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Post by Derek Reese on Feb 29, 2008 15:20:53 GMT -5
Discuss her character here.
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Post by :: Gooz-C178 :: on Mar 2, 2008 19:00:43 GMT -5
She look like a lesbian lol , but the character is interesting , a great mother that only want to protect her son ,a figther , a guardian , its very interesting
My english sucks sorry T.T
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Post by Derek Reese on Mar 2, 2008 21:19:09 GMT -5
All things considered after everything she's been through she's not going to just look all girly, when it comes down to things. In T1, it was a different story, but she's come a long way from her early days with determination to protect her son and stop Judgement Day from happening.
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Post by dhfreak on Mar 3, 2008 3:47:49 GMT -5
I agree with you twilightpro101 she did come a long way. Her only priority in life is to protect John. Nothing else matters.
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Post by ReeseDN38416 on Mar 6, 2008 14:13:43 GMT -5
My favorite thing about the Sarah Connor they've written is her sense of humor. It gets me every time and the love flows. She's always had this... offbeat sense of humor even in the first film. LOL! I'm so glad they've preserved that here. I guess maybe in T2 she lost it but it's understandable.
What can I say about Lena's Sarah. I'm reading a wonderful fan script for Termintor 3 and... it's hard to see Linda Hamilton. Lena keeps on creeping in. There's no better compliment than that. Her piercing gaze, the way she looks at John, that soft quiet smile. She's just an amazing character.
I'm enjoying watching Sarah learn to let go, learn to be flexible. I roll my eyes at Messianic references (just so overdone in sci-fi...but yes unavoidable... it's the ultimate story IMO) *sigh* But with the voice over and that gaze of Sarah's that takes in everything I sometimes think about Mary... how she "treasured these things in her heart."
With this show and this character they really took the spirit of Sarah's recordings at the end of T1 and ran with it. It's fun to think that maybe we stumbled across a case of her old recordings and we are listening to her musings about all their adventures.
I love Sarah Connor. She's my favorite character of the series, of Terminator period. The Mother of All Destiny! LOL!
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Post by Derek Reese on Mar 6, 2008 17:55:15 GMT -5
I think ultimately as a character, she's come probably the furtherest in the entire Terminator series thus far. After having met Kyle, survived the first Terminator attack and then surviving the second and now the circumstances have put her in a more controlled state, if one could call it that. She's taking charge and determined to move things forward with her life, determined to keep her son away from the future world by any means possible.
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Post by allergygal on Mar 7, 2008 3:08:22 GMT -5
I love Sarah Connor. She's my favorite character of the series, of Terminator period. Yeah, I know John is destined to be the savior of mankind, but to me, the terminator story has always been about Sarah Connor -- this girl who's life was suddenly turned upside down one night by impossible circumstances. In the aftermath, she finds herself alone and pregnant with the future savior of mankind, and haunted with the knowledge that a nuclear apocalypse is just around the corner. How does a person deal with that? The fact that she doesn't always deal with it well makes her human and interesting. And the fact the she does deal with it makes her amazingly heroic.
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Post by allergygal on Mar 12, 2008 17:25:04 GMT -5
This was a really interesting post from the SCC Wiki. I never really thought about it that way, but it's true. Sarah really was the first one to try to take down Skynet.
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Post by ReeseDN38416 on Mar 12, 2008 22:23:57 GMT -5
That's true. I love that. I guess I missed whatever special edition DVD the scenes are from because they are all new to me... Your comment reminds me of this deleted scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYfvWCKAc7E
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Post by allergygal on Mar 13, 2008 12:47:53 GMT -5
That's true. I love that. I guess I missed whatever special edition DVD the scenes are from because they are all new to me... Your comment reminds me of this deleted scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYfvWCKAc7EHey thanks for that link. I've never seen that scene before! It's not on the Terminator DVD I have. That's such a great setup for T2, I wonder why they deleted it.
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Post by Derek Reese on Mar 13, 2008 15:48:55 GMT -5
Guessing we're all in the same bare bones Terminator DVD boat.
That's a scene that should have stayed in.
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Post by allergygal on Mar 13, 2008 21:47:01 GMT -5
Okay, well, I'm an idiot. My DVD does in fact have that scene as well as other deleted scenes on it and I apparently just never watched them. I'm not usually a fan of deleted scenes since in most cases it's obvious why they're deleted, but I can't believe I would have ignored deleted scenes from T1.
Anyway, I watched them all today and then again with commentary. You gotta love James Cameron. The man knows how to tell a story! I still think that scene should have been left in, though (but I would have shortened it to leave out the part with Kyle breaking down -- didn't like that). There was another scene that showed some guys finding the chip in the factory, too, and at the end, they show that the building is Cyberdyne Systems. Cool stuff.
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Post by k8ie on Mar 17, 2008 18:23:59 GMT -5
I wonder why they deleted it. Pacing probably - seeing Kyle break down and Sarah go on the offensive at that point in the script would weaken the impact of Kyle's confession to Sarah about coming through time for her and Sarah's transformation into a fighter in the factory scene at the end. Both of those moments are big emotional beats for the characters and that scene would have tipped off the audience that those transformations were coming. It must have been dropped pretty early from the editing process, too, because it doesn't appear in the novelization although the scene with the guys at Cyberdyne after Sarah's loaded into the ambulance does.
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Post by allergygal on Mar 29, 2008 14:33:25 GMT -5
Picking up the discussion from the Sarah/Derek thread... Does Sarah have a "pure heart" as Derek said? No she doesn't. When she goes to Miles Dyson's house in T2, she gets the back of his head in her scope and pulls the trigger. It was only luck that prevented that murder. The change of heart came later when she looked him in the eye at close range and saw him as a person. So even though it's true that Sarah has never actually killed anyone, her heart isn't "pure".
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Post by k8ie on Mar 29, 2008 16:04:29 GMT -5
Picking up the discussion from the Sarah/Derek threadThe change of heart came later when she looked him in the eye at close range and saw him as a person. So even though it's true that Sarah has never actually killed anyone, her heart isn't "pure". Good point. To paraphrase The Bride, just because she has no wish to murder Dyson before the eyes of his child doesn't mean Sarah's an innocent. Having been mulling this question over for a few days, I wonder if I haven't fallen into a false dichotomy between having a pure heart = not-killing and not-killing = weak. On the one hand, the legends of Robin and the Knights of the Round Table. These stories were all populated by warrior men who fought and killed yet Robin Hood, Galahad, Lancelot (even after he swived Guinevere), Gawain, etc were all considered "pure of heart" - even when cutting down Sheriff's men or Saxons. On the other, you have characters like Batman and Buffy - indisputably tough - who place protecting and preserving human life above all other considerations. It's a theme I hope TSCC picks up next season.
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