The Finale of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"

It's nearly mid-spring, and seasons or whole TV series are starting to wrap up. Watched the last episode of the second season of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" ("Terminator: The Battle for the Future" in REN TV's translation).

Most likely this is the last episode of the show, since the ratings were low, and Brian Austin Green landed a role in the pilot of a new series, while his character Derek Reese is needed in the third season, where the events are supposed to take place in the future after Judgment Day, like in the fourth movie. Plus, filming the future is expensive, and a show with ratings like these is unlikely to get that, so the sets have already been dismantled and filming is unlikely to be resumed.

I liked the ending itself, they did it well, lots of action in the second half of the episode, even though in the first half everything was quiet and slow, I even started to worry and began doubting it would wrap up properly. The creators didn't let me down, it really is a wonderful, proper, complete ending, a continuation is possible if they want it, but as it is it looks quite good and I don't really feel the urge to find out the details of what happens next, there's room for reflection, otherwise you could keep going forever with who knows what.

The main thing is not to think too hard about the paradoxes of time travel, the events of the series take place in a different timeline anyway, distinct from the one shown in the third and subsequent movies — two terminators sent from the future, who appeared in the first episode of the first season, changed all of that.

As for the series itself, I don't rate it very highly, you can watch it, relax, enjoy yourself. What I didn't like is that when the second season was extended to 22 episodes, they made several filler episodes that have nothing to do with the main storyline and are boring to watch. Glad they didn't cancel the show in its first year, when 9 episodes came out instead of 12 because of the writers' strike, otherwise there wouldn't have been a proper ending. If all 12 episodes had come out back then, then maybe the second season wouldn't have been so necessary.

It's strange that people started signing the petition to save the series even before the last episode aired, but considering that the same was done for Dollhouse even before the first episode aired, it's probably normal for fans.

I wonder whether, if Dollhouse gets renewed for a second season, Summer Glau will show up as one of the dolls, a role like that would suit her well after her previous characters. Joss Whedon likes to cast actors he's worked with before, so in "Dollhouse" you've already got Eliza Dushku ("Buffy"), Amy Acker ("Angel") and Alan Tudyk ("Firefly"). I know that Alan Tudyk's involvement is a spoiler for episodes that haven't aired yet, but this info is already everywhere, there's no hiding from it...