I fiddled around with one of the Avatar video games. It was a nice little RPG. Not especially hard, but nice little story. Cool animations.

The game was nothing great, but it reminded what a great little universe the Avatar people created. Everything fits. Everything seems natural and coherent.

Most fantasy worlds struggle with that. Once you let in magic things can get arbitrary super quick. But Avatar is a nice little contained universe where the pieces seem to go together.

The first terminator movie is pretty relentless. There's some humor in the beginning. But then it becomes just one intensifying chase movie. In T2 they added a lot more humor.

The Terminator TV show is more like T1 -- all relentless and serious and humor-free.

The serious approach can work in a 90 minute movie with a big cathartic payoff at the end. It doesn't work well for a tv series, though. 20+ hrs a season of constant serious, oh-no, the world is gonna end, moroseness. It just gets tiring for the audience. It wears on you.

Which is why Term: Sarah Connor needs to add some humor, romance, winking action -- something -- to lighten up the show. At least have one character who's enjoying themselves in some small way.

Right now all the actors look like they've been tranquilized.