am I the only one who has found this season incredibly boring? I don't watch terminator for character development or dialogue, that's what I watch shows like one tree hill and the oc for. I watch these shows for action, and I realize there's a limit because it's tv and there's a budget and everything, but this is ridicilous. Way too slow moving, there's only been like 3 or 4 episodes that I enjoyed (the season premiere was awesome) because those had action in it! I like season one 10x more because there was more action and less talk, and this season is the complete opposite. It isn't a coincendice either that the ratings have plummeted this year either, because I don't blame the casual viewer. It takes a lot for me to stop watching a show, as I watch things to the end (only cases I haven't were Seventh Heaven and The O.C. because they got so bad, although I watched the reruns of The O.C. on soapnet), but I wont miss this nearly as much as Prison Break. Prison Break knows how to do dialogue will still have plenty of action, and that's why it is the superior show

Pretty bad episode in my opinion. It felt very forced in an attempt to explain Jesse's runin with Derek. Killing a terminator should be child's play after how easily they killed the last few so why didn't they bring some heavy weapons and kill the terminator when it attacked the family instead of trying to hide them? It worked for the kid in the military camp. A .50 cal sniper rifle or a super duper shotgun would have easily killed this terminator as it did previous ones.

I agree with previous comments from previous episodes about how the entire aura of the terminator has been destroyed ever since they became so easy to kill. Cromartie's destruction was pitiful.

We've seen "Alpine Fields" on the blood wall in previous episodes and flashbacks. In this episode, Sarah talks to John on her cell phone and says "We had a hit of a name on the list -- Alpine Fields, it's a family." I assumed Alpine referred to the name of the forest, the road, or the cabin itself.

Thought this was a really weak episode compared with the last few. Some really terrible dialogue, like "a mother knows" (when she's about to die, apparently). Actually, the whole Fields family was completely unbelievable. Bad writing and bad directing, IMHO.

I'm curious as to why the move to Friday is seen as the death of the show, I mean aren't we in a DVR era now? I would think that shows, especially sci-fi like this attract a heavy percentage of their views from DVR users.

The only shows that I watch live are sporting events and whatever my daughter is watching on Noggin.

I could be completely off on this but would like to hear other opinions.

It wasn't an unusual way of telliing the story, it was the only way. Remember Derek believes there are alternate futures out there because of what they are doing in the past. The future storyline's Derek's past is different from the present story line's. The Derek of the future didn't deliver the baby Sydney, afterall he would have remembered it, so there was no cause and effect, it was more of parallel story telling. Present Derek was re-living a past future memory and future Derek was meeting them for the first time.

Wow...what a great episode.

Another great episode officially making T:TSCC one of the best shows on television this season. I love how this show has evolved from the vague story high action episodes to become an all around intriguing a suspenseful thriller. The writers are allowing the characters to grow at a steady pace and they are introducing very interesting ways to get their plot across.

I really liked how they didn't give away what family member the Triple 8 was after. It made for a very suspenseful episode. I loved the flashbacks and past flashback with Derek. This was just another genius episode! So far two of my favorite episodes back to back.

I can't wait for the DVD's this summer so I can see them all over again. Plus I can skip the parts with Riley in them. Hopefully she is gone after next weeks mid-season finally.

I don't think Cameron killed Roger at that point. I think she just knocked him out. I say that because in the "present", the girl talked about calling Roger which is what got the terminator on them again (and we later find out it was the mother that called him, not the daughter).

Best one liner this week.

"My mistake!"

After Cameron kills Rogger and then finds out he was human and not a humaniod killer sent from the future!

I don't get why the family believed Sarah so easily - all the Terminator did was get out of his car? He didn't do anything to make them believe he was a robot, or even out to get them, actually: Sarah was the one who ran into HIM, wasn't she? I think I must have missed something. And the family just bought the whole thing so fast, and settled right back into their familial squabbling without missing much of a beat - didn't ring true to me. Did that bother you guys, too?