Okay, you got me

[trinityvixen]

Sarah Connor Chronicles, you had me at hello.

But you had me like a filthy slut as soon as Derek showed up. He had three lines, acted like a douche the entire time, and ended the one episode I've seen with him in it so far dead. (Literally, but temporarily, I'm sure.) So, naturally, what with the emotional reticence, tendency towards self-sacrifice, and the fearsome injury, I'm salivating over this character already. I am going to pretend that it's because I'm that easy for Michael Biehn and this is a whore-by-association thing.

BUT IT IS NOT. WTF, SELF? BRIAN AUSTEN GREEN? WHY AREN'T WE ASHAMED?

And I still haven't written my Heroes review!

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAH OMG it only gets EXPONENTIALLY BETTER from this point on. SRSLY.

Not kidding at all.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodie. At least something to distract me from forming any sort of vague crush on John. Because he's underage and that would be wrong. Yes.

[equustel.livejournal.com]

BAHA. Oh, John doesn't make it any easier than Derek does to avoid that shame later on. Believe me.

Also: SO GLAD you're digging it! Yay! Your next episode (from what I can tell) is the one that solidified my devotion. I think you'll understand why.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

This show had me almost immediately, from the word go, as it were. I don't entirely know why. I'm not loving Cameron's regression to "I am a robot beep-beep-boop," and Lena Hedley isn't really impressing me as Sarah. (I'm also annoyed that the future is coming back in such a big way into the past, mostly because the idea was, at the time, that it was HARD for Kyle Reese even to go back in time.) But I am loving the Sarah-John dynamic in the sense that this is something we never got to see in the movies, and it's still making sense with them.

[equustel.livejournal.com]

Cameron: definitely becomes "more" in S2 - and it is fantastically creepy.

Lena Headey: I had problems with her at the beginning too, but different though her portrayal may be, it has a lot of merit that is easier to appreciate later in the show. By now, I love her.

Future stuff: Not to give away too much, but a big conceit of the show's is that this ain't Kyle Reese's Skynet. It isn't built by Cyberdyne anymore, thus it's a different animal altogether: future war included. Not to mention, everything Sarah and company do in the past changes the future, and affects Skynet's development and birth process. Cameron is the first evidence of Skynet's considerable advancement since their meddling. The suddenly wide-open time-door is another. What's fascinating is that so much remains the same, centering of course around John, who is always the leader in every iteration.

And I'll shut up now because I'm going to be a spoilery fieeeend if you let me go on too long!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Gonna have to watch them spoilers, yes :)

I'm not dismissing it out of hand despite its faults, so the fact that it gets better is a bonus, not a necessity. We'll see where the future takes me.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I saw one episode of Sarah Conner Chronicles, mid-last season. I was sadly underwhelmed. The show could easily have been "River Tam Beats Up Everybody", except that the Taminator didn't actually do very much beating up at all, with a badly-choreographed fight sequence and virtually not actually awesomeness. Plus lousy dialogue. It felt like a waste, to me.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I guess it wasn't the first episode because they really had me almost at once. I liked a lot of the fights, and the terminator-on-terminator fights were appropriately gratuitous.

I'm not such a fan of the reluctant-to-kill-shit Sarah that Lena Hedley is doing, but John Connor is pretty good.

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

YES OMG.

That is all I have to say about that.

Also I feel very dirty lusting after an ex-90210er.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ugh, me too. It could only be worse if I lusted after Ian Ziering. Thankfully, after seeing Aztec Rex that won't EVER be a problem.

But YES ZOMG.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Spoilers! :P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh pisser, right, you're still going to watch. Sorry, my bad. It's really only an episode spoiler? No, still stupid of me. Sorry dude.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Woo! And yes.....Brian Austin Green in this show = AWESOMENESS. It's actually rather amazing! I'm looking forward to you catching up on the rest of his episodes!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Proud to be a part of the ranks on this one. I AM NOT ALONE IN MY AWFUL PERVERSION.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Well, at this point, I've just come around to the idea that of course Brian Austin Green is awesome. Hasn't he also been awesome? I think he must have been, or else none of this makes sense. ;)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I wish I could pretend I wasn't of age the last time he was famous. Because it would be nice to say this is the first I've heard of him. Maybe I'll just lie.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

It's all mind over matter! And the sheer volume of his awesomeness in this show makes it easier than you might think to forget the past.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

90210? Isn't that that show on the CW? Why, yes, it is!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

LOLLLLLL you want to DOOOOOO Brian Austin Green!

Whatever, I forgive you. Just wait til you start finding John hot and have to remind yourself that he was RUTHIE'S BOYFRIEND on Seventh Heaven.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Just wait til you start finding John hot

Um, START finding him hot? ::very evil grin::

(And I know him as the gay best friend on Heroes, so I'm protected from anything Seventh Heaven.)

Hell: we are going to it.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I tell myself it's less bad because Thomas Dekker is 21. >.>

Also, I don't think anything can protect you from this!

Re: Hell: we are going to it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT I KNOW THAT SONG EVEN.

Also, he's 21? Holy crap, I thought he was like fifteen. Well, Jesus, that's totally legal!

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

This is one of the best, and certanly one of the smartest, shows on tv right now. You won't be disappointed as you catch up.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

(Translation: hslayer has a crush on Brian Austin Green, too.)

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Look, just because I didn't have Twilight...
And have a baby blue ribbon on my wrist...
And laugh at all your Chuck/Casey comments...

hmm...

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

"hate", not "have". Damn phone keypad...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Relax, you don't have to defend manhood around here. We're all cheerfully queer for the awesome of all and any gender.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

sigh. Gaiety was the humorous implication I was going for with the "hmm..." I clearly should've taken a little more time to hone that response.

Ah, well. They can't all be gems.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Just teasing :)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm having a good time with what I've seen so far, so I bet I will. I'll be onto second season in a couple of weeks, I suspect, and then there will be some real fun postings.