Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

Ok, there's only 9 episodes but the story and action are very good with just a touch of humor. Sarah Connor is played by the woman who played the queen in the movie 300. Summer Glau (Terminator) is best known from her days in Firefly and Serenity. The Blu-ray quality is is also very good.

I purchased the Blu-ray edition last night (10 episodes on 3 discs) then previewed one of them on my Playstation-3 (PS3). Bit rates averaged 19 Mb/s and peaked as high as 37 Mb/s which are really good numbers.

Sometimes when a publisher puts too much material onto too few discs, they do it by over-compressing the signal which yields lower bit-rates and motion artifacts like macro-blocking (especially when watching rain, fog, or flames).

I didn't detect a motion single artifact on these discs. "Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is a bargain in more ways than one.

Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

This was one of, if not THE best new series of last season. Despite the writer's strike shortening this series' first season down to only nine episodes, it was action packed! Forget the few negative reviews out there saying that it ignores T3, because that's a good thing. This is supposed to take place after T2, therefore T3 does not exist in this story line. The writing is clever and sticks to the Terminator canon. If you liked T1 and T2 and are willing to accept that this series uses them as its basis and goes in a slightly different direction, you'll love this series. If you're not willing to accept that and enjoy the deeper character development, then don't watch this. In my opinion, as a die hard Terminator fan, this series is an excellent, excellent compliment to the first two movies, and ignores the dreadful T3.

5 Stars!

When the idea for this show was being shopped around, I thought it would not see the light of day.

A movie spin-off, to TV, normally is not going to be any good. Luckily that is not the case here.

This show takes place after T2, and follows John and Sarah as they try and survive and keep a low profile, while avoiding terminators.

One day something happens, they are spotted, and they meet a new terminator, sent back in time by John. This terminator is to protect John, this terminator is played by the beautiful Summer Glau.

This show is explosive and pretty big budget. The special effects look really good, the fight scenes are amazing, and the show has a pretty good cast. The guest stars are really good too.

After you get to episode 4, the show starts getting even better, it settles into more of a series feel. The first 2-3 episodes feel more like a big movie, then it gets into series territory, and it does a good job.


What I did first was put in my terminator blu-ray and watched it, followed by T2. I forgot how good these movies were, and how awesome Arnold was. When I watched the first episode of SCC I wasn't sure how this show was going to play out, would it be John and Sarah on the run, trying to avoid Terminators, or would it be something else? Luckily it is something else, but also some running, the show surprised me, and went places I didn't think they would go, and they do a very good job doing it. This is a pretty good series, unlike the guy below me, please view more episodes, try and make it to at least episode 5, by then you should be hooked!

The video quality is really good. I'm impressed. The audio is fantastic. I love the menus, and the show has some pretty cool special features. I sat down and watched this in no time flat, took maybe 6-7 hours, it flows easily, and is worth watching no doubt.

It is sad the show only has 9 episodes this season, but the 9 episodes are pretty good. Some of the cast you will recognize from "The Shield", "The Wire", "90210 - The Original One" and "Firefly", "The Unit", "The 4400" and the movie "Serenity"

The acting is great, Summer will send chills down your spine when you view the episode where she is practicing ballerina lessons.


This is a great show, I highly recommend it, and cannot wait for season 2 to start airing!

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.