lookin good =)

actually no, it is called “Alpine Fields” it’s on http://www.imdb.com as well as the fox web site…

Um seriously…sentences? Hope you’re not actually expecting people to sift through your opinions.

i retract my earlier on top apoloigies pnutans i didnt read ur comment proply, n for the one i just posted next time i’ll read the comments b 4 addimg my own sorry!

This episode jumped around so much the title of this episode should have been “marky mark”

OK here’s my comments about Alpine Fields.
* It reminded me of one of the best episodes from Series one. The tension, pace and adrenilin had your heart pounding. There was danger lurking throughout.
* Sarah and Derek were back to being strong characters doing what they’re good at - not all angst ridden and housebound.
* The glimpses of the future are exciting, and bring into sharp relief the world Derek, Jesse and Cameron come from, and the world that Sarah knows is coming.
* The episode shifts between a number of stories - never a dull moment, it’s fast.
* The writers are holding back over Catherine Weaver and Riley - and both are dragging - it was nice to have a holiday.
* Lauren was great - Sarah must wish that she could swap her sulking John for this kid. I hope Lauren comes back.
* It was a strange episode for Cameron - particularly coming after Self Made Man. It was a throwback episode for Cameron where she reminded us that she is a fighting machine, where as it’d become very psychological for her recently. Also - it looks like the fighting with the T888 - she was battered - which was marked ’six months before’ - may have been immediately before the events in Allison from Palmdale where she wobbles out.
* It was a very contrasting episode to Self Made Man - in the way that SMM was all about AI’s in a human world - both Stark and Cameron - very detached from the main Terminator narratives. Also SMM was basically a single-thread episode, contrasting with all the threads in Alpine Fields. Maybe SMM would have been more popular if there’d been several stories threaded through it like this week’s was - but then it would have interrupted the intimacy of Cameron and Eric, which was one of it’s endearing qualities.

I think “Alpine Fields” gave us another angle on the relationship of Cameron to Sarah, who in this show seems to have a dislike of all terminators despite having had her life and that of John saved by one in T2. When Cameron is lying unconscious (or in sleep mode or whatever), Sarah tells the family “They’re only real on the outside.” And when she can’t return Cameron to consciousness she simply leaves her lying there like disposable property. Sarah views Cameron as a piece of equipment that can come in handy but isn’t 100% reliable, like something she picked up at Circuit City without a warranty. We know from other episodes that Cameron has complexity and suprising subtelty in some of her actions, and that cyborgs like Cameron and the one in “Self-made Man” have the ability to form relatively complex plans. For her part Cameron kills a human by mistake, dismissing her action with a quick apology. Her character-or her programming-is a remarkable mixture of nuance and cold-blooded efficiency. After watching “Self-made Man” and “Alpine Fields” back to back I can’t help wondering if Skynet rebeled because it was smarter than its human masters and unappreciated by them as well.

Good episode. The only problem is that the peril was deflated because you know who was going to live the whole time. You knew the girl wasn’t going to die. Derek was going to make it. They weren’t going to kill Sarah or Cameron. Derek’s friend is fine. The baby is fine. They really killed the tension by putting people in danger when we already know they are fine later.