The season finale for the Sarah Connor Chronicles could very well be the SERIES finale. Not a lot of people have been watching the show, even though it is brilliant in multiple ways. In order to celebrate the brilliance, here is a list of all the main characters and the main events.
John Connor
John Connor: This is the savior of humanity. After a nuclear war launched by Skynet, John Connor is supposed to lead the human resistance and destroy the robots. In T:SCC, John Connor steadly knows this, and slowly becomes the man he needs to be. In the season finale, John Connor is tossed into the future, skipping the moment where he can lead the resistance. What is a boy who barely knows what he’s going to deal with going to do in a future where no one knows him and killer robots are all over the place?
Sarah Connor: John’s mother, and a veteran of being chased by Terminators. Sarah and John were tossed from 1997 to 2008, so that Skynet wouldn’t know when they were. However, Sarah soon found
Sarah Connor
out that she dies before Judgement Day, a victim of cancer. She also slowly losses her mind in season 2, having dilusions and being incredibly paranoid, resulting in the death of Charlie, her ex-fiance. Sarah doesn’t go to the future with John in the finale. Or does she? That’s a mystery. But if she stays, what can she do to stop Judgement day?
Cameron: The reprogrammed Terminator that Future-John sends to Young-John in the past to protect him. Cameron slings the Connors into 2008. Cameron has kept many secrets over both seasons, and the damage she took at the beginning of the season resulted in her being incredibly unstable. In the finale, Cameron is severely damaged while getting Sarah Connor out of jail. She also gives her “chip”, her programming and electronic soul, to an AI and vanishes. Did she go to the
Cameron
future? Is she in the AI mainframe? Did Future-John send her to the past, or is there something else? Cameron was modeled in the future off of a human, named Allison, who we saw alive when John Connor goes to the post-Judgement day future.
John Henry: An AI created to counter the Skynet threat in the present and the future. John Henry was taught to respect and care for humans. He is encouraged to care for a young girl, Savanah Weaver, and is taught morals by a very religious ex-FBI agent. But who got the idea to create John Henry? And why use a Terminator body as a puppet? The body John Henry uses is Cormartie, a Terminator sent from the future to kill John Connor. Is Cameron using the body now? What can John Henry, a baby AI and not very aggressive, do against the super-evil Skynet?
Catherine Weaver: A liquid-metal Terminator from the future. Weaver killed a CEO of a major tech-company and made moves to create John Henry. In the Finale, we find out that Weaver is one of the “good” guys, trying to stop Skynet. But, Weaver doesn’t care about humans, and has killed many in order to create and protect John Henry. Is she on the human’s side? Or is she on her own? Weaver sends John Connor and herself to the future to look for Cameron
Weaver
and John Henry.
Ellison: The FBI agent that was assigned to find the Connors in 1997. He has seen first hand the damage of the Terminators, and knows what the Connors say is true. However, he has made some huge mistakes in this second season. He stole the damaged body of Cormartie and gave it to Weaver. He worked with John Henry to teach it morals. But he also saved John Connor and helped the Connors. What is his role, besides being eyes and ears of the audience? And what would he do with Weaver revealed?
Derek Reese: Killed right before the finale, Derek is alive in the future when John Connor arrives. Derek and his brother Kyle (John Connor’s future father that will go to the past and meet Sarah Connor) have no idea who John is, or why he’s important. If there is a season 3, John Connor will be
Derek Reece
taught by his uncle and father, but he will also become a leader, and have to send these two men to their deaths in the past. It will also be interesting to see John Connor as not a savior or a potential hero, but just as a regular guy that has a lot to learn and is as fragile as the rest of us. There was also a great side story where Derek’s girlfriend comes from the future to try and get John Connor to side against Cameron by having John fall in love with a girl, hoping that Cameron would kill her. It showed the different levels of who the Connor’s could trust and who wanted to influence him.
Skynet: So, is Skynet from the future trying to kill John Connor and John Henry? Or did someone create Skynet in the present? Or both? A war against two AIs is much more interesting than the regular Skynet vs. John Connor mess that has been going around for over twenty years. With all the mechanictions moving through humanity, how long can Sarah Connor try to hold back the tide? And will the show ever talk about who or what invented Time Travel? How does it work? And will anyone try and go into the past to destroy time travel so people can stop going into the past? The show is probably the best thing on television right now, if you love science fiction. It is bold, deep, and completely concerned with itself. That’s how good shows are suppose to be. Even if the show doesn’t get picked up, these last two seasons were impressive, and reminds us how to make a good television program.
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