The Love Flows at SCC

Lena’s on the phone, but you get to see Summer Glau, Shirley Manson and more of the cast and crew.

Blogging the TCA Blogs #8 - “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”

iF Magazine gets the download on Season 2:

(Executive Producer Josh Friedman) also notes that the series will be coming more self-contained vs. serialized like a bulk of Season One was. There will still be an overriding arc, but there will now be more closed-ended episodes as well.
Other info revealed is director David Nutter (who helmed last year’s pilot episode) returns for the Season Two premiere (something he rarely does for series he starts off), Cromartie (Garret Dillahunt) returns and the theme will be “evolution” according to Friedman.

After Ellen on Cameron’s arc:

…afterward I joined a group of reporters who mobbed Summer Glau, and she leaked a few more details about the next season. “I can tell you relationships do change this season,” she said. “I can’t say how, but everything is changing. … [Cameron]’s growing quite a bit, I think people are going to be surprised.”

TV Squad on John Connor:

Thomas Dekker told the critics to expect his character, John Connor, to be a little less of a weak kid this year. “He was able, but didn’t have blood in him to be a leader,” he said. “The plan was to keep him young, have long hair, go to school and be normal, his essence of youth and innocence still there. A lot of that dies at the beginning of this season. (The writers are) trying to do it subtly in the script.”

The TV Addict on SCC vs. the next film:

James Middleton was asked about the challenges about working on the Terminator TV show, and the new Christian Bale Terminator movie coming out next May, and said that they both take “cues” from the original films, but that they take the original idea and go in two different directions. Each franchise is meant to live alone, and they’re buffeted by the idea that “fate is what you make it” - i.e. these could be different alternate realities for the different characters from Terminator.

Everybody Changes

E! has got the goods, specifically dish on the new season of T:SCC. We don’t want to ruin too much (so be forewarned if you’re looking to stay clear of spoilers!), but they managed to pry some snazzy details about what’s coming up for Cameron and the Connors.

Check out what Summer, Thomas, Garret, and creator Josh Friedman had to say over at Watch With Kristin.

Making the Premiere… Maybe?

Inter-Show Nerd Fight

IGN TV: With Joss Whedon coming to FOX with Dollhouse, is there a little part of you that thinks he’s coming to take Summer Glau back?

Josh Friedman, EP of Terminator: (laughs) Yes! I will say that some of my more uncomfortable moments as executive producer of this show involve me, Joss Whedon, and Summer Glau at Comic-Con standing together. I felt like I’d gotten into the middle of a very intense relationship that I shouldn’t be a part of. So I just had to walk away.

And referring to the other guys with new potential shows at Fox (Whedon, JJ Abrams, Ron Moore, Shawn Ryan):

Josh Friedman: Those guys, certainly more than I do, have a brand that brings with it a group of fans. I only hope that a year from now we will all be grouped together on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Though I’ll be the guy in the back bringing coffee. “Not Pictured: Josh Friedman.”

Fanboys’ Exultation for Return of Summer’s Body

Executive Producer Josh Friedman subjected himself to a conference call with bloggers. Here’s what they uncovered about the second season of Terminator:

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Josh: “As everyone’s wondering, we are getting rid of Summer Glau… No, I’m kidding. If anyone was worrying that we blew her up in the end and she’s not coming back, I’ll reassure you that she is coming back, eventually, in full force.”

THE DEADBOLT: Will there be technical changes done to Cameron when she returns from the car bombing?JOSH FRIEDMAN: [laughs] She’ll still be pretty.THE DEADBOLT: So does that mean she’ll still be the same, physically?
JOSH FRIEDMAN: Eventually.

The Sarah Connor Society
When I asked Josh about the mystery surrounding the high school student’s suicide, he said that at least in the short-term, the story will not be re-addressed. And that while he was a fan of the story himself, most of it ended up on the cutting room floor due to episodic time constraints.

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Josh: “I’m hoping to revisit the future-war. I love the future-war. I had plans, last year, to do a number of future-war episodes. They’re the most expensive episodes we do, and they’re the most time-consuming and the hard part is the CGI. I’m hoping for more. I love the future.”