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I believe I'm going to go with TSCC for Sarah Connor Chronicles because the extra T helps me not confuse it with the other S abbreviations
I...I am desperately in love with this show. I'm scared to be as in love with this show as I am. It is a sci-fi, apocalyptic action show with a majority focus on female characters. Strong, kickass female characters leading up a show with all the genre elements I also love. It is my secret wishlist on a silver fucking platter, and I'm terrified that if I get too attatched it's going to go away. No, I'm not being logical. But there are robots and time travel and stuff blowing up and apocalypse prevention and sciency things and the lead characters are women. Am I dreaming?
Okay, we'll go with me not dreaming. OMG AWESOME. I am loving Sarah Connor more and more, and damn would I not want to be in her shoes. That's some weighty shit to be carrying on your shoulders. If you could, would you, should you? I am so very relieved there was a third option in blowing up computer dude's house, but there isn't always gonna be, yeah? It's funny 'cause I was just watching a thing on the different ways the world could end on the History Channel last night and I swear one of them was actual the dangers of AI and computers becoming self aware and taking us all out (they even used clips from the Terminator movies), and you had actual scientists working on this stuff going "Well, um, you know that part about it being fiction? It's theoretically possible for reals." and I was thinking, "Then why are you doing it you freaks?" Which is a silly question because the answer is the same as it always was. The same answer for why a group of scientists split the atom and may yet have doomed us all. Because we can. Because we're human and that's what we do, progress at any cost. The drive to know is stronger even than self-preservation. Which is probably how we got all super cool, top of the food chain, running the planet...and isn't it ironic that the very drive that makes us so successful as a species is almost certainly the same thing that will eventually take us out one way or another?
So what if you what you know is that knowing is what takes us all out? Sarah does. And I can't help but wonder if she can't feel it on some level that all they are doing, all they can do is delay it. She can save her son. She can't stop human nature from being human nature. But she can save John. And maybe that's enough? Maybe if enough people delay it just that little bit longer on that deeply personal level you get a stay of execution that lasts longer, then a bit longer, and longer after that until we're not that anymore? I don't know. But I love that Sarah is trying. I love that it's not easy for her to kill anymore because that hope exists. 'Cause if you can just run through the list killing in cold blood...well, maybe you delay it, but have you saved anyone if you follow the game plan of the machine that originally came back to kill you? Ticking down a list with a gun and no mercy. Sarah had a chance to become a Terminator, and she chose different. So if she does have to kill now, it's because she has to. It worries me that she will probably have to. And I could not love her more if I tried.
My head it is spinning. Please don't leave me show. Please?
I...I am desperately in love with this show. I'm scared to be as in love with this show as I am. It is a sci-fi, apocalyptic action show with a majority focus on female characters. Strong, kickass female characters leading up a show with all the genre elements I also love. It is my secret wishlist on a silver fucking platter, and I'm terrified that if I get too attatched it's going to go away. No, I'm not being logical. But there are robots and time travel and stuff blowing up and apocalypse prevention and sciency things and the lead characters are women. Am I dreaming?
Okay, we'll go with me not dreaming. OMG AWESOME. I am loving Sarah Connor more and more, and damn would I not want to be in her shoes. That's some weighty shit to be carrying on your shoulders. If you could, would you, should you? I am so very relieved there was a third option in blowing up computer dude's house, but there isn't always gonna be, yeah? It's funny 'cause I was just watching a thing on the different ways the world could end on the History Channel last night and I swear one of them was actual the dangers of AI and computers becoming self aware and taking us all out (they even used clips from the Terminator movies), and you had actual scientists working on this stuff going "Well, um, you know that part about it being fiction? It's theoretically possible for reals." and I was thinking, "Then why are you doing it you freaks?" Which is a silly question because the answer is the same as it always was. The same answer for why a group of scientists split the atom and may yet have doomed us all. Because we can. Because we're human and that's what we do, progress at any cost. The drive to know is stronger even than self-preservation. Which is probably how we got all super cool, top of the food chain, running the planet...and isn't it ironic that the very drive that makes us so successful as a species is almost certainly the same thing that will eventually take us out one way or another?
So what if you what you know is that knowing is what takes us all out? Sarah does. And I can't help but wonder if she can't feel it on some level that all they are doing, all they can do is delay it. She can save her son. She can't stop human nature from being human nature. But she can save John. And maybe that's enough? Maybe if enough people delay it just that little bit longer on that deeply personal level you get a stay of execution that lasts longer, then a bit longer, and longer after that until we're not that anymore? I don't know. But I love that Sarah is trying. I love that it's not easy for her to kill anymore because that hope exists. 'Cause if you can just run through the list killing in cold blood...well, maybe you delay it, but have you saved anyone if you follow the game plan of the machine that originally came back to kill you? Ticking down a list with a gun and no mercy. Sarah had a chance to become a Terminator, and she chose different. So if she does have to kill now, it's because she has to. It worries me that she will probably have to. And I could not love her more if I tried.
My head it is spinning. Please don't leave me show. Please?