Sep 30 2008
Review: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 2-4
TV.com: Allison From Palmdale - Cameron has a software glitch and loses her memory, causing her to leave the Connors. She is taken in by a homeless kid named Jody, who ends up at a halfway house with her. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison meets with Catherine Weaver to talk about his future with Zeira Corp.
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Review: We are into the fourth episode of this second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and things aren’t looking good for the series. Word has it that ratings for the series are low, and if they remain this low Fox will not ask for any more episodes to be made, and no third season. Ratings need to go up if we want this series to remain on air. This week, we get a deeper look into Cameron’s character and history.
The episode clearly begins in a flash forward, but we jump back to the present with Cameron and John. They are out running errands, while Sarah returns home. The woman they rented the house from appears to be having difficulties with her pregnancy. Sarah offers to take her to the hospital. While at the store, Cameron has an episode and she appears to forget her identity. She keeps flashing back to her past. As it turns out, she was once a human named Allison Young.Because she can’t remember who she is, she is taken into custody.
John goes inside the store to look for Cameron, and he finds out Cameron was taken. She is released just moments he arrives at the police station. He is told she went off with Jodi. He begins to look for her, when Sarah calls him from the hospital. She is still there with Casey, who is having tests done. Cameron is on the streets of Los Angeles with Jodi, and she is acting unlike the terminator we know. She is acting human.
Present and future go back and forth, and we learn more about Allison Young in the process. We learn she was homeless, and her father was an architect and her mother was a music teacher. Her birthday was July 22nd. John does find her, but she has no idea at all who he is. After his visit though, she starts to remember who she is, but she also thinks she is supposed to kill John Connor. In the future, we see Allison Young killed by her terminator double, Cameron. Events mirror future and present, and as Cameron remembers things she almost kills Jodi just before John finds her.
Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver continues to work with Agent Ellison. She really does want him to work with her company. He has his questions and doubts about her. He learns more about her and the company, but not enough to realize she is a terminator. He ends up accepting her job proposal.
This episode was drawn out and confusing. Not one of the best episodes this season, but it was alright. I found it hard to focus on it because of the constanting jumping around, and it is not a choppy episode that will help them stay on the air. What did you think of this week’s episode?
