Annalee Newitz's sci-fi blog io9 can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, and absolutely will not stop pimping The Sarah Connor Chronicles, ever, until you are dead.
THREAT LEVEL thinks this show is sci-fi's equivalent of the 1983 NBC series Casablanca, which brilliantly cast Starsky and Hutch's David Soul in the role created by Humphrey Bogart. Lena Headey may be a fine actress, but Linda Hamilton she's not. Moreover, she's clearly laboring under instructions from boneheaded TV people not to even try for the grim, paranoid edginess Hamilton uncorked in Terminator 2.
Yes, I miss Starbuck. But what really irks my inner Comic Book Guy is the premise of Chronicles. Connor, her son, and a hot cyborg fighting machine from the future are all working together in 2007 Los Angeles to stop the military AI known as Skynet from being built and deciding humanity's fate in a microsecond.
But didn't we learn in Terminator 3 that Skynet isn't a computer at all? It's an internet virus – a sentient Storm Worm. So, WTF?
How many seasons can they get out of a scrappy band of resistance fighters trying to stop some PC malware? Are Connor and the cyborg going to join the Geek Squad and run from house to house installing anti-virus products? Will they stand in L.A.'s pre-apocalyptic streets screaming, "Run Windows Update if you want to live!"
But as long as I'm off topic, I'll part ways with every single security geek I know and predict that the upcoming haxploitation flick Untraceable will rock. An unstoppable psychopath who uses fast-flux DNS to keep his killographic website online while evading the FBI? That's a movie.
With that off my chest, we now return to THREAT LEVEL's regularly scheduled programming.
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Update May 4, 2009: Urgent: Save Sarah Connor Chronicles From Termination (I was wrong about Untraceable too)
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