Eventually, I'll finish typing these up along into articles. Too busy editing some stories for magazine publication at the moment.
Sarah Connor Chronicles
EMBRACE THE PARADOX
A panel of podcasters and writers from the original movies gather to discuss the new TV series: it's comparison to previous incarnations (films, novels, comics), and the future of the TV show and new film, TERMINATOR SALVATION.
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SC and T2 are separate realities. All movies and SC are seen as distinct realities. It's impossible to make all books/films/etc jive. It would be a massive undertaking to make sure all details ever put forth were consistent.
For example, in the initial Terminator part 1 novelization, it is said that a Terminator's biological components include minor organs, so that it could actually eat and digest food to fuel the living tissue and repair itself. This is clearly contradicted in SC, when a Terminator loses its skin, leaving only an exoskeleton, only to have it replaced by a chemical solution that forces skin, not organs, to grow.
One audience member put forth the phrase that symbolizes the show: EMBRACE THE PARADOX.
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Show focuses on Sarah's journey as a mother to turn John not into a hero but into the leader of the human resistance. It's important he stop being the guy that will jump into the back of a truck to save the day and start ordering other people to do it. As his mother tells him, "John, you are too important to risk your life."
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Steve Glosson: Show uses Sarah's beginning and end voiceovers to maintain the story is from her POV.
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Audience: Why doesn't Skynet send Terminator's FAR back in time to destroy humanity before it has any kind of technology that gives it a chance?
Aaron: No way for it to keep up with humanity as a unit. One Terminator, whether or not humanity had technology, couldn't defeat them, nor could it kill them fast enough to overcome its reproduction rate.
Also, it understands how time paradoxes work. It wants to keep the current timeline intact to ensure its creation. The only exception is it wants this timeline intact WITHOUT John Connor.
Audience: Judgement Day is inevitable. The series will shift focus from rpeventing Skynet's creation to devising how to win the future war.
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Audience member gave Steve a copy of "Love and Sex with Robots" because he opposes the "Robot Love Act of 2027." He is a charming but overweight man that claims a very low reproduction rate.
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Does Derrick Reese have a definite agenda against Cameron, or just against Terminators because he knows they revert to their original programming?
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Audience: Why did Skynet send back these lame model 101s when from T2 and T3 we see they had better models available?
Season 2 will show a progression of Terminators.
As for why that will take time to come out in the show, this show is very much a sequel to T2. It ignores T3. We don't see T-1000s because the T1000 was a prototype. One of a kind. When T2 occurs, Skynet had lost the war and sent this single unit as a last ditch effort.
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Terminators aren't programmed to kill everyone. They have a mission and will do what it takes to fulfill that mission. Often, that mission means killing those that stand in the way, but it must avoid unneccesary deaths to avoid detection.
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Cameron has some side-agenda. She said she is not programmed to obey John... YET. Implying he must first become the leader, not the hero, before she trusts his decisions.
SMALLVILLE
Michael Rosenbaum
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Mike sat down already in a joking mood. He loves comedy and standup. He played with the desk microphones as though they were penises.
Will you return to Smallville this season at all? The CW reports you will.
No! THE CW LIED! HAHAHAHAHAHA. (raised the desk mike as though it gave him an erection) Next question?
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Next, he did a dead-on Chris Walken impersonation.
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Did he tryout for the Clark Kent part first?
NO! Because that would require serious acting. (in on some of Tom's bad acting and more in on some of the bad writing given to him) How many times could I come on set to say, "Stop lying, Lex! I'm going back to my barn and I don't want you to follow me! And stop spying on me. Aren't you, like, in your 20s? I'm in high school! It's just creepy."
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Will you direct a S8 episode?
NOPE. I only use 35mm, and they use digital. *smile*
He only directed for Smallville because they compromised with him. CW wanted the publicity of him directing an episode. In return, they gave him his Director's Guild card.
In general, he hated directing Smallville because of complicated episodes like the Superbreath episode. He thought, "Ok, I've just going to do an episode," then he reads Clark has to make BREATHING dramatic. WTF?!
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Came off the stage so he could be more intimate and walk through the audience. The staff ordered him back on.
Which he several minutes later ignored, saying, "Listen, I'm the guest! I get to do what I want! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
He had the audience in tears of laughter.
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Someone asked him to re-act their favorite line spoken by him, "Kneel before Zod!"
He said he HATED that episode. He couldn't stand the clothes and the line. Every time it got to him to say "Kneel...!" he would crack up. What made it worse was wearing this huge, heavy, dark purple trench coat. The crew knew he hated wearing it and heckled him every chance, just making it worse.
Finally, he did a BAD impersonation of himself saying the line, and continued to tell anyone that asked him a question to "Kneel before Zod!"
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Disappointments with the show?
Yeah, Lex didn't have enough sex with Lana.
And he was drunk too often! Every scene, I mean every scene, just having another drink. Clark comes to visit him in the morning. "Oh, Clark, just having a little scotch."
And he wore the SAME SUIT EVERYDAY. As rich as he is, couldn't he afford some more clothes?
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Michael added the line in the S7 finale, "I loved you like a brother" because he felt that way about Tom and wanted to communicate his real sadness at leaving the show.
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Came out into the crowd to sing Happy Days with a little girl and hug a female fan.
The little girl became a crowd favorite as Michael repeated into the microphone every chance the lyrics to Happy Days so she sing after him the line, "HAPPY DAYS".
The female fan hug lasted forever. She would not let go.
FIREFLY
Still Flyin'
Dick in a box.
Jewel put a valentine in Nathan's mailbox as a stalker letter like they knew where he lived.
The letter was a "Roses are red... If I don't have you, I'll kill myself."
Tucked behind ti was a photo of Jewel flipping Nathan off.
In return, Nathan cut a doll's hand up so it looked like it was giving her the finger and pushed it up at the end of the bloopers real.
To top it off, Jewel got all of Dragon*Con to flip Nathan off. She gave everyone at the panel a pamphlet that told everyone to give Nathan the finger when she gave the signal. Now, when she finished the story she lifted her hands for the crowd to stand and do the same thing. Everyone stood and flipped Nathan off.
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What makes them happy?
Jewel: Shoes
Morena: Nathan. No, plays.
Alan: Skydiving
Nathan: outdoors
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Nathan used an SFD device for epic fail+grasshoppers in the night+drumroll for questions.
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Fav ep:
Morena: Out of Gas
Jewel: Jaynestown
Nathan: Out of Gas
Alan's fav episode was never filmed. He had an idea for an ep: Crew must go through a wormhole (which are real in the real world, k?) to do a job. This wormhole is like the Panama Canal, a controlled waypoint. The problem is that going through it scrambles your molecules temporarily and you must be patiet while you reassemble yourself.
Except the crew can't waste any time. They have to immediately complete the job.
Morenna has a beard. Nathan has a fat ass.
The point is they have to do the job all screwed up.
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From Morenna to Alan: How did Wash and Zoe fall in love? Considering they hated each other at first.
Alan: Well, you know, the way you do... I mean, haven't you ever met someone that you just hated and never expected to like, but you ended up loving?
Nathan: Yes, Alan Tudyk.
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To Nathan: What was it like working with Andy Griffith?
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