Terminator 1x01 and 1x02

Okay, so no one's going to be calling it "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," are they? Because they make it sound like it's one of those Animorphs-wannabe young teen novels.

So, this is taking place in T3 continuity, but after history has been changed so that Judgment Day is still up in the air. Of course, in T3 Judgment Day happened in 2004 and in SCC it hasn't/won't happen until 2007/2008. To-may-to, to-mah-to... And the Christian Bale/John Connor movie is supposed to take place after Judgment Day, so I'm guessing SCC is an alternate timeline to the movies post-T2 but taking into account events in T3... kinda like when you're reading a Choose Your Own Adventure Novel and you turn to page 13 and you cut the blue wire and the bomb blows up, but if you go through a completely different narrative branch and cut the blue wire you'll go to page 45 and save the day?

Okay, probably nothing at all like that.

Personally, I see a lot of potential, but also a lot of "this could go downhill, fast." ( Spoiler for week-old series. )

And I know I shouldn't ship, but Tin Man? Sarah already has a pet name for her girl. After the Sam&Dean focus of Supernatural and the McKay&Shepherd focus of SGA, it's kinda refreshing to have a dual-female (well, female and female-shaped robot) series. Oh, and there needs to be fic about Cameron meeting a Cylon. Any of them, really.

Prison Break 3x09 - Boxed In

Pretty boring. Yeah, like anyone's gonna get a comeuppance because an authority figure got some news. At its best, the show walks the line of making you wonder whether the plan is going to come off... but come on, Scofield Luck outweights even Parker Luck. So even Buddhist monks that had never watched a TV show before could've told you that Michael's plan, such as it was, wouldn't work. The scheming from the regulars was a little fun, but without the central thrill of "how is Mikey gonna get out of this one," everything else just kinda fell flat.

Although in terms of getting Susan B. and InAVendettaKindOfMood!Michael some facetime together, success. Still, those cards could've been laid on the table better by having Michael confront them while Whistler and Susan were confabbing. And that could've tied into a more interesting episode plotline. That way, everyone's a winner, just like in special ed.

Oh, and a prison warden uncovering a conspiracy that has resulted in multiple dead guards and almost broke out a prisoner... then tells no one and takes off with the one guard who ALSO knows about the conspiracy, so they get killed and the entire confession gets a reset button hit about it? Another one of those fabulous PB contrivances. Oh, how I've missed you, PB contrivances, and what fun we shall have?