I Guess That Would Be a Pre-Existing Condition

[snurri]

You know that thing where bright lights make you sneeze? Well, either you do or you don't. It happens to me all the time, and it turns out there's a name for it: the photic sneeze reflex. (Via My Elves Are Different, which also lists some other interesting reflexes.)

I watched the Terminator show last night (I am not sure I will ever remember the actual name, even if it stays on for years). I will watch it again tonight. I'm not sure about it, but it had its moments. I thought Summer Glau was great (I actually cheered for her when she delivered the immortal "Come with me if you want to live" line), but the woman playing Sarah Connor isn't doing much for me. My Sarah Connor is buff, crazy (and not-teenaged) Linda Hamilton from T2; I can't picture this woman doing hundreds of pullups in the mental hospital. The kid is eh. I wonder if Dean Winters will show up again; I like him as an actor, but I'm not sure why he's there. I liked the bank not-robbery, with the time machine; it was an interesting twist. But I didn't so much like the dodging-and-outrunning-every-bullet-ever-fired phenomenon.

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That's only three, but it'll have to do.

Comments

[cofax7]

She looks 35 to me. Hell, I look 35 to me, and I'm 43. *g*

I have issues with her size: 110 lbs is far too skinny for a woman my height who's fighting killer robots. But not her age. Sarah in T1 was around 22 or so, so I figure it's close enough.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I agree that the size is more annoying. I remember that Linda Hamilton said, after T2, that she had to lose all the muscle mass to get roles because they went to "soft women."

[jeffsoesbe.livejournal.com]

Random facts (from IMDB) to fuel the discussion:
- Lena Headey (yow!) is 34 and 5'5.5"
- Thomas Dekker is 20, but playing a 16-year-old high schooler
- Summer Glau is 26 and 5'6.5", but she's playing a robot so age don't matter.

Age thing can barely work (if you say Lena is playing 36/37 and John is 15/16).

I agree that Sarah/Lena is not buff enough and that there's too much bullet-dodging and convenient info-travel. The terminator-killing gun was nifty, as was the bank vault time travel twist (which I saw coming when they got themselves locked in).

- yeff (over here from reference on greg's LJ)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hello! And thanks for the vital stats, which I was too lazy to look up myself :-)

I think it's the kind of thing I may get over if I decide I like the show. Last night was . . . OK, again. I liked some of the action; the motorcycle-as-projectile followed by Summer getting hammered by the SUV were cool, and so was Sarah tossing Cameron out the window just to get her out of the room. I'm curious about the origin of the junkyard Terminator, too. On the other hand, John sneaking out was so telegraphed and expected that they probably should have just taken him along in the first place.

[jeffsoesbe.livejournal.com]

One has to wonder how many times in each episode the Terminators are going to get hit by cars. Cause it seems like a lot.

Supposedly, based on a summary I read elsewhere, the junkyard terminator is actually the 1997 terminator from the bank vault. The head went through the time portal, the rest was apparently junked. And cat saliva is, I guess, an activation catalyst for hibernating Terminator heads.

I keep telling myself: don't take it too seriously, just have fun.

- yeff

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I keep telling myself: don't take it too seriously, just have fun.

Yeah, that never works for me either.