the terminator skin quest - he both had the skin-making formula and had passably disguised himself as a biker. What's the point? And what was the point of showing us the bathtub reveal after the cops had been to the scene of the murder? You already know the terminator had everything he needed except human eyes...
I just found the whole thing to be generally weaker storytelling, unfortunately.