Wow, Skynet got really good at miniaturization. They had to stuff the first terminator into Arnold Shugganuggie, and now they can put one into a 65lb girl? Amazing.
I plan to watch. Casting looks good, just hope the actor playing John Connor isn’t a dud. I am really hoping it turns out to be magically delicious.
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So, not reading the spoiler, is the series set in the 1990s?
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Well, some people would consider the answer to that question, and any light elaboration on it, to be a spoiler…
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now they can put one into a 65lb girl? Amazing.
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Actually, Summer Glau is quite convincing as a Terminator-Lite. Her slightly off/alien looks helps.
Now, I only need a girl-on girl fight with her and Kristana Lokkan and I’ll be in mah bunk
That’s another reason I don’t care to watch the show. I burned out on the hot-magical-chick-who-kicks-ass many years ago.
Marc
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FWIW, the show pretends that the third movie never happened, which is probably a good thing.
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Ah, the advantages of parallel universes…
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3 movies is beaten to death?
Or by “a while back” do you mean it was beaten to death at T2?
Not a fan of Batman, Spiderman, Superman, X-Men, Die Hard, Pirates of the Carribbean then?
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Considering that there was only one good movie in each of those franchises, I think you’ve just proved MGibson’s point for him.
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That’s another reason I don’t care to watch the show. I burned out on the hot-magical-chick-who-kicks-ass many years ago.
Marc
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I’m with you, I’m totally sick of the “tiny little hot chick who can kick everyone’s ass” cliche. Ooooohh, it’s so surprising and clever, because it’s like, she’s a girl, and traditionally girls aren’t supposed to be deadly killing machines, so it’s all subversive and pro-feminist and turns all kinds of conventions on their heads! And she’s HOT too, so it’ll appeal to all the guys in the audience also. I smell big bucks! Whoooooo!
:rolleyes:
Lame.
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I’m with you, I’m totally sick of the “tiny little hot chick who can kick everyone’s ass” cliche.
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Is it a cliché? It might be we’re at a time where it’s down to “it can be a man or a woman - choose one.” In this case, they chose a woman because of whatever marketability or casting angle they thought appropriate.
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Is it a cliché? It might be we’re at a time where it’s down to “it can be a man or a woman - choose one.” In this case, they chose a woman because of whatever marketability or casting angle they thought appropriate.
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It’s also worth pointing out that Summer Glau can really, actually ]act. Honest. In Firefly, she made River Tam into a remarkably believable character, especially considering the gibberish dialog that she had to make sound less-than-hokey. Plus - yah, hot.
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It’s also worth pointing out that Summer Glau can really, actually ]act. Honest. In Firefly, she made River Tam into a remarkably believable character, especially considering the gibberish dialog that she had to make sound less-than-hokey. Plus - yah, hot.
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Plus she’s the first action girl I think is convincing in a fight scene. Just watch Serenity. I mean she trained as a gymnast or ballerina or something so…
Ballerina.
I loved Serenity but the character of River was my least favorite part of it. Like I said, I hate the cliche. It was even worse in that movie because she always went about in bare feet and delicate-looking clothing - “oooh, she’s just a poor sweet innocent harmless defenseless little girl…but ACTUALLY she’s a KILLING MACHINE!” I don’t know, I guess I don’t have a lot of company in hating these kind of characters but I just don’t like them.
Yeah the River mystery was good at first but I almost think Firefly would have been better without her. Towards the end of the season the episodes seemed like they were only about River.
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So, I’m pretty intrigued.
Supposedly, Summer Glau is a Terminator sent back to protect John Connor.
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I don’t get this. OK, many dudes liked Firefly. Cool. So, why does than mean all those dudes must watch and like anything with any member of the Firefly cast in it? 
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I don’t get this. OK, many dudes liked Firefly. Cool. So, why does than mean all those dudes must watch and like anything with any member of the Firefly cast in it?
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Because we’re fans?
(**fan ** /fæn/
–noun
an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
[Origin: 1885–90, Americanism; short for fanatic]
—Synonyms supporter, enthusiast, partisan, booster, addict.)
What’s so hard to understand about that?
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Watch it. It’s surprisingly good.
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Err, you have somehow seen it already?
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Yeah the River mystery was good at first but I almost think Firefly would have been better without her. Towards the end of the season the episodes seemed like they were only about River.
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Err, yes because they were.
She was the central character.
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Err, you have somehow seen it already?
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Several months ago the pilot was leaked, probably deliberately, onto the torrent scene.
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
I don’t get this. OK, many dudes liked Firefly. Cool. So, why does than mean all those dudes must watch and like anything with any member of the Firefly cast in it?
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You haven’t met Firefly fans, have you?
Marc