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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: John jumps into the future with Catherine Weaver in pursuit of John Henry (in possession of Cameron's chip), where he encounters the Reese brothers and Allison Young in a timeline where John Connor never rose up to led the resistance as a result of his time travel. [[LeftHanging Then it got canceled.]]]]
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: John jumps into the future with Catherine Weaver in pursuit of John Henry (in possession of Cameron's chip), where he encounters the Reese brothers and Allison Young in a timeline where John Connor never rose up to led lead the resistance as a result of his time travel. [[LeftHanging Then it got canceled.]]]]
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: John jumps into the future with Catherine Weaver in pursuit of John Henry (in possession of Cameron's chip), where he encounters the Reese brothers and Allison Young in a timeline where John Connor never rose up to led the resistance as a result of his time travel. [[LeftHanging Then it got canceled.]]]]
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* CelebrityParadox: Wonder how the Connors reacted when they found out who became the [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Governor of California]] during the [[TimeyWimeyBall time skip]].
** Actually averted in the episode ''Self Made Man'' in the second season, when a Terminator is sent back targeting the Governor of California. What little we see of him makes it clear that it's not Arnold.
** Actually averted in the episode ''Self Made Man'' in the second season, when a Terminator is sent back targeting the Governor of California. What little we see of him makes it clear that it's not Arnold.
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* CelebrityParadox: Wonder how the Connors reacted when they found out who became the [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Governor of California]] during the [[TimeyWimeyBall time skip]].
** Actually avertedAverted in the episode ''Self Made Man'' in the second season, when a Terminator is sent back targeting the Governor of California. What little we see of him makes it clear that it's not Arnold.
** Actually averted
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* CastingGag: [[{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson's]] interview comments about [[UrineTrouble a certain fetish]] are well-known. It can't be a coincidence that her character can morph into a urinal.
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* CastingGag: [[{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson's]] interview comments about [[UrineTrouble a certain fetish]] are well-known. It can't be a coincidence that her character can morph morphs into a urinal.
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** In "Automatic for the People," Riley says that John's English teacher is "Mr. Henricksen," a reference to Lance Henricksen's role in the first film (and to the fact that Lance Henricksen was JamesCameron's first choice for the role of the T-800).
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** In "Automatic for the People," Riley says that John's English teacher is "Mr. Henricksen," a reference to Lance Henricksen's role in the first film (and to the fact that Lance Henricksen was JamesCameron's Creator/JamesCameron's first choice for the role of the T-800).
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* CopBoyfriend: Sarah's landlady had one. Ultimately subverted.
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* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie: After the time skip Sarah seeks fake ID from Enrique's nephew, who charges an exorbitant price on account of terrorism and September 11. When Sarah asks what they are talking about he and his gang explain the terrorist attacks, and she is freaked, comparing the three thousand killed in the real attacks to the three billion that would be killed on judgement day, and sure that if she had seen it she would believe they had lost.
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* HollywoodEncryption: Of course can John break the encryption of Sarkissian's hdd.
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* HollywoodEncryption: Of course can John break the encryption of Sarkissian's hdd.hard drive.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009) was a science fiction series. Set after the [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} first two films]], and while it acknowledges some plot elements of the third movie, it goes in a different [[AlternateContinuity direction.]] Sarah and John are still on the run from both the FBI, a new Terminator, and their own sorry social lives. That is, until [[Creator/SummerGlau Cameron]] shows up to [[TimeTravel bring them from 1999 to 2007]] in order to stop [=SkyNet=] from being built.
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** More FanDisservice: By the end of the pilot, John has just time-traveled with Cameron, so they're both naked. Nice! His mom came with them. [[{{Squick}} Awkward!]]
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* TheVoiceless: TheNameless girl employed as a lookout by Carlos never speaks a word on screen. [[EmotionlessGirl Cameron]] appears to identify with this, because she lets her live in "What He Beheld".
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* TheVoiceless: TheNameless TheUnnamed girl employed as a lookout by Carlos never speaks a word on screen. [[EmotionlessGirl Cameron]] appears to identify with this, because she lets her live in "What He Beheld".
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dean Winters, who plays Charley, is best known as manipulative inmate Ryan O'Reily in ''Oz''. Even though they're very different characters, a lot of Charley's mannerisms strongly echo those of O'Reily.
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* HotMom: Sarah Connor, obviously.
** Weaver.
** Weaver.
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** Agent James Ellison: "James" may or may not be a reference to James Cameron, but "Ellison" definitely refers to HarlanEllison, who famously sued Orion Pictures claiming that ''Terminator'' was based on his ''TheOuterLimits'' episode, "Soldier."
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** Agent James Ellison: "James" may or may not be a reference to James Cameron, but "Ellison" definitely refers to HarlanEllison, Creator/HarlanEllison, who famously sued Orion Pictures claiming that ''Terminator'' was based on his ''TheOuterLimits'' episode, "Soldier."
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* AlternateTimeline: Season 2 features ''multiple'' divergent timelines as the protagonists change the future. Someone who travels back in time "after" someone else remembers future events differently if the first person changes anything. (Probably they always change something just by being there.)
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* AlternateTimeline: AlternateTimeline:
** The pilot sets one up in bringing John Connor forward in time, thus invalidating Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines. But the events that led up to it are still valid, and Sarah, e.g. is told that she would have died from cancer.
** Season 2 features ''multiple'' divergent timelines as the protagonists change the future. Someone who travels back in time "after" someone else remembers future events differently if the first person changes anything. (Probably they always change something just by being there.)
** The pilot sets one up in bringing John Connor forward in time, thus invalidating Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines. But the events that led up to it are still valid, and Sarah, e.g. is told that she would have died from cancer.
** Season 2 features ''multiple'' divergent timelines as the protagonists change the future. Someone who travels back in time "after" someone else remembers future events differently if the first person changes anything. (Probably they always change something just by being there.)
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** With a [[TheTerminator very familiar]] [[{{Homage}} police outfit]].
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** With a [[TheTerminator [[Terminator2JudgmentDay very familiar]] [[{{Homage}} police outfit]].
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* WallOfWeapons: Sarah keeps concealed weapons scattered around the house, such as a shotgun hidden behind wallpaper, and a huge trunk of rifles and shotguns under everyone's respective beds. And the furniture is lined with ''kevlar''.
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The first season deals with Sarah (LenaHeadey), John, and friendly machine Cameron on the run from the killer cyborgs. They are soon joined by Derek Reese, John's uncle, who introduces himself by murdering a man who may have helped contribute to the design of his future's [=SkyNet=]. This marks the start of the show's headlong dive into [[GreyAndGrayMorality murky morality]]. The foursome set up shop in Los Angeles, where they try to stop the future war and hide from FBI Agent Ellison.
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The first season deals with Sarah (LenaHeadey), (Creator/LenaHeadey), John, and friendly machine Cameron on the run from the killer cyborgs. They are soon joined by Derek Reese, John's uncle, who introduces himself by murdering a man who may have helped contribute to the design of his future's [=SkyNet=]. This marks the start of the show's headlong dive into [[GreyAndGrayMorality murky morality]]. The foursome set up shop in Los Angeles, where they try to stop the future war and hide from FBI Agent Ellison.
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* FakeAmerican: Sarah is played by English actress LenaHeadey.
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* FakeAmerican: Sarah is played by English actress LenaHeadey.Creator/LenaHeadey.
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* MidSeasonTwist: "Brothers of Nablus" in season 2 ends with Cromartie finding out where the Connors live.
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* {{Anti Hero}}es - Definitely. The whole cast pushing the envelope as far as they possibly can without quite making the show about {{Villain Protagonist}}s. Sarah Connor even tells somebody at one point, "Yes we ''are'' some kind of terrorist group." For fans of the [[DarkerAndEdgier Dark And the Edgy]] this show was far, far TooGoodToLast.
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* {{Anti Hero}}es - Definitely. The whole cast pushing the envelope as far as they possibly can without quite making the show about {{Villain Protagonist}}s. Sarah Connor even tells somebody at one point, "Yes we ''are'' some kind of terrorist group." For fans of the [[DarkerAndEdgier Dark And the Edgy]] this show was far, far TooGoodToLast.to good to last.
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* GrayingMorality: This is a common theme throughout the series. It starts out with Skynet being clearly evil and the Connors being clearly good, but the Connors' efforts to stop Judgment Day quickly make them NotSoDifferent from the robots they're fighting, to the point that they [[AntiHero openly admit to being terrorists]]. Their Graying Morality is really driven home in "Dungeons and Dragons", when Sarah [[IronicEcho repeats]] Kyle Reese's warning about the Terminators from [[Film/TheTerminator the first movie]]... but this time it applies to Derek murdering [[spoiler: Andy Goode]] in cold blood.
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* ArcWords (three dots, ''"Will you join us?"'')
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*ArcSymbol: deconstructed with the three dots in that their significance almost drives Sara mad. Its in the final episode we find out that they represent the 3 lights of the Turk [[spoiler:when its attached to Weaver's time machine]].
* ArcWords(three dots, ''"Will you join us?"'')us?"''
* ArcWords
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* MuggingTheMonster: The crime boss who goes after the Connor, unaware that all of them can fight and one is a killer robot.
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* MuggingTheMonster: The crime boss who goes after the Connor, Connors, unaware that all of them can fight and one is a killer robot.robot.
** Also the 'water delivery guy' Terminator, who was apparently unaware that his target was a T-1001 liquid metal Terminator ([[CurbStompBattle who proceeds to effortlessly dispatch him]]).
** Also the 'water delivery guy' Terminator, who was apparently unaware that his target was a T-1001 liquid metal Terminator ([[CurbStompBattle who proceeds to effortlessly dispatch him]]).
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* MythologyGag
** Sarah's assault on the Dyson residence with an M4 in T2 is mirrored by Cromartie's with an M16.
** Cameron dressed as a motorcycle cop in one episode, complete with CoolShades, is a ref to the fake cop T-1000 in the second movie.
** Also, from the second season premiere, Cameron's use of "Call to him", a reference to a scene in T2.
** In "Automatic for the People," Riley says that John's English teacher is "Mr. Henricksen," a reference to Lance Henricksen's role in the first film (and to the fact that Lance Henricksen was JamesCameron's first choice for the role of the T-800).
** When Cameron's [[spoiler:"switch is flipped" to Terminate instead of Protect]] in the season 2 premiere, when she is chasing them it has a limp not unlike T-800 in first film.
*** And the T-1000's in the second film (actually the result of a sporting injury Robert Patrick suffered that was incorporated into the T-1000's gait.)
** In "Goodbye To All That", the terminator of the week begins killing people with the name Martin Bedell, of which there are exactly 3 in the area, just like the 3 woman named Sarah Connor in the first film. As with the film, the intended target is the last one on the list.
*** And the terminator is using the ''same'' ".45 Long Slide with Laser Sighting" gun prop from the first film (the production also took some promotional pictures of it with Summer Glau before they returned it).
** The T-1001 uses the same finger-wagging motion to taunt Jesse that the T-1000 did to Sarah in T2.
** ''Born to Run'' has a Terminator buying from a gun shop, and a terminator attacking a police station, presumably as continuity nods to T1
** In the finale of season two, Cameron says "Hasta luego." to the gangster girlfriend from season one.
** Andy Goode's future alias, Billy Wisher, is a nod to William Wisher, the screenwriter for ''T2''.
** The first shot in the pilot episode shows a stretch of road while Sarah narrates, which mirrors the ending of the second movie.
** Cameron's love of FingerlessGloves is a nod to the pair the T-800 wore in the first movie.
** ''Self Made Man'', the episode which featured a Terminator sent back to kill the Governor of California.
** When Cromartie goes on a rampage in Mexico, Derek assures a wounded cop that he won't be back.
** "The Good Wound". Sarah describes John to the nurse she kidnapped in almost word for word how Reese described John to her.
--->''"He looks like his father but he has my eyes. You trust him. He has a strength about him. I'd die for my son"''.
** Sarah's assault on the Dyson residence with an M4 in T2 is mirrored by Cromartie's with an M16.
** Cameron dressed as a motorcycle cop in one episode, complete with CoolShades, is a ref to the fake cop T-1000 in the second movie.
** Also, from the second season premiere, Cameron's use of "Call to him", a reference to a scene in T2.
** In "Automatic for the People," Riley says that John's English teacher is "Mr. Henricksen," a reference to Lance Henricksen's role in the first film (and to the fact that Lance Henricksen was JamesCameron's first choice for the role of the T-800).
** When Cameron's [[spoiler:"switch is flipped" to Terminate instead of Protect]] in the season 2 premiere, when she is chasing them it has a limp not unlike T-800 in first film.
*** And the T-1000's in the second film (actually the result of a sporting injury Robert Patrick suffered that was incorporated into the T-1000's gait.)
** In "Goodbye To All That", the terminator of the week begins killing people with the name Martin Bedell, of which there are exactly 3 in the area, just like the 3 woman named Sarah Connor in the first film. As with the film, the intended target is the last one on the list.
*** And the terminator is using the ''same'' ".45 Long Slide with Laser Sighting" gun prop from the first film (the production also took some promotional pictures of it with Summer Glau before they returned it).
** The T-1001 uses the same finger-wagging motion to taunt Jesse that the T-1000 did to Sarah in T2.
** ''Born to Run'' has a Terminator buying from a gun shop, and a terminator attacking a police station, presumably as continuity nods to T1
** In the finale of season two, Cameron says "Hasta luego." to the gangster girlfriend from season one.
** Andy Goode's future alias, Billy Wisher, is a nod to William Wisher, the screenwriter for ''T2''.
** The first shot in the pilot episode shows a stretch of road while Sarah narrates, which mirrors the ending of the second movie.
** Cameron's love of FingerlessGloves is a nod to the pair the T-800 wore in the first movie.
** ''Self Made Man'', the episode which featured a Terminator sent back to kill the Governor of California.
** When Cromartie goes on a rampage in Mexico, Derek assures a wounded cop that he won't be back.
** "The Good Wound". Sarah describes John to the nurse she kidnapped in almost word for word how Reese described John to her.
--->''"He looks like his father but he has my eyes. You trust him. He has a strength about him. I'd die for my son"''.
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** Detective Ellison is named after sci-fi author Harlan Ellison, whose stories inspired the first Terminator film. The episode "The Demon Hand" is even named after one of Ellison's ''[[Series/TheOuterLimits Outer Limits]]'' episodes, "Demon With A Glass Hand."
** Someone who watched way too much anime might argue that Cromartie is a shout out to ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''.
** Cameron is a ShoutOut to James Cameron himself.
** Savannah telling her mother: "You can't sing." The mother is played by Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson.
** You can't help but think of the sci-fi classic ''ABoyAndHisDog'' upon seeing that last shot of [[spoiler: Allison Young]] in the future with an EvilDetectingDog at the end of "Born to Run".
** Sarah spots a tortoise on its back and flips it right side up. She and Cameron then have a discussion about whether artificial beings can feel [[Film/BladeRunner empathy.]]
** Cromartie, the main Terminator villain in the first season, stole the identity of an actor who previously starred in a movie about [[ConanTheBarbarian a barbarian]].
** The weird-looking [=UFOs=] featured during the second season were inspired by, and their design was based upon, a well-publicised UFO called the "dragonfly drone" that received a lot of exposure in the UFO community a few years ago. They're even referred to as drones in the series.
** There are a few references to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', such as Sarah calling Cameron "Tin Man" in the second episode as well as adopting the surname Baum (after Creator/LFrankBaum, the author of [[Literature/LandOfOz the books]]). In "Goodbye to All That" (itself a LiteraryAllusionTitle to a line from one of the books), one scene has Sarah and a boy she rescued reading a passage from the original book.
** There's a student at the military academy in "Goodbye To All That" who wants to fight in a war. Derek Reese berates him for this, having seen action himself. The students name? [[Film/FullMetalJacket Pyle, of course.]]
** John Henry frequently plays with {{Franchise/BIONICLE}} toys while trying to develop his imagination.
** John Henry discovering another AI, stating simply "[[Film/ColossusTheForbinProject There Is Another]]".
** Detective Ellison is named after sci-fi author Harlan Ellison, whose stories inspired the first Terminator film. The episode "The Demon Hand" is even named after one of Ellison's ''[[Series/TheOuterLimits Outer Limits]]'' episodes, "Demon With A Glass Hand."
** Someone who watched way too much anime might argue that Cromartie is a shout out to ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''.
** Cameron is a ShoutOut to James Cameron himself.
** Savannah telling her mother: "You can't sing." The mother is played by Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson.
** You can't help but think of the sci-fi classic ''ABoyAndHisDog'' upon seeing that last shot of [[spoiler: Allison Young]] in the future with an EvilDetectingDog at the end of "Born to Run".
** Sarah spots a tortoise on its back and flips it right side up. She and Cameron then have a discussion about whether artificial beings can feel [[Film/BladeRunner empathy.]]
** Cromartie, the main Terminator villain in the first season, stole the identity of an actor who previously starred in a movie about [[ConanTheBarbarian a barbarian]].
** The weird-looking [=UFOs=] featured during the second season were inspired by, and their design was based upon, a well-publicised UFO called the "dragonfly drone" that received a lot of exposure in the UFO community a few years ago. They're even referred to as drones in the series.
** There are a few references to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', such as Sarah calling Cameron "Tin Man" in the second episode as well as adopting the surname Baum (after Creator/LFrankBaum, the author of [[Literature/LandOfOz the books]]). In "Goodbye to All That" (itself a LiteraryAllusionTitle to a line from one of the books), one scene has Sarah and a boy she rescued reading a passage from the original book.
** There's a student at the military academy in "Goodbye To All That" who wants to fight in a war. Derek Reese berates him for this, having seen action himself. The students name? [[Film/FullMetalJacket Pyle, of course.]]
** John Henry frequently plays with {{Franchise/BIONICLE}} toys while trying to develop his imagination.
** John Henry discovering another AI, stating simply "[[Film/ColossusTheForbinProject There Is Another]]".
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Set after the [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} first two films]], and while it acknowledges some plot elements of the third movie, it goes in a different [[AlternateContinuity direction.]] Sarah and John are still on the run from both the FBI, a new Terminator, and their own sorry social lives. That is, until [[Creator/SummerGlau Cameron]] shows up to [[TimeTravel bring them from 1999 to 2007]] in order to stop [=SkyNet=] from being built.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009) was a science fiction series. Set after the [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} first two films]], and while it acknowledges some plot elements of the third movie, it goes in a different [[AlternateContinuity direction.]] Sarah and John are still on the run from both the FBI, a new Terminator, and their own sorry social lives. That is, until [[Creator/SummerGlau Cameron]] shows up to [[TimeTravel bring them from 1999 to 2007]] in order to stop [=SkyNet=] from being built.
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* ContemplateOurNavels: Sarah's narrative diary monologues at the opening and closing of each episode, presumably her "chronicles". These are largely absent in the second season. Catherine Weaver, aka the T-1001, is also unusually fond of long monologues with biblical overtones.
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