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Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season | 
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| Actors: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.98
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 32
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 394 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 1000039429
UPC: 883929023646
EAN: 0883929023646
ASIN: B000T9OP7G
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: August 19, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 A breath of fresh air ! September 5, 2008
Reita M. Stites (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 !!!
Great, solid acting, a lot of action, and escapism galore September 4, 2008
A. Cloutier (Reno, NV USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Problems with this storyliine September 2, 2008
Reviewman (San Diego)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Estrogen takes the lead September 1, 2008
B. Roberts (Park City, UT)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
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
An answer to whether leaders are born or made - watch the making of John Connor August 29, 2008
Jason Elin (Backwater, Alabama)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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