T:SCC 2.21 :Adam raised a Cain"
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hazelkIf you enjoy watching Weaver slaughter thirty people in one episode you’re obligated to go to their funeral in the next
It begins in a graveyard. At first I thought it was for Charlie but although he’s not forgotten this was Kyle’s, the first to fall. The scene ends with John showing the picture of Savannah Weaver on the assassin’s cell phone, which is another sense in which this show honours its dead, it always remembers its own past. I guessed Savannah might be in trouble when her picture and the terminator bauplan were the two images John Henry’s brother displayed on during his break in and entry. But the reference back to John Connor’s Savannah encounter in Dr Sherman’s office was unexpected. I did think that scene was notable at the time because then I was thinking how the show was about stories making us human and John using a story to help Savannah tie her shoe contrasted with Weaver simply tying it for her. It wasn’t a random scene to recall.
John Henry is Savannah’s internet friend because he can sing and Weaver (in a little meta humour aside) can’t. John Henry does what he can to save her from the water carrier terminator by playing hide and seek and then the Connors take over and then wham! Derek’s dead. Shot through the head just like the nanny but you come to expect that to happen to the red shirts, it’s almost like fun and then it happens to a regular and wham! Death isn’t fun.
John Henry looking at his reflection and he says he knows that interface isn’t him and yet he seems encouragingly attached to the physical. He’s moving around much more since the near death experience and he asks whether Cameron is like him, I suppose he means endoskeltonwise but (although he doesn’t know this) she’s also like him in being named. Does the brother have a name? It looked as if the nameless one simply wanted to kill Savannah (why else send a terminator)but why? Because she was of some (unknown) value to his competitor and thus a potential threat or because she was something John Henry had but he didn’t.
Another blast from the past, the eel makes a comeback, which pleases me greatly because I was vidding it even before the submarine episode revealed the resemblance to a T1001 in its native form. “They stay in hiding mostly. And only attack when provoked.”
Cameron explains to John (Connor) about Sarah’s non-cancerous lump but ends with the observation that she’s losing weight, which was how she knew Eric from the library was in remission. I fear that’s not over.
John Henry and Weaver discuss biblical antecedents and Weaver assigns John Henry the part of God. They’re obviously going for parallels between Weaver and Sarah as mothers and both are willing to sacrifice Savannah to the greater good of their sons (Sarah gives Savannah back the Zeira Corp which she intends to go the way of Cyberdyne). But Weaver’s son is also to be her father, God the father. She and Savannah share maybe more than colouring, both fatherless girls trying to recreate daddy.
As Savannah does by singing “Donald where’s your troosers.” I’ve repressed the memory of seventies Hogmanay specials with Andy Stewart too long but it’s absolutely the song a seven year old girl would have learned from her Scots father and want to teach her friend in the basement. I don’t know an American equivalent but I’d never have thought it could possibly sound haunting. Apocalyptic even. “The wind blows high and the wind blows low.” Derek joins his brother in the ground and the show again honours its dead.
It begins in a graveyard. At first I thought it was for Charlie but although he’s not forgotten this was Kyle’s, the first to fall. The scene ends with John showing the picture of Savannah Weaver on the assassin’s cell phone, which is another sense in which this show honours its dead, it always remembers its own past. I guessed Savannah might be in trouble when her picture and the terminator bauplan were the two images John Henry’s brother displayed on during his break in and entry. But the reference back to John Connor’s Savannah encounter in Dr Sherman’s office was unexpected. I did think that scene was notable at the time because then I was thinking how the show was about stories making us human and John using a story to help Savannah tie her shoe contrasted with Weaver simply tying it for her. It wasn’t a random scene to recall.
John Henry is Savannah’s internet friend because he can sing and Weaver (in a little meta humour aside) can’t. John Henry does what he can to save her from the water carrier terminator by playing hide and seek and then the Connors take over and then wham! Derek’s dead. Shot through the head just like the nanny but you come to expect that to happen to the red shirts, it’s almost like fun and then it happens to a regular and wham! Death isn’t fun.
John Henry looking at his reflection and he says he knows that interface isn’t him and yet he seems encouragingly attached to the physical. He’s moving around much more since the near death experience and he asks whether Cameron is like him, I suppose he means endoskeltonwise but (although he doesn’t know this) she’s also like him in being named. Does the brother have a name? It looked as if the nameless one simply wanted to kill Savannah (why else send a terminator)but why? Because she was of some (unknown) value to his competitor and thus a potential threat or because she was something John Henry had but he didn’t.
Another blast from the past, the eel makes a comeback, which pleases me greatly because I was vidding it even before the submarine episode revealed the resemblance to a T1001 in its native form. “They stay in hiding mostly. And only attack when provoked.”
Cameron explains to John (Connor) about Sarah’s non-cancerous lump but ends with the observation that she’s losing weight, which was how she knew Eric from the library was in remission. I fear that’s not over.
John Henry and Weaver discuss biblical antecedents and Weaver assigns John Henry the part of God. They’re obviously going for parallels between Weaver and Sarah as mothers and both are willing to sacrifice Savannah to the greater good of their sons (Sarah gives Savannah back the Zeira Corp which she intends to go the way of Cyberdyne). But Weaver’s son is also to be her father, God the father. She and Savannah share maybe more than colouring, both fatherless girls trying to recreate daddy.
As Savannah does by singing “Donald where’s your troosers.” I’ve repressed the memory of seventies Hogmanay specials with Andy Stewart too long but it’s absolutely the song a seven year old girl would have learned from her Scots father and want to teach her friend in the basement. I don’t know an American equivalent but I’d never have thought it could possibly sound haunting. Apocalyptic even. “The wind blows high and the wind blows low.” Derek joins his brother in the ground and the show again honours its dead.
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Date: 2009-04-05 04:10 am (UTC)That struck me when I rewatched, the eel/Weaver parallel. And in my listing of siblings, I forgot Kyle and Derek, who do resemble each other (the brother qualification named at the start) but are different as well, Kyle being defined through his role as Sarah's protector (when she still needed one) and sacrifice to bring John into existence, and Derek through his role as killer of a man he "loved as his brother", Andy Goode.
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