Syfy cancels T:TSCC
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I would love to see tscc on tv agian, i beleive more people might watch it and see how great the show was.
I wouldn't get your hopes up on that one. A lot of people (including me) watched it and didn't think it was up to the quality of american idol.
>.> Hence why America is considered the dumbest country in the world. If you base all of tv off of American Idol, then you obviously don't appreciate quality tv. One the reasons i been on a Doctor Who binge lately, i mean Doctor Who's been around since the 60's, since most of our parents were kids. The biggest advantage American tv generaly has over british is, we hve longer series' Unfortunantly, though they have less eps, there all well thought out, and oh, given a chance. The biggest detriment to American tv, sides what i mentioned, is the rating system. Who is gonna watch a show at 9 on a friday night, when they could be with friends, and out clubbin'? TSCC was considered a "failure" by FOX because there werent imediate raitings, yet on tevo scales, and internet scales, TSCC was widely watched. It's a typical FOX tactict, happened to Dark Angel, and ohh, FIREFLY.
"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22
Nope I hate american idol and have never watched a full episode. I'm saying it's still better TV than TSCC.
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Currently rewatching TSCC, and I have to say it is most excellent. I'm actually quite enjoying The James Ellison perspective scenes this time. Last time through I found it annoying that there were too many points of view running at once, and I would have been happy to have the whole show Sarah-centric. Ellison reminds me of Fox Mulder a little.
I enjoy the freedom from the moral mandate of the TV world, the focus on a handful of fully developed characters rather than a dozen or so stock archetypes, and it's nice to have a mix of action and real old world "what if?" sci-fi scenarios. But all of that pales to the more important issue:
The show is just welll written. There will be very little on television to compete on this level, past present or future. I'm not sure where I'd place it on a "best shows of all time" list, but I know it would be on it.
It's a different take on Sarah Connor, but not radically different, and her character is compelling and well played. Summer does a terrific job, and John is well played, I only wish they'd let him out of the box a little more. There's internal self referencing of this in the show, but it's hard to see this guy saving the world. I want to see some of that.
It's not better than Firefly, but it's better than STNG. It's worth saying that my loathing of television in general makes that I watch something more than one episode remarkable, that I rewatch the whole series mwans I think it's pretty special. I watch STNG all the way through twice. Still, Sarah Connor Chronicles is just flat out superior.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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