Sarah Connor Chronicles Review
My review has once again been requested, this time for the television outcropping of the Terminator franchise. I watched the first episode and to be honest I wasn’t in a hurry to see the second. Of course it’s hard, and often downright unfair, to judge a series by the pilot. Star Trek The Next Generation, indeed their entire uneven first season, comes to mind.
But then again some pilots grab you and rightly so such as DS9, Doctor Who, and Eureka. This, however, is not one of those times.
Plot wise the series is interesting enough, a few years after T2 the events largely recur with some notable changes, time travel for the protagonists chief among them.
I n essentially retelling the story of T2 the show does extremely well given the substantially lower budget, although advances in technology mitigate this a bit they are still to be commended on their production values.
The performances were a mixed bag. Summer Glau pretty much saves the show along with the FBI agent. Sarah Connor is horrible and perhaps the largest reason I’m unmotivated to watch more of the show. If they had cast Sarah Clarke as Sarah Connor they would have had a win.
Too bad.
