Mom, are we at Season Two yet?

• James Middleton and John Wirth talking TSCC Season Two with Comic Book Resources (spoilerish)
• Thomas Dekker discussing the evolution of John Connor with Edge Boston (ditto), and
• A new video interview with Thomas Dekker posted on our video channel.

The smackdown we promised almost a year ago has finally come to pass. Chuck, the NBC show about a dorky retail nerd with a spy-database in his brain, is airing at the same time as Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Monday nights at 8. Will you prefer comedy or drama? Which Firefly alum would you rather watch every week: Chuck’s Adam Baldwin or Sarah Connor’s Summer Glau? Which whiny boy wins your heart, Chuck or John Connor? Robots or spy gadgets? You decide.

As we march toward Armageddon, it might help to know who’s already dead.

The Terminator mythology is a good lens to address some of the more important AI questions: will our machines eventually turn on us and try to kill us all? In the first Terminator the answer was simple: yes, yes they will.

Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles got off to a great start last season, but ratings fell off until Brian Austin Green was added to the cast as John Connor’s uncle from the future. The explosive [in more ways than one] series started out smart, but seemed to get smarter from Green’s debut on - and the season ended with quite a bang, considering that it wasn’t planned for that purpose. One of the key relationships in the series [after Sarah Connor and son] has to be the one that’s developing between the cautious Derek Connor and John’s guardian terminator, Cameron [Summer Glau].

I can’t wait to see if Cameron (Summer Glau) makes it out of that Jeep on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (Sept. 8th) Given that she is a indestructible killing machine, I’d say all signs point to yes. Now with Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson in the cast as a corporate baddie, the girl-power quotient on the film franchise’s spinoff is impossible to resist.

A whopping 79% of 1,000 digital video recorder owners reported that the technology has improved their relationship, according to the NDS DVR Report… DVRs were cited as the second most essential household technology item they can’t live without, second only to the mobile phone. Among non-technological household items, DVR was beaten out only by washing machine and microwave oven. “The results show how fast the DVR has become an indispensable part of many people’s lives in the US,” said Steve Tranter, vice president, broadband and interactive delivery, NDS Americas. “It’s one of those technologies that, once you use it, it makes you wonder how you coped before.”

Sarah searching for TSCC News

“Being an extra in a film means your job is to give the background a sense of reality during that particular scene. Most extras don’t even get to shoot in the same frame as the leading actors, but I lucked out. The three leading actors in this film are in the same scene as I am. “Albuquerque has seen a huge rise in major film production recently,” Smolinski continued, “with films such as ‘Transformers,’ ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ ‘The Spirit’ and now ‘Terminator: Salvation’ being filmed here. It really is exciting, and I plan on participating in more films as they are produced here in Albuquerque.”

From kidnappings and carjackings to collisions and explosions, the second season premiere of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES plays out not so much like your traditional episode of television, but rather like one seriously action-packed instalment of the popular video game series GRAND THEFT AUTO. Complete with the requisite mobsters, shootouts and double-crosses, fans will revel as Sarah, John and Co. do anything and everything to survive, as they’re chased through the streets of Los Angeles by…. well, we’re not about to spoil all the fun.

New TSCC S2 Wallpaper
To help pass the time until September 8th rolls around, the Sarah Connor Society has collected a whole endoskeleton worth of “Samson & Delilah” goodies, including:

• - FOX’s official description
• - Promo photos, and
• - Clips from the episode here and here.

'I’ve had cause to think about women’s characters in science fiction, and the single most important female character in the history of science fiction film: Ellen Ripley, of the Alien series. What makes her important? Because she’s a pivot point in the history of science fiction film, and how women inhabited the genre. In a nutshell — Before Ripley: Barbarella. After Ripley: Sarah Connor."

What will happen to the freshman class of 2007? A slew of promising newcomers from last fall-think “Chuck,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Life,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”-had their initial seasons cut short by the strike. Most have been off the air since March (or earlier), causing network execs to worry that audiences may have simply decided to move on. That’s why many producers are treating their second-season premieres as pilots, and network hypesters are promoting many of the sophomores as brand-new shows. Will viewers who initially flirted with these frosh resume their infatuation, or move on to the sexy new morsels the networks are offering up this fall?

Today’s Facebook Review is about Terminator SCC (Sarah Connor Cronicles). First before starting with this Facebook Review please let me say WOW. Honestly this Application goes beyond all the previous app Reviewed on this Facebook Blog… The graphics as well as the user friendly interface make of this Facebook Application a must for those who enjoy shooting games… 4.3 out of 5.

To file under the heading of “Things I learned through watching TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES” you can now add the Spanish for “new promotional images” - Nuevas imagenespromocionales - and “second season” - segunda temporada - thanks to Spanish language blog TVSpoilercenter, which has posted a clearer version of the new Cameron billboard and some intriguing new promo art as well as screencaps of the earlier TSCC and Fox promos. Muy fabuloso! Not be left out, francophiles can check out the TSCC page on Cinema-France.com.

Finally, for the TSCC fan that absolutely must have everything, according to this site you can now buy your own copies of posters used as set dressing on TSCC. Anyone who can spot the scene where these posters were used, please give us a shout on the Sarah Connor Society’s Merchandise Mania board. And you can order this awesome “Sarah Connor Is My Homegirl” TERMINATOR-tee from UK-based 8Ball.

I have to give a HUGE thanks to Laura from Dekker_Daily who was kind enough to send me the DVD poster for season 1 of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. Somehow I managed to miss picking up any of the the exclusive stuff. So thank you dear! I spent a good chunk of my afternoon scanning the poster (which wasn’t easy since I had to reassemble it in Photoshop because it was larger than my scanner bed) to bring them all to you since there aren’t any digital versions of these available. I have put a small tag at the bottom of the poster - if you repost PLEASE do not remove it. I rarely tag anything and only do so if I’ve spent a lot of time on a scan, so please give our site the credit that it deserves.
I also cropped out the new S2 cast promos from the poster and loaded them into the gallery - a scan of the whole cast, Ellison/Catherine, a scan of John, Derek, and Cromartie (Summer & Lena’s photos were from last year.) You can find the photos in each of the characters respective galleries HERE! Also I bought one of the ultra cool TSCC room keys from Comic Con and scanned it for you all too. You can find both of the DVD Poster art in the gallery HERE!

MAGAZINE SCANS/INFOENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY - there was a tiny mention in this week’s Entertainment Weekly (with Harry Potter on the cover) had a small “what to watch - Warrior of the Week” article about season 1 of TSCC and the marathon that’s currently running.

SUMMER ON COVER OF FALL ISSUE OF SCI-FI MAGAZINE

FINALLY - Lori with IMAGINEME&YOUTHEMOVIE informed me today that Summer Glau is on the cover of the Fall issue of Sci-Fi Magazine. They didn’t have it at my local store yet - once it comes in I’ll be sure to scan the article for you all. Update: Lori sent me the scans! Click to enlarge - I also have them loaded in the gallery HERE and HERE!
If you see any TSCC articles in magazines please let me know - they should start popping up all over the place!

First, if you haven’t seen them already…

• - DarkUFO at SpoilerTV has posted a video interview with Thomas Dekker, Lena Headey and Summer Glau about TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES second season (spoilers)
• - Richard T. Jones spoke with The TV Addict about where his character is heading (spoilers)
• - FOX’s “FOX Fresh” campaign released a promotional gallery, including shots of Lena Headey, Summer Glau, Thomas Dekker, Brian Austin Green, Richard T. Jones, Shirley Manson and Leven Rambin, and a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot.
• - UPDATED: SFUniverse has this video interview with Brian Austin Green about Derek Reese & Season Two (thanks to the eagle eyes at TWoP for the heads up).

• - some screencaps from the TSCC Season Two photo shoot video
• - a link to Thomas Dekker covering of Britney Spear’s “Crazy” (without eyebrows), and
• - a chance to ask Thomabout his music, which you can check out on iTunes here.

This is very much a show with a huge amount of potential, and the signs that it has all the necessary ingredients to flourish into a great show. But it’s not quite there yet. It doesn’t yet have It, that sometimes indefinable quality that elevates the great from the merely good. There hasn’t so far been a moment which sends chills down one’s spine, the scene where Locutus appears on the view screen, say, or Angel turns to Angelus, and you realise you’re going to be talking about this show for a long, long time to come. It’s come close a couple of times, such as the moment when Cameron calmly walks down the stairs while those who have just helped her are shot dead, but at times there’s a sense the writing is trying too hard to get there - the shootout in the last episode, for example is too familiar to be effective, as is the scene from the same show when John meets his father - but ambition is not to be condemned and there is certainly a fair share of that. If the series can vary its tone a little more, and can continue to expand its characters and keep its writing to the standard it is now, the phrase “She’ll be back” will very unexpectedly become a cause of celebration.

Once the show finds its stride, it’s hard to pull away, making the abrupt end after only nine episodes (thanks again, writers’ strike!) even more tragic. On the upside, however, you should have no problem burning through this set in record pace. The only thing you’re likely to do faster is set your DVR for this season.

This song is for me the most personal song on the record because it’s about how I grew up and my childhood… It’s about throwing caution to the wind and going after what you truly want in life.