I just saw the series premiere of Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles and I LOVE it! At first I couldn't imagine Lena Headey portraying Sarah Connor. But as the show progressed, she is one cool chick! BTW Lena Headey was in the movie 300;. She was Queen Gorgo, wife of King Leonidas.

I was trying to recall where I had seen the actor who plays John Connor so I looked him up. And then it clicked. Thomas Dekker was in the first season of Heroes. He was Zach, Claire's best friend and confidante.

The one who made the most impact in this new series is Summer Glau. Summer was in another cult fave, Joss Whedon's Firefly. Summer's name here is Cameron. (An ode to Terminator director James Cameron perhaps??)

Oh and the premiere episode was directed by David Nutter who used to be one of the dierectors of the X-Files. Can it get cooler than that? :)

I don't want to post any more details about the series coz I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it. But I am soooo loving this new show! Thank you FOX!

I love this show too. I wasn't a huge fan of the first few episodes but the last episode I saw blew me away. It was the one that aired on Feb 18th and showed the future after Judgment Day.

I'm really curious to see if Cameron goes bad at some point in the near future. Why is she secretly collecting all those parts from the Terminators that have been destroyed?

Since we are talking about The Terminator, I just finished reading T2: Rising Storm by S.M Stirling. It takes place after then events of the first two Terminator movies. There are two more of these books in the series that I haven't yet read but I plan to get my butt up to the library tomorrow and borrow them. They are: T2: The Future War, and T2: Infiltrator.

^ Cathleen, I didn't know there were books on T2 out there! :)

Having read the first one, is the tv series based on the book?

Nope they are totally different and veer off in a completely different direction. I really enjoyed the one I read. Unfortunately my library is really lame and rarely carries the books I want. I think I will have to take a trip to downtown Vancouver to the HUGE library there and see if I can get any others in the series.

The book I did read had women Terminators who could reproduce and could assimilate with humans much better that the T's in the show. I guess they are the next generation. Maybe the next generation after the lady terminator in T3?

Haha, it's been awhile now since I read the book so I'm a little foggy on the details.

Here are two reviews from Amazon.com:

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Military SF author Stirling provides fast-moving combat between well-matched, smart opponents in this excellent sequel to last year's T2: Infiltrator, in which Sarah Connor, her teenaged son, John, and their new ally, Dieter von Rossbach, defeated the female cyborg sent back in time by evil computer Skynet, but didn't know that she'd left her two cloned sisters ready to take up the job of protecting Skynet. Now John and Dieter are on the run in South America, Sarah is recovering from serious wounds and the cute young Terminators are learning to exploit their superhuman abilities. Complications multiply deliciously as the author cuts rapidly from one vivid scene to another. The movie-like technique lets readers watch intelligent people following incomplete information into terrible mistakes. Accepting human limitations but stretching his own potential, John becomes more the tough, confident leader of the Terminator movies. Around John, Stirling efficiently gathers a large cast which changes frequently, since most characters don't survive long in the presence of a Terminator. Sly humor spices the nonstop action until it climaxes at a secret Antarctic scientific-military base, where John and Dieter confront one Terminator. Meanwhile, the other cyborg killer is on the trail of still-recuperating Sarah at Dieter's Paraguay ranch. Anyone who liked the Terminator movies will love this book. In fact, it's exciting enough to win new fans for the franchise.

From Booklist
The highly competent Stirling is now extrapolating moviemaker James Cameron's Terminator concepts into a full-blown alternate future. In the second installment of the project, Sarah Connor is considered mad, bad, and dangerous to know by those who don't know the menace of Skynet, the computer-mind that rules the future and dispatches Terminators and Infiltrators to protect itself from Sarah's son, John Connor, who is growing older and more capable as well as falling in love. The Connors and Dieter von Rossbach, who, curiously enough, resembles a certain movie star from Austria, are quite capable of holding the fort until the advent of two Infiltrators, both female in appearance. The little band of resistance fighters now has to recruit new allies and then carry the fight to the enemy. They do, though at high cost, on the way offering a feast of technical ingenuity, wry wit, offbeat characterization, and furious, convincing action. A felicitous wedding of a visually oriented writer to soundly conceived sf-movie concepts. Roland Green