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		List Price: $39.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 5382 Released: August 19, 2008
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The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor (300's Lena Headey) prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day? The man-vs.-machine tale that's thrilled millions gets a reboot in this series set after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Now the battlefield has shifted to the present. Will John Connor (Heroes's Thomas Dekker) seize his destiny? Will a cell phone salesman's chess program evolve into Skynet? Can the sweet but deadly cyborg (Summer Glau of Firefly) be trusted? Answers – and the fight for the future – are here and now.

Description of Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is the weekly TV series based on the hit action/sci-fi movie franchise that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. Lena Headey (300) plays the title character, the mother who bears the burden of raising--and protecting--the future salvation of mankind, her teenage son, John (Thomas Dekker, Heroes). As explained in both of James Cameron's Terminator movies (this series considers the third film, Rise of the Machines, not part of its mythology), the computer system Skynet has taken over future Earth, and an adult John Connor is the leader of the human resistance, causing the robots to send android assassins--called Terminators--back in time to kill John before he can become a hero. John's would-be assassin--introducing himself as a substitute teacher named Cromartie (Garret Dillahunt)--tracks him down, but John gets a fighting chance with the surprise arrival of a benevolent Terminator (Summer Glau, Firefly) named Cameron (get it?), who declares, "Come with me if you want to live" (another nod to the movies).

Thus begins an uneasy partnership among Sarah, John, and Cameron, with Sarah not trusting Cameron and Cameron trying to carry out her mission (some of her deadpans are hilarious) and John caught in the middle (lucky John!). The trio time-travels ahead to 2007 but still can't escape the relentless Cromartie, and also dogged by an FBI agent (Richard T. Jones) who thinks Sarah Connor might be more than just a fugitive. And while the series' fierce action looked like it might slide into a simple Chase of the Week formula, things got interesting with our heroes' discovery of a chess machine called the Turk that might be the first incarnation of Skynet, and a surprising addition to the team (Brian Austin Green). Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted on Fox in January 2008, and the midseason start and the writers' strike kept the season to a mere nine episodes. But it was picked up for a full second season in 2008-2009. --David Horiuchi

Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] Reviews:
I was wrong.
2009-11-08 - As this series neared its premier, I was absolutely positively certain that the show would be unspeakably bad. And perhaps this is why it was canceled after its second season. I feel that so many people (especially Terminator fans) had already made up their mind before hand and never really gave the show a chance. I gave it a chance and watched the premier; then promptly abandoned the entire show. As it turns out, the premier episode was the weakest of the season. In fact, at episode three, the show suddenly goes from just 'decent' to 'awesome'. And it was these stories about how the plot develops that I was constantly hearing from those that stuck with the show that convinced me that I needed to give it a second chance; and I'm so glad I did.

First of all, this isn't entirely a reboot. It follows the continuity of the first two movies quite nicely, but exists outside the story line developed by T3 and Terminator Salvation. It's an 'alternate version of events', so to speak.

{John Conner} The character was done perfectly. Gone is the 'most annoying kid in the world' attitude. Here it's obvious that he's grown up watching his back at every turn. He's sick of running; and with the arrival of a Terminator protector, he feels it's time to start fighting back. His technical skills are also more impressive and a little more believable than previous interpretations.

{Sarah Conner} She is, after all, the star of the show and often narrates each episode. She's motherly but never forgets her mission to protect her son and stop Skynet before it's built. Her days of paranoia and erratic behavior are over. What's great about her portrayal here is she rarely ever seems to be afraid. She's calm, cool, collected, and just plain awesome.

{Cameron} John's Terminator protector and was initially the hardest part of the show for me to like. I groaned during her scenes in the premier. However, as the show developed, her character quickly grew on me. Her scene as she looks on in fascination at the robot at the chess tournament, in particular, was remarkably directed.

{Terminators} The rest of them are also well done. We really get the feeling that just one of these guys is nearly unstoppable. The initial Terminator from the pilot, Cromartie, appears to have been 'terminated' at the end of the premier. However, the majority of this season he is seen as constantly rebuilding himself in order to complete his mission, suggesting that no matter what kind of damage a Terminator sustains, it will...never...stop. Another example of this is when John attempts to hack an extracted Terminator CPU in which John see glimpses of the world through it's visual memory bank giving a fascinating yet disturbing look into their behavior. At one point the CPU comes back online attempts to complete his mission despite not having a body.

Trust me, I was one of the hardest people to convince that this would ever be good. But it is. It's incredible. Give it a chance to develop and grow on you and there's a good chance you'll gain as much appreciation for it as I have.

~nico~

The best reboot I've ever experienced
2009-10-11 - I went into the first episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles with crossed arms. I loved the first two Terminator movies so much that any tinkering with the series made me nervous. Thankfully, Sarah Connor delivers the goods. This first season takes the story to new and wonderful places. This is very much worth your money.

Amazing series! Can't wait to get Season 2.
2009-09-13 - I can't say enough good things about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TSCC). It's not a "Terminator of the Week" show. It's a drama with excellent writing, acting, character development and stories that happens to have some action. It's an intelligent show - I've seen the entire first season multiple times and each time, I pick up on something new. It makes me think. The writers often leave things open to interpretation, which has fueled my imagination and left me wanting more. Bear McCreary's soundtrack is fantastic and adds another layer of brilliance to the series. This is a series you'll want to watch over and over again.

TSCC is a story about a mother struggling with her son growing up, while literally having the survival of humanity on both their shoulders. It is a story about a boy becoming a man learning how to become the future leader of the human resistance. It's a story about how to deal with knowing what the future holds. It's a story about hope. It's a story about technological progress. It's a story about war and the human effects of being a soldier. It's a story about perseverence.

You won't find a simple story with clear lines between good an evil. Characters do what they think is best given their missions and the information they have and that may or may not be the right thing or ultimately best thing. They make mistakes. They do the wrong thing.

TSCC has trumped HBO's Rome (also an excellent series) as my favorite series ever and that is saying a lot. I've enjoyed some other sci-fi movies and shows mostly on a casual level, but TSCC has completely tipped the scales and turned me into a full-fledged geek. No series has even remotely come close to engaging me like TSCC has.

If you enjoy this series, be sure to also purchase the second season, which is released on Sept. 22, 2009. The second season adds firey Scottish singer Shirley Manson (Garbage) and Battlestar Galactica's Stephanie Jacobsen to the amazing cast. I absolutely cannot wait to crack open my copy.





A MUST SEE
2009-08-26 - Words, words, words. They are difficult to contain the love I have for this series. This love also comes with a broken heart. It's cancellation hurts more than anything that has ever been canceled. I can't believe it.
This series, its characters, its story: ICONIC. This is a half told story. This was Josh Friedman's Terminator story. It is the greatest. And I love him for it. It is the greatest, and I love it, and they killed it. The only hope I see for its return is if the sales for Season 2 on September 22 are monumental. The sales would speak volumes and get attention. It's the only way I see. They need Josh Friedman to make the other two seasons to finish the story.

As for this particular product: Season One. BUY IT. That is all. Buy The Terminator on Blu-Ray. Buy Terminator 2: Judgment Day on Blu-Ray. Buy Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season One and Season Two on Blu-Ray. Then you have yourself the complete story (so far, if it returns). Season 2 does have a very appropriate ending. It's beautiful as the last moment of the series. But knowing there was more coming and it getting canceled, that is just wrong.

I declare this possibly my favorite series ever.

Watch T1, T2, T:TSCC Season 1, and T:TSCC Season 2. In that order. And you have yourself one of the most beautiful, important, and most moving stories ever told.

Much better than Terminator Salvation
2009-08-11 - If you were disappointed with Terminator Salvation cause of the non-existing plot. You should give this series a go. The characters have much more depth and the stories are interesting.

I have only one problem with the Blu-ray set. You cannot have sub-title on when you're watching an episode on the commentary track. So unless you have good memory of the episode, you may lose track on some of the comments as they reference things that was happening on screen at the time.