That high pitched sound that you hear, it's the sound of fandom squee wrapping around the world as rumors for a proposed episode of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles (T:tSCC) bubble to the surface. It was put on hold due to the Writer's Strike, but with a possible second season, the show may be full steam ahead for quite the extravaganza.

At a press conference for the Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles in January, Summer Glau discussed some of her work on a dance project that she is doing with Joss Whedon of general "Joss is my master now" fame. As previously reported here, although Fox has not yet renewed the Sarah Connor Chronicles, the show's producers have been quietly hiring directors for the upcoming season.

At the recent Paley festival, rumors were swirling that there had been a Joss directed episode of T:tSCC planned prior to the Writer's Strike that may be pushed into the, knock on wood, second season of T:tSCC. Wait, it gets better.  

On Poisson d'Avril, details are beginning to leak about that planned episode. From the description, it sounds like the glimpse of Summer Glau dancing in the S1.7 episode "The Demon Hand" may have just been a prelude for something much, much bigger in the works. It seems that not only do Terminators like to listen to music boxes in the basement, as viewers saw in S1.5 "Dungeons and Dragons", but sometimes they've just got to dance.

The episode was to have incorporated future flashbacks (I cannot even say how much I enjoy writing sentences that have that kind of paradox in them) with rows of Rivernators blinking their first glowing eyed moment in the factory and doing a little one, two, pas a deux(thousand), and all tastefully nude. Wait, it gets better.


This may be only of excitement to me, as it's how I intend on waiting out the upcoming zombie revolution, but the episode was to have featured at least one Aurora-type-steam-punk-zeppelin, on the raid where Derek of the future, currently in his past, first encountered "Cameron" and knew her for the horrifying dance crazy metal that she is, or was before she was reprogrammed to only use her powers of dance for good and not human-apocalypse evil. Wait, it gets even better.

In present day, Cameron and John get sucked into the school production of "Oklahoma" with Cameron in the lead role of Laurey Williams, while Derek looks on in horror. Even the brief stolen snippet of Sarah's opening monologue is sheer gold. Well, if you love musicals, which oddly enough Sarah did when she was a little girl and didn't spend all her time reading up on nuclear-robot-apocalypses. She's not the only one. Wait, it gets even, even better!!!

After Cromartie sees a glimpse of an Old Fred Astaire movie ("Sky's the Limit", the "One For My Baby" number, if you must know), while questioning an old acquaintance of Sarah's, he throws a little tap into his otherwise straight forward neck snapping routine. Wait, it gets even, even, even better!!!!!!!

Cromartie's new tap-killing style ultimately leads to a horrific dance off between Cromartie, following a lead from lojacked Charlie, and Cameron during the  climatic "Dream Ballet" scene of "Oklahoma" in a wonderful combination of tap, ballet, wall crushing, and ass kicking. It sounds awesome!!!!!!!!

Although, my favorite part is still the nekkid zepplin driving commandos. Here's hoping that they have a second season so we can see something even remotely like it.

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Poisson d'Avril