This could be interesting. FOX TV is developing TV series based on the life of Sara and John Connor between the events of Terminator 2 and Terminator 3. The Sarah Connor Chronicles might be a decent replacement for Jericho.

Mmmm, Sarah Connor. *drool*

Side note for Firefly fans, Summer Glau plays the role of a Terminator protecting John. Can't wait to see her arrival from the future!

Mmmmm, Summer Glau. *drool*

-Blast

Doin' a lot of drooling there Blast, we might have to have Doug come up with an ETS bib or something

OldBaldGuy,

Yeah, good point. Wasn't it Yoda who said:
Beauty leads to lust,
Lust leads to drool,
Drool leads to dehydration,
Dehydration leads to death.



-Blast, going on three days without sleep

OK, Summer Glau will make at least the pilot watchable. But looking over that wiki, it sounds like they are going have massive continuity issues based on was discussed in T3.

It almost sounds like they are doing to the Terminator setting what Smallville did to Superman. Or Enterprise did to Star Trek.

It's hard to imagine continuity issues in the Terminator universe: surely they can just send someone back in time to fix the problems...

Sorry, won't be the same without Linda Hamilton...

That is the reason why there are three rules about time travel:

1. Don't.
2. Don't.
3. *sighs, reaching for the sword and gun belt* What part of "don't" didn't you get?

Yeah, that's why I believe if time travel were possible it means we are living in the best possible world. What a horrifying concept. Think about it, if the bad stuff could be changed then they've (time travelers) have alread changed it to the best outcome.

The only other outcome of time travel would be absolute tyranny (if you think we currently are in a situation of absolute tyranny then you don't know youur history or current events).

-Blast, going to sleep via a very nice brandy...

It took a while for Summer Glau's character to turn on during the Firefly series (a psychotic but innocent genius). But during the Serenity movie that wrapped it all up she was definitely hot and I liked the character a lot. She lost the psychotic behavior along with the innocence, and became a very dangerous but great to look at good guy. Playing a good guy terminator should be a very good role for her.

I'm not a big TV person but I'll check out a fwew episodes of this show.

Summer Glau is awesome. She was a prima ballerina before she got into acting, and her movements are so fluid and graceful that it's especially cool watching her kick butt. She makes me want to forget the fact that this show is undoubtedly screwing with the whole Terminator storyline.

But a non-Linda-Hamilton Sarah Conner? I may never be a fan.

well, the sarah chronicles is still being developed. It isn't finalized yet.

However, the bionic woman show will air this fall 2007. Woohoo!

Y'know, resuscitating these signature parts with new players just doesn't work for this ole boy. I realize that in my day many of the westerns and dramas I was watching were remakes of something done back in the 40s and 50s, but there was a much bigger gap in the gendres between the black and white productions and the big technicolor remakes. Digital rennovation of an old plot doesn't do that much for me, not when the original effects still seems contemporary enough. I guess the technological advances just aren't novel enough, and the new cynicism being written into most of the plots (in contrast to the campiness of the older versions) diminishes the story. Battlestar Galactica is a good example of that. Even though there is some good acting in that remade series, it just seems to be lacking something essential that the original had, at least for the first few seasons. I can say the same for many other remakes these days.

Oooh no, don't you go bashing my Battlestar Galactica! Maybe it's because I've never seen the original, but I love the new series. Granted, it's taken a mighty darker turn in the last season, but I still want to see how it turns out.

And now that I've officially established my geekiness on the web, I'm going back to the basement of the science building...

Just about any show has to reflect the times they're produced in to have a half-decent shot at being taken seriously much less a have an inkling of hope of success. Battlestar Galactica is a good example of a show that was given an overhaul to be current and has done so successfully.

At first I thought it was a horrible idea, and I absolutely hated the new series' pilot. However, the series itself is a solid, well written show with stories and characters that have more depth and dimension than the original. Granted, many of the storylines are taken directly from the original, but they've been expounded upon greatly.

There's a 25 year difference in the two Battlestar series.

I was a big fan of the original Battlestar Galactica when it aired, but I was 8 at the time and the campiness, which would have bothered me now, passed by pretty much unnoticed both because I was young and that's the way many TV shows were then. Now, when I catch the old show on the Sci-Fi channel I can only watch a few minutes at most before the cringe-worthiness of it all makes me want to change the channel. I'm guessing nostalgia is just about the only reason I make it those few minutes.

I can understand your point regarding cynicism in the new Galactica, but the storylines are more serialized than they were in the late 70's when the show only ran a two-parter once or twice in its September 78 through April 79 run. Also, it's more of a soap-opera now, or as I like to call it a "Soap-on-a-Rope-Opera".

That's just my opinion. As always, I could be wrong.

Regarding The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it has only been 4 years since Terminator 3 and it may be too soon. However, I can't really picture who was in that movie except for Aaaaanold and Claire Danes. Having said that, it will be weird to se anyone other than Linda Hamilton playing Sarah Connor.

On an interesting sidenote, when I saw T3 in '03 I thought it felt out-of-touch and much like a throwback to the 80's that didn't know it was a throwback. So, I didn't like it as much as many of my friends. Then again I can watch the original Terminator, which was actually made in the 80's (1984), can still enjoy it because it was before "The Catch Phrase" years, and it still feels relatively current though 23 years old.

Taste... It's a weird thing... I mean I like zombie movies... Even most of the horrible ones. LOL

Oh yes, I don't want to infer that the new Galactica is not a great series. In point of fact, I too was waiting for the pilot anxiously. Critically speaking I think the new series is done quite well, it is just sitting hollow with me, perhaps because the novelty of the first series is not there. Ah, the fascinations of our youth, when Star Wars and all the highly technical SFX productions unfolded in front of us back in the late 70s, it was as if someone reached into our creative consciousness and extracted our very imaginings. Reading stuff like Asimov and Heinlein and Lovecraft and Mcaffery, then seeing those visualizations rendered on the big screen, it was just so much gratification. After a while it became an expectation, that any good sci-fi required all this cgi and technical extravagance; plot substance and real drama being secondary (similar I suppose to pornographic sellout, which has also overtaken the medium).

I guess by advancing the state of the art, it allows our imaginations to progress. To me, it seems that it has the opposite effect. Think about how much imagination it took for audiences to sit captivated watching those old Flash Gordon serials.

That's what is great about the storytellers sitting around the campfire. How do you tell a story like Star Wars to a bunch of kids sitting around a semi circle (oh yeah, I forgot about "Reign of Fire")?

It can be done. 4-yr old DD1 loves my verbal rendition of "Star Wars", especially when the Tusken Raiders attack Luke. The nice thing about Star Wars (ANH, ESB & ROTJ) is any half-decent storyteller can tell them. The stories are so simple and so archetypical as to be coded in our DNA. More complex stories such as the new BS or Babylon 5 would be much harder tale to tell.

But you do speak some truth, Benjammin. I'd rather have a strong story than big explosions. Wow, did I just say that?!

-Blast, who usually needs a strong story to cover large explosions...

"...Think about how much imagination it took for audiences to sit captivated watching those old Flash Gordon serials..."

I LOVED Flash Gordon!!! And all of the other serials that they showed at the Saturday matinee...

hey Christina, what sort of science projects did you build in the basement? Is it a cylon suit or Darth Vader?

well folks, the first episode is out on eztv. you can download it on torrent using flashget program. It is very good. I watched it yesterday.

You really think Linda Hamilton is still gorgeous? The Terminator was made in 1984: she's 50.
simon

No, my quote was "Mmmm, Sarah Connor. *drool*".
Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 was a total hottie. Sure, Linda Hamilton has aged but Sarah Conner hasn't. Subtle difference...

-Blast

Errr it was still Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2.

But I get your point; they won't be casting a horror in the part.
Pity the american I spoke to who had seen some british programmes such as 'Eastenders' and 'Are you being served?'. He didn't realise 'Are you being served' was made in the 70s and asked me;
"that Wendy Richards is a cracking girl! has she been in anything else?"
"errr. yes; she's Pauline in eastenders"
I wish I hadn't told him....
simon

Yes, I know L.H. was in both T1 & T2. However, in my opinion the uber-buff T2 S.C. was much hotter than the whiney T1 S.C.

-Blast, shaking his head...

Uhm.....what's wrong with a 50-year-old Linda Hamilton? I kindly like to think age gives character....even if it's for selfish reasons (for my own ego).

How 'bout a 73 year old Sophia Loren ???

Now OBG is drooling!!!

I downloaded it and thought it was actually pretty well done. I think it will be one of the very few shows I'll try to watch regularly.