Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 [HD]

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It's a shame that this series didn't get picked up for more seasons; this really is exceptionally good work for a TV series. In many ways it seems superior to the Terminator movies, in spite of what was no doubt a much smaller budget.

The major characters were all well cast. Sarah and John are believable characters for people in such extreme circumstances. Lena Headey's role as a soft-spoken Sarah Connor was, for me, a big improvement over the strident Sarah in the T2 movie, a more complex character struggling with how to translate her love for her son into the discipline needed to keep him alive and to ready him for the impossible role he is to play in the salvation of humankind. And Thomas Dekker does a great job as a brooding young John Connor as he struggles with his mother and comes to grips with the reality of his destiny and the depth of his sacrifice.

You can think of the TV series as being like T2 but with half the action and ten times the character development. The series is about human courage, flaws, suffering, relationship, and what makes us different from machines -- all delivered in a Sci-Fi action envelope.

Summer Glau did a great job as a Terminator; she is beautiful while still having a slightly unusual face -- large eyes and a big forehead. When she holds perfectly still, tilts her head to the side slightly, opens her big eyes wide but keeps the rest of her face expressionless, she invokes the "uncanny valley" effect (look it up on Wikipedia) that makes her seem slightly creepy. I feel sorry for her having to do more mundane "beautiful young woman" roles since; the Terminator role was perfect for her, and she did it justice. And even her role as a cyborg was used to explore what it means to be human, with Glau appearing at times vaguely compassionate, but then suddenly turning brutally inhuman.

Most of the other roles are interesting and well cast, too. The fellow who played Cromartie / John Henry did a wonderfully creepy job. For some reason I didn't really like the role of Riley Dawson that much, though -- the one weak spot for me personally. I think that role was intended to help us understand what this all meant for John Connor, but it rubbed me the wrong way somehow.

The special effects are reasonably generous (but of course modest compared to the T movies), and there is a good deal of action. Episode 1 of Season 2 is particularly awesome -- true edge-of-your-seat entertainment.

The cancellation of this show was a shock to many people; kind of makes you wonder. I think part of the problem may be that this show is a bit dark -- more like Stargate Universe and the new Battlestar Galactica than, say, Stargate and Stargate Atlantis. Sci-Fi doesn't appeal to everyone, and even less so when it's the dark variety. Add to that what were probably relatively expensive production costs, and it didn't make it.

Too bad! This was really good work. My hat is off to everyone involved.

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