re: I think the "Without John, you are nothing" is a point they'll be directly addressing. What DOES happen to Sarah Connor when you take away her primary motivation? Is her life meaningless, or does she find something new to define herself by?
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Good point. So far Sarah has been defined by John by all of her adult life and half of her entire life, since she was that 18 year old waitress.
So what happens when you take John out of the equation? Does she have a purpose, does she exist outside of him and preparing him for the future. Well of course she does but it's been so long since Sarah outside of John has been a priority or even a thought for her I don't know how she would function. What direction she'd go in.
It seems she'd throw herself into stopping Skynet/Kaliba, because ultimately her purpose in John WAS to stop Skynet, so even without him I think she'd just find another way to get to that purpose.
I'm not so bothered by her letting him go. I think figuratively and emotionally she had already done that anyway when she brought him to the Lighthouse and then even morseo when she ended up in prison. That he broke her out if anything to me only cemented that John's an adult and will do what he wants regardless of what she says or thinks. Part of being a parent in learning to let go.
But Sarah failing? That bugs me. A lot. Because ultimately it is her story primarily, I feel.
Now if we get anymore of the show, it will be bifurcated with a John story in one time, and a Sarah story in another. And while I am curious to see where Sarah goes, I wish there was a way to do that without having it predetermined that she fails.
Is there a way the past might not be set? In some weird, crazy, quantum, multiple fluctuating realities way I actually think it could be possible, but that gets so uber complicated and mind boggling I don't think the really want to go there.
So what we're left with is Sarah connor failing. And the only simple way to fix that is John coming back. That being the case, I agree with Roxy, the stay needs to be a short one. John gets the Ghost of Christmas Future and It's a (not so) Wonderful Life and all that business, learns from it and comes back.
But I don't like that it takes John to 'fix' the track that Sarah's on. I want Sarah to fix Sarah. :-/
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on 2009-04-18 08:07 pm (UTC)**
Good point. So far Sarah has been defined by John by all of her adult life and half of her entire life, since she was that 18 year old waitress.
So what happens when you take John out of the equation? Does she have a purpose, does she exist outside of him and preparing him for the future. Well of course she does but it's been so long since Sarah outside of John has been a priority or even a thought for her I don't know how she would function. What direction she'd go in.
It seems she'd throw herself into stopping Skynet/Kaliba, because ultimately her purpose in John WAS to stop Skynet, so even without him I think she'd just find another way to get to that purpose.
I'm not so bothered by her letting him go. I think figuratively and emotionally she had already done that anyway when she brought him to the Lighthouse and then even morseo when she ended up in prison. That he broke her out if anything to me only cemented that John's an adult and will do what he wants regardless of what she says or thinks. Part of being a parent in learning to let go.
But Sarah failing? That bugs me. A lot. Because ultimately it is her story primarily, I feel.
Now if we get anymore of the show, it will be bifurcated with a John story in one time, and a Sarah story in another. And while I am curious to see where Sarah goes, I wish there was a way to do that without having it predetermined that she fails.
Is there a way the past might not be set? In some weird, crazy, quantum, multiple fluctuating realities way I actually think it could be possible, but that gets so uber complicated and mind boggling I don't think the really want to go there.
So what we're left with is Sarah connor failing. And the only simple way to fix that is John coming back. That being the case, I agree with Roxy, the stay needs to be a short one. John gets the Ghost of Christmas Future and It's a (not so) Wonderful Life and all that business, learns from it and comes back.
But I don't like that it takes John to 'fix' the track that Sarah's on. I want Sarah to fix Sarah. :-/