And 9 can win as demonstrated by Underbelly which is a massive hit.

7 is only winning the week so far because of the older demographics that watch it.

For what it’s worth, I think The Sarah Connor Chronicles is excellent. And this is one I not only expected to hate, but went into DETERMINED to hate. It surprised me – there’s real quality here.

Richo, no disrespect intended, but seriously, what did you expect? Fluffy bunnies? You single out the suicide scene, and obviously something about the inclusion of that disturbs you. Fair enough. But it was MEANT to be a disturbing scene, and the following dialogue was COMPLETELY justified in the context of the story. It was there to illustrate the complete lack of “human feelings” in Glau’s character – she is, after all, a cyborg – and the horror that John Connor felt at the realisation that this seemingly human, attractive girl was in reality a cold, heartless machine.

The show aired in an M rated viewing slot, and any children watching at that point would surely have been doing so with the permission of their parents, right?

I notice you didn’t react at all to the scene a short while later of a scientist’s dead body lying on the floor of a blood-soaked bathroom with his eyes gouged out.

This is NOT a kids’ show. It sure as hell isn’t Smallville, which isn’t a kid’s show either, really. I have appreciated the way this show doesn’t act like the usual careful-or-we-might-offend-someone US drama. I applaud it for that.

On a separate, more negative note, I will no longer be watching this Terminator TV series. This timeslot change should have definitely occurred before they showed last night’s episode, for reasons I will explain now. At first I loved it and gave it a glowing 5 paragraph review in my personal ramblings, but after they showed that suicide scene in the high school last night with absolutely no warning whatsoever that’ll be the last they’ll see of this viewer. I’m really quite disgusted that Ch.9. decided to air this without any warning whatsoever.

The closest thing they came to announcing that the episode would contain a highly graphic, disturbing and horrifically unsympathetic suicide scene was the “This program contains some violence” caption at the start. By some violence, I thought they meant very fake and unalarming clanky sci-fi robot fighting between the Terminators as they bashed each other around like they did in the first 2 episodes, but then they go and show a blonde teenager in clear signs of distress going and offing herself by splitting her head open on the ground with blood pouring out of her skull. That is the epitome of disturbing television, and to put it in such an unprecedented timeslot is alarming to me. Who knows how many young kids saw that, watching this TV show and thinking it as just another family science-fiction program in the same vein of Heroes and Smallville? Not only that, but the way they made the characters react to the suicide of a random character was disgusting.

They had one disgusting human yelling “Jump, jump, do it!” and when John tried to save the girl, Summer Glau merely shoved him against the wall and told him “don’t be a freak”. WHAT KIND OF TWISTED CRAP IS THAT?! To make matters worse, after John told the protagonist, Sarah Connor about the suicide, she merely shrugged it off and said “these things happen. You can’t stop someone killing themself it they want to do it” to which a horrified John could only reply “You weren’t there. You didn’t see it”. Gah. That was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen and I’m never watching this show again. If viewers didn’t stop viewing it before now, they definitely will after last night’s horrible episode and with the new timeslot change. I hope it gets axed.

Been a nightmare trying to wade through all these confusing changes!

Oh and isn’t the cricket on next tuesday? I’m sure after Terminator they said it’ll be back in two weeks?