Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[Morris Schæffer]

For the first episode they appeared to have adopted an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach in order to grab viewers as rapidly as possible. It was okay for a start with some surprisingly cool FX, but also some real cringers. Yeah, "come with me if you want to live" was a particularly nasty, albeit brief, moment of crapoola. There's a lot of heavy dialogue that really fails to match the tone in T2: Judgment Day for the time being, but I'm enjoying the show so far because who the hell expects something on a par with Cameron's work anyway?

I was sorta freaked out by the helmet-wearing terminator in episode 3. I was thinking "how can he be wearing a helmet without his skeletal head?" And then he took the helmet off. Whoa!!! Pretty freaky.

Summer Glau is ok. She does look kinda robotic and mean which is good.

[Dukefrukem]

i thought this show is absoute crap compared the films. the acting was horrible! and they couldn't have picked worse looking terminators....are they taking this series seriously?

just one question...

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a time machine in a fucking bank?

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[Sxottlan]

I enjoyed the first two episodes, although the whole jump forward to avoid the events of T3 seemed forced.

Then I completely forgot to watch the third episode. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to carry on with the show. Does anyone know if it will air again?

[Dukefrukem]

After watching the first three episodes, I must say this is the worst attempt at creating a successful TV franchise out of a successful movie franchise ever... the episodes are filled with inconsistencies... for starters...

1. In the opening credits, Sarah says something to the affect of: "Some to Kill John... 1 to protect"... So they still haven't figured out a way to send more than one terminator back to protect them?? Yet they can send scientists back to make a time machine?

2. The reason the woman terminator was so successful in the third one was because she acted like a terminator... her hair was tied back and she did a good job mastering the machine like movements.. none of the terminators in this show do that...

3. In Terminator 2, John could give orders to the Terminator... but in the TV series, John can't because he's not the John from the future... "not yet"

4. In the 2nd episode, when they find the safe behind the cat poster, do you think a team of forensic CSI agents would miss that??

5. Time Machine in the bank.. enough said...

6. and finally what pushed me over the edge was the terminator growing back his skin in the bathtub…

[Morris Schæffer]

I liked episode 4. What I appreciated was that finally one of the terminators came across as fairly intimidating. That whole key/standby sequence was rather excellent. Naturally, it's not quite great TV yet, but I'll keep watching.

[Dukefrukem]

finally this is canceled

[lovejuice]

watch the first two episodes. don't think it's any good. the sarah connor doesn't look like she can shoulder the series. mentioning 9/11 in this context just sounds weird. a timeskip of 7 years feels random. it might serve some purpose later on but i don't think i'll ever find out.

[Dukefrukem]

I never made it past the 3rd episode, but was this ever worth watching?

[[ETM]]

Better than anything Terminator after Judgment Day.

[Morris Schæffer]

Still not better than T3, but I could see how others might feel differently. Characters and (some) actors didn't do it for me, action wasn't memorable. It didn't have that relentless nature of a good Terminator product, but crucially I didn't think it managed to be its own thing either. I mean shit, folks are complaining about Jay Courtney being Reese, but this had Brian Austin Green from Melrose Place. Unbelievably bland.

[[ETM]]

Green was outstanding. And not memorable? The police attack set to "when the man comes around" is a better sequence than anything in 3 and 4.

[Morris Schæffer]

That's a cool scene ETM, ain't gonna lie about it, but it's not tense or thrilling. Still, it's a good sequence, but in a 13 episode season, you'd have to be a monumental cockup if you weren't able to produce something memorable.

I wish this had been a truly great show. I would have watched the second season because i'm a terminator fan, and because I did sense untapped potential.