And what an audience we found: passionate, intelligent, kind of nuts in a good way. My only complaint about the T:SCC fans is that there aren’t ten million of them. But I prefer to be happy for the ones we had instead of lamenting the ones we didn’t.

Good shows are cancelled every year; smart shows, worthy shows, shows which move their viewers to write blogs and have viewing parties and create action figures and bury executives’ email accounts under thousands of messages. I miss Deadwood and The Wire and Arrested Development but thank God that I still have Rescue Me and The Office and a recently renewed Party Down written by ex-T:SCC writer John Enbom.

Bad shows are cancelled, too. And certainly there are those who did not like what we did and had their own vision for what a Terminator TV show should be. It’s easy to look at low ratings or cancellation as “failure” and for those who believe we’ve gone about this all wrong I’m sure today’s news will only serve to confirm a world view that I would never try to change. We’ve written the show as best we can, executed it to the best of our abilities, and sent it out in the world knowing that we worked out asses off to do something that wouldn’t be a waste of anybody’s forty-three minutes.

Thanks to a brave and talented cast, a feature crew working on a TV schedule, and everyone else who I could list but won’t because they know who they are. Mostly I’d like to thank those of you who’ve supported us and fought for us and given up hours of your life to watch our show. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. The watching.

Hope we do it again soon.

Josh Friedman

When the results of over 300,000 votes came in, E! called up Josh for a word with our head honcho. “I think I speak for everybody who works on the show when I say thank you to the fans for their tireless work to save our show. I think it really goes to show that there’s a really hard-core, emotional, passionate fanbase for Terminator that is larger and more widespread than people give us credit for.”

Furthermore, Zap2it ran their own Keep ‘em or Kill ‘em poll and we came out on top there too! Check out the results and continue voting!

Even if we end up going down they certainly can’t say we went down without a fight! Because as Kyle Reese once explained, “Terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop…”

Please go there and show your support for our little Terminator! Sure, we love the other choices too but honestly, they all stand a better chance at renewal than us. Go there! Let’s see if we can’t get FIVE HUNDRED votes by tonight! Perhaps there’s something in store on here if we can…

Whatever happens, it’s up to you now. Speculate on the fate of your characters, follow and support our robot team (cast and crew) in their future endeavors, and take the lessons of Sarah Connor with you as you go. Keep in touch — some of us have taken up twittering (@hadleyk is mine, @josh_friedman is Josh Friedman, @ashman01 is Ashley Miller) — it’s the perfect way to stay connected!

Thank you to everyone for your support of the series. It has been a true pleasure for all of us to be able to share these stories with you on the screen (and online), through the good and bad, and hope that many more days of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and further blogging await us in the future…

…after all, there’s no fate but what we make.

It was important to test out the track (built right through Weaver’s office) with a harmless piece of plywood before the day of production when the actual, practical H/K got its chance to shine. And don’t worry, there’s more footage to come — including construction/finishing touches on the practical H/K.

Well guess who got their tighty-whities in a bunch because I didn’t blog about them? The boy writers of SCC, who, in the interest of equal time for all candidates, will now get a few choice Chaidez comments about them.

Friedman. Genius screenwriter dabbling in one-hour drama and making all us seasoned TV pros look like amateurs in the process. Right now he’s rocking this circa 1976 Coppola shag, which he keeps threatening to cut but secretly I think he’s quite fond of. Josh is an awesome boss, and honestly the worst thing I can think of to say about him is that he, like every showrunner I’ve ever worked for, has developed some odd dietary quirks since his series began. For instance, he no longer eats Pop Tarts for breakfast, which in hindsight I suppose wasn’t the healthiest start to an exec producer’s day.

John Wirth, or “J Dub” as he is affectionately known here at SCC, is our other commander-in-chief. Wirth is the O.G. of the staff, and was brought on by the studio and network to teach Freidman the ropes of running a TV show, with his 800 years of production experience. In addition to his mad writing, on-set and editing skillz, he’s a raconteur extraordinaire. The man is a born story-teller. The staff’s favorite tale involves Don Johnson, two strippers in nurse get-ups and a ‘titty-whacking”. Need I say more?

Supervising Producer John Enbom is a worthless traitor who abandoned us for the petty task of running his own TV show. It’s a huge loss as he was both the classiest and funniest writer among us. His last episode (Alpine Fields) married a Cheever-esque critique of repression in WASP culture with an awesome killer robot plot. Which, in a nutshell, just about sums up Mr. Enbom himself.

Writing team/producers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are the fan-boy whiz kids every great sci-fi show needs. Ashley used to be a computer programmer, working for the military, which basically means he was building SkyNet. Zack can recite by memory the plot of every Star Trek episode, if you give him the title, and has a degree from Stanford in Soviet Cinema. They play Dungeons and Dragons every month, and Ashley actually demanded Comic-Con as a religious holiday. Again– need I say more?

Our SCC “new media” writer is Mr. Hadley Klein. If you took about a dozen cans of Red Bull, stirred in a couple double espressos and topped it off with a hit of crack, you just might have half the energy this kid has. Hadley is a lanky bundle of charisma, charm and hustle, poured into the world’s tightest pair of skinny jeans. It behooves me to only say kind things about him, as it’s quite clear that he will soon be all of our bosses.

Last but not least are our two staff writers, Ian Goldberg and Dan Thomsen. Ian wrote the brilliant season one finale, What He Beheld. Ian, like Friedman, is a Johnny Cash afficiando. He looks like a young, cuter version of the Clash’s Joe Strummer. Dan, on the other hand, looks like that shaggily hot blonde actor Sienna Miller was dating for a minute. He gets this thousand yard stare sometimes in the writers’ room, as if mulling over some deep, dark personal tragedy, which usually turns out to be just a lame plot point we pitched. He wrote the season one episode, Vick’s Chip, which was my fav because it implied Mr. and Mrs. Vick were having… yes… Terminator sex. The annoying thing about both these guys is that they’re so damn young and so talented.

Which, minus the damn young part, basically is how I feel about all the SCC guys.

Here’s Josh’s first walk-through of the destroyed, post-apocalyptic Turk Room set.

After this week we will likely take a (mostly) hiatus for a bit until we know anything more about our future — updating only with pressing information about DVD sets, news of a potential season three (four, and five), and highlights of where else you can find our cast/crew, etc. Oh! A few of us have joined the ranks of the tweeting twitterers (@hadleyk), so feel free to find us on there! Use your best John Henry skills…

I have no plans to address the story/plot/mysteries of the finale, Born to Run — we’ll leave that to you and your imagination. Thanks again for all of your ongoing support!