Excuse me while I go on and on about the Terminator series…

I must say, Terminator 2 was one of my all-time favorite movies. It was everything T1 was, but with two badass robots instead of one. We all know that two is greater than one. Also, who wouldn’t want to be a kid with his own person Terminator Series 800 Model 101 guardian? (Sorry for the geekery.)

Seriously though, James Cameron made an awesome story about a bleak future where we nearly get wiped into extinction by our own creations and the fate of the human race ultimately resides on the shoulders of one man’s survival. Besides being an awesome technological break-through in CGI graphics for the T-1000, it was also a nice long movie with a musical score that sucked you into the experience. The pipe-scene near the end where Arnold pulls it from his chest and it bounces on the ground to the beat of the music was just a nice touch, but I digress. Anyway, if you haven’t seen this movie and aren’t absolutely against action movies, you must see this as well as T1.

T3 was a bit of disappointment for me and many other fans. It wasn’t a horrible movie by any means, but it was full of plot-holes and overused story elements. The best scene from that movie however is the 10-15 minute car chase scene where I like to call it “action pornography.” 10 to 15 minutes of distruction, chasing cars and things getting smashed up is nothing short of awesome.

They are working on a T4, set in the future with the war of humans vesus machines, I’m looking forward to some cool fight scenes and all with chrome robots holding guns and such, but I’m not holding my breath for a deep plot.

This brings me to the latest in the world of Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I saw the Pilot episode, the first 5-10 minutes was a terminator causing destruction, shooting up things and what have you. I was hooked. Sure it is odd seeing new actors for the characters, but you need to let them grow into their parts and let the series mature before turning yourself off to it.

So far the first two episodes have me jittering like a little boy and got me all wrapped up in the Terminator series again. Looking forward to see where this series goes and hoping Fox doesn’t give it the axe.

Anyone who is a fan of Terminator in general should give this series a chance.

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