Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Monday, January 14th, 2008 @ 1:52PM

Because killer robots rule!

I watched the new Fox series last night based on the Terminator movies and it was actually decent.  Whenever you take a great movie and make a TV series out of it there is a huge risk of messing it up tremendously, but Fox went in with their guns blazing (literally) to serve up the kind of action that Terminator geeks like me want!  The acting is good, the action is excellent, the script is ... well ... adequate.  And they kept it violent, even daring to have a shooting scene in a high school, which is ballsy in a post-Columbine world.  The “female” Terminator sent to protect John Connor reminds me a little bit too much of Small Wonder, but she takes a bullet and knows how to kick some robot ass, so I can forgive her stiff acting.

Tonight they’re showing the second installment, so we’ll see how it holds up.

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