09.30 The Sarah Connor Chronicles
10.30 My Own Worst Enemy
11.30 Eleventh Hour
The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Season 2, Episode 5. "Goodbye To All That" Funny how things change. When this show started my main interest was in the women: Sarah and Cameron. Because they were both so cool. And, let's face it, so bloody hot!! Lately my interest has switched to young John Connor, and his progression into manhood. And independence. He's cool. And so - of course - is Brian Austin Green. And Derek the guy he plays. This episode pushes both of the guys to the forefront and it's a fantastic outing. Derek is a writer's dream, really. A time-traveller back here from a horrible future that is only years away from us. He's haunted and driven. And it's great.
This is the episode where Derek and John go undercover at the military school (as tutor and pupil, respectively). It was good. So good I wished it was a two-parter. They meet Martin Beddell for the first time. In the future he becomes one of John's best friends, and Thomas Dekker and Will Rothhaar did a great job on selling the friendship. They were pitch perfect, really. Every time they were on screen together you felt the bond growing and believed that they could/would reach a stage where one would willingly die for the other in battle.
The show revisited the Nuclear power plant (from the season's 'weakest' episode) and manages to redeem that earlier stand-alone episode by making what happened there more relevant to the ongoing plot. It helps that Ellison is there now. I like that character and the journey he is on.
But the episode belonged to Derek and the ghosts (from his past/future).
My Own Worst Enemy. Episode 1. "Breakdown" I'm sorry, but if you want me to watch a show about a family guy's double life as a spy you had better make the spy life fun to watch, and/or make the family into people I care about. This pilot does neither. The spy side of things is dreary and the family is lifted from all the lame sit-coms you ever saw. Christian Slater is terrific in the central dual-role, but what a sad waste of Mädchen Amick as his boring wife.
Eleventh Hour. Episode 1. "Resurrection" Bland clone of many other shows. Clever, moody guy teams up with sexy FBI chick to solve crimes of science. He's really, really, really serious and she can't act (but she carries a gun). Together they re-enact scenes from other TV shows (like The X-Files) and there's not much entertainment value. It's not actually bad, like Knight Rider, just bland and forgettable fare.
Highlight? The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Derek)
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