I've been meaning to offer more commentary on the economy and housing in particular but where is the fun in that? Let's talk about TV.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

We have been enjoying Lost again after a long break but there is only one TV show that leaves me delighted each week, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (Their site is all flash so no cool photos to show here.)

I really enjoyed The Terminator when it came out in the 1980's. It was awesome. For the first time ever, I imagined what it would be like to fight a machine. An implacable, unstoppable machine. Scary stuff.

The effects in the movie have not aged well with the decades but the sequel, Terminator 2 was also fantastic. It set a new bar for computer effects and unlike most sequels, had a great story.

Terminator 3? Forgettable. Forgotten.

I was a huge James Cameron fan until Titanic. The Terminator movies are some of the best sci-fi but Im not a huge fan boy. I rarely watch the movies over again and I had very low expectations of the TV show.

Which makes my love of the show so surprising to me. I dont like it because it beat my expectations. I like it because it is so well written.

You get great casting. You get some action, some Terminator robots, some good looking stars but mostly you get a deep story, with complex characters. You get a lot of character development. You get some thought into what it would be like growing up and knowing the future, knowing the disaster to come.

And the show is not a cookie-cutter formula. Lots of main characters die. They take risks with the show. They surprise and I love that.

This is also one of the only shows to focus on time travel and not come off as retarded. It keeps my interest. I wonder what will happen next. While Lost has also become a story about time travel, TCS and Lost have totally different approaches.

Battlestar Galactica lost my interest. Stargate, et al. are simplistic one-hour solve the mystery kid shows. Star Trek does not exist anymore. Fringe has a great cast but is mostly just gross. Heroes is a been yawner. That leaves TSC on Fox, a dark, adult-oriented sci-fi show that entertains and does not insult your intelligence.

You probably are not watching it but you should.

Krod Mandoon

The other show I have been enjoying for just a few weeks is Krod Mandoon. A completely over the top silly spoof of D&D fantasy. No work of art but good for a few laughs.