Summer Glau kicking butt...do you need any more incentive to watch? Glau plays yet another socially-awkward teen who happens to have super powers (cp. River Tam and Cameron Phillips).

Terminator: The Series sounds like a joke, but it's not (Star Wars: The Series sounds like a joke too, and supposedly it is happening as well). The biggest surprise...it was actually good. Fox premiered the pilot to record numbers--drawing in more viewers than any pilot in the last three years! Fox seems to have succeeded in resurrecting a classic where NBC failed with Bionic Woman.

I rewatched Terminator and Terminator 2 to brush up on my Terminator mythology. Sarah Connor Chronicles is set after Terminator 2, so there is no need to watch the third movie installment to be ready for the series (actually pretending that it never existed may enhance your enjoyment of the franchise).

I was a little iffy about the first two episodes, but the third one was pretty good.  The acting was better, the dialogue was funnier, and the bad guy was scarier.

The only problem is the crazy time travel plot holes that were set up in the movies.  They didn't seem to be trying to avoid the circular cause and effect thing that time travel stories tend to fall into.  The effect can't cause the cause.  Kyle Reese can't be the father of John Connor, because if Kyle hadn't gone back in time, there would be no John Connor, and therefore no human resistance, and therefore no Kyle Reese going back in time, and therefore no John Connor, and...and...it just doesn't work.

I do like the attention to detail as far as the 8 year time jump thing goes.  Sarah didn't know what "9-11" meant, she didn't know how to use the newer cell phones, and it took John a few seconds to figure out Windows Vista.

I hope that this show realizes it's full potential.

Was it just me or did the third episode leave some many questions?  

What did the machine mean when she said that she didn't have to take orders from John?...yet.  
Why did that girl kill herself?
Is the machine modeled after someone of importance in the future?  

Is this all some trick to get me to keep watching the series?

Well, I guess it's going to work.

I can't help but think of Jesus every time I see the new evil Terminator. It's making it really hard to take him seriously as an evil Terminator.

I hope Suicide Girl wasn't just some random drama thrown in to make John more emo.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!