Is anybody out there still watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Any reason why this show is still on the air? I visited the set while they were shooting the first season—I got to watch Summer Glau, in the flesh, punch her fist through a Styrofoam wall—and had high hopes for the series. But then the writers strike in the fall of 2007 seemed to strangle it in its cradle, with the series running out of scripts after only nine episodes. The second season didn’t get underway until last September, but before you could say, "I’ll be back," it was gone again, leaving for a two-month hiatus in December. Just figuring out when new episodes would be on the air has been a time-travel paradox so perplexing it would drive John Connor crazy. At a certain point, I stopped trying.
Last night, however, I finally caught up with the show on its new night. Fox kicked off the second part of Season 2 with an episode in which Sarah (Lena Headey) holds a doctor at gunpoint while a bullet is removed from her leg. I don’t know who put the slug in her thigh or why—I missed that cliffhanger—but clearly a lot has changed in Terminator world since I last checked in. John Connor (Thomas Dekker) has a new girlfriend (Leven Rambin); a T2-style liquid metal Terminator (Shirley Manson) has beamed in from the future and is passing herself off as the CEO of a high-tech A.I. research company; and the old-fashioned Arnold-style Terminator sent back in time to kill John Connor in the first season (Garret Dillahunt) has apparently been captured and reprogrammed into a highly-functional, six-foot-tall Speak & Spell. The only comforting consistency: Glau’s robot still hasn’t figured out the algorithm for smiling.
Personally, I’m having a hard time falling back into the show. The program’s on-again-off-again scheduling has made it all but impossible to build any traction with its increasingly complex plotlines. Also, the tone has grown so dark and despairing, I want to give the series a stimulus package. Anything to pick up its spirits a little bit. But maybe that’s just me. What do you think, PopWatchers?
To add to your point. If Fox really wanted to support the show they could have ran at least a marathon of episodes on FX or promoted it better online and may during 24 or the playoffs. They fans are gonna have to save this show because I do believe it has a LOT of potential…
I’d much prefer “Who’s smarter than a 5th Grader”. I left FOX to watch hockey.
It’s just you.
The series is amazing. You’re missing out. A lot are if they’re not watching this show.
The dark haired Australian chick happens to be Derek’s lover. Derek hasn’t told the family she is in 2009 because she told him she escaped through time to avoid the pressure. In fact , she brought back John’s blondie girlfriend to act as a spy because she feels John is too weak because of Cameron.
Spot on with the liquid Terminator.
They killed Dillahunt in season 2, taking out the memory chip and smashing it, but Ellison was there and he dug up the body and brought it to Shirley Manson. She now uses the body as a vessel for an advanced computer program, that could one day become Skynet. Ellison retired from the FBI, and now works for her (he doesn’t know what she is), trying to teach the computer program ethics and morality.
Yes, I still care. And, Yes, I still am going to watch it. I’ve been avidly awaiting it’s return.
i coundn’t wait for it to come back, was looking in wrong place, who knew it had a new night, but i do like it
One of my favorite shows
Although last night’s episode suffered from a criminal lack of Cameron, I thought it was a really good intro to the show for people who were tuning in for Dollhouse. There were T1 and T2 references galore, and we got to see a softer side of Sarah, which is something that almost never happens. I was actually tearing up during some of her scenes with Kyle.
So it’s just you. The show is awesome.
How awesomely terrifying was Shirley Manson last night?! That was quite a massacre.
Try time traveling to the 21st century and watching the missed episodes on line
I still care! Last night’s episode was amazing, especially Shirly Manson’s liquid metal killing spree.
I thought they should have had a more complete “Previously on Terminator…” to better remind us of the details since it was last aired.
Other than that, I’m glad they’re back.
I still care and loved last night’s episode. That said, this is a show you do have to watch in order – when you miss episodes, you do miss a lot. And I agree with the poster who said to find the episodes on line. Fox should promote this one more.
Hope ABC saw how great Johnathan Jackson was on last night’s show, and rehire him as the one and only original Lucky Spencer on ABCs General Hospital!
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i love this show last night was so bad ass the show is a must see for all real terminator fans i never miss it and yes i care and like to give thanks to all the people who tuned in to help with the low ratings we are human resistance