The cast of The Sarah Connor Chronicles talked about their characters at the Television Critics Association press tour, and IGN took notes.  The series, which isn't scheduled to broadcast until midseason, is already racking up a lot of interest from fan communities and the press.  One of the big questions is: how does this fit in with movie continuity?

Executive producer Josh Friedman said, "When we first started this, people said, 'Oh, this takes place between T2 and T3, and I think that was incorrect. This really is, as far as I'm concerned, T3. I mean, this is a continuation of what I would call the Sarah Connor trilogy. So I think anything that happens after T2 is fair game for us. And I think the ending of T2 -- killing Cyberdyne, killing Miles Dyson -- sort of changes the timeline for anything in the future."  He also indicated that Sarah's fate might differ from what was presented in T3.

Star Lena Headey, stepping into Linda Hamilton's steel-toed Army surplus boots, says she's working out but isn't forcing herself to meet the same level of physical fitness Hamilton did while shooting T2 (according to a newspaper article at the time, Hamilton trained with a former Israeli commando and weighed just 112 pounds).  Headey said, "I think you have to have somewhere to go, you know what I mean? This series is going to develop and, I think, along with that, so will her physicality, because we find them at a different point."

When asked about her role as Cameron, actress Summer Glau said, "Well, I was just so excited to play this kind of character, because in a way she's much like River in that she's isolated and she's different from the other characters in how she relates and how she communicates. But she's very strong, and she can't genuinely feel emotion. River—that's what she was all about. She was just a jumble of emotions. So I was really, really excited that Josh gave me the opportunity to try this role, and that's something that is going to be the most challenging part about her, I think, is that I want people to be able to relate to her and in some way see themselves in her, just like I try with all my characters."

Things are already a little bumpy in Sarahworld.  According to the BBC, scenes in the pilot that include a school shooting (putting young John in jeopardy and setting the stage for the show) are going to be revised due to the recent shootings at Virginia Tech.  Fox Entertainment chairman Peter Liguori said that the scenes would be changed, although he defended their inclusion in the original script.

Liguori said, "This woman is charged with protecting and preparing her son to be the future leader of the resistance.  The one single place a parent has to give up control of their child is school."