Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep

Wow with episodes like this it's no wonder the show got canceled. The second season really just got caught in a downward spiral in quality. It increasingly lost sight and focus of what the show was supposed to be. This episode was just ridiculous. My top favorite films are stuff like Donnie Darko, Fight Club, and The Fountain. So I'm definitely a fan of cerebral mind benders but this episode just did a terrible job at trying to be smart. It was just a mess and the worst part is that it was a mess that meant nothing in the grand scheme of the show. This whole episode was just a waste of time. I just don't know what the creative team was thinking with this crap. This show had a lot of potential but they just totally lost their way by this point.

One of my favorites of the series, the title character makes a huge leap forward in character development. The question of the value of human life is brought in the fore again. It portrays clearly a shift for Sarah on the scale of morality that all the characters in the Connor household dynamic sit on. The need for vigilance and internal pressure on Sarah is so well illustrated in the quote from Hamlet that the title is drawn from: "Some must watch, while some must sleep: so runs away the world."

This episode is most definitely one that is much better when watched a second time. Much of the surprising content that rewards the audience's attention to detail is hidden in things like some of the props, the costume choices, the way dialogue in a few scenes parallels previous episodes, and the minor shifts the characters have taken toward similarity to each other.

I have been looking at the whole show again to see/appreciate how much I'd miss it... and I've been really disappointed in the second year. Yes, Summer Glau is more glamorous than the previous year, they brought in extra people to bring out her attributes, but that's about the only positive aspect.

This sleep episode is its nadir, unquestionably. I kept stopping and wondering what I'd missed. It's incomprehensible across the board at a time when the series needed to be peaking and sparking sponsors to be screaming for it to be kept alive.

Writing this makes no difference. The show is gone. But it's a reality check. I'll miss what they had the first year. The showrunners killed the show; the director killed this episode.

Sarah's nightmares become all too real, causing stress that's really tough to deal, awake and asleep, this episode's bleak, the mothership is listing, soon to keel.

This is the lowest ranked episode of the show on imdb and for good reason. It has nothing to do with any of the other episodes. It's as if this episode was sent back from an alternate future where there was a third season. Not only does it not fit into the timeline of these episodes, but it's really boring. The last few episodes were building towards something, but then suddenly in this episode Sarah is in a sleep clinic because she's had insomnia for 2 weeks. Eh?

The insomnia wasn't mentioned in the previous episodes. In this one she's just having lots of boring dreams, and occasionally talking to a sleep therapist in the clinic. Then when this episode ends having achieved nothing, the next episode carries on like this never happened. It's the ultimate filler episode. I'm only giving it a two because there was a brief and entirely unnecessary shot of Cameron in her pants.