The pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles completely cleaned the floor against the competition for Sunday night.  The Golden Globes didn't come anywhere near the type of ratings it received.  Look for yourself, from Variety:

Fox's Sunday debut of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" scored the best opening-night demo ratings of any new show in three years, while NBC's not-so-lustrous Golden Globes special barely registered with auds.

Boosted by strong marketing and a big NFL playoffs lead-in, the Warner Bros. TV-produced "Terminator" notched an eye-popping 7.6 rating/18 share among adults 18-49 and delivered some 18.3 million viewers with its one-hour bow Sunday at 8, according to prelim Nielsen national data. Socko perf demonstrated the value of scripted series at a time when network execs are trying to spin their ability to survive sans scribes and tubthumping strong ratings for reality shows.

That really is an amazing start for any TV show.  That said those number will never last.  The coming weeks will decide whether or not The Terminator is worth keeping.  Just like I said about other TV shows, I'd like to see Terminator make it through at least one season and give it a full run, until a choice is made to continue it or cancel it.  As far as I'm concerned the Pilot was a disaster of TV viewing, and I don't think its going to last.  I havn't yet at the moment had a chance to catch the new episode, at least I think it is, to see if the quality improved, but I'm not holding on to any hope. 

Like anything, this show should be given a chance.  Still even though it got great numbers to start off with, give it a couple of weeks and just watch it steadly decline.  I already heard from a few people that they don't intend and watching anymore episodes.  In other words they think the show sucks and so do I.  But I'm going to give it a few more weeks before I decide to stop watching.  I always like to give a new shows a couple week chance.

What did you think.  Did you like it or think it was crap like I did?

-Phil