Analog-Theater 2.0

My brother and I have been working a new Analog-Theater site, thanks to the new content management system we found. It will look a lot better, offer us more features (including a slide show in the gallery), and be easier for us to update. We’re still working on getting everything up and running and trying to import the old archive. Since we had been hard coding everything, I’m not sure if we can import the archive, all the options I can find is to import it from another content manager.

There is something very serious that I want to talk about. Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I’ve been watching it since it started and I’ve been holding my breath to see how it goes. I’ve been worried that its going to be a new killer robot from the future every week, but it appears thats not going to be the case. So far there has been a lot of exploration into the mythology of the series and significant character development. And in the five episodes so far there have only been three killer robots from the future and on of them is a recurring villain.

The series revolves around Sarah Conner played by Lena Headey. Her main desire is protect her son, John. At the beginning of the series they were on the run, but finally decides to fight back against Skynet. While Sarah spends her time trying to track down Skynet and save the future, she insists that John and Cameron go to school like normal teenagers. John Conner, played by 20 year old actor Thomas Dekker, is Sarah’s 15 year old son. He is struggling with his role as the future hero of the resistance. Having been told his destiny from birth, he is eager to save anyone he can and is the first to suggest they stay and fight instead of running again. Joining them is Cameron, played the great Summer Glau, an unspecified terminator unit from the future that was sent back to protect John. Like all terminators, she does not hesitate to kill people and criticizes Sarah for letting people live. She also has trouble understand human behavior, such as after a classmate died why people were leaving notes on the memorial. In the last episode after killing another terminator she appears to be experience some grief and was writing a note herself.

So far Terminator appears to be the best new show this season.

In good news, it appears that the Writer’s Strike is over. This means we might have our favorite TV shows like Lost and Terminator next season. I just hope that its not too late for Burn Notice (I can’t find anything about how it was affected by the strike).

Now, only if Tokyopop could resolve their problems like the Writer’s Guild of America. I bought the novel Kino No Tabi book 1 a while back. I’ve been waiting for Book 2, but the publication date keeps getting pushed back. Apparently Tokyopop is having problems with the licensor and because of that, they can’t get the rest of the books out. Oh well, there is always hope that some day they get everything straightened out. Until then…

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