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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 7, 2009 5:55:21 GMT -5
Anyone watch this show here? Thoughts?
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Post by Enc on Apr 11, 2009 13:35:50 GMT -5
yeah i was their for the first ep and missed a few
missed last week saw this week. i was on the edge of my seat.
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Post by Gary Seven on Apr 11, 2009 16:38:23 GMT -5
Anyone watch this show here? Thoughts?
I also don't know what to make of what's going on with Liquid Metal Ice Bitch. She and her kind appear to be at war with the earlier model Terminators that can't morph, but aren't averse to killing human beings even when it's not really necessary, so her helping the Connors and Ellison by shielding them when the cyborg ship came in on a suicide run makes the whole thing screwily confusing. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 11, 2009 16:54:35 GMT -5
I think you could argue the same thing about the third movie, and looks like the fourth as well.
Unfortunately, this show is likely to pull the ultimate TV sin, and end its run on a cliffhanger.
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Post by Mel on Apr 15, 2009 16:52:21 GMT -5
AOL is reporting it won't get a third season, so I hope no cliffhanger.
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 15, 2009 16:57:05 GMT -5
There was a cliffhanger. Totally sucks.
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Post by Astachoth on Feb 26, 2012 3:14:04 GMT -5
I miss that show so much. I fell in love with Summer Glau.
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Post by Mel on Feb 26, 2012 8:47:41 GMT -5
I love Firefly* and the movie, Serenity. No doubt you saw those. Summer Glau was fabulous as River Tam.
*The irony is, when Firefly was being discussed at AOL, I wasn't into it. To me, it looked like a western. I tried, but it didn't capture my interest. I passed on the AOL posts. A year or so later, I caught it in reruns, and BAM, I fell hard for it. 
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Post by CRAMBAM on Feb 26, 2012 10:08:21 GMT -5
It's always been a pet peeve when a show ends on a Cliffhanger.
Firefly had a really good cast.
Summer Glau also had a funny guest star appearance on Big Bang Theory.
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Post by Astachoth on Feb 27, 2012 1:59:00 GMT -5
I love Firefly* and the movie, Serenity. No doubt you saw those. Summer Glau was fabulous as River Tam.
Actually, a girl I knew years ago recommended that show and film to me, but I still have never seen them. I didn't know Summer Glau is in them, maybe that should give me a kick in the rear end. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Feb 27, 2012 6:28:18 GMT -5
Not just Summer Glau--the great Adam Baldwin is in this show.
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Post by Astachoth on Feb 27, 2012 18:48:49 GMT -5
Not just Summer Glau--the great Adam Baldwin is in this show. I have never heard of him. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Feb 28, 2012 14:39:17 GMT -5
You've never heard of Adam Baldwin?
Great actor. You ever see My Bodyguard? Independence Day (small role), Chuck?
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Post by Astachoth on Feb 28, 2012 22:32:24 GMT -5
You've never heard of Adam Baldwin? Great actor. You ever see My Bodyguard? Independence Day (small role), Chuck? I have never seen My Bodyguard. I saw Independence Day, but I didn't like it for some reason. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Feb 29, 2012 9:36:24 GMT -5
Adam Baldwin will get his spot at the top of this section at some point when I feel like changing it. My Bodyguard, not to be confused with THE Bodyguard, is a pretty good movie. Low budget, and it was his first movie, but I always like movies where people have to deal with bullies. This is Baldwin.  |
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Jul 15, 2015 8:10:26 GMT -5
What with Genisys out, I took the time to watch all the Terminator movies, and that also meant finally sitting down to watch the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I had avoided when it was on. It seemed to me just a pointless exercise. And while it does have the same problems all later Terminator stuff has, it also became a pretty good show once you forgot some of that, and better respected Terminator canon than 3 did (even though it also accepted some things that 3 did which were wrong, like that T2 happened in 1997) -- perhaps we're meant to think there was a timeline alteration somehow between 2 and 3).
Doing the whole "it's an alternate timeline now! We have to stop Skynet again! Oh, and here's a protector Terminator" is redundant and I wish the franchise could get away from that. One thing I liked about Salvation is it didn't do that. At least Marcus didn't know he was a Terminator. I was annoyed that some threads on this show never quite went anywhere (like all that graffiti in the first season that led girls to suicide. what was that about?).
Summer Glau seems to be typecast is the "creepy girl" in everything she does. She's basically just playing River but with metal inside her.
Yet for all of its flaws, the show could become very engaging. Sometimes it drifted too far away from Sarah Connor (her name's in the title, guys), but there were some really good episodes and ideas. Giving Kyle Reese a brother made for some good stories. I really didn't care for the idea of a bunch of resistance fighters going back through time and all that, but once you accept it, Reese was a good addition. Brian Austin Green shows his range.
The show ended up reminding me a lot of Battlestar Galactica, what with the metal people who are some good and some bad and constantly being on the run. Not to mention Bear McCrary's music. But I found I liked it better than BSG because the writing wasn't reliant on crazy twists that didn't pay off.
There were a lot of great TV actors on this show. Lots of familiar faces. Even Alessandra Torressani from Caprica was in one. But the highlight here is Garrett Dillahunt who I most remember from Raising Hope. Fans of his should watch this series just for him. He essentially plays three different characters over the course of the show, and he's very good.
On the whole, I'm glad I watched it. Sometimes the show would take too many jumps between episodes in terms of time. Some shows would pick up immediately after the last one very serialized, but others would start just randomly "here's another adventure with the Connors", and that sometimes was disorienting and led me to wonder if I'd skipped an episode. But it still made much better use of the mythology than T3 or Genisys, even while subverting and and carving its own path. Of all the "let's make an alternate timeline" Terminator stuff, this is probably the best. It is a bit of a shame with the cliffhanger ending, but as everything is inevitable in this universe, I can assume the timeline corrected itself somehow. You can't stop Skynet. You can't stop Judgment Day Without it, there's no John Connor. So while on one hand this series is an exercise in futility, it was more smartly made than I had originally suspected.
A shame that Genisys had to come along and negate pretty much everything in it.
-TK
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