The thrilling season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles revealed that the Connor family may have a lot more to worry about than malfunctioning machines and finding a new safe house.
Cryptic and chilly ZeiraCorp CEO Catherine Weaver, a character introduced in Monday's season two premiere, isn't exactly what she seems. In addition to controlling a high-tech research and development company, Weaver (played by Garbage rocker Shirley Manson, pictured) is also the new owner of a powerful supercomputer called The Turk, which she plans to develop under a top-secret program dubbed "Babylon."
Wired.com got on the line Wednesday with Manson to talk Weaver's master plan and playing a "woman from hell."
(__Spoiler alert: __Major plot revelations follow.)
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__Amid many other throwbacks to the Terminator legacy came Monday's startling revelation that Weaver is a T-1001 Terminator (pictured), primed with mimetic polyalloy capabilities that let her morph into shapes at will.
"It's harder to be a robot than one would think," said Manson of her character's role during a conference call. "They're very economical with their movements and undemonstrative as possible, which as a musician is challenging."
In Monday's season premiere, Weaver -- a top-of-the-line robo-infiltrator sent to live among the human population and ensure the genesis of self-aware computer network Skynet -- outed her shape-shifting abilities by taking out a ZeiraCorp employee with a liquid spear through the head in a scene that couldn't have been more classic unless the unlucky victim had been drinking milk from a carton.
Weaver described the combination of her character's high-powered position and Terminator pedigree as a "woman from hell." And while she couldn't say much about her full-fledged robo-killer abilities, she did say that viewers would be in for a "really nice surprise."
Meaning that Weaver and Cameron, the android assigned to protect John Connor, would eventually square off?
"I fear that [Weaver is] so sophisticated, I don't know if she needs to get her hands dirty," said Manson, who suggested she would love to see the show's Terminators meet at some point and face off in an ultimate battle of the bots. "I've been making hints it would be fun to meet and use our powers against one another."
What did you think about Weaver's transformation and the Sarah Connor Chronicles season premiere in general? Is Cameron truly fixed, or is her chip still damaged? Happy that John finally lost his emo haircut?
The comment section awaits.
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- Terminator Talent Talks Up New Sarah Connor Season
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