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Mon 7 Jan 2008 | 13h45 GMT+1
Info: www.terminatorfiles.net/forum
Leaked versus official promo pilot
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The pilot work-print of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles first leaked onto the internet back on
July 24th, 2007. Since then a lot has been debated about what was
cool or dumb about the portrayed scenes.
In light of the then recent IRL school shootout, most of us expected that FOX would reshoot those scenes,
but it has not. Other scenes did however get a reshot, some due to appearent reasons (actor changes) but some
have also changed for the better or worse (due to unknown reasons).
Forum-member RKC_Erika (and co-owner of
MotherOfAllDestiny.com) has posted an interesting
topic about the changes made between the two pilots, the leaked version and the one shown to us (US and Canadian)
folks over at YahooTV (now offline).
RKC_Erika has the lowdown:
Here's a rundown of the differences between the 2 versions for those who didn't see it or for some reason
can't/couldn't access it. The pilot has several key differences from the one that was leaked online.
- Opening dream sequence has John waiting in a library and Sarah yells at him to leave - rest was the same.
Monologue was sped up some and felt a little hurried and disjointed. They moved the "losing a child is
like an apocalypse" to the very end of the episode.
- Fiance was recast and renamed Charley Dixon. He's now played by Dean Winters - best known from the first
season of LAW AND ORDER SVU, RESCUE ME, and OZ. All of the fiance scenes were reshot.
- Sarah/Charley scene right after dream sequence - they were a bit more cozy than in the pilot. Dixon's
character had more lines - they're obviously working on building things out so that John and he had in
some ways a better relationship than necessarily Sarah and Charley did. Sarah gave him a goodbye kiss
and told him that she loved him - something she didn't do in the pre-air version. Actually spoilers for
ep 2 GNOTHI SEAUTON has John running off to try to find Charley.
- Charley was more angry with Ellison in their meeting and thought of John like a son.
- John's no longer as weepy when he asks Sarah to finish things for him, he's stronger - personally I
preferred the original version, I have no problem with a 15 year old kid finally getting a taste of a
normal life only to have it ripped away and being all emo about losing it. Knowing that one day you'll
be the savior of humanity when you're battling pimples is a heavy weight for any teenager to follow
around with.
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- School shooting scene - exactly the same - other than they cut Ellison's reaction when he saw the
carnage left behind.
- They inserted the previously deleted scene with Sarah and Cameron where Cameron tends to Sarah's wounded
shoulder. Before that they drop John off at a convenience store to get stuff for her bloody wound.
Sarah yells at him like an army general even when she's bleeding everywhere - I love Sarah.
- They included a new scene at a gas station where John is talking to Cameron as she's filling the truck
with gas. He offers her a chip and then is like "duh - I should've known there was something wrong when
the hot girl starts talking to the new guy." Cameron apologized for lying to him. John asked "What
model are you? You're different than the others?" She takes a chip and eats it and says "Yes I am."
- Final change is the last scene, for some reason they removed them all sitting in the house cleaning
their guns and replaced it with the trio standing outside next to a swingset and then they walked inside.
Some haven't much liked this change - I don't mind it because the apocalypse line was added. There's
wind and dust blowing in front of Sarah before she enters the house - it harkens back to her initial
dream scene in T2 with the kids at the playground. I thought it was a nice homage to the original film
and showed that this is no longer a dream - but the nightmare is back and it's now real.
- Finally they inserted new music throughout it so it's got an overall different feel to it.
I'm a rare exception - I like both versions. I prefer the new fiance. The original guy that they cast was
too soft, Winters seems more like the kind of guy that Sarah would go for.
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