* OK, I think it was a good ep, but a couple things I don't understand. The Connors are assaulted (one possibly more than the other), they fall out the 2nd floor window of a house, get into a car accident w/o seatbelts in which their arm/leg is hurt and then into another accident without seatbelts where the car flips over with them in it. They SURVIVE and are still able to run?!
* Also, why is it that Summer's Terminator is blown up then placed on fire, yet somehow neither her clothes, face or hair are damaged - Other terminators went through slightly less before returning to skeletal form.
* I like Lena H. as an actress and although her Sarah Connor wasn't as strong as Linda Hamilton's SC, just to give JC space to grow, I was fine. But this ep she seemed even weaker. Considering Hamilton's SC manages to take down facility guards while tranquilized, why wasn't Headey's SC headbutting her attacker or something? It just seemed out of character. If not for the truck comeback, I would've given up this character -

haha, guess I should have read the comments.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that John actually killed Sarkissian and not Sarah. The way he was acting was like he just killed someone for the first time though they pass it off like he just saw his mom kill someone for the first time....

It's a great metaphysical question why the teminators from the future need the Turk.

To me it is quite clear. The terminators are sent by (and are part of) a SELF-aware machine intelligence from the future. Almost instantly after sending the original terminator back it would have been obivious that it failed. And now arises the possibility that not only did it fail, but it alerted Sarah and John to the coming of Judgement Day. Now it not only has to worry about John Connor in the here-and-now of the future, but also the past. And the machine intelligence is either the Turk itself or its progeny. Remember because it is self-aware, not just any old Skynet cooked up by one of the terminators that it sent back will do. In fact, precisely one will do, and so far it looks like it's the Turk, though we haven't seen any connection to the chip and other pieces recovered from the original terminator that Sarah crushed and showed up in T2. Of course with alternate timelines allowed there are infinite possibilities.

Think of the T-1000 as a Skynet midwife. They are fighting for their existence, not machine existence in general - its personal now.

i also though that was actually jhon who kill the guy, i'm glad that others though that too. Love the season opener, and the fact that the garbage lady was a robot (nothing better to explain her robo stiff performance before... :)

LOVE the show, hope that fox love it too.

I think the reveal on the T1000 was too early. They could have laid clues to her being a T1000 all season and maybe in the season 2 finale made the final reveal. Or mid season leading to a final confrontation between Cameron and the T1000.

Manson as the cold hearted corporate exec, secretly building Skynet would have been more than enough of a focal point for that story arc.

Now that they have revealed her origin is from the future, they have introduced all the debates about a time paradox.

I personally feel Lena Headey is the strongest link in the show. Summer Glau dropped a few notches for me. Why would a Terminator limp? A limp favors one leg over the other due to pain. Not the inability to function. gah!

Now how do they plan to reconstruct her face? Repair her injured leg?

Before John placed the chip back into Pinocchio's head, I kept thinking that the reason Cameron was hording all of Terminator metal (I forget its name) was so John could build another one of her. He saved her chip. Which is in essence her soul. I assumed he would integrate it into a laptop and have some virtual liaison with Cameron's chip.

After the whole Barney sing-a-long "I love you. You love me." It revealed something from the future.

Derek had said nobody knew where Cameron came from. Maybe John built her and kept her secret until he had to send her back.

Maybe in John's quest to build his only love, he inadvertently left clues behind for Manson's character to build Skynet. I mean if she hadn't turned out to be from the future. And a Terminator.

Gah!

I guess T-1000's don't mind getting pissed on.

Anyway, I had a thought. What if we meet a human character named "Cameron" played by Summer Glau at some point in the series, who becomes John Connor's friend and lover (there is no Kate Brewster in this universe). Maybe she dies, and John has a terminator built/configured to look like her. Sort of the ultimate sex toy (and pretty creepy). But think how cool it would be if sometime later on in the season we meet a human girl named Cameron played by Summer Glau.

That would explain a lot, though in a really screwy, creepy, kinky way.

Am I the only one disappointed by the T-1000 reveal? I felt it was a bit too deus ex machina. How many time machines and terminators are the writers willing to allow themselves? A real terminator wouldn't have bothered monologging to the Turk delivery boy. And why would she bother revealing herself to the A.I. guy and then kill him and then offer a retort after he died? Terminators with their inhumanity are already bad ass; they don't need to say stuff like "Hasta la vista. I'm awesome because I just punked you with my needle finger." (along with Cromartie's "We'll see.") Argh. Writers, we're not stupid.

The end was redeeming? Seriously? A T-1000 hiding as a urinal? I couldn't help but to laugh. Why not morph from a turd in the toilet stall.

I really liked last season and this first episode. Really hope the show sticks around.

There were a few inconsistencies etc. but nothing I need to write home about! I just hope Fox let it run for awhile. It's a worthy addition to the Terminator franchise.