I just finished watching the premiere episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It wasn’t terrible and it’s got Summer Glau (who shall always be River for me). But the first episode was essentially an abridged version of Terminator 2 (right down to a visit with the Dyson family) and ended by setting up the series as a weird kind of robot Three’s Company.

Friend: Dude, that Cameron chick living with you is hot but she is such a robot.
John: Oh, her? No, she's not a robot... Haha! That's silly. No, uh... she's a foreign exchange student! From Sweden! Yah, that's it!
Sarah: If you tell anyone I'll kill you.

Anyway, it must be better than T3 which I’m told I’ve seen but of which I have no memory.

Comments

1. Bahi on 2008-01-14 10:06:08 wrote: How I wish I had no memory of T3. It was so bad I was quite angry at having paid for tickets - I don’t think that ever happened to me before at the end of an evening at the cinema. Some part of your brain has mislaid the experience, though there’s a non-trivial risk of a severely traumatic event yanking the horror back from its hiding place. Live a careful, peaceful life and avoid hypnosis - you might be okay. Good luck.

2. Ken on 2008-01-15 02:55:09 wrote: Anyone else bothered by the fact that the terminator skull passed through the time portal in the second half of the pilot? Isn’t that a MAJOR incongruity in the story? Also, Lena’s Sarah Connor is way too soft, not edgy and tormented like Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor… and when she’s edgy, it seems overdone. I hate how she calls Kyle “Kyle Reese”. It was always either Kyle or Reese. Do you call someone you love by their full name? And as another poster stated, the terminator that was in the classroom, when he turned around and said, “Class dismissed”, I cringed. I hope this series improves and that this is just the teething process of a new show.

3. Faraz on 2008-01-15 12:44:46 wrote: I don’t like the idea of having a little girl as a robot (Summer Galu/River), but she acted more human when she was at school with John but after she told him who she was she is visibly acting more like a robot than a girl. The physics doesn’t work, you need a strong robot to kick another strong robot’s behind. I find it impossible to believe that the little girl is beating up robots 3 times her mass with her little punches. She needs to have some sneaky tricks up her sleeve like a kick in the groin (strangely all enemy robots are muscular males).

4. Christopher on 2008-01-15 14:54:52 wrote: If Fox wanted to put on a good sci-fi, why did it cancel Firefly? Everything Whedon’s show was, this one is not. And I really wanted to like it just to be faithful to Summer Glau. But it’s bland, the writing is purely functional, and the story is really old. By the way, here’s how you kill John Connor. You send a Terminator back to follow him. This terminator notes where the boy is on a particular day at a particular time. The information is put onto a device which is stored somewheree safe and can be accessed by the evil machines in the future. They then send back another Terminator to that exact spot and time. This Terminator blows up instantly, right in front of Connor. Deed done.

5. Tana on 2008-01-16 16:36:54 wrote: She will always be River to me, too! Too bad there wasn’t more Firefly. :(

6. edward on 2008-01-17 05:22:27 wrote: Since everything happened – Skynet, John Connor leading the resistance etc what is the point? Isn’t the future as written as the past? And if you were John, who would you be checking out when you came into 2007 naked – the terminator chick or your own mother?

7. Christopher Wood on 2008-06-29 22:13:18 wrote: Is no one else bothered by the fact that in the pilot they violate the one rule of the terminator universe that cannot be broken: the futures not set.?? they jump forward in time!! I understand that for whatever reason fox wanted john to still be a teenager and yet for budgetary reasons wanted the show to be set in CA in the present, but couldn’t they have at least given some (i dont even care how lame, i wanted to like this show so much) explanation for how this was possible? sarag would’ve been all over that, she lives by Kyle Reeses words….