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Sat 12 Jan 2008 | 15h30 GMT+1
Info: www.ifmagazine.com
Writer Josh Friedman fights the future for T:SCC
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Josh Friedman is not just the writer of the upcoming series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, he is also a fan
of the franchise that he is helping get a new lease on life. In fact he is so much of a fan, that he named Summer Glau's
character Cameron in honor of the Terminator creator and director James Cameron.
The series premieres this Sunday on Fox and is followed by the second episode airing on Monday, so iF MAGAZINE found
out the goods on what we could expect to see on this first season, and what we might have to wait until the second
season for in terms of robots, guns, and a drama about a single mother trying to keep her son alive so he can one
day save the human race.
iF MAGAZINE: I assume that we won't see much of the future war in the first season, but is there a chance of
seeing more in upcoming seasons?
JOSH FRIEDMAN: I'd love to get into that at some point, and I love all of that stuff. Fanboys have been clamoring
for a series like that for years, and I know a lot of people wish this series was just that, a post-apocalyptic war series.
They think they want that, but that would be a tough show to do and it wouldn't have the chance of lasting as long as
something like this. I hope we can do some of that someday. [James] Cameron did that well and established it, but in
the first movie he did it on a low budget so the aesthetic was not seeing miles and miles of devastation; so I think
there is a way to do it and fans would think you are staying true to the way Cameron did it and it wouldn't cost you a
billion dollars, but that's probably a long way off.
iF: People are already having issues with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and how this new show fits into
continuity, but in science fiction you can accept that time has branched and now you have alternate timelines with
different outcomes existing simultaneous alongside each other.
FRIEDMAN: Right! And that's all it is. That's was the way I used to want to describe it, with time branching and
parallel times and that made me happy as a fan, and then I realized I would have a hard time explaining that to studio
executives. So, I had to say T3 doesn't exist; we're T3 and let's just go forward. Then they all got it and it was a
lot easier for them to understand. It's hard to go with time travel theory.
iF: Terminator 3 brought Hunter Killer Terminators into the modern timeline. Any chance we'll be seeing HKs
popping up in the series as Skynet evolves to keep itself around for the future war?
FRIEDMAN: Probably later rather than sooner. You have to have something to do with season two. [Laughs]
iF: So your series is expanding on the human drama aspect more than the huge action aspect of the movies right?
FRIEDMAN: There has always been human drama at the core of the Terminator story, so yes, that's where I focus,
is between a mother and her son.
iF: Well, it's nice to see the icon that has become Sarah Connor get her own series that focuses on her, because
she really is such a great character.
FRIEDMAN: That's what I thought and that's why I love this series. That's what I didn't like about T3. It's not
that it's a horrible movie, but it's not Sarah, and I think that's what's at the core of the problems fans have with
the movie. That movie was missing the emotional center of what happened to Sarah since the last movie, and I missed her,
everybody did. I think even the producers would say that they missed Sarah in that movie.
iF: In terms of cameo roles, are any people from the movies coming in, even like Robert Patrick playing a military
person involved with Skynet or something along those lines?
FRIEDMAN: I'm going to be very cautious about stuff like that. We've talked about getting some of those people
like Richard Hatch coming onto Battlestar Galactica. I want the world to feel real, and I think the more you confuse it,
and it becomes 'Where's Waldo' and that makes me a little worried. If I found a way to get them in, but I would really have
to integrate them into the story in a way that mattered. I wouldn't just do it to do it. If I had Robert Patrick on the show,
it would cause a "holy s**t, what is that guy doing here?" reaction; it wouldn't be a throw away.
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iF: Any chance that you will check out the Dark Horse Comic's series for any nifty ideas?
FRIEDMAN: No. I don't look at other sources. We don't have the rights, so I don't look at the books or the comics.
I just don't go near it, and I'm sure there's cool stuff, but I prefer to keep the blinders on. I had a hard time looking
at Battlestar when I was writing Terminator.
iF: Yes, because the Cylons are now human and very much like Terminators themselves?
FRIEDMAN: I told Ron Moore it's painful to watch sometimes because I feel like, "am I stealing from him or is he stealing
from Terminator?" He said he felt that way the fourth time he watched Blade Runner. [Laughs]
iF: Since fiction can't help but cross-pollinate ideas though, it's inevitable that somethings do crossover thematically
from time to time.
FRIEDMAN: There are a lot of compelling issues that get dealt with on several different shows that I think it's ok to
keep addressing as long as they stay interesting.
SPOILER ALERT - don't read any further if you don't want a plot twist in the pilot episode revealed...
iF: So may I ask where the idea to jump the characters to the present came from? Was it in part because of budget
necessity or...?
FRIEDMAN: It solves some problems with networks because they are uncomfortable doing shows that aren't present day
unless they are a distinct period in the past. It was something I thought of when getting ready to pitch it to them and
solve some of the problems of the show. How do you do show that isn't them being hunted all the time, how do you keep them
in one place for a while, how do they become more active, you do you turn the tables so Sarah is the hunter? Now the challenge
is how to find Skynet and still stay off the grid. They have to be pro-active and not just sit on the couch and hide. To be
proactive means to put yourself at risk.
iF: Won't John himself not exist if time was re-written, and Sarah would go back to being a waitress with kids putting
ice cream in her apron?
FRIEDMAN: Absolutely. Or if they do accomplish changing things they cease to exist. It's a loop and it's hard to get
out of the loop. You get right to the heart of the construct. I don't look at it as a bad thing, but the Connors are inextricably
linked to Judgment Day and the apocalypse, they are two sides of the same coin. How that works out in the future is to be
determined, and you have to embrace that.
iF: As a fan of the original films, my biggest issue was with the alternate ending for T2 where Judgment Day never
happened and John is a Senator and Sarah is an old lady. She may have still had a child, but that wouldn't necessarily be
John, is that right?
FRIEDMAN: Well not to get too crazy, but obviously there was some version of John Conner leader of the human resistance
that was not fathered by Kyle Reese, because he had to be the one to send them back. Terminator itself is the second iteration
of the story. How did John Connor get born before there was a Kyle Reese to send back? Obviously Sarah got pregnant by somebody
else. So technically, when Reese comes back and impregnates her, he may be f**king it all up!
Click top link for original article!
... and leave comments, like the following:
craig from england sez....
Bull shut, Reese was always the father dumb nut... It is a 'predestined paradox', for e.g. a man reads about a fire in a building
then goes back through time to see how it happened. And when he is in the building he by mistake knocks a candle over causing the
fire resulting in the reason he went back in the first place...
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