They cannot finish the Sarah Connor Chronicles like this. There are too many questions unanswered. Whats John Henrys plan of action? Why is Weaver on the human side? What was the reason for the HK crashing into the building? Who was the Terminator that weaver terminated in the car park? Who is John Henrys so called 'Brother'? What year have they travelled to? Why didn't Sarah go? This is why they can't end it now. I understand that the reason they haven't heard of John in the Future because he wasn't around until he arrived, therefore he hasn't made his name yet. Cameron was obviously human, and Kyle Reece and Derek return alive and well. I am assuming that this is the time line where the two Reece boys (playing Baseball) you see in the first series are the two you see in the future at the end of this episode. Please please don't end this series now.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series)
Born to Run (2009)
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Works for me.
shwabe5 September 2010
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I really, really, really liked this series. It took me one episode to begin a love affair with characters I could not relate to in the feature films (although very RAD movies) and I would recommend Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to anyone that was a fan of T1 &/or T2. The ending to this series was a good one. Here we have a show getting canceled with a cut budget and writers that made it work out well and held on to continuity while leaving the viewer with some story avenues to explore with imagination.... (don't strain yourself). Some people may have explored the possibility that this was actually the intent for the storyline all along. From what I understood, however, John Connor was around for the initial attack by Skynet as told in the features. Some may guess that this is now an "alternate time-line", one in which John has never been the leader of the resistance because he leaps forward in time and therefore was not around during the beginning of the war. I tend to follow this theory as it makes more sense in my head. Also, they touch on alternate time-lines a bit on in a few of the 2nd season episodes. John's never been in work camps or seen any real combat in this time-line, so I wonder how his future will play out. He may actually still become the great leader he's lived to become, anyway. I guess it's true after all, there really is no fate but what we make for ourselves. I do hope he gets Allison...
Amazing ending
ok-notifications-517-43993228 October 2018
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I just finish my rewatch of SCC and the ending was amazing. I do not see that much holes like other people, but maybe I'm remembering some things wrong: It was mentioned earlier, that John was rescued from a camp and it looks like we see that rescue at the end of this episode, which means, that this is the start of the journey of John Connor as the leader of the resistance. Kyles travel back in time (as well as Dereks) and the death/transformation of Cameron will occur in the future (if they occur). It was also mentioned by Cameron (therefore knowledge coming from the future), that there are different fractions on the metal side. We see that in some episodes of season two. This explains the fights between the two ai "brothers" in the present and that one fraction will join the humans. It might also explain why we see metal in the resistance.
Just when the meat and potatoes are getting done.....
BOSSC3514 November 2018
This final episode of the series is when the it is about to take off in both story and popularity. However the misguided operators in charge decimated it and pulverized any chance of its continuation forever leaving yet another story unfinished and untold.
What an amazing twist!
hmf_oze21 April 2009
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Have you ever wondered what does happen when John Connor assumes the role of leader in the human revolution against the machines? Well, this is the answer, to how it all started. Everyone who has been watching the series will be amazed and overwhelmed by the twist at the end. All episodes converge to this single point in the Terminator universe and they make an almost perfect ending to the series. Almost... because there are still questions left to be answered. Besides that it is beautiful to see what any Terminator fan always wanted to see, how the future begins to humanity. Absolutely brilliant! Don't miss it!
They should do another Terminator series called 'The John Connor Chronicles'
They should do another Terminator series called 'The John Connor Chronicles'
Sad its cancelled
fuad_tarin_5824 May 2022
Back to the Future Again...
Xstal8 August 2022
Toughing it out
GameAndWatch6 September 2013
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Well after getting through the middle of season 2, I trudged on through to the end.
No monumental shockers here. A reasonable end and suitable cliff hanger for the series. It was nice to see a return of a couple of the shows earlier characters.
The Turk's AI was good (Andy Goode) all along. And the evil could well be a competing AI (Henry's brother or Henry's kid) that might well be the basis of Skynet. Could this evil AI have come back in time?
If the robots truly didn't think that much of the human race I'm sure they could easily wipe them out, just poison the oceans or leave enough fall-out to finish them off. Wouldn't take much would it? Makes more sense for them to be fighting amongst themselves. Some rabid wild strain of Norton unleashed online. Rampant programs fighting for resources.
I quite like the hint in the series that time-lines can change. Potential there to keep the show going forever.
There's one burning question: What did John feel when he stuck his hand in Cameron? Did he send himself a message? Or was it just a reminder that she was made of metal and cold hearted?
Oh well another chunk of my life lost to the mindless vacuum that is TV. Do yourself a favour and pick up a couple of good books instead, or spend an evening around a campfire talking about the paradoxes of time travel.
Most of the ideas in this series have been done to death. Time travel, good and evil toasters, snakes on a plane, Pinocchio etc. I think I enjoyed Caprica more. I was sad to see that get the boot.
No monumental shockers here. A reasonable end and suitable cliff hanger for the series. It was nice to see a return of a couple of the shows earlier characters.
The Turk's AI was good (Andy Goode) all along. And the evil could well be a competing AI (Henry's brother or Henry's kid) that might well be the basis of Skynet. Could this evil AI have come back in time?
If the robots truly didn't think that much of the human race I'm sure they could easily wipe them out, just poison the oceans or leave enough fall-out to finish them off. Wouldn't take much would it? Makes more sense for them to be fighting amongst themselves. Some rabid wild strain of Norton unleashed online. Rampant programs fighting for resources.
I quite like the hint in the series that time-lines can change. Potential there to keep the show going forever.
There's one burning question: What did John feel when he stuck his hand in Cameron? Did he send himself a message? Or was it just a reminder that she was made of metal and cold hearted?
Oh well another chunk of my life lost to the mindless vacuum that is TV. Do yourself a favour and pick up a couple of good books instead, or spend an evening around a campfire talking about the paradoxes of time travel.
Most of the ideas in this series have been done to death. Time travel, good and evil toasters, snakes on a plane, Pinocchio etc. I think I enjoyed Caprica more. I was sad to see that get the boot.
Context now departing at 2:22
rrshumn27 January 2020
Up until this episode, the Terminator mythology remained pretty much intact during this series. It might be surmised that the writer thought he had at least one more season to resolve the incongruities he set up. Guess we'll never know. Thankfully James Cameron is at the helm for Dark Fate.
You're A Pries, Prey
Littleman9522 January 2021
Intriguing, but (perhaps inevitably) disappointing
gridoon202428 August 2015
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There are some great moments in "Born To Run": Catherine Weaver's fight with a T-888 (well, it's over pretty quickly), Cameron's charge into the prison to get Sarah out, the how-far-will-they-go scene with Cameron and John, Weaver's shape-shifting at the end, etc. However, there are so many unanswered questions, unresolved threads, and tantalizing glimpses of things that will never be explained that this episode would be merely borderline satisfying as a season finale; as a SERIES finale, it doesn't cut it by a long shot. Of course that's because it wasn't meant to be a series finale; the series was cancelled before the writers had the chance to finish their story. On the whole, the series had more ups than downs and was very respectful of the original films while trying out new things as well, but if you do intend to watch all 31 episodes, be prepared to create an ending in your mind, because there isn't one on the screen. **1/2 out of 4.
No
LaverneandShirleysucks13 February 2022
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There's absolutely no way Sarah would have just let her son go in the time bubble with that terminator Weaver. Throughout the series, she always said "trust no one" and within 5 minutes of meeting her and calling her a "Terminator B", she quickly believes she's on their side and just lets her son go in the time travel bubble with her and never to see him again.
Sarah would've either stayed in the bubble or pulled him out of it before it took them to the future. She would never just leave him forever the way she did.
If she in fact knew he was going to the future to become the leader, then she also knew Judgement Day was now imminent and can't be changed and she was going to die. Her last words to John before he was zapped into the future was "I'll try and stop it". It seemed halfhearted because it appears that she just gave up because there's no way she can stop it on her own and being a fugitive by herself now. I can see though that she was probably exhausted by this point and with the cancer coming, she had no fight left in her.
I get that the final few minutes is supposed to be a full circle thing and this was the actual point where John Connor starts to become the Resistance leader in 2027, and we see where he meets human Cameron who he eventually molds his terminator machine on later on to send back in time. He most likely had a relationship with her as a human before she was killed and why he chose to make the terminator look like her.
He also had to have had his Mom's picture in his pocket that was taken in 1984 at the end of the original Terminator film because that picture eventually gets into the hands of his father Kyle who goes back in time in the original film to knock up his mother and the whole loop starts all over again.
The whole first season of this show was great but lost focus in the second so i'm glad it was cancelled. Had they gone on another season, it would've been another season lacking focus with too many filler episodes and only a handful of episodes that moved the story forward.
At least it all wrapped up in a nice tidy package and left nothing hanging. 3 stars for this episode, 10 stars for season 1, and i'd put the whole series at a 6.
Sarah would've either stayed in the bubble or pulled him out of it before it took them to the future. She would never just leave him forever the way she did.
If she in fact knew he was going to the future to become the leader, then she also knew Judgement Day was now imminent and can't be changed and she was going to die. Her last words to John before he was zapped into the future was "I'll try and stop it". It seemed halfhearted because it appears that she just gave up because there's no way she can stop it on her own and being a fugitive by herself now. I can see though that she was probably exhausted by this point and with the cancer coming, she had no fight left in her.
I get that the final few minutes is supposed to be a full circle thing and this was the actual point where John Connor starts to become the Resistance leader in 2027, and we see where he meets human Cameron who he eventually molds his terminator machine on later on to send back in time. He most likely had a relationship with her as a human before she was killed and why he chose to make the terminator look like her.
He also had to have had his Mom's picture in his pocket that was taken in 1984 at the end of the original Terminator film because that picture eventually gets into the hands of his father Kyle who goes back in time in the original film to knock up his mother and the whole loop starts all over again.
The whole first season of this show was great but lost focus in the second so i'm glad it was cancelled. Had they gone on another season, it would've been another season lacking focus with too many filler episodes and only a handful of episodes that moved the story forward.
At least it all wrapped up in a nice tidy package and left nothing hanging. 3 stars for this episode, 10 stars for season 1, and i'd put the whole series at a 6.
Well its still Terminator
janthony197710 June 2013
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It was a great try, but between you and me I think it was just warming up. They wanted to put more into it but ran out of time. I mean folks were expert fighters, and the were getting killed like easy targets. Jessie with Dereck's girl and he killed her just like that, as if they never had any feelings. Poor Charlie went from having a beautiful wife to getting her killed following Sarah. As I recall Sarah left him hanging with his ring looking like Frodo. Then he new wife dies, and to top it off, out of the blue he becomes an excellent marksman. Setting up high explosives and shooting and M-16. Paramedic to soldier, come on really. Some interesting points were how Cameron went for robot to having some intelligence. Taking her shirt of really didn't go anywhere. I guess she felt John falling in love with her and told him to stick him hand inside her en-do skeleton. OK yes John she is a robot, move on. I guess he feels bad, he and Reily didn't get to third base, and was her and Jessie having a lesbian relationship? Moving on how did the former FBI Ellison move the T-888 form Mexico. That Cy Borg had to be mighty heavy. Looking back into the past season. I believe Weaver had a great idea, but bad security protocol. It was very easy for Cameron to get to John Henry. You would think she is advance to Cameron and she would know the capabilities. Well in the end why would Weaver be naked through travel, all her clothes are made from the same material as her body. Like when the T-888 shot her up in the garage, her clothes morphed back to normal. So it isn't like she had real clothes on, so why be naked. Why did John just trust her after only meeting her for about 10 mins when they had a big distrust over the last 15 years. In the future why are they still fighting, and why did weaver leave the present. The turk was still there and Cameron's chip was no different than any other T-888 chip. They way they dis-batched other terminators, it would be not problem to eliminate that old T-888 body. As for nobody know who he was, I can imagine he was still a boy, not even a resistance fighter. Round circle would mean that John would instantly disappear, because Kyle never met old John to get sent back to the past to be lovers with Sarah. Thus Skynet having no reason to see him as a treat. So my conclusion is Booo.
Not entirely convinced
michaeljulian2683 May 2009
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Suspension of disbelief aside to time travel (conservation of energy violated) or even logic (A clearly is not A) this kind of plot device leaves a writer with deuces wild! Sack an actor, actor storms of set, bring 'em back with a plot twist 'cos the future's what you make it. Yeah, right.
So we are to believe the lovely sexy Weaver is a good 'un all along with the plot twist (probably because she honed her acting skills and the writers wanted to factor her in to the next series). What then of all the slayings and disregard for human life (she was only killing the bad humans in the chain of building skynet?) or did she suddenly turn good when the Turk got hacked, or did John Henry's ethos and Weaver's do the switcheroo? - John Henry afterall released the prison gates. What of Cameron, playing John as a patsy all along to track down Weaver and John Henry building a counter-attack? She seemed to be concerned about not killing the prison guards and then rescuing Sarah too? All these agents coming from future (take the case of Riley and Jesse) having cloaked missions and intentions that require them to be double agents - it's a wonder they can keep track of what their supposed to be doing. There's no method in the madness. Do deep undercover agents/sleepers lose sense of their mission or purpose in life? Or what of the submarine episode, Jesse and this episode 'will you join us?', elements of which surfaced in S2.E22? Are we to believe there is some fifth column in robot world? Besides, just what is their problem with humans, their raison d'etre? Hardly explained in the series or the films.
I'm not entirely convinced that the whole concept is not being made up as they go along much as a programmer might hack a piece of unstructured code poorly maintained by many hands before him.
Who knows what the script writers' visions are? If the war between man and machine in the future is in deadlock, agents sent back to cross and double cross resulting in deadlock in the past (or is the whole thing fatalistic/preordained?), may be they could be realising that each race has attributes and rights and some kind of fifth column of peaceful co-existence or even symbiosis is emerging but that sounds way too sophisticated for Hollywood.
You know, George Lucas had the whole Star Wars Universe/Mytharc mapped out pretty much mid-seventies even though budgets changed, actors stayed on, sequels were made, then sequels to the sequels, then prequels, it all scanned correct with an overall vision.
I'm not entirely convinced that the whole project is not kept alive by the fickle ebb and flow of primetime ratings and the merchandise people. Not great SF.
So we are to believe the lovely sexy Weaver is a good 'un all along with the plot twist (probably because she honed her acting skills and the writers wanted to factor her in to the next series). What then of all the slayings and disregard for human life (she was only killing the bad humans in the chain of building skynet?) or did she suddenly turn good when the Turk got hacked, or did John Henry's ethos and Weaver's do the switcheroo? - John Henry afterall released the prison gates. What of Cameron, playing John as a patsy all along to track down Weaver and John Henry building a counter-attack? She seemed to be concerned about not killing the prison guards and then rescuing Sarah too? All these agents coming from future (take the case of Riley and Jesse) having cloaked missions and intentions that require them to be double agents - it's a wonder they can keep track of what their supposed to be doing. There's no method in the madness. Do deep undercover agents/sleepers lose sense of their mission or purpose in life? Or what of the submarine episode, Jesse and this episode 'will you join us?', elements of which surfaced in S2.E22? Are we to believe there is some fifth column in robot world? Besides, just what is their problem with humans, their raison d'etre? Hardly explained in the series or the films.
I'm not entirely convinced that the whole concept is not being made up as they go along much as a programmer might hack a piece of unstructured code poorly maintained by many hands before him.
Who knows what the script writers' visions are? If the war between man and machine in the future is in deadlock, agents sent back to cross and double cross resulting in deadlock in the past (or is the whole thing fatalistic/preordained?), may be they could be realising that each race has attributes and rights and some kind of fifth column of peaceful co-existence or even symbiosis is emerging but that sounds way too sophisticated for Hollywood.
You know, George Lucas had the whole Star Wars Universe/Mytharc mapped out pretty much mid-seventies even though budgets changed, actors stayed on, sequels were made, then sequels to the sequels, then prequels, it all scanned correct with an overall vision.
I'm not entirely convinced that the whole project is not kept alive by the fickle ebb and flow of primetime ratings and the merchandise people. Not great SF.
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