Not the actual episode title. But I couldn’t pass up the terrible pun.
•So…aliens, or a Skynet/ZeiraCorp production and prepositioning facility?
•Big-ass cable linking John Henry’s brain to the Cromartie body. 
•Was that Kyle in the preview for the next episode? (And is this one going to be traumatized about the aliens, too?)
Good god but that was a lame and frustrating episode, and to have it be the last is just doubly annoying.
“Abraham” was convincing neither as a man nor as a woman. Just…creepy. I sat there most of the show wondering, “Now is that a woman playing a man playing a woman, or…?”
The only thing that could have approached interesting in this episode would have been if we found out Jessie and Riley were lovers. But no. Sigh.
It was like a bad English drama - lots of pregnant pauses and raised issues leading off to…no resolution whatsoever.
I guess Sarah’s not dead as she is in the previews for the coming episodes (in February - that’s soon!) should anyone care to watch, which is doubtful after this clunker. I fear we are heading deep, deep into endgame X Files territory… :eek:
You do get the feeling they don’t really know where to take the story… First the two largely out of continuity episodes, and now this one that was a bit all over the place. But well.
I did find it intriguing that they incorporated that whole ‘drone’ thing from some time back; I remember it was theorised to be viral advertising back then, but that seems a bit of a long leadtime to only pay off now… I guess they merely picked it up as a convenient ‘weird’ thing from the real world. For anybody interested, here are Isaac’s (not Abraham, hey look it’s a biblical name pun) original documents ‘explaining’ the sightings.
This is one of my guilty pleasure shows. I love it, but have no idea what on Earth is going on.
Impressive detective skills from Sarah. Vague descriptions of a journey from audio of a hypnosis session and she’s right on the trail. Sherlock couldn’t have done better.
Her wound seemed to have mostly grazed the leg as far as I could tell from the glimpse, at least passed through quite shallowly, so it shouldn’t have severed any big veins and I’m guessing she’ll live.
Otherwise, hypnosis, UFO-nuts and religious nuttery all in one episode.
The episode was listed as the fall finale in fox’s schedule, but didn’t have any finale feel to me.
Poor John Henry - he’s going to be raised as a real fundie, isn’t he? (Hell, if I had to deal with that, I’d be tempted to Nuke All Humans, too).
Wow. This is was just… just a poor episode all around. I hope Riley’s not dead. Her story is just getting interesting. Although I have high hopes for the possibility of Kyle in the previews.
And did anyone else think the drones looked like HKs? Is it possible they’re flashes from a future yet to be and all the time displacement wonkery is causing people to see them?
Undoubtedly deliberate. I think they’re implying the drones are early HK prototypes.
I’m really curious if the “real” California drones were planted as part of the show, or if they just used them as pop culture UFOs to play with.
Riley might be dead? Did I miss something?
Anyways, terrible episode.
I’m guessing the drone (which had a Skynet feel) is a piece of metal that somehow accidentally got tossed back in time. It’s got to stay inconspicuous or it’s going to be destroyed - so right now it’s just doing its best to recon and figure out where it needs to go.
-Joe
I thought those pictures looked familiar. (Google images for “California drones”.)
And I agree, the episode was terrible.
It seems so, at the end of the episode they found her in a room with cut wrists.
I thought that metal couldn’t be sent back, which was used as the explanation why people arrived naked and couldn’t bring anything with them. It was said that the time travelling technology only worked on living tissue or something along those lines. It only worked to send back terminators since they were cyborgs, having living tissue outside.
As soon as they showed the drones from Sarah’s POV, I thought - holy shit! HKs! :eek: Unfortunately, that was the best part of the episode… of the last three episodes. The show has really been hit and miss most of the season.
Anyone know what the ratings have been like? Will there be a third season?
I agree, and I will be extremely disappointed if this series falls into the X-files pit of no-conclusion dispair.
I dislike Riley. She was better as an innocent highschool girl caught in the crossfire. This whole “she’s secretly from the future” theme bugs me. Jessie bugs me. I think they are trying too hard to wind a complex web of reality. They would do much better with robot-of-the-week type episodes.
Now Ellison isw teaching John Henry right after he tried to kill everybody. Ellison knows damned well that this company is producing the killer robots. Why doesn’t he find Sarah Connor and tell them? Will his teachings confuse John Henry into killing humanity?
Anyone want to lay good money on John Henry killing Ellison? Unless the future is changed somehow, I don’t see any other way for that relationship to go. John Henry obviosly knew Ellison when he travelled back in time. He probably knew him as his future teacher.
I think Ellison will teach John Henry to value life, but the ironic twist will be that in order to protect lives, the AI logic makes decisions that lead to Judgment Day.
That’s usually how it goes…
Yes, sort of like the computer in iRobot (The Movie) decides that following the three laws means subjecting humans to totalitarian rule. You would have to respect that kind of original thought.
Seriously, X-Files was better with mystery-of-the-day, and I think Terminator will be better with robot-of-the-day. Neverending plotlines are useless. I love Smallville because I know it has to conclude. The conclusion is guaranteed. Clarck becomes Superman.
Oops. Yeah. I was so unmoved that it barely registered.
That’s why I said “accidentally”. As far as anyone knows, that’s how it works. Otherwise Skynet could send back some really big shit.
With the drones, the possibilities are:
Any other possibilities whatsoever?
-Joe
I didn’t think the episode was their best, but didn’t dislike it as much as some of you. In any case, I watched in online and didn’t see the preview for the next episode. Is that online anywhere?
The second season is a full one, and it will return in February. Ratings have been acceptable.
