Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season

do you like guns? i mean do you REALLY REALLY like them? preferable when they are being held by babes who despite being on the run from the FBI have 50 dollar beverly hills haircuts and perfectly tailored outfits and push-up bras on? have i got a show for you!

what made the first movie (and portions of the second) great--the gritty realism, the depressing modern day bleakness, the social commentary on atomic warfare and overdependence on technology, and most especially-character arc of linda hamilton's slow revelation of her power and authority, combined with her touching vulnerablility and relatability as a real person you could imagine working with, her transformation from down trodden everywoman to righteous heroine, is completely gone.

i don't know what made me laugh more, "sarah conner's" opening scenes in her stripper/waitress outfit or close-ups of her wrinkle-less, heavily pancake make-upped face. oh, and the fact that she looks closer to her "son's" age than her would-be fiance's.

this show is a careening joyride from "big guns go boom" to "hotties in tight clothes" to "big explosions go boom so more," with no character development, plot originality, or thoughtful plausibility and relevance to reality or to our time. i know--it's an action series, i shouldn't expect more, right? but i do. and also, i find when we are living in an era of terrorism and economic instability, the glorifcation of automatic weapons and the ridiculous depiction of these "on the run" outlaws driving brand new $40,000 + ford f-150 trucks and wearing expensive off-the-rack abercrombie and fitch / ed hardy outfits particularily, and unintentionally humourously insulting.

what lazy writing and directing! some scenes are literally lifted DIRECTLY FROM the film franchise--and these would be the better, more clever ones.

i agree with another reviewer here--this is a testosterone-soaked soap opera, and not even a very good one at that. if this is what people are watching, i shudder for america. on the plus side, should keep the porn industry and pistol-revolver-shotgun, AK-47, bazooka, handgun manufacturers in the black for many a year to come. gratutitous, mindless sex and violence. GO FOX!!!

My wife and I were thrilled that the 1st season was released on DVD and hope the others will as well. Not much to say except that if you like the show (and how can you not) you will love this product.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has all of the things you would expect from an action show: things blow up, people get shot, cyborgs tear apart sets and wreck havoc on each other in satisfyingly flashy and violent ways. But what I wasn't expecting was how multi-layered the plots become. Common themes explored are the journey from boy to leader of mankind, Biblical stories, references to The Wizard of Oz, (particularly the Tim Man as Cameron, in search of a heart), and the idea that the humans must become as ruthless and unsentimental as the machines to survive, while the machines must become more human in order to hunt them.

Moments of sublime beauty (Summer Glau doing ballet) are in stark contrast with cruelty, despair and dysfunction. While it might start a little slow, when the show gets to Dungeons and Dragons it kicks it into high gear and never lets up. This is the rarest kind of tv show: the smart action show.

Great beginning, now let's see this story unfolds and characters/ characters' relationships grow stronger. Great acting, especially Summer Glau and Brian Austin Green.

Great purchase, love the bonus features. Can't wait for the next season. I must have for any Terminator fan.

Summer Glau is awesome. This show is awesome - most television shows are garbage - it's on the same level as Firefly, and Lost (especially Season 4). Just so you get an idea of what I think is crap: Prison Break, 24, Heroes, House, etc., etc. So, if you don't like the shows I don't like, and like the shows I like, you'll love Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

I watched the entire series without ever having seen the movies so I knew very little about what Terminator is about. The show was much better than I had expected. It took a little while to get a handle on the background but, once I had an idea of what was going on, I liked the show. I am ordering the DVDs for my boyfriend because he did not get to see the show and I know he will enjoy it just as much.

Lena Headey makes the series and Summer Glau adds a nice twist to the old terminator formula. Well worth the price of this set definitely.

This first season is enough to get you hooked. Once addicted, you won't want to stop. I tried to spread the discs out, but ended up watching them back-to-back and quickly ordering season two.

For Terminator fans, this is a must see!

For those of you who were immensely disappointed with Terminator Three the movie this series makes up for it.

Set shortly after the second movie, Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up the action in between the second and third movies. When Cameron (a Terminator reprogrammed by by the future resistance) come back to the past she saves Sarah and John from a new threat and takes them to the present day (about ten years into the future) forever changing things making it as though the third movie never happened. (thank god!)

The Sarah Connor Chronicles has a closer feel to the second movie and is filled with fast passed action. The acting is great and the plot is new and interesting. I highly recommend this to any fans of the first two movies.

Slow start ... do not think the casting pick for Sara Connor was a particularly a good one ... too much deviation in character from Linda Hamilton. Lots of eye candy scenes. All told, DVDs are worth the money if you a person like I am that wass reached the point of being fed up with commercial breaks in TV. Almost like the audience is treated as a whole as suffering from Adult ADD.

I missed this show when it first aired, and then saw episode 3 and 4 as reruns. I really enjoyed the characters and the action but realized I didn't understand a lot of the plot. I stopped watching the reruns and ordered this DVD. After watching the first season in the order they were shot I have a much better understanding of the plot and enjoy watching the show with my family much more than if I had skipped some of the first episodes.

If you like this show you should watch all the episodes.

what i love about this show is they follow the storyline exactly.
they dont have things in the story that dont match with the movies.
It is a excellent story line and i love the show which means they'll
probably cancell the show. Everytime i love a show they cancell it. If
you havent checked out the show check it out. You will not be dissapointed
if you liked the Terminator movies.

Great dvd of this series season one. Lots of extras, and so nice to watch full episodes, one after another, with no commercials !!!
Totally worth the few dollars to buy it !
A classic, on par with all the 3 previous Terminator films.

The series is excellent. The dvd set is even better. Some very nice extras and the ability to watch all episodes back to back without any interruptions. A true must have for any fan, especially at the price.

As far as any spin-off from a very successful movie will go, this is a very impressive adaptation of the Terminator saga to the small screen. While it is true that there are not that many special effects, probably due to budget constraints, it does not matter that much. Indeed, the acting and the scripts make up for that. It is a fast-paced storyline about Sara Connor as she tries to escape from the terminators coming from the future to eradicate her and her son. They are being joined by the very pretty female robot who has also travelled back in time to help them. I did not know what to expect but this is very good and also rather inexpensive, so buy it!

When I heard about this show, I was both excited and angry. I always thought the Terminator COULD make a decent television show, but i don't trust Fox. They tend to create great shows and then cancel them before they can find their audience. They canceled Firefly, Dark Angel, Point Pleasant, Space Above and Beyond, and Drive (an amazingly addictive show that they didn't let reach the fourth episode). They even tried to cancel Family Guy.

I knew it would be a decent show, but i was afraid to invest myself in anything remotely related to Fox and have it taken away AGAIN. I'm still worried (Dark Angel was given a Second Season), but I'm glad I gave it a chance.

This show does everything right. I'd heard it was taking place after T2 and before Judgement Day. So i was afraid they'd write themselves into a corner with the set future of the rather awful T3. A quick time travel jump in the first episode immediately erases T3 from the Timeline. "There is no fate but what we make."

The whole cast is about as good as Television can get. Summer Glau is especially amazing as John Conner's new protector. But it is when Kyle Reese's brother is introduced that the show really takes off. Yes Brian Austin Greene is a strange choice for the part, but he really pulls it off.

We see how a terminator goes about regenerating it's living tissue when it has been overly damaged. We see more of the future (including a couple of the rubber skinned terminator models mentioned in the original film). We meet some of Sarah Conner's gun running connections from before her time in the institution. And we see plenty of Terminator on Terminator violence. What a great show.

I remember from before any episodes were aired, this series was getting a lot of negative buzz for whatever reason.
Most people who would consider watching this have already seen the terminator movies, as did any sci-fi or action fan. This series is similar in tone to the cult-favorite second movie although it is a better drama overall.

There are a couple of things that make it the series to watch.

Acting. Relative unknowns have been cast in main roles. I'd say the girl playing Sarah Connor is OK, the girl playing Cameron (the terminator) is good... and that's the worse end of the stick. Guys take the cake on this one. Young J.Connor, Agent Alison, and Derek Reese, Cromartie are played amazingly.

I like the music in the show, too. Most of it is a derivative of the main theme in the movies, although not as blunt. Lyrical melody is mixed with synthetic drum beats to great effect, IMO. I simply love the piece playing at main menus on DVD. It puts you in a right mood for watching this tale.

There are several main story arcs, and a couple of secondary arcs throughout the first season. There are no stand-alone episodes. Lastly, the episodes (and maybe the writing) get better the farther you are in the season. The last episode was probably the best example of the potential and of what there is to come in later seasons.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles is like having a cliff hanger at the end of every episode.
There so many crappy shows on right now, it is good to have something keep my attention from beginning to end.
The series started a little slow as we got to know the actors/characters and bringing Brian Austin Green in brought some grit to the stories.
Looking forward to season 2 next week !!!

I've really fallen for this show. I think the program is solidly cast with some great actors; the action scenes are realistic, good scripts, and a lot of fun to watch. It turned out to be more than I expected (I didn't expect much), and it's now become one of my favorite shows on television at the moment. SO many police and lawyer procedural shows are now on, I look forward to the escapism this show provides. No bad dreams. Lena Headey is fantastic, as is, well all four of the major players are excellent. Highly recommend, especially if your getting a bit stale on CSI's, Police dramas, half-hour comedies and Lawyer programs. It's wonderful to see great SciFi coming back to television again. This CD set is definitely worth owning, and has a lot of extras.

I haven't decided whether I like this series or not, I've only watched a couple episodes thus far. But I'm having major issue with what they're doing sending engineer's, helpers and everyone else back through time portals to stage stuff for John and Sarah. If they could do that... why not just send the army of future soldiers back and finish the job to begin with? This is really bugging me. I thought the movie series showed that time travel was extremely difficult. But in this storyline it's easy. At the end of the first episode they even use time travel to escape. Not as difficult as we were led to believe in the movies. Cheapens the whole Terminator universe with this introduced.

This Series is about as wrong as any can get, even trying. The testosterone-injected movies have been so estrogen weighed in this series that the entire atmosphere of the struggle is maternal rather than the way it was. Sure, I know it is about Sarah, but it doesn't work unless there is a strong male around on the kid's side. It cannot survive just having the mother's viewpoint being the main and only theme. What makes the movies good is that the maternal component is made vital and vigorous by the presence of a potential good father figure always being there and possibly being possible. I cannot comment on the acting, since I have not seen any yet. I cannot comment on the directing and production, or even the main gaffer, since I see no input by any of them. This is nothing but a lesson to the future, a lesson manual, in fact, on how to avoid presenting a production feeding off of the good will handed to them by the boost the movies would give any crew with talent. I would never fund this non-production production. Too bad, since all they needed was there, and they went the other way. Go figure

To be honest, I have no clue what people can be complaining about with this series. IF you like Terminator, you should like this. There's no way Arnold S. and Linda H. were going to sign on for a TV series, so we get their capable replacements instead.

The timeline of this series is obviously after the second of the three Terminator movies. In the second, the viewer is essentially left with all Terminator entities being destroyed, and Sarah Connor protecting her 10-year old son while preparing him for his destiny. Leaving Cyberdyne Systems in ruins, they enlist the help of Miles Dyson to destroy his own research that would eventually lead to Skynet and Judgement Day.

In the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah (Lena Heady) and her teenage son John (Thomas Dekker) are fugitive nomads, moving from one remote town to another in order to stay under the radar, not only from the possibility of other Terminators, but also law enforcement. However, that's not enough, and eventually a new Terminator model named Cameron (Summer Glau) meets up with the mother and son. Luckily, Cameron is a newer T800 model - obviously prettier than all previous Terminators - sent by John to protect John.

Wonderfully cast, with great special effects and acting, the story and drama follows the original storyline smoothly. Since insiders have noted that this series is in a different timeline than T3, the story-arc can be eliminated for confused linear thinkers.

It's very easy to become immersed in the plot for this series, and I'm already hooked. There are years and years between John's childhood and his ascension to "Leader of Mankind", and the only thing in between this series and greatness is a lack of imagination. The questions left by the first two movies (and even the blank spot between the second and third on that timeline) will be slowly answered, and John's formative years will vividly display how he learns to fulfill his destiny and become the wise, revolutionary leader of all future humankind.

Highly recommended for action fans.