Watching The CW

Just finished watching the two-hour season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was very nearly like torture. I tried, but I haven’t liked this show since the very beginning.

It’s crazy, too, cause I just can’t seem to really pay attention to it. Last night, while it aired, I kept getting interrupted, by phone calls and other interrupty things. I had DVRd it and I knew I could watch it later, so it didn’t seem like a big deal. But its just par for the course of what has happened every time it’s been on. In any case, today, I sat and tried to watch it all the way through, uninterrupted. And I realized something. It wasn’t that I kept getting interrupted, it was just that the show doesn’t hold my interest enough for me to ignore the interruptions and keep on watching. It also honestly felt like no matter how hard I tried to keep track of what was happening, they still managed to lose me. Like, I couldn’t figure out why they were doing whatever it was they were doing, or why they were going where ever they went.

Probably the most interesting part, that got my attention, was when Derek (Brian Austin Green) faked out the guy who had the Turk (I’m sure he has a name, but I don’t care enough to go find out) and who was blackmailing them. The guy was holding a gun to John (Thomas Dekker) and Sarah (Lena Heady) had a gun on him, but couldn’t shoot for fear of hitting John or that the guy would kill John first. Derek comes out the door with his gun to the head of a little girl (played, adorably, by Bailee Madison, who I did care enough about to look up) and the guy disclaims that she’s his, Derek says she’s not his either, and then in one swift move, he covers the little girls eyes and shoots the guy in the head. It was great. It reminded me of Firefly, when Mal (Nathan Fillion) shot that government agent who had a gun to River’s (Summer Glau) head. The scene is similar, but it accompanies a much better episode of TV.

Happily, now that the strike is over, we are gonna get some new shows and new eps of returning shows!! Yay us!! Honestly, I think I held up pretty well during the strike, all things considered, but it’s still good to have some new shows starting up. I’ve done a little research about it and I’m getting some conflicting information. However, I’m ignoring whatever doesn’t make sense and trying to give you what I think is right. While some of this might be a little off, I think it’s close. See, some shows, like Smallville and Reaper, still had some pre-strike eps to air, so those air, then the show is off for a couple of weeks, and then they come back with more eps. Or at least that’s what I’m getting from this.

So, here you go, here’s a list of what’s (very probably) happening in the near future on the CW:

Sunday, March 2
Everybody Hates Chris - 8:00 pm (12 more eps)
Aliens in America - 8:30 pm (8 more eps)

Tuesday, March 11
Beauty and the Geek - 8:00 pm

Thursday, March 13
Smallville - 8:00 pm (3 more eps)
Reaper - 9:00 pm (3 more eps)

Sunday, March 23
The Game - 9:30 pm (9 more eps)

Monday, April 14
One Tree Hill - 9:00 pm (6 more eps)

Thursday, April 17
Smallville - 8:00 pm (5 more eps)

Monday, April 21
Gossip Girl - 8:00 pm (5 more eps)

Tuesday, April 22
Reaper - 8:00 pm (5 more eps)

Thursday, April 24
Supernatural - 9:00 pm (4 more eps)

Sorry if you missed the new eps airing last night. But remember, you can watch full episodes of the any of these shows, once they’ve aired, on the CW website.