It's perfect that LJ randomly chose the No Fate spinning knife icon pic you have for that post referencing Earthlings.
I really liked that episode. When I first saw it I was rather like WTF? Because it was completely counter to what I thought we were going to get. I was kind of expect something along the lines of Born to Run with a confrontation with Weaver. Instead we got something completely different. I didn't know what to make of it at first but I watched it several times and it ended up being one of my favorite episodes.
I like the introspective take on Sarah, the person she became and what she had to give up to do it, what she left behind and that maybe she still longs for that part of herself.
I think the UFO convention was actually perfect. Everyone thinks these people are crazy, but some of them, like Abraham, really were onto something. It makes sense that given their frame of reference they'd think aliens were involved for some technology far too advanced for our present day. I don't exactly thing time travelling robots from the future would be a natural assumption anyone would jump to.
So some of these people weren't crazy in spite of what everyone else thought, just like Sarah isn't crazy in spite of what everyone thought of her.
And now Sarah was in a position where even John was thinking she was crazy, but from her perspective the 3 dots had to mean something. She had to keep her mind open that Skynet could be anywhere or everywhere and not leave any stone unturned.
I liked the contrast with Abraham having to leave a life behind and in the sense it was even liberating to do so and how this related to Sarah and who she was. The "I'm a waitress" line confused the hell out of a lot of people, but my interpretation was that it was an auditory hallucination on Sarah's part as she was identifying with Abraham and imagining some of her own experiences in what he was relaying.
In the end Sarah's seeing the HK vindicated her in her quest because there was something there. Her relentless search did pay off and she wasn't crazy no matter what those around her thought.
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on 2009-04-20 06:35 pm (UTC)I really liked that episode. When I first saw it I was rather like WTF? Because it was completely counter to what I thought we were going to get. I was kind of expect something along the lines of Born to Run with a confrontation with Weaver. Instead we got something completely different. I didn't know what to make of it at first but I watched it several times and it ended up being one of my favorite episodes.
I like the introspective take on Sarah, the person she became and what she had to give up to do it, what she left behind and that maybe she still longs for that part of herself.
I think the UFO convention was actually perfect. Everyone thinks these people are crazy, but some of them, like Abraham, really were onto something. It makes sense that given their frame of reference they'd think aliens were involved for some technology far too advanced for our present day. I don't exactly thing time travelling robots from the future would be a natural assumption anyone would jump to.
So some of these people weren't crazy in spite of what everyone else thought, just like Sarah isn't crazy in spite of what everyone thought of her.
And now Sarah was in a position where even John was thinking she was crazy, but from her perspective the 3 dots had to mean something. She had to keep her mind open that Skynet could be anywhere or everywhere and not leave any stone unturned.
I liked the contrast with Abraham having to leave a life behind and in the sense it was even liberating to do so and how this related to Sarah and who she was. The "I'm a waitress" line confused the hell out of a lot of people, but my interpretation was that it was an auditory hallucination on Sarah's part as she was identifying with Abraham and imagining some of her own experiences in what he was relaying.
In the end Sarah's seeing the HK vindicated her in her quest because there was something there. Her relentless search did pay off and she wasn't crazy no matter what those around her thought.