The problem Sarah Connor has is the climate we are currently in. It's too bleak and depressing. I have troubles watching it for this reason and I tend to be less discriminatory than most.
It's very bleak in that you sort of know that they can't win. What we are watching is Sisphysus pushing a rock that we know from the outset will never ever go up that hill.
I'm not crazy by this plot device, to be honest. It's one of the reasons I gave up on Angel midway through and had to be coaxed by online friends to try it again. And it's why I got so frustrated with Quantum Leap. It's that goal that the characters want to reach but you know that they can't or the show will be over and so will the series. What is interesting about Angel After the Fall is Lynch let Angel reach the goal just not under the circumstances that he desired it. And in Quantum Leap, the traveler did reach it, but turned it down for the greater good. Here, the end is already foretold - we are learning how John became the leader he is in the future. But that end is in some ways depressing and bleak. And right now, I don't want depressing and bleak. I want a cathartic, happy release.
I think Sarah Connor might have done better about six years ago. It's timing is simply off.
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Date: 2008-10-12 01:39 am (UTC)It's too bleak and depressing. I have troubles watching it for this reason and I tend to be less discriminatory than most.
It's very bleak in that you sort of know that they can't win. What we are watching is Sisphysus pushing a rock that we know from the outset will never ever go up that hill.
I'm not crazy by this plot device, to be honest. It's one of the reasons I gave up on Angel midway through and had to be coaxed by online friends to try it again. And it's why I got so frustrated with Quantum Leap. It's that goal that the characters want to reach but you know that they can't or the show will be over and so will the series. What is interesting about Angel After the Fall is Lynch let Angel reach the goal just not under the circumstances that he desired it. And in Quantum Leap, the traveler did reach it, but turned it down for the greater good. Here, the end is already foretold - we are learning how John became the leader he is in the future. But that end is in some ways depressing and bleak.
And right now, I don't want depressing and bleak. I want a cathartic, happy release.
I think Sarah Connor might have done better about six years ago.
It's timing is simply off.