Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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Name:	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Abbreviation(s):	T:SCC, TSCC, SCC
Creator:	Josh Friedman
Date(s):	13 January 2008 – 10 April 2009
Medium:	television series
Country of Origin:	USA
External Links:	Official Fox Website Official Fox TSCC Wiki IMDB, Wikipedia
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Show Synopsis

Sarah Connor is "the mother of the future." After a roll in the hay with a doomed soldier who time-traveled into the past to rescue her, Sarah raises her now-teenaged son John with all the skills he will need to fight the intelligent, genocidal Skynet computers who will -- or already have -- set off a nuclear holocaust that reduces the human species to endangered prey.

Also sent from the future are Cameron, a reclaimed terminator robot programmed to protect John (rather than kill him), and John's (unknowing) uncle, Derek Reese. These four form an uneasy "family" unit.

Investigating all things robot is an FBI agent, James Ellison, who due to his witnessing of terminator hijinks is now a believer (and out of the FBI). James Ellison is awesomesauce, and also wears natty suits. Although he has been on Sarah Connor's trail off and on for more than a decade, as of the first season he had only ever met her once (while he was drugged and tied up; she dragged him out of a burning building and disappeared before he could become sober). He has only recently met the other three members of Sarah's unit.

In the second season, the crew forms an uneasy alliance with sometimes-antagonist Terminators Catherine Weaver and John Henry, while Derek encounters future-visitor from his past Jesse and young John is lured away from his dependence on Cameron by human romantic interest Riley.

The show passes the Bechdel Test in not only including several female characters with agency, but having them regularly talk to each other about something other (in an immediate sense, given that the show's premise revolves around the need to save the world by saving one particular male) than a guy.

Fandom

As of second season, TSCC has tried to keep its canon from contradicting the movie canon, but any canon that includes time travel is inherently confusing and ambiguous and TSCC is no exception. The crack_van overview for TSCC does a wonderful job summarizing the largest time-travel/paradox possibilities.[1]

The T:SCC fandom is small but active, and there are a lot of excellent fic writers working through the series with gusto. While most of the fandom appears to be gen, there are quite a few popular pairings as well. The most common ones are:

• Kyle/Sarah
• Charley/Sarah
• Derek/Sarah
• Sarah/Cameron
• Derek/Jesse
• Derek/Cameron
• John/Riley
• John/Cameron
• Jesse/Riley

Additionally, there are Reesecest and Connorcest fics (see incest) floating around the internet as well.

LJ Communities

The biggest communities seem to be

• http://community.livejournal.com/scc_fic/ for fic and art
• http://community.livejournal.com/scchronicles_tv/ for general discussion
• http://community.livejournal.com/judgment_daily/ The Fandom Newsletter

Other communities include -- for general discussion and information:

• http://community.livejournal.com/tscc_tv/
• http://community.livejournal.com/connorchronicle/

For General Fic:

• Schronicles [2] Main fic community
• http://community.livejournal.com/sccxovers/ Crossover fic

For Character Centric Fic:

• http://community.livejournal.com/the_other_reese/ Derek Reese
• http://community.livejournal.com/scc_cameron/ Cameron Philips

For Slash Fiction:

• http://community.livejournal.com/scc_slash/ slash
• http://community.livejournal.com/tscc_femslash/ femslash

For Pairing Specific Communities:

• http://community.livejournal.com/derek_cameron/ derek-cameron
• http://community.livejournal.com/sarahcameron/ sarah/cameron
• http://community.livejournal.com/scc_dereksarah/ derek-sarah
• http://community.livejournal.com/scc_johncameron/ john-cameron john-cameron

For Icons/Graphics/Media:

• icons
• icon challenge community
• scc_graphics
• scc_vids

Fanfic Archives

• Destiny or Circumstance

Notable/Sample Fanworks

• Seven Sunday Mother-Daughter Mornings by David Hines Futurefic, study of the relationship between Savannah Weaver and the Terminator impersonating her mother Catherine Weaver.
• Cinderella, Made of Steel by David Hines Character study story of Cameron and her interactions with the humans she lives with. A DVD Commentary by the author is available for this story [3].
• Unnatural Selection by Charmax. Crossover vid with Battlestar Galactica (2003), in which parallels are drawn between the evolution of the Terminators and the Cylons and their eventual desires.
• Comfortably Numb by sisabet. Vid focused on Cameron.
• History of My Future, a Derek-focused vid by the Clucking Belles

External Resources

• Fandom Overview: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles at Crack Van, includes overviews of all parts of the Terminator franchise and how they tie together, and for TSCC, lists LJ communities and resources (same as smallfandomfest overview, canon and fandom resource)
• Fandom pimp post at Small Fandoms Fest (same as crack-van overview, canon and fandom resource)
• Depot 37, a Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles fan resource
• Terminator Wiki (Wikia) (canon resource)
• TSCC overview article at Wikipedia (canon resource)