C’mon — “let ye who is without sin be at first stoned … then the girls around here start looking good.” (Jesus, Grateful Dead).

-Pete Moss

His Terminator body was a T-800 and T-850, depending on which movie you’re talking about. The appearance given to each unit was that of Arnold, which is the T-101 you’re talking about. Inside the T-101 skin were two separate models of Terminator from movie to movie.

The explanation here, then, is that the Terminators in the show are likely either T-800 or T-850 models, with a different appearance (non T-101) for their mission disguise.

You really thought ALL Terminators were supposed to look like Arnold? Didn’t you catch that they were given skin to “blend in” and complete missions by infiltrating human encampments? How effective would it be if they used the same face and form every time? Arnold would walk into a human meeting and everyone would say, “Look! A Terminator!” and attack.

So Arnold didn’t play “a” T-101; More appropriately, Arnold IS the T-101 mold. Whatever appearance designation “Cameron” has, it’s HER unique appearance model number, but the inside parts– the actual terminator robot– is probably a T-850.

Same goes for the bad guy terminator. Probably a T-850, but with a different face/form designation.

Oh, and the T-1000 has no appearance designation because it can change shape on its own. `Doesn’t need skin or a “shape” to blend in.

I’m sorry that I know that, but I do.

Watched the pilot of Sarah Conner Chronicles and I was too distracted by the scenes and dialogue that reminded me of the T-movies. “class dismissed” (only Arnold can do those one liners), “come with me if you want to live” haven’t we heard that before.

I want to believe, but when you do things that aren’t logical. Turn a bus over…what’s with that, walk around, hide a gun in your leg … just walk up and strangle him. Sarah Conner is on the run, expericenced at hiding, and she still uses her former alias (Reese was John Conners dad)

It’s like those bands that do a remake of a song and when you listen to it, it sounds the same as the original! The same with this pilot, it feels like they re-shot scenes from the movie and spliced them together.

BTW only living tissue can be transported through time, thats why the Terminators have living skin covering them. But we are told in the first movie that only one can come through at a time. Now at the end of this pilot, they can transport three! What the …

If a movie can draw me in, then I’ll go for the ride and ignore the inconsistencies. It’s when the inconsistencies become overwhelming that I start to nitpick.

Do you know how hard it was for me to find a review that didn’t gush and rave on about how exciting and fantastic this pilot was. Accurate review, keep it up.

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Saludos

I’m not familiar w/ Thomas Dekker. I wasn’t into Heroes. In fact, 90% of the shows on the regular networks are a waste of time, and since I don’t have cable, I pretty much stick to movies, or if I like a show wait till it comes out on DVD, so I don’t have to put up w/ the commercials.

I guess I shouldn’t be suprised that FOX would make a show out the Terminator movies. Rupert Murdoch will do anything to make a buck, to continue his acquistions of WSJ and other news sources. The man is bent on world domination through owning all media/news sources. The FCC is doing nothing to stop him, in fact they seem to make it easier for him.

FOX had some good shows. That 70’s Show was great, but the majority of the programs seemed to be ripped off from other shows on the big 3 networks, done more cheaply. Why not invest a little more effort and money into makng a good show?

I just remembered another movie to TV show that was well done-Stargate.
I watched it first as a TV show, then saw the movie on DVD. Of course, the Stargate portal meant timelines and characters could be more fluid, but the show was well written and fun to watch.

Wow! Can’t stand James Cameron. Most of his stuff is crap. I got caught up in the Titanic hype, but on 2nd and 3rd viewing, it was ok, but not great. Mostly the sets and customs were gorgeous.

As for the timeline screw-ups, that sort of detail makes me mad. It’s like a big FU to all fans of the original movie. Joss Wheadon did the same thing with Buffy. In the movie, Buffy was a Senior in High School and fought off master vampire (brillantly played by Pee Wee Herman) at her Prom. Then on the show suddenly Buffy was only a Sophmore. I originally refused to watch the show, because of that change. Though, I must confess I finally did watch BTVS and loved it. Kudos, to the writing team for paying attention to details for all 7 seasons. I loved the fact that after Giles and Buffy’s mom had sex in season 3’s “Band Candy”, it was referred to again in later seasons.

The Sarah Connor Diaries sounds like one colassosal, confused mess.
If they are going to do it, then they need to hire writers who pay attention to details and try to follow the original story/timeline of the movies as much as possible. Also, John Connor can not go all sensitive. This is a kid with a mom in a mental institute being passed around the foster care system. He’s going to be really messed up, cynical, and distrustful. Unless John is taking estrogen supplements to get in touch with his “feminine” side, puberty and adulthood should just magnify and increase his issues.

What is it with Hollywood turning crappy TV shows into movies, and vice versa? I will admit that Buffy is an exception, but I believe that’s because Wheadon maintained most of the creative control. Has the town lost it’s creativity or just scared to try anything new? It seems like most of the movies out are crappy sequels made only to generate more revenue and product placement fees for studios. It’s sad to thing of all the cool, imaginative, and quirky scripts, that are being passed over to make these bloated, overdone, make-me-more-money films.