Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete First Season
February 28, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
- 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
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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 … More >>
Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete First Season
I hated the movies, I hope this Tv show does not get picked up, it seems to have that “same old story” aspect about it each week. Lousy acting and concept.
Rating: 1 / 5
The show looks very good-the charactors may be also good.We will never know as the sound is even worse than the old Highlandere tv series.There are NO SUBTITLES and as yet I have npt heard -truly – a sible word Cammeron has uttered.The general result is that I do not know if the story line is good or not owing to the appalling quality of the speach sound/
If the nexxr series has np subtitles I will have to pass.Shame
PRINCE RAFAEL
Rating: 1 / 5
I watched about 20 minutes of the pilot before I had to turn it off. It’s horrible, it almost made me sick. Picture crossing a brutally awesome sci-fi/action story, with some wholesome afterschool special. They tried to make the show both violent and “awsesome”, while also making it cute and funny. It made me want to barf, what an awful idea. I can’t vouch for the rest of the season because I didn’t make it that far…. I am seriously shocked that nobody else voted this one down…
I’d say if you are into the dumber US TV shows (you know who you are), you’d probably be into this, but if you have a brain and were even SOMEWHAT interested in the original Terminator story, watching this is a painful experience. I’m only talking about the storyline/acting, the 1080p transfer and the disc extras are probably great, but I wouldn’t know.
I was a big fan of the first two Terminator movies, but this does not compare at all – stay away from this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
The only value to gain from watching this series is that the writing is so bad, you wish Sky-Net would take over the world sooner.
I never make a negative comment on a brand new concept because at least it is an experiment in entertainment, but, the Terminator formula is not new, it is a very basic plot about a relentless killing machine which travels through time to kill a human. The fact that the machine has no feelings, looks scary and it is unstopable makes the first Terminator a succesful story, and even though one would think that replicating the same formula would be easy as pie, yet, sequel after sequel, year after year, new untalented writers and producers manage to pitch their idiotic ideas and alter the original plot to the detriment of Terminator fans. This TV series is a perfect example of how you can take a good concept (The original Terminator) and turn it into garbish.
I don’t really blame the actors, I can see how they are trying their earnest while the director and the writers are pissing the Terminator franchise away, not hard to do after Terminator 3. In any case, starting an episode with a cheesy dream sequence is stuff I have not seen since my first year in film school. No imagination.
Months ago, when I saw this pilot at Comic-Con and it was awful. After a second viewing on TV, it realized it was worse than I thought.
Watching the free pilot on Amazon was great because it allows you to fast-forward over all the bad parts, that is 90% of the show just to see Summer Glau, the only reason why anyone would want to see this mess is her. Poor Summer Glau does not look at all like a Terminator, the laws of physics go out the window when she fights heavier meaner robots, because of her natural sweetness she is clearly a misguided casting choice, the role of a mean killing machine may end up killing her career. She does not handle it as well as she did on Serenity and I truly hope she makes a difficult professional choice and quits this series before it is too late and get a job doing something more suitable for her.
There is so much that is wrong with the execution of the Chronicles, for starters the “concept” is completely misguided, a series about Sarah Connor and her son, no exactly an interesting pair. The fact is nobody cares about this pair of dysfunctional misfits getting shot at every five minutes (unless you are a misfit who gets shot at all the time). When they aren’t docking bullets, there is lots of repetitive filler chit-chat between them, it is a soap opera, just not a very good one as it could have been.
Of course, if you came here to buy something that you can get for free on your TV, then your definition of ridiculous could be different from mine, and you may love this show. For the other half of the population, I would say stay away and do not support bad television.
There is only one reason to watch this show, and it is of course Summer Glau, who is still yummy eye candy even while surrounded by the absolute mediocrity created by the writers. To what she would probably say: “Take a picture it will last you longer.”
I just watched the last episode “The Devil’s Hand” for free on TV just to see if there were any improvements or merciful evolution in quality, and it was just as bad if not worse. On this one they have Summer learning ballet! I am sorry but if Arnold had danced ballet on the original movie…no one would have come to see the movie and there would not be a series.
Of course, the series has been inexplicably renewed despite the bad reviews, not surprisingly since it was renewed by the same people that made the mistake of making it in the first place. (Fox is notorious for dragging a dead horse until there is nothing left to squeeze out of it) Don’t think that because Fox hasn’t canceled the show that means it has good rating, all it means is that it is cheap to produce and the actor are been payed miserably. “Galactica” is a perfect example of a show that no one saw when it was on cable and now they are trying to shove down your throat.
Remember, if you don’t buy this episodes then you are forcing them to write better shows in the future…no pun intended.
Rating: 1 / 5
This spin off series takes where T2 left off and that’s one problem because no matter if u liked T3 or not T3 HAPPENED and you just can’t ignore it.
Problem #2 is the absense of the REAL sarah connor. Where is linda hamilton ? (Not to speak of…Arnie).
I Reccomend this series ONLY to the die hard “terminator” fans.
Rating: 2 / 5