What 4-year old did the photoshop work on those posters? Especially the first one, worst blend ever.

OldCrow

@BigDanInTX: I'll be damned. It is.

Ahh River. No one kicks ass like a psychic.

schrosa

@leemajors: so was the one for bionic woman. i still don't know exactly why i watch it...oh wait...pretty woman

EMoShunz

The trailer is pretty lame. It's kinda of like some Smallville nonsense or something that would be on those lame networks where they host movies all day that are just horrible. I dig the posters though.

ImTheKing

@tande: oooooooh, thank you. that totally pushes up the wsj estimate on robot marriges for me :P

EMoShunz

@EMoShunz:
Thats not Sarah. Summer plays a kid going to school with John that turns out to be a terminator sent back in time to help protect him.

Its a pretty good show. Its been availible for awhile in "places".

tande

the pilot is HORRIBLE.

leemajors

@TripZ: thanks for that 'news flash' and it has been years since i saw the terminator movies, but i don't recall sarah connor being a robot.

EMoShunz

@BigDanInTX: THANK YOU, that's where I've seen that sweet, beautiful face before. Great series, too bad it was so short lived. (I am just as much to blame, never watched it until after the cancellation, like i did with family guy.)

EMoShunz

@EMoShunz:
news flash... she's a robot!

TripZ

Hey! That's the chick fr/ Firefly/Serenity! =-]

BigDanInTX

i've not even heard of this. cool.
i don't get why the posters have her as the borg queen though?

EMoShunz

@decerbo: No sex-bot for you!

ShinyBrowncoat

@bdkennedy1: granted it usually doesnt work...but in retrospect i actually liked SG-1 over the actual stargate movie. Will this show most likely stink and fail within a couple of seasons? most likely. but who knows...maybe they'll pull it off.

jrghoull

This is alot like "new" music - just good ol ideas, rehashed ad nauseum...
Whatever happened to originality? I guess we will we have to outsource those too

image18301

Rachel @decerbo: Yea, I too have to disagree. Rachael, Zhora or Pris from Blade Runner or maybe 7 of 9 on ST:Voyager were pretty good female robots/cyborg/whatever. My fave was the short lived Sgt. Eve Edison from "Mann & Machine" played by Yancy Butler.

jabber

I can hardly wait - NOT!

ecobore

@EMoShunz: I imagine it had more to do with the fact that this effectively stomps all over the Terminator franchise. You know, same kind of reaction that you get when spidey sprouts organic web shooters.

I've never been a super big fan of the franchise. The third one effectively ruined all of it for me anyways and the way that the next movies are shaking out don't give me much hope for the future.

I did enjoy this though. I'm sure it contridicts the hell out of the books, comics, and probably even the movies but it was a fun ride for the most part. It was definatly a "FOX show" complete with the obligitory skin shots they manage to sneak in, but it was still fun.

I want to get me some of those posters.

tande

As long as there are horny little nerds stitting in front of their TVs talking about how "Hawt" some chick actress is, the producers will continue to push these sort of programs. This show will give Geeks the two things that they love most, sexy girls and a reason to complain.

mtheumer

@decerbo:

women + robots don't mix. ever.

EMoShunz

@Kaiser-Machead: LOL (assuming you were referencing the amish comment in the post).

EMoShunz

this will tank faster than the bionic woman. and thank god for that. don't ruin the coolness of the terminator. terminator 3 already did that. women + robots don't mix. ever.

decerbo

@cowboyshootist: You would hope that they would of already thought of that before launching it at this time. I think its been pushed back a couple of times as it is so they should of have pleanty of stuff to keep them occupied until the great reality TV onslaught.

tande

Unholy tripe

Kaiser-Machead

So, in the first episode, can we expect to see a cyborg Fonz jumping his souped-up motorcycle over a SkyNet-controlled shark?

FredicvsMaximvs

Mildly sexy... YUP!

bugstomper2

So the series is going to depend on Skynet sending back a new terminator every week? It'll get old. They should have centered it around the actual war in the future, and damn the FX costs.

daveNYC

I'll try to watch this but I doubt I will like it. I can't stand it when movies turn into TV shows and the actors are completely different.

bdkennedy1

@cowboyshootist: I would imagine that some of the scripts are written and that at least some of the shows have already been filmed.

New shows are still coming on TV from finished scripts and already taped shows, only no one is writing new scripts for future shows.

smcallah

Joanie Loves Chachi meets Skynet. What's not to like?

bobdobbs

Who's going to write the scripts for this? All the writers are on strike. Probably some scab...LOL

cowboyshootist

its summer not flower.. and this show is gonna rule!

tgwaste

RIVER not Flower.

I'm an idiot.

strider_mt2k

@strider_mt2k: Yes, and season 1 culminates with her sudden but inevitable betrayal.

omg-ponies

Flower is a goram Terminator?

strider_mt2k

The pilot is actually quite decent. I expected it to be godawful given T3, bionic woman, etc, but the show is looking promising. Give it a chance.

dmaggio12

Sarah Conner is the actress who was the wife of Leonidas... Pretty good actor

mandarin

I thought the pilot was OK (it's been floating out there on bittorrent for a while now)

The male terminator was kind of a terrible, generic actor though. Probably a loser, bodybuilder.

Summer Glau and Lena Headey were wonderful though.

dcartist

While I expect this will ultimately fail, it will still be more succesful than in any other configuration soley for the presence of Summer Glau.

Also, whoever said women and robots don't mix is obviously gay.

Jeff the Riffer

sarah is so hot!1!!

AndersonBMX

So Summer is playing an aloof ass-kicker with trouble properly emoting; and this is different from River Tam how? (aside from having lower-quality writing)

omg-ponies

...it's either going to bring a fresh new Terminator into your home every week or completely ruin the entire franchise.

Didn't "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" already completely ruin the entire franchise?

Speaking of which, if they follow the plotlines set up in T3, doesn't John Connor say his mom died from cancer? So, we can pretty much assume what the series finale is going to be... but it will probably be canceled before then anyways.

LastVigilante

@tande: right, good point.

EMoShunz

Ah, Summer Glau, first River Tams, and now a teen-age killer fem-bot? She is becoming the #1 object of geek-love.

danson

I love Summer Glau, I love Firefly, I love Serenity, I hope this new vehicle for Summer is great. I think Fox is the biggest asshole in the whole TV goram world for cancelling Firefly, and I can't wait till Serenity 2 and 3 (come on, Joss, you kinda promised us Browncoats a 2nd and 3rd installment on the movie front, and the actors are still raring to go. Get em while they're still young and hot!!)

Seriously, Fox, kiss my f+++ing ass right in the dirty spot for cancelling that incredible show. You truly are short sited P'sOS.

And, by the way, all loyal Giz readers: If you haven't bought the DVD sets yet, go out and buy em. This is one worth supporting. If you haven't even WATCHED the shows yet, then get ready to thank me. I mean, SERIOUSLY thank me, for tuning you in.

banmojo

Fuck Yeah

Terminator12139

I am willing to bet that the show has nothing to offer that these beautiful posters do not.

Gann

@OldCrow: Easy buddy... if you look the retoucher didn't have much to work with, they wanted background on totally blownout backlit shots. They could have gotten rid of the hair but it's fine for what it is.

Klaw

@strider_mt2k: here here

EMoShunz

@Mark 2000: As a Science Fiction fan I have no problem with the concept or this.

It's gross and sexy and has robots I'll watch it.

strider_mt2k

I don't understand how they can do something like this and keep continuity with the films. Does it take place before 1 and 2? Between 2 and 3? After number 3? Wait... hmm. Sounds like an interesting concept, but undoubtedly, FOX will ruin it. They have ruined at least two of my favorite shows by prolonging them, keeping them going too long, and ruining the plot.

CyRu5

I have the same problem with the last ad as I do with Ghost in the Shell. This is an excuse to mix sexuality with brutal mutilation fantasies by covering it up as "They're just robots!" Robot or not, a female trophy bust, entrails hanging, is grotesque and the fact that they're trying to turn you on with it is even more gross.

Mark 2000

@decerbo:
ghost in the shell. you lose, QED.

willyolio

@banmojo: got to agree. the only reason i got hooked on the show was because there was a holiday-a-thon on space channel a couple years ago. i loved it, watched it all freaking day, 16 hours straight! and there are a bunch of people at my work who loved this show too. it's like family guy, maybe if they would run the reruns they'd see the interest and reenlist it!

EMoShunz

She's also in The 4400, but not as sexy.

LoganSix

It premier is pretty good. They find a way not to mess up continuity by creating a branch in the time continuity. Instead of driving south as in the movies, they stop and make a conscious decision to change the future. A nifty time travel trick also allows them to get 'lost in time' so no future 'super terminators' can come back, making the ongoing serious more manageable.

rflashman

@banmojo: Thats what I was thinking too.
Pretty much the only reason I watched Drive too, which ended predicatably. Adam seems to be doing well on his new show though. Jewel and Morena both did the stargate thing. Its good to see Summer in a leading role.

You know whats funny though. The last one that I'd ever think would head back to fox is doing just that. Whedon's writting a show for the network again.

I guess technicaly he's writting for Dushku 'cause she'd the one that has the production deal with them. Apparently she asked for his help and he's doing it. Just one more reason to look forward to the end of the strike.

tande

I thought the pilot was rather good, a little rough around the edges but most pilots are. The show defiantly has potential, hopefully Fox will give it a descent shot before they decide to yank it.

RobotVampire

This will only get my attention if the series is something like multi-millionaire and happens closer to the future than on present day.

But from the trailer, I'm already guessing it won't.

Also, if they ever make another Terminator movie, the above rule applies.

No more terminators getting back to the past to save or kill someone please...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

The acting was horrible in the pilot...don't understand why neither terminator's expressions resembled robots.

ProjectMoonlightCafe

Picture #4: Who took the rest of her and what's he doing to it, dare we ask?

yougottabekidding