Just remembered another obvious reference I can't believe no one's caught. Dead cows and UFOs. There's plenty of footage of this available on YouTube, but I know that there were plenty of cattle farmers around New Mexico (home of Roswell, the UFO capitol of the world), California, et al., who claimed that UFOs were abducting/mutilating their livestock. There's a humerous take on this in the first full length South Park episode ever, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", in which it turns out that the aliens actually consider cows to be the most intelligent beings on the planet, and that the alien who was responsible for the cows being mutilated was simply "new on the job" and didn't know what he was doing.

But I digest. I knew something was up when they panned in on the dead cows at the beginning. Now, we see there is a connection between the mysterious dying cows that only sit around for a short period of time, the drone (proto-HK?), and whatever this factory was hiding. As a conspiracy theory buff, I can't wait to see where this goes.

We also know for sure that these aren't military sattelites that fell (what the "Foo Fighters" of Roswell probably were), as "Abraham" told Sarah. It is interesting that Ed Winston gave up a career in the military for his job. Are they going to bring the military into this one? Or is this just a red herring?

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.

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.

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?

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?

I enjoy it for what it is.

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.

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.

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.

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.