Post by gothamite66 on Apr 7, 2009 18:41:30 GMT -5
Josh Friedman Talks the Philosophy of Sarah Connor
After last Friday's episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles vibrated our brains to pieces, we were bursting with questions for creator Josh Friedman about the show's philosophy and creative process. Luckily, he answered them.
A lot of sites have praised last Friday's episode as the best of the series, and proof that T:SCC is up there with the best genre TV shows. How much does that kind of critical buzz count with the network?
Obviously the critical praise doesn't hurt in our fight to get renewed - I do think there's a pride of ownership for networks as there would be for anyone - but ultimately it's almost always a numbers game. How those numbers are calculated these days is anyone's guess. When you're on the bubble (if I can be optimistic enough to say that) any little bit helps. The writers room voted "Adam Raised a Cain" as their second favorite episode of the year (the finale was voted #1 but that could have a lot to do with the fact that their boss had written it).
A lot of our readers have pointed out that the Zeira Corp. family are a mirror of the Connors: a son named John, a mother, an uncle and a sister. Was that something you guys planned consciously? If so, did a lot of thought go into it?
The Zeira Corp family was always intended as a mirror to the Connors and was constructed specifically as such. I think "Tower is Tall..." was where I first realized how much material there was to play with. Some of that was simply understanding that Mackenzie Smith was pretty awesome as Savannah and knowing that we could write to her and not away from her. Catherine Weaver was always supposed to mirror Sarah and before I knew who I was casting in the role I had imagined casting an actress who looked a lot like Lena. Obviously I went a different direction there. Ultimately Season Two is a story of these two families.
Click HERE for the rest of the i09 interview
After last Friday's episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles vibrated our brains to pieces, we were bursting with questions for creator Josh Friedman about the show's philosophy and creative process. Luckily, he answered them.
A lot of sites have praised last Friday's episode as the best of the series, and proof that T:SCC is up there with the best genre TV shows. How much does that kind of critical buzz count with the network?
Obviously the critical praise doesn't hurt in our fight to get renewed - I do think there's a pride of ownership for networks as there would be for anyone - but ultimately it's almost always a numbers game. How those numbers are calculated these days is anyone's guess. When you're on the bubble (if I can be optimistic enough to say that) any little bit helps. The writers room voted "Adam Raised a Cain" as their second favorite episode of the year (the finale was voted #1 but that could have a lot to do with the fact that their boss had written it).
A lot of our readers have pointed out that the Zeira Corp. family are a mirror of the Connors: a son named John, a mother, an uncle and a sister. Was that something you guys planned consciously? If so, did a lot of thought go into it?
The Zeira Corp family was always intended as a mirror to the Connors and was constructed specifically as such. I think "Tower is Tall..." was where I first realized how much material there was to play with. Some of that was simply understanding that Mackenzie Smith was pretty awesome as Savannah and knowing that we could write to her and not away from her. Catherine Weaver was always supposed to mirror Sarah and before I knew who I was casting in the role I had imagined casting an actress who looked a lot like Lena. Obviously I went a different direction there. Ultimately Season Two is a story of these two families.
Click HERE for the rest of the i09 interview