The swimming pool shot w/Johnny Cash was awsome. Horrific and awsome.

I think the only cliffhanger is if Cameron will be original recipie or extra crispy. Though Derek's absence at the end makes me wonder. He can't be a terminator what with the almost dying from being shot, but he might still be programmed. And I'm very glad Dean Winters and Richard T. Jones made it through the "season".

The preview for Juliana Marguiles show made it look possibly worth a look. Bonus points for prominent use of one of my favorite Garbage songs during one of the previews.

Bwah!

The preview for Juliana Marguiles show made it look possibly worth a look.

I saw the pilot last summer, and while I don't remember any details, I remember finding her character interesting and the show worth another look.

Found over at TWOP:

UPDATE: Our sources within "Smallville" tell us that Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang) will be back for at least a portion of the season. Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) and Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan) are still up in the air, although renegotiations are imminent now that there has been a pick up.

(They were quoting from this site - which I haven't visited.)

consider this my weekly bitch about the writers changing dates.

I did love Derek taking John to the park to see his father. totally made me tear up. i really hope they don't make him "bad".

The futon critic says that they ordered 13 episodes but only shot 9:

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
due to the strike, only nine of the 13 episodes ordered this season have been completed.

(Read about it here.)

Yeah, as much as I loved the b-day present, that was a simple timeline to keep intact, unless with the current timeline pushing the future Judgement Day further and further back, the future history keeps getting rewritten and pushed back as well, so perhaps with all the timey wimey stuff, with a dash of Frequency consequences, this new future has Kyle being born *before* JD. Not that I'm keeping track of when the new JD actually is, if it's not in '97 anymore, or any of the timeline stuff, in fact. My head blew up when I read that Sarah and Kyle were supposed to be 19 in the first movie, so all bets are off on my planet.

Seems that my cursing furiously at the tv saved Agent Ellison from sharing the same fate as other beloved and recently converted black FBI agents...

I find it unlikely that he wouldn't shoot Ellison. Yes, Ellison can't do anything to stop him, but the guy that would just randomly kill the guy from a school wouldn't leave a threat alive. OTOH, maybe Ellison has something to do with Judgment Day and that's why Cromartie left him alive. But, seeing as how the future has changed with Ellison believing in Judgment Day and now being pissed his friend was killed, that was perhaps the wrong move.

Yeah, in my relief I overlooked the implausibility of it. I did have a brief inkling that perhaps Ellison does indeed play some role in the coming apocalypse, because otherwise, yeah, why leave him alive when the gym teacher gets a possibly fatal shove to the wall.

Unless they are going the truly bizzare direction of the new and improved Cromartie learning to be more human. Which, based on his model, as much I as I understand it, wouldn't do that, or maybe not. It certainly would make things more interesting. Potential allies having the capability or persuasion to be bad, and bad guys having the potential to show "humanity". Definitely interesting tv viewing possibilities, as opposed to straigth-up "bad to the bone" villains, and with Garret Dillahunt in the role, that would give him some more room to play. But I could just be overly optimistic here.

The Ten Doctors: A fan comic. [link]

But what happens? It just ends!