Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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Hey I just wanted to see if anyone else was watching this fantastic program!
I was a bit skeptical when the program first aired thinking that it was nothing more than a way to cash in on an established franchise. Even the first episode of season one was a bit of a let down, which was due to my high expectations given the pedigree of the franchise. That said I did wanted to give the show a chance and not completely write it off, so I stuck around for another 5 or so episodes. Suffice to say Im glad that I did!
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is easily one of the best shows on TV and has truly become a standout series; right up theyre with True Blood, Lost, The Shield, Dexter, etc. Terminator: TSCC unlike shows such as "Heroes and Fringe" which seem to get worse with every episode shines brightly and completely respects its audiences intelligence! The writing, directing, and acting are top notch across the board and it feels as though the creative staff behind the show had an overall plan and stuck to it. The characters themselves are wonderfully realized and will grow on you over time. The show has also done the unthinkable as well, it made me forget about Linda Hamiltons portrayal of Sarah Connor. That's something I thought would never happen!
Anyways I cant say enough about the program and I highly recommend it to those looking for something new and interesting to watch.
Heres the link to season two: http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=tscc
Episode one of season two does a good job recapping the events in season one.
Enjoy!
PS: Fox has renewed the show for another season, YAY!
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I've been watching it since episode 1, and it's definitely getting more and more intriguing.
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Started watching it during the Comiccon challange over at GA. I was baking out AO maps when they were doing a marathon of season 1...instantly hooked.
Really like how it fleshes out the story more, such as objectives the terminators have other than killing John Connor.
And wtf, in the first episode with the lead singer of garbage, she moprhed out of the wall because she was the urinal? FFS, her mouth was the actual urinal!! Come on..
Only two more episodes of the shield left.
john's a pussy and sarah coddles him, they've done nothing to turn john in to the resistance leading, robot slaying ultra badass he's supposed to become. every time a terminator comes after them, they run off while cameron kicks the shit out of it. when cromartie gets killed, what's john doing while derek and sarah are taking potshots at it? hiding like a little bitch and then he tries to act badass by shooting it in the face after it's borderline dead.
more needs to be done to make it believable that he's going to save the human race, or else skynet could attack with toasters and beat him. and lena headey doesn't look like she could kick anyones ass, linda hamilton looked like she could wrestle sharks and *win*
still good though, but it definitely needs to work on building john up
Yeah I was a bit taken a back by the casting of Shirley Manson but she's grown on me much like the rest of the cast. I actually think that she's doing a good job despite her lack of acting experience. It's weird but the more robotic her acting is the better it fits the character, since she supposed to be playing a cyborg anyways.
As for your complaints about Sarah, well the characters showing more range and growth than she ever has in the movies. I mean she's A: Human and B: a woman. I'm glad the writers are showing us other sides to her character because she would have been nothing more than a one-note prop if they hadn't done otherwise.
The great thing about the characters is there growth and I bet Sarah wouldn't make the same mistake again, the writers are to clever for that.
I mean why for the love of god cant they think of something else are they so fucking retarded they have to rehash the same old crud over and over again..?? oohh mmyyy god.. make it fucking stoooop !!!!!!! arrrgghh
ahem... forgot my lithium today =______=
^urinalinator
i also won a Terminator : TSCC t-shirt and full season 1 dvd off the local radio station here... i knew my 'reese' trivia.. lol
Can't wait for the movie either!!! Finally done with the current day and now all about the post apocalyptic ACTION!!!
However, I'm glad they moved it off Monday. Seeing as American Idol is on everyday for the next 3-4 months I imagined Fox had to move any show in the 8pm time slot. I think Sunday or Saturday would've been a better choice. I think Fox wants to kill the show but they want to wait until the movie comes out.
I just hope they give it a fitting ending that ties up to the movie nicely.
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That being said the last few episodes have returned the show to form, and from the looks of things its coming to a thrilling conclusion! The real shame of it is that this show is on the verge of being cancelled by Fox! I would really love to see it get picked up by another network (Sci_Fi) if Fox indeed cancels it. I feel that the show has done a number of interesting things involving the Terminator universe, and it would be great to see these characters grow and evolve up until the inevitable judgment day.
Nevertheless its had a good run and will probably go down and become another cult classic along the same lines as Firefly, sigh.
By the way WHY THE HELL IS FRINGE BEING RENEWED! Lame!
Oh, and FRINGE really sucked. Really.
Sarah Connor Chronicles is ass sweat.
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It's on my list of shows to keep watchin, great stuff!
UPDATE: I just heard rumors that the show is CANCELED for good:(
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By the way where did you hear that it's been canceled for good?
Enjoy!
I really hope there is a couple more seasons to go, although i hope they do wrap it to a solid conclusion within 4 seasons or so before it starts to lose shape like most shows.
*edit: about halfway through the latest episode, OMG fucking crazy!
SUPER SPOILER, DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LAST EPISODE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:
Kyle getting shot in the head so nonchalantly was kind of disturbing and hard to believe. I kept expecting him to get up and brush it off.
I dare say it was the best episode of the series.
I hope to God we do, but, well... This IS Fox we are talking about...
This is where i heard about it. Seems pretty legit. I guess the last episode wraps up a ton of stuff for the reason.
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if it is true that the show wont have any more seasons they are going to have to reveal her tru motive and then destroy both cameron and her plus wrap the sarah conner story arc in one episode...which i can see being unsatisfying.
They cleaned arround. it's great
Is someone there he got some information about the little girl? who is she really?
My guess: T1000's are actually space aliens and not terminators.
Actually, I think T1000's are the completely created by Skynet and not humans. So they might see the humans than say Skynet/T100's...if that makes any sense.
John Henry was such an awesome character too:(
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http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3972
I've never cared this much about a show staying on the air!!
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Sure hope these rumors of cancellation are false, but then again.... how good is a the friday primetime slot for any show? Seems like a show ripe for Sci Fi to have.
Man that was a good episode the last one, too bad the 4th movie will cue from the 3rd and not the series. The third movie was horrible.
To quote Jesse Jackson, I'm going to "Keep hope alive" that the powers that be decide to give the show one more season. Hopefully they can take into account the number of viewers who DVR and stream the show on a weekly basis. That being said I'm eagerly awaiting the dvd release, hopefully the producers will be able to pack in a host of extras for the die hard fans who supported the show from day one.
I feel the same way, but the buzz is that the show was canceled before fox even moved it to the Friday time slot - I sure hope thats not true, but it was such a good show it wouldn't surprise me at all for it to have been canceled... yet American Idol lives on.....
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http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20811
Also, both the writer and exec producers have just said it's NOT canceled yet!
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Maybe sarah connor chronicles is cancelled...and they start Terminator: The John Conner Chronicles or something?
Man I can't believe I'm so upset about this.
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