From the Futon Critic:
Executive producer James Middleton is willing to literally blow up a car to drum up support for his second year series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (Mondays at 8:00/7:00c on FOX).
“You ‘re out of your f—ing mind,” exclaims co-star Brian Austin Green after the surprising event. “You don’t blow up s— like that on the show!”
The pair, along with Garret Dillahunt (Cromartie), Shirley Manson (Catherine Weaver), Josh Friedman (Creator/Executive Producer), John Wirth (Executive Producer), Steve Galich (Special Effects Supervisor) and Bear McCreary (Composer), were all on hand for an exclusive press event last week.
The group seems particularly relieved that the show’s second season premiere has aired, freeing them (and everyone else) up to talk about the fact new cast member Catherine Weaver is in fact a liquid metal T-1000. “It’s something that Josh and I talked about in the very beginning, when to bring a T-1000 in,” says Middleton. “And we just wanted to do it at the right time. In the first season we felt that it was scary enough to have the sort of battle axe, endoskeleton type of Terminator… but the liquid metal Terminator is truly scary and we really couldn’t stay away from that [for too long]. It was just too intriguing.”
So what exactly does the introduction of Catherine Weaver mean for the show? “I think we’ve always been evolving in [this] direction,” Middleton notes. “We always wanted to say Sarah’s struggle against Skynet and law enforcement - that’s huge, it’s much bigger than she ever thought it would be. In the movies, it was just about saving John from the Terminators. Now she’s proactive and she has to find all the different ways the war’s being fought. [We're] seeing Terminators that have missions that are not about killing John, completely different missions. We’re seeing people from the future that have different agendas so it’s very complex… and that’s what I’ve always wanted to see. That’s what I always thought the show could live on.”
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