The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 2

Back in the old days when Arnold Schwarzenegger was cool, “Twins” & “Junior” had thankfully not been created and dreams of the muscle man becoming a US Governor were ludicrously ridiculous, Terminator and “I’ll be back” was very very in. Three films later and what seemed to be the end of the Terminator phenomenon it once again reared its head with the “Sarah Connor Chronicles”, a series that surprisingly excited me and proved to stand its own ground when coming to the Terminator brand. Set around John Connor (the saviour of world post Rise of the Terminators) and his mother Sarah, it was a fast paced, action packed and terminator filled account of how the Connors were setting about destroying computer network Skynet and thus saving the planet from Armageddon.

Successfully completing a short first season I was thrilled to see the Connor’s back on Virgin 1 tonight, once again fighting for survival, their goal of destroying Skynet becoming perilously out of reach as increasing amounts of other obstacles were thrown in their path. Tonight saw the race to live after Cameron (Summer Glau), the “friendly” terminator sent back from the future John, had her switch tripped, causing her to revert back to the “Terminate John Connor” robot she’d originally be created as. As far as Terminator’s go she’s pretty pleasing on the eye, even with half her face falling off, and as she mangled everybody to within an inch of their lives it was still with some sorrow that John pulled the plug on her as she pleaded “Please John, I don’t want to go, I’ve reset myself, I’m ok now”. Of course, in the end he couldn’t burn her up and took a risk turning her back on, much to his mother’s displeasure, but it worked and now our pretty little Terminator is back up and running and not wanting to kill the very person she was sent back in time to protect.

With a new side story kicking in of a somewhat more advanced Terminator making herself know I can’t wait to see how this season develops, and with many more episodes lets hope the creators can keep the pace going in this exciting addition to the Terminator brand.

Cameron (Summer Glau) makes an interesting and attractive character even if she is a Terminator

Virgin 1 (Virgin - 122, Sky 121, Freeview 20), Thursday's at 21.00