They don’t call the show The Sarah Connor Chronicles for nothing! The past few weeks have certainly reminded us that this is Sarah’s show. Lena Heady carried this episode. Heck, she had too, she was practically the only person in it. Since Terminator has returned from (a way too long) hiatus, it has focused a lot on Sarah. I love Lena Heady as Sarah. To be honest, she’s my favorite part of the show, but even I’ve had enough at this point.

It’s time to see what’s been going on with Jesse and Riley. It’s time to give Cameron something to do, perhaps some asses that she can kick. It’s time to go deeper into the John Henry/Ellison/Weaver story. As much as I love mopey Sarah, it’s time for something else.

Read the rest of this entry »

After Weaver went nuts, killing everyone in the warehouse/factory and then blowing it up for good measure, it’s only natural that there would be several funerals. I just wasn’t expecting to see any of these funerals.

Loss was a huge theme this week, being paralleled with the many services for all the murdered workers, along with the anniversary of Weaver’s husband’s death. Shirley Manson continues to do a pretty good job in her role as a Terminator. She’s got the creepy, emotionless robot thing down pat, as was evidenced when she was trying to comfort her grieving daughter. I think it can all be summed up when she asked her assistant to “find her daughter and her bring her” to her. It implied that she had no idea where her daughter even was. Creepy.

Read the rest of this entry »

It’s nice to have Terminator back, isn’t it? It’s been a while, and I certainly hope the long lay off and the switch to the time slot of doom won’t kill the show completely. In any case, I’m going to be enjoying this final batch of episodes of the season.

This week’s episode saw Sarah waking up in the hospital with a bullet buried in her leg from the cliffhanger back in December. The really interesting part of the situation, however, were the visions of Kyle Reese that Sarah had throughout the episode. We know Sarah’s not the most mentally stable individual in the world, but this whole thing seems like the writers were borrowing from Battlestar Galactica.

Read the rest of this entry »

Week of January 4 to January 11

Clever, insolent, creative, irreverent; even a little twisted. I speak of the writers here at CliqueClack, and the unique posts they churn out day after day. How could we let seven days go by without highlighting some of the week’s gems?

TV’s back, baby, and so are we! Sure, we had some great content during the winter hiatus, but with actual new programming on this week, we were utter clack-a-holics.

It was a week of firsts, which I suppose is fitting with the new year and all.

• We broke the news first on the Internet, folks … the successful The Librarian mini-series franchise is coming to the big screen, hopefully to be shot later this year.
  
• Jason reviewed the first two back-to-back episodes of Scrubs on ABC, and had some good things to say about the transition. What did you think?
• Scott debuted his BBC Babble column, about all things British and on TV, of course. US shows have been greatly inspired by their British counterparts, to say the least….
• Annie debuted her Gossip Girl Virgin diary — OMG!
  
• Kona debuted Diary of a Weeds Virgin, shedding a whole new light on suburbia for her.
  
• Damages season premiere was splendidly reviewed by Jane; so glad this show is back and still intriguing!
• My Name is Earl came back, and Bill not only reviewed it, he illustrated his post. You don’t want to miss his take on Jason Lee (or The Odd Couple, for that matter).
• Psych’s first episode of the new year debuted to Brett’s favorable review.

Read the rest of this entry »

(Season 2, Episode 11 – “Self Made Man”)

My first thought after watching this episode is that it is clearly far more useful to be a sexy female Terminator than a big male one. Think about it: all the strength of Arnie with the added bonus of being able to seduce night clerks at the local library to do late night research. I’m thinking it’s more than just the donuts that got Cameron in the door. Although, as we saw at the end of the episode, donuts can be a powerful tool. They got Cameron back into the library when her pal Eric was MIA. Who knows, maybe I’m over estimating her feminine wiles. Anyway, onto the more important things going on ….

Read the rest of this entry »

FOX

(Season 2, Episode 7)

Holy frak! Right from the opening scene this was a great episode. How freaky would it be to open your front door and see a terminator that looks just like you standing there? You had to know that the Ellison terminator was going to cause our favorite FBI agent more trouble than just an unannounced visit. Ellison ends up in jail for a murder that the machine committed. I hate when that happens.

The real interesting part here is that Cromartie saved Ellison from his doppelganger. Claiming that Skynet didn’t believe in Ellison like he does, Cromartie left the stunned agent to live another day. Why would Cromartie be so convinced that Ellison will lead him to the Connors? Does he have some knowledge from the future? I mean, he’s a machine, he must know something; it’s not like he’s forming independent ideas. Even though Catherine Weaver later tells Ellison that she has faith in him, these are still just machines. I mean, they’re not Cylons, right? They don’t have a god, do they? I hope not. That would be a pretty big leap in the Terminator mythology. Lucky for Ellison, judges don’t take so kindly to witnesses who see naked murders coming out of energy bubbles, and they let him go.

Read the rest of this entry »

costumzee.com

I guess it all depends on how you look at them. Our Halloween-themed posts, that is. Are they tricks, designed to possibly fool you, like Jane’s Halloween headlines I’d like to see, or Jackie’s When good characters go vampire. What do you think — did House finally really get murdered? Did the cast of The Big Bang Theory go vamp when we weren’t looking?

Maybe you just need a treat this Halloween, like many of the fictional characters in Bob’s post, Halloween treats for some deserving characters. I mean, don’t we all deserve a trip to Tahiti as much as Sarah Connor? You may or may not want to visit some of the houses that Jason did in his post, Trick-or-treating in TV town. Jack Bauer isn’t the most festive guy…

Read the rest of this entry »