By the way, I watched both Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the first part of the Comanche Moon miniseries (prequel to Lonesome Dove) last night, and I actually enjoyed both shows. I thought that The Sarah Connor Chronicles did a decent job of maintaining the overall feel and flow of the Terminator movies (the small handful of clunky, dumb lines on the show were delivered by Terminators, sadly, but that's also kind of in keeping with the movies), and I was glad to see that the producers didn't try to "lighten up" the mood of the overall Terminator storyline. Some people will undoubtedly have problems with the casting of Summer Glau as a cute, young, female Terminator (I have my reservations about this as well), but the focus seems to be primarily upon Lena Headey as Sarah Connor, and I thought that she carried off the role of the paranoid warrior/mommy pretty well.
Comanche Moon was pretty good, too. Steve Zahn as a young Gus McCrae was a strong bit of casting, I thought. You can just kind of imagine young, weird Steve Zahn morphing into crazy, old Robert Duvall over the years. There were a few awkward moments in Comanche Moon (acting wise), and Karl Urban's Woodrow Call isn't as strong as Steve Zahn's Gus, but I've read the book of Comanche Moon, and I think the miniseries does a decent job at putting the story on screen. Plus, it's funny to see the Hollywood version of "old west", 1800's era Austin. Not sure how they're going to get away with the portrayal of native Americans that took place in the book. Some of the Comanches in the book get into some pretty nasty hijinks, and I'm not sure that the whole thing is going to be seen as very politically correct.