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Nerd Alert! May 19, 2007 Come With Me If You Want To Live Well, here it is on YouTube, the trailer for The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I know what I hate and I don't hate this. I don't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. I do want to watch it out of curiosity. There they are, Sarah Connor, John Connor, and Terminators, sort of. But it totally feels like fan fiction, even moreso than Terminator 3. If it weren't for the way my groin starts to Hulk Up when I see Summer Glau and how I recognize the queen from 300 and Claire's gay friend in Heroes, I'd have assumed this was just something some guy with money and a video camera slapped together. The fact that the first time we see Sarah Connor footage turns out to be on YouTube only enhances the fan fiction effect. I'd also feel better about the show if the writer and likely showrunner weren't Josh Friedman, writer of War of the Worlds and The Black Fucking Dahlia. Nevertheless, I have Terminators on the brain now and rewatching T2 is on my schedule. This Memorial Weekend, there are gonna be a whole other set of war veterans I'll be honoring: The people and machine who fought the original war against Skynet. I'm also gonna feel real stupid about writing so much about this show when FOX cancels it a week after it airs. May 17, 2007
Sarah Connor? FOX is holding back The Sarah Connor Chronicles until January 2008 for a Sunday night, 9pm slot. That works for me, a good lead in to Battlestar Galactica. Until Sarah Connor is canceled. I suppose the series just wasn't going to be ready for a summer launch, but it's too bad they will totally blow the super nerd symmetry of debuting the show on 8/29/07, ten years after Judgment Day. With The Sarah Connor Chronicles coming in January and Bionic Woman debuting for NBC in the fall, hot brunette chicks who kick ass is this year's new "behind the scenes at an SNL-like show" high concept. Wikipedia says Summer Glau's character is indeed a Terminator and her character's name is Cameron. I love it. When is a character named Arnold showing up? February 10, 2007 Ugh, terrible pun. Good news this morning from ign.com. They have a working theory that Summer Glau is apparently the new Terminator in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She follows Kristanna Loken's TX as the second hot killer fembot of the franchise. Summer was of course psychic Reaver killer River Tam in Firefly/Serenity, has a recurring role in The 4400, and recently spent a few episodes as a guest star on The Unit. Her action/killing skills have lain dormant since Serenity bombed, but now that she's gonna be the newest Terminator, she can go back to taking lives on screen with bloodletting violence, which is how I like her best. I also dig the idea that Skynet has more hot female Terminators in its T-Factory. Skynet's been holding out on us. August 29, 2006
Judgment Day In this instance, Lance Jr. is a bigger nerd than I am. He realized before I did the synchronicity of FOX announcing The Sarah Connor Chronicles being greenlit today. Supposedly, this series will take place after the events of Terminator 2, when Sarah and John Connor prevented the original Judgment Day. I suppose that if this series indeed happens as planned, it would only make sense that it would premiere a year from today, August 29, 2007, exactly ten years after T2's Judgment Day. First off, will there be Terminators on the show? Logically, the answer is no. According to the movies, only five Terminators were sent back through time. Like anyone would watch this show if there aren't Terminators! Would anyone watch a show called Ripley's Chronicles if she never meets an Alien? There ain't a chance in hell anyone will adhere to the movies' continuities. They already rewrote the entire story just so Terminator 3 could exist, there's no reason to think at this point, they won't have it so that multiple Terminators repeatedly attack John and Sarah Connor in the years before T3 (and John just never mentioned any of it during T3.) Linda Hamilton is not involved, and that makes sense, since she's too old now to play Sarah Connor in her early 30's. No way is Edward Furlong involved. I'm sure they'll find a hot actress in her late 20's to portray Sarah for the show. She'll have to be quite fit. Sarah Connor of T2 was the most chiseled female action hero ever in movies. Will Arnold show up? I guess it depends on how many bags of money they'll offer the governor. Robert Patrick is pretty fat now; I'd like to see Sarah and John Connor be chased around Mexico by a fat T-1000. Unfortunately, this show already has its ending pre-disposed. We know from T3 Sarah Connor dies in Mexico of leukemia. We know John Connor becomes a runaway junkie, living off the radar, until he has a motorcycle accident and finds himself popping pills in Claire Danes' animal hospital. But since we know the end results, I guess the joy will be in the journey. The journey of a fugitive mother and her delinquent son on the run in Mexico thinking they averted nuclear war and robots ruling what's left of the world. Boy, are they ever fucking wrong. Because despite their best efforts, no matter how hard they fight for a fate they make for themselves, they are up against an enemy more relentless and unstoppable than any Terminator: greedy Hollywood grassfuckers who will squeeze every last penny out of the Terminator franchise. But whatever, if The Sarah Connor Chronicles happens, I'm not kidding myself by pretending I won't be on board. I make my own fate and my future is set. |
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