After what seemed to be a cheap send up of the events in Terminator from it's plot, The Sarah Connor Chronicles works it's way up. From the Terminator movies, though, it changes a few things to make it into a TV show. Surely, TV offers opportunities not offered in the big screen. Never needing to suspend characterization for a 2 hour movie, we are able to see details of John and Sarah that we've never seen before. This could have gone either way. In this case, it's very good.
The story takes off after Terminator 2. However, the past will catch up to them, and time travel becomes the only option. Twisting events around going to the future, a new terminator is introduced, Cameron, who is played by Summer Glau. She is without a doubt a casting stroke of genius. Not only does she have the look and feel of a new kind of terminator, she's athletic, as very well noted in Firefly and Serenity. At 27, she can get away with being 17, another portion that fits well into the storyline. Thomas Dekker is John Connor. He's no slouch, but seems almost overshadowed. Besides, the title doesn't say John, but Sarah. Lena Headey will be compared to the original SC, and some die hard fans may scream, but I really started to like her at the end of the first season. Her role is written to be tough and take it, never backing down or giving up, & that's how she plays it. And another wow, Shirley Manson, is cast in a very important role. It floored me. The chick from Garbage? Really? But it works, even though this is her first real acting gig.
Even with that new Terminator movie with that screaming cursing Batman dude, TTSCC deserves to be watched by any fan of Terminator, or Sci-Fi adventure lover. The end of season two was a fantastic finale, but leaves many questions unanswered. In fact the last 5 episodes was the series' strongest. For every revelation, there were two more that needed explaining. As of this writing, it's up in the air if a third season will come to be, but it doesn't look likely. Fox loves to cut shows short. Ratings are ratings, or so you would think. Today, there are many ways someone can watch a show without it registering in some silly ancient ratings system. DVD & BR rentals, on the internet, recorded on a computer, or a DVR not registered for rating are just some ways. So get going and go watch it.
Edit: There are only 2 seasons, it's officially canceled, unfortunately. After seeing that many people have given me a NO on "Was the above comment useful to you?" I have to laugh. As the ratings here and in other sites will tell you, this was a good series, and the work of a small handful of people that go around and hate positive comments is a riot! Do yourself a favor, if you haven't seen it, and you aren't some hard-up Terminator fan that thinks that everything in sci-fi action should be linear and fall into place like little ducks in formation, don't listen to the angry small bunch and watch this. I'm sure that most of these "positive haters" watched one episode and based everything on that. My rating of an 8 stands.
The story takes off after Terminator 2. However, the past will catch up to them, and time travel becomes the only option. Twisting events around going to the future, a new terminator is introduced, Cameron, who is played by Summer Glau. She is without a doubt a casting stroke of genius. Not only does she have the look and feel of a new kind of terminator, she's athletic, as very well noted in Firefly and Serenity. At 27, she can get away with being 17, another portion that fits well into the storyline. Thomas Dekker is John Connor. He's no slouch, but seems almost overshadowed. Besides, the title doesn't say John, but Sarah. Lena Headey will be compared to the original SC, and some die hard fans may scream, but I really started to like her at the end of the first season. Her role is written to be tough and take it, never backing down or giving up, & that's how she plays it. And another wow, Shirley Manson, is cast in a very important role. It floored me. The chick from Garbage? Really? But it works, even though this is her first real acting gig.
Even with that new Terminator movie with that screaming cursing Batman dude, TTSCC deserves to be watched by any fan of Terminator, or Sci-Fi adventure lover. The end of season two was a fantastic finale, but leaves many questions unanswered. In fact the last 5 episodes was the series' strongest. For every revelation, there were two more that needed explaining. As of this writing, it's up in the air if a third season will come to be, but it doesn't look likely. Fox loves to cut shows short. Ratings are ratings, or so you would think. Today, there are many ways someone can watch a show without it registering in some silly ancient ratings system. DVD & BR rentals, on the internet, recorded on a computer, or a DVR not registered for rating are just some ways. So get going and go watch it.
Edit: There are only 2 seasons, it's officially canceled, unfortunately. After seeing that many people have given me a NO on "Was the above comment useful to you?" I have to laugh. As the ratings here and in other sites will tell you, this was a good series, and the work of a small handful of people that go around and hate positive comments is a riot! Do yourself a favor, if you haven't seen it, and you aren't some hard-up Terminator fan that thinks that everything in sci-fi action should be linear and fall into place like little ducks in formation, don't listen to the angry small bunch and watch this. I'm sure that most of these "positive haters" watched one episode and based everything on that. My rating of an 8 stands.