Terminator: Catchin up, part II

Queen's Gambit - Feb 4

Just. Loving. This. Show.

They're starting to pick up on some of the threads they've left dangling. Sarah's ex is a good example. (Good grief, how many father-figures is John going to have? Kyle. Arnold. The Ex. The new Reese.) And the FBI story keeps building and building. More Terminator parts lying around. Isn't that how this whole thing started?

I'm curious who and for what the South Americans that Sarah ran with were fighting. But it's good backstory for John. John gets a little more interesting every week. That's how it ought to be.

Kyle's brother showing up rocked my world. (I'm a geek. I'm not ashamed of that.) Does he not know what happened to his brother? Was the brother sent back first? Arnold was a T-800. But he's been chased by a T-888. Was Kyle completely lied to? Was Skynet (and Connor) sending people back in time before the end of the war and then an old T-800 was all it had left? I love the story, but it does seem to be taking a little bit away from the "final battle" of The Terminator. Maybe we'll learn more.

My only gripe is that the Terminators seem a little too easy to dismember. Arnold held together through some pretty severe stuff. But then, he also broke a little easier (he had to rip open his arm for a fix-up and lost his eye after one little tussle with Kyle). Oh, the "org" part of "cyborg" also died after a car crash and was a rotting corpse hung over his endo-skeleton. That was neat. And I've always thought that they were too hard to get away from. You never see them have to "track" anybody. Although it's very apparent that somebody forgot to set Arnold's sneaky bit to 1. These T's don't have that problem. Also, Cameron was really good at being a teenager when she met John.

Next week: THE FUTURE.