Terminator Heads to the Small Screen

Wow... this is a perfect example of why I don't watch TV. Movies are just infintely better, and on the rare occasion that a good show gets enough buzz to get my attention, that's when I hit up Netflix to get a season on DVD.

This tv show has the potential to be half decent or the potential to be less entertaining than the commercials it surrounds. It definitely has no potential to be great.

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DON'T!!! THE LAST TERMINATOR WAS LOUSY LETS JUST LEAVE IT REST IN PEACE.

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$5 says this is going to SpikeTV.

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hm. it is good idea to make this. I agree with first person that it potentially will not be great, but i'll watch that with pleasure.

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This will clearly break Terminator continuity if ANY robots from the future come through! There was no explicit mention of any besides the ones in the movies. Considering how dangerous each Terminator is, it would be cheesy to have one defeated every week by Sarah Conners and her "Scooby Gang."

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i'd rather see a show between T1 and T2, when she had to train to become a bad@$$. at least she dies before T3, so maybe they should go for mini-series material that ends with her dead.

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Given that I have deleted any memory of the third film from my head, I will not be watching this.

Ick. I feel dirty now.

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DON'T DO IT. SPIKE channel has tried it with "Blade, the Series" and it stinks......... no Snipes, no "Blade"....... and Terminator won't be any different.

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Cameron is a lazy bum !Where's True Lies 2? Why did he back out of Spiderman? Somebody please call him on his cell phone ( no doubt he's STILL underneath the ocean filming another boring Titanic 'documentary'!)
He has such a hard-on for the Titanic story- Hello! You've done it already, Jimbo! Talk to industry people who have worked with him and they'll tell you he's the biggest prick in Hollywood- No joke- and Ed Harris will never even dicuss how bad it was working on the Abyss! Ask the elderly extras who he enslaved on the Mexico set of Titanic why he fired them and took away their vouchers! He hasn't directed anything for almost 10 years now...Mr. 'King of the World' has real trouble with keeping a wife, too. Just ask Linda Hamilton!

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I actually think it could be interesting. After all, when Michael Bein's character first mets Sarah in the first flick he refers to her as the "legendary" Sarah Conner. She MUST have been up to something all those years to earn that title! This might fill in that gap. Plus, we could get a cool glimpse at some of the very first Terminator prototypes to roll off the assembly line...they wouldn't have to come from the future. They would come straight from the factory! (And being that they are first generation, could be easier to defeat.) The plot would also have to deal with Sarah's growing tummy...John Conner's birth, which will bring all kinds of drama to the story. (Think about how good Batman Returns was compared to those other lame Batman sequels)...I think there's hope yet for Sarrah Conner! (The ultimate plot twist for me would be for Sarrah to fall in love with a comrad in arms only to find that he's a halfbreed..half man half, half machine, created by the tech factory to infiltrate the resistance. And of course, since he IS half human...he also falls for Sarrah. Who wouldn't?)

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I think they picked the wrong setting, if a TV show were to be made I think it should be based on after the time after the 3rd movie. Showing how the resistance came into being. you don't need any T-x's or T-1000, not even the T-800 since they haven't been produced yet. Plus the show could show different pockets of resistance in different parts of the country or world, so every few weeks it could be a completely new cast of (as we know it will have to be) no name actors, or stuntmen. I think this would cut down on as someone mention the scooby gang thing from happening. Hell they could even have it where the certain resistance groups don't win. how Crazy would that be huh a show where the "good guys" don't win in the end, wow that would be like so real. But this is just my opinion and I could be wrong

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gotta love the 'Scooby Gang' comment...laughing my a$$ off!

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Well, how about we stop trying to prejudge what the show is going to be like based off of what the movies are like. It's a different cast, a different crew, and it looks to be a different time period as well. One that we've never saw at least. I will be the first admit that TV shows based off of movies tend to plummet quickly without the key cast members which made that film what it is, but I won't stick my foot in my mouth and assume something about a show that isn't even it out yet. I'm not Nostradamus, and we all know what "assuming" essensially does. But on the good note even "Scooby and his gang" were both a popular successful movie and series.. The cartoon versions at least.. We won't speak of the...horrific.. recent movie they made.

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I will watch this but i would rather someone spent time to make a mini series to flesh out the darkangel series.

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I can see some possibilities. She has to have the experience of raising her son. Teaching her followers about how to defeat the terminators, and probably staying a step ahead of at least 1 terminator. Let's face it, without a bad guy, it doesn't work. It just can't be a different bad guy each week. I'll give it a try.

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I think this is an interesting idea. But, I agree, they could not have any of the Terminators coming in from the future. There would have to be only the threat of them. We know she did not meet any more between the first and second movies, so it would destroy the mythos to have her running from some each week, only to have them almost catch her again and again. And what would the show be without the robots. I do not see how they could get around this fault.

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why doesnt mr. cam just call it the search for more cash.hollywood always does the sme thing they happen onto an interesting premise like this or blade or highlander ,make a cult classic realize later what they have and slowly bleed it dry!please let the story alone i was the biggest blade fan(snipes)now with the series on spike t.v just makes it a joke.mr cam why dont u look for more cameos on entourage!!!!!

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The perfect actress to play Sarah Connor would be the chick would had the lead in last year's NBC television show SURFACE.

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I'd rather watch reruns of the Robo Cop TV series. Its bad enough that they butchered the Terminator legacy with T3. I think Robo Cop 3 was better than T3.
Maybe a Short Circuit TV show with an aging Ally Sheedy or something. Or perhaps a new Star Trek starring Mr Data as a humorless, emotionless vulcan like logic machine of a captain.
Or maybe a reality show with ALL of the above as they try to find their Hollywood niche. Aging Rock and Rap stars do it, Stan Lee did it, why not aging robots.....

(BAD IDEA) = p!$$ed on.

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This is the Mother of bad ideas.

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