The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[Damian]

From Cinescape.com

Fox TV has made a pilot commitment to Warner Bros. TV and C2 Pictures' THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. Josh Friedman will write the script and serve as the executive producer. C2's Andrew Vajna and Mario Kassar will also executive produce.

The show will center on Sarah Connor and her 14-year-old son John Connor from the TERMINATOR film series. It will explore what happens to Sarah after the end of T2 when she goes on the run.

Friedman told Variety, "There's going to be a healthy dose of both (action and family drama)."

[Titleist]

Wow, tapping the bottom of the creative barrel are we?

Umm, she trained john to be a leader, no terminators showed up, this lends itself more to a training montage than a tv series.

Quit pussy footin around the future war and show us the fucking future war.

[limacharliewhiskey]

While I love all the Terminator movies (even T3), I think this is a bad idea. I can see it being watered down, where it is bloodless and soft on the language, and they'll constantly be on the run, like the attempted Fugitive TV show and all other shows where the lead characters are on the side of good, but on the run from the law.

The 24 TV show is the best at it, but all of their chases eventually end, and the stories conclude at the end of each season.

Just don't think a Terminator TV show will work.

[umainebearman]

Yeah this is maybe a mini series at best.

[MooglePorn]

This is one of the lamest spin-off ideas I have ever heard. We already know what happened after T2, since... you know... they made a T3.

Plus I just don't see Terminator working on a small budget, or over such a long time period.

[Damian]

Originally Posted by MooglePorn

This is one of the lamest spin-off ideas I have ever heard. We already know what happened after T2, since... you know... they made a T3.

Plus I just don't see Terminator working on a small budget, or over such a long time period.

None of it will really have anything to do with a Terminator since there's no story evolving another Terminator coming after her after the events of T2 so yeah, this sounds like a really lame idea.

[Gigashadow]

Hmmmmm... a Terminator spin of show featuring no Terminators. Talk about your bad ideas. I wouldn't even want to see another Terminator movie if Arnold wasn't in it much less a show with no Terminators at all.

[MooglePorn]

Originally Posted by Gigashadow

Hmmmmm... a Terminator spin of show featuring no Terminators. Talk about your bad ideas. I wouldn't even want to see anoher Terminator movie if Arnold wasn't in it much less a show with no Terminators at all.

If they did another Terminator movie set in the post-apocalyptic future we've always seen glimpses of, I would be SO there, Arnie or not. I couldn't really care less about his involvement. Another one in present day though? That would be bad for many reasons, no Arnie being only one of them.

[Titleist]

Honestly I personally would think that there's no where else to go BUT the future war. Make it go full circle and watch the chronicle of John Connor forming the resistance, organizing, and fighting off skynet. End it with them smashing skynet and sending Reese back to the past. Easy enough.

Honestly I don't think you need Arnold in another one, they've shown us little bits of the endo skeleton, a full out war with those would be crazy.

I'd love to see the future war during the daytime, they've kind of implied how horrific it is at night, I'd love to see it at day and see this living nightmare they've hinted at for 3 films.

[Gigashadow]

Originally Posted by Titleist

Honestly I don't think you need Arnold in another one.
.

Arnold=Terminator.

No Arnold. No Terminator.

Period.

It'd be like making another Die Hard without Bruce Willis or an Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford.

[Titleist]

Do you think SkyNet makes geriatric cybernetic killing machines?

I sure as hell don't want to see futuristic robots that look as old as ahnuld. Pass, give me endoskeletons or give me death!

[umainebearman]

Originally Posted by Titleist

give me endoskeletons or give me death!

And.... they would do both.

Many times over as a matter of fact.

[Gigashadow]

Originally Posted by Titleist

Do you think SkyNet makes geriatric cybernetic killing machines.

That's besides the point. While the Endo looks cool, it's not a fully realized character. Combine the three films and the Endo has been on screen for a collected 20 minutes (approx). It doesn't talk. Belive me, having it lumber around, firing plasma rifles for 2 hours will not be nearly as interesting as you think it'll be. I'm by no means an Arnold loyaist but I do have respect for the character and the work he did to create it and make it, quite possibly one of the most famous characters in film history. While Stan Winston's red eyed Endo face is iconic in it's own right, the character was created by and will always belong to Arnold. To make a Terminaor film without the title character in it would be a travesty to the name Terminator. Without "The Teriminator" the Terminator series should be put to rest.

[Enron]

Originally Posted by Gigashadow

That's besides the point. While the Endo looks cool, it's not a fully realized character. Combine the three films and the Endo has been on screen for a collected 20 minutes (approx). It doesn't talk. Belive me, having it lumber around, firing plasma rifles for 2 hours will not be nearly as interesting as you think it'll be. I'm by no means an Arnold loyaist but I do have respect for the character and the work he did to create it and make it, quite possibly one of the most famous characters in film history. While Stan Winston's red eyed Endo face is iconic in it's own right, the character was created by and will always belong to Arnold. To make a Terminaor film without the title character in it would be a travesty to the name Terminator. Without "The Teriminator" the Terminator series should be put to rest.

What about using the Terminator from T2 instead of Gov. Arnold? I thought he was pretty good. The female terminator in the T3 was all right. If they were to do any sequels/prequels/spin-offs and Arnold wouldn't do it, I would guess they'd go to those actors for the next terminator. Still, any new movie they do has the potential to be a sucess or a travesty whether Arnold is in it or not.

[El Lancito]

Originally Posted by Enron

What about using the Terminator from T2 instead of Gov. Arnold? I thought he was pretty good. The female terminator in the T3 was all right.

How about Danny Glover?

[Gigashadow]

Originally Posted by Enron

What about using the Terminator from T2 instead of Gov. Arnold? I thought he was pretty good. The female terminator in the T3 was all right. If they were to do any sequels/prequels/spin-offs and Arnold wouldn't do it, I would guess they'd go to those actors for the next terminator. Still, any new movie they do has the potential to be a sucess or a travesty whether Arnold is in it or not.

The point about geriatric Terminators brought up earlier by Titleist sort of applies here. I thought Robert Patrick was awesome in T2 but look at 1991 Robert vs 2005 Robert. Unless they designed the machines to age....

By comparison Arnold in T2 vs Arnold in T3 is nearly identical.

As for T3. I thought it was pretty cool but Kristanna Loken wasn't really all that scary as far as Terminators are concerned.

[Titleist]

I don't know, Arnold felt a lot slower and older in T3, because he IS older.

Again the whole idea is that while Arnold is associated as being the terminator, the whole jist of the future war is that he's just one revision on the terminator assembly line. So seeing it being opened up would be cool.

Again it's just that logically there IS nowehere else to go story wise but the future war. In which case maybe you have arnold at the end, but Endo's don't bother me, because it'd be the human struggle that would be at the core of that film. Just my feelings.

I agree with you that Arnold is iconic as THAT character, but I'd rather remember him as the bad ass from terminator 1 & 2 (I try to ignore the third film as much as possible) and not some old guy trying to be a bad ass.

[Gigashadow]

Originally Posted by Titleist

I don't know, Arnold felt a lot slower and older in T3, because he IS older.

No question about that. He is older. And, the TX was a vastly superior model to his obsolete T-800. However, look at a frame of shirtless Arnold in T2 and compare it to a frame of shirtless Arnold in T3. For an older guy, the 12 years were kind to him. He looks pretty much the same.

[MJZ]

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7mzoqHahU

[chiprocks1]

Thanks for the trailer.

A) Had no idea that Summer Glau was in it, let alone a Terminator.

B) This just proves to the studio that wants to make T4, that it will not work without Arnie in the roll of T-800.

Having said that. I'll watch the pilot just to see Summer. But I highly doubt its going to have a long run at all.

[plissken99]

Yeah I'll watch the pilot in any case, but it looks like a dud. Already it doesn't track very well with what T3 was like. Nice to see Summer in it, but I'd rather see a series with Sarah and John fighting the machines alone, learning ways to kill them as they come.

[Titleist]

4 horrible words we should all dread: "Terminator of the week!"

Fuck that, that looks horrible, and Summer Glau just doesn't work as a terminator, flirting with John and then suddenly revealing herself to be a terminator.

[skywalking_sith]

If they have to do this at all, they should start where the FIRST film left off...that's when she starts to grow into a warrior...I mean, according to T3, she dies of cancer a few years later anyway...not much appeal watching someone rot away from cancer...she'd be bed-ridden the last couple of seasons...plus, as far as I'm concerned, the story ended with T2 Extended Edition...T3 was just a joke and I'm not even looking forward to T4, 5 or 6....

[Titleist]

According to the movies this show shouldn't even exist. The 3rd movie kind of lays out that Sarah and John were in mexico where she died of cancer, and that between the 2nd and 3rd movie they were on guard but weren't attacked by terminators of the week.

This show is a joke. I wonder if Cameron gets any royalties from this shit pie.

[Dogg]

Just bring on the new bionic woman.

Wonder if they will keep those sound effects.

[Brikar99]

Originally Posted by Titleist

I wonder if Cameron gets any royalties from this shit pie.

I wonder if Harlan Ellison sicced his lawyers on them again.

[Damian]

Originally Posted by Dogg

Just bring on the new bionic woman.

Wonder if they will keep those sound effects.

Have you not seen the trailer for the new Bionic Woman? It looks pretty damn good.

[Dogg]

Originally Posted by Damian

Have you not seen the trailer for the new Bionic Woman? It looks pretty damn good.

No I haven't seen it yet, but it caught my eye and will be worth checking out. There are actually quite a few new shows next season that at least sound interesting.

Although I have to admit, I rarely watch "live" TV any more. I'm usually a few seasons behind because we watch the DVD sets. Get through a lot more shows without all the commercials. Plus I hate getting into a show only to have it cancelled.

[MJZ]

Originally Posted by Damian

Have you not seen the trailer for the new Bionic Woman? It looks pretty damn good.

I can't believe an actress from EastEnders got the lead role in this US TV show!