I watched this in the year prior to learning about the Singularity. There are many places where it is, of course, optimized for awesomness instead of scientific accuracy. But one thing that impressed me a lot is that the robot characters have honest to goodness character development that is based on them being robots. (As compared to most other shows and stories, where the robots magically get human feelings and then are just developed like regular people with occasional straw-vulcan tendencies)
There’s approximately four main robot characters, each of which obviously has a different utility function which shapes their morality and their relationships.
The great thing about it is that because of Time Travel, it completely erases the events of Terminator 3 and 4 and replaces them with a much more interesting series of events and better character development (for both humans and nonhumans).
The show is designed to be faithful to Terminator 2 in particular. (If you watch the director’s cut of it and then begin watching the show, you’ll pick up on a lot of storytelling techniques that are re-used and expanded upon)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Some episodes available at www.thewb.com/shows/terminator-the-sarah-connor-chronicles. (I believe a more all encompassing episode list is at netflix)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSarahConnorChronicles
I watched this in the year prior to learning about the Singularity. There are many places where it is, of course, optimized for awesomness instead of scientific accuracy. But one thing that impressed me a lot is that the robot characters have honest to goodness character development that is based on them being robots. (As compared to most other shows and stories, where the robots magically get human feelings and then are just developed like regular people with occasional straw-vulcan tendencies)
There’s approximately four main robot characters, each of which obviously has a different utility function which shapes their morality and their relationships.
The great thing about it is that because of Time Travel, it completely erases the events of Terminator 3 and 4 and replaces them with a much more interesting series of events and better character development (for both humans and nonhumans).
The show is designed to be faithful to Terminator 2 in particular. (If you watch the director’s cut of it and then begin watching the show, you’ll pick up on a lot of storytelling techniques that are re-used and expanded upon)