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| Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1 [2008] | ![Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1 [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2Bjx71zpJL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Richard T. Jones, Brian Austin Green
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 406
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 389 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
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
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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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 Genuinely surprising and fantastic TV SF October 7, 2008
I've been a fan of Terminator for years, ever since it was first shown on UK TV in fact, I put up with the T3 travesty and thought no more of it.
This series has taken me by as much surprise as the new Battleststar did however. The acting is brilliant and believable, the special effects are top notch, the camera work is emotive and moody - I can't say enough good things about this show.
There have been some genuinely chilling moments, just as you start to feel that Cameron is taking on human qualities, she walks away from an innocent being murdered, but then we see her trying to Ballet dance and being watched by a hiding human.
One good thing, in the cannon of the terminator stories, this carries on straight after T2, T3 never happened in this time line, a great blessing.
I really cannot express what a pleasant thrill it was to sit down and watch something so good.
5/5 - go get it now :)
 Successful small screen transition for the Terminator Franchise August 28, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
 Buy american for best extras August 21, 2008
15 out of 20 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
Pleasurable and enjoyable August 19, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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
perfect addition to the series August 19, 2008
1 out of 2 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
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