don't hate me, avclub…
…but could we have an "its vs. it's" intervention?

more ridiculous than eggs
best name ever: Lakeesha Gutierrez Arafat.

you're right, frankz, it could be any one of us!

too lazy to look for it
but is there a "god, sookie is an annoying moron" thread to jump onto here? i'm sure there is, because she really surpassed her own records for annoyingness and stupidity. but i just watched and had to vent about it.

what's also important to realize about Steve Martin is that he was incredibly adorably hot in "the jerk."

from the review: "traitors to the human race who work for Skynet post-Judgement Day. It's an inevitable concept, and, to the best of my knowledge, it's not one we've ever heard mentioned before, either on the show or in the movies."

correction
if i recall correctly, kyle reese rather explicitly tells sarah in T1 about how certain humans survived in the camps by cooperating and rounding up others.

i was trying to make a "small wonder" joke. Giant Pregnant Landlady's name is like kim or something.

cameron = protector terminatrix
cromartie = enemy terminator
john = john
sarah = sarah
riley = annoying love interest
derek = resistance fighter from the future, whom i used to call "uncle bleedy"
harriet = nosy girl next door

i think skynet thinks of the terminators as its big guns.

A-
i liked this episode quite a lot. the separate perspectives thing was pretty gimmicky, but i think it's ok for a maturing series to use gimmicks now and then, and this one worked pretty well for me. a lot of the stress of the connors' situation stems from not knowing what other people are thinking, or even where…

vampirism 101
if i'm not mistaken, in pretty much all major vampire lore going back to Bram Stoker, the recipe for making a new vampire includes draining the victim to the verge of death, then slicing open a vampire vein and forcing the victim to drink. then the victim dies properly and wakes up vamped out.

riley is toast. and she deserves it too—when you see psycho-traumatized emo boy go into a panic about the guy at the door, DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR!

i had forgotten that cromartie would recognize cameron from their fight in the pilot. it could be that he's implemented some facial recognition software on all public databases.

how'd cromartie get the bowling alley tip?
i think i missed something in this episode. how did cromartie get the tip about the bowling alley? why would he have been monitoring the stolen credit cards?

those are fighting words, Dorian! and you don't want to get on the bad side of matlab-users. most of us are graduate students, and everyone knows we're the worst people.

i loved the series pilot. why am i wrong?
actually, i thought seinfeldvision was pretty good too (except for jenna's fat-suit). and in both those premieres, because of Baldwin and Fey. the first scene where we meet jack is brilliant. and when in desperation he decides to try to hit seinfeld over the head with that…

i agree. though they didn't always give her much material on will & grace (and really, not much screen time on this episode either!), she always seems to shows impeccable timing and make more of her material than i would have thought possible.

am i the only one who pretty much adored the series pilot? i guess the extended tracy introduction wasn't a thrill-a-minute, but i just love the first scene with Alec Baldwin, a lot. and the "do you want to get some coffee" exchange between liz and cerie. i liked the Seinfeld-vision episode too.

30 rock premiere
the new 30 rock (viewable on hulu.com) is pretty good. based on how good the show's been in its two previous seasons, i'd give it about a B (on a pretty harsh curve, but, i guess i have to admit, taking into account that i could never bear to give a 30 rock episode lower than a B-).