“All I can offer you is coffee. You seem more like a coffee type,” Abraham, a blogger with links to an “aliencentric” project, tells Sarah.
“So I’ve been told.”
As Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles wraps up the fall with Episode 213, “Earthlings Welcome Here,” Sarah goes to a UFO conference to track down sightings of the “California Drones,” spacecraft with the three-dot markings she’s been dreaming about. There, she’s put on the trail of Abraham. By the end of the episode, she’ll see a Drone, but is it real or a hallucination? We’ll have to wait till February to find out.
Next up, Ellison gets a new job: teaching John Henry, an artificial intelligence created from what was left of Cromartie, a moral sense. Ellison takes on John Henry in a two-tiered game of chess. Ellison loses the game on the board, but it’s the theological chess game he’s concerned about. He’s got John Henry asking, “Am I God’s child?”
Turns out I was a bit slow on the significance of Riley’s meeting with Jesse a few weeks back. “You are here to keep John Connor away from her,” Jesse tells Riley. Now here’s a relationship that’s about to get more complicated.
Unlike recent episodes, “Earthlings Welcome Here” has a job to do: moving forward the plot to a place that’ll make viewers want to come back in February. That means it wasn’t as much fun as the last few episodes, but it left some promising seeds for later. The end scene is familiar to the point of TV sci-fi cliche, but Sarah Connor took an equally cliched cliffhanger in the spring and spun a great Part Two. Since then, Sarah’s been aiming for moody thriller instead of action-packed thrill ride, and it’s been hitting the mark often enough.
Can the writers keep it up? That’s more of a cliffhanger than “Does Sarah make it out of this one?”
15. December 2008 at 9:43 pm
Speaking of drones, did you notice that the UFO in pictures on the walls and at the end was the California Drone that’s been seen over Capitola, CA over a year ago or less?
It was a hoax and there were some pretty interesting pics, but I’m confused Fox would use something like this from the public domain.
15. December 2008 at 11:02 pm
Was wondering the same thing.
Did they adapt this information or are they the generators?
16. December 2008 at 5:23 am
I was wondering that myself… but it seemed so far back that the timing is off… then again, what do I know. I’m gonna be putting some mind-time in on this. See what I come up with.
16. December 2008 at 10:15 am
Look forward to seeing what pops up. I posted something on the TV Guide comments with the fourtunecity link but no one responded. They are asking questions about the UFO story – not pleased with the injection of this story line – most of them but no response. Alienware used it once and even embellished two notebooks with it but claimed that they didn’t invent it, only used it. I really don’t care hoax or no, I’m just really curious where it came from. Thanks!
22. December 2008 at 12:20 am
The show is getting way off track. Trannies and UFOs? The fall cliffhanger episode was terribly paced and honestly kind of dull. If they introduce aliens into this show I’m done.
22. December 2008 at 6:41 am
I think it was a viral campaign gone awry. IMHO: Fox put it together, played it out, the writers strike set everything back. Then when the writers strike ended, they played this viral campaign one more time with more media from, of all places, FOX news.
But don’t tell the true believers! They are sticking to their guns whole heartedly about what it is.