TSCC: The season 2 Connor house

[roxybisquaint]

Because I am still a huge nerd/dork/geek when it comes to The Sarah Connor Chronicles (and because I needed something to keep my mind off smoking), I made a diagram of the season 2 house. I think it's self-explanatory enough, but if you're confused by any of it, let me know. And if you want it, you can download a 700x940 PNG or 900x1208 PNG.

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[the_narration]

Heh. Somewhere out there, scores of fanfic authors undoubtedly thank you for your hard work. And who knows, possibly there's even someone out there planning to run a Sarah Connor RPG who will use these floorplans to run a battle....

So Sarah sleeps on the first floor? Not upstairs with John? So there's two seemingly unused rooms (presumably bedrooms) upstairs? (I would wonder if one had been turned into an armory/workshop, but they have a shed, garage and basement for that.) And yet Derek claims he doesn't have a place to stay at the new house? How does that work out?

[schmacky0]

Awesome job Roxy!

and the_narration - Derek is too good for the nursery obviously..

[roxybisquaint]

Derek would just rather complain than get off his ass and go buy a mattress because he could certainly haul one home in his big DODGE RAM.

[roxybisquaint]

Yeah, Sarah is on the first floor in a room with french doors (just like in the season 1 house!). She's really not big on the privacy thing.

I think Derek not having a room/bed is more of a joke for the viewers than anything. Clearly there's room for him in the house (Kacey said it was four bedrooms "if you count the nursery") and surely he could've bought himself a mattress!

There appear to be four bedrooms upstairs in reality, but for the purpose of the show, there are only three: John's room, Cameron's room and the nursery (across the hall from Cameron's room). The room across from John's bedroom is, as I mentioned, supposed to be a bathroom. That little room at the end of the hallway, next to Cameron's bedroom, is likely just a storage room.

[the_narration]

She's really not big on the privacy thing.
After a few years in the mental hosptial being constantly spied on by doctors and orderlies, she probably decided not to bother.

So the room across from Cameron's room is the nursery? It's the biggest bedroom in the whole house! Were the previous owners expecting octuplets?

The room across from John's bedroom is, as I mentioned, supposed to be a bathroom.
With a balcony. Because that's the in thing for bathrooms, apparently. And does three bathrooms feel like overkill to anyone else? The showrunners got a little silly with their phantom bathroom, methinks....

[valhallalilly]

hmm yeah 3 bathrooms is kinda odd, especially when there isn't even a decent one downstairs that's easy to access for guests...

And no one's mentioned the idiocy of having a laundry room downstairs and across the other side of the house from the bedrooms. I would make the empty room next to Cameron's the new laundry room.

hmm how weird is it that I'm actually trying to plan this as my own house.

[the_narration]

And no one's mentioned the idiocy of having a laundry room downstairs and across the other side of the house from the bedrooms. I would make the empty room next to Cameron's the new laundry room.
It's been my experience that laundry rooms are usually on lower levels. Not to mention that they require a water supply, so you can't put them just anywhere. Anyway, it's not that big a deal to haul your laundry downstairs and across the house... every apartment building I've ever lived in required taking laundry up and down a few flights of stairs.

...Okay, and now I'm overthinking this, too.

(Sarah's room, I suspect, wasn't originally built to be a bedroom. The location and the French doors don't fit.)

[roxybisquaint]

...Okay, and now I'm overthinking this, too.

(Sarah's room, I suspect, wasn't originally built to be a bedroom. The location and the French doors don't fit.)

Yeah, Sarah's room was probably a parlor or something like that. But sticking herself on the ground level, I guess, makes her the first line of defense.

Overthinking it? What a nerd. I'd never do that :P

[the_narration]

But sticking herself on the ground level, I guess, makes her the first line of defense.
I'd think it would make more sense for her to be upstairs, between John and the stairs, and to have sensors, booby traps and Cameron (who doesn't sleep) downstairs as the first line of defense. Then when a T-888 triggers those, Sarah could be up with a heavy weapon in hand to hit it as it comes up the stairs.

Overthinking it? What a nerd. I'd never do that :P
Heh. Right, me either. I *totally* didn't spend time trying to figure the rank and command structure of the Kyoshi Warriors from Avatar, or figuring out the off-screen changes in the relationships among the characters in Noir, or thinking about ways to take out Terminators that TSCC hasn't thought of. Nope, not me. ;-P

[drenkrelar]

I'd be interested in hearing some of those thoughts.

God, does that make me an even bigger nerd than the two of you? Probably. But I don't care.

[the_narration]

I'm pretty sure you were already a bigger nerd than either of us, Dren. ;-)

Re: Terminator-killing, the first thing that struck me looking at the floorplan (and thinking that Sarah should sleep upstairs instead of downstairs) was that the stairs could be rigged to blow/collapse. They could trigger it as a Terminator was coming up the stairs. At the minimum, it would delay it by dropping it back to the first floor and making it much more difficult for it to come up to the second floor to get them. (Climbing would be difficult... few handholds that would support the weight of a metal endoskeleton.) Optimistically, one might be able to drop it into the basement, where something nasty might be waiting for it. Perhaps a huge basin of water with a high voltage current running through it, to which could be added some quick-drying cement?

Re: Noir, I don't think you've gotten that far yet, but the first one is a subtle-yet-distinct change in the vibe between the two protagonists between episodes 7 & 8

[roxybisquaint]

The house was built in the 1890s, so a laundry room wasn't exactly factored into the floorplan. Whenever it got added, they just stuck it in a spot where there was space that wasn't too far from water supply and drain pipes. If it was in that small room next to Cameron's (which I think likely has a sloped ceiling and not much space), the pipes would've had to run through Sarah's room. By sticking it off the kitchen on the main level, the pipes can run through the basement.

[roxybisquaint]

So the room across from Cameron's room is the nursery? It's the biggest bedroom in the whole house! Were the previous owners expecting octuplets?

I'm just making assumptions on that since it's the only space where the "nursery" could be. In addition to studying various scenes from the show, I looked at a lot of photos of the interior and exterior of the house to figure out the layout.

With a balcony. Because that's the in thing for bathrooms, apparently. And does three bathrooms feel like overkill to anyone else? The showrunners got a little silly with their phantom bathroom, methinks....

LOL. Well, we never actually see that balcony off the "bathroom", but I know it's there from an exterior photo of the rear of the house. And I think the director of Earthlings was just being lazy with the shot set-ups by staying in the hallway for the bathroom entrances and exits :P

[the_narration]

Yeah, the implication of a third bathroom strikes me as a continuity error. After all, wouldn't there have been "four bedrooms, if you count the nursery" before Sarah converted the parlor into one?