Self Made Man (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
"Self Made Man" | |
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Featured music | Bear McCreary[1] |
Cinematography by | Stephen Collins[2] |
Original air date | December 1, 2008 |
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"Self Made Man" is the 20th episode (11th of the second season) of the United States television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (T:TSCC). Aired on December 1, 2008 ,[3] "Self Made Man" explores Cameron's nighttime activities of enlisting help to research a Terminator's presence in the past, as well as John Connor's continuing relationship with Riley Dawson.
Plot
The plot of "Self Made Man" consists of two separate storylines.
While the Connors sleep,
Simultaneously with Cameron's escapades,
Production
"Self Made Man" was written by Toni Graphia,[2] and was director Holly Dale's first foray into the Terminator franchise.[5]
Graphia vetted the episode's historical information alongside T:TSCC department heads, and History for Hire, a
Reception
Reviewing the episode for IGN, Travis Fickett extolled Summer Glau's performance, and held it up as an example of her acting ability keeping the whole series from failing. Fickett also explained that "Self Made Man" received better ratings than the preceding episodes of the series' second season.[7] At the website Television Without Pity (TWoP), the staff review rated the episode a "C", and specifically took issue with the suspension of disbelief required for Cameron's ability to find anything and everything about the Myron Stark storyline in a closed public library; as of January 2010[update], 757 of their readers awarded it an average grade of "B+".[8]
Though the series never specifically explains the three dots written on the Connors' basement wall in "Automatic for the People", reviewers (including IGN, TWoP, and Total Sci-Fi's Owen Van Spall[4]) attributed them to this episode's revelation of the Terminators' temporal triangulation ability. Van Spall and TWoP also noted the plot point of the T-888's mission to kill the governor of California.[4][8] Stark's assassination mission was to take place on New Year's Eve 2010,[1] at which time Arnold Schwarzenegger would still be the Californian governor (leaving office in January 2011);[9] Schwarzenegger is the star of the first three Terminator films in the franchise, having premiered the role in 1984.[10]
References
- ^ a b c "Self Made Man". Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Season 2. Episode 11. 2008-12-01. Fox Broadcasting Company.
- ^ Yahoo! TV. Santa Clara, California, USA: Yahoo!, Inc.Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- ^ Sepinwall, Alan (2008-12-02). "Terminator, "Self-Made Man": History lessons". The Star-Ledger. Newark, New Jersey, USA: George Arwady. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- ^ a b c Van Spall, Owen (2009-02-09). "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Self-Made Man (season 2, episode 11)". Total Sci-Fi. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
While Sarah pursues her obsession with the three-dotted symbol, Cameron might accidentally have found its meaning when she learns that a Terminator was mistakenly sent back to the 1920s and has altered the timeline for purposes unknown…
- ^ a b c d hadley (2008-12-03). "self made episode". Terminator - Sarah Connor Chronicles. United States: Fox Broadcasting Company. Archived from the original (Blog) on 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ hadley (2008-12-03). "dressed in time". Terminator - Sarah Connor Chronicles. United States: Fox Broadcasting Company. Archived from the original (Blog) on 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ a b Fickett, Travis (2008-12-02). "Terminator: "Self Made Man" Review". IGN TV. Brisbane, California, USA: IGN. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
A clever, innovative - if not entirely successful - episode.
- ^ NBC Universal. Archived from the originalon 2009-06-05. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ Marois, Michael B.; William Selway (2009-12-24). "Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama's Help for Deficit Relief". New York City, USA: Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2010-03-21. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-11-23. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
External links
- "Self Made Man" at IMDb