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TV Talk Rec Fest: SciFi/Fantasy
Welcome to day 4 of Rec Fest! Today please recommend shows which could be considered science fiction or fantasy. These may come in a variety of genre formats but are likely centered on supernatural or futuristic events, worlds other than our own or different versions of our world.
Please include in your recs the following information:
Show Title:
Audience Rating: Young Children/All Ages/Teen and Up/Mature Content
Warnings: (Could include gory content, raunchy situations, explicit sex, offensive content, etc.)
Length of Episodes: (30 minutes/1 hour/Other)
Length of Series: (Number of seasons or number of episodes)
Why you recommend it: (What draws you to it? What niche does it fill/mood is it good for?)
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If someone else has already recced a show you were planning to rec, please include your own rec as well! People have different takes on shows and it can also help people if they see a number of people find a show to be a must-watch.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Audience Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: Violence
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes
Length of Series: 2 seasons, 31 episodes
Why you recommend it: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a spin-off television series of the Terminator movies, taking place after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as it continues to follow Sarah (Lena Headey) and John (Thomas Dekker) as they try to prevent the creation of Skynet from happening. The show has been highly regarded by many to be a fantastic addition to the Terminator franchise, standing on its own while continuing to explore different areas that the films didn't with the focus of the characters, time travel, and different timelines, along with the complicated mother and son relationship between Sarah and John.
The show also gave us the amazing character of Cameron (Summer Glau), a reprogrammed cyborg from the future sent by future!John to help and guide John. Not only is Summer Glau's acting in this superb, given that Cameron isn't human seeing her navigate through the nuances of human interactions and situations is interesting, hilarious, and even heartbreaking at times. There's a lot of tension and questioning of trust of a machine who is trying to help them. Also, the teasing and implications of the building romance between John and Cameron is captivating to watch (as I am a sucker for human/non-human pairings, especially human/robot pairings, this really got me good).
This has quite an ensemble cast beyond just those three, including Shirley Manson of Garbage not only providing a song for the second season (collaborating with the show's composer, Bear McCreary) but also portraying a character in that season, as well.
TSCC was sadly and unfairly cancelled after two seasons, much to many people's dismay. But it is worth watching, especially if you're a fan of the Terminator movies. And while there were definitely plans on more to the story, I personally think the series ends on a nice note, open-ended and full of possibilities.
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