"ok I just watched the pilot again, will watch ep 2 next.
alot of time has passed so now I see some things differently. the pilot is still flawed, but not so bad as I once thought it was.
I can still see where and why it lost alot of the nielsen viewers. but I enjoyed it more after all this time.
here is some stuff I wrote after seeing it. it is muddled, but I will post it as is.
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the Pilot 1x01
1. cam says to john- in the future you have many friends, later in series it is made to seem he is a loner with no friends.
the explosives for the truck she used as a bomb at dyson house, where did she get them and it seems that she put them in after she pulled off the bumper to the truck, which means they were driving a bomb to the dyson house.
2. when they were headed to mexico cam was ok with that, and seemingly had no intention of going to the bank. but then sarah tells john she will stop JD [cause he is whining] and then they go to dysons house, for info,which they get nothing,, then cameron decides to go to the bank, and for some reason thinks 2007 is the year to go to. so maybe she just thought they needed to jump time to lose cromartie.
but here is the flaw, if cromartie had not come thru with them, he would have hidden again and just waited for something to turn up which in 2007, and it would have with sarah being video'd naked which cromartie would have picked up on.
3. so a better story would have been if the gun had just burned off cromartie's flesh , and he then became garret,and then waited for them to show up. that way no head traveling thru time, with no flesh, and no head on a dead body, no t body out in dump.

about dates, april 19 2011 was J. day, cam was from 2027, and they jumped to 9-3-07
so I figure this show was supposed to air in sept 07, not jan 08."

"cont. part 3
1. The intro dream scene lena looked awful in that, and it should have been cut out
2, and just start with the show, add 5 min of something else.

3. In the 1st scene after with charlie, she looks so much better and her hair is longer, so good amount of time passed by for the making of this pilot, so there was plenty of time to do it better than what we see as the final version.
4. so on looking at this again 3 years after I first saw it, it does not seem as bad, to me anyway as I know what comes later. but when I first saw it there wasnt much to like except cameron
5. and here is something funny, what if john had not gone to school that day? would cromartie have still cut his leg open in the first class, and would he have taught classes?
6. that whole scene was bad, it could have been done better, like have him call role and then when john answers roll call he could then cut his leg and get the gun, and then madly shoot at john and miss over and over.
7. so hindsight is 20/20, but what I would do is cut off the intro, and add the time elsewhere. cut out the cheesy lines,and change the ending. I would have had her destroy the cromartie term, and then garret could come in as a new T in ep 2, he could be the T in 2007,
8. just looking for anything, or have had another mission which then he comes across john etc so he changes his mission.
also change the school scene in which cromartie trys to kill john, and not have them go to the dyson house at all.......
9. and I would have had cam eat a whole hamburger , chocolate shake, and fries, instead of just the one chip."

"Since I found that explaining after having my one, try to ignore it and read that scene in this other way: the head came through because, as Cameron wanted them (...us) to notice, the chip was active. This better explains why the T-1000 in T2 can go through, why Weaver can go through AND why Cameron's body doesn't came through in BtR. In this way all make more sense


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"3. Bad shot, or missing on purpose? He managed to hit Cameron at least 5 times, had a good clear shot when John ran across the room and didn't take it. His sighting crosshair was off to Johns right when he took the shot ,as John dived out the window. When John ran along the length of the bus, he had to have been able to see John's feet, in order to shoot out the windows above him. Why not go for a foot shot and bring him down then come around the bus and finish him off.

Also why? (on my Pilot DVD) at 20:33 to 20:33.38 did Cromartie shut down his Terminate protocall , Targeting program and then a complete system shut down, when he had John cornered between the cars ,before Cameron hit him with the truck?

What I heard was!...Cromartie was getting his Hyper Alloy Combat Chassis lubed ,when Skynet was passing out the marksmanship programs....;) Everyone knows that a robot can't resist a good lube job! :D (C3PO)
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"I have to admit this is an outstandig good point. A backup for this point of view is also that Cameron electrocuted Cromartie but missed to extracted the chip during the 120 seconds before reboot.

The argument that she wants to go after the Connors fails, because without a threat it would have been easy to find the Conners again, without taking the risk of failing her missing. If her mission was to do the time jump, then it is totally clear, why she didn't kill Cromartie."

"So if you believe Cameron and Cromartie were working together to herd the Connors, who was the mastermind for this -- future John or Skynet or . . . ? And why?"