How Terminator could have ended
Spoilers: "It was a great way for us to end the season, but we would have liked to have continued," says Terminator's producer James Middleton.
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Spoilers: “I feel like I don’t want to raise anybody’s expectations about what’s going to happen with those characters,” James Middleton, executive producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles said. He hopes to continue the story of the cancelled series in another format.
“I can tell you that I love those characters. I use a business term, and it sort of belies my emotional investment in these characters, but they are a great franchise asset. My passion for them is not diminished at all, and I’ll just leave it at that.”
The season finale that became the series finale left fans intrigued about new possibilities. John Connor (Thomas Dekker) travels to the future, where familiar faces such as Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green) do not recognise him.
“It was a great way for us to end the season, but we would have liked to have continued,” Middleton said. “There’s no doubt about it. We liked making that show, and we all worked together really well, but the really great thing we can look back on is we’ve got 31 episodes of really good television. That’s something we can be proud of forever. That’s what we’ll have to take away from it.”
One theory about the ending is that by leaping to the future, John Connor never grew up to become the leader of the human resistance. That would free him of the burden of saving humanity.
You can read more about Middleton’s ideas for a T:TSCC conclusion at SciFi Wire
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7 Responses
I love this show – am watching it on Fox on Friday nights.
Very disappointed to hear it’s not been renewed.
Can’t understand because there’s so much rubbish that just keeps on going.
It is too bad that SCC ended the way it did as I would have like to seen where it would have headed next.
Craig: Yes.
I loved the ending of the season/series as it opened up a new theory for John’s future. I believe John Connor still becomes the leader of the resistance in the future as a 16 year old, but with all the knowledge he has grown up with. It was stated in the show by many characters from the future that John Connor was only seen by his very close circle of trusted friends, which they put down to security reasons, but what if John was, in fact, still a boy and didn’t want everyone to know that. When he jumped to the future as a 16 year old, that was not long after judgment day and there was no leader of the resistance…which he then becomes with the help of the people he first meets when he arrives who become his most trusted friends and soldiers…including his father, Kyle Reese, his uncle Derek and the human Cameron, before she is turned into a machine.
Thanks for the link, the end still confuses me. It was a nice season final but ITA not a go way to end the series.
BTW shouldn’t you use spoiler alert for those who are watching Fox8?
The biggest problem is the confusion between the TV show and movies, to many things to think about trying to work out the time-line of events.
To give it a better ending maybe they can make a direct to DVD movie, like StarGate and Prison Break?
Good to hear how proud he is of the characters and show. Would be awesome to see some more of them somehow, but after Dark Angel and Firefly, I’m not holding out too much hope of any help from Fox.
More like 31 episodes of utter crap. This show was the worst sci-fi series I’ve ever seen, casting an emo kid (incidentally the gay guy who was the cheerleader’s friend off Heroes) in the role of John Conner was laughable, and Summer Glau was annoying in every single scene she appeared in. They took a decent movie franchise and tried to make it a cash cow TV series. It had the potential to be a great series but thanks to bad writing, bad acting and a lack of direction, it never happened.