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Digital Cameras - Camcorders - Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]
![Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z4UhlNK8L._SL160_.jpg)
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List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $22.97
Your Save: $ 17.02 ( 43% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929025176
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-08-19
Running Time: 60
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-08-19
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Stop reading and BUY
Comment: This is a great show and says true to the story of Terminator. I read somewhere that they might tie this show with the new Terminator movie said to be out this coming summer. Over all this is a great show and a must buy. Support the people that make great show so that they may continue to make movie and shows that we all love. Can't wait to buy the next season.
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY
Get it. BUY it. Buy it now.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Poorly written drivel that barely manages to stay afloat thanks to the brand name
Comment: As much as fans eventually hated it, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [Blu-ray] is lights years ahead of this tedious show. You might end up wondering how the timeline in this show can exist considering the story of T3, but if you consider that this was Skynet's fourth attempt at killing John Connor AFTER the TX failed then it would create a tangent timeline in which the events of T3 would never happen.
The show doesn't even attempt to explain this to us, however. I hate exposition as much as the next viewer, but TSCC has no sense of time, character or importance of event. Nothing is clearly presented to the audience and it's hard to keep with the barely interesting story. It's bad writing, plain and simple. And the constant in-jokes (a robot called Cameron, a character called William Wisher) are another sign of lazy writing which leads me to believe that the show is written by fanboys instead of qualified writers. Even this I could turn a blind eye to if they stayed true to the original story, but they tamper with too much of James Cameron's history. For example; Kyle Reese says he grew up after the nuclear war in The Terminator [Blu-ray], but here we see him and his previously unmentioned brother playing baseball on Judgment Day (now moved to 2011). And why didn't Skynet send back another T1000 instead of the old T800? It's not model 101 this time since Arnie wouldn't embarrass himself with trash like this, but it would have made sense to send a mimetic poly-alloy instead of the metal endo-skeleton surrounded by living tissue.
However, doing it that way might have ended the show on day one, and the folks at the WB need to s-t-r-e-t-c-h this junk out as far as possible.
Lena Headey is visually similar to Linda Hamilton, but I never liked the direction they took the character in Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Blu-ray], where she becomes hardcore warrior (almost a human terminator herself) who narrates every scene with a pointless and pretentious voice-over. There's very little to like about her in this show, mostly because she never displays any kind of affection for anyone around her, even her son.
Summer Glau is the only reason for watching this. Any scene that does not feature her threatens to kill the series dead on the spot. Some of this stuff is really painful, especially the Dr. Silberman plot. Not only is it incredibly disrespectful to what James Cameron had created, but they didn't even get Earl Boen back. Instead they got someone who looks and acts nothing like him. It feels like a totally different person and you can tell that he's only in there to stretch the lumbering story out further. Even composer Bear McReary seems frightened of using Brad Fiedel's iconic Terminator theme (and, let's be honest, it was the only noteworthy theme in Feidel's lackluster career). The score for the show is instead made up of noises and sound effects with the slightest of themes repeated in each episode with no variation. Plus, the existence of the Terminators after the destruction of Cyberdyne is still not clearly explained either.
I know a lot of shows struggle during their first season, maybe this is why the network gave TSCC the benefit of the doubt and ordered a full second season. But this nine episode Blu Ray is only worth the money if your a serious fan, and even then you're likely to be disappointed.
The Blu Ray features a 1.78:1 1080p picture that doesn't impress a helluva lot and an adequate sound design with lots of extras I couldn't care less about.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Starts off good, falls in the middle, and begins to pick back up at the end
Comment: This show was both good and disappointing. It started off great with the first few episodes as they were filled with action, we were really getting to know the characters, and the show was breaking off from the whole "chase" procedures established with the previous movies. The season began to become boring and tiresome in the middle as it focused more on emotional issues instead of being action driven. The emotional conflicts that were brought up when Derek Reese (another character from the future) travels back in are just boring. The only exciting parts dealing with Reese are the glimpses of the future, other than that everything that surrounds his character is dull.
Things didn't being to pick up until the final 3 episodes. This is not the worst show that Fox has spewed out but it isn't the best. I do recommend picking up the first season on Blu-ray as Amazon's price is really great (they are charging less than what Stores like Best Buy charge for the DVD version). The show also looks good on Blu-ray, it is not perfect but it does look better than the HD broadcast. There are some minor flaws here and there that are normally associated with digitally shooting TV shows in HD. TV shows often experience rushed productions and they are unable to go back and re-shoot scenes that don't out looking their best.
I gave this release 3 out of 5 stars as the show's quality starts off good, dips in the middle, and begins to rise back up near the end. The video quality has some flaws but it looks great overall.
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Summary: Highly recommended!
Comment: At the Amazon price, this is a great value. I enjoyed watching the entire first year series without interruption and picked up on some things I had missed. Not much in the way of extras, but that was okay with me.
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Summary: SuperB !!! CAN'T WAIT FOR 2ND SEASON
Comment: THIS IS GREAT SERIES, IF ARE A TERMINATOR FAN GOTTA HAVE IT.
BLU-RAY IS SUPERB
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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