Here comes the show that has the potential to jump right into my top 5 shows on TV now. It's already in the top 10 and I haven't seen a single episode. The premise is just so fantastically awesome. Take the Terminator movies, and fill in the gaps of the period between T2 and the Not-As-Good-As-It-Should-Have-Been T3. Playing Sarah Connor is Lena Headly who's name you might not recognize, but you should remember the last character she played: Queen Gorgo of Sparta. John Connor is played by some TV actor who was on Heroes and 7th Heaven etc, and also did the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time IV through IX. He's not really that important because this isn't the John Connor Chronicles or that JC that destroys the SkyNet, its the young teenage JC who's on the run with his mom and learning the tricks of the trade. Rounding out the main cast is the fantastic Summer Glau who's playing (big shock) a robot sent back from the future to help them along in their struggles. If you don't know who Summer Glau is you suck because that means you never watched Firefly, one of the most underrated shows in TV history that was cancelled tragically early. She played the quiet and sheltered River Tam who near the end of the series started busting heads all over the place. The girl knows how to kick serious ass and she will be a great cyborg. Although she's clearly not a T-101 model, she could be a T-1000 model I suppose, but I guess they'll probably put her somewhere between T-1000 and the T-X from the last movie. 
That's the last time someone asks if her sister is Winter.
They do seem to be scrapping some of the continuity from T3, SkyNet has been attacking the entire time and they had more help sent back themselves by big JC. Actually I suppose they might look at it as it just wasn't mentioned in the movie, then it could be theoretically plausible that they were fighting SkyNet the whole time and just didn't make reference, which means should they chose to they can tie the show into T3. Not sure why they would want to especially if the show is as awesome as I'm hoping. Between this, Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galcatica, Smallville, Supernatural, Prison Break and of course 24 there is a wonderfulglut of ass kicking shows this season. So long as the new ones capitalize on their huge potential and the others continue with thiers, I don't really have any worries aboutBauer, Scofield, Adama and Supes though. Ill throw Stargate Atlantis out there too, it's but a shadow of SG1 but it's still pretty good in it's own right.
The T-505* in action. *I'm getting that shit copyrighted so don't get any ideas.
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