{"id":288,"date":"2009-05-22T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T00:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=288"},"modified":"2009-05-22T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T00:46:49","slug":"more-ttscc-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/05\/more-ttscc-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"More T:TSCC post mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Turton at Den of Geek put up a bit of an article examining <a href=\"http:\/\/denofgeek.com\/television\/254607\/terminator_the_sarah_connor_chronicles_why_it_failed.html\"><em>The Sarah Connor Chronicle<\/em>s&#8217; failure<\/a> to obtain a third season.<\/p>\n<p>His first assertion is that the show is too introverted, with complex philosophies and character relationships, and a creative team that doesn&#8217;t ease newcomers in mid-show. I guess that to a degree, he&#8217;s right. There&#8217;s a lot to pick up (not as much, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/tag\/battlestar-galactica\">BSG<\/a>), and without a connection to the characters, you might feel it&#8217;s not worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t blame you. As Turton points out, the <em>Terminator<\/em> name implies robot fights and big explosions. TSCC only occasionally delivers those, and they&#8217;re not always very spectatular. Also, the &#8220;navel gazing&#8221; portion is often in a (to my mind) needlessly self-indulgent format.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t blame any viewer for giving up on the show, and when viewers do that, so do networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Turton at Den of Geek put up a bit of an article examining The Sarah Connor Chronicles&#8217; failure to obtain a third season. His first assertion is that the show is too introverted, with complex philosophies and character relationships, and a creative team that doesn&#8217;t ease newcomers in mid-show. I guess that to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[255,201,203],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}