The End

My sister recently e-mailed me a list of the worst Rock & Roll songs put out by Rolling Stone Magazine. Of course, many of them were songs that I liked. One was the tune by The Doors,
" The End" closely associated with the movie, " Apocalypse Now". I'll agree that it's not one of Jim Morrison & Company's best tunes, but how it ended up in the worst of all time is beyond me. At least it's not a ditty from the '80's.
Today I'm writing about a televsion show that's been getting a slew of great reviews. "Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles" First of all, it's on Fox, which makes me leery from the get-go. I sat through an episode of this allegedly good show and had to make some observations. First of all, I liked the 1980's movie that it' based on. The sequel was also pretty cool. By the third installment, I was getting sick of it. I like things with a beginning, a middle and an end. It was clear that there was no END in sight! The "Terminator" series is a money maker, and nobody wants to stop making money, even if integrity suffers. "Terminator 3" wasn't bad, but it was painfully obvious that it was being milked for all it was worth, and that irritated me.
Getting back to the Fox series, I HATED it! The character, Sarah Connor was a babe played by Linda Hamilton. The television "cheap imitation" is nowhere near as cute or charismatic as the first Sarah Connor. Secondly, the first movie took place in the '80's, so now why are Sarah, her son and a teenage female terminator that's on their side, suddenly living in the present without having aged? Even worse, why is Sarah Connor no longer a blonde? Does she think a dye job will make her harder for a cyborg to recognize? The whole time-travel aspect of the premise is like a lame excuse to explain everything that's inexplicable. Maybe I'm being too harsh, since I didn't see the series from the onset, but what I saw did NOT make me want to see more. It, like most other television series, dragged things out to the point of being tedious. I'm sure there are legions of fans out there who love the show and will faithfully view it, but I'm not one of them. For me, the beginning was THE END!