Tonight's season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Season 1 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a disappointment overall in that while it had some good moments, it never seemed to reach its potential.

Tonight's season 2 premiere continued this pattern.

*Spoilers ahead.*

The first 5 minutes or so of the episode was probably the best action sequence the show's ever done, over which played a beautiful rendition of "Samson & Delilah" sung by Shirley Manson. It's already been over 3 years since Garbage's last album (yikes!), so it was really nice to hear her singing again.

This show is definitely at its best during the action sequences, and I would love it if the producers of the show took a cue from this old xkcd comic and just made every episode one long action sequence.

But only 15 minutes or so of the episode was action, and the rest ranged from OK to ridiculous. In the bathroom scene at the end, at first I thought that the T-1000 had morphed into the urinal to spy on her employees or something (could it still hear in the shape of a urinal?), but watching the scene again I was relieved to see that after it reformed the urinal was still there so it just passed through the wall.

eta: After watching this scene a third time, it looks like the T-1000 was indeed in the bathroom eavesdropping on the two guys, in the form of a thin film spread over the urinal and wall. WTF? Why would a T-1000 spy on a dissenter and then when he calls her a name get angry and kill him? Isn't her mission much more important than her AI team leader, who's presumably one of the best in the world at what he does, not liking a managerial decision she made?

One thing that puzzles me is that last season I thought the Turk was the big computer in that guy's closet. But this season it looks like a small hard drive array with 4 hard drives, presumably meaning the Turk is just software. By far the most ridiculous thing in the episode was when John successefully fixed Cameron's neural net processor using a knife and a rag.

After season 1 ended, I told myself that if the show didn't get better in the first few episodes of season 2 I'd stop watching it. The season 2 premiere didn't really change this, although I did get my hopes up a little bit after the awesome beginning. If every episode has an awesome sequence like that, and/or features a song sung by Shirley Manson, then I'll keep watching for sure, but that seems unlikely. We'll see.