Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles - pilot part 1 (review) January 13, 2008
Posted by showmescifi in scifi.Tags: Sarah Connor, sarah connor chronicles, Sci Fi, science fiction, sciencefiction, scifi, terminator
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From the get go in this pilot, there is no mistaking that this is part of the original Terminator franchise (not the lame Terminator 3 stuff).
No Lena Headey is not Linda Hamilton…she’s different..a far more tortured Sarah Connor and one that is more teacher than mercenary. It is Linda Hamilton that next to the Schwartzenneger was one of the most memorable actors in the Terminator series..so Headey has some pretty big shoes to fill.
Summer Glau is awesome as everyone had expected… so far we know she’s ‘different’ but we don’t know why..i suspect we’ll find out the series goes on. She never answers John’s question about what her model is..so it’s a very curious thing as to who she is responsible to and who exactly sent her back in time to protect John.
The concept that Terminators from the future come back into the past to build parts for super weapons that the Connors get to use is a neat plot tool but thankfully they’ve kept with the original concept that you can’t travel through time without anything but your skin.
BUT and a very big but..i believe this to be the first time that there has been a FORWARD TIME TRAVEL in Terminator..so far everything has been backward.
Overall a great first part episode..nothing in it that didn’t make sense..very tight, well acted and scripted with the right amount of action.
I…don’t…know…
Sharecropping an existing franchise, rather than coming up with a new concept goes against everything I believe in. Why is everything in film and TV so derivative? I read an article in a movie magazine that showed the major sources of ideas for films in 1997 and a decade later in 2007. The movies 10 years ago were built around TV show adaptations and today it’s–ta da!–comic books. Is that an improvement, do you think? Or trading one type of stupidity for another…
I just watched it on tivo and loved it. it was gripping and fully entertaining without the lag that terrible sci-fi’s have. some critics i’ve read are slandering it without, as i believe, fully understanding the point of the genre whatsoever. this isn’t shakespeare, but it isn’t the series crafted after the total recall movie either.
i liked the acting, the potential girlfriend turned robot (the truck scene made me almost spike my remote), the forward time travel, and the wondering as to where this series will take me. We’ll see where it does, but I for one (being a kid who’s dad took me to the second film when I was
am stoked for the next episode- enough so that I will tolerate having my television tuned to the FUX channel.
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“It isn’t Shakespeare” but at the same time sharecropping franchises plays to that lowest of all common denominators, a pre-existing audience who don’t want their expectations disappointed. Good movies (or television) should boast intelligent, literate writing but even more than that how about some ORIGINALITY?
how about you make a show for them and sell it? huh? where’s your bright idea? the fact that it is unoriginal only becomes a problem when the core idea becomes exponentially worsened with each try. this series appears to be a step in the right direction, not to mention that the press is eating it up right now- go google news it. i don’t see what the problem is.. shakespeare has been done to death, but remains the greatest literary achievement that man has ever created, does that mean that the concepts are tired? or that we should move on?