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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 1:55 AM EST I'll start the ball rolling: Here's an upbeat, for-the-fans, Wyle E. Coyote beginning fhat only a Chuck Jones fan could truly appreciate for Season 2 (a shameless crowd pleaser to be sure and a strong way to say to the fans "see, Summer IS back, have no fear!"): =) You could start off with a slow truck across the firey debris field of the Jeep strewn across the street with a very somber score playing and then the camera finally stops at the main cab of the Jeep itself with burning rubble around it. The driver-side door is kicked open forcefully, smoke billows out, and a leg with tattered and ash coated clothing emerges and a boot clad foot steps out onto the ground. Bear's score changes into the opening beats of the original rock classic: "Bad to the Bone." Just a small section of the best known lyrics plays as the camera pans slowly up a somewhat disheveled and slightly bunged up Cameron (nothing a little patch up work wouldn't fix completely since she is after all "different").emerging in dramatic slow motion. "Bad to the Bone" switches to an instrumental version of the same as she marches back to the house with a steely- eyed look that would most definitely stop Arnold in his tracks: as if she's actually thinking: "Sarkissian, you just tried to blow me up, motherf**ker, and all it did was royally piss me off. You've messed with the wrong Terminator... and now it's time to pay." As this is all happening John, Sarah, and Derek have run out to see what the hell just happened with a look of shock and horror and then baffled wonder on their faces... and Cameron stomps right past them into the house, mumbling to no one in particular (maybe she doesn't even realize she's saying it-- a little bit of humanity poking through?), "Happy Birthday... next time YOU go for the cake." Anyone else want to take a stab at this? Your turn. 6 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Krazykaleb |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 2:13 AM EST She need to come out of the reckage with a little damage like maybe a missing arm and blue eye showing. Then with the accompnying sound track to terminator 2 when the T-1000 was chasing John and Sarah out side the hospital. They need to have Summer chase the Armenian Sarkaisan by running as the T-1000. Plus mabe unleash somthing secretly cool about Cameron's terminator abilities that we still don't know about. Like maybe liquid metal or maybe an ability to grow skin back really fast like wolverine. Anything is possible! Just a suggestion. 2 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
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Mar 8 2008, 2:42 AM EST "She need to come out of the reckage with a little damage like maybe a missing arm and blue eye showing. Then with the accompnying sound track to terminator 2 when the T-1000 was chasing John and Sarah out side the hospital. They need to have Summer chase the Armenian Sarkaisan by running as the T-1000. Plus mabe unleash somthing secretly cool about Cameron's terminator abilities that we still don't know about. Like maybe liquid metal or maybe an ability to grow skin back really fast like wolverine. Anything is possible! Just a suggestion."I like that thought (perhaps with less damage than what you described like the whole Road Runner thing I was going for above since how would they replace her eye?)! Perhaps after she goes into the house, she re-emerges fairly rapidly with a BIG gun and runs the f--ker down like an unholy sprinter. She grabs him and literally drags him back kicking and screaming! Of course, he would be a McGuffin and doesn't really have the Turk. The search continues! 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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dukejw |
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Mar 8 2008, 8:52 AM EST "I like that thought (perhaps with less damage than what you described like the whole Road Runner thing I was going for above since how would they replace her eye?)!You are so close, its scary. Cameron is special like mimicry liquid metal coating on her chassis. Ultra HD protection chassis also. Twin power genarators. 4 power packs. Twin CPU, John took out only the right one. Cameron needs both to operate. need I say more, 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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wildbird5150 |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 9:00 AM EST I think that the very first episode should be about future war. It would be super-cool to wonder if Cameron is okay etc. Plus some background information on Cameron and Derek would be cool too. 3 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 12:21 PM EST After the little T2 hommage with Bad to the Bone, she could scan the area with that steely look, see Sarkissian standing in the shadows (watching his handiwork) with a completely dumbfounded look on his face (he's stopped in his tracks). Cameron's face sets into a mask of grim determination like "oh, are you ever going to pay for that" and runs him down (this guy must be peeing in his pants with what he's witnessing), grabs him, lifts him off his feet, and throws him head first into a pole (with just enough force to knock him out like Arnold did to the cops in T2). The neighbors close by have come out of their houses and see this (wouldn't you if you heard a big explosion?). Cameron turns to them and gives them "the look" and calmly says: "there's nothing to see here." They quickly get back inside their house. She then dead weights Sarkissian over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes and carries him back to the house. As she dumps him into a chair with Sarah, John, and Derek looking on bewildered, she turns to John and flashes her patented, winning human "Cameron" smile (triumphant?) and says, "I got you a tight present. Happy Birthday." 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Coven |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 12:25 PM EST "After the little T2 hommage with Bad to the Bone, she could scan the area with that steely look, see Sarkissian standing in the shadows (watching his handiwork) with a completely dumbfounded look on his face (he's stopped in his tracks). Cameron's face sets into a mask of grim determination like "oh, are you ever going to pay for that" and runs him down (this guy must be peeing in his pants with what he's witnessing), grabs him, lifts him off his feet, and throws him head first into a pole (with just enough force to knock him out like Arnold did to the cops in T2).Lol, that's great. "I got you a tight present" LOL , laughed out loud when I read that. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Thecolours |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 2:48 PM EST The season premiere takes place two weeks after the car-bombing. The opening credits begin with Sarah and Derek sitting around the kitchen table discussing what they have learned over the last two weeks, what leads they have on the Turk, and who this Sarkissian guy is. However, during the entire opening scene, they never mutter Cameron‘s name. Then, the camera pans to show Cameron in her bedroom, dismembered, and powered down, as John tries to put her back together. Sarah and Derek hate that John is spending every waken moment trying to re-assemble her, when he should be helping them hunt down the Sarkissian guy and the Turk. During the episode, they should flash forward into the future to show when John assembling Cameron for the first time. We get to learn about what makes her the most advanced design yet, and watch as John starts to fall in love with his creation all over again. They should just hire me now as a staff writer....lol 3 out of 5 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Coven |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 2:53 PM EST Thats not bad, except for the fact that Cameron will walk away from the explosion fine. Think about it, in every Terminator movie, there was a explosion in which the Terminators walked our just fine, only with scarring, or all their skin burned off. As far as her exoskeleton, she'll be fine. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
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Mar 8 2008, 3:29 PM EST "The season premiere takes place two weeks after the car-bombing.I could see that. =) Great idea! The only thing is... if Cameron is in pieces and powered down... how can John figure out the complex design of a Terminator all by himself? There wouldn't be the advanced systems necessary to build her up again anyway. I could see where the writers could start of a few weeks later and show a dark and fully clothed (head to toe) figure infiltrating Sarkissian's hideout (full Mission Impossible mode here). You shoot it in such a way that you're not sure if it's Sarah or someone else since the figure isn't doing anything "Terminator-ish." The figure finds Sarkissian after taking out his henchmen (again, in a way that a well trained human might), and he's cornered by the mysterious figure holding a gun to him. He clearly is baffled by this person who has bested him. Maybe he monologues a little like any villain might. The figure then takes off its hood and in a florish of long, dark hair the figure is revealed to be a completely whole and (of course) beautiful Cameron. She fixes him with, again, that steely raptor glare (like she did to the high school student) and strides towards him menacingly. He has a deer caught in the headlights look across his face (how can this be?? WTF??). Cameron growls, "you talk too much," grabs him and smacks his head against the wall and knocks him out cold. She strides out of the building with him over her shoulder and to an awaiting van in the alley. She unceremoniously dumps him in the back and climbs in. John is in the back and has been waiting for her anxiously, Derek gets into the driver's seat, and Sarah gets into the passenger seat a moment later and glances back. Cameron moves over to John and sits down next to him and says,"I got you a belated birthday present... it's tight." And winks. A lot of things have been happening in the last few weeks!! 0 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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dukejw |
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Mar 8 2008, 3:40 PM EST "Thats not bad, except for the fact that Cameron will walk away from the explosion fine.i agree with Coven. Cameron needs no gun she is the wepon. Cameron was built in a small factory , there are more of the Cameron series built. She is not a prototype she is a working model, maybe PS001 or PS002 or who knows. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
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Mar 8 2008, 4:02 PM EST Oh, and of course, as Cameron comes out of the door with Sarkissian over her shoulder in slow motion the music switches to that quick refrain of the "Bad to the Bone" song. It goes on for a few dramatic moments and then switches back to the show's score. Can't forget that song! =) 1 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Michelle67D |
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Mar 8 2008, 5:57 PM EST "I'll start the ball rolling:Lol! This would make great fanfiction if you were into that sort of stuff. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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max847 max847 |
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Mar 8 2008, 6:01 PM EST well sarah still acts like mrs cleaver instead of someone with above average military training and survival training. first i would have interogated cameron for capabilities and vulnerabilities of terminators second I would devise much better weapons that plinking at tanks with pistols and shotguns third I would create several defendable areas and have several contingency plans hideouts, passwords tracking methods. john still seems like a 90210 reject, is he gay? 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Michelle67D |
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Mar 8 2008, 6:02 PM EST "Thats not bad, except for the fact that Cameron will walk away from the explosion fine.I agree with the fact that she is going to come out of this just fine. I thought that they would just pick up where they left off and start the season with the eppys they had planned for this season but after reading what TPTB said looks like they are going to scrap that. A season opener usually is more upbeat and explosive rather than a downer. I figured they were going to go the route of a damaged Cameron that was going to deeply affect John(a character driven eppy) but that probably wouldn't work for an season opener(which needs to move faster than following episodes which are usually more character driven). 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Michelle67D |
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Mar 8 2008, 6:05 PM EST "It's obvious John isn't gay.And as for the actor Thomas Dekker -- you obviously haven't seen the cast and crew interviews he's done with Summer Glau around. He shamelessly flirts with her big time. I don't think anyone could mistake him for gay. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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dukejw |
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Mar 8 2008, 6:38 PM EST "well sarah still acts like mrs cleaver instead of someone with above average military training and survival training.John sent Cameron like he did kyle, Sarah trust john judgement in the future. Sarah already told Cameron that if she lied to her agian , sarah would dismantle her. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 7:01 PM EST You could have a montage scene somewhere along the line of John Conner where it looks like he's becoming more assertive and definitely cooler than he was before (better clothes, better take-charge attitude, better confidence, working out, better aura, a killer ride, etc.). Maybe in a subconscious way he's trying to impress Cameron so she sees him in a whole new light (not just the protector of some insecure mama's-boy, but something a whole lot more), and by doing this is starting to see himself in a whole new way too. He is obviously smitten with her, and it's a natural progression as the hormones take over and she's so close, friendly, and beautiful. Of course, as she's becoming more human his interest is increasing... and the first seeds of love are germinating? Make this first gangly-teenager transformation kind of awkward, and light hearted, and sweet, and set it to James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "Get Up Offa That Thing" or something classically funky and soulful like that. This is definitely not an idea for the very first episode of the second season. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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intrepid |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 8:21 PM EST How about something a little darker, the episode starts with Sara’s voiceover about loss and pain or some such thing, all the while we see chrome but slightly out of focus so we don’t quite know what it is we are seeing, then the voice over stops and the chrome comes into focus, it’s the door of a morgue cabinet, suddenly the door fly’s off it hinges like its been blown off with explosives and a sheet covered corpse slides out, the camera pans to the right a little, the “corpse” sits up and the sheet slides down reviling a badly chard person with no hair and no way of identifying who it is, then the person turns their head to the left and looks directly at the camera and opens its eyes except it has no eyes! Just two steely blue glowing pinpoints, its Cameron! She slowly but with purpose gets off the draw and catches a look of herself reflected in the polished chrome of another drawer, she turns away and looks down at a sheet covered body awaiting autopsy. The next thing we see is the doors of the morgue door swinging shut with a glimpse of someone striding purposely away, the camera POV is still in the morgue, it pan to the left then down to the sheet covered corpse awaiting autopsy, except the sheet is pulled down to reveal a now eyeless dead body. Cue music “bad to the bone” then fade out. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Cuckoo4CocoaPuffs |
RE: How would YOU begin Season 2? Go wild!
Mar 8 2008, 8:26 PM EST "You could have a montage scene somewhere along the line of John Conner where it looks like he's becoming more assertive and definitely cooler than he was before (better clothes, better take-charge attitude, better confidence, working out, better aura, a killer ride, etc.).Yes, I know, I know what I just said above about using James Brown or something like that would be a bit cheesy, though not what you would expect from a Terminator show (especially if you used music of that type at a themed prom or dance, or 80's music like Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran So Far Away," Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science," "The Safety Dance," Devo, etc. for a bit of humerous zing). Though, one would never have expected a Johnny Cash classic showing up either. Just having a bit of a brain-storming session. =) 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |