This is some really good writing about one of my favorite shows of all time that hardly anyone watched – that being Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

This group of characters, who are not on Team Connor, add so many layers of depth and complexity to the show, and elevate it from a pretty good show about soldiers and family preparing for a future robot apocalypse, to a truly compelling, complex, graceful piece of television that deals with war, loss, robots, the preservation of what makes us human, and how who and what gets written in the book of myth is only a fraction of the story.

That show went from ok at first to good, then to great, and then to absolutely amazing. Two episodes of that show are my two favorite episodes of any TV show of all time. Others are not even really close.

Lena Headey was so very good in the show. So was Summer Glau. And unlike basically every other show ever, it didn’t treat the female characters as some bizarre species that vaguely had something do with the story and could be killed off at need for dramatic effect, but instead they were absolutely essential parts without which that world (like the real world) would not turn.

When that show was cancelled, it was a very sad day.