Terminator Terminated
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Oops---sorry, been drinking some and read wrong. Thought it was about the series now on air.
But thanks for the post, I guess theres a couple I never seen and thus will have the pleasure of watching.
OUCH! My heart goes out to all you Terminator fans. I too know what it's like ( the PAIN!) for your favorite T.V. show to get the AX!
I guess it won't be back.
I heard from a friend that the writers really screwed up by making the three episodes that aired after the break starting with episode 14 really confusing/boring. You would have thought they would have been action packed when they realized the show was on the bubble.
I heard from a friend that the writers really screwed up by making the three episodes that aired after the break starting with episode 14 really confusing/boring. You would have thought they would have been action packed when they realized the show was on the bubble.
does anyone get the feeling that as far as genre series are concerned, as long as its cheap to make the ratings dont matter, but if its expensive, ratings are everything?
That applies to every show, not just SFF shows.
It's a shame, but I'm not too broken up about it. They had two seasons to make an impact, it wasn't like they got cut off too early, like Firefly or Space Above and Beyond. I give the writers and cast credit, I really thought this was a dumb idea, but the first season made a believer out of me. But the second season opener lost me and I started watching it off and on.
I really think the writers dropped the ball in the second season and the show lost a lot of tension and urgency. They were getting their mojo back at the end of the second season though, so it is unfortunate.
I really think the writers dropped the ball in the second season and the show lost a lot of tension and urgency. They were getting their mojo back at the end of the second season though, so it is unfortunate.
Shame. Big shame
For me I loved the first season, the second season started off pretty good but it really sagged in the middle with quite a few dull and dodgy episodes. But for the last few it really picked up the pace again and returned to been a terrific show to watch. That big wham-bam WHAT THE FUCK moment in the second to last episode was one of the most "whoa, did they just do that?!" moments on TV I've ever seen
Although thinking of how the finale ended...
For me I loved the first season, the second season started off pretty good but it really sagged in the middle with quite a few dull and dodgy episodes. But for the last few it really picked up the pace again and returned to been a terrific show to watch. That big wham-bam WHAT THE FUCK moment in the second to last episode was one of the most "whoa, did they just do that?!" moments on TV I've ever seen
Although thinking of how the finale ended...
The whole of what on earth Weaver was and what she was doing is still up in the air. But I though John-in-the-future is a kinda cool way to end it.
Now I may need to watch it again but the way I took it was in Terminator 3 John Connor is able to survive the apocalypse by hiding in the bunker. In the TSCC timeline he survived the apocalypse by jumping forward through time, essentially skipping it. I thought when he met Derek & Kyle it was shortly after the nuclear holocaust or at least before the resistance began. Derek, Kyle and co have no idea what the fucks happened and what the hell these Terminator things are, but young John Connor knows all about them. So even though he's a teenager John is now the expert on Skynet, what these things are, where there chips are, and how to defeat them, etc, and is therefore able to start and lead the resistance.
(Leaving poor old Sarah to either die on her own of cancer or get blasted by the bombs, which ever comes first I suppose)
At least that's what I thought when I saw it.
Now I may need to watch it again but the way I took it was in Terminator 3 John Connor is able to survive the apocalypse by hiding in the bunker. In the TSCC timeline he survived the apocalypse by jumping forward through time, essentially skipping it. I thought when he met Derek & Kyle it was shortly after the nuclear holocaust or at least before the resistance began. Derek, Kyle and co have no idea what the fucks happened and what the hell these Terminator things are, but young John Connor knows all about them. So even though he's a teenager John is now the expert on Skynet, what these things are, where there chips are, and how to defeat them, etc, and is therefore able to start and lead the resistance.
(Leaving poor old Sarah to either die on her own of cancer or get blasted by the bombs, which ever comes first I suppose)
At least that's what I thought when I saw it.
It got cut off WAY too early, unless you're a Fox businessman, which we aren't. It was a good show that ended because people were too stupid to watch it, don't apologise for Fox.
I dunno...I haven't seen an episode since the dream hospital one. I didn't intend to stop watching, I just realized one day that I hadn't seen it in a while and never got around to catching up.
Even if it did pick up again, that slump in the middle of season 2 did not help matters one bit. And that's entirely the writers' fault.
Even if it did pick up again, that slump in the middle of season 2 did not help matters one bit. And that's entirely the writers' fault.
That is a shame, because while I didn't like that one (the writers thought they were being far more clever than they were) I think it was the only actually bad episode, and it really picked up straight after that.
Link please. I did see a link to CW or scifi picking it up
http://www.fmqinc.com/terminator-season-3-possible/
SummerDream linked to the chat with Josh Friedman earlier in the thread. It was (I believe) part of Post 58. It was Josh Friedman - many people thought it wasn't - but he updated his Twitter account to confirm it for those attending.
In it he says that Terminator would only be on Fox because CW and Sci-Fi couldn't afford to produce it.
The link you provide is by LanieGrace. Lanie posted on SarahConnorSociety several months ago that she was making up stories and had no real knowledge of anything related to the series. She merely wanted hits for her site.
Apparently the Firefly cast is all cursed. Stargate SG-1 got cancelled after Morena Baccarin joined, so did Atlantis after Jewel Staite was added. Nathan Fillion's Drive flopped from the get go. I guess Adam Baldwin and Chuck scraped by... but now it is evident that even shows that might have a built-in fanbase cannot be safe from The Curse.. Adding Summer Glau was the worst decision the producers made.
Nathan Fillion's Castle was renewed.Apparently the Firefly cast is all cursed. Stargate SG-1 got cancelled after Morena Baccarin joined, so did Atlantis after Jewel Staite was added. Nathan Fillion's Drive flopped from the get go. I guess Adam Baldwin and Chuck scraped by... but now it is evident that even shows that might have a built-in fanbase cannot be safe from The Curse.. Adding Summer Glau was the worst decision the producers made.
So was TSCC.Nathan Fillion's Castle was renewed.Apparently the Firefly cast is all cursed. Stargate SG-1 got cancelled after Morena Baccarin joined, so did Atlantis after Jewel Staite was added. Nathan Fillion's Drive flopped from the get go. I guess Adam Baldwin and Chuck scraped by... but now it is evident that even shows that might have a built-in fanbase cannot be safe from The Curse.. Adding Summer Glau was the worst decision the producers made.
^ Precisely. Two seasons is short, but hardly a failure considering how many never make it past the first, if that.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Oh, excellent. End it on an ambiguous unresolved cliffhanger. That sort of stunt always irritates me.
As for Salvation, I suspect it will open strong and push Star Trek Rebooted to at least third place and then promptly drop like a rock based on the decidedly negative reviews starting to come to light.
Looks like I'm done with Fox, since the only other show I was watching was the rapidly-declining Family Guy. Heck, looks like I'm done with sci-fi as well, as there's nothing out there that I care to watch any more.
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