From a reader:

Jonah, I’m sure you’ve gotten (or should have) plenty of scolding e-mails about your misinformed comments about the upcoming series, but I’ve got to chime in. You are wrongwrongWRONG about Sarah being annoying in T2. Didn’t you understand the transformation from the poofy mall bimbette she was in the first to the lean, mean, killing machine she was in the second? Her reveal in T2 was a bigger “HOLY $#@&!!!” moment than the liquid metal T1000. Yeah, John was a punk, but should he have been some noble Young Messiah figure from the womb? How would you react if you’ve been told your entire life that the future of humanity rested on your shoulders? Whether they can pull off this series remains to be seen. Sure, Summer Glau is playing River Tam 2.0, but who cares? Let’s see how it turns out. It certainly can’t be any worse than the gawdawful “Moronic, er, Bionic Woman” which needs to be shut down immediately and everyone fired except for Starbuck. Then relaunch the show around Sarah Corvus as she goes from town to town, helping people like in “The Incredible Hulk”. Make it so!!!! Until then, stick to “Star Trek” and avoid the “Terminator” like J.Pod (that Jedi hater) needs to avoid all things “Star Wars.”

Me: Well, a whopping 3 people have made this case, though none so passionately. I will concede this, and only this: It is possible that my annoyance with Sarah Conner is an artifact of many subsequent viewings of T2 in which she bothers me more each time. I do have a vague recollection that I may have liked her as a character more when I first saw the movie. But maybe not. I think T2 was a disappointing movie all in all. The best and most cleverly delivered surprise of the movie — that Schwarzenegger was the “good” terminator — this time around was spoiled by the marketing. The first 15 minutes of the movie would have been much better if you were surprised that it was Arnold coming to the rescue.

Also, the “now I know why you cry Johnny” line at the end was the moment Schwarzenegger and the Terminator jumped the shark for me (am I still allowed to use “jump the shark”?). Oh, and Mr. Robot with the Austrian accent has a no-suicide chip but he can ask the kid to lower him into the molten steel and that’s okay? Who wrote that program?