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Sara Connor Chronicles.
Did anyone else think this was pretty good? I think it benefits from good casting. The wife from 300 is excellent and so is Summer Glau. I expected it to be ass but was very pleasantly surprised. It's a gift in an otherwise moribund television season.
Comments
1. If they're so concerned with staying under the radar, why does the kid get to go to school, where many records are kept? And don't tell me that their aliases and new identities work, because obviously they're not very good. Speaking of new identities, has it ever occurred to them to have plastic surgery? Or at least dye their hair?
2. How can they afford all those vehicles, guns, houses, and whatnots if Sarah works as a waitress? If she has independent wealth and just wants something to do, why would she do any kind of work that would generate tax records?
3. Will we get to see the distaff Terminator acquire grievous injuries and then carry them throughout the series, just as the Arnold Terminator did in the movies, or will she heal? Can we handle seeing a woman walking around with bits of her blown off? Is that why she'll be allowed to heal?
4. Why isn't she made of liquid metal?
5. Why is John such an ass? How many times does Sarah have to be proven right before he'll listen to her?
Kind of like 24 and OH MY GOD A NUCLEAR WHATEVER!
If they can stay away from Terminator of the week (which they claim they'll do) and they can have some slower paced episodes where they perhaps explore the development of John into a leader and such, it could turn out to be a very interesting show.
Furthermore, why is Gillian Anderson the host? I mean: Alistair Cooke, Russell Baker, Gillian Anderson - Which of these things is not like the others?
I like the way they filmed it when it was set in the past, it 'felt' very early 90's. The style, the glow around the windows when they filmed inside and everything. Once they went into the future, the filming became more modern and higher in quality. I thought that was a nice touch.
At least, I think they done that. Unless my imagination took control whist I was watching.
2)They are shown to scavenge them when they fight it out with Cromartie or various other opposing forces. Also, they found a large cache of weapons and money at the start of the first season, left by a group of rebels sent back from the future. This cache also included a good fistful of large cut diamonds.
3)Yes, She carries Various injuries, though not having to keep them from episode to episode is explained away early on by telling the audience that "Terminators are programmed to repair and rebuild to continue their mission." She also has stolen a bar of special alloy from what was meant to be a stockpile by skynet - and presumably knows the location of the rest of the alloy, as she was the one that disposed of it into the ocean.
4)I honestly don't know. I suppose the terminator in the second movie was completely made of that liquid alloy stuff, and the terminator in the third movie was coated in the stuff, with a solid skeletal structure - though, this series happens before that movie. It also doesn't appear to exist within the canon of the Terminator movies, for some reason.
5)Lazy scriptwriting. They're making a character vastly flawed so that it makes it easy to show improvement over time. Same way as Cameron is a perfectly normal teen at the start of the first episode, but by the start of the second episode, she's suddenly a fucking moron. Also, It seems to be a Law in TV-land that All teenagers are petulant, childish, stupidly rebellious know-alls that always think they know best.