Catching up on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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It’s been ages since I’ve given any thought to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but that’s summer for you. Before you know it, it’ll be fall and season premieres will be as prevalent as back-to-school ads.
According to TVGuide.com, which caught up with the showrunners at a recent TCA’s panel, John’ Connor (Thomas Dekker) has got a new love interest, Riley (played by actress Leven Rambin). The mag reports she’s named for Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly.
Riley won’t be clued in to John’s secret mission to save the world, which strikes me as lame because I expect it’ll mean their scenes together will have a Saved By the Bell vibe to them.
“Sci-fi shows get a little insular at times,” says exec producer John Wirth. “It’s nice to see [our characters] interact with real people.”
That’s good, because the romantic sparks between John and the Glaubot (Summer Glau) were downright creepy, so the less of them the better.
Everyone’s biggest beef with the first season was the way Cameron (Glau) came off like a normal kid in the pilot and turned into Lt. Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation after they jumped to 2007.
“Summer’s character had been prepped for that particular situation, so it was almost like she had a script,” explains Josh Friedman, the other helmer. “Once they jumped forward in time, though, she was as adrift as everyone else.”
Season 2, premiering Sept. 8, won’t at least face the obstacle of a writers strike messing with its story arcs. That should give the writers some room to explore the space.
“Sarah’s war is a lot grander and more complicated than she thought it was,” Wirth said.
BuddyTV quotes the pair saying that a lot of what got left on the cutting room floor in Season 1 is fodder for the fall.
“We had stuff planned for a whole season arc that we didn’t get to and we’re still working off some of the material in a macro sense, but in terms of the micro sense, it’s different,†Friedman is quoted saying. “If we learned anything last year, sometimes the show got overly complicated. There were heavy mythology episode and serialized and we’re trying this year to tell—I don’t want to say less complicated, but maybe slightly less ambitious stories.â€
In an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Brian Austin Green talks about how his character, Kyle Reese, is as programmed as Cameron in his own way. He also learned a lot from being typecast as David Silver.
Here’s his take on the coming season’s arc…
This season it’s all mission: We’re trying to stop Judgment Day. We’re finding different people involved with the technology companies and figuring out what steps we have to take to change things. It’s not like you kill the Terminator and then there’s no Judgment Day. Terminators are being sent back constantly. You never know how many there are with very specific missions.
And while there’s nothing earth-shattering or spoilery, Kristin dos Santos’s WWK column caught up with the cast and got some interesting plot and character insights
In other news, Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson is joining the cast, and Garrett Dillahunt (Cromartie/T-888) is now a series regular.
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OK, that last “In Other News” paragraph alone is the BEST news as far as I’m concerned and might just get me to set the DVR.
Garbage is one of my favorite bands of the ‘90s. (Saw them twice in concert and they brought down the house both times.) So of course I’m excited to see if the incomparable Shirley Manson’s electric performances translate as an actor.
And Garrett Dillahunt is one of the finest, most underrated actors on TV. He played two completely different unsavory characters brilliantly on the first two seasons of “Deadwood” and was one of the few bright spots of David Milch’s choppy followup, “John from Cincinnati.”