Kadajiroth
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I'll be watching it purely for Summer. Doesn't look like a bad series, though.
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dropshipbob
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I believe there is a scene cut from T3 in which a soldier (played by Arnie) working at the military facility where Skynet is "activated" and are working on a prototype HK air unit, is scanned for use as the "skin" for the endoskeletons.
Which kinda throws the whole infiltrator scenario out the window...I mean, the skin covered robots came later, when Skynet needed a better way to get into the human hideouts.
And the weight issue in T3 bothers me. If a Terminator weighs enough that it can smash the front end of a truck in, then how would it be able to drive any vehicle? Wouldn't it's weight cause the vehicle to drag...unless it was some heavy duty vehicle?
And wouldn't resistance soldiers be able to use that as a way of identifying a terminator? Just have a hidden truck scale inside a doorway, and if something of a particular weight, say...I dunno, a terminator, comes along, it activates an alarm?
But maybe scales are hard to come by in a war-torn future.
M Bison
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I have seen the premier episode (thanks to BitTorrent) and I have to say it suprised me in a good way. I had high hopes when I saw that Lena Heady was playing Sarah Connor.
It has a good pace and pretty good production value for a Sci-Fi TV show. The pilot was very cool and gave a good introduction to Summer's character. Now I have heard that a rather important scene has been cut (Its a shooting in a school where a Terminator is the substitute teacher searching for John) and if it has that will be a major let-down as it was a great scene and really set the tone for the show.
I do have a concern about the longevity of such a show as you can only run around the world hiding from Terminators for so long.
It has a good pace and pretty good production value for a Sci-Fi TV show. The pilot was very cool and gave a good introduction to Summer's character. Now I have heard that a rather important scene has been cut (Its a shooting in a school where a Terminator is the substitute teacher searching for John) and if it has that will be a major let-down as it was a great scene and really set the tone for the show.
I do have a concern about the longevity of such a show as you can only run around the world hiding from Terminators for so long.
YenChih Lin
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I'm looking forward to T:TSCC, the pilot was well written, Lena Headey plays Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor on the spot, like she never played someone else. The tone and setting is about the same like in T2. Thumbs up for TSCC.
The only thing that annoys me is that McG (what a name...) is directing T4. A bad choice - I wonder how they're going to integrate the series with the movie, which they intend to do it and ignore T3.
The only thing that annoys me is that McG (what a name...) is directing T4. A bad choice - I wonder how they're going to integrate the series with the movie, which they intend to do it and ignore T3.
dropshipbob
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Maybe they already have the whole thing planned out, and have set a finite time span for the show to run...like LOST?
I'm hoping that the show will expand on the events of the future, maybe explain a little more about Skynet and how it operates/acts. That kind of stuff.
Ghadrack
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This could have pretty easily been written into something believable by just having Skynet employees 3D scanned for secirty badges and background checks and the system just utilized one of those "Human Surface" files that was suitable to cover the endoskeleton. A silly little meet up between the original and a terminator would have been the perfect spot for an Arnold one liner, "Go to the gym, I look flabby!"
Man I whouls be a writer, I could make the cheesiest terminator based comedy in history
I just seen a new promo for the show, looks like fox is actually going to give this show a running chance...for once!!! The promo was pretty awsome, never been a huge terminator fan, but the pilot was pretty good, and i mean, summer....come on!
Kadajiroth
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There's still time for them to throw it out, though.. :unsure
I just saw the pilot. It was pretty good, Summer was awesome, of course.
Was she nekkid? They always introduce the Terminators nekkid. Of course, if Joss was making this show, it would have been told from the point of view of the Terminatrix's feet. :lol
YenChih Lin
Master Member
Yeah, there are some nekkid scenes, while they were jumping from '95 to '07.
Hangar18Studios
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Why do you have to travel through time either naked, or surrounded by living tissue, when the shape-shifting terminators being a "mimetic-poly-alloy" can time travel as well, but for some reason they have to be naked too?
Wayne R.
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I managed to see the pilot recently, too. There's only two things I can fault it on:
In the opening sequence SC races to school in bright morning sunlight. When she bursts out of the school doors with JC in tow, it's suddenly foggy. Did a whole season pass in that few minutes? Does it matter if she's dreaming it?
And if they've jumped forward several years, doesn't that mess with the whole continuity of the film series? JC's now several years younger than he should be when he sends Kyle Reese back, though in T2 he looked a year or two older than he should have, and when was T3 set? My head hurts now.
In the opening sequence SC races to school in bright morning sunlight. When she bursts out of the school doors with JC in tow, it's suddenly foggy. Did a whole season pass in that few minutes? Does it matter if she's dreaming it?
And if they've jumped forward several years, doesn't that mess with the whole continuity of the film series? JC's now several years younger than he should be when he sends Kyle Reese back, though in T2 he looked a year or two older than he should have, and when was T3 set? My head hurts now.
DuneMuadDib
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The time spheres only transport organic matter (for whatever reason). Hence having to be naked. The Terminators get around this by covering their exoskeletons with living tissue. How the T-1000 gets through being liquid metal I don't fully recall, but the living tissue covering is the key for the T-800s and the Teminatrix (despite the shape shifting hands). It's also the reason for a squirm-inducing scene at the school in this show.
Wayne: For this show just ignore T3, the producers have said that it's a different timeline. Also I expect at some point they'll return to John and Sarah's "present," but it's probably less of a production hassle to bring them to the production's present than have to stay retro for the whole run of the show.
IndyFanChuck
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There were some comic books from the 90's where they sent a soldier back in time, WAY back to where he was in his 60's when the Terminator came back.
They had put some metal gun pieces inside him so he could make a weapon that could damage a T800. He had to cut them out himself! :sick It was a very cool comic!!!!!
They had put some metal gun pieces inside him so he could make a weapon that could damage a T800. He had to cut them out himself! :sick It was a very cool comic!!!!!
I just hope there is nothing in the script about getting a Terminator burying his weapons in cans of SPAM for time travel. That would be horrible :lol
Sidewinder
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Well, the cans would be metal, so no they couldn't do that.
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