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No sleeping through Terminator tonight! Go go liveblog!
20:01: I am really not big on these Sarah monologues.
20:03: Distracting trespassers with jackals and then tasering them? Sneaky!
20:04: Actually I’m pretty sure you’d die if you couldn’t sleep for two or three years. Just sayin’.
20:05: Also, for a sleep clinic, they make some somewhat unproductive sleep arrangements. Read: roommates. Couldn’t Sarah spring for a facility where she wasn’t sharing with Smokey McPedophilepants?
20:06: Awww, Cameron cooks! She smiles! How I have missed her. She really is the best part of this show, can’t we have more? Don’t they know that would save the show?
20:13: Wait, Sarah used a cross-dresser and a hypnotherapist to find Iron & Metal? Did I miss that episode?
20:17: You know, I’m pretty sure having insomnia is not the same thing as sleeping and having nightmares. Not like I’m a scientist or anything, but neither is “They say if you die in your dreams you die in real life” Sarah Conner.
20:21: Taser burns, what?
20:31: Also I’m pretty sure every “stop insomnia!” advice I’ve heard ever has been against naps. Can you tell I’m sort of bored by this episode and can only comment on the faux sleep science?
Commercial Break: WATCHMEN PREVIEW. Best part of this episode.
20:55: Is it time for Dollhouse yet? Seriously, I have nothing to say about this episode, other than too much crazy Sarah, too little Cameron.
20:56: Ow, teeth. And ow, shot Terminator. But I’m also pretty sure they don’t go down with three bul- OH SHIT JOHN. WHERE THE HELL IS CAMERON? Also, watch this be a dream, and the kidnap scenario be reality.
20:58: Ugh, ugh, ugh, sudden preponderance of gore. Don’t you need that thumb Sarah?
20:59: AUGH WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE. This episode was so peaceful, with mere suggestions of people on fire, and now you pull out chest shots and snapped thumbs and needles to the eye within the same three minutes? Though that extremely close range headshot seems to have resulted in absolutely no bloodspatter. I don’t really get that.
That was weird and unsatisfying. I demand more Cameron, dead Riley, and less Sarah. Now, to Dollhouse!
Oh liveblog, how I’ve missed thee. But now that Terminator is on Fridays (and also in danger of cancellation), I can (and must!) stay up late enough to watch it when it actually airs. Woot.
19:57: If that half-second snippet we saw was any indication, Weaver kicks way more ass this half of the season. Everybody needs more melty robot action.
20:00: Summer Glau and Eliza Dushku pimping their back-to-back shows. I am once again reminded I am not the core audience for these two hours.
20:01: “Well, she’s not going anywhere.” Haha, that’s cute.
20:03: “Not John, HIM.” You know Ghostie Man, you can use proper nouns.
20:07: Why can’t John’s call be to drop Riley off at the hospital and run for it to never see her again? Wouldn’t we all appreciate that?
20:13: Hey kids, that was your “FYI THIS IS KYLE REESE” moment.
20:15: “She is, as they say, accustomed to her circumstance.” Well said sir.
20:17: I didn’t think anyone could make John look masculine, but this pouty-lipped Kyle Reese does it.
Commercial Break: I am so excited to see The International. Maybe I will spend my Valentine’s with Clive Owen.
20:24: John Henry is much too amusing for a killer robot.
20:26: Sorry Agent Ellison, your deep dark secrets are all over the interwebs. However, I agree with his concern: What if John Henry finds Wikipedia? The confusion! The misinformation! The lack of source citations!
Commercial Break: NEW WATCHMEN TRAILER. March 6 cannot come soon enough.
20:36: The Terminators meet!
20:38: For some reason that was a really excellent conversation. Props to the actors for their nuanced performance of socially inept and super scary machines.
Commercial Break: You can none of the show writers were involved in these promo spots, and that Summer and Eliza are just sort of Big Pretty Smiling their way through the canned dialogue. Also, can someone please explain to me how Cyclops is in the Wolverine movie?
20:46: Why do so many scary scenes in this show happen in the bathroom? We were all totally expecting the urinal to turn into Weaver again.
20:47: Oh shit, it’s on. But she’s going to ruin her dress!
20:48: Whoah nelly. But dress? Totally rui- OH. OH SHE MAKES IT. That is smart. And also explains why her designer clothes always fit so well. I wish I was made of killer liquid metal and could make my entire wardrobe.
20:55: Aw, he has an obviously Photoshopped picture of her! How… sweet?.. I don’t know, t hat scene was kind of weird.
20:56: Hey Reese, strategy should perhaps be to not threaten the doctor who just saved Sarah’s life.
20:57: I am getting the vibe that Felicia is going to shoot – yep, she did.
20:58: OH SHIT I forgot Derek doesn’t know he’s John’s uncle – or does he? I forget who knows. This season has been on pause for too long.
20:59: Well, good job Sarah, you got a battered woman to shoot the man victimizing her, and now all your dilly-dallying made you miss the big explosion.
Time for Dollhouse! Liveblog #2: go!
Liveblogging the third episode of the season, “The Mousetrap.” As in build a better?
20:01: Putting those two clips back to back in the recap, Riley is totally a mini Kim Kelly. Oh Freaks and Geeks, you ended too soon.
20:02: Why can’t people flee to more populated, less The Hills Have Eyes places? Also, I’m really glad I didn’t think of that when I was driving through the No Man’s Land between Phoenix and LA.
20:04: I admire her wherewithal to scream for her husband rather than just sort of generically scream. That is some fast reaction time. Anyway, don’t just stand there man, call the cops!
20:05: Wow Busy Phillips is really, really pregnant. And haha, Beast Wizard 7.
20:07: “Nobody that pregnant should be forced to watch network television.” I concur! Pregnancy seems rough enough already.
20:08: Get it together man, time is of the essence and your wife has been kidnapped by a killer robot!
A brief interruption here, and another amusing Cameron moment missed because I had to open the door for my cousin. Damn you life, depriving me of two seconds of television!
20:16: She’s a strong girl, she eats her spinach, what can we say. And really, John, trying to outrun a Terminator? You should know better by now.
20:17: Hahaha Beast Master 7! In the spirit of supplementary web content I hope we will see clips of this on the internet.
Commercial: Iron Man on DVD September 30! Excited? I know I am.
20:25: Those crazy Terminators, they just love reciting their facts.
20:26: “Yarn collector,” the new term of endearment. And really, Cameron, you don’t know how to be sneaky at all? They didn’t teach that in robot school alongside burning and destroying?
20:29:
Commercial: I still maintain that REC, the original Spanish version of this movie, will likely be much better than Quarantine. It has got Jennifer Carpenter in it, but in the vein of most American remakes it will probably try to explain all the inexplicable supernatural stuff and get bogged down in the process.
Also, really, a commercial where nothing but a wide array of people say “I’m a PC”? That says nothing about the product, other than a lot of people remain inexplicably dedicated to it. It is, however, less detrimental than the “Windows Mohave” commercials, in which someone said, “It’s not so bad once you learn how to use it” of Windows Vista. (Not an exact quote, people.)
20:37: John, shouldn’t you know by now that if your mom calls you in a panic, something legitimately bad is going down? I don’t care if you’re shopping with Busy Phillips Jr., this is old hat.
20:44: Oh Penny Widmore, you are just causing so many problems today. First you get kidnapped by an unstoppable robot, then you get hurt by an explosion. For shame!
Again I miss essential robot/FBI discussion because of life. Pardon the gap.
20:48: Really Cameron, you can’t follow John properly but you can follow Riley? Tsk tsk.
20:49: Also I’m not certain how stopping the car is going to make this woman bleeding out any better or any worse. Since her husband is an EMT I would expect him to know this, but, you know, crisis.
20:53: Speaking of knowing better, you are totally not helping by stealing and then running away in a panic, John. It sort of attracts attention from the Terminator you just spotted.
20:54: I think we’re all disappointed we didn’t get to see Cameron do the Robot right there.
20:56: Terminators do not swim: Good to know! Thankfully the good one was aware while the evil one was not. But I imagine he will just be walking to the surface shortly, so this isn’t the last we’ve seen of him.
20:57: Yep, there he is! People should get more funny looks in this show, I know it’s LA, but still, guy walking out of the water?
20:58: Oh Penny, or whatever your character’s name in this show was, we’ll miss you. Oh wait, you play a much better character with a much better love interest on LOST. Carry on then!
20:59: Throwing the Bible on the coffin was quite good. Sometimes even The Sarah Conner Chronicles has good imagery.
I believe the wrecked car count for this episode is one, but only because the engine got wrecked. No exploding cars! They’re two for two now. I look forward to Cameron’s backstory next week, especially since it seems to involve a Battlestar-esq identical robots plot.
Liveblogging the second episode of the season. Can we all just agree we’re glad John cut that horrible floppy emo hair of his?
20:01: Being warped through time already seems to be a highly unpleasant experience, given the lack of clothes and all. It seems much worse to have a big old bullet hole warped with you.
20:03: If it’s not John’s mom and uncle who’ll be upset about his apparent fondness for Cameron… THEN WHO?
20:04: I’m always impressed at how quick Mama Conner gets her son registered for school, but after a few dozen moves I guess she’s got it down pretty well.
20:05: EMO. Seriously Riley, you know how to pick ‘em.
20:06: It’s Busy Philipps from Freaks and Geeks!
20:07: I just realized where I recognize that woman from – It’s Sonya Walger, aka Penny Widmore from LOST!
20:08: I hate it when dying rebels from the future leap through my brand new windows. And really, if you’re going to be so cryptic, can’t you pop in a little earlier to give people time to figure out the message?
20:13: That is the best power plant safety video ever.
20:15: Come on Penny, you’ve been searching for an invisible moving island, what’s so weird about robots from the future?
20:16: You know, now that Busy Philipps is in this episode, this Riley girl reminds me of a young Kim Kelley. Only more Manic Pixie Girl, and not as mean.
20:17: No John, no! What about your robot girlfriend? Would this Riley girl save your life from killer robots? NO. So, you can do better.
20:18: How does anyone believe you’re from Texas with that flat accent?
20:23: “I wonder where your room is?” Really? Well I guess girls don’t need to be the smooth ones after boys invite them over.
20:24: Sweet mother of God, I wish they wouldn’t make Summer Glau wear some of these horrible outfits. That is an animal print boustie, a denim miniskirt and black tights and they are unacceptable.
20:25: And she’s a hustla’ baby, that’s what her daddy made… her.
20:29: Sarah Conner takes some getting used to, I imagine.
20:30: See Sarah, you should have just let him hook up with the robot. At least then you’d know where he was.
20:39: John, I don’t think this girl you found has all her marbles.
20:50: Okay, I haven’t had a lot to say until now – but that body slam/roll into the shins is a sweet move.
20:51: Isn’t that how a MacGuyver episode ended? I seem to recall a flaming man being karate kicked out a window into generators that exploded. It was pretty cool.
20:56: Aw John, you’re just angry because your robot girlfriend doesn’t really love you.
20:58: At what point did that dying guy get into the shed to write all those things? Before or after he leaped through the window?
20:59: I was wondering when we’d see ol’ Redhead again!
Hey, I just realized – no cars blew up this episode! Not as good as the premiere, but they never are. I would have liked more robot sexual tension, but I suspect cross-species forbidden love is not what the largely 18-35 male viewership is watching for.
20:01: New intro, season 1 recap! Thank you for realizing your first season was mad complicated.
20:02: Who is that actor who plays Sarkisian (sp)? I swear he’s familiar. Aww Cameron! You’ll be ok in a second, we knew that at the end of s1.
20:03: But damn that looks like it hurt. At least your face is still pretty! Everything else is expensive, I’m sure they want to keep makeup costs down.
20:04: OH I get it, “Samson and Delilah.” Oh poor Cameron, that looks like it hurts, especially that odd growth on the side of your head.
20:05: But really this sequence is ok, if a little weird. The music is a good choice, even if the slo-mo is kind of disorienting.
20:06: Look guys, it’s a lighter! Maybe something will set on fire! Look guys, it’s spilled kerosene! I wonder what’s going to happen! Look guys, it’s the gas main, hmmmmm Cameron’s planning abilities are slightly suspect.
20:07: OH FUCK SHE’S BROKEN.
20:08: I do wonder, with the increasing number of believers (ie people who see other people with Superman strength and metal parts sticking out) why someone doesn’t take a damn picture.
20:09: “They gonna believe a machine from the future stole his identity and did it?” Oh yes, you don’t tell people because they’d think you’re crazy. Also, ace driving Sarah.
20:10: Oh fuck Cameron. I LOVE YOU MORE NOW John Conner is super annoying anyway, even if I am sort of intrigued by the possible love interest. It’s very Battlestar Galactica romantic, man and machine, forbidden love, etc etc. What can I say.
20:11: I just noticed the title bars don’t spellcheck and I may have published this as ‘Chronciles’. Bad news.
20:12: See, chess players? It’s all your fault. Stop trying to advance science!
20:13: New characters! And one if them is an Irish, red-haired woman with heavy eyeliner and a genteel ‘Thank yoooou.’! We all know what that means: EVIL.
20:14: Again, Cameron, your planning skills astound me. Will staples really make that gaping face wound look ok? I guess they will, at least, replace futuristic metal for office metal. That’s marginally less alarming. I still think your ass should be getting stared at by all the extras, though.
Commercial: Hole in the Wall? ALL NEW AFTER FRINGE? Did they just figure they couldn’t top it? Probably. Seriously people, the Pilot is amazing, even if it continues the trend of vanilla blonde woman of some independence but still with an occasional need to be saved in many an action/sci-fi production. Hey, she’s still the protagonist, I’ll take what I can get.
20:20: ‘They’ she says. ROBOT? ‘We’? Maybe not. I do wonder who the hell wrote that monologue. And when that poor guy is going to get hit by a truck.
20:22: “Then we need to talk about her.” Your girlfriend HATES YOU, HA HA. Okay, I’m sorry. I really hope you don’t have to kill her. Because obviously ‘John Conner’ survives, but I’d really like Summer Glau to keep having a job.
20:24: “You want a counselor, a pastor? You’re divorced, do you need anybody?” Rub it in why don’t you.
20:27: That priest was pretty blase considering a girl with a giant cut on her face came in asking for her family, then that ‘family’ proceeded to cut her head open in front of him. But seriously, guys, you didn’t plan that out better? Two minutes is a lot of time to pop something out of a robot skull!
20:28: And this, my friends, is why this show is so damn expensive. How many cars have they wrecked now? Someone should keep count. Well, for season 2, that’s two (three if you count the one they hit)!
Commercial: For the sake of getting a blurb on those Fringe ads, even though I’m not remotely famous and my endorsement means nothing (unless they put my name in really small text!): No contest, Fringe is the best new show this year.
20:32: RUN, JOHN, RUUUUUN. And actually, now that I think about it, props to Summer Glau for walking so funny so damn convincingly this whole episode.
20:35: Cameron in the warehouse of indeterminite use with a wrench!
20:36: A wrench? Who throws a wrench? OH GOD PLEASE DON’T KILL CAMERON JUST FIX HER. And Cameron I’m sorry you’re less than convincing even if he loves you.
20:37: “John please! I love you! I love you and you love me!” OH GOD DRIVE THE KNIFE A LITTLE DEEPER WHY DON’T YOU. Please come back Cameron, we need you for mad cross-species sexual tension now that it’s been said. Which actually begs the rather crude question that I’m sure fanboys in their mom’s basement were asking, in a less romantically inclined form, s1e01: Can they consummate that love? On the one hand, I feel like Skynet wouldn’t waste time on useless functions. On the other hand, they wouldn’t skimp on resources if it meant it’d be so easy to detect their infiltration robots. And if that was a detection method, it’d be mad awkward for new resistance recruits.
20:42: “I need her.” You mean you LOVE her. Awww baby. You can rebuild her. You have the power!
20:43: Fixing Cameron’s chip apparently involves scraping it with a cuticle stick.
20:44: Oh young love. So complicated. Doubly so when your love is a reprogrammed robot sent back from the future to protect you but whose original mission was to kill you etc etc. But really, if that was how things went in the past, why’d you make her in the future? This is all terribly complicated if you think too hard, so.
20:45: YAY JOHN. BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF LOVE. Though really, giving her a gun was a bit excessive, considering she could break you with her bare hands. Seriously. She could smack you with your hair and you would DIE. But still, very sweet.
Commercial: Ok, sorry, but I’m looking forward to Eagle Eye. I also have plans to see Babylon AD and Death Race. Truly I have no right to make fun of my cousin’s Lifetime-watching habits or desire to see Maid of Honor.
“A local man sacrifices his life to save his disabled son. A bizarre accident involving a septic tank, tonight on Fox 10.” What? I mean… WHAT? Truth is stranger than fiction. And news promos are stranger than truth.
20:51: Oh my god. Is he good now? Did Cameron go bad and Kumorti went go- oh no, he didn’t. He just went EXTRA CREEPY.
20:52: Oh fuck the evil lady. Also, Mr. Tuck, kindly do not screw with women with high red ponytails and baby blue trenchcoats. You will regret it.
20:53: PBJ, the food of heroes! At least I didn’t notice any PB or J product placement.
20:54: “I made you a sandwich.” It is the only way I know to be vaguely mothering. Also, is this suggesting she was raped during that slo-mo scene at the beginning? I just saw a lot of her getting kicked in the stomach, which is tough to watch your mom endure, but somehow they’re acting like it’s more serious than that.
20:56: OH SHIT. OH SHIT SHE IS A MELTY ROBOT. I think we can all agree that the build, first seen in T2, is kind of the best one ever. And I’m not just saying that because it was Agent Doggett. Only I probably am, a little bit.
20:59: The episode is over, but we see in comic episodes that John gets a girlfriend! Cruel, cruel boy, why must you forsake your robot love?
Overall, a quality episode! It didn’t let me think too much, it waved the shiny trinket of forbidden robot love, things blew up and the wrecked car count is at 2. What more could I ask for?
