Of course Fox's official stance (as with Dollhouse) is that no decision has been made or will be made until the network's upfronts in May. This is patented ridiculous, of course. At this point they are a month out from said upfronts and you know that at this point they are preparing their presentations and so therefore by now know exactly which shows are gone from next season's schedule. Sigh. Like it's going to cause any less of an internet uprising to wait until upfronts to officially confirm/announce a series cancellation.
Oh well, just another piece of evidence for the "Fox is EVIL" file.
But back to Sarah Connor...
Except for the weird pervy teenage robot sado-masochism scene, I really totally dug the episode. I loved the ending, and I feel like it set us up for a really potentially awesome third season--where we have one foot in the post-apocalyptic future with John and one in the present with Sarah and Ellison.
One thing I keep hearing though is the speculation that by John leap-frogging into the future where he is unknown he has somehow created some alternate timeline where he was never the leader of the human resistance since he wasn't around for the apocalypse. Funny thing is, that is so totally not how I read it at all. I totally felt like his jumping into the future was in fact the event that actually enabled him to become a leader of the resistance. He jumps forward with all of the knowledge and skills he needs to lead the human rebels and only lacks his army--but he jumps right into the middle of one of the scattered groups of humans--perfectly placed to start gathering them up in a much more strategic manner and making them an actual army.
Of course, it's totally academic whether his time jump was a predetermined part of his destiny or whether he has totally changed up history by skipping ahead. But still. I feel like it looked too close to the glimpses of the future that Derek and Jesse had already given us--a future in which we never actually see John Connor, and so have no idea of his true age. I feel like if his jump forward had been a big change, the humans would be in a condition much more dire than where they were under the leadership of John Connor--if that makes any sense at all.
Another thing I have seen some debate about is whether the appearance of Summer Glau at the end of the episode was as Cameron the terminator or as Allison from Palmdale--the human resistance fighter that Cameron was based on. To which I say--check out the dog, yo. It has been clearly established in Terminator canon that dogs do not like metal--and they made a point to show her being all warm and cuddly with the dog escorting the band. It was Allison, I don't even feel like that was intended to be up for debate. (Also, I feel like this is support for my theory that John was supposed to have jumped forward, because this suggests he's jumped forward some time before ever starting to send people back in time. Though, of course, in the way of the wonderful circular logic of time-travel debate, I can see where this would also support the alternate timeline theory--since if John Connor never existed there would be no reason for the metal to kidnap his trusted friend Allison in the first place...and on and on...)
And now I guess it looks like we'll never know--though it gives the forums plenty to debate about for years to come.
So yeah. Just wanted to weigh in, I guess.
Fingers crossed that American Idol doesn't bleed into Fringe again tonight.
Have a great one!
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