It's Good to Be Bad on 'Chronicles'

By LillyKat
PTR Senior Staff Writer

It’s a bad day in the fight to save the world when:

a) Cameron – the awesomenest of awesome protective terminators ever – goes over to the dark side (NOOOOO!!!!!!)

b) Sarah, John and Co. have their house blow up and get beaten to a pulp by those out to get any trace of anything that will lead them to the TURK (a.k.a. the earliest incarnation of the out-to-destroy-mankind computer, a.k.a. Skynet)

c) FBI pecial Agent Ellison – who at the end of last season realized the machines are already here – gets put on medical leave and is now stalked by evil yet suddenly rather mellow terminator Cromartie

d) Shirley “I’m Only Happy When It Rains” Manson is an even more evil version of Robert Patrick’s T-1000, and out to really make Skynet happen

And we love every single minute of it.

Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles premiered its second season last night, and It. Just. Rocked.

Worth every bit of the wait.

Has me wanting more.

Is the show I cannot live without.

I could go on about the minor stuff – like Shirley’s brilliant addition to the cast, and her colder-than-ice portrayal of this new CEO (Catherine Weaver), who is going to be the subtle yet unrelentless menace to John and Co. from a rather high-powered position within a high-tech company.

Or the fact that Sarah’s former hottie paramedic Charley Dixon is still around, wanting to help out the team.

Or that Agent Ellison may just wish Cromartie had killed him at the site of the FBI massacre when their storm of Cromartie's apartment went ... uh, bad.

But forget all that.

John v. Cam?

Cam going bad?

Ahhhhhh!

And yet what an awesome twist to begin the second season.

Can I just say my heart was racing for … oh … a good 45 minutes until John finally fixed her - defying everyone in doing so.

Go John!

That scene where she pleads for her life whilst John was trying to remove her chip, swearing she didn’t want to go, telling him she loved him … wow. Okay, so maybe the love thing was a little corny, and I know it was a ploy by her evil twin self, but that didn’t stop me from yelling, “NOOOO! John don’t kill Cam!!!!”

What can I say … I love the both of them. They just have “it” together, y’know? I don’t care that she’s a machine. And neither does John. As he says, he needs her.

Yes!

Not to mention it just reconfirms my love of Summer Glau. She can be a goodie and baddie.

And yet, I’m nervous.

That infamous OMFG explosion in last season’s finale compromised the integrity of Cam’s chip. Something tells me a simple once over with a Q-Tip and some alcohol (thanks, John) isn’t a guarantee that it won’t happen again.

But I will live in denial for now.

And wait for next week.

My favorite show is back.

And the fight to save the world continues.

New episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles air Mondays at 8 p.m. on FOX. You can also watch full episodes online. Visit the Official Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Web site to catch up (or re-watch!)