Present and future for T:SCC

Zap2it reports:

Some other highlights of Friedman's chat with the press:

• On giving out plot information:
  I'm a fascist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ass to the marketing and promotion department, and I think they were very happy that I was on strike for 14 weeks. ... Since I've gotten back I get these little e-mails and they say, 'Can we show this?' And I say, 'No.' If I had my way the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with the words 'Sarah Connor' on them.
  
  
• On tackling the show's trickier time travel aspects:
  I try not to abuse the time travel too much I think we think about it all the time. I've been in the writer's room and there will be points, it happens at least once a day where all of a sudden we just go quiet and everyone stares at each other because we completely tilted like a pinball machine because we can't wrap our brain around what we're trying to do. I think that I have a pretty specific idea as to what I believe the rules of our universe are and I try not to violate them. I think that chaos theory abounds and that's always my argument, a specific geek argument, why doesn't Skynet just send... well they can't send a nuclear bomb back. I think even Skynet probably at this point understands that the causality is so complicated that it's unclear as to what any one thing might do. So I think to do something en masse is a very -- they might end up destroying themselves, when they need the humans as much as the humans need them to kind of—well, they need the humans more right now, until later, once they're created, then who knows.
  
  
• On balancing audiences for the show:
  [T]here are two groups of people I think who watch these shows, there are the real sci-fi people who watch these shows and then there's everybody else. It seems that everybody else has probably never seen Battlestar Galactica and probably can't remember Blade Runner and couldn't tell you what was going on. So they're all fascinated by it, and then you have the people who've seen every episode of Star Trek and watch that episode where... and they're like, 'Oh they're going down this road,' because we've seen this road, and you sort of have a responsibility on the one hand, I think, to try to explore it in the ways that it most obviously occurs. And then I think to the people who've seen these things before, which includes me, you want to keep those people interested so you want to explore it in the ways that we haven't seen it before.
  
  
• On ditched plans to bring back Kyle Reese [rather than brother Derek, as currently played by Brian Austin Green] for the series:
  I'm not going to say how I was going to do it but I had an idea but it was one of those things that probably worked really well on paper, and I could easily explain it to you if we sit down for ten minutes. But I think if it was probably something that was a bit of bridge too far for an audience, and again, Kyle is sort of a sacred cow and I think one thing to see him in the future and it's another to see him in the present. I don't know, I still hold out hope that somehow I'll figure out to get him back, but every time I ever brought it up everyone looked at me like I was completely insane. I listen to everyone every once in a while when it's unanimous.
  
  
• On what he'd be hoping for in an episode order for next season:
  [T]hat's up to FOX. I don't know. Last year I had 22 planned and we switched it to 13 and we did nine. So I'm always... when I sit down and plan a season out, until someone tells me otherwise, I plan for 22, and if it's not going to be 22, I make adjustments. But I always plan for 22. I've had ideas for probably the first three or four years. I've got arcs for them. Sometimes it just a matter of moving things up or moving things back or seeing where it goes.