Random Touché

By now most of you have heard the news that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (T:SCC ) is cancelled. I received a call earlier today from Peter Roth at Warner Bros. and I appreciate both his personal and professional support throughout this show’s life. I know a lot of you are angry about the cancellation and want to find a place to direct your anger and to that I say do yourself a favor and find a way to move past it. Every network wants a big fat hit, especially one with a brand name behind it, and Fox was/is no different. They supported the show, they supported my vision of the show, and they gave it plenty of time to find an audience.
And what an audience we found: passionate, intelligent, kind of nuts in a good way. My only complaint about the T:SCC fans is that there aren’t ten million of them. But I prefer to be happy for the ones we had instead of lamenting the ones we didn’t.

Good shows are cancelled every year; smart shows, worthy shows, shows which move their viewers to write blogs and have viewing parties and create action figures and bury executives’ email accounts under thousands of messages. I miss Deadwood and The Wire and Arrested Development but thank God that I still have Rescue Me and The Office and a recently renewed Party Down written by ex-T:SCC writer John Enbom.

Bad shows are cancelled, too. And certainly there are those who did not like what we did and had their own vision for what a Terminator TV show should be. It’s easy to look at low ratings or cancellation as “failure” and for those who believe we’ve gone about this all wrong I’m sure today’s news will only serve to confirm a world view that I would never try to change. We’ve written the show as best we can, executed it to the best of our abilities, and sent it out in the world knowing that we worked out asses off to do something that wouldn’t be a waste of anybody’s forty-three minutes.

Thanks to a brave and talented cast, a feature crew working on a TV schedule, and everyone else who I could list but won’t because they know who they are. Mostly I’d like to thank those of you who’ve supported us and fought for us and given up hours of your life to watch our show. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. The watching.
Hope we do it again soon.

Josh Friedman

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by

Hadley

Source : http://www.fox.com/blogs/terminator

I know I’m a slowpoke when it comes to news. Actually I was quite disappointed to hear it in the first place maybe because it’s embedded in my mind that any TV flicks with pretty fembots will hit. Although many couch potatoes will disagree and the sloppy slow plot occurring at times, I’m quite satisfied with the show and watching the evolution of Skynet which something you can’t get in the movie. Ah, speaking about the movie, The Terminator Salvation is currently airing in cinema, and No, this time around there is no Arnie a.k.a T-800/850 to be the lead. Instead the new John Connor face(again), Christian Bale is the lead. Anyway upon the Fox’s decision, I’m definitely going to miss:

1. The hot momma Sarah Connor by Lena Headey. She is more motherly than the original Sarah portrayed by Linda Hamilton. Of course with the added combat skills made her a tough mom indeed.

2. The non usual and geeky John Connor by Thomas Dekker. Speaking of John, this John is smarter and more streetwise than in the movies (T2 and T3). Plus he’s good in electronics making brains over brawn any day.

3. Lastly, how we could forget the obvious fembot in the series, Cameron by Summer Glau. From being cold, heartless and even had its system corrupted and attempted to kill John, she managed to lure male fans to stick in front of TV while doing the usual Arnie chores.

To Josh Friedman, Thank you for delivering such a wholesome series. If only they can undo the cancellation, we as fans are more than glad although it’s the least possible decision to happen right now. Anyhow, if you never watch it before and a true terminator fan, try watching the original trailer below, who knows many will sign up the petition and other production house will pick up the series and resume it all good again.