Cheers, Joe Cool. Giving the gang a shared classroom simplified things storywise, so no complaints - there was quite enough faithfulness going on elsewhere.
Terminator Salvation. Ah hell I dunno. I'd seen most of this film in passing chunks on TV, but never start to finish. I'd had a really low opinion of what I'd seen, but actually it's an enjoyable pretty solid SF action thing - right up to a pisspoor last half hour. There are nice new robot designs, an interesting plot, and is a refreshing departure from the previous three. Then it degenerates into predictable nonsense, factories full of convenient molten metal and liquid nitrogen, and the most pathetic Skynet you could conceive of - if you're a sentient network controlling the world's machines, how can a bloody robot factory be more dangerous to you than to the fleshy ones? Plus Skynet's solution to the Connor/Reese/Connor paradox makes even less sense than usual. Ugh, it was so nearly there.
