Terminator: The Sarah Connor
Chronicles - The Complete First
Season starring Lena Headey,
Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau
Great Series
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 Camerons 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.
Johns 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 li ve (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 cant 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 sli de 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
Features:
* 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 thi
Honestly, it boggles the mind that this show, which was the highest-rated
new scripted series of the 2007-08 television season had only a two
season run. It was very good and Fox dropped the ball as far as cancelling
it after the second season. Well, as many of you know, this show takes
place in between T2 and T3, with the result that T3 never happens given
the time travel that the characters on the show do. In T3, Sarah was
supposed to die of cancer in 1990s, but since Sarah and the gang jump to
2007, they jump over the year in which Sarah would have died. Sarah, of
course, keeps worring that she will still die of cancer and the first season
makes it a point for the viewer to remember whose Chronicles these are -
not John's. The first season brings back threads from T2, such as showing
what happens to Dr. Peter Silberman and bringing back Dyson's widow
who, with great reservation, helps Sarah (who hasn't aged a year) continue
her fight against Skynet (fearing that more innocent people will die simply
for playing a role in constructing Skynet). We finally get to meet Derek
Reese, John's uncle. Meanwhile, Sarah finds herself trying to exp lain the
past to Charley. Given a telivision show budget and everything they
managed to pack into the writer's strike shortened season of just 9
episodes, it's amazing how good Sarah, John and their terminator
protector Cameron look dogging Agent Ellison (an FBI agent is putting
everything together) and Cromartie, the terminator on their trail.
Recommend.
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