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Killer looks that just don’t stop. Ever. Until you are dead.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles kicks off its second season in a couple weeks, and I, for one, am excited about that. I likes me the Terminator franchise, even the somewhat ho-hum third film installment. It’s just a cool doom ‘n gloom sci-fi universe. I also like what I’m seein’ so far with the Terminator: Salvation project, even though McG is at the helm. Hard to mess it up when Christian Bale is involved.

But with all due respect to James Cameron, The Oak, and now Bale, Chronicles has something Salvation doesn’t - the deceptively innocuous-looking Summer Glau. I was a big fan of Joss Whedon’s short-lived cult favorite Firefly, which led to one of the coolest unheralded sci-fi films out there - 2005’s Serenity. In both the series and the film, Glau plays the role of River Tam, a genius taken during childhood by an Orwellian government and programmed to be a state-controlled killing machine. This, of course, provides the opportunity for River to unleash some major whoop ass from time to time, and she doesn’t disappoint. Now playing a killing machine of an altogether different variety, I’m still waiting for Chronicles’ writing staff to show us the full arsenal of one very steely Cameron Phillips.