SCC: pancake party

[bop_radar]

Dear All Five People on my F'list that Love SCC (*tongue-in-cheek*),

It has been rightly pointed out to me that rather than be angry at Fox or, even less directly, Dollhouse, we should listen to Josh Friedman, and find a way to come to terms with the horrible reality that Sarah Connor Chronicles has ended.

So I think we should have a party. With pancakes! To celebrate what was one of the best shows on television.



Sarah Connor fans are awesome, intelligent, passionate... but we don't always relax and just HAVE FUN with our show. So I am inviting you all over to have fun telling me what you love about the show, why you love it and what you're going to remember the most. Be sad, by all means, but let's make this an anger-free celebration zone.

Share your favourite pics, quotes, characters, episodes, fan creations, links here. Send other fans here. And love our show! Forever! We are the Resistance. Amen.

Comments

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AND WASN'T PUNISHED FOR IT IN THE TEXT.
Great point! I hadn't even considered that... that's a really good example of the gender WIN in this show.

Who knew?!
Hee! The producers, clearly. I took a while to warm to him, but man he really brought it as an actor, didn't he?

the writers didn't just conveniently forget that Riley had lived to the ripe old age of seventeen alone in tunnels.
So true. You know what I found a sign of how good the gender politics were on the show? When Sarah kidnapped a female doctor, not for one second did I expect that that doctor would be whimpery or pathetic--I knew that she would have her own form of strength somewhere. And she did, even though she was a 'victim' herself. Victims aren't weaker than anyone else on this show.

Explosions
Always important. *nods*

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I love the idea that she obviously still loves him after sixteen odd years and her visions of him still aren't about her guilt over falling for someone else but of how much she still loves him. In other shows the writers would take the standards of the audience about love or fidelity but in a post apocalyptic world they have bigger things to worry about.

Victims aren't weaker than anyone else on this show
Also that Sarah didn't personally need to be seen as a Good Guy by her. She had essentially told her the truth but pretended in the end to have lied. I'm a bit unclear on why she did that, maybe so she felt better blaming Sarah for shooting her husband? I'm not sure, but Sarah is always alright with being seen as a Bad Guy by others.

Explosions are always important. I love that a show essentially about several different women's families (Sarah's, Weavernator's, Jesse's fake and dead, Kacy's normal and Terissa Dyson is effectively Skynet's unknowing parent) has so many explosions. \o/

Moar favrit bits:
The inclusion of a younger Skynet as an active part of the story after selling us on John Henry as baby!Skynet was brilliant.

That John Connor isn't The Saviour Of Humanity in and of himself. Like Lister in Red Dwarf he is the holding pattern ouroboros that makes it happen and never happening possible. Both sides having time machines means neither side will win till it's decided in the past.
If that makes sense at all I'd be amazed.

That Kacy's family wasn't used as dramatic or angsty fodder, her pregnancy was never seen as anything other than normal.

Thank you so much for doing this, I was starting to get so angry.
That a show like this is axed and the only other Guns & Destiny show about is busily killing off all it's female characters or the fandom at large turns on the actresses portraying them, is depressing.
I'm off to make pancakes now. =)

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aren't about her guilt over falling for someone else but of how much she still loves him. In other shows the writers would take the standards of the audience about love or fidelity but in a post apocalyptic world they have bigger things to worry about.
Hell, yeah, and the writers respect that and never fall into the 'but it's TV' trap. Sarah's multiple love(r)s were really well handled--I never felt that Kyle was anything but central to her heart, but I also understood that she genuinely loved Charlie (who deserves a shoutout: I adored his character), it's just that the circumstances under which they met, the circumstances of Sarah's whole life meant that other things--many things--came first.

Sarah is always alright with being seen as a Bad Guy by others.
*nods* And yet she's not a psychological wreck. She understands that she's an outsider and a 'bad guy' in some contexts--and that she has DAMN GOOD reasons to be. She has no hero complex and is more heroic for it. Like the moment when she says 'we ARE a terrorist cell!' And I love that she respects other people's realities, even though she knows that their realities don't mean shit in the face of the apocalypse.

has so many explosions. \o/
YES. I love that as well as all the awesome plot/characters/female stories, it was also high-class when it came to action. Some of those set pieces were amazingly cinematic.

Both sides having time machines means neither side will win till it's decided in the past.
It makes sense! The war is fought in the past... ohhh... that gives me a good key to use in my vidding, thank you.

only other Guns & Destiny show about is busily killing off all it's female characters or the fandom at large turns on the actresses portraying them, is depressing
Ahh, methinks you are speaking of the show that shall not be named. I have so many issues with that show, and it sells in many ways an opposite message to SCC.

Pancakes are healing! Go the pancakes, the fluffier the better.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

My recipe:
Pikelets
2 bantam eggs (roughly one egg)
big heaped spoon of butter
1 cup of plain flour
enough milk to make it slightly runnier than the average batter

Blend thoroughly.
On a hot pan, heat turned right down, grease with additional butter and pour a small circle of batter.
Flip after it looks like it'll hold it's shape.
Don't let them get more than a teeny bit golden.
Cover with butter and honey.
=)