Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, "To the Lighthouse"

Watched Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episode, "To the Lighthouse", tonight. Originally aired Friday, March 27th.

Due to a cable setting issue, my DVR recorded at the right time Friday night but the cable box didn't switch to the correct channel. (Long story short, I have Comcast digital cable and a separately bought Philips DVR/DVD recorder. To record something by the timer, I have to set both devices. The Comcast cable box sets up recording times by the onscreen programming guide. Works fine except for a couple of things. One being that if you try to change the channel prior to the cable boxes pre-set recording time is completed, it will ask if you wish to cancel your recording. Which would be fine except that, if you are recording something that you have set to record every week on the same day, it cancels the entire setting. Meaning, sometime prior to the following week you have to remember to go back in and re-set your cable box timer. This happened to me last week when Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was running right up the start of the series finale of Battlestar Galactica. I had to cut away at the end of Sarah Connor to change the channel to Battlestar. I then forgot about it. Flash forward to last night and, sigh, no Sarah Connor episode recorded. Instead, ESPN.

So, I had to watch this episode on my computer screen via Zulu. Not the best way but sufficient so as not to fall behind. (This is the second episode of Sarah Connor this season that I've somehow failed to record. So I'll most likely be buying the official season two DVD set at some point unless I can manage to get these two episodes via reruns.)

This episode had some interesting moments. It was nice to see Charley again. The stuff with Derek and Cameron wasn't quite as interesting as the previews made it seem it would be. (Typical of such previews, emphasizing seemingly dramatic moments which when you actually watch the episode turn out not to be quite as significant.) And the scenes with "John Henry", Ellison, and "Catherine Weaver" provided some interesting steps forward in that particular sub-plot.

I really liked the first season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and also the first half or so of the current, second, season. The show really bogged down for the episodes which focused on Sarah's searching for the source of the three dots, the mystery of what was going on at that warehouse out in the middle of nowhere, and her later kidnapping by the man from the warehouse. It's taken several episodes to get the show moving back in the right direction. Hopefully, we'll get an exciting season finale in a few weeks (and also that the ratings will be high enough for Fox to renew it for a third season).