Guide to the Sarah Connor Chronicles

I named it Guide because that is sort of a trademark with me. Most of my lenses are called 'Guide to this or Guide to that'.

There are no human beings who act as Sarah Connor Chronicles guides in person. Yet. That will change when the Sarah Connor Chronicles Museum opens its doors and the museum docents will be actual real-life flesh & blood tangible guides. Scroll down to the final modules at the bottom if you want to check on the status of the museum project. I ain't running it. I provide inspiration and I provide whatever files might be asked of me. That is all. It is up to the initiative of others to get this ball rolling.

There probably exist tour operators who will take your group to visit SCC (Sarah Connor Chronicles) filming locations in the Los Angeles California and Albuquerque New Mexico areas. If you are an SCC fan and are vacationing in either of those two cities, please please PLEASE send me (Toni Roman) via email pictures and your evaluation of the tour bus operator that you used. What's in it for the tour guide? Plenty. Money and the hope of other SCC fans who may want to hire the tour guide -- if you the SCC fan give them a good review. If they treat you badly and don't do their homework to gain a thorough knowledge of SCC locations, then I will not send any business their way. My first and only loyalty is to other SCC fans.

Sarah Connor is a fictional character from the elevision series The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She was played by English actress Lena Headey in the TV series. The character develops greatly over the course of these productions, from a timid victim of the first film to a hardened warrior on the verge of losing touch with her own humanity.

In a deleted scene of the episode "The Demon Hand", details of Sarah's childhood are revealed during a session with Dr. Peter Silberman. When she was seven, her father-a chronically depressed war veteran-loses his mattress factory job to a machine, which leads to dysfunction within her family and her father's subsequent abandonment of them. Her mother finds a job as a waitress. Even as a child, Sarah has an intense technophobia. After her father leaves, Sarah stops spending her afternoons with her childhood friend whose father is an engineer with IBM. Instead, she takes to visiting the factory where her own father had worked to watch the gears and belts of the machines, knowing something is wrong with what she sees.

In November 2005, 20th Century Fox announced that it would produce a television series called The Sarah Connor Chronicles featuring the adventures of the title character and her son in the years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This was followed by a November 2006 announcement that Lena Headey had been chosen to play Sarah Connor. The choice to cast Headey was criticized by several fans and critics who argued that she bore no resemblance to the athletic, muscular woman established by Linda Hamilton, who transformed her body into that of a male body builder for Terminator 2. The controversy was covered by the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Herald, and The Guardian, as well as in online forums. Regarding the Sarah Connor character, producer James Middleton said, "She has the weight of the world on her shoulders and also has to raise a teenage son who may be the salvation of humanity."

The series opens in 1999, a few years after the events of Terminator 2. Sarah and John Connor seem to be living a peaceful life after being on the run. Her FBI file lists her age as 33 on August 24, 1999. Living undercover after being blamed for the murder of Miles Dyson, Sarah is even engaged to paramedic Charley Dixon. However, Sarah, fearing discovery, and perhaps, as John suggests, the certainty of a stable life, forces the two of them to flee again. On his first day in his new school, John is attacked by a T-888 Terminator called Cromartie posing as a substitute teacher. He escapes with the help of Cameron Phillips, a Terminator (in a Skynet-manufactured body that resembles a teenaged girl) sent back in time (by the future John) to protect him. Sarah hears of the shooting and rushes to the school but is captured by Cromartie, who uses her to lure John into a trap. Again with the help of Cameron, they flee to a bank where resistance members have hidden the parts of a time machine. As Cromartie attacks them, the trio disappears into the year 2007.

Cameron suggests to Sarah that their primary mission should be to stop Skynet, estimated to go online in the year 2011. Sarah argues that time traveling was the wrong move and that if she had been allowed to stay in 1999, she would have had longer to prepare John and to prepare to destroy Skynet. It is at this point that Cameron informs her that she would have died from cancer (similar to the film version of Sarah) in 2005. Traveling to the future has served several purposes: it gives Sarah the time she needs to destroy Skynet in its infancy, faking her and John's deaths keeps the authorities from pursuing them, and staying off the grid hides them from Skynet (which is aware that they've travelled through time but doesn't know which year they have been sent). As the three of them attempt to evade discovery and track down the origins of Skynet, Sarah is burdened with the extra knowledge that her own body might betray her. The third episode of the series shows Sarah at a doctor's appointment, where she is informed that she is completely healthy. Nevertheless, she seeks preventative measures from the doctor to avoid cancer altogether. Later episodes show her more intensively training her body, and she is seen taking a handful of vitamins and medications.

Sarah's relationship with Cameron has been repeatedly antagonistic and they share a mutual distrust. As Sarah attempts to teach Cameron the value of a human life by denigrating machine life, Cameron argues the importance of their mission to thwart Skynet's creation even if killing is necessary. During battles with Terminators programmed to kill the Connors, Sarah and Cameron often find themselves working together. Also, since Cameron is the only other person who knows of her cancer situation, Sarah often approaches her for advice in the matter.

In the original movie, The Terminator, in the last scene at a petrol station south of the border we see that Sarah has begun recording audio cassettes both as a journal for herself and for her unborn son.

In the T2 script:

In John's bedroom the T-1000 begins searching methodically in the dark.
Calmly and dispassionately ripping the room apart for any clues that
could lead it to its target. T-1000 finds a box of audio cassettes
marked "Messages from Mom". In it are some letters, and envelopes
filled with snapshots. It begins looking through some of the
photos...

SHOT OF JOHN AND SARAH during the missing years. Sarah in olive
cammos with an RPG 7 grenade launcher, teaching John how to aim.
Sarah with a group of military-clad Guatemalan men, standing next to
cases of Stinger missiles. John and Sarah in a Contra camp, deep in
the mountains.

In the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series, Sarah is heard recording the chronicles in the voice overs at the beginning and ending of episodes.

Linda Hamilton reprised her role as Sarah Connor in voice overs delivered throughout Terminator Salvation. In one scene, when alone in his quarters, John Connor listens to the audio cassette tapes that his mother has recorded for him. Many people thought that was a nice touch in the movie.

journal/diary log entries:

Sarah's voice-overs at the beginning or end of episodes including this classic --

"There are things machines will never do. They cannot possess faith. They cannot commune with God. They cannot appreciate beauty. They cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us. They'll be us."

Yes, they'll be a member of your family. Maybe even your daughter. That irony is lost on Sarah who forgets that recently Cameron had sat in church and asked her, "Do you believe in The Resurrection?" Discussing this conversation with Derek, Reese responded that he didn't think Cameron fell within Jesus' jurisdiction. Putting limits on God? Interesting concept.

Sarah is also unaware that Cameron is taking ballet classes. No ability to create art or appreciation of beauty? Cameron can always look in the mirror if she wants to see beauty or work of art. The machines were openly proud of their handiwork (particularly the hair) when they showed Allison Young the gynoid/infiltrator made in her image.

Ms. Weaver quotes the Bible. One would expect that the last thing a mass murderess would want is a moral center or moral compass but she asks Mr. Ellison to teach John-Henry The Ten Commandments, morality, and ethics. Maybe she understands that a sociopath cannot function in society without a conscience.

Is there an actual journal or diary that Sarah keeps?

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Best Sarah Connor Chronicles blog? Haven't found a good one yet. [Use blog search engine at Google and Blogpulse.com]

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Sarah's biography

A high school dropout in the heartland of the United States of America, young Sarah Connor worked as a waitress in a diner before a robot tried to kill her. The robot did succeed in killing her mother and, possibly, other members of the Connor older generation such as her father. None of Sarah Connor's four grandparents or uncles or aunts is known to still be alive. Cousins unknown. She probably has no nephews or nieces. However, a Connor family plot does exist in her hometown's cemetery.

A total stranger named Kyle Reese saved her life and died in the process of fighting the robot. Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese were intimate but were unable to make the liaison legal by visiting a justice of the peace.

Now pregnant, Sarah headed south for the Mexican border. Nine months later, she delivered an illegitimate child and named him John Connor. Naming the child John Reese would have necessitated an explanation that involved a story about "killer robots from the future." Sarah raised her son in the Central American jungles among mercenaries and guerrillas for the first years of his life before they returned to the United States.

Upon the return to the USA, the attacks by terminators resumed and Sarah began vigilante activity when her doomsday warning fell on deaf ears. This landed her in the Atascadero Psychiatric Ward where she was rescued by her Uncle Bob and her son when another robot (a shape shifter this time) tried to kill her in the asylum.

"Uncle Bob" turned out to be a reprogrammed ex-terminator and a protector. Leaving John in the care of the protector, Sarah Connor put a roboticist named Miles Dyson in a situation where he was shot by a SWAT team while she rigged the Cyberdyne building to blow with high explosives. Ms. Connor justified the demolition on the grounds that a future with killer robots must be prevented and Cyberdyne made robots for the military. Subsequently, Sarah was accused of murdering Miles Dyson though clearly the bullet came from police.

Throughout all this, the shape-shifting terminator was still in pursuit. After saving her life and serving as a father to John, Sarah rewarded Uncle Bob by dropping him into a blast furnace. This ensured that when the terminator attacks resumed (corporations are more than just buildings) that Sarah and her son had no protection.

Pollution is carcinogens in the air, water, and soil (which goes in food). Because of this toxic buildup, Sarah Connor contracted cancer and died. This part of the story is familiar to millions and every family on Earth has had a member struck down by cancer.

However, another "protector" arrived. Here the biography of Sarah becomes confusing and the roles reverse. The protector announced its mission: "to protect John, hunt Skynet, stop Judgment Day." John was quite capable of protecting himself without her help. Hunting Skynet was as easy as driving over to Cyberdyne. Sarah had not bothered to notice that the company had survived because of Pentagon contracts, patents, and distributed data processing. The internet is built to be indestructible.

As for stopping "Judgment Day", the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists still indicates the likelihood of a nuclear holocaust. Time travel by its nature is difficult to document. Available evidence indicates that a future John Connor may have sent hundreds, if not thousands, of missions to the past. Each mission to the past would have wiped out the future John's memory of it. In Doctor Who terms, an endless time loop or repetition of bad decisions. The inescapable conclusion is that John is John's problem and Sarah is John's problem. If that bleak grim world is not inevitable, then Skynet's missions to the past must be stopped and the many people who romanticize scuttling around in post-Apocalyptic ruins must get serious about preventing the death of billions in a nuclear holocaust.

Cameron's three pronged "mission" was clearly bogus.

Cameron arrived before Sarah's death from cancer, diagnosed Sarah, and engineered a jump over the year in which she would have died. Sarah was cancer-free and in remission. Sarah repaid this act of kindness by taking Cameron out of school, sticking Cameron in a dead-end job at a nuclear power plant, exposing herself to radioactive carcinogens and lethal levels of radiation, and re-contracting cancer. Her son John added insult to injury by accusing Cameron of leaking radiation herself despite assurances that her sensors could detect a leak. Still thinking that Cameron's motives were sinister, John cut open Cameron to make sure. A Geiger counter would have sufficed. Within hours, Cameron was further vindicated when she gave her life helping someone who would help John.

Unable to think outside the box, Sarah did not see a way to stop Judgment Day that did not involve bullets and heavy ordnance. She had raised her son to be the future leader of The Resistance not to be a US Senator who would stop funding for Skynet nor a diplomat who would tirelessly advocate a UN policy of discouraging nations from using military robots and military AI's (artificial intelligence). Being called crazy had embittered Sarah Connor to the point that even at the eleventh hour when Agent Aldridge had offered the olive branch, she slapped it away.

Unable to think outside the box, Sarah learned of a young AI named John-Henry, went to Zeira Corporation with intent to kill the boy (in a man's body), and then insulted the boy's mother after the woman had just saved her life. Sarah could never get past the metal nature of Uncle Bob, Cameron (her adopted daughter) or any friendly machine. The older generation is often unable to unlearn bigotry.

Judgment Day arrived on schedule and billions of individuals died. One of them was Sarah Connor.

[Editor's note: John went to rescue Cameron and once again a time loop as John arrived in a bleak grim future. Clearly, Judgment Day had not been stopped by Sarah Connor.]

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Photo source: http://www.terminatorfiles.com/news/2009/2009-04-09-a.htm

Who are the main characters?
Sarah Connor, the title character.
John Connor, her son.
Cameron Baum, protector of John.
James Ellison, FBI special agent.
Derek Reese, John's uncle.
Catherine Weaver, president of Zeira Corporation.
Savannah Weaver, her daughter.
Cromartie, of all the killers after John, this one is the most determined; even has a plastic surgeon give him a new face; the second time he is killed, he stays dead
John-Henry, an artificial intelligence who is given the body of Cromartie as an output device or interface or avatar [This explanation assumes that you understand anything about computer technology. If you don't, then think of it as possession but without the supernatural nonsense. This show is hard science.]
Jesse Flores, Derek's girlfriend
Riley Dawson, John's girlfriend
Skynet, the unseen artificial intelligence who leads the machine rebellion against humans

What's going on?
Sarah is raising her son to lead humanity after machines turn on humans and start killing them to the point of extinction. However, there is a chance of avoiding the extinction. That is by finding the machine leader and killing it.

What's the back story?
I am told that people enjoy and understand the show without ever having seen any of the Terminator movies (some Sarah Connor Chronicles fans even dislike what they have seen of the movies). The back story: Sarah back in 1984 was a student working her way through college. She was followed by a stalker and then attacked by a man who seemed unfazed by bullets. The stalker turned out to be a soldier from the future sent to protect her from the second man who turned out to be a killer also from the future. See what I mean? You didn't really need to know that for it to be obvious that Sarah, like any single mother, is overprotective of her son. It is also quickly obvious to anyone who wanders in mid-episode mid-season that John must be special. Right. He is destined to lead. And the bad guys want to kill us all. See? Simple.

Why does Sarah act this way?
Mostly the stress of having unstoppable machines trying to kill her and her son, being sought by police and the FBI, and having made enemies of gangs and mobsters. She has been in an asylum where they pumped her full of questionable drugs. She has survived cancer. And she interprets dreams. The Senoi tribes people of Malaysia are considered the world's foremost interpreters of dreams. They are also considered crazy. The dream episodes also drove more than a few fans crazy. Skynet may be masculine in gender (at least as far as personality) though in Terminator Salvation, Skynet had a feminine personality. For purposes of answering the question, let's call it an it. To Sarah, it means I.T., as in information technology. She has technophobia because her father lost his job to automation and abandoned his family as a direct result. As a result, Sarah hates even those machines that are trying to help her. With the exception of Uncle Bob. Sarah was tortured by Sarkissian's mobsters in front of her son. She later has to go to family therapy to deal with the trauma. She is also drugged by Ed Winston when she is captured in a Kaliba-owned warehouse to the point that she does more dreaming than even she can handle. It is suggested that Skynet is akin to the AI's in The Matrix and is studying the collective unconscious of the human race via sleep labs in order to understand humans better than they understand themselves. [Please don't cancel your appointment at a sleep clinic because you read this. This is just paranoia] If all this isn't more than enough, Sarah has had numerous gun wounds which, as any gun shot victim can tell you, leaves one traumatized. Why does Sarah act this way? How could she not?

Who is Uncle Bob?
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 as the second terminator she meets. He comes to help rather than kill her or her son John.

I attended Sunday School and Judgment Day is God sending you to heaven or hell. Why do they keep referring to nuclear holocaust as Judgment Day?
A bad decision on the part of the writers. Ignore it. Let it go. They get most other religious and Biblical references right however.

I'm confused by the time travel. Can you explain that?
Both the humans (and the machines forced to side with them) and the machines (and the humans who collaborate with them) have time travel technology. Think of the time travel as the foreshadowing used in literature, simply a method of telling the story. Flashbacks are rarely used in the series. I can't think of any examples because the story is told from the perspective of the present looking toward the future rather than the perspective of the future looking toward the past. If you insist on tying yourself in knots over this, refer to the answer to this question in the regular fans' guide to the Sarah Connor Chronicles which is on an intermediate level.

What's a cyborg?
In the show, a cyborg is a machine with human parts, a robot with a sheath of living skin made in a genetics lab. None of that body snatching and skin crawling stuff in horror movies like Alien and Aliens. In real life, a cyborg is a cybernetic organism. Remember the Six Million Dollar Man? Human with machine parts. Bionics are electronics that mimic biology. For example, it is well known among photographers that the camera was inspired by the human eye. Strictly speaking, any time you add to the human body any thing that God didn't give you or you weren't born with, you are a cyborg. Wearing a hearing aid or contact lenses makes you a cyborg. Using a wheelchair does not because the wheelchair is not attached to you. Prosthetic arms or legs definitely makes you a cyborg. It doesn't matter that a plastic leg or a glass lens are not electronics. What does matter is that (like it or not) these are all simple machines in the manner of levers and pulleys and inclined planes. Lasik does not make you a cyborg because your eyesight is improved by laser surgery but nothing is attached. Social scientists think that we are all becoming Borg and are losing our humanity piece by piece, bit by bit. And yes, I am using bit in the computer technology sense of the word.

When does the action take place?
Mainly in the present. The series starts off in 1999 before jumping to 2007. There are also the before-mentioned scenes in the future.

Where does the action take place?
It starts in New Mexico and moves to Los Angeles, California. There are trips to places mostly in the LA area but one to Baja, Mexico. The show had a tight budget and so, like most TV shows, the world is Los Angeles because that's where the Warner Brothers back lot is.

Why do some people insist on calling that girl Cameron Phillips?
These people are the sub-fandom known as Jameron. Cameron herself only used the name Cameron Phillips once and thereafter took the same last name or alias as Sarah, John and Derek. Most often this assumed family name was Baum. Jameron means John/Cameron. Jameron fans want to see romance between John and Cameron. The fact that John and Cameron are posing as brother and sister and function as brother and sister and are treated as brother and sister is inconvenient to Jameron fans. Hence, Cameron is a "mysterious stranger". Emphasis is made of her unfamiliarity so that no question of incest is raised. She was cloned using a human named Allison Young as template and therefore could not possibly have any Reese or Connor DNA. Cross your fingers and hope Jameron fans! There is also a hidden plot line where Sarah and John hope that if they cannot stop Skynet, then they can at least make him (excuse me, it) less evil. Cameron may be key to that plan. If you have not seen the finale and you are a Jameron fan, then you either find one scene offensive or you don't. I rather doubt if any Jameron fan finds that scene offensive.

How does Skynet make the human race extinct? And can I help?
Nuclear warfare followed by biological warfare, antipersonnel devices known as Hunter-Killers (HK's) and finally those guys you do not want to invite to a party - terminators.
In real life, you can help by doing nothing. Let the climate change deniers run riot. Avoid joining any environmental group using as an excuse that Homeland Security hates you. Don't pick up litter. Turn a blind eye to midnight dumping of toxic waste. Don't worry about flushing things down the toilet that you shouldn't. Don't drive an electric car. Don't install solar panels. Don't stop the critics of wind power as they build more fission plants and coal-fired power plants. Don't sell your investments in coal, petrochemicals and fission. Don't worry about the Patriot Act. Don't vote. Be apathetic toward politics. Don't be careful about spills of fluids from your car. Don't even think about finding an employer who cares about the environment. Don't speak out for peace and against war. Don't worry about military robotics or military AI's. Don't use birth control or contraceptives. Don't engage in family planning. Just relax and squirt out as many children as possible. Don't care about anything or anyone. Don't do anything positive. This is how you can make the human race extinct. Who needs Skynet? And the beauty of the plan is that no effort is required. It will happen on its own. And yes, the show subtly raises these issues without hitting you over the head the way I just did.

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The Ratings

On October 18, 2007 (a day which will live in infamy), "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" was renamed "Terminator". From that point on, the show never had a chance because movie fans moved in and started nonstop criticism and comparing the TV series with the movies. TV fans who loved the show but hated the movies were ignored while critics got all the attention.

Movie fans tuned in to see Arnold and Linda (neither of whom was ever going to appear on the show) for the Sunday premiere. The premiere got spectacular ratings. Naturally network executives immediately moved the show to other nights (making it hard to find) and opposite killer competition (for a first year show) while the movie fans never returned (good riddance). The show finally ended up on Graveyard Friday as a lead-in for Dollhouse when SCC itself should have had a lead-in like House or 24 since the mature nature of the show (nude scenes and violence) demanded a nine or ten o'clock time slot instead of an eight o'clock slot in the family hour when parents would turn off the show to protect the kiddies.

The show was the best television ever produced tackling issues from nuclear war to pollution and from automation (machines taking our jobs) to the ethics of cloning. Previous comments aside, the production values of the show were so high that each episode resembled a grade A major motion picture at the theatres. The special effects often exceeded what you would pay for at the cinema. The casting was perfect. The writing was topnotch in that it experimented and violated the rules of what you could do on television.

The acting deserved awards. Garret Dillahunt played three different people (an actor, a terminator and John-Henry). Lena Headey gave no hint of her native British accent as she dared to play Sarah Connor as often dislikable but always gorgeous (I make no secret of the fact that I hated her title character and could not wait to tune in each week to see her do something stupid or crazy). Brian Austin Green made his mark as a tormented soul who was greatly missed when his character was killed off. I was one of the few who had no problem with how Thomas Dekker played John Connor since I did not care if he was wimpy or whiny (he wasn't). What's the rush? Let's get a good long look at John Connor as a teen-ager or pre-teen before forcing him to be a middle-aged man. Remember "Salvation"? Enough said. Richard T. Jones played the thankless part of the FBI agent tracking Sarah and her "killer robots from the future". Shirley Manson played the liquid machine that was as cold as a block of dry ice. Like it or not (and I liked it), these two had chemistry enough to merit their own series. In the only casting mistake on the show, older actress Summer Glau was always in the mind of the producers (no other actress was ever seriously considered) to play the teen-age terminator. I thought then and I still think that she was too old to play the part. But dammit (pardon my language) she nailed the part so well that she owns it and whoever next plays Cameron will have big shoes to fill. Sort of like someone playing the king in "The King & I" other than Yul Brynner. Mackenzie Brooke Smith stole every scene she was in and had the best moment of the entire series when the hit man tried to kill her character. Even the secondary characters like AI lab chief Matt Murch and the landlady Kacy Corbin were played by actors who had loyal fans. If Ms. Weaver was the anti-Sarah, the actress who played mentally disturbed Jesse Flores (Stephanie Jacobsen) may have been introduced as a parallel Sarah to drain off the hatred that might otherwise be directed toward the hate-able Sarah Connor. She also got the bedroom scenes that otherwise would have gone to Lena Headey (Sarah is doomed to make war not love). Green & Jacobsen sizzled perhaps because Jones & Manson were forbidden. In all, this show was too good for television which is only interested in selling soap or other products during commercials.

However, the promotion of the show was an unbroken string of bad decisions. For instance, Krafft-Ebing poster art that appealed to sickos and psychos (the infamous smiling half-torso). Did they really want only serial killers to tune in to see the show? Did they not want a broader demographic appeal than that? Great content but the promotion of the show was inadequate, and even creepy.

The one mistake that was not made in handling the show was that the show was never really categorized or sold as science fiction. If that had happened, there would never have been a Season Two since mainstream audiences do not knowingly watch sci-fi. Lost has huge ratings because people don't know it is SF.

Fans of the show did not help when they insisted on watching the show via VCR, via cable in college dorm group rooms (twenty people watching a set rather than one or two persons), via Hulu, via bit torrents, and via almost any medium except Fox network broadcasts with the result that the show had low Nielsen ratings despite high viewership. Some fans even bragged about how they wanted to screw Fox even before cancellation.

The rest is history. And we have only rumors of continuing the show via DVD magazine subscription. The franchise is no longer in the hands of Halcyon. A hedge fund now owns it as a side show in a larger property of movies, video games and theme parks. Will The Sarah Connor Chronicles be lost in the shuffle as Pacificor decides whether to honor McG's deal to direct more Terminator movies? Stay tuned.

Deadline Hollywood has learned that the Halcyon Holding Corp. has sold the "Terminator" rights not to Sony Pictures or Lionsgate, but to Santa Barbara-based hedge fund Pacificor for $29.5 million. What's interesting is that Halcyon has previously accused Pacificor of extortion, bribery, and fraud and demanded $30M in damages.

Halcyon will receive $5 million for every "Terminator" movie made from now on, as well as retains the revenue streams from the third and fourth "Terminator" movies. An arrangement also was made that the sale now wipes out the debt Halcyon owed to Pacificor and all the other creditors.

Back on May 9, 2007, rights to the "Terminator" series passed from producers Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar to the privately funded Halcyon for a reported $30 million. It was Pacificor that lent Halcyon the money to conclude the deal.

Editor's comment: The dictionary definitions of the words "halcyon" and "pacific" are both peace. So maybe that explains why they cut a deal but Pacificor then turns around to talk with Sony and Lionsgate which Halcyon declined to do. One could guess that debt relief was the real sticking point.

This is the price of listening to Sarah Connor. Psychologists call it folie a deux. In other words, mental illness is infectious. You hang around Crazy Sarah long enough and you'll catch her brand of insanity and go nuts too.

Young John Connor - John in his teen years as played by Thomas Dekker

"Future John" - a term formerly used to indicate the person who sends missions to the past, who was close to Cameron after her reprogramming, who is seeing the human race go extinct (terminators plagues radiation sickness), and who is scarred, crippled, and old hence the preferred term "Old John"

"Old John" - a term used to replace "Future John" now that "Young John" is in the future too. It is simply an aged Connor way up in years as played by Michael Edwards.

Middle-Aged John - Connor in his thirties, forties, and fifties as played by Christian Bale in the movies.

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The best site for a decent look at the more obscure members of the cast is at --

http://www.fancast.com/tv/Terminator:-The-Sarah-Connor-Chronicles/95993/cast

fashionistas

We looked at several funny photos but this one has canines in it and a Fox is a canine. So let's use our canine teeth on it.

He hates her. She either worships him or respects him or is annoyed by him. She has to wonder why he acts like he doesn't remember that she saved his life in the future and several times in the past.

Not your typical uncle and niece.

Occasionally, Sarah knows how to dress up. She's visiting Derek in jail. (And hanging up on the school psychologist because he wants to talk about Cameron)

Nov 1 2009, 8:46 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 1 2009, 8:46 PM EST
The rights to the Terminator film franchise will be auctioned this month in a deal that will test Hollywood intellectual property

valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales.
[source terminatorwiki.fox]

After much financial trouble The Halcyon Company has decided to auction off the rights to the entire Terminator franchise in

January 2010.
[source wikipedia article on The Halcyon Company]

Halcyon puts 'Terminator' on block
Future rights will be up for sale in January
By DAVE MCNARY
'Terminator Salvation,' with an estimated $200 million budget, took in $371 million worldwide.

comment: To ordinary people, that sounds like a lot of money. To industry people, it lost money since it did not make back

production and marketing cost plus a decent profit.

One way or another, "Terminator" should be back in action soon.
An auction is set for January for Halcyon Co. to sell the rights to future "Terminator" pics, TV series, DVDs and merchandise as

part of its bankruptcy process.

An exec with FTI Capital Advisers, retained by Halcyon, issued a bullish outlook Monday, saying there's been strong interest

building since the investment bankers began sending out materials last week to prospective buyers.

"This is a unique asset -- the only Hollywood tentpole asset that's not owned by a studio," said Kevin Shultz, senior managing

director of FTI Capital Advisers.

[source of McNary article is Variety dot com]

comment: They still don't understand that The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series is more valuable than the movies. Plus as many

people hate McG as praise his work on Salvation. Personally, I liked Salavation. But I like the TV series more. The movies are

not even close to the TV series in terms of quality and how much fans like SCC. When will the execs learn?

proposal: Get out your checkbooks fans and let's buy the franchise (or at least The Sarah Connor Chronicles)!

comment: That word "terminator" is the problem. Movie fans sunk the show because they tuned in, whined about Lena Headey not

being Linda Hamilton (heck they both have the initials L.H.) and Summer Glau not being Arnold Schwarzenegger and then convinced

themselves that Thomas Dekker was the one who was whining. Go back to your movies and let us have the TV series!

fact: The word "terminator" was used once, only one time in the entire TV series and in the final episode. And using the word

nearly got Sarah killed by someone who one minute before saved her from a Kaliba drone.

Terminator franchise to be auctioned off
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles

Published: November 1 2009 22:40 | Last updated: November 1 2009 22:40

"The rights to the Terminator film franchise will be auctioned this month in a deal that will test Hollywood intellectual property

valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales."

note: rights to the film franchise NOT necessarily the TV series

"The rights are being sold by Halcyon, the production company behind Terminator Salvation, the latest instalment in the series,

which grossed $380m worldwide. The auction does not cover earlier Terminator films.

The rights will give the buyer the ability to make new Terminator films, TV programmes and other spin-offs that build on the

popularity of the franchise."

comment: well that answers that question, the auction does cover TV. Too bad it can't be split off.

"The sale is being conducted by FTI Capital Advisors, recently appointed by Halcyon when it sought bankruptcy protection. Halcyon

filed for Chapter 11 after a dispute with Pacificor, a Santa Barbara-based hedge fund that lent Halcyon funds to buy the Terminator

rights."

comment: hedge fund? An unregulated industry that helped caused the current worldwide depression. Hang in there Halcyon! We're

rooting for you. Read the final excerpt and find out why we love Halcyon.

"The rights to the franchise have changed hands many times and were sold to Halcyon for $25m two years ago by Mario Kassar, who

produced Terminator 2: Judgement Day."

comment: Mario Kassar sold his rights and Halcyon kept him on. Look up the credits to the Sarah Connor Chronicles and you discover

that Mario Kassar was an executive producer on the Sarah Connor Chronicles for all thirty-one episodes along with Josh Friedman,

James Middleton, and Andrew Vajna. Fans, they kept the behind-the-camera family together. Rememvber, the show is more than the

cast. It is also crew and staff. These people poured their guts into this show. And Halcyon understood that. The next owner

might not understand that. Probably won't. That's why we fans have got to raise money, form a foundation and get an investment

banker to negotiate for us. And we have less than a month to get our act together. This is something Star Trek fans never dreamed

of -- control of the show. No fate but what we make.

[source of Garrahan excerpts is The Financial Times]

and costs Tech-Com several billion dollars in replacement price they can't afford

Leaner Lena Headey too 'emaciated' for role in the TV TerminatorLast updated at 15:58 21 January 2008

Comments (6) Add to My Stories British actress Lena Headey has been criticised for looking too "emaciated" to play iconic action heroine Sarah Connor in a new Terminator TV series.
While the show made an impressive debut, with more than 18million US viewers last week, Headey's lean physique has quickly been put under the microscope, with some deeming her unsuitable for the part.
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Slender: Lena Headey is under fire for her 'toothpick-thin' physique
Action: The actress plays Sarah Connor in the new American series
The role was first made famous by iron-pumping Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Hamilton turned the character into a "butt-kicking inspiration to millions of women," according to the Los Angeles Times.
But now a critic writing for the paper says: "Some who worship at the altar of Sarah Connor detect heresy in the casting of Headey, who's healthy-looking and attractive but not exactly Ms Olympia."
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Muscles: Linda Hamilton got seriously toned for her role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Others are less gentle in their criticism of the West Yorkshire-born actress, whose films credits include The Remains Of The Day, 300 and St Trinian's.

Under the microscope: the British actress' new show is a hit but her body has attracted criticism
Boston Herald critic Mark Perigard wrote: "I'd like to give her time - and some pasta - to help her grow into her jeans. Headey looks remarkably like actress Lara Flynn Boyle. She's a twig of an action heroine."
The Sarah Connor Charm School, a Terminator fan group which focuses on "physical feminist empowerment", is also unimpressed by the choice.
The group's spokesperson Kym Lambert said: "We were very upset to find out that a very thin and non-athletic actress had been chosen out of, supposedly, hundreds to play a role that we as physical feminists found so inspiring."
British feminist and novelist Bidisha echoed the group's concerns.
She said: "I am shocked to find out that the producers are clearly sanctioning a new, weedy silhouette in such an iconic and genuinely groundbreaking role.
"There are two issues here: having a toothpick-thin, feeble-looking Sarah Connor is a crime against the iconography of the character; and presenting a clearly emaciated actress as a heroine is a crime against women."
For her part, Headey has played down the unflattering comparions to Hamilton, blaming her lack of bulging biceps on a shortage of time to work out.
She has said: "The film had the luxury of more money and more time."
"If they were going to give me a month, and a trainer every day, and a chef, then it would be fantastic... it's a TV show, for God's sake!"
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which also sees British star Owain Yeoman fill Arnold Schwarzenegger's original part, will air in the UK next month.
Original: Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured here in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, does not appear in the new TV series - the role has been filled by British star Owain Yeoman

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-509521/Leaner-Lena-Headey-emaciated-role-TV-Terminator.html#ixzz0nl1rUGTb

Lose the cigarette honey, it is tacky.

Keep him in mind as your wedding photographer. Really nice portraits.

30 episodes, 2008-2009

Josh Friedman .... executive producer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Mario Kassar ... executive producer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Joel B. Michaels .... executive producer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
James Middleton .... executive producer / consulting producer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Andrew G. Vajna .... executive producer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Natalie Chaidez .... co-executive producer / consulting producer (30 episodes, 2008-2009)
Jill Danton .... producer (30 episodes, 2008-2009)
Toni Graphia .... co-executive producer (30 episodes, 2008-2009)
John Wirth .... executive producer (30 episodes, 2008-2009)

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utility sound technician (31 episodes, 2008-2009)

special effects supervisor / special effects coordinator (31 episodes, 2008-2009)

Pharoah Barrett .... 3D artist: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Mat Beck .... senior visual effects supervisor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Dan Blank .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Sarah Blank .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Dean Deakyne .... 3D artist: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Mike Dobbs .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Jason Dunn .... matte painter: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Brandon Flyte .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Brian Harding .... visual effects supervisor: Entity FX / visual effects supervisor: EntityFX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Junji Hirano .... visual effects artist: Entity FX / visual effects artist (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Eli Jarra .... senior compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Aaron N. Leichter .... I/O coordinator: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Andrew Lema .... visual effects artist: Entity FX / visual effects (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Ellyn Lewis .... visual effects general manager: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Viet Nguyen .... systems engineer: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Rik Panero .... digital effects artist: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Dan Rucinski .... visual effects executive producer: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Moshe Sayada .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Andrea Shear .... 3D artist: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Trent Smith .... visual effects producer: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Mike Spring .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Shane Strickman .... visual effects coordinator: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Takashi Takeoka .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Carol VanHook .... compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Doug Witsken .... digital compositor: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Kaz Yoshida .... 3D artist: Entity FX (31 episodes, 2008-2009)

stunt coordinator (30 episodes, 2008-2009)

Joe Chouchanian .... grip (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Donald S. Hubbell .... dolly grip (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
James Jermyn .... second assistant camera (31 episodes, 2008-2009)

Lisa Beach .... original casting (30 episodes, 2008-2009)
Sarah Katzman .... original casting (30 episodes, 2008-2009)

online editor (22 episodes, 2008-2009)

Michael Baber .... music editor (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Chris Bleth .... musician: woodwinds (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
M.B. Gordy .... musician: percussion (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Steve Kaplan .... scoring engineer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Aaron Roethe .... scoring coordinator / composer: additional music (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Laurence Schwarz .... assistant engineer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)

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transportation dispatcher (30 episodes, 2008-2009)

Amy D'Alessandro .... titles (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Kayla Franklin .... assistant to producer / assistant: producer (31 episodes, 2008-2009)
Yuell Newsome .... stock librarian (31 episodes, 2008-2009)

Baldwin Hills Oil Field House, Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
(The Connor's home in season 2)

Barelas Railyard, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Highland High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Without even thinking hard, I can think of some.

Ways to prevent Judgment Day
1. Reprogram Skynet into being helpful like John-Henry (he told Savannah to hide and called the police when a Skynet assassin invaded the Weaver home).
2. Tell Democrats in Congress to cut stupid defense projects like Skynet.
3. Tell Republicans that budget cuts will have to include defense - especially defense projects that cause the genocide of Mankind.
4. Start a lobby group that actively buttonholes Congressmen and Senators about dangerous defense projects like Skynet.
5. Contact Pentagon whistle blowers.
6. Publish exposes in newspapers and on-line blogs and WikiLeaks. Send video footage of terminators (even killer robots from the future cannot avoid omnipresent cameras in our privacy-deficient world) to Sixty Minutes.
7. Get hackers to hack Skynet.
8. Get malware developers to infect Skynet with malware.
9. Work with Special Agent James Ellison, Agent Auldridge and Agent Lila Ellison instead of pissing them off.
10. Bankrupt Cyberdyne Systems (several ways to do this).
11. Get investigative journalists to go after Kaliba Group - which should be easy after one of their drones rammed the Zeira Building 9/11 style. Several government agencies including the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (of which NCIS might be seen as a part) and Pentagon inspectors would be looking into the crash anyway. Catherine Weaver's human brother is a National Transportation Safety Board investigator and it would have been interesting to see him show up and watch Catherine squirm since she couldn't very well kill the entire Weaver family.
12. Perhaps a class action lawsuit or some other legal action or a test case taken to the Supreme Court to challenge the legality of turning over human destiny to AI's. [Not that the Supreme Court is on the side of voters any more since it regards corporations as persons!]

I got about a hundred more things to list but that's enough for now. It should be obvious by now that I loved the show because it made me think. Star Trek did not do that for me. Star Trek fandom has a long list of accomplishments (if you don't believe it, I suggest you do some research) but thinking deeply about life? Not really. I learned that logic is the probable direction of humankind and civilization (since we will kill ourselves otherwise). I would not have survived my teen years without Star Trek re-runs. But personally it affected my youth more than my adult life. Doctor Who did not and does not make me think for more than an hour after an episode. Firefly? I don't know yet what impact it will have on me since I only saw it for the first time this past Thanksgiving. Over the Christmas holidays, I saw the entire Firefly series straight through three times and the movie Serenity twice. I am still processing the experience and have no reaction to report yet. It's the way I am wired both as an individual and as a writer. Harry Potter? Enjoyed it but nothing to think about. Magic by definition is anti-intellectual or at least anti-scientific. Any morality tale lessons from Potter is negated by the fact that us Muggles (non-witches, non-wizards) have no powers and they can play with us like Greek gods playing with mortals. Screw'em. Jane Austen? Her work doesn't make me think but it does make me appreciate manners and etiquette more. Mystery Science Theater 3000? I haven't seen it much but what I saw was trivial. Sure, it might sharpen my wit but thinking deeply? I doubt if lambasting bad B-list movies will do that. Learning to go through life putting down everything like some "the-world-is-my-oyster" arrogant spoiled rich boy may be other people's idea of a sound personal philosophy but it is not mine. Or was it the attitude of a drunk? I probably should stomach another viewing of MST 3000 before I draw a final conclusion but it does not make me think. Tolkien? Ditto remarks under Potter. I don't have a collection of Beatles records but I liked what I heard of that group of musicians. Twilight? Bloodsuckers. I don't care for mixing violence and sex. Invariably we women get the short end of sadomasochism. Those who know that I am into life extension comprehend why I have a low opinion of vampire fantasy. Those who don't know of my involvement I will not waste time with explaining. Buffy had the right idea. Kill them all. Let Satan sort them out. Buffy was pure escapist fantasy with nothing to think about.

So the only fandom at present that offers some mental meat for the intellect is (you guessed it) The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

What do I like about The Sarah Connor Chronicles?

Well I won't go into the intellectual reasons now (I sort of did that above in previous paragraphs) and I will leave a full intellectual appraisal for a future essay. I would rather spend my closing remarks listing the non-intellectual attractions of the show for me.

What I liked about The Sarah Connor Chronicles
1. Sarah brought up food for thought in her opening and closing voice overs - the actual chronicles that she probably records on audio cassettes for Future John (Christian Bale) to listen to. She is as blind as one those eyeless cave species when she says machines cannot appreciate beauty or commune with God. Meanwhile, her own machine daughter is sitting in church and practicing ballet.
2. Lena Headey could beat the hell out of Linda Hamilton in real life because Ms. Headey is a boxer. And Linda Hamilton's Sarah never broke her own bones nor chewed her own flesh to get out of handcuffs. Lena Headey's Sarah did that and more. I am not putting down Ms. Hamilton (who is a fine actress), I am just saying that I appreciate Ms. Headey's acting ability and beauty. Skinny Sarah seems even stronger when she stands next to even skinnier Cameron.
3. Thomas Dekker's John Connor is way easier to like than Edward Furlong's John Connor because the haircut is less punk and he isn't robbing my bank's ATM. I expect the future leader of the human race not to rob me. Some have called Dekker hunkier. I know that I said that the casting was wrong. I stand by that statement. You need an actual teen to play a teen. But once the series premiered, that ship sailed and I accepted the hand of cards that the casting director had dealt.
4. Ditto Summer Glau's Cameron. Way too old to play a teen. If the series was being re-cast . . . I honestly don't know. But once episode two of the First Season began, I had to grudgingly acknowledge that Summer Glau is one heck of an actress to sell her portrayal the way she did. I truly feel sorry for the next actress to play Cameron. The comparisons to Glau could well drive them to suicide unless they know not to let it get to them.
5. I read that when the producers saw Glau in previous roles (the ballerina on Angel and River Tam in Firefly) that they never seriously considered anyone else for the role of Cameron. Considering her emotional range, they obviously had in mind overall acting talent and choreography since she would not be doing much emoting as an emotionless terminatrix. I don't know if they wanted a former ballerina because they planned a ballet scene in episode seven but if so it is a waste of her dancing talent. She has not done dancing at length or even practiced briefly in any other episode. Choreographing martial arts scenes is another matter since she was mixing in gymnastics in Serenity when she cleared that bar. Glau did not do all of her stunts (she needed at least three stunt women for stunt doubles) but she did enough of them that she learned more martial arts during the production of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
6. Cameron set a lot of fashion trends. She was constantly changing looks from biker to glam to grunge. We all remember her trademark purple jacket.
7. Glau specializes in playing damaged females. Even Orwell on The Cape started out normal but got drugged and psychologically tormented and wasn't right afterward.
8. Brian Austin Green's Derek Reese was a treat for us ladies. And the make-out scene with Jesse was smokin' hot.
9. I know that Cromartie was a villain but I kind of liked him because he put down the top of the convertible to enjoy the air and he played music on the radio instead of just listening to news for some sign of tracking John Connor. So seeing Cromartie gunned down and terminated was sad. You have to wonder who is the real villain when Sarah (as Ma Barker leading her gang) held this execution on hallowed ground in a church. This is a Mexican village and guess which impoverished parishioners will have to pay to repair the damage to the church? Hold your executions somewhere convenient for others Sarah!
10. Garret Dillahunt has played so many creeps in his career that casting him as good guy John-Henry might have seemed odd but it was nice to have Garret back after seeing Cromartie gunned down.
11. Mackenzie Brooke Smith played the world's cutest kid. When that assassin came after Savannah, I can truly say that no show before or since scared me more.
12. I must be wired differently than other people because all those episodes that other people found "boring" did not bore me. Maybe it is because I am an adult and don't need car crashes every two seconds or a hundred-corpse body count every episode.
13. I never quite figured out why the show's producers told the make-up people to ugly-up Shirley Manson to portray Ms. Weaver because Shirley looks great outside this role. Maybe T-1000's are all pasty is the only thing I can figure.
14. Ms. Weaver makes Sarah look moderate by comparison since she kills not only whatever gets in her way but even kills on a rumor. John-Henry makes some remark about a company and Weaver slices and dices her way through the workers at the Desert Heat & Air though not management. It's always the little guy on Main Street and never the big crooks on Wall Street.

15. To lift a line from Firefly, people are not comfortable around preachers. They make people feel guilty. FBI Special Agent Ellison was not a minister. Nor was he a Bible pounder. And Sarah and Ms. Weaver probably quoted more scripture than he did. Ellison mainly read the Bible for his own needs rather than the needs of others. Nevertheless, the fact that Richard T. Jones' Ellison was devoutly religious and humble no doubt put off a lot of people. His role would have expanded in a third season. It was nice to get a perspective other than the pressure cooker Connor perspective. And he was nice to look at too.
16. The show was useful in reminding people that nuclear bombs and biological warfare have not gone away. In fact, these problems have been joined by other serious problems like climate change, soil pollution (the toxic pools that kill the cattle in one episode), AI's are very real (like IBM's Watson), war never stops (as fast as one ends they crank up another), government just doesn't care, and corporations are so greedy that they will build a doomsday device for it.
17. The show was always interesting from a visual standpoint with everything from desert views to high school hallways and a more or less cozy home easier to see than the always dark and hard to see X-Files cinematography. You were inside and outside and sometimes you looked through windows to the outside or looked through windows to the inside. You rode in cars. It all felt real. You don't get that in most shows.
18. The thing that drove so many fans (probably Terminator movie fans) bonkers - the slow pace - was precisely what I liked about the show. You got a chance to look at things rather than see a blur. But when the show's producers wanted to shift into warp drive, they could move the action along at a pace no movie could match. Precisely because they had laid the groundwork in those "slow episodes".
19. I understand the point fans make about "let's find the Turk" in season one and then in season two, we never hear about it because Sarah is chasing three red dots and acting on her nightmares. Not rational adult behavior. Well duh. She was in an asylum and she cut her family therapy short and didn't care if Cameron got any therapy as long as she and John got a quick catharsis. And haven't I been pointing out Sarah's mistakes myself? Am I alone in wanting a third season so that Sarah can change and be better? Repair the damage she's done? Oh wait, she can't repair the damage she's done to her family. They're all dead or effectively dead in the case of John. The world is also a goner because John arrives in a future devastated by Judgment Day so Sarah did not "stop it" as she promised. Either way, you want to know.
20. The whole point of fiction or drama of this type is to let a character grow, learn and be better. As much as I seem to hate Sarah Connor, I am still cheering for her. Come on Sarah! I know the stress has driven you insane, I know you've made stupid mistakes and I know it is the stress that made you seem mean-spirited and hateful to Cameron but somehow you can make this all better. I know you can. I am also cheering for John. An ingrate like his uncle, he never appreciated what Cameron did for him. His future self had her brainwashed. He sliced open her head and her chest. Cameron gives loyalty no human is capable of: Who gives up their brain to check out a traffic computer? Who puts a bomb in their head and gives the detonator button to someone? Despite all this, John demands more of Cameron. John you little b*stard! But when the chips are down (pun intended), John doesn't hesitate to rescue Cameron. Never thought John Connor had it in him. And what can you say about Cameron? Too loyal. Surrounded by humans who won't let her grow physically (when they sit down to dinner, no plate is set for her), emotionally ("you don't feel"), intellectually (Cameron is pulled out of school to mop floors in a nuclear plant and is actually so depressed about this that Sarah has to shake her for a minute to get her attention), or even spiritually. I have this still of Cameron in the chapel after John has wiped off her chip and put it back in. Derek, Sarah and John are literally barring her way to the altar. This means nothing to a non-believer of course. This is not a deleted scene or a fan fiction scene. This is aired canon. It is in there if your player has the capability of freeze frame. But like me you probably didn't see it the first, second or third time because it flashes by so fast. You knew the show was deep. Bet you didn't know the show was THIS deep.

thinking big

If you are new to this lens and find that many articles have an odd dated quality to them, then that is not your imagination. Squidoo does not display date of posting. Most of the "please keep SCC on the air" articles were written in the days when it was about to be cancelled. My pleas fell on deaf ears. I have delayed deleting them because they bring back memories both pleasant and painful. Don't care for the painful part but the pleasurable memories are still evoked by them. In other words, I expect no one to care about archiving them and I have noticed that other SCC sites either are defunct or have stopped archiving. In other words, one day you may come here and those articles will be gone into oblivion. I have not backed them up. Several articles have disappeared and I did not delete them.