Season Two of Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles Premieres Tonight

Posted on September 8, 2008

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles returns tonight on Fox at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time and we can't wait to see it. There's a great interview at Wired with series creator Josh Friedman. He talks about the second season, casting news and comparisons with Battlestar Galactica. Friedman has a much bigger budget this year, which is exciting. And Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, joins the cast as ZeiraCorp CEO Catherine Weaver. That ought to be interesting.

On kicking off Season Two with a bang: "Last year we were establishing the world and the rules of the world and bringing people up to speed. This year, we have a bigger budget, so we can give viewers more sense of the place and Los Angeles. We have some really cool action sequences and show more of the future sequences where the Terminators have completely taken over.
"We have an awesome episode where we get a good sense of Cameron's back story -- and what she was made for. That's one of my favorite episodes so far. We also will show more of Brian Austin Green's past, his point of view and where he came from. [Green plays Derek Reese, John's uncle who traveled from the future.]"
On parallels to Battlestar Galactica: "I'm a huge fan, I'm just behind a season. It's almost so good and so close to what we're doing, sometimes it's painful to watch. We have a writer on our show who was on BSG the first two years, and she serves at a checkpoint to make sure we don't cover the same ground. I don't know who the 12th Cylon is and I've threatened to fire people who tell me anything about that show. I like the idea that there are hidden Terminators ... but you have to be careful or else it becomes Where's Waldo?, and a cheap effect. There could be a Terminator that we discover along the way. I can't even remember how many there are on the show right now."

All we have to say is that Summer Glau's Terminator character better miraculously survive that car crash from the first season finale. Or we will be mightily displeased. Here's the season two trailer: