Sarah Connor Chronicles

Pepe LeFrits

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

Oh dear, this looks awful. A teenage girl 'good' terminator and a bad terminator played by yer man from The Nine. Where do they get these brilliant ideas?

Dont be at yourself

Yep, it'll be dreadful. The name alone is enough to put me off.

Mossy Monk

That looks terrible. The description that is on youtube puts it best "Look for it to premiere sometime in early 2008, and expect Fox to cancel it after 3 episodes."

ElNino

Mossy Monk wrote:

That looks terrible. The description that is on youtube puts it best "Look for it to premiere sometime in early 2008, and expect Fox to cancel it after 3 episodes."

That's not fair. Fox would never cancel a new series after only 3 episodes.

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They will cancel it after 4 episodes like they did with Drive

lostexpectation

ElNino wrote:

That's not fair. Fox would never cancel a new series after only 3 episodes.

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They will cancel it after 4 episodes like they did with Drive

they've cancelled drive?

Ivan

It may be the fact that I havent slept in the last 24 hours, or the fact that I've pretty much been starved of decent Action-Series since Babylon 5 and Farscape, but I'm actually pretty optimistic about this.

The premise is interesting, to say the least. Summer Glau is a huge plus so ultimately, it really just depends on the cheese.

Knowing fox, they'll spread it on pretty heavy and fast and it will be dire. But maybe, just maybe, if they can be gentle and use a bit of tact, it may be something to gouge your eyes out to, until heroes returns circa 2008.

Reptileboy

I was absolutely expecting this to look completely crap. How could anyone possibly bring The Terminator to the small screen!

But I think the pedigree involved in the production of The Sarah Connor Chronicles is very reassuring. David Nutter is an excellent director. The casting seems very good, far better than T3.

Ultimately, the trailer looked 10 times better than I expected it to be. It could be a surprise hit if the audience sticks with it. The Terminator connection alone will assure an audience will at least check out the first episode.

I'll leave my ultimate judgement until I actually get to see the series. It would be great if the thing did turn out to be good and was popular enough to be a success.

I just wonder what stations over here will grab it. TV3 seems to be on a run of picking shows that look solid but ultimately get cancelled, while Sky One could do with a new hit and not something borrowed from another channel

youcancallmeal

lol that looks so bad it could be good
Who the fudge is Summer Glau, sounds like an Ikea brand of furniture?

ixoy

The premise does sound awful, doesn't it?

For starters, they probably have to play it safe if they don't want to upset what's established in T3 or have too much influence on SkyNet. Therefore what can they really do each week? Or will the movies canon be ignored?

There's also the PG nature of the violence - the brutality of the terminators won't be easy to portray on TV.

Maybe if there's a teenager good terminator it will be programed to act like a teenager. Oh wait a second.. there's a teenage boy too. Teenage boy and girl - where can that lead? "What is it like to feel love" - ARGH!

I'll watch it but I'm far from convinced. Hell the premises for other sci-fi series spinoffs sounded better (RoboCop, Total Recall: 2070) and they went nowhere pretty quickly..

jor el

When I initially read about this show I thought it looked OK, but I didn't know there was going to be a teenage Terminator though, ugh. I hope it's not as bad as it now seems. How are they going to tie this in with the movies I wonder? There was no mention of any other terminators being involved in John and Sarah's lives between T2 and T3 so unless they forget all about T3 (a good idea TBH), then I can't see how they'll do it.

Big screen --> Small screen successes, hmm, Stargate anyway. Other than that I can't think of any that worked. Mostly it goes the other way, and often doesn't work either.

ixoy

jor el wrote:

Big screen --> Small screen successes, hmm, Stargate anyway. Other than that I can't think of any that worked. Mostly it goes the other way, and often doesn't work either.

'Buffy' did it successfully too. However, you're right in that it rarely works: RoboCop, Total Recall:2070, Blade, etc. are all examples of the translation failing.

A lot of them tried to capitalize on the movie's name but weren't faithful to its spirit - for example, 'Total Recall:2070' was far closer in spirit to 'Bladerunner'.

I can't see this working. I could be wrong but what I've heard? Not good.

RuggieBear

it looks so bad...its got to succeed.

jor el

ixoy wrote:

'Buffy' did it successfully too.

Ah Buffy, of course. I was racking my brain to think of any mroe that worked but couldn't think. I actually liked Blade the series too, but it didn't go so well in the US, probably due to a spate of fairly poor episodes in the middle which killed the ratings.

Looks like there is a Star Wars TV series to come too. Could be good, could be bad

Bacchus

ixoy wrote:

'Buffy' did it successfully too.

In fairness, Buffy the movie is nothing whatsoever like the show. The basic premise (teenage girl vampire hunter) is the same but the style and tone of the two are nothing alike.

Stargate is the only movie to TV show that was a success (that I can think of). This looks absolute "scrapping the bottom of the ideas barrel" bad.

TerrorFirmer

Looks cheesy as hell but in honesty, will definitely be looking forward to it regardless...

Smurfpiss

Nobody has mentioned that the clip appears to have summer glau naked. Beating up a terminator.

*moves show to #1 priority.*

Hobbes

Bacchus wrote:

Stargate is the only movie to TV show that was a success

Battlestar Galactica?
Logans Run?
Buck Rogers?
Planet of the Apes?

Feral Mutant

I doubt this'll be a success. But, if nothing else, a teenage girl terminator makes more sense that the movie ones. Terminators are meant to infiltrate humans, they should be non-threatening and maybe injured or kids for sympathy. Arnie doesn't really fall into that category. Not to mention that they were all identical.

ixoy

Hobbes wrote:

Battlestar Galactica?

TV movie. Not the same as a big screen franchise. And probably made with the sole purpose of being able to launch a TV show off of its back.

Logans Run?

13 episode show is a success?!

Buck Rogers?

Well there's lots of different versions. The one that the '79 series spun off from was, again, a TV movie and not a big screen spectacular.

Planet of the Apes?

Hmm dunno if 2 seasons of shows is considered much of a success either?

It would seem that 'Stargate' is one of the few that did well on the small screen and kept close enough to its original premise (as pointed out the Buffy movie was indeed quite dissimiliar in stlye to the show despite Whedon's involvement in both).

qwertplaywert

summer geau-yeah!back!