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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1 [2008]

Actors: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Richard T. Jones, Brian Austin Green
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

25 reviews
Sales Rank: 121

Format: Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 389
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 7321902220130
ASIN: B0013IOE96

Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: August 11, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
The pressure was really on The Sarah Connor Chronicles right from the start. The first spin-off from the extraordinary Terminator franchise, it picks up after the events of the second film, and finds Lena Headey in the title role, who--along with her 15-year old son, John--sets about trying to save the world from the impending threat of Skynet. Along the way too, they encounter Summer Glau (whom there's a strong chance you'll know from Firefly), who steps into the shoes of Cameron, a bodyguard Terminator who helps fight off the many threats they face. She's some piece of work.

Very deliberately paced, and intricately woven to make sure it safely fits within the Terminator universe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles works a great deal better than you'd have any right to expect. Tightly scripted, and with a terrific performance by Headey in the central role, the show packs plenty of action and narrative into the nine episodes of its maiden season, and it certainly whets the appetite for more.

Perhaps the biggest compliment to be paid, though, is that The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a worthy companion and follow-up to the first two Terminator films, and one that genuinely expands and deepens the franchise. It'll be fascinating to see where the show goes next. --Jon Foster

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4 out of 5 stars

Successful small screen transition for the Terminator Franchise August 28, 2008
The Terminator movies were so inherently large scale and cinematic that it seems hard to imagine spinning off the franchise onto the small screen successfully. And yet, that is what they have done here - a combination of good writing, a good cast, and not trying to bend the storyline too much, has paid dividends, making this well worth watching, even if necessarily smaller in scale of production and effects.
Set after the events of Terminator 2, we find Sarah Connors protecting John Connors and preparing him for his role as the future saviour of mankind. The pilot finds them discover another Terminator sent back by future John to protect him, this time a young woman, played by Summer Glau. After her roles in Firefly and 4400 she seems to have that mechanical stare off pat, but the subtlety of her acting should not be underestimated as the potential hidden depths and thoughts are hinted at. She protects them from a T-888 model also sent back, to kill John. Meantime a change in their circumstances sees their role change from passive to active as they see opportunities to prevent Skynet and Judgement Day from happening and set out with that as their mission. So it becomes a men on a mission series, with bad guy in chase.. however, the third and almost the most satisfying element is the FBI agent who is trying to catch Sarah. His character is so interesting as he develops that I was always looking forward to his appearances as he slowly begins to suspect Sarah may not be a loony after all.
Lena Heady makes the role her own fairly quickly, so pretty soon the ghost of Linda Hamilton is put to rest, and Thomas Dekker is surprisingly nuanced as the 15 year old John Connors.
Only 9 episodes here, but the series settles in fairly quickly, and after just 9 episodes and a mild cliffhanger, I can't wait for Season 2 to see where the writers go from here.

2 out of 5 stars

Buy american for best extras August 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

If you really like this programme, then buy the american edition with an extended directors cut of 'The Demon Hand' and other extras not to be found on the more expensive british edition

5 out of 5 stars

Pleasurable and enjoyable August 19, 2008
More than six hours of film in nine episodes. The attempt is admirable. To link up the three Terminator films by telling us more or less the story of John Connor and his mother from the moment she gets out of her hospital and the final apocalypse. It can give some depth to John himself It can build around him some family or connections. He gets an uncle from the future. It can play on time and that uncle can look at himself in 2007 when he was still a kid playing baseball. It also gives some density to the mother who was pretty shallow in the films. It can show more about these cyborgs, a good one who protects John and the bad ones. The list would be long of all the good points of this series. It has a shortcoming though. In a story that relies a lot on believing in the vast ellipses it uses, if you want to get down to gritty details you may run into some contradictions. And we do. We need the FBI agent, for some still unknown reason. So he is saved twice. Once by Sarah Connor herself and the other time by a hostile cyborg. Why? We do not know. It does not though bring anything new to the story. It just brings some pleasure by discovering the deeper personalities of characters we liked and we could not explore enough, like John Connor for one. In this first series they avoided the absence of Schwarzenegger by sending a cyborg who was supposed to be the sister of the very young John Connor, hence his age and the other sex for it to be less suspicious, especially when they are not all the time together. I am expecting the second series some day to see the next stage in that slow travel towards Terminator 3, especially since we left them with a car exploding with John's cyborg sister in it. Is that cliffhanging or something?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

5 out of 5 stars

perfect addition to the series August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

After the abismal qualitynof this show on Freeview i,e audibility very very bad and Virgin too stingy to provide sub titles ,I almost gave up on buimg this.
IT IS FANTASTIC it pickls up both story /tempo amd quality from term2
all the performances are spot on and 'Sarah'is a perfect continuation of the Linda Hamilton perf.-not easy for me as I adore Linda H in everything she does.
I strongly suggest that you give series two a miss and await the gvgs unless they get their act together by either indulging in a real sound engineer and sub titles
get this and enjoy
PRINCE RAFAEL

5 out of 5 stars

Don't miss it August 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I just finish watching the whole set of DVD. I feel like watching Die Hard. I love it. I think it is much much better than T3. I can't wait for the second season coming out soon hopefully.