Dec 16 2008
Sarah Connor Chronicles Fall Season Finale
TV.com: Earthlings Welcome Here - Sarah’s continued obsession with the three dots leads her to a blogger with intimate knowledge of the symbol. Meanwhile, Riley and Cameron face off.
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Recap & Review: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles comes to an end for 2008. This week’s episodes marks the finale for the fall season, and if the series hadn’t been picked up by Fox for more episodes, it may have been the end for the series. A not fitting end either. This ending point would have left so many unanswered questions. This week, we focus a bit on Riley and Sarah. We jump forward to the future to see how Riley came to know Jesse and come to the time she is in now.
Jesse found Riley on the streets of the future searching for food. She brought her along to the LA of 2007 because she was a pretty girl, and there really is no other reason. Jesse really isn’t her friend. Not even close. We see that during the episode, especially when Riley comes to her after she is kicked out of her foster home. When Riley says they should move in together, Jesse hit hers, and this raises questions from both John and Cameron.
The terminator is getting more curious about Riley, and she confronts the girl. She then goes to John suspicious.We do know Riley is from the future, but she seems at best an unwilling participant in Jesse’s plans. Her mission is to keep John away from Cameron. She isn’t succeeding much in this, but it is not an easy task. It is starting to seem that Riley has real feelings for John, and this is why has become increasinly uncomfortable with the mission she has been given.
As for Sarah, she continues her own journey to find the source of the three dots. This search for knowledge leads her to a UFO convention of all places, and while there she learns of a blogger that might have some information for her. She meets a woman while there who offers to lead her to the blogger she seeks. However, there is a twist here. The woman she spends a good part of this episode talking to is really the blogger she is looking for, and the woman is also a man. The man, Alan Park, has taken on the identity of a woman in order to hide from those out to kill him.
He knows too much about a special metal that is being used to create metal drones that fly in the skies. Some say these are alien in origin, but Sarah thinks it is the beginning of the metal used to create robots in the future. She tries to help the man remember more about the things he knows by taking him to a hypno-therapist, but those looking for him find him there and he is killed. Sarah is able to find the location by what she heard before. She goes there, and finds a man that tries to convince her that he is someone else. There is a gun battle with Sarah shot in the leg. She ends up killing the man, and before the episode ends we see once again these three important dots.
There was also more about Weaver in this episode, as we see her continue to work with her project of John Henry using Cromartie’s body. She and Ellison continue to work hand and hand, and he isn’t too convinced about the terminator having changed. This ends this fall of Terminator. To me this episode felt a bit off as a season ender. It didn’t pack as big a punch as most season enders though.
Perhaps that is because it isn’t a real season ender. The series will be back in February, so we will have more episodes before long. This series had its weak moments over the last few episodes, but this series is much stronger now. Next, we see the return of Kyle Reese. What did you think of this fall season finale of The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Are you already waiting for its return in February?
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