The Chronicles of awesome

Summer Glau plays Cameron, the cybernetic robot from the future sent to protect John Connor.

I don’t know why I shrugged off Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles when I first heard it would be coming to Fox. I was never really a fan of Terminator, but I did love Terminator 2. I got the chance to see the first season and I have to say, man Summer Glau still kicks ass. To those of you who don’t know who Summer Glau is, you obviously aren’t Browncoats. Summer Glau played the awesome River Tam in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity. She was so great in that character, and she is well-known for her butt-kicking action as well as dramatic acting from the series. She was the sole reason I felt like watching Chronicles.

The pilot was pretty good. It felt like a really long episode, which I like, and I especially loved the classroom scene with the introduction of the first Terminator. The script could use a bit more tweaking, and Lena Headey seems to give a bit of a one-dimensional performance as the title character Sarah Connor, but who cares? As long as Summer Glau continues to be on the show it will be pretty good.

I heard that Fox has picked it up for a second season, and well they should. It has great potential, and I feel like Glau is only deserving to have a show that finally gets picked up for its brilliance, even when her stint on Firefly, in my opinion, was her best.

I like how they made Cameron [Summer Glau] say “Come with me if you want to live”, the famous Arnold line from T2. I thought it was great because it’s a classic line, and yet less cheesy now that someone different is playing it. I think that to have a female Terminator is important because the media knows that women kicking ass sells. Buffy, Alias, and even Kristanna Loken’s role as the bad Terminator in T3. I would give Chronicles a chance if you haven’t seen it yet, and I am definitely excited for season 2.