I'm pretty sure it was just a quick bit of "what can we do include Glau nuding up". She had John put his hand in below her ribcage and reach up inside. WTF logical reason would there be for her to take off her bra first? Shirt? Yeah, fine, whatever, but the only reason I can see to go further was to get all the Glau fanboys drooling.

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Who knows? There was that 'flashback' of the future that showed John Conner in silhouette about twelve episodes back, and he was the same height as John is now, hinting that he was maybe a year older, and not twelve years older.

They basically have all the possibilities in the world to do whatever they want, including sticking with Sarah Conner and ditching John in the future, but it looks like they'd rather stick with John and leave Sarah alone.

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It was incredibly interesting that Josh Friedman and the gang to turn the ending into another alternate future. Loved it. Spooky and cool. I was also gratified to discover that there is a Terminator resistance to Skynet, and that Catherine is a foil to Sarah. "Watch who you call bitch" - great scene. I agree that Catherine was clearly the liquid metal Terminator on the submarine, and the scene with the eel merging into her body sort of confirmed that by visual reference (since she swooshed eel-like out of the submarine in the future).

The sexual tension scene with John feeling up Cameron's breastplate? Whoa. Seriously intense. Someday she may become John's greatest enemy.

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Too many threads flapping loose in there.

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- Why did John Henry jump to the future?

- Why did Sarah stay behind?

- What was that final bolt of time travel lightening at the end? Did someone else or Sarah decide to follow?

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But this ending has two clear and opposite readings. As it season finale it is as you describe. But as a series finale you could read it in a much more final way.

John jumping forward is how he survives Judgment day and Skynet hunting him -- this is how it happened. That is, this is the original timeline: this is how John met and befriended Derek and Reese, John Henry is how John begins winning against SkyNet and reprogramming Terminators (his secret weapon). So eventually he must send Reese and Derek back, he knows Allyson will be killed and replaced by Cameron, etc. He had to let his mother go, and she had to let him go, to move forward save everyone else. He has to be with this people knowing they he will send them to their deaths because this is what has to be done.

In this reading, the reason why future Jon trusted Cameron unconditionally is because he knows her future -- he knows she'll sacrifice herself to save John Henry.

It's a neat trick of writing that the same ending can be open enough to serve both purposes while still managing to be satisfying if it indeed the last word.

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John Henry parroting Weaver and then cheating at rolls of the dice, exclaiming, "TWENTY!"

Weaver telling Ellison it wasn't the time to be "parsin' out" who is breaking the law.

The return of the stone-cold, gangsta girl. More, please?

Cameron telling Ellison that he has said enough. As in, "Shut up or die."

Cameron giving a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Felt up." Is it safe to say John was getting a little "distracted" there at the end? What a disturbing, kinky, totally hot intimate scene.

The agent interrogating Sarah. Me thinks he's a fed, not a cop, and he wasn't kidding when he said he believed Sarah.

The agent says Dyson's son has been missing for three months. Probably working, under duress, for the enemy (John Henry's "brother").

Sarah telling the priest to, "gird thyself."

Weaver killing the Terminator assassin, "Hey, I liked that gate!"

Weaver protecting Sarah, John, and Ellison from the HK explosion.

The "eel" from the fish tank, which was liquid metal all along, rejoining her as she reformed after the explosion.

Cameron and John Henry recognizing one another.

Cameron uploads to John Henry's mega-computer, while John Henry gets Cameron's chip.

Weaver taking no $hit from Sarah Connor re: who's calling who a bitch.

John Henry goes to the future, one would think, because he's carrying information from Cameron, etc.. To whom is he carrying the information?

Derek is alive in the future, but why doesn't anyone recognize John?

Kyle Reese "just got back," but from where? Was it my imagination, or was there some kind of recognition between him and John?

The human prototype for Cameron, Allison from Palmdale, hugging the dog at the end. What a moment when John realized that it was not Cameron, but a human!

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did anyone see this?

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