Sarah Connor Interview Revelations
Now that the mind-blowing season premiere is in the rearview mirror, we can talk more about some of the things Terminator’s second season is throwing at us. Here’s the second part of our interview with Lena Headey and Josh Friedman.
Shirley Manson= Liquid Terminator. Um, whoa. Didn’t see that one coming at all.
©2008 FOX Broadcasting Co. CR: FOX
“Did we try it out earlier than we wanted to? No.” Friedman said. “I mean, I think it’s exactly when we wanted to. It sort of was serendipitous. We were working on this character and wanted to introduce somebody who was more of an antagonist, and I didn’t want to do just the basic evil corporate type, so it was a natural progression, and it’s done.”
Has Friedman blown the special effects budget for entire season on this one? Not so, he explains.
“It’s expensive to do, but it’s not necessarily anymore expensive to do than an endoskeleton,” he continued. I mean, morphing technology and GI is something that’s been kind of streamline, I think, in terms of cost over the years since it was first done. It’s still time consuming. It’s more just sort of, it’s just the art of it, just sort of getting it right in terms of the rates of change and kind of what it looks like and the texturing. We went back and forth quite a bit in this first episode because it was the first time that we’d done it.”
I can say I was certainly shocked when she showed up in the men’s restroom. Would we call this model the Urinator?
And Cameron is definitely moving in new territory for a Terminator, playing on John Connor’s perceived “love” for her and even engaging in theological discussions with Sarah. Wassup with the religious themes, Josh?
“It’s something that’s always been in the franchise,” he said. “I think that Sarah as a very, very radicalized Mary figure and John as sort of a Jesus figure has always been in the franchise, and it’s stuff that, thematically, is interesting to explore.
And I’ve kind of become fascinated with it through the Ellison character, and part of it was just because Richard T. Jones is quite religious and I’d spent some time talking to him about it, and I figure it seemed like a really natural place to sort of explore some of those themes. And especially with him, regarding whether or not his faith is either confirmed or challenged by, you know, with the things he’s seen.
I think it’s easy to assume, oh, because there are terminators in the universe that that means that God doesn’t exist or something, but I don’t think that that’s necessarily true. So it’s interesting just to see people with particular ideologies have to try to fit radical world views into it.”
Sarah Connor is definitely off to a rockin’ start. What did you think, readers?
Tags: Josh Friedman, Lena Headey, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Terminator:Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2Related Stories
POSTED IN: Sarah Connor, Television
4 opinions for Sarah Connor Interview Revelations
Maven
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:04 am
That opening was the most friggin’ awesome thing I’d seen since Dark Knigiht. I did not see that last 30 seconds coming.
I also liked the mirroring of John at the end when he was litterally looking in the mirror. His head movements… Arnold from 84. Awesome. I love this show so much.
Brian Allen
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:14 am
Well done, I thought. I was not crazy about a Terminator morphing into a urinal but on the whole we had good stuff.
carebear
Sep 10, 2008 at 8:58 am
That was a FANTASTIC episode. Action from start to finish. Loved it. The urinal of doom kind of grossed me out though..ick.
Brian Allen
Sep 10, 2008 at 10:33 am
Yeah, getting peed on = not villainous.
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: