Topic: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode Review Thread

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Prompted by the return of the terminators into their lives, Sarah and John decide to stop running and focus on stopping the birth of Skynet. They are aided by Cameron, a terminator who poses as a student at John's school and whose mission is to protect John. Meanwhile, an FBI agent named James Ellison pursues Sarah and John with the belief that Sarah is deranged, but after seeing and hearing of several incidents of an assassin named Cromartie, he begins to doubt Sarah's supposed insanity and believes part of what Sarah was trying to tell the world.

The trio time travel 8 years into the future to 2007, to stop Skynet and prevent Judgment Day once and for all.

Stars:
Lena Headey as Sarah Connor
Thomas Dekker as John Connor
Summer Glau as Cameron
Richard T. Jones as Agent James Ellison

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Season 1

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?

Episodes:
1. Pilot
2. Gnothi Seauton
3. The Turk
4. Heavy Metal
5. Queen's Gambit
6. Dungeons and Dragons
7. The Demon Hand
8. Vick's Chip
9. What He Beheld

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

1. PILOT
Airdate: Jan. 13, 2008
No one is ever safe, least of al Sarah Connor and her son, John. Tired of running from the machines, Sarah decides to stand and fight.

Guest Stars: Owain Yeoman as Cromartie Sonya Walger as Michelle Dixon Nick Wechsler as Deputy Ridge Charlayne Woodard as Terissa Dyson Dean Winters as Charley Dixon

Crew Written by Josh Friedman Directed by David Nutter

My Thoughts:
This is a great start to the series. Yes, it is a lot like the first 2 movies. But I think this is a good thing... for anyone that might have never seen the movies (if that is possible). They really went all out for the pilot episode. Lots of great effects and a really enjoyable storyline.

I really like the entire cast in this show. I especially like Summer Giau as Cameron. But all the main characters are great. I have become a fan of Lena Headey because of this series. Since this show I have added a a small handful of her movies into my collection.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

2. GNOTHI SITUATION
Airdate: Jan. 14, 2008
New future, new identity. Cromartie, the battered but relentless Terminator programmed to kill John Connor, resurfaces.

Guest Stars: Sonya Walger as Michelle Dixon Tony Amendola as Enrique Salceda Jesse Garcia as Carlos Omid Abtahi as Sumner Sasha Roiz as Police Officer

Crew Written by Josh Friedman Directed by David Nutter

My Thoughts:
Another good episode... though it is not as good as the pilot episode. There was no real surprises in this episode... it pretty much went in the direction I was expecting throughout the episode. But definitely a good continuation from the pilot episode.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

3. THE TURK
Airdate: Jan. 21, 2008
He's just a geek with a hobby. But is the computer chess program Andy Goode developed the beginning of the end?

Guest Stars: Brendan Hines as Andy Goode Jesse Garcia as Carlos Adam Godley as The Scientist Bernard White as Sarah's Doctor Charlayne Woodard as Terissa Dyson

Crew Written by John Wirth Directed by Paul Edwards

My Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this episode as well. I got a kick out of John and Cameron going to school... only to find that at the entrance there is a metal detector and they have to explain how Cameron keeps setting off the metal detector. This one has another really interesting storyline that was well done. It moves the main storyline ahead nicely.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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One of the worst opening credits I have seen, but one of my favourite shows of the last few years. 

I love the way you are doing the new screencaps Pete.

[RossRoy]

I love the way you are doing the new screencaps Pete.

Yeah me too! Even though the last 2 screencaps are a bit unsettling! Made my Dad look and ask what that was hahaha

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I love the way you are doing the new screencaps Pete.

Thanks... I am glad to see someone mention they like it. It is actually quite a bit of work to do it that way. First I take between 20 and 50 Screen Caps per episode. Then it is the hard job of choosing which 7 of the Screen Caps to actually use. Then shrinking them down to a usable size for the board.

Yeah me too! Even though the last 2 screencaps are a bit unsettling! Made my Dad look and ask what that was hahaha

  Yeah... I was a bit nervous using those Screen Caps... but come on... how could I resist? Just wait till I can watch horror again!

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

4. HEAVY METAL
Airdate: Feb. 4, 2008
Cameron discovers a truck loaded with enough metal to build over 500 endoskeletons. Are more Terminators about to be created.

Guest Stars: Catherine Dent as Agent Greta Simpson Brian Bloom as Carter Andy Umberger as Davidson Lee Thompson Young as Agent Stewart Garret Dillahunt as George Laszlo

Crew Written by John Enbom Directed by Sergio Mimica Gezzan

My Thoughts:
I enjoyed this episode... I have seen better... but it is definitely good. It seems John is starting to take control a little by this point. I also liked how they ended this one.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

5. QUEEN'S GAMBIT
Airdate: Feb. 11, 2008
A chess contact has the potential to link the Turk and Skynet. Meanwhile, the missing Resistance fighter appears.

Guest Stars: Garret Dillahunt as George Laszlo Sonya Walger as Michelle Dixon Brendan Hines as Andy Goode Kristina Apgar as Cheri Westin Mark Ivanir as Dimitri

Crew Written by Natalie Chaidez Directed by Matt Earl Beesley

My Thoughts:
This one I liked quite a bit. It has some good action as well as some fun dialog. I especially liked when Sarah said they were going on a field trip... and  John says "I call shotgun" and Cameron comes out with "I call 9mm." I don't know why... but that just caught me as so funny! Best line in the episode... if not in all of season 1. And then before that the line where Cameron says she didn't comment on killing Andy sooner was because she was "busy doing John's homework." So there was some decent action as well as a few good chuckles. What more can you ask? The final scene with Derek Reese was very good as well.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

6. DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Airdate: Feb. 18, 2008
Derek's consciousness shifts between his injured state in the present and the future he already knows to be true..

Guest Stars: Jonathan Jackson as Kyle Reese Edoardo Ballerini as Timms Brendan Hines as Andy Goode Peter Mensah as Perry Andre Royo as Tad

Crew Written by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz Directed by Jeffrey Hunt

My Thoughts:
This one is a very interesting story. I liked how they kept flashing over to the future to Derek's story. I thought they did the future scenes very well. Another episode I really enjoyed a lot.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

7. DEMON HAND
Airdate: Feb. 25, 2008
Ellison digs into the history of sarah Connor. Cameron sets out to find the Turk but discovers something else entirely.

Guest Stars: Mark Ivanir as Dimitri Angela Gots as Maria Traber Burns as Chief of Staff Brian Austin Green as Derek Reese Bruce Davison as Dr. Peter Silberman

Crew Written by Toni Graphia Directed by Charles Beeson

My Thoughts:
Not bad... definitely a decent episode... but for some reason I felt like I wanted more. I did like the scene with the FBI agent and doctor in the cabin.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1

9. WHAT HE BEHELD
Airdate: Mar. 3, 2008
Sarah and John's true identities are discovered by a mysterious operative. Cromartie's infiltration of the FBI has devastating consequences.

Guest Stars: Garret Dillahunt as George Laszlo Catherine Dent as Agent Greta Simpson Craig Fairbrass as Sarkissian Jesse Garcia as Carlos James Urbaniak as Café Manager

Crew Written by Ian Goldberg Directed by Mike Rohl

My Thoughts:
Maybe not the best of season finales.... but I did enjoy it. Of course I don't believe this was originally meant to be a season finale. I believe this season was during the writer's strike and we ended up with a very short season. But it is a good episode all the same. I really liked the cliffhanger at the end.

My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Season 2

The time: today. The stakes: all our tomorrows. A nascent AI, assisted by deadly cyborgs, continues to edge toward world domination and the ruin of humankind. It accepts no limits. It fears no one. Except John Connor. The machines know John, now 16, is the future leader of the human resistance. They know he is growing in abilities. They must find and terminate him. But Sarah Connor is there, protecting and instructing her son as he becomes the man he's destined to be.

The hunt is on in a season of powerful revelations, breathless pursuits and bravura effects. A mysterious 3-dot symbol (do UFOs provide a clue?), a girlfriend for John (is Cameron jealous?), ZeiraCorp (can it master the renegade software the Turk?) – Season 2's 6-disc action arsenal is locked, loaded, ready to amaze.

Episodes:
1. Samson and Delilah
2. Automatic for the People
3. The Mousetrap
4. Allison from Palmdale
5. Goodbye to All That
6. The Tower Is Tall But the Fall is Short
7. Brothers of Nablus
8. Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today
9. Complications
10. Strange Things Happen at the One-Two Point
11. Self Made Man
12. Alpine Fields
13. Earthlings Welcome Here
14. The Good Wound
15. Desert Cantos
16. Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
17. Ourselves Alone
18. Today Is the Day Part 1
19. Today Is the Day Part 2
20. To the Lighthouse
21. Adam Raised a Cain
22. Born to Run