Mother's Day and Sarah Connor
May. 12th, 2013 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIt being Mother's Day, I spent it in Bamberg with my APs, hence did not have the chance to watch any Doctor Who yet. However, I just saw that a Sarah Connor Chronicles Vid Exchange went live, which to me as a viewer who could never make a vid but loves watching them, and misses Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles dearly, is fantastic news. Also very fitting for Mother's Day.
(And now I have a vision of Charlie, in that pre-show time Sarah and John spent in one place getting almost settled down, asking John in the first year whether he has a present for his mother for Mother's Day yet, and John of course has no idea, Mother's Day not being something the Connors do. Which just not wash with Charlie. Sarah better get her present. Awkwardness ensues, but eventually, due to Sarah's canonical fondness for The Wizard of Oz and the fact she did read the book to him, John finds out about Wicked! and presents his mother with both the novel and a CD with the songs from the musical. Sarah is not sure how she feels about either.)
There are of course lots of aspects to Sarah that aren't about her motherhood, but it is one of the defining elements in her life, and so some of the vids deal with it as well. I haven't had the chance to watch all yet, but, in honour of the day:
Safe as Houses: Sarah and John and their damaged, intense bond. Oh, Connors.
Strange Angels Heaven for Sarah is a world that doesn't need her. Also focuses on Sarah and her son, but in a different way, and incorporating footage from the movies, which considering the different cast is tricky to do, but the vidder pulls it off, making show and (first two) movies feel like the same world.
And the reverse pov:
Connection: "Catherine Weaver", Savannah, John Henry and Ellison as the "other" family in s2 mirroring Sarah, John, Cameron and Derek were infinitely compelling, too. This vid focuses on all the children in The Sarah Connor Chronicles who see too much, but most of all Savannah and John.
(And now I have a vision of Charlie, in that pre-show time Sarah and John spent in one place getting almost settled down, asking John in the first year whether he has a present for his mother for Mother's Day yet, and John of course has no idea, Mother's Day not being something the Connors do. Which just not wash with Charlie. Sarah better get her present. Awkwardness ensues, but eventually, due to Sarah's canonical fondness for The Wizard of Oz and the fact she did read the book to him, John finds out about Wicked! and presents his mother with both the novel and a CD with the songs from the musical. Sarah is not sure how she feels about either.)
There are of course lots of aspects to Sarah that aren't about her motherhood, but it is one of the defining elements in her life, and so some of the vids deal with it as well. I haven't had the chance to watch all yet, but, in honour of the day:
Safe as Houses: Sarah and John and their damaged, intense bond. Oh, Connors.
Strange Angels Heaven for Sarah is a world that doesn't need her. Also focuses on Sarah and her son, but in a different way, and incorporating footage from the movies, which considering the different cast is tricky to do, but the vidder pulls it off, making show and (first two) movies feel like the same world.
And the reverse pov:
Connection: "Catherine Weaver", Savannah, John Henry and Ellison as the "other" family in s2 mirroring Sarah, John, Cameron and Derek were infinitely compelling, too. This vid focuses on all the children in The Sarah Connor Chronicles who see too much, but most of all Savannah and John.
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Date: 2013-05-12 06:39 pm (UTC)Would you believe that I did not do the Mother's Day thing on purpose? Since I sent my mom flowers at her work last week ahead of time, I didn't even notice the overlap of the days until today. But it worked out so perfectly!
And oh, now I am imagining all the angsty Mother's Day TSCC fic to be written. I still miss that show a lot. :(
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Date: 2013-05-13 09:34 am (UTC)I miss the show very much, too. As for angsty Mother's Day fic, in addition to Sarah & John, you could come up with scenarios for Jesse (I don't think post Apocalypstic Earth would have Mother's Day, during her first few months in the past, she'd have come across it, and the stillbirth would have hurt all over again), Cameron meeting Alison of Palmsdale's very pregnant mother, Savannah asking John Henry what he'd think would be a good present and John Henry letting it slip by way of unfortunate phrasing that original Catherine Weaver is dead...