We'll all come inside and eat your brains

[amnesiack]

The Sci-Fi Channel is making a tv show based on the Terminator movies called The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This wouldn't normally be the sort of thing I'd comment on, since I'm only marginally a fan of the first two movies, and I never saw the third, but Summer Glau will be playing one of the Terminators on the show, and I'm always excited to see new work from a former Firefly cast member. Add this to the fact that the last few years have proven that "Sci-Fi Channel original" doesn't automatically mean "crappy show/movie" anymore, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with this.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Note that it's a Fox pilot.... not really a sci-fi original. And for every good thing sci fi does there are 10 things it does wrong or causes problems for.

Ex: Dresden files, which looks ok except they aren't showing the episodes in order evidently. Like they did for Eureka, they've decided to re-arrange the order of the episodes to try for what they think will get faster ratings, rather than what makes the story arc make sense...

And, well, I won't mention all the really bad horror/monster films they've been doing in recent years...

[amnesiack.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info; I wasn't aware that it originated with Fox. I'm not sure if that's a mark for or against it. I definitely am not of the opinion that Sci-Fi can do no wrong; they've made a lot of garbage over the years, but from the couple of episodes of BSG I've seen (and all the things that people I trust say about it), it at least gives me a bit of hope that it could be good; 3 or 4 years ago, I wouldn't have even given it that.

[jaberwockynmt.livejournal.com]

The bad horror/monster movies are awesome. They are designed with cheesiness and cheap thrills in mind. They deliver on this in a calculated way. Though, if you don't want cheesy, you'll have to look somewhere else.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Cheesy never equals good, as far as I'm concerned.

[hansandersen.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the extended/"ultimate"/whatever-it's-called edition of T2? It adds a lot to the movie, and it really tips the balance from "action movie with a sci-fi backplot" to "science fiction movie with lots of action"

[amnesiack.livejournal.com]

I haven't. I'll have to put that on "The List."

[covenantscave.livejournal.com]

Oh, and BTW, the third Terminator movie I thought was reasonably good (esp. given the hype after the 2nd) and tied things up nicely.

Wouldn't call it an amazing movie, but certainly worth the time (esp. after watching the 2nd one).

I find the first one really hard to watch now, it's just so dated as to be kind of painful...

[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

Re SciFi != crappy show -- yeah, we're watching The Lost Room now and it's actually pretty good. Then again, this is the same network that brought us "Mansquito", so they're all over the place. I love T2 and thought T3 was okay.

[jaberwockynmt.livejournal.com]

The show may or may not suck. The third movie really brought the series together. The first is good alone. The second isn't very good at all. The third brings them all together to be a unified, strong story.

[graypawn.livejournal.com]

I really hate being the bad-guy here, but I gotta interject that i really, really hated T3. It felt like the whole point of T2 was to show us that our fate is in our own hands, and that Hope is as indestructable as a machine from the future. And then T3 came out and said,"Yeah, that's cool, but we all die and war crushes everything. Cool, huh?" Didn't sit so well with me. We go from "Maybe if a machine made to kill can learn to love, then so can we." to "Doomsday is inevitable! the Governator is Rock Awesome! And there's that girl from My So-called Life!" I just don't know why Cameron would dissappear, and then let people come along and butcher his really great duo of cool films. T2 was among my top five favorite films of all time. Until i saw T3. Now it's...not.

[(Anonymous)]

But maybe River will make it cool? (I want to be an optimist)