Great Show
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December, 04, 2008
I have to say, I wasn't a Terminator fan before seeing this show. I started with episode 1 of season 2 and have been hooked since. I now own all 3 movies and season 1 of the tv show on dvd. The show is one of the best on tv, out weighing Prison Break and Bones for me. Would recommend to anyone!
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an insult to the films & red-state moron-a-thon.
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November, 24, 2008
do you like guns? i mean do you REALLY REALLY like them? preferable when they are being held by babes who despite being on the run from the FBI have 50 dollar beverly hills haircuts and perfectly tailored outfits and push-up bras on? have i got a show for you!
what made the first movie (and portions of the second) great--the gritty realism, the depressing modern day bleakness, the social commentary on atomic warfare and overdependence on technology, and most especially-character arc of linda hamilton's slow revelation of her power and authority, combined with her touching vulnerablility and relatability as a real person you could imagine working with, her transformation from down trodden everywoman to righteous heroine, is completely gone.
i don't know what made me laugh more, "sarah conner's" opening scenes in her stripper/waitress outfit or close-ups of her wrinkle-less, heavily pancake make-upped face. oh, and the fact that she looks closer to her "son's" age than her would-be fiance's.
this show is a careening joyride from "big guns go boom" to "hotties in tight clothes" to "big explosions go boom so more," with no character development, plot originality, or thoughtful plausibility and relevance to reality or to our time. i know--it's an action series, i shouldn't expect more, right? but i do. and also, i find when we are living in an era of terrorism and economic instability, the glorifcation of automatic weapons and the ridiculous depiction of these "on the run" outlaws driving brand new $40,000 + ford f-150 trucks and wearing expensive off-the-rack abercrombie and fitch / ed hardy outfits particularily, and unintentionally humourously insulting.
what lazy writing and directing! some scenes are literally lifted DIRECTLY FROM the film franchise--and these would be the better, more clever ones.
i agree with another reviewer here--this is a testosterone-soaked soap opera, and not even a very good one at that. if this is what people are watching, i shudder for america. on the plus side, should keep the porn industry and pistol-revolver-shotgun, AK-47, bazooka, handgun manufacturers in the black for many a year to come. gratutitous, mindless sex and violence. GO FOX!!!
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