They could'a been finales...but I sure hope not

So, how about those season (series?) finales of Life and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Both excellent shows with excellent writing staffs, both currently not renewed for a third season, and both smart and polite enough to, in light of potential cancellation, not attempt to bully Fox and NBC by ending on cliff-hangers that would be more likely to leave loyal viewers frustrated than tempt network execs. In other words, should either or both of these shows not re-appear in the fall, I'll miss them, but won't be fretting over unfinished business. This also means they'll make better DVD sets.

I was quite satisfied with the explanation of Mickey Rayborn's interest in Charlie, and the simplicity of Roman Nemikov's interest in both of them. And the simplicity of how Charlie dealt with Roman. And how Tidwell and Seever know the intelligent limits of lying to the brass. I really hope they get a third season. Over on Terminator, which has been airing episodes that would be any other show's season finale for the past five weeks or so, they continued their circular storytelling, and while enough questions were left open to make a third season a very worthwhile and welcome endeavour, enough questions were answered as well. For example, the confirmation that the liquid terminators and John Henry are in opposition to SkyNet, and why Derek's hate for Cameron seemed to go beyond her machine nature. Fantastic TV. What would happen if they got a next season? Would they do the paradox route, wherein John became such a great leader not because he lived through Judgment Day, but because he spent his life being trained and then skipped right over it, coming out young and ready on the other side? Or does Weaver have a way to get them back to the past as soon as they find John Henry? (More likely the latter, as the former would require the return of Brian Austin Green) What happened/will happen to change the liquid's answer to the question, "will you join us?" Did the angelic imagery or Weaver spreading out her mass to create a wing-like shield wall over John and co. foreshadow the liquid terminators becoming the angels to John's messiah? Now, that would be interesting.

While it's more probable that these superior productions will be replaced by reality TV on Fox, or Jay Leno's five-night 10 p.m. slot on NBC, or yet another low-grade, "quirky", police/forensic procedural that took its premise from theyfightcrime.org (could be either network), I hope to seem them again. And if I don't, I'll thank the writers for ending them well.