Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[FIG]

Its a damn good show, one of my favorites infact.

[lost-spartan]

Has there been any ratings news about how the show has been fairing lately?? I hope they would be promising enough to secure at least 13 episodes for next year.

[FIG]

Yeah, me 2. I think there are 7 shows so far so who knows.

[xadrian]

I can't find ratings data for any later than Feb 11th, so the last two shows aren't in here.

Ratings/share (18-49 viewer) - second half hour

11.8/18 (8.1) - 10.4/15 (7.2) <-premier after NFC playoff
6.1/9 (4.2) - 6.3/9 (4.3)
5.2/8 (3.5) - 5.4/8 (3.6)
3.9/6 (2.3) - 3.6/5 (2.1) <-shifted time slot to an hour earlier for one week
5.5/8 (3.4) - 5.6/8 (3.5)
4.9/7 (3.4) - 5.2/8 (3.6)

If I can find the last two shows I'll edit it. I think you have to have an average of 3.7-3.9 to even be considered for extension, which looks like they might have. And maybe the last two shows have brought it up more as well, I know a lot of folks are talking favorably about it lately.

USA today has last week's episode at 4.2 million viewers so within its average.

[lost-spartan]

Well, hopefully some we'll hear some word from Fox in the next few weeks after the finale. Otherwise it's gonna be a lont wait till May to find out if it got picked up.

[xadrian]

One thing I never understood, and this has nothing to do with ratings or the show in general, but why are the Terminators called cyborgs? They're not cyborgs, they're androids with a skin/blood disguise. If they lost all their skin, they could still function. I think I want this show to correct that.

[50%grey]

One thing I never understood, and this has nothing to do with ratings or the show in general, but why are the Terminators called cyborgs?

I get what you are saying and I definitely agree my version of a cyborg as well has at least a human brain or soul. In other words they should start off as a human.

The wikipeida definition would disagree tho..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg

Fictional cyborgs are portrayed as a synthesis of organic and synthetic parts,

So in the Sci Fi terms any organic parts coupled with cybernetic parts would in fact be a cyborg even tho they did not start off as human,or need those synthetic parts to survive.
Terminators under this definition would classify as a cyborg.

And I guess an Android would be a robot that mimics and looks like a human,but has no synthetic parts. I.E. R2D2 = not a android C3PO = android

[xadrian]

The wikipeida definition would disagree tho..

They did later say...

Although frequently referred to onscreen as a cyborg, The Terminator might be more properly an android. While it has skin and blood (cellular organic systems), these serve mainly as a disguise and are not symbiotic with the machine components, a trait of true cyborgs. The endoskeletons beneath are fully functional robots and have been seen operating independently, especially during the future segments of the Terminator movies. The T-1000 (which is said to be made completely of a liquid metal) of Terminator 2 is definitely an android.

[lost-spartan]

Cyborg just sounds cooler, more dangerous. At least that's what some exec or some focus group probably said.

[50%grey]

After reading through the whole wikipedia article on cyborgs it contradicts itself way to many times to be valid.