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Well you couldn't have been more harsh on that episode. I thought it was good. It was a little slow paced but it is good to have things change up a bit. I liked the funeral concept too. I would much rather watch this episode of TSCC over and over again than watch one of Heroes' latest "good" episodes. At least this show is clearly going somewhere and I like the conspiracy feel of it. It draws you into what is going on. Even if a little slow this ep provided plenty of insight into the conspiracy. I liked it and can't wait for next.

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As has been the case with most of the series this episode is full of ridiculous plot points only there to move the story forward.

Why did the "grieving widow" turn over the keys to the storage box? She didn't know Sarah and had no reason to do so.

Why did that girl give up all of that information to John? Right, we needed to find out the girls father wasn't dead rather than doing some actual detective work.

Rather convenient that there were blood soaked rags all over the storage box. The only purpose that served was to make Sarah more suspicious. Wait, no, this is Sarah Connor, she sees conspiracy everywhere!

TSCC is a crazy and insane show but I keep watching. You know the showdown between the Connor's and Weaverbot is coming. That's the payoff I'm waiting for.

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I liked this one too. The weirdness of the Conner clan "casing" this funeral (and not being sure if there was anything there or whether Sarah had was just having a paranoid fantasy) slowly being eaten away by the realization that there -was- something profoundly weird going on in this town.

You've also got Weaver's ever-creepier attempts to appear human, and the entire mystery of who's operation "Desert Air & Heat" was, if it wasn't Weaver's...

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WOW. You really didn't like this episode. The mysterious pool with dead cows? A town scared to death of... something? Evidence that Skynet has far greater operations than any of the SCC crew imagined? Some dude Sarah shot driving off with... holy crap what kind of firepower does that thing have? I thought the eventual reveal of what was going on in that big red barn would be something simple like the refining of fancy metal, but a robot army? HOLY CRAP!

And mpc72, I agree this episode was a little sloppy with some of the dialog, but what do you expect from a bunch of emotionally scarred "terrorists" and a bunch of emotionally wrecked towns folk. Honestly, I think it makes the characters more real.

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Oh, and my favorite part. CREEPY Catherine Weever.

Catherine: Come, sit on my lap.
Savannah: Your lap is cold.
Catherine: I know.

Oh man!

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I'm not sure that it's safe to group Catherine Weaver with Skynet - there is something more going on there.

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This episode felt a lil dull indeed for about 40 minutes, they gave all the one episode characters too much background information, we could've gotten the big reveal halfway through the episode and still set up some kick ass detective plot for the next half.

however, i didnot see that coming, i thoght maybe traces of coltan would be on the water and kill the cows but that drone was contaminating it. so you got a waterproof human hunting machine... that's cool.

i think they'll crank it up over the next few episodes, looking at the bright side NO RILEY!!!

So the girls dad has the robot and weaver is looking for it. he is stealing it and will sell it to the military or something make a ton of money and hurt skynet's "birth" is that the problem, i like that there are many options for this. just the episode was painfully slow

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I tend to agree with your comments, but this is still one of the best shows on television. I didn't agree with the decision to have an entire episode about a funeral. Bad decision because it slows down the pace of the story.

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Given today's automotive climate, I find it highly amusing that the ENTIRE funeral procession were GM cars and SUVs. (I guess Chrysler can only afford to give them a single truck now.)

As for the episode, it was a little blah. I think "net result" of the episode could have been achieved much differently instead of dragging it out like they did.

It's too bad the show was called the "Sarah Conner Chronicles" cause honestly, the less I see of her the better the show is.

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While not as boring as last week's episode, this show is still a snorefest at best. Could they drag the lame storyline out longer?

I'd be very nervous if I were these actors. For such a overpriced yet underwhelming show, I'm still amazed that Fox keeps it going... for now. The writing on other shows is so much better that TSCC offers, these writers better get something together quick.

For the record, I certainly hope that Dollhouse doesn't get cancelled just because it's lumped together with this wart on Friday nights.

And before any of you lame @sses say the usual "Well, don't watch it" crap, forget it. If the writers continue to put out crap episodes, then you'll get the same crap reviews. Freedom of expression, right?

And besides, Summer Glau needs to be on tv. Put her on Dollhouse and make us all happy.

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I agree that these first two shows back have been underwhelming, but I did thnk that in the past this was one of the best written shows. Some episodes have blown me away (Alison from Palmdale). But I'm wary of the direction this one is headed too, and for the same reasons: its a great show (with potential to be more than what it is now) with great acting, characters, and story potential, but it cost a hell of a lot and its really not doing great in the ratings. So we could lose this one. I wonder if Fox is trying to get to summer to see if they can get a boost out of the new Terminator movie. Otherwise, the entire cast needs to go on Colbert to get a little of that Colbert bump.

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I enjoy it for what it is.

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I enjoyed the episode. Every episode doesn't have to be fast paste to keep my interest and keep the story moving forward.

I do have a question regarding Weaver as well as the T-1000 in T2. I thought that only organic material could go back through time. That is why anyone coming back was naked when they arrived in the past. So when Weaver and the T-1000 morph into a human form are the skin, hair, clothing, watches, and jewelery still metal or is that stuff somehow converted?

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Tedious all throughout -- worse than last week's.

This episode made me finally notice that the producers of this series have been excessively fixating and dwelling on death throughout this season. Seriously, what's up with that? Did everybody in the writer's room suffer the loss of someone close to them during the writer's strike?

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I can't say I hated this episode; I can't say I loved it either.

The dialogue seemed a bit artificial at times. Nonetheless, it had its moments, like when John threw Henry out of the driver's seat. Then there was the short convo between Walsh and Derek. But for the most part of it, I found myself rolling my eyes for those parts where Sarah was talking with Mrs. Winston (she is trusting a total stranger with the keys that she found, and Sarah is reporting that she found nothing...what's going on here?)

Am I crazy, or is there a romance between Ellison and Weaver in the works? I don't know about y'all, but I half expected them to start kissing.

The drone...smaller than I thought! Small enough to fit in the back of an 18-wheeler rig. I was half expecting it to be much more imposing.

And oh yeah, Mrs. Winston's insistence that Ed was a good man. So much more could have been fleshed out with her. On one hand, she's strong enough to stand up to an entire funeral and bitch about this impersonal parent company donating flowers and buying off the town with insurance money; yet she still is too naive to see that her late husband was a murderer. I am slightly reminded of Mrs. Kurtz from "Heart of Darkness". Props to Sarah for keeping to herself that she's the one who murdered him.

And oh, most priceless moment in the episode...hands down...Derek being lectured on human nature by Cameron. "If you had a picture of Kyle Reese, wouldn't you be looking at it?" After he offhandedly commented on her lacking a soul in the beginning of the episode, she (in her robotic manner) schooled him on how humans behave at funerals.

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Two points:

1. For all the carping about the product placement in 30 Rock, I'm surprised nobody's more upset about it here. There are more "hero shots" of those trucks than the actual characters.

2. The best part of this episode was the Catherine Weaver bit with the kid. I swear, if you made this show all about cyborg learning to live among humans, it'd be a far more interesting. I say lose the family drama, and get back to the cyborg drama with Cameron and Weaver.

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