Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV Show - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Television Show - Yahoo! TV

I'm pretty stoked about the whole idea of a Terminator t.v. show. Just remember when watching, be very open minded! Seems like it's going to be a big hit.

just finished watching it online...thanks yahoo
great episode, good action, great story(everyone has seen the movies), and nice twist for the tv version. Oh yeah and I like the new female terminator. Hopefully we can keep the show alive.
It seems lately that alot of good ones get pulled before they have a chance. Look forward to more......

I'll be honest and say that I am very skeptical about this show. T1 was a taut, gritty action thriller that didn't make one ounce of sense time-travel wise but had an instantly iconic main character, an uncompromising vision of the future and real pathos. T2 was even better, with its 'clash of the titans', boldly expanded mythology and its sense of hope for the future. Then T3 was competent, but already showing signs of treading water and franchise fatigue. And now this TV series...boldly going where all the Terminator movies have gone before.

My problem is that the writers and producers seem to be showing us the same story that we've seen before: Terminator comes to the past to eliminate John Connor and prevent him from leading the worldwide resistance which ultimately defeats the machines. Three big screen movies have brought us to the point of nuclear war, Judgment Day (end of T3). Why not take the story on from there? Show us a war-torn, ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape, with John Connor and Kate Brewster struggling to become the leaders they were born to be. There's endless potential for conflict and exciting storytelling. And don't throw budget limitations back at me: Dark Angel and Jeremiah managed just fine. So my suspicion is that the producers are playing it safe and following the formula, and we won't get any new visual worlds or character development.

That said...from the previews I gather that Lena Headey is very well-cast and of course it's great to see Summer Glau in action again. The FX do look remarkably accomplished for a TV series, but the evil Terminator is just laughable. A very, very poor, third-rate substitute for Ah-nuld. John Connor himself is your average tweeny-bopper heart-throb, with slick straight hair and lips looking like he came straight out of the cookie-cutter CW11 teen soap-a-drama format. Bad move when you think about the left-field yet inspired choices of the movies. John Connor is supposed to be a strange, haunted person, and Edward Furlong and Nick Stahl really channeled that. Too bad again the producers decided to play it safe and appeal to the kind of audience that isn't into intelligent sci-fi anyway.

So, some major misgivings, but I'll give the series a chance. Because, as John Connor himself put it, "The future is not set...there is no fate but what we make for ourselves." Maybe the writers will surprise us and take the Terminator franchise in genuinely exciting new directions.

Summer Glau? I'll check it out, otherwise I'd have just rolled my eyes as I flipped past.

Why can't anyone come up with an original idea? Smallville and Battlestar Gallactica pull it off (for a few seasons) and now everyone is trying it.