Last week was pretty much a game changer. Sarah was arrested after making contact with Ellison and. . . sob. . Derek was killed. Now John’s headed for a face-off with Catherine Weaver.  Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that we’ll be coming away with more questions than answers? And what are the chances that we’ll get another season to continue this tale? Sigh. I don’t think I’m going to be a happy camper when all is said and done.

We’re watching, we’re watching, we’re not throwing things at the TV. . . .

Need to get up to speed? Click through for a video recap of last week’s episode.

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Air Date: April 3, 2009 at 8:00 on FOX

When John attempts to rescue Skynet’s latest target he finds himself closing in on Weaver, but at what cost? Game plans change, causing Sarah and Ellison to reunite. Meanwhile, Weaver learns Ellison’s secrets in the “Adam Raised a Cain” (cr: Richard Foreman/FOX)

If you missed the Sarah Connor “April Fool’s Joke” that aired the other night I have the video after the cut, but honestly, hardly worth the effort. There’s not much “joke” in the joke and it goes on way too long. I’d call it more of an “Awkward Fool’s Joke.” (Especially since they obviously had to film these long before April Fool’s Day.)

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Tune in to watch the fun all night long on FOX.

Cr: Adam Taylor/FOX

Can’t wait? Click the cut to see the prank pulled on Eliza,

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Air Date: Friday, March 27 on Fox

Fearing for her life, Sarah stashes John in a safe house. Cameron and Derek struggle to work together after she reveals a big secret. John Henry becomes compromised in the “To the Lighthouse.”

Guest Cast: John De Vito as Young John; Dean Winters as Charley Dixon; Mackenzie Smith as Savannah; Gina Gallego as Dr. Martinez; Luisa Vitor as Receptionist; Massi Furlan as Delivery Man #2; Dominic Flores as Male Nurse; Shane Edelman as Matt Murch

© 2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Adam Taylor/FOX

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Air Date: March 13 on FOX

Jesse flashes back to a life-altering mission aboard her submarine, the Jimmy Carter. Sarah and John decide they can’t continue living in their house and make plans to leave in the “Today is the Day (Part 1 of 2)”

Guest Cast: Busy Philipps as Kacy; Stephanie Jacobsen as Jesse; Chad L. Coleman as Queeg; Drew Rausch as Rick; Theo Rossi as Dietz; Chris Ellis as Hayes; Yuri Lowenthal as Garvin; Gregg Perrie as Aaron; Erin Fleming as Goodnow; Krishna Cole as Blake; Mackenzie Smith as Savannah

**Sorry to say, from the description, this one is doing nothing for me. Thoughts?

©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Michael Desmond/FOX

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Sarah

It seems a blogger has the lowdown. Well of course! Those bloggers know everything! They are so wise and powerful! Look to them for your innermost questions!

Ahem. After this, there’s no more Sarah Connor Chronicles until February 13. Don’t worry, we’ll get through this drought as a team.

2008 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Michael Roberts/FOX

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Riley

Also, Terminators don’t sleep. Did you ever wonder what Cameron does while everyone else is sound asleep. Or as sound asleep as one can be while getting constantly stalked by the aforementioned machines. Tonight, we’ll learn about Cameron’s secret nightlife. In addition, Cameron will bust John’s chops about being out all night. Uh oh. Hell hath no fury like a Terminator scorned.

Riley (Leven Rambin, L) and John (Thomas Dekker, R) share a kiss in the TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES episode “Self Made Man” airing Monday, Dec. 1 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2008 FOX Broadcasting Co. CR: Ron Jaffe/FOX

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This guy has developed the Connor family knack for dealing with multiple Terminators and somehow not getting killed.

Meanwhile, Cameron and Sarah try to impress the members of the startup company in order to carry out their mission.

No pressure, it’s just the future of mankind depending on them and all.

©2008 FOX Broadcasting Co. CR: Frank Ockenfels/FOX

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It was a rearrangement of an old gospel tune Samson and Delilah put together by Bear McCreary. He’s the composer who is now the reason no Battlestar Galactica fan will ever hear All Along the Watchtower again without thinking about the Final Five Cylons.

And oh yeah, Manson did a little bit of acting in the episode too. Playing evil CEO Catherine Weaver it was clear from the beginning we weren’t supposed to like this lady. Then at the end of the episode, in the scene everyone is still talking about, she morphed from a urinal into a T-1001 Terminator and killed one of her employees. Manson talked about the controversial scene in a Wednesday press event.

“It was every man’s nightmare, sort of a male bastion of security in the urinal,” she said. “He liked the idea of a woman who had already irritated this particular man being able to infiltrate someplace where he felt safe, and that was a true terror.”

No kidding, I haven’t used a public restroom since Monday.

Manson said people would be surprised at the diifficulty of playing a robot.

“And it’s harder to be a robot than one would think,” she said. “You realize they would be probably very economical with their movements. I’ve tried consciously to be as undemonstrative as possible. And that’s been a challenge in itself.”

In terms of inspiration, Manson said she drew some things from legendary British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher has been inspiring sci-fi for years, as Alan Moore’s comic-book classic V for Vendetta was an indictment of Thatcher’s Great Britain.

Of course, the other big question is when and if Manson’s character will throw down with “good” Terminator Cameron. Manson doesn’t know and of course, couldn’t tell us if she did know. She did mention that she’s been doing physical training in case she has to kick a little butt. Manson doesn’t yet know what her machine might be able to do, if anything, that the original liquid Terminator played by Robert Patrick in T2 couldn’t do. Should the cybernetic catfight between Cameron and Catherine Weaver happen, it’s liable to crash the Internet.

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Now that the mind-blowing season premiere is in the rearview mirror, we can talk more about some of the things Terminator’s second season is throwing at us. Here’s the second part of our interview with Lena Headey and Josh Friedman.

Shirley Manson= Liquid Terminator. Um, whoa. Didn’t see that one coming at all.

©2008 FOX Broadcasting Co. CR: FOX

“Did we try it out earlier than we wanted to?  No.” Friedman said. “I mean, I think it’s exactly when we wanted to.  It sort of was serendipitous.  We were working on this character and wanted to introduce somebody who was more of an antagonist, and I didn’t want to do just the basic evil corporate type, so it was a natural progression, and it’s done.”

Has Friedman blown the special effects budget for entire season on this one? Not so, he explains.

“It’s expensive to do, but it’s not necessarily anymore expensive to do than an endoskeleton,” he continued.  I mean, morphing technology and GI is something that’s been kind of streamline, I think, in terms of cost over the years since it was first done.  It’s still time consuming.  It’s more just sort of, it’s just the art of it, just sort of getting it right in terms of the rates of change and kind of what it looks like and the texturing.  We went back and forth quite a bit in this first episode because it was the first time that we’d done it.”

I can say I was certainly shocked when she showed up in the men’s restroom. Would we call this model the Urinator?

And Cameron is definitely moving in new territory for a Terminator, playing on John Connor’s perceived “love” for her and even engaging in theological discussions with Sarah. Wassup with the religious themes, Josh?

“It’s something that’s always been in the franchise,” he said. “I think that Sarah as a very, very radicalized Mary figure and John as sort of a Jesus figure has always been in the franchise, and it’s stuff that, thematically, is interesting to explore.

And I’ve kind of become fascinated with it through the Ellison character, and part of it was just because Richard T. Jones is quite religious and I’d spent some time talking to him about it, and I figure it seemed like a really natural place to sort of explore some of those themes.  And especially with him, regarding whether or not his faith is either confirmed or challenged by, you know, with the things he’s seen.

I think it’s easy to assume, oh, because there are terminators in the universe that that means that God doesn’t exist or something, but I don’t think that that’s necessarily true. So it’s interesting just to see people with particular ideologies have to try to fit radical world views into it.”

Sarah Connor is definitely off to a rockin’ start. What did you think, readers?

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