Season Finale - Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles

So I just watched the season finale of Terminator: the Sara Connor Chronicles. If the nerdy title turned you off, give it a try. It's a good series. The lines can be cheezy, the acting can be a little too melodramatic, but the story lines, and dare I say, the directing and cinematography are good, especially for tv. Give the show a chance, they really outdid themselves, especially in the last episode, some of the last scenes are brilliant. If you love action, sci fi, doomsday scenarios, and finding-peace-with-yourself themes, I highly recommend this one. I think this tv show will be coming back for another season for sure.

New Battlestar Galactica... Counting Down...

The season premier of Battlestar Galactica is coming up on Friday, April 4th. Stick it in your calendar. It's the last season, the show was written and planned that way. So this will be the season where all the questions are answered, where humans and cylons find some way to live with each other. I have no idea how it will end. I never watched the original series. Well, actually, I tried to watch an episode, but had to stop. I couldn't get past the terrible props and set design. I've seen better on Sesame Street.

I am totally psyched for the premier. I think it will be brilliant. I wonder if the show will stay on that Friday spot. 28 days left! There's a short recap on scifi.com/battlestar.

Have to Watch New Amsterdam

Damn, I missed the premier of New Amsterdam last night, and the show's not on Fox On Demand yet, so if you missed it like me, you'll have to bittorrent it or grab it off of iTunes.

The premise for the show sounds a lot like Highlander. There is an immortal living among us today, someone who is over 400 years old.

"NEW AMSTERDAM centers on a brilliant and enigmatic New York homicide detective unlike any other. And he has a profound secret -- he is immortal.

In 1642, JOHN AMSTERDAM (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), then a Dutch solider in the colony of New Amsterdam – later to become New York City -- stepped in front of a sword to save the life of a Native American girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. The girl in turn rescued Amsterdam, weaving an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love. Only then will he become whole and ready for mortality.

Amsterdam has found this to be a mixed blessing... "

from Fox's Official New Amsterdam Website

It's the old Highlander concept with a new cast, and a police-investigator/crime-drama twist. It sounds very cool, and the critics seem to like it. I've been going through about 10 years of Highlander withdrawal, although I don't miss the Baywatch-style slow motion love scenes of shirtless and ripped Adrian Paul. The HLer movies were utterly disappointing, although I admit, I bought a few DVD's of the most recent flicks. I did not buy the official MacLeod Highlander Sword, although I've probably been sent about a tree of Highlander memorabilia catalogues (who buys that stuff, seriously).

Although New Amsterdam seems to have ripped some ideas Highlander, I am still very excited for the show. Let's face it, the whole immortality concept is so compelling, a la Ponce de Leon. Let's just hope the cast and writers do a good job to create interesting and engaging characters, so that the show sticks around.

The best things is, New Amsterdam was totally off of my radar. I hadn't heard of it until last week. My wife who told me about it. She hates sci-fi stuff. It must be the dreamy looking leading man and the crime/cop show twist to an old sci-fi classic.