The WizardMaster Will Save the Day....Or Not

Posted on September 23, 2008

There certainly isn't a lot of room for humor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. We're dealing with the end of mankind here, so it's kind of grim. But we nearly fell off the couch laughing at one part of tonight's episode.

The terminator Cromartie has taken the appearance of a B movie actor named George Lazlo. Well in one scene tonight we get a news clip about how a little seen movie called WizardMaster has become a cult hit after the actor went berserk and single handedly killed 20 FBI agents. The film plays in the background and it's a hilarious Beastmaster riff -- the hero wears a loincloth, orders tigers around and consorts with blond bimbos lurking in the jungle. We need WizardMaster to be greenlit for an actual series.

There's one problem with the addition of Shirley Manson to the cast as the shapeshifting terminator who is a wealthy CEO. She's so scary and efficient it's really hard to see how Sarah and John have any chance at all of stopping Skynet. Still, there's always hope we suppose.