TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES News for Friday (A Very Good Friday Indeed Edition)
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ADE IN:
INT: THE SARAH CONNOR SOCIETY’S SECRET (?) HQ SOMEWHERE NORTH OF LAKE ONTARIO ROXY B‘S BASEMENT
SCS news blogger KATIE sits a table covered with doll parts and tiny beer cans, typing away on her laptop while SCS Forum Admin and In-House Satirist ROXY B watches.
KATIE: I can’t find my links.
ROXY: Links?
KATIE: For the news post. I had a whole list of links. I can’t find them.
ROXY: I think ERIKA posted them.
KATIE: She didn’t tell me that. She should tell me when she posts my links. They’re my links.
ROXY picks up her Sarah Connor action figure and passes her a tiny beer can.
ROXY (positioning Tiny Sarah): You’ve been distracted.
KATIE: I was kidnapped.
ROXY: Which is distracting.
ROXY adds John Connor to the diorama. Tiny John does not get a can of beer. He seems disappointed about that.
ROXY: Look, I get that the whole thing with Evil Jesse was upsetting…
KATIE: She hit me in the head.
ROXY: Well, at least she didn’t hurt anything vital.
KATIE throws a doll at her her.
ROXY: No throwing the action figures. Even Riley. Look, all I’m saying is I think it’s time to leave the basement. You’ve been down here for months.
KATIE: It’s not safe out there – duplicitous resistance fighters from the future, Jameron, sweet-natured computer programs that may decide to kill all humans, disturbingly hot terminators that aren’t Summer Glau, disturbingly hot pictures of Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker together, FOX programming executives – no one is safe!
ROXY: True, no one is ever safe. But, y’know, I’m pretty sure that the shower? Is at least temporarily secure. I know that they call bloggers ‘pyjama media’ but you can take a stereotype too far.
KATIE: I can’t take that risk. Not before the final episode. Not before posting the news.
ROXY looks at Tiny Sarah. Tiny Sarah seems to shake her head.
ROXY: Fine. But when Homeland Security asks if I know about the paranoid Canadian blogger in my basement, I’ve never met you.
KATIE: Sure, fine, whatever.
ROXY goes upstairs with Tiny Sarah and Tiny John, muttering to them about ‘maple syrup psychosis’ and ’stricter passport control’. KATIE is left alone in the basement.
KATIE: Finally. Only fours hours and 15 minutes until the season finale to get these links posted and…
Something CLUNKS behind her. KATIE twitches in her seat.
KATIE: There’s no one there, Katie. What could happen in the basement? It’s perfectly safe…
KATIE looks at Tiny Derek as Chopin begins to play.
Next Time on the Sarah Connor Comicals
KATIE: I didn’t just say that out loud, did I?
Tiny Derek seems to roll his eyes. Behind KATIE a pair of red eyes blink to life and a T-888 endo steps out of the shadows.
T-888: 01001011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100101
KATIE: Trip? Where the f-
T-888: 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101
KATIE: Oh, hell no.
FADE TO BLACK…
(Binary translations courtesy of NickCiskie.com)
TONIGHT ON TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, “Born to Run”:
Stripped of his protectors, the fate of the future rests on the teenaged shoulders of John Connor and his terminator protector, Cameron.
Or does it?
All season long, the liquid metal terminator known as Catherine Weaver has nurtured the John Henry computer program with the help of FB agent-turned-robot mentor James Ellison but for what purpose? Is John Henry humanity’s salvation or our looming destruction?
It’s the Connors versus the Weavers in a confrontation that will change the future forever tonight on TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, 8 pm/7 central on FOX.
But before you watch, Charlie Jane Anders has posted a guide to “Everything You Need to Know Before the End of Sarah Connor” at io9, complete with some awesome behind-the-scenes pics of our cast at work (and at play while at work).
Charlie Jane (who’s weekly reviews of TSCC won the much-desired Sarah Connor Society “Review of the Week” award so many time I finally retired the thing) [and I bet Charlie Jane has never had to hide from the fourth wall in a friend's basement, either ~ Roxy ed.] also spoke to TSCC main man, Josh Friedman, about “The Philosophy of Sarah Connor”:
A lot of our readers have pointed out that the Zeira Corp. family are a mirror of the Connors: a son named John, a mother, an uncle and a sister. Was that something you guys planned consciously? If so, did a lot of thought go into it?
The Zeira Corp family was always intended as a mirror to the Connors and was constructed specifically as such. I think “Tower is Tall…” was where I first realized how much material there was to play with. Some of that was simply understanding that Mackenzie Smith was pretty awesome as Savannah and knowing that we could write to her and not away from her. Catherine Weaver was always supposed to mirror Sarah and before I knew who I was casting in the role I had imagined casting an actress who looked a lot like Lena. Obviously I went a different direction there. Ultimately Season Two is a story of these two families.
And, for those in need of a quick refresher on last week’s episode, why don’t you check out Charlie Jane’s review, here.
Over at Comic Book Resources, they’ve posted intreviews with Josh Friedman, Summer Glau and Shirley Manson from Wonder Con.
Earlier this week, Lena Headey talked to Suicide Girls about Sarah Connor and LAID TO REST:
In 300, as with Sarah Connor, you’re the woman behind the man, working to protect the man, and fighting alongside the man. Does it frustrate you that there’s so few strong roles for women?
LH:Sometimes. Sometimes it’s frustrating. But throughout Sarah Connor, I’ve been writing a lot. It’s inspired me to write pieces for me and other women and men I know who are great actors who don’t necessarily get the chance to do the things they’re capable of. I just think it is really frustrating that the great roles for women are given to the top cream of actresses. But that’s just the way it is. If you are famous and a great actress, and you bring money in, that then allows you to get the cream of the crop in terms of scripts and characters.
Thomas Dekker blogged about meeting SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES VFX guru and LAID TO REST director Rob Hall for ShockTilYouDrop:
It was a freezing cold January morning in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the first day of shooting this show called Terminator and my first day of playing this dude named John Connor. Now f**k if I knew who was doing the TV show’s special make up effects as I’m always “out to lunch”. But I had seen some guy who seemed to be emotionally twenty one but mentally one hundred, carrying around dummies, buckets of blood, fake metal Terminator parts and sporting a very enviable Mohawk and colored tattoos, (colored ones I’ve never had the balls to get). With all that obviously cool personality floating around him, he was of course, a little distant. He was a rad special effects impresario and I was an idiot eighteen year old actor.
And Fear.net has an early reivew of the horror flick, available April 21st from Amazon (US/CAN – May 11th in the UK). For more about LAID TO REST, check out the official site.
Lena Headey’s other recent horror flick, THE BROKEN is out on DVD in the US and Britain.
SCS British Correspondent Caroline, who saw the film in London, writes: ”As Gina, Lena Headey carries the movie, and her performance – her determination to solve her own mystery offset against her rising panic at the turns it is taking – never regresses to the level of simpering horror movie stalk-and-slash victim. Instead, Headey is engaging and sympathetic, and as the movie approaches its climax she accords it an emotional impact which the film as a whole perhaps does not deserve.”
IGN liked THE BROKEN: “smartly written and considerably well acted, this isn’t a jump-scare film, but a suspenseful, carefully crafted attempt to keep viewers braced for an impact that takes awhile in coming, holding the tension for long periods and letting it go at just the right moments.” And Den of Geek calls the movie’s ‘makes you think’ ending “a nice change in genre cinema today.”
I would like to like THE BROKEN but the DVD isn’t available in Canada until Tuesday. Not that I’m bitter [Katie lies. She's totally bitter. Bitter and Canadian. So. Sad ~ Roxy]. For more info, check out this site for UK DVD release (thanks to IMAY for the link).
Garret Dillahunt will be appearing off-Broadway in Things of Dry Hours (check out the pretty headshot of Garret on the Playbill site).
In miscellaneous news, TSCC is up for a few Constellation Awards, will be airing in the Middle East and continues to be one of the 10 most pirated shows on the net. Sugar Rushed blogs about “How TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES Became a Great Show” [Became? Dude, it was always a great show ~ Roxy]. On LiveJournal, Hradzka has an interesting theory about season two (spoilers). For what it’s worth, I don’t agree with his ultimate conclusion but I find his argument compelling.
Finally, Yahoo TV/TWoP named TSCC one of “10 Shows That Deserve to Return Next Fall (But Might Not)”. As for the fate of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, at the Sarah Connor Society we have a saying: we don’t do windows and we don’t do rumours. As soon as we know anything official, you’ll know. Until then, have at it “Chroniclers”. If you haven’t already, go vote at the E!Online, Save On Show poll, check out Schmacky’s awesome “Fans of TSCC” video, and drop by the Save SCC community on LiveJournal for more information on making your voice as a TSCC viewer heard.
No fate but what we make,
Katie for SCS
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