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Episode 12, "Alpine Fields"

Synopsis: Sarah and Cameron attempt to save a family whose fate links in with Derek in the future. Jesse fights for her life.

Original air date: December 8, 2008

Runtime: 44 minutes

ASIN: B001NER4LK

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,741 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2

Synopsis: At the end of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," Sarah Connor vanquished the Terminator sent from the future to kill her 15-year-old son, John. Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous, complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies from the future and the present could attack at any moment.

Season year: 2009

Network: FOX

ASIN: B001FS1QCM

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5.0 out of 5 stars A vast improvement in Season Two, December 10, 2008

By	Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Warning! Contains numerous major and high octane SPOILERS! Don't read if you want to be spoiler free!

I thoroughly enjoyed TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES in Season One, but so far in Season Two it has shown vast improvement in very nearly every way. I strongly encourage anyone interested in trying this show out to first watch Season One just for background, but with the knowledge that Season Two things get much, much better. The two previous shows that I thought showed this much improvement from Season One to Two were BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and THE SOPRANOS. TSCC is not as good as either of those, but it nonetheless is a far stronger show than its debut season.

I still don't think it is a perfect show. I think the central narrative is still a tad fuzzy and I think there is too much of a tendency for the main characters to repeat themselves. John started off the series disgruntled and he remains disgruntled still. It is slightly easier now than at the beginning of the series to imagine him the future leader of humankind in its struggle against the machines, but not by much. Mainly he seems a petulant teen. It is difficult to envision anyone following him into battle, let alone being inspired by him. This is something that the writers need to address soon. Like sharks, shows need to keep moving or they die (actually, marine researchers have learned that sharks actually do stop and even sleep, but for the sake of metaphor let's overlook that). John needs to evolve and mature. And soon.

I love Lena Headley in the title role. She seems utterly believable as a grimly determined mother. I would like to see them work on developing her an emotional life in the midst of her armed struggle. She is so focused on her son and on fighting the machines that we don't get a sense of her having any concern whatsoever for her own needs.

For me the best thing in the show, by far, is Summer Glau as Cameron. In the history of TV, there have been scores and scores of mechanized humans, from Hymie on GET SMART! to Data on ST:TNG to Sharon and Six on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, to genetically altered humans like Max Guevara on DARK ANGEL. But virtually all of these mechanized humans are pretty much that: humans. Sharon Agathon on BSG is so obviously a person that it isn't that interesting of a question debating whether she is or not. Data was clearly a person despite lacking an emotional life. Still, his actions were driven by something like compassion and a concern for others. Cameron is different. She is the first artificial human on TV who is at best only marginally a person. Let me put this another way.

John Turing famously in an article for the British journal MIND devised a test for determining whether a machine can or cannot be considered a person. He imagined a questioner separated from a test subject by a barrier. He envisioned asking the subject a series of questions. If in asking the questions you couldn't tell the difference between a machine's answer to the questions and those of a human, then, Turing argued, that machine could be considered a person. Despite his lack of emotions, I think Data, the least humanlike of all TV's artificial people after Cameron, would past the Turing Test. But would Cameron? It is really hard to say. Even a therapist on the show who has talked to her wonders if she suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that manifests as a lack of empathy and human feeling. Sharon Agathon on BSG is clearly deeply empathetic and manifests love and affection and loyalty and the full range of human emotions. But Cameron has all kinds of inappropriate reactions and being human is far more of a mystery to her than it is to Data. An example: Sarah and Cameron rescue a boy from a terminator and hold him against his will to save both him and his parents. He attempts to call home, but Cameron grabs him and holds him up in the air, telling him bluntly that if he makes the call it will result in the death of his parents. Sarah intervenes and tells her to lighten up and she does, and while still holding the boy up in the air with one hand she completely shifts gears and asks, "Would you like a bedtime story?" Another example is a midseason episode in which she tries to make "a friend." She means well, but her ineptness is striking. She simply lacks the ability to "make a friend."

The mark of a good show is that it leaves you wanting to know what happens next. And most of what I want to know revolves around Cameron. For instance, in the very first episode we learn that as terminators go, Cameron is "different." We still don't quite know what that means, but we know that she has a complex relationship with the future John Connor. They seem to have been quite intimate (I don't mean sexually, though that also doesn't seem excluded). She hints at a degree of familiarity that she does not possess with the younger John. And in the season premiere, we see Cameron reverted to her original programming, to kill John Connor, only to be able to override it. Was the override her own volition? Or was it additional programming? And earlier in the episode, thinking that she was about to be destroyed by John and Sarah, she hysterically -- with emotions that seem genuine rather than feigned -- tells John not to, that they love each other, that they are in love. ?????? It is to date the strangest moment in the entire run of the show. Clearly, there is a great deal to Cameron that she has not yet chosen to share. Not least is why the John of the future sent back to his younger self this very unusual robot. If, in fact, he sent her back.

All in all, this has developed into one of the most entertaining series on TV. I strongly recommend this to anyone who enjoys great SF or adventure.

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