From Deseret News archives:
'Terminator' returns
But it was a double-edged sword, because so many of them seemed so anxious to dislike the TV series because it wasn't the movies. And Arnold Schwarzenegger was nowhere to be seen.
"People didn't really know ... what to expect of our show. If we were going to try to repeat what the movies did," executive producer James Middleton said. "And I think what happened, even in our abbreviated season, is that people started to learn what our show was. And that it was really an inspection of this character, Sarah Connor, and all the people around her."
As it turned out, "Chronicles" was good. And it got better as its nine-episode season rolled along (cut short from 13 by the writers' strike). Which won over a whole bunch of skeptics.
"Everyone knows what 'Terminator' is," said executive producer Josh Friedman. "Yet I think that in a weird way worked against us because I think there was a lot of people who sat there and said, 'There is no way this can be a TV show. I just don't think they can do it."'
Actually, we can erase that "maybe." As the second season begins (Monday, 7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13), "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" continues to be a darn good series, whether you were a fan of the movies or not.
Monday's episode picks up right where May's season finale left off. Cameron (Summer Glau) has just been blown up, but, remember, she's a Terminator. (A cyborg from the future, for those of you who aren't up on the story.) Although even Terminators can, um, be affected by getting blown up.
(I'm trying not to give too much away here.)
"It's a very big, very ambitious episode, and almost every character goes through a major change, unexpected change," Friedman said. "It's a pretty big deal.
"There's a lot of the fighting, a lot of mayhem, but in a tasteful way," he added with a laugh.
And still to come in the second episode of Season 2 is the addition of Riley (Levin Rambin), who's sort of a regular girl who attracts the attention of John (Thomas Dekker). Which just might play into the relationship between human boy John and the cyborg girl Cameron.
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