All Things Terminator
Being a fan of the Terminator series I thought I'd give the Sarah Connor Chronicles a go. The Fox television series set after the events of the second Terminator movie has been airing here on the UK on Virgin 1, an insipid channel with American-style ad breaks every 9 minutes.
I didn't hold out much hope for the series. I was skeptical as to how the Terminator story would translate to the small screen, and even more skeptical as to the odds of the screenwriters being able to string together a story a) worth watching and b) that didn't butcher the Terminator universe (Terminator 3, I'm looking at you).
With the season finalé looming, however, I realise I've been dutifully hooked on the program for the last 8 weeks or so. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it would seem, is pretty damn good. Lena Headey (Queen Gorgo in 300) does a good turn as the heroine of the piece. In Headey they've found someone who can fill Linda Hamilton's boots - a gamble the producers of Terminator 3 were unwilling to take, instead opting to kill off the Sarah Connor character in the movie's backstory. A big mistake in my opinion - Sarah Connor has always been a necessity in any pre-apocalypse Terminator story.
The writers of the Sarah Connor Chronicles made another brave choice that paid off in choosing to write-off the events of Terminator 3 altogether. Terminator 1 and 2 are cannon and that's the way it should be.
Other actors are cast well. Thomas Dekker carries off the young John Connor role very well, but it's Summer Glau who stands out for me. Sure, I have a soft spot for her (she's stunning for chrissakes!), but she plays the emotionless, yet somehow emotional, Terminator guardian of the Connors perfectly.
While nothing has yet been confirmed, there are rumblings of a second season of the Sarah Connor Chronicles being commissioned. I, for one, sincerely hope the second season gets the green light. Fox doesn't particularly have a good track record when it comes to recommissioning series that deserve to be saved, but given decent ratings and a name as big as Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles has a better chance than most.
Whether or not the second season materialises or not, Terminator fans can be safe in the knowledge the fourth Terminator movie will see the light of day. The first Terminator movie to be set post-Judgement Day looks likely to see the awesome Christian Bale take the lead role of John Connor. With a working title of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, the movie is slated for release in 2009. A second season of the Sarah Connor Chronicles would just about tide me over until then.
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Notes
- Nice Nike Football ad from Madonna's better half.
- Top marks for the realigned BBC News website, bringing it more in line with the lovely new, jQuery driven, BBC homepage.
Beautiful full-screen image browsing served up by the snazzy PicLens plug-in. Impressive, though practicality is debatable.- Yahoo shifts to search the
semantic web
. Potentially huge, and very welcome news for usstandards nuts
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The Coke Zero Game. Latest masterpiece from the infuriatingly talented North Kingdom.
It's sites like the Red Bull Flight Lab that remind you what Flash is for. Brilliant application and an awful lot of fun.- Rejoice! The new Indiana Jones trailer has finally made an appearance. Can't wait.
- Help the Email Standards Project get Google's attention in the hope they will finally improve Gmail's awful rendering of HTML email.
- Awesome panoramic view of the Airbus A380 cockpit interior. This is the super-future.
- Excellent article from accessibility supremo Roger Johansson on how inappropriate, or overuse, of HTML features meant to aid accessibility can actually have the opposite effect.
