(1.5) - Feb. 11, 2008

Man, freedom fighters! Is it just me, or did tonight's ep of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles absolutely fly by? Let's keep with that theme and make this short and sweet, because I'm still wiped from Grammy fever and wanna go to bed. Onward! Here's a way we could save time: Kill that dumb show intro. If you don't understand the basic principle behind the Terminator franchise, why are you watching this? American Idol is on tomorrow, come back then; we've got plot holes to fill, dammit. Like, for example, ''Where were Sarah and John hangin' out before she was committed to that one mental institution?'' Why, Central America, it seems, where Mom spent a lot of time wandering around looking for the Predator, and John played patient, bold chess. This skill turns out to be handy, because back in the present day, darling young Andy Goode has rebuilt his possibly world-ending computer, the Turk (Terk?), after the house fire, and has entered it into a chess tourney. How did he do this so fast? Seems he rewrote the code from memory at a coffee shop in Van Nuys. (Get excited, Van Nuys! You end the world!) Also, for the record ??? tossing back to one of the questions I asked you guys on a previous TV Watch ??? it appears that Andy would totally sleep with a robot if given the chance. I say good for him. He has somehow managed to make what used to be a closet-size semi-sentient being into a toaster-size very sentient being with a slightly Peyton Manning-esque temperament in under a week. If I were a robot, I'd do him.