Granted, it's not solely a horror show, but the Fox Network's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" has plenty of fans on this site (including yours truly). So it was with much joy that I read in today's Hollywood Reporter that yes, Sarah, John, and Cameron will be back!
The network has renewed "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" for a second season and ordered 13 additional episodes. The show stars Lena Headey as Sarah, Thomas Dekker as her son and future leader against the machines, and Summer Glau as the latest incarnation of the Terminator.
Considering that the show, which is produced by Warner Bros. TV and premiered last January, was "the highest-rated new scripted series this season among adults 18-49 with an average of 4.4 rating/10 share and drew an average of 10.5 million total viewers," I doubt the renewal is much of a surprise to anyone. But since it's also one of the best installments in the Terminator mythos and ended with a doozy of a cliffhanger, this is welcome news indeed!
Come with me to the Dread Central forums if you want to live!
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 10:44pm.
I just wanted to jump in here and put in my two cents. That's all.
Submitted by Blockbuster on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 7:16pm.
Funny, I thought the original TERMINATOR was just a dressed-up ripoff of two episodes of THE OUTER LIMITS written by Harlan Ellison.
Harlan Ellison thought so, too. As did James Cameron.
Which is why Ellison now gets a credit on all copies of the film.
Ellison, by the way, was a science fiction writer.
Submitted by Messiahman on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 2:02am.
Okay, then when can we see a review of "Rambo"?
A man in the woods hunting down people with assorted weapons while not completely sane and mutilating them in the process. It has a definite dread to it.
But then let's not play a game of semantics.
Submitted by Terminal on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:14am.
An unstoppable killing machine targets a young woman and systematically massacres everyone who gets in its path. How is that not a slasher movie? Because its a robot with a gun instead of a zombie with a knife?
I guess you're gonna tell me Alien isn't a horror movie either.
Submitted by Sirand on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:09am.
Well, Lena Headey is a MILF. And there is a bit of an oedipus thing going there, so you're not incorrect.
Submitted by Terminal on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:04am.
No, WIB. I meant what I said. The tension between mother and son never feels parental. It feels disturbing.
Submitted by Kryten Syxx on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:02am.
And also Summer Glau better be coming back. If I tune in to see Alicia Witt, someone's going to get a size eleven foot up their butt hole.
Submitted by Terminal on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:02am.
Hah! And yet, it was STILL science fiction! Ze splitting of ze hairs still leads to ze fact that Terminator was and is Science Fiction. Again, by your logic, Rambo was a dressed up slasher movie.
But then again, let's not get tangled in semantics.
Submitted by Terminal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:57pm.
The original Terminator was a dressed-up slasher film, pure and simple.
Submitted by Sirand on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:55pm.
By that definition, war movies are horror movies because war is dread inducing. Just saying.
Submitted by Terminal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:54pm.
Nah, it's firmly Science Fiction, WIB.
Submitted by Terminal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:54pm.
Johnny, you're incorrigible.
"Yeah ... I really don't get why it's here..."
That's what she said.
Submitted by Terminal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:53pm.
Sarah and John finally going to make out in season 2?
I really hope you meant Cameron and John. If not, YUCK!
And I'd say it certainly has genre themes. The idea of a world run by machines should qualify as "dread inducing," one of the widely accepted criteria for a horror label.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:48pm.
Terminator has cross-over appeal.
Submitted by Sirand on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:44pm.
Yeah ... I really don't get why it's here...
Submitted by Johnny Butane on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:42pm.
Good, can't wait.
And it's NOT a horror show.
Submitted by Terminal on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:04pm.
Sarah and John finally going to make out in season 2?
Submitted by Kryten Syxx on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 10:58pm.
Yay! Love the series. It's the real T3.
Submitted by Sirand on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 10:50pm.