Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles Episode #1

[Banshee16]

It stated that it was 1999 about 3 times.

I probably missed it, as I was explaining things to my wife at the beginning....if they were stating it at the beginning....if it was later, then I apparently wasn't paying enough attention.

Banshee

 

[Mistwell]

I enjoyed it, and my wife liked it even more than I did.

I don't know if it necessarily veers away from the T3 timeline. They time travel in the episode. No reason they cannot time travel yet again later. Just because Sarah Connor dies in 97 doesn't mean she didn't live past that date, travel to 2007, then eventually travel back to 97.

And besides, with another Terminator movie coming out set in the future, it's going to be nearly impossible to do a TV show without veering away from the movie plots in some fashion.

 

[Vocenoctum]

It could have worked just as well without actually using the Conners, I think. Like T3's plot to gack others important to the Cause, they could have created another freedom fighter of some importance and gone from there. Perhaps even the original guy that was the father...

Anyway, the show was okay, so I imagine giving it some time to develop can work. Not like there's much else on anyway.

 

[mmu1]

I don't know if it necessarily veers away from the T3 timeline. They time travel in the episode. No reason they cannot time travel yet again later. Just because Sarah Connor dies in 97 doesn't mean she didn't live past that date, travel to 2007, then eventually travel back to 97.

It doesn't have to veer from the T3 timeline if you believe that John would somehow forget or neglect to mention the fact he used to travel through time with a hot robot chick while being chased by terminators... Or think it makes sense that in the T3 timeline, he'd be completely surprised and caught unprepared by Skynet's continuing existence after the events we just saw in the pilot.

And while Sarah Connor could have traveled back to die in 1997, John specifically talks about her holding out just long enough to make sure Judgement Day didn't happen... which makes absolutely no sense for someone who time-traveled to 2007. I'm not saying she would have to believe that everything was hunky-dory just because the world was still there in 2007 - she'd simply know that the old date she learned about from Reese no longer meant anything.

Or, for that matter, don't you think that at the end of T3 John would go "Ok, WTF is this? How the hell is the world getting blown up in 2004, when I've been to 2007 and everything was ok? How could this happen?"

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

It doesn't have to veer from the T3 timeline if you believe that John would somehow forget or neglect to mention the fact he used to travel through time with a hot robot chick while being chased by terminators... Or think it makes sense that in the T3 timeline, he'd be completely surprised and caught unprepared by Skynet's continuing existence after the events we just saw in the pilot.

And while Sarah Connor could have traveled back to die in 1997, John specifically talks about her holding out just long enough to make sure Judgement Day didn't happen... which makes absolutely no sense for someone who time-traveled to 2007. I'm not saying she would have to believe that everything was hunky-dory just because the world was still there in 2007 - she'd simply know that the old date she learned about from Reese no longer meant anything.

Yeah.

I think its probably just best to look at it like this: We have two different stories of what could have happened after T2, the movies after, and the new series. Neither is more 'right' than the other, its just different interpretations of where things would have gone.

 

[DonTadow]

Yeah.

I think its probably just best to look at it like this: We have two different stories of what could have happened after T2, the movies after, and the new series. Neither is more 'right' than the other, its just different interpretations of where things would have gone.

I'll buy that but I still hate it. It's a trend that I"m not enjoying. If they are going that route they'd have to find another way to seperate themselves from the movies the same way highlander did.

The good thing about this series though is that i bet they move it to mondays to make the heroes sci/fi hour stronger.

 

[drothgery]

The good thing about this series though is that i bet they move it to mondays to make the heroes sci/fi hour stronger.

Err... this series is on Fox. Why would they want to make NBC's sci-fi block (Chuck, Heroes, and Journeyman) stronger? I'd bet this gets off of Mondays within a week of the writer's strike ending (assuming the show catches on enough to stick around).

 

[Shalimar]

I'll buy that but I still hate it. It's a trend that I"m not enjoying. If they are going that route they'd have to find another way to seperate themselves from the movies the same way highlander did.

The good thing about this series though is that i bet they move it to mondays to make the heroes sci/fi hour stronger.

Umm, its actually up against heroes timeslot. This is on Fox, Heroes is on NBC.

 

[Darkwolf71]

Terminator + 24. I'm good with that. I never did 'get' Prisonbreak.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Umm, its actually up against heroes timeslot. This is on Fox, Heroes is on NBC.

Well. I can't imagine they would run it in that time slot when new Heroes episodes are actually running.

If they do, well, might as well just go put the money in garbage bags and leave it on the street corner. Chasing the same genre crowd is foolishness.