"Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Monday night not only kicked off its second season with a compelling opening montage, it ended the hour with an iconic image that was sure to get the watercooler (if not the urinal) buzzing: the series' first-ever appearance by a liquid Terminator. (Read our full recap of the "Samson & Delilah" episode here.)
Did exec producer Josh Friedman unveil the "mimetic polyalloy-based" T-1001 sooner in the series than anticipated? "No, we did it exactly when we wanted to," he tells TVGuide.com. Calling the timing "serendipitous," he says, "We were working on this character [played by T:SCC newcomer Shirley Manson] and wanted to introduce somebody who was more of an antagonist — and I didn’t want to do just the basic evil corporate type.
So it was a natural progression."But is creating the mercurial menace too costly a proposition for a weekly show? Friedman acknowledges that "it's expensive," but not more so than any other special effect. "Morphing technology and CGI has been streamlined in terms of cost over the years," he says. "It's just time-consuming, the art of it, getting it right in terms of... what it looks like and the texturing. We went back and forth quite a bit in the fist episode, because it was the first time we'd done it." But not the last. Friedman says that "Liquid Paper" (as the effect is known around the production offices) will be oozed out again sooner rather than later, including in one super-cool sequence that will put anything seen in T2: Judgment Day to shame." — Matt Mitovich
Source: TV Guide
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