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.

Comments

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

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.

I really like that you've pointed out the Biblical allusion, and I like this post a whole lot. I would be delighted with Sarah and Ellison (best team-up ever!) raising Savannah (whether or not she becomes the new John Connor, though if she did that would be AMAZING). And simultaneously I too welcome the new messiah-free future.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Icon love! I'm finishing up an Ellison vid right now although more Ellison with Weaver/John Henry than with Sarah for which sadly footage is too limited. Another reason we needs a third season :-)

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) And I'm so SO excited that you'll have an Ellison vid done soon, even though he definitely hasn't gotten enough screen time with Sarah. (I totally agree, yet another reason for a third season, heh!) There's only one other Ellison-centric video out there that I know of, and it's first season. I do love his reluctant almost-friendship, almost-parent/child relationship with John Henry on the show, and his employee-shading-to-coparent relationship with Weaver really grew on me.