Since the success of Battlestar Galactica, television networks have been trying their darndest to resurrect classic science fiction franchises. Even the Sci Fi Channel humiliated themselves last year with their embarrassingly-bad misguided take on Flash Gordon, while NBC's Bionic Woman failed to work her robo-magic on the critics.It seems unlikey that the best venture so far would arrive from FOX, but that's the wacky world of television for you. I was expecting The Sarah Connor Chronicles to be awful, but as it turns out it has a surprising amount in common with the films, notably the sharp writing, good characterisation and pulsing action sequences. The series is set inbetween the second and third films, and out of all the trilogy it has the most in common with Terminator 2 : Judgement Day. This is undoubtably a good thing, since that was the best installment.
It is, I'll admit, a complete cash-in, but it's a cash-in made by people who seem to love and truly understand the nature of James Cameron's vision (much more so than Terminator 3). I urge you to take a look at this show.
2 comments:
I enjoyed the leaked pilot, didn't think much of the second episode, and thought today's effort was abysmal.
Maybe it's because I watched T2 yesterday, but I just can't find anything likeable in this ep. Badly-written nerd dialogue, inconsistent characterisation of most of the characters and a total disregard for the franchise's history (obviously Connor read up on the atom bomb guys in between being beaten up by the asylum's guards and getting drugged into unconsciousness, as anyone would do).
Aah, I've only seen the pilot episode so far. D'oh!
I watched T2 a few days before watching the pilot, which is part of the reason why I liked it. I thought it had a similar feel, and worked better as a sequel than Terminator 3. There wasn't much characterisation in it, but I thought that was just because there was so much to do in that episode and that they might expand on it in subsequent episodes. Oh well.
In a way it's kind of comforting, since good science fiction doesn't last long on FOX anyway.
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