My name is Whitney.
Some of you may be wondering why Ive chosen to take on this TV Watch instead of my customaryApprenticeduties.
(Thanks to the incomparableKate Wardfor picking up that beaten horses corpse in my stead.)
That is what I thought.
This would turn out to be the defining event of my childhood.
(If only I could help Edward Furlong do the same.)
Were all pretty familiar with theTerminatormythology in general, right?
Pretty clear cut: No more Terminators, no more apocalypse.
Put it out of your minds.)
This is the sort of thing that keeps me up nights, wondering if Im the crazy one.
Big, nuclear, Linda Hamilton-style nightmares.
And hey, nice job finding a leading lady in Lena Headey, who shares the same initials.
John is as happy as an emo teenager who spends his days drawing CPUs on his notebook can be.
Sarah is having nightmares despite being engaged to a man named Charley Dixon, a.k.a.
Cute Cute Dean Winters (as I will insist upon him being called).
So Sarah decides theyve got to leave town, stat, against her sons protestations.
John thinks shes just scared of commitment, which, lets face it, she probably is.
If you say yes, stop reading now, and find something else to do with your Monday nights.
But really, dont be alarmed if my skepticism in this regard colors my whole series of TV Watches.
Were in New Mexico.
NEXT: Should John make out with a robot?
to the existence of Sarah-John-Cameron in this present time frame.
Where they will have to go on the run more.
And that, freedom fighters, is your series.
Basically, it all comes down to what I already knew: cell-phone cameras are evil.
Did you get all that?
questions I think were all having):
1.
There is nowhere near enoughguh-guh guh guh-GUHin this series.
There is nowhere near enough dark humor in this series.
It was nice and wry and broke up the constant machine-gun fire.
More of that, like.
I am not sure how I feel about the series using the Terminator voice-replication trick already.
Oy, my brain.
[Note: Our mistake: Cameron is from 2027.
Ill discuss this point tomorrow in the TV Watch for tonights episode.]
- kindly do not have John and Cameron make out.
Their stilted conversation over a bag of chips In the future, you have many friends.
What model are you?
You seem…different made me never want to eat chips again.
Also, no one should make out with a robot.
My jury is still out on the acting.
Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau appear to have wandered in from the set of a CW show.
The futures not set.
Theres no fate but what we make ourselves is nice to think about.
No one is safe, which seems to be the motto ofT:SCC, is not.
I am sure some of you are thinking, Jeez, Whitney, quit with all theT2comparisons!
This is its own show!
You want to continue this beloved mythology?
You have to answer my questions and meet the standards your own franchise has already set.
Ill letT3not exist, but the comparisons toT2will remain.
Your turn: What did you think?
An exciting relaunch of an excellent movie franchise, or blatant audience pandering?
Worth watching, or only worth watching cause theres a strike on?
Do we like the actors?
Do we like the pacing and general Fox-y feeling of it all?
Or am I totally missing something here?
See EWs behind-the-scenes look at the making ofTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
