Terminator: Automatic for the People
This is not all that spoiler-y for tonight's episode, but I'm sticking it behind a cut anyway.
You can add Busy Philipps to the list of people that I adore for actually looking pregnant while they are pregnant.
She's in good company, along with Catherine Zeta-Jones, showing that you can still look good and yet also not look like a skeleton carrying a beach ball.
Also, I'm impressed that she did her cameo, apparently, days before she actually gave birth. Seriously hardcore.
I liked this episode, in that it actually did more setting up than cleaning up, which I felt the last one did a lot of, but I'm not sure how I feel about new gf Riley and her stoner words of wisdom. I do like that they're trying to show a bit more of John's struggles with his life vs. his mission, and I also liked that they showed him not really dealing with last week's events very well, so I'm reserving judgment for now and giving her a cautious thumbs up.
And the weird phone-call thing? I can see how John was not exactly a ladies' man before Skynet.
In other news, John's new room cracked me up, but what was up with those stars?
Charlie's Wife! She exists, and she's pissed. She's also Penny from Lost. I hope this doesn't mean that she and Charlie will be gone from the show for long, though. ETA: Now that I've seen the previews, I guess I can definitively say that's not going to happen.
And Resistance Fighter from the Future was totally Scut Farkus from A Christmas Story. For some reason, I always, always recognize his face. In anything.
It's the Night of a Thousand Cameos!
Also, did anyone else but me think that Sarah and Cameron had somehow wandered into a bad '70's prison movie rather than a nuclear-power plant? I think it was the blue shirts. Also, the gratuitous Silkwood shower may have had something to do with it.
Aw, Greenway! That made me really sad. I was hoping he wasn't going to be evil, and he wasn't. But I was also hoping that he wouldn't die. Sad. I did like how they tied his story in with Sarah's, and how she knew that she "died" of cancer, and how afraid she was of the radiation, and everything surrounding the power plant. I thought it was pretty well done.
As was the stuff with Cameron, and how no one really trusts her, still. Not even Cameron. I liked how she calmly told John he "couldn't be trusted" any more, since he fixed her. And I liked the conversation between Sarah and Cameron, where they came to an uneasy truce.
Okay, the names Farkus wrote on the wall IN HIS OWN BLOOD? Where they all potential Terminators like Greenway, too?
And finally, shallowly, I do like John's new non-floppy pseudo-warrior haircut. It goes with his emo badassery. Also, I dig the new Craftsman digs, as well.
Ack! And it was all for naught, in the end. Shirley Manson got her claws into Serrano Point.
Seriously, though, more Derek, please, next ep.
And in non-fannish news, I totally snagged one of miss_begonia's vanilla-y herbal teas tonight, and it was exactly what I was craving without even knowing it -- a little sweet, totally yummy, and soothing. I love when that happens.
And in conclusion, make sure you ask cianconnell about the wonders of GPS next time you talk to her. I'm just sayin'. :)
You can add Busy Philipps to the list of people that I adore for actually looking pregnant while they are pregnant.
She's in good company, along with Catherine Zeta-Jones, showing that you can still look good and yet also not look like a skeleton carrying a beach ball.
Also, I'm impressed that she did her cameo, apparently, days before she actually gave birth. Seriously hardcore.
I liked this episode, in that it actually did more setting up than cleaning up, which I felt the last one did a lot of, but I'm not sure how I feel about new gf Riley and her stoner words of wisdom. I do like that they're trying to show a bit more of John's struggles with his life vs. his mission, and I also liked that they showed him not really dealing with last week's events very well, so I'm reserving judgment for now and giving her a cautious thumbs up.
And the weird phone-call thing? I can see how John was not exactly a ladies' man before Skynet.
In other news, John's new room cracked me up, but what was up with those stars?
Charlie's Wife! She exists, and she's pissed. She's also Penny from Lost. I hope this doesn't mean that she and Charlie will be gone from the show for long, though. ETA: Now that I've seen the previews, I guess I can definitively say that's not going to happen.
And Resistance Fighter from the Future was totally Scut Farkus from A Christmas Story. For some reason, I always, always recognize his face. In anything.
It's the Night of a Thousand Cameos!
Also, did anyone else but me think that Sarah and Cameron had somehow wandered into a bad '70's prison movie rather than a nuclear-power plant? I think it was the blue shirts. Also, the gratuitous Silkwood shower may have had something to do with it.
Aw, Greenway! That made me really sad. I was hoping he wasn't going to be evil, and he wasn't. But I was also hoping that he wouldn't die. Sad. I did like how they tied his story in with Sarah's, and how she knew that she "died" of cancer, and how afraid she was of the radiation, and everything surrounding the power plant. I thought it was pretty well done.
As was the stuff with Cameron, and how no one really trusts her, still. Not even Cameron. I liked how she calmly told John he "couldn't be trusted" any more, since he fixed her. And I liked the conversation between Sarah and Cameron, where they came to an uneasy truce.
Okay, the names Farkus wrote on the wall IN HIS OWN BLOOD? Where they all potential Terminators like Greenway, too?
And finally, shallowly, I do like John's new non-floppy pseudo-warrior haircut. It goes with his emo badassery. Also, I dig the new Craftsman digs, as well.
Ack! And it was all for naught, in the end. Shirley Manson got her claws into Serrano Point.
Seriously, though, more Derek, please, next ep.
And in non-fannish news, I totally snagged one of miss_begonia's vanilla-y herbal teas tonight, and it was exactly what I was craving without even knowing it -- a little sweet, totally yummy, and soothing. I love when that happens.
And in conclusion, make sure you ask cianconnell about the wonders of GPS next time you talk to her. I'm just sayin'. :)