Terminator: SCC - S2 Second Half Speculation Thread (SPOILERS) >>

[Aragorn]

The death of a regular will probably be Riley or Weaver, someone that won't upset the original setup.

[zephramc]

Aragorn wrote:

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The death of a regular will probably be Riley or Weaver, someone that won't upset the original setup.

Is Riley a regular?

Weaver's a possibility, as is Derek. My money's on Ellison. I'm guessing Cromartie/John Henry is going to get medieval on his ass.

[Aragorn]

^ Yeah, her name is in the main credits for the episodes she's in.

[nx1701g]

Riley is a main character for Season Two. She was made a regular by order of Fox.

My theories for the death

Cameron or Derek Reese will be killed.

Ellison or Riley will be killed.

With the possibility of Kyle Reese still being alive (Dekker had scenes with him in the main time frame) I could see them killing of Derek and maybe replacing him with Kyle. The creator of the show (Josh Friedman) had wanted Kyle Reese back and the mysterious stranger was originally Kyle and not Derek. It was only prevented because the writers convinced him that Kyle still being alive diminished his sacrifice to kill the T-800 in The Terminator. He may have changed his mind.

[V]

with regard to Terminator SCC "failings" in season 2, they've now openly said that Fox....in the same old dance of comedy and tragedy....ordered them to make a season of standalone episodes and drop the running storylines they had.

While I'm angry they did this, they did say that Fox finally realized it wasn't working and has relented, and will allow them to return to serialized storytelling which made it work in seasone one.

but is it too late to save the show?

[Tim]

I really hope that Kyle stays dead. Inventing some circuitous and implausible story to shoehorn him into the series would indeed invalidate his sacrifice in "The Terminator." I'm still putting my money on him being seen in some sort of hallucination / flashback.

In other news, it turns out that Summer Glau switched managers right before I sent my autograph request, so I guess I'll be re-sending it to the new address as I don't know if they forward those things.

[Hartzilla2007]

nx1701g wrote:

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With the possibility of Kyle Reese still being alive (Dekker had scenes with him in the main time frame) I could see them killing of Derek and maybe replacing him with Kyle. The creator of the show (Josh Friedman) had wanted Kyle Reese back and the mysterious stranger was originally Kyle and not Derek. It was only prevented because the writers convinced him that Kyle still being alive diminished his sacrifice to kill the T-800 in The Terminator. He may have changed his mind.

That would be interesting. Though I don't know how they could pull that off.

[nx1701g]

^ I honestly don't either.

[Guy Gardener]

Because several Kyles from several future histories have been sent back in time to fight the same and different t-800s in a single 1984.

Burn ward coma guy?

[Tim]

Guy Gardener wrote:

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Because several Kyles from several future histories have been sent back in time to fight the same and different t-800s in a single 1984.

If they use reasoning along those lines, Josh Friedman had better buy me a few bottles of aspirin.

[Aragorn]

I wish this actor had been cast as Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation instead of Anton, but there's no real reason for him to be alive in the Sarah Connor Chronicles present. And it would cheapen his death in T1.

[Guy Gardener]

Call me a spanner, but I'm curious what would happen if present day Kyle came back into play? We did see him that once. If Sarah had to raise him for some reason while stomping down on the feelings telling her that this boy is the man she loved? Which would then ask a very interesting question about Kyle later on that given the opportunity with time travel that everything they endure is so that he can finally sleep with his surrogate mother like he'd always wanted to, if they hadn't already at some point after his puberty began?

But then of course in one time line she dies of cancer in 2002 and in another she bunny hops nearly ten years over those events, but we are supposed to believe that Sarah being alive or dead, or John being a decade older or younger has no effect on any definition of the future's present because we assume the writers are idiots or the writers are kindly sparing confusion in their market share they don't wish to confuse?

Or at least we did until it became clear finally that Jessie is from a different future than Derek is familiar with, and really Derek should start checking to see if and how different his future is from the one Cameron comes from?

[Aragorn]

So Mary Kay Letourneau would be the mother of humanity's future?

[nx1701g]

^ Ha ha

[Guy Gardener]

Remember TNG: Rascals?

That young actress playing (transporter accidented) Kieko scared the crap out of Chief O'Brien when she started rubbing his neck... Although I think Young Picard should have taken a stab at Bev since she was 20ish years younger than him already before he got youthed.

Is little John still supposed to breed with Kate Brewster despite the age difference?