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The Executive Producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles shares some reasoned, thoughtful comments about its cancellation.

Date: 2009-06-19 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drakegrey.livejournal.com
Huh... And here I thought that show was doing well.

But that's Fox all over, cancelling anything interesting and arresting to the eye and instead cramming Ameican Idol down our throats. :p

Date: 2009-06-19 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jakebe.livejournal.com
Well, to be fair, I thought Fox actually gave the show a fair shot. The writer's strike certainly didn't help the flow of the first season, and I think "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" just wasn't what fans of the Terminator franchise was expecting. It was a huge risk to take one of the tentpole action franchises of the last twenty years and turn it into a long-arcing character study.

It was a great show, and I think it would have been a fantastic fit for a channel like SciFi. But I really don't think it had the mass appeal to survive on a major network.

That being said, I'll really miss the show. It made an *excellent* pairing with "Dollhouse".

-J

Date: 2009-06-19 02:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toob.livejournal.com
Enh. I watched the whole thing, and I thought it had a number of significant problems that prevented it from being really engaging. The characters were cold and uncharismatic -- it was impossible to care what happened to them -- and you never felt that any of the ones you actually did like were in serious jeopardy. And none of their actions had any real weight. You never felt that anything any of them did was going to make a real difference in the long run.

With those two factors alone, it became hard to really feel motivated to watch the show.

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