Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

About the show

I’m going to stick to Network television in answering this query as pay television is a whole ‘nother ball of wax, IMO.

Hands down, the show I’m most looking forward to this fall is Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which is also known to viewers as T:TSCC, T:SCC, and Terminator: TSCC.

Here’s a thumbnail of what is in store in the first episode of Season 2–which in my mind should be called “Season 1.5″ as the first season was only nine episodes in length.

From TV Guide:

Episode Detail: S201 “Samson and Delilah” - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

In the second-season opener, the wake of the Jeep explosion brings danger for Sarah and John, while Agent Ellis handles the aftermath of Cromartie’s massacre. Elsewhere, high-tech CEO Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson) has big plans for her corporation.

Cast: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Brian Austin Green, Richard T. Jones, Garret Dillahunt, and Shirley Manson

Why I love Terminator: TSCC~

• Everything Terminator:TSCC on this blog
• Bear McCreary
  When I watched the very first episode of T: TSCC I had this sensation of familiarity. I knew Summer Glau from her previous work on Joss Whedon’s Firefly (TV) and Serenity (film) and was thrilled for her to have a leading role. I knew almost none of the other characters though! What was it!? I wracked my brain but came up with nothing. It was simply a feeling…until Episode 2…then the light bulb came on. The soundtrack was excellent! I’d heard a similar style before! But could it be?. It was and is Bear McCreary–Battlestar Galactica’s composer!
  I cannot tell you how much Bears’ scoring of Terminator:TSCC brings to the overall feel of the show just as he creates an atmosphere through his uncanny ability to strike the right chords in Galactica, he does the same in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
• Making Garret Dillahunt a series regular
• Watching this show will help me get through the long, cold fall and early winter when there are no new Battlestar Galactica episodes, not to mention when BSG ends completely next year.

Need more convincing? Here are a few reviews of the show when it was just getting up and running. It only got better as the season (9 episodes) progressed.

USA Today gave the premiere episode 3 and a half stars out of four, calling the series, “smart, tough and entertaining.” The New York Times referred to it as “one of the more humanizing adventures in science fiction to arrive in quite a while”, while the Los Angeles Times declared the show “has heart and feeling” and “an almost Shakespearean exploration of fate vs. character” that features “plenty of really great fight scenes, and explosions, as well as neato devices developed in the future and jury-rigged in the present.”

1. Terminator: TSCC, S02,E05 “Goodbye To All That Full Video” *SPOILERS* Promo E06, “The Tower Is High But The Fall Is Short”...
2. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Season 2 *SPOILERS*...
3. Terminator: SCC Fall Status Update~ March 8, 2008...

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