Expect More Action In 'Sarah Connor' Season 2

More action, less drama? Or more drama, less action?

It's like a real bad beer commercial, but an important balance the writers and producers behind Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is trying to strike.

But yes, expect more explosions, gun battles, car chases and other visual pockets of ecstasy when "Sarah Connor" returns for its second season in the fall.

"I think we will be incorporating more action this year," executive producer Josh Friedman told news outlets including SyFy Portal during a telephone conference call Tuesday. "This is something that the network and I have been talking about about how much action versus drama, and versus special effects. But if you do too much, people will get bored with it, and I think people like a balance."

Friedman was sharing his excitement that Fox has ordered at least 13 episodes for a second season of the show, a move that wasn't all too surprising considering the fact the network had already brought the writers back to work to break stories and other aspects of pre-production were already under way. At the same time, however, nothing beats getting that special announcement, he said.

"I think they [had already] felt pretty good about the show" before the pickup, Friedman said of Fox. "It's just a process we had to go through. And you know, they like to torture us."

Changes in terms of actors and production will change very little from the first season, except for the fact that Brian Austin Green will be added as a series regular from recurring status in the first season as John Connor's uncle, Derek Reese. Also returning are Summer Glau as Cameron, Thomas Dekker as John, and Lena Headey as the title character.

But even a robot has to have some issues about starting up a car strung up with a bomb.

"You like to beat her up, but you can't mangle her too much," Friedman said of Cameron. "That car bomb, that will definitely mess her up."

The production crew does hope to make some more trips to the Future War in the second season, however, it could be budget that once again limits those trips.

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