An encore of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on TV tonight. How sweet would it be to watch it here, in a Terminator themed theater. Answer: It would be awesome. Second only to Linda Hamilton bearing your child and raising him to be the leader of the resistance.

Darren Mortenson put it all together himself. The picture shows a television, but there’s also a projector so he can watch movies at a cool 159″. Doing all the work himself even scored him CEDIA installer certification. All in all, it’s pretty awesome. He got that Sky Net machine look down perfect.

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The first part of the Terminator premiere aired last night on Fox, with the second part airing tonight. I have to say, I was pleasently surprised.

It would be very easy to serve us up some regurgitated Hollywood crapulence, and they could have easily chosen to go the route of “terminator of the week” by having a new terminator appear week after week to give chase. But they clearly have set their sights much higher.

First, Summer Glau as the good terminator is not only HOT, but perfect for the role and the three main characters all mesh well.

I was particularly impressed with some interesting plot points, like the resistance from the future procuring a safe deposit box in order to have some nice hardware AND a time-travel device ready for their use.

Another nice touch was that the writers could have either set the characters in 1999 or 2007 and left it at that, but they didn’t. Instead they used both years in a fantastic way that should provide some very nice storytelling aspects down the road. By traveling from 1999 to 2007, the FBI and anyone else after them now knows they have suddenly reappeared after having vanished for 8 years. And of course certain things have happened during that time that the three main characters are not aware of.

This show should be a very good ride. Hopefully they continue the good quality and it doesn’t degenerate.

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