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Originally posted: September 7, 2008
Turn to 'Terminator' for action fix
Posted at 11 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7
The cast of "TSCC": Richard T. Jones (from left), Shirley Manson, Summer Glau, Brian Austin Green, Garret Dillahunt, Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker and Leven Rambin.
I watch “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chonicles” for a simple reason. I love the adrenaline rush it provides.
In fact, when “Terminator” strays from being a pure action series, it gets convoluted—and I get bored. I don’t need a whole lot of wringing of hands or character studies. I just want to see things get blown up.
Thankfully, a lot of things are blown up, run down or destroyed in the two-hour Season 2 opener at 7 p.m. Monday on Fox. It begins with good terminator Cameron (Summer Glau) stuck in the Jeep that exploded at the end of Season 1.
As anyone can guess, Cameron’s not going to be tossed in the scrap heap yet. She survives, but she’s not quite the Cameron who Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son, John (Thomas Dekker), have come to know.
I won’t spoil, but I will give you the good news that Brian Austin Green is back as a series regular, playing John’s uncle from the future, Derek Reese. Green is great as the haunted hero who becomes John’s father figure.
Green’s such a force as Derek—as is Headey as Sarah—that they overshadow Dekker as John, who this season supposedly begins his journey to becoming a heroic fighter against the machines. John still seems like a whiny teen rebelling against his mother, not a future leader of the human resistance.
Joining the cast this season is Garbage singer Shirley Manson. In her first professional acting job, Manson injects a steely, ominous villainy into tech company CEO Catherine Weaver. Weaver has control of the Turk, the computer that will spawn the terminators. She’s also hiding a jaw-dropping secret.
Manson delivers a nice twist that promises to cause more of "Terminator's" marvelous mayhem.
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