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No, the dialogue was rather painful at times and I'm sorry to say it, but Katee Sackhoff make for a very irritating antagonist. Not so much her fault, just again with the blatantly lazy writing.
While SCC hasn't exactly been television GOLD, it's done enough in only this handful of episodes to keep me interested and wanting more, so I'd rather see it get renewed than BW. If nothing else I'd feel sorry for Summer Glau if it doesn't get picked up, poor girl would think she has the TV touch of death after two shows cancelled so early on.
Having said all that I gather Fox has been marketing the show quite heavily, so I'm not TOO worried yet.
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Not gold? This is the best show I've seen since early Galactica.
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Sure, but that's more to do with the general poor quality of TV shows in the last few years. Don't get me wrong, I love the show, just acknowledging it's had the odd stumble in it's short life. I wouldn't quite put it up there with the likes of Firefly, for example, but it's still quite above average. At least in terms of instant appeal.
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Speaking of which...
The first of the new Serenity comics, Better Days, comes out on Wednesday. It's about when a job actually goes right for them for once & how they can't really cope with it. Anyway, it's 3 issues like Those Left Behind. I found the covers for all 3 (done by Adam Hughes) combined them into a big picture:
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And we shall call this land ... 'this land'
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...getting back on topic. Did anyone else love the Johnny Cash song? Very sneaky (and effective) way for them to save money by replacing what would normally be a quick cut filled action sequence with a bunch of stuntmen jumping into a swimming pool. In an odd way it reminded me of "Severed Dreams" from B5; the bit where they dialled down the sound effects and dialogue and just played it off the music and images. Not often you see that kind of artistic restraint used in TV today.
Small point, but Mr FBI bloke isn't too clever only bringing a Swat Team, that is assuming the West Highland Police Station incident is in Sarah's file and assuming he could put two and two together as to who/what the heavily armed killing machine on the security footage really was...and then there was the incident with the minigun.
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He obviously hasn't made the connection to the T1 and T2 sprees yet in his investigation.
I really felt sorry for him, standing there at the poolside helpless, having gotten all those people and the FBI-woman killed. It seemed the terminator fought them hand-to-hand too, very gruesome. In the beginning of the series Ellison irritated me but now, after the Silberman treatment and this, he really feels like the Job of the series.
I thought "The Man Comes Around" was perfect because of how it detached the viewer from the technicalities of the raid. We didn't need to see how the police fought, they would die anyway.
Yes, I too thought of "The lynching of Lord Refa".
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I still have trouble getting past the actor they've got playing Cromartie. He's not big and bad enough to be a terminator. Not nearly as big as the guy who played him before the time bubble. He looks like a little guy now. His performance is good. Very cold, very detatched. I just don't like his look.
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Keep in mind that originally James Cameron envisioned the Terminator looking like any "normal" person, in fact I think Lance Hendrikson originally had the part. Of course since Arnie is the first Termie we ever saw there's this (perhaps subconscious) expectation that they're all big huge hulking machines. The reality is that anything expecting to infiltrate a bunker full of starving lice infested survivors shouldn't look anywhere near as well fed and healthy. I suppose the in-universe logic would be that as a T-800/101 he's one of if not the first of the 800's and it was the later models that started looking leaner and less Mr Universe material.
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