“Because so many of you, our most devoted fans, have been asking, we wanted to set the record straight!
While the fate of the show past production on episode thirteen is still unclear, FOX has given us the go-ahead to write two more additional episodes for this season — fourteen and fifteen.
We are hard at work writing those episodes and await news of a potential pickup for the full “back nine” (additional episodes to complete the season) in the near future. We’re crossing our fingers (and dotting our i’s) that we’ll have more good news to share with you soon…
In the meantime, keep tuning in! Get your friends interested! And thanks for all of your support.”
Synopsis: John and Derek infiltrate a military academy in order to protect an integral member of the future resistance. Meanwhile, Weaver’s first assignment for Ellison takes an interesting turn of events when he discovers a specter from his own past.
It’s amazing how people can watch the same television show and come away with completely different opinions about what they just saw.
I’ve made no secret of who I enjoy most–and who I think has the best acting chops on T:TSCC–Summer Glau as Cameron. Her scene last week where future Cameron went head to head with human Allison (the human that Cameron is modeled on) was outstanding. But sadly, a scene doesn’t make an episode.
Tonight had a very nicely played scene done at a military academy featuring Brian Austin Green and a gung-ho teenage wannabe soldier. We’ve seen this type of scene many times before in both television and film and this one was really not all that special save for Austin Green’s performance. He, with Glau, are two of the show’s strongest performers and they need to be on screen much more.
Unbelievably, Lena Headey as Sarah sat on her arse babysitting for the second week in a row!
This time she was taking care of a maybe 9 y.o. boy who shared the name of another, older boy who a terminator was trying to find and kill before the boy could grow up to become a Resistance fighter of import.
It’s obvious that the writers are trying to show Sarah’s humanity but plunking her into dumb situations is getting excruciating and she’s not convincing that she has any warm emotions unless she’s smiling. It may well be due to Headey’s (gorgeous) facial structure that she has a chronic pained look on her face as does Thomas Dekker as John Connor.
Dekker’s character, who keeps getting reminded of how important he is by the measurement of how many people die to protect him is sounding less whiny–but he’s just as somber as ever and frankly, he’s a big downer.
The writing on this series–I don’t know–was it ever really good? I thought so. Now some of it is merely meh though with the wrong actor it’s gawd-awful (Shirley Manson).
I did lament last week that it seems that FOX is not going to give T:TSCC a chance to do CPR on itself and will, if the show is lucky, simply let it run for the contracted 13 episodes. It might be a mercy killing to let it go if Josh Friedman and Co. can’t come up with anything better than this.
There is no show next week due to the very special holiday, Columbus Day, but barring any shady moves on FOX’s part T:TSCC should return on October 20.
The Tower Is Tall But The Fall Is Short preview clip:
In 2 weeks: The Tower Is High But The Fall Is Short Jesse (Stephanie Jacobsen), a woman from Derek’s past, surfaces while Sarah, John and Cameron try to locate a person on their list.
Cast: Lena Headey as Sarah Connor; Thomas Dekker as John Connor; Summer Glau as Cameron; Brian Austin Green as Derek Reese; Richard T. Jones as James Ellison; Garret Dillahunt as Cromartie; Shirley Manson as Catherine Weaver
