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Terminator television

Date

1/14/2008 10:10:00 PM [permalink]

Author

yahooza

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I'm digging The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I watched the pilot a year ago and remembered how well it had been put together. The second half of the series premiere, which I hadn't seen, aired tonight. Awesome, putting more depth into the characters—mostly the gals—to complement yesterday's quick-dealing unraveling.

The casting team did a superb job finding Lena Headey (Sarah). She has consuming eyebrows, a blank, hard stare and her voiceover adds to the show's dark atmosphere. Gritty. And I'll always have a special place for Summer Glau who starred as River Tam in one of m' favorite TV series of all time, Firefly.

The story picks up in '07, four years before Armageddon (wouldn't you hate it if you knew when the world would be obliterated?). The action is fine and good and supplements the story arc, but doesn't overwhelm and take away from the real story: Sarah, the love for her son, the impending apocalypse, her own mortality (cancer) and those annoying cyborg gnats. So sometime between now and T3, Sarah will die. Wouldn't it be poetic that she die in the series finale whenever that may be (hopefully, waaaaay down the road)?

And how would you feel if you knew you were dying, the world was ending and you had to do everything in your power to save your bratty son so he can have a chance to save the world?

Yeah, sucks.

Crossing fingers and hoping the best that it won't get cancelled—it's on Fox dammit.

Labels: sarahconnor, summerglau, television, terminator

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