Sarah Connor Chronicles Focused On The Wrong Terminator Star
Before the show even began, The Sarah Connor Chronicles made its biggest mistake when the Terminator TV show chose to focus on its title character. Although The Sarah Connor Chronicles was hardly as disastrous as some retrospective reviews claim, the series had some major issues. For one thing, turning the originally R-rated sci-fi action franchise into a family-friendly TV show limited the maturity of its content. For another, the lower budgets of television meant viewers knew they couldn’t reasonably expect to see the same level of vehicular mayhem that the big-budget blockbuster Terminator movies could afford to stage.
Much like Mad Max’s canceled TV show was always doomed to be a toned-down version of the violent, action-packed movie series, the smaller scale and longer runtimes of television meant the medium was not ideally suited to the impactful, fast-paced Terminator franchise. However, none of these issues was the biggest problem with The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Instead, the Terminator TV show was doomed from the moment the show chose its title character.
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By focusing on Sarah Connor, the expensive misfire simply reminded viewers that TV couldn’t afford to bring back original Terminator actor Linda Hamilton. In contrast, Nick Stahl and Edward Furlong were far less associated with their role as John Connor and the character had already been recast, making him a perfect protagonist for a new Terminator TV show. Much like Terminator 3 needed John Connor’s cut death scene, The Sarah Connor Chronicles need to focus on an aged-up John so that the small-screen version of the franchise wouldn’t immediately garner unfavorable comparisons to its
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