ArtisticallyChill

If you haven’t seen the pilot that has been leaked onto teh Internets, be sure to catch the series premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles this Sunday and Monday night.

Picking up after the events of 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the series begins with Sarah Connor (played by Lena Headey of 300) and her son, John (Thomas Dekker of Heroes fame) living under fake identities in America’s heartland in 1999. When yet another cybernetic Terminator from the future shoots up John’s school in an attempt to stop him from leading a future, post-nuclear war rebellion against intelligent machines, the Connors are forced to run. Aiding them is Cameron (Summer Glau of Firefly) — another “good” Terminator sent to protect John — who shows up to take the Connors into the supposedly safe time period of 2007 so they can renew their efforts to prevent the coming apocalypse. (Just to clarify, this series is ignoring the events of the 2003 sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, in which Sarah Connor is said to have died, and the planned fourth Terminator film now in development.) ~ Newsarama

The various online reviews are in and it looks like everyone is on the fence with this one. But it’s just the series premiere. We’ll have to wait and see what happens beyond the first two hours. It can dig itself an early grave in hour 3, or get progressively better with each hour. With Heroes gone til next season, Bionic Woman cancelled, and the writers’ strike still going on, this will be a nice change of pace from watching reruns of your favorite shows, and, the gods help you, crap-ality TV. The show does have potential and could garner more viewers and ratings where Bionic Woman didn’t. Hopefully Fox gives the series an actual chance and not pull the plug too early (see Drive). But then again, this is Fox we’re talking about. Check it. Or not. It’s all casual.

~ LoneWolf