When it comes to FOX, it seems that with any show they get, it will almost certainly be cancelled. So, when they get a good or even decent show, it’s best to not even watch or get attached – because it will most likely be gone.
This is a bit of old news, but we felt it was relevant to re-post with Thomas Dekker giving his thoughts on the show.
Sci-Fi fans seem to know this all too well with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles being cancelled (and more recently Almost Human) despite having a pretty favorable rating with fans and critics.
We managed to catch up with John Connor (actor Thomas Dekker) and he opened up about the show and its cancellation:
ScreenGeek: Going to your acting career, one of your most recognized works was playing John Connor in “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, the TV adaptation of James Cameron’s Terminator franchise, which was cancelled. What do you feel was the reason for its shortness?
Dekker: I mean really, at the time, the show was the most expensive show on Fox, and it was very ambitious and I think there was a bit of a clash between the artistic control of Josh Friedman, the show’s creator, which I think is why the show is still loved because it was a kind of singular vision, but I think that was a bit frustrating to the network, shelling out all this money for something they didn’t really have a say in. And the viewership started to damp down and so it was just one of those things where at the time, it was after Dollhouse, and they chose Dollhouse. I miss that show very very much and umm…yeah. I don’t know what else to say.
ScreenGeek: A real power struggle from the sound of it. I’m actually leading up to this next one and it’s actually connected to the film you’re making. I felt with the directing perspective, I feel, Jack Goes Home really shows an ambiance of suspense throughout it, and execution was vivid. From a personal view, I saw one of the biggest things that made the first two Terminator films such a success was their level of trepidation and intensity paced just right, almost like a thriller film of its own than just a sci-fi. Would you consider returning to the franchise again, perhaps even in directing with it? I feel in that sense with Jack Goes Home could attribute it back to its roots in a way.
Dekker: Oh my god, I would love…I mean, that is like an insane pipe-dream. But yes, and I have to admit, there’s very very few scenes, as you know as you’ve seen the film, that are “action sequences”, but on our budget they were sort of looked at as a thin scale of like cars crashing and houses blowing up and whatever, and I have to say those were the most fun days I had of directing because it was sort of like overlooking rats in a maze, it’s not really this sort of sensitive acting direction, but of course that’s my other favorite part of it. Thank you very much for saying an eye for tension there, but for sure, if that’s sort of where you’re culminating to, my goals is sort of what I’m interested in film making have been set since I was 5 years and I worked with John Carpenter. Watching him orchestrate scenes of tension and action sequences. That’s really shaped what I wanted to do as an actor and as a filmmaker. Since that day in 1994 or whatever the fuck it was, that’s really been the universe of film making I’m interested in. I don’t think I’ll ever make a comedy or a rom-com, it’s just not in my blood. I like dark, tense…you know.
So, if you ever wonder why Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is no longer on FOX, take comfort in the fact that you still have Dollhouse to watch.
Oh wait.