Watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (from now on referred to as “the killbot show”) is like hanging out with your asshole friend. All you ever do is complain about him when he’s not around but you can’t stop hanging out with him because he’s generally pretty entertaining. Clearly this is true as this dumb show has caused me to write 2 posts now.
Spoiler alert, along with some asterisks: ******
What’s so infuriating about the show is that I could do a much better job with it. I said last year, on revealing the T-1000, “Listen, the right thing to do with this series would be to save the T-1000 for the season 2 finale. That’s the right time for a move like that. Just pull it out at the last minute and give us a classic “holy fuck” season 2 cliffhanger moment. Instead the show goes and blows its load in the season 2 premiere. Now you have nowhere to go. Granted, if I were Josh Friedman I wouldn’t exactly assume I’m going to make it to a season 3 so I guess you’ve got to empty your clip now. Also, is that the girl from Garbage? Seriously? Since when does she act? And why did they reveal her face as if we would all go “Oh my god it’s the girl from Garbage! Yes! <fist-pump>” (Honestly at first I thought it was one of the Spice Girls and I was halfway to reaching for the remote to change the channel).
Secondively, I could have done a better job with the T-1000 morph effect if you gave me 5 hours in Cinema-4D. How did ILM create better special effects in 1991 than you assholes can do in 2000-fucking-8? I mean, it was such a staged shot, it had no dramatic appeal at all. My mother could have directed this better. There was even too much empty space in the shot, they should have zoomed in more. How awkward is it that I’m noticing stuff like too much empty room in the shot?
It’s also extremely obvious that they’ve decided to scrap the storyline that led to last season’s cliff hanger. Yes I’m sure the strike is at fault here but it all feels rather lame. They saved themselves a bit with another nice action-set-to-counter-intuitive-music moment but really, is that your only cool idea?
Sadly, whoever is in charge of this series is not demanding excellence. They’re OK with hitting their marks and moving on to the next episode with the enthusiasm of a meter maid working her way down the street. And yet, I’ll keep watching, because I love cute killbots and time travel. I’ll keep you posted.
