Chapel Perilous

Quick Review

Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles
TV Series, Fox

I initially snorted at the idea of a series based on the Terminator movie franchise because, really, how far can you take that storyline?
But because I enjoy the Sci-Fi, we decided to give the pilot a whirl and see it lives up to the hype of the commercials.
One point of curiosity, Summer Glau from the an excellent sci-fi series that died far too early, Firefly.

It's soon established that this series picks up some years after Terminator 2 left off, with the destruction of Skynet before it's created when the scientist involved martyrs himself to save the world.

So John Conner and his mother are hiding in plain sight in some hick town where John now goes to high school.
Now, you'd think that John grew some balls after the carnage and destruction that was T2, but noooooo. He's pathetic, whiny, and a real loser.

"MoooOOOm, you can stop Skynet. You did it before! Pleeeeaaase??"

The writing of this series is beyond bad, it's lazy, drawing on every dialog cliche they could come up with.

And Summer Glau's symapthetic terminator character, meant to protect the two, is vastly unconvincing. Sure, she's got her action chops via what she learned training for the movie Serenity, but the acting, gah.
The only convincing actor so far is the machine that's chasing them down.

We get another shot tonight. Hopefully, as with almost all new shows, the dialog and storyline will improve, but I have serious doubts.

At the end, I found myself saying "another victim of the writer's strike."
At least, I hope that's their excuse. 
posted by Bsti @ 7:29 PM ¶ comments