Pilot review: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Okay, first of all, I don't like the name of this show. Because I call it Sarah Connor. So it confuses me whenever I try to look it up somewhere and it's listed under T instead of S. And no one's ever going to just call the show Terminator, because that's confusing it with the movie. The first movie. And that's just weird.

Other than that name issue, I actually liked this a lot. More than I thought I would. I had major doubts about Lena Headey for some reason. She looked too young or something. But I was definitely proved wrong because she's great in this. I was convinced that Summer Glau's character Cameron (is that a dumb nod or what?) was going to be my favorite character, just because she's Summer Glau, but it's possible that Sarah's my favorite.

Also, Thomas Dekker was better than I expected. He was doing way better than his awkward, pining-0r-gay Zach from Heroes. He was totally believable as a teenager who's scared to death of the crazy future that's already planned for him.

Really, the only person that simply met my expectations but didn't exceed them was Summer Glau. She's really great at the stunts, really great at the Terminator style movement, but not necessarily the best at the acting. But maybe it's just that the character isn't quite there. I imagine it'd be difficult to play a robot who has no actual emotion but who has to fake emotion. I think I'll be pretty satisfied with her in the role in general though. She sure looks great.

Overall, I'm definitely going to watch all of what airs of this one. I'm thinking I might have to come up with a new way to refer to it though. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is just too long. Sarah Connor Chronicles is still pretty long. Maybe they're hoping that this show will be so successful that it'll eclipse the original movie so people can just say Terminator and it'll refer to the show. Fox has probably already canceled it by now though.