Anyone still watching this? I’m sucked in. The writing is still hokey, but the plot’s interesting. I’m not really sure where they’re going with it.
Poor Andy. My guess, the killer was a human time-traveler.
High-school drama continues to percolate very slowly.
John is seriously going to regret exposing himself to his old step dad.
How does John know how to hack firewalls from the year 2007? I thought they just came through from 1999 recently.
Why would the evil Terminator say, “I don’t sleep.”? At what level can these machines assimilate themselves to humans?
John’s a quick study.
The assimilation capabilities seem to vary with story needs. However, Cromartie was pretty messed up.
So all you need is a knife and a pair of pliers to permanently terminate a terminator? Who’da thunk it?
The shooting, kicking, fighting, throwing, dismembering, and steel pipe helped too. 
Who was the woman who played Charley Dixon’s (John’s “dad”) wife?
The show has gotten a lot more consistent and we are seeing the actors fit more comfortably in their roles. Glau is doing well with the comedy and also has a good “angry” staredown for fights. The writing is solid. I like how Sarah’s monologue at the start dovetails with the monologues at the end.
And I can’t wait for next week… HKs!
This is the first television drama I’ve watched, well, maybe ever, and I really like it.
Tonight, I liked how Reese had some future soldier slang, like “triple 8” and “bringing metal down on.”
Which begs the question: Why don’t they do that every time they encounter a terminator in standby or rebooting? It can’t take much to cut off a bit of scalp first.
I’m enjoying this too. It’s cheesy, but so were the old movies!
I love Lena and she’s doing a good job fitting into the role. She’s playing Sarah more vulnerable and less militaristic, but that’s okay. It’s a new interpretation.
Summer is definitely typecast, but she does it so well!
And the actor playing John doesn’t annoy me nearly as much as he did in Heroes. The character needs to get over this adolescent shit though. It’s annoying in the way only 17 year old boys can be.
And ++ points to Garret Dillahunt for being so awesomely awkward. I loved him in Deadwood and No Country and he’s awesome here too. I can’t wait to see what he does next. The effects were pretty bad during the Cromarty meets actor guy scene, but it was still kinda creepy to see him try to imitate the real guy.
I have spotted two LOST actors. We have Penny as Reese’s wife and Charlie’s brother as the pervy guidance counselor. Am I right? Penny’s American accent seems forced to me, as if the actress is trying to drawl a bit too much. It’s wierd.
But that’s all I have to criticize. It’s still just plain fun.
Wow i only watch those two shows on TV and i completely missed that John was Claires ambigiously gay friend from season one.
Totally! I wish they had the balls to actually make that a plot point on that show. The guy was annoying and that bit of characterization might have helped.
But noooo.
The actor is in a much better role now. But he could use a haircut.
I agree the show is definitely starting to find a groove of decency.
I suspect it’s rare that you have enough time and access to get to disable a terminator that way… normally they won’t cooperate with you.
(What, by the way, did they do with the triple 8 after disabling it?)
Apparently it takes rubbing the head against a truck at some 30 MPH. 
Also, you need Terminator strength to twist off the ol’ noggin gascap. As for what they did with the T-888, that is yet to be revealed!
Wasn’t he quoting the FBI Agent when he gave Cromartie his card (when FBI-guy thought he was talking to the actor)
I’m digging the FBI storyline, not so much the high-school one. Though I’m sure new girlfriend’s (damaged-goods) father is a scientific genius with military connections. But I’m afraid they are making this super-complicated, when it doesn’t need to be.
Good=guys, vs bad-guys with innocents in the middle.
It doesn’t have to be *Lost *with 5 groups of bad-guys all fighting each other.
And having another Terminator hold it down helps. Not to mention actually having tools handy. Otherwise it’s a little difficult.
Plus it’s nice to see 90210’s Brian Austin Green working again.
I suppose it gets better over time, but basically they fit in about as well as a weird, dorky, emotionally repressed human who says odd things at inappropriate times. I worked with a guy like that. I’m about 90% sure he’s not a robot.
Part of what’s always fascinated me about the series are the characters you don’t ever see or meet - John in the future and his band of resistance fighters. They are very much participating characters in the story even though they never manifest onscreen. The characters right now are working within a framework of decisions future John has made - he’s chosen who to send back to protect them, he’s chosen what knowledge they do and don’t have access to. He’s trying to direct their actions too - he wants them protected, but he also wants young John trained adequately. I picture him in a war room looking at a timeline instead of a terrain map, trying to anticipate what his past self is doing and how to lead him in the correct direction.
I hope we never see future John. It’s just so cool trying to figure out the character from they clues they throw us.
Just watched it and wanted to pop in and say this ep was a vast improvement over last week which seemed too contrived. This week was much tighter.
Guidance counselor is so dead. Cameron’s going to develop just enough unsophisticated morality to see to it.
Okay - help me out here, I’m not very bright. How do we know the counselor needs to die? Is it that he was asking about Jumper Girl’s last words? I’d think that’s a normal enough thing for people investigating a suicide to do, maybe.