It's been a long time coming, but Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles finally kicks off in America this weekend.
Set between Terminator 2 and Terminator 3, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is the long-promised show that brings the Terminator story to a television audience, only without Arnold Schwarzenegger, the gigantic budget or the rubbishy Guns 'N Roses soundtrack.
And, slightly miraculously, people don't think seem to think that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is crap.
It's not a good time to be a robotic lady, you know. Look at The Bionic Woman – cancelled after less than one season because nobody wanted to watch that depressing EastEnders girl running quite fast and nothing else for any longer than they needed to.
So on that basis, things didn't look so hot for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Announced over two years ago, the Terminator TV show has been one of the most hotly-anticipated shows in recent years even though, strapped of the multimillion dollar budgets of the movie franchise, there was a big chance that the Terminators would all just be blokes wearing metal dustbins and, instead of killing them by throwing them between the blades of an airborne helicopter and then blowing them up with 500-ft explosions, they'd all just happen to suffer from particularly severe peanut allergies.
In fact, judging by the trailers, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles looks like a cross between Smallville and the last season of 24…
The early reviews for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are in and, even though the show plainly features an indestructible robot warrior from the future who looks a lot like a prissy teenage girl, they actually seem pretty good. Reuters especially seemed to like it, calling the show a 'triumph' and adding:
Director David Nutter gets the series off to a rousing start, practically packing every frame with suspense, special effects and an urgency that drives this show like an incessant drumbeat. Can subsequent episodes measure up to this glitzy and heart-pounding pilot? A second episode sent to critics pretty much assures they can.
Exciting. Hopefully it won't be too long before Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles makes its way over to these shores, because we can't wait to see how it ends.
Oh wait, we saw Terminator 3 at the cinema so we know that the robots don't ever kill John Connor. Oh well, in that case never mind.
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wambachumba says
This show is actually really good. When I first heard about it, I figured after T3 they should just let the whole thing die, but this is actually a whole lot better and closer in spirit to the first two films then T3.
*minor spoiler*
Regarding your “…we saw Terminator 3 at the cinema…” comment, the pilot finds a nifty way of completely ignoring that T3 ever happened, so you never know, they might actually get to kill him this time.
Mark says
Stuart Heritage what do you know about music in fairness? “You could be mine” is the name of the track from Guns N Roses that you just rubbished. Its a brilliant soundtrack!You are an IDIOT!!!!
Stabby McGee says
The ‘You Could Be Mine’ video is nothing compared to the mighty ‘Big Gun’ video by AC/DC for the Last Action Hero sound-track. Cheese-fest! Shame Arnie’s too old to churn out the movie classics these days…
Jas says
Okay, lets get this set straight, there’s no 1980s Linda Hamilton, no Arnold Schwarzenegger, no James Cameron directing, its got a guns n’ roses track, and is in likeness to, oh god, smallville and 24, two series that also suck. Jee yeah, my anticipation for this series is through the roof! The only reason they’re doing it is because 1. They don’t know how to create their own stuff. And 2. They’re using the success of T1 and T2 as leverage for making money out of T3, T4 and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I’m going to spell it out for you: They’re ruining the terminator legend faster than Gerald Ratner ruined his father’s company.
Oh yeah, didn’t Smallville do exactly what this series is doing? Take an older story and recycle it to a modern audience, badly. And as for 24, “way to figure that an anti-terrorist action series would make huge ratings”, thanks america.
Zandormaz says
I really like this serie. While waiting the new movie Terminator – The Salvation (which will be release at 2008 end) we can enjoy this well finished Fox tv serie.