I’m not feeling quite as enthusiastic toward this show as I was last week…as the longer you watch, the more it seems they have dumbed down the terminators. As my dad points out, clearly they don’t program them to “look both ways before crossing the street” as both Eps 1 and 2 featured a terminator/car collision, virtually identical shots. And as each episode has progressed, all the way through 3, Summer Glau’s character becomes more and more mechanical, actually the opposite direction you would expect her to be going given how much time she’s spending with the humans.
In the first episode, she / her character was credibly passing as a fellow student (as well as the bad dude terminator who appeared credibly human while taking attendance up until calling on John…but since then is complete machine). In Ep 3, every (somehwat bizarre or “non human”) thing she does is followed by her staring blankly at the humans around her. Way to blend in, not. Why is her ability to modify her terminatorish behavior to appear more human actually decreasing?
Liked seeing the soft side of Sarah / just burns down Andy’s dreams and all the work of his past three (or was it five? can’t remember) years instead of killing him. Of course, he has no idea he’s getting off easy. But didn’t really like the subplot at the school / with the mysterious painting slowly revealing the suicide girl’s presumed indiscretions. Also note the new cute girl John keeps bumping into. Should we assume she’s actually human? 🙂 Like the leads, like the acting, but it’s not really that good. Still…better than Bionic Woman was and that’s really the “compare” I’ve been using in my head for this show.