History Series / TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles

* LockAndLoad: In the 'months earlier' part of [[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS2E12AlpineFields "Alpine Fields"]], Sara proves to the family she wants to protect that she can defend them all effectively by showing them she knows how to use guns despite not having a license.

* PowerWalk : Our main cast gets one in the opening credits, complete with guns.

''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' is a ScienceFiction series set in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' universe that aired in 2008-2009. It's set after [[Film/TheTerminator the first]] [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay two films]], and although it acknowledges some plot elements of [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines the third movie]], it goes in a different [[AlternateTimeline direction]]. Sarah and John are still on the run from the FBI, a new Terminator, and their own sorry social lives--that is until Cameron (Creator/SummerGlau) shows up to [[TimeTravel bring them from 1999 to 2007]] in order to stop [=SkyNet=] from being built.

''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' is a science-fiction series set in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' universe that aired in 2008-2009. It's set after [[Film/TheTerminator the first]] [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay two films]], and although it acknowledges some plot elements of [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines the third movie]], it goes in a different [[AlternateTimeline direction]]. Sarah and John are still on the run from the FBI, a new Terminator, and their own sorry social lives--that is until Cameron (Creator/SummerGlau) shows up to [[TimeTravel bring them from 1999 to 2007]] in order to stop [=SkyNet=] from being built.

* DoAndroidsDream: A recurring theme in the series, particularly pertaining to Cameron and John Henry. The episode "Allison From Palmdale" is pretty much asks nothing ''but'' the question of whether a Terminator can have a soul.
%%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE2Ru9oqMck This.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Some of Cameron's tops show off some skin.

* 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.

* CoolPet: Weaver's eel, which turns out [[spoiler:not to be a pet or even an eel at all]].

* ABNegative: In [[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E6DungeonsAndDragons "Dungeons & Dragons"]], we find out Sarah is Type O- but can't give blood to Derek, yet John has the same blood type and can, a case of ArtisticLicense. While O- are universal donors, that only applies once the plasma has been filtered out, so that part was correct. However, someone whose blood is Type O can't have a child whose blood is Type AB; if the other parent were Type AB, their children would have a 50% chance of being either Type A or Type B.

* ABNegative: In [[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E6DungeonsAndDragons "Dungeons & Dragons"]], we find out Sarah is Type O- but can't give blood to Derek, yet John has the same blood type and can, a case of ArtisticLicense since someone whose blood is Type O can't have a child whose blood is Type AB; if the other parent were Type AB, their children would have a 50% chance of being either Type A or Type B.

* ABNegative: In [[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E6DungeonsAndDragons "Dungeons & Dragons"]], we find out Sarah is Type O- but can't give blood to Derek, yet John has the same blood type and can, a case of ArtisticLicense.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmreLfIvx4 "Ghost"]] by Gackt as its opening theme.

%%* KnifeNut: Cameron with a hunting knife anyone?
%%* KnightTemplarParent: Sarah Connor, ''naturally''.

* AdultFear:
** When John Henry, [[spoiler: in the recycled body of Cromartie, led little girl Savannah to his basement. "Would you like to play hide and seek?" Oh no, not the innocence.]]
** Sarah's paranoia about developing and dying from cancer.

** Several "catch" phrases used by the simple AI psychotherapist computer program [[http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3 ELIZA]] (such as "How does ____ make you feel?") are parroted back by Cameron when she is sent to talk to the high school shrink.

* RunningGag: Cameron wants to kill birds. No less than three times she's portrayed as wanting to do this, and are we really expected to believe the one she did was was an accident?

* FingerlessGloves: Cameron finds a way to include these in just about all of her outfits, which is a [[MythologyGag nod]] to the pair that the T-800 wore in the original movie. They come in handy to hide her skin regenerating from flaying her forearm to conduct repairs.

** Cameron's love of FingerlessGloves is a nod to the pair the T-800 wore in the first movie.

--> Ten years ago, you murdered one Miles Dyson, employee of Cyberdyne. Long time gone, but the man's still dead, so we've got that. Eight years ago, you and your son and a high school friend of his blew up a bank vault and died in the explosion. Of course, you're still alive, which is inconvenient for many, but the bank's still blown, so we've got that.More recently, and by that I mean Monday, you participated in a firefight, leaving five dead and kidnapping Savannah Weaver, daughter of Catherine Weaver, and citizen of Scotland, making this an incident both federal and international. Two of the dead were off duty law enforcement officers, and that usually gets you the needle, but in that I do digress.

* TheVoiceless: TheUnnamed girl (her name is Chola) 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". Subverted when they bring her back to deliver a speech in the finale.

** The faceless, shady Kaliba, parent company to ZeiraCorp; it's heavily implied to be some sort of front for SkyNet.