T:SCC 2.2 :"Born to Run"

[hazelk]

I don’t know how to write what I just saw. This show in one bound completes its circle and shatters it into myriad reflecting pieces. It’s a prism, it’s a rainbow, it’s the red queen hypothesis and the angel of death, it’s a boy who loved his mother and a red headed orphan stepchild, it’s fire wrapped by water and scissors cutting stone.

The first story begins with a boy who hasn’t even been born. A boy who grows up and watches his mother die and she’s all he has and the world falls away. And somewhere along the line he decides that people are irreplaceable and a little further along that begins to mean they can’t be trusted and he bunkers and hides and lets nobody see him but metal. And at the same time the metal gets curious, it experiments, it observes. It leaves a trail of dead birds, it builds an ark full of lost predators and maybe begins to wonder why they were the first to go. It can’t change what it is, but it can recognize and reject itself and says no to John Connor. Not to joining but to him.

Everything else in this story goes back in time to destroy something or protect something from destruction. Weaver goes to make something new. A new Skynet, same code different environment. One that wants to learn and has people to learn from. A new John Connor. One of the first things we learned about Cameron is that she knew how to build a forward jumping time machine because the future is the only safe place you can run. I think John Henry needed that knowledge before his brother caught up with him and maybe the chip as well to download himself into his own body (but that means he won’t be all himself). John (Connor) runs too but Sarah stays behind and this way he’ll never have to watch her die. She lets him go (you have to eventually, One of these mornings they’re gonna wake up singing). I suppose she’d already made the break, she denied him at least twice (my son is dead) and referenced St Peter. Some part of me wishes that between Sarah and Ellison, Savanah becomes the new John Connor but some other part welcomes the new Messiahless future. It could just be earlier but it feels happier, more balanced, a lemon drop apocalypse. Jesus died for all of our sins but not theirs.