Sunday, February 15, 2009

Terminator returns to Fox

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Fox
Fridays 8pm ET/PT
Bartlesby Productions
Halcyon Productions
Warner Brothers Television
Feb. 13 episode

This wasn't such a great episode, but I'm glad Terminator returned to Fox. I was afraid after Fox dropped it from its Monday lineup that it wouldn't come back. Now in the Friday tv ghetto, Fox is hopeful that pairing Terminator with Dollhouse will give it a noticeable Friday night lineup with strong female leads.

Watching Sarah deal with her gunshot wound was grueling. (I could feel her pain.) Aside from that, there wasn't much else for the characters to do. John Henry the machine figured out Miss Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson from the group Garbage) is a machine. He found an unsecured audio clip online, so Weaver went to the source and wiped out everyone in attendance--apparently about a dozen people. I was waiting for her to come out of the urinal again.

Are Reese, John and Cameron going to figure out why Riley is hanging around so much? Especially Reese. He doesn't realize Riley and Jesse, his girlfriend, know each other. As usual, Summer Glau is more like a prop in this episode than a character.

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