The future is now for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. OK, fine, technically the future doesn’t begin until Jan. 14, 2008. But you can see why a gal would get excited. Fox has finally announced a premiere date for the much-anticipated small-screen Terminator spin-off starring Lena Headey
and Summer Glau. With Bionic Woman yet to live up to its kick-ass potential, The Sarah Connor Chronicles is humanity’s the new season’s last hope to deliver a strong female sci-fi hero. With any luck, thanks to Lena and Summer, we might even get two.
Besides adding the world “Terminator” to the show’s title, it doesn’t seem like Fox has fussed much with the series since the pilot debuted this summer. The series has been moved to Monday instead of Sunday, and will be a lead-in to 24. So, this means Fox is going to give me a two-hour block featuring Lena Headey, Summer Glau, Cherry Jones, Janeane Garofalo and Carly Pope? Has Rupert Murdoch been reading my dream journal again? The new, recut trailer certainly makes me think that someone has heard my silent pleas for more Lena in action.
I have only three words after seeing that: Pump-action shotgun. Hell to the yeah. Is it January yet?
