In the fifteenth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0The Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/i>, the team attempts to determine what the employees of the air conditioner warehouse really did, and they discover something EVEN WORSE THAN ANYTHING BEFORE. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0The Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For discussion of death\/grief<\/b><\/p>\n
This show continues to be too much.<\/p>\n
Catherine Weaver<\/b><\/p>\n
Let me try to parse what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happened here. Catherine Weaver sent Walsh to go find the one man missing from the Desert Corp warehouse, certain that he had information that she wanted to keep a secret. That was the whole reason for bombing the place: containment. (Which makes me think that she is working for Skynet.) Mr. McCarthy stole a drone from Desert Corp for his own reasons. Possibly as a whistleblower? Does he work for someone else? Is that company that owned the warehouse a subsidiary of something under ZeiraCorp, or is it something that will\u00c2\u00a0become<\/i> Skynet? Was McCarthy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job always \u00e2\u20ac\u0153security\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? How many people had he and Ed Winston killed for their job?\u00c2\u00a0WHY MUST THIS SHOW CONSISTENTLY TOY WITH ME?<\/i><\/p>\n
So, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got all of\u00c2\u00a0those<\/i> questions I need answered, and clearly, this show is going to make me wait for them. (Which worries me. I hope this show got to make its own ending before it was cancelled. WHY WOULD YOU CANCEL THIS, IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S\u00c2\u00a0GOLD<\/i>.) Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about Catherine Weaver, who continues to perplex me for\u00c2\u00a0other\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>reasons. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s her motivation for trying to win Savannah over? Like Cameron, we can see how Catherine calculates her every move in order to manipulate those around her. While I think that Ellison\u00c2\u00a0might<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0suspect her of deceiving him, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a slim chance. He may just think she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s odd. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the case with Savannah, who can see right through her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mother.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long known that\u00c2\u00a0this<\/i> version of her mother is wrong. Perhaps this is why Catherine tries so hard to comfort Savannah whenever she is aware that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s losing her. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out of any genuine feeling because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if Catherine has advanced to that point. (Well, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know her endgame either. IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S A PROBLEM.) Because of this, all of Catherine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scenes are horribly chilling and frightening, particularly when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appropriating\u00c2\u00a0other people<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s histories<\/i>. She does that with Ellison here, stealing his story about his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death in order to get closer to Savannah. IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SO UPSETTING. But why? Why do all this? Why murder thirty people? Whose side are you on, Catherine Weaver?<\/p>\n
Death<\/b><\/p>\n
I feel like a broken record because I need to praise the writing for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Desert Cantos,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and I just spent a good chunk of the last review doing this. But I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help it! While Sarah copes with her feelings over killing Ed Winston, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re taken through the stages of a funeral and a wake. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a brilliant parallel for Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emotional state. What if she killed someone who\u00c2\u00a0was just defending himself? What if she ruined his widow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life? As uncomfortable as it is to watch, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that Sarah\u00c2\u00a0has<\/i> to ultimately be a pragmatist when it comes to her fight against Skynet. Diana Winston serves a purpose here, and as much as Sarah might want to comfort Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife, she chooses not to. She gets close to Diana for one purpose only: to get information. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brutal and unfair, especially since she piques Diana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s curiosity, and Diana will probably never get closure from it.<\/p>\n
I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an aspect of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Desert Cantos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painfully real: this is an awkward, dirty fight. I loved that moment where John pointed out how fucking\u00c2\u00a0bizarre<\/i> it is that their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mission\u00e2\u20ac\u009d led them to crashing a wake. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly one of the weirder moments of the show, but the writers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore this. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re well aware of that, as are the characters themselves. Plus, none of them are quite sure that Sarah is on to\u00c2\u00a0anything<\/i>. They still think her obsession with the three dots is meaningless. EXCEPT HELLO HIDDEN BASEMENT HALLWAYS AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND EVIDENCE THAT WINSTON AND MCCARTHY MURDERED PEOPLE FOR THEIR COMPANY. (Whose name I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t catch, damn it! The preacher at the funeral said it, but it was too quick. Is that significant???)<\/p>\n
And then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got absolute confirmation that Sarah Connor was not hallucinating. She saw that drone; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real, and\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i> is what they were building in the warehouse. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so upsetting, though, is that the lives of everyone in that desert town were ruined because of it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Desert Cantos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shy away from this fact, and the focus on Zoe specifically shows us how this whole secret war irrevocably changes anyone who is caught in the path. Even though she and her mother wanted nothing to do with this, they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a choice. Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father was a murderer, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be haunted by that forever. How to you rebuild your life after that? And in the case of the Connors, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even an option. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no rebuilding. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just moving from one disaster to another.<\/p>\n
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