Is it just a coincidence that the Resistance leader's initials are... "JC?" We know about his birth and his life as an adult (just like the other guy), but we know little about his Missing Years, which brings us to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008, Mondays at 8 PM on Fox). Set sometime after Judgment Day but before The Rise of the Machines, John sends back aT-888, his uncle and several sleeper teams of Resistance fighters to the late 20th-early 21st century to fight the series of Triple Eights (and this season, another T-1000) Skynet has sent back to kill him and anyone who looks like him. This brings up a whole series of pop-psych questions:The first time John meets Kyle, John knows this is/is going to be his father. (They say you can't pick your parents, but John does.) It's considered very heroic that he's sending his father off to die, but... This is literally "Hey, soldier, you want to sleep with my mother?" Kyle falls in love with Sarah from the photograph John gives him, making her a MILF (or in this case, MKLF). Is this really the guy you want to be your father? (But then, if you're pimping your mother...)It has been suggested that all the stories taking place after Judgment Day are "possible futures," so does this mean there are infinite variations of what happened? In some futures did Skynet win? Would no one pick up the torch after Kyle falls? Would no one lead the resistance (successfully, anyway) if John had not existed? Are we supposed to see these stories as part of a continuum or as variations on a theme?The series is trying to address some of these issues, but how will it fit in with the release of a fourth terminator movie, Terminator Salvation (2009). According to Warner Bros. Pictures’ plot summary:Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.And this brings up TP #4: Are you still a "great leader" if you've known all your life how the story ends?What started out as a solid B-movie that exceeded expectations is beginning to fall into that realm of movies designed for what I call the "undemanding comsumer:" people for whom as long as it looks pretty, it doesn't have to make sense.
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