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This season finale is largely good because of Cameron, an excellent role by Summer Glau. She has that robot thing down to a tee, overfaking the human emotions exactly too much. I really dig that robotgirl vs. high school nerd thing.

I really like these understated shows, with now and then an outburst of violence. The poolscene was very inventive.

Some glitches: It wasn't made clear why Ellison is left alive, Sarah was genuinely glad that John was alive, not just looking for bullet holes.

I'm gonna go and be depressed now, hoping that this show comes back real soon.

As season one comes to a close Sarah and the others start to close in on the man who bought The Turk; there are problems though… he wants half a million dollars for it and far more worryingly he is also looking for them! After the original meet doesn't go ahead the man approaches Sarah and Reese at their home; Reese is all for shooting him till he says that he has people watching John. Meanwhile Agent Ellison is still on their trail; he goes to see Charley Dixon and learns that he isn't the first FBI agent to talk to him; a man claiming to be Agent Kester had already been there. After a bit of checking he learns that the other agent looks just like George Laszlo; a man killed in an earlier episode! He knows that the man is dangerous so when going to his apartment he takes a squad of heavily armed FBI agents… they won't be enough though?

This was a great conclusion to the first season containing some of the best action yet, some good laughs and an impressive cliff hanger ending. The scene where Ellison and the FBI agents go to arrest the impostor, who is of course a terminator, is one of the most memorable action scenes I've seen. Instead of showing the terminator massacring the agents we just see then enter his room then follow one as he is thrown out and lands in the pool, the camera then stays at the bottom of the pool looking up as he is joined by the rest of the team… I don't know if it was done this way to save money, to avoid showing the bloodshed or it was always planned that way; any way it was inspired. The use of Johnny Cash's 'The Man Comes Around' during that scene just served to make it even better. While this series isn't renowned for its laughs I had to chuckle when Cameron explained to a classmate that she is by a car because she had killed the owner and put his body in the boot; Summer Glau's deadpan delivery made the scene priceless. Without giving too much away the ending was explosive and left me looking forward to the start of season two.

I can't speak for others, but I thought it was a very good finale (season or series). I'm not a special effects freak, but there was certainly a lot of drama and a little bit of humor. I could have done without the explosion in the end, since it adds nothing to the story. Cameron IS indestructible, so why bother blowing her up except for flash? Even though I knew that Derek was going to show John is father, I actually got chills and a little bit teary (which rarely happens to me) as Derek gave John his birthday gift and confessed that he saw his little brother in him and that Sarah was Kyle's "type." I honestly think they should have put the Sarkassian reveal and FBI raid before that scene and ended the episode there. But people like flash over drama, so what can you do...

This episode begins sometime in April of 2011, Judgement Day. We see a teen boy throw a ball for his younger pre-teen brother to hit. They're Derek and Kyle Reese as kids. Then we see nuclear planes fly above. Their world is about to end. Flash to present day as Sarah plans to find Sarkissian, the one who was sold the Turk by Dimitri. We see this guy, Sarkissian, going to the boy who sold Sarah the fake IDs trying to find her whereabouts. He manages to wipe out his gang after initially denying knowing her. During a field trip to a museum, John reveals to Cameron that it's his birthday and his mother has forgotten. Cameron then finds a person she recognizes as one looking for John and tries to get to him only to be told to stay in her group. We find out later she eventually killed him and put him in a random car trunk. When John's friend hears this from her, he laughs thinking she's joking and then asks her to go to prom with him. She hesitates before John, in a hurry, tells her to say, "Yes." She does with an attitude. John's friend is over the moon! Agent Ellison meets with Charley Dixon and asks about Sarah Connor. Dixon denies knowing then goes to Sarah's to tell her Ellison might believe her about the machines mission. She doesn't care and tells Charley to forget about her and John. The woman who had guarded Carlos, the one who dealt in fake ID's, goes to the Connors' house and leads them to Sarkissian's whereabouts. He had earlier met Sarah and blackmailed her into giving more money so he would keep shut about her fugitive status in exchange for the Turk, which we later find out he sold. Now knowing she was double-crossed, the Connors, Reese, and Cameron go to his office and Derek, despite Sarkissian holding John and Derek holding a girl not his daughter, shoots him with no mercy though he does cover the girl's eyes before doing so. A little before that, Derek wishes John a happy birthday and gives him a nice surprise: A glimpse of him and Kyle as kids younger than the ones at the beginning playing ball with Kyle, John's father, briefly looking at him. It's at this point that Derek reveals he knows of the relation between Kyle and Sarah. As the episode reaches it's climax, we see Ellison raiding the motel that Cromartie inhabits. Then, one by one, in a beautiful single shot underwater to the score of a Johnny Cash tune, all the SWAT team drops down to their death as we here the muffled shots coming. When Cromartie confronts Ellison, he is spared. Sarah reveals to her son she knew about his birthday and plans are made to go out before they get interrupted. The last scene is of a man who was the clerk at the internet café who is the real Sarkissian passing by Cameron as she is starting her SUV. Suddenly, it explodes!...Well, this was a very exciting episode to end the season though it really wasn't supposed to be the last one of such since this was only the ninth of what was going to be an initial 13-episode run. I laughed when Cameron said "Yes!" to John's friend when he asked about the prom. That was a genuine human moment for me. All the other cool scenes I've already described as such above so on that note, I definitely hope Fox renews this show for another season and am so glad the writers' strike is over (and that they got much of what they deserved). Until next time...

The series started with a bang... and like most shows, I had hoped the first season would end with one too. Unfortunately I didn't find it nearly as captivating or impressive as the pilot. The showdown between Cromartie and the FBI was artistically handled but clearly restricted by budget; it wasn't nearly as impressive a scene as I was hoping for (and expecting). The final scene seemed poorly/awkwardly cut like there was a shot or two missing. Also, not nearly as intense of a cliffhanger/twist as you might hope for in a season finale. A finale is supposed to leave you hanging and simply dying to know what happens next... This was like, meh.... I mean, obviously she's alive... right?!