Yeah, I expect John's Future Oz to last about 6 episodes. But one thing that's been bothering me: sooner or later John gets to go back in time, and you'd think he'd try to go back to the moment he left. So rather than telling two parallel stories, Season 3 could begin with John coming back (but having aged several months/years), and his future journey is gradually revealed to us in flashback.
The one problem with that is it totally ruins the drama of Sarah and John's final moments together, and we lose the possibility of watching the long term consequences of Sarah's actions.
I agree it'd be a bad move to have Sarah be failing utterly and require John to come back and save her. But I'm not sure it's clear that Sarah "failed" per se. Obviously she didn't stop Skynet. That doesn't mean she couldn't have slowed it down or tilted the odds dramatically. Asides, if we're defining Sarah's success as stopping Skynet, then she ALWAYS failed. Her success so far had largely been defined by protecting and teaching her son.
Which I suppose is a little lame, from a feminist perspective. But it's also nothing new.
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on 2009-04-18 08:31 pm (UTC)The one problem with that is it totally ruins the drama of Sarah and John's final moments together, and we lose the possibility of watching the long term consequences of Sarah's actions.
I agree it'd be a bad move to have Sarah be failing utterly and require John to come back and save her. But I'm not sure it's clear that Sarah "failed" per se. Obviously she didn't stop Skynet. That doesn't mean she couldn't have slowed it down or tilted the odds dramatically. Asides, if we're defining Sarah's success as stopping Skynet, then she ALWAYS failed. Her success so far had largely been defined by protecting and teaching her son.
Which I suppose is a little lame, from a feminist perspective. But it's also nothing new.