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Summer Glau - "Terminator SCC" Tv Series - Season 2 DVD & Blu-Ray - Press Release

Webmaster — 2009-06-10T19:53:45Z

All 22 Season Two Episodes with Over Four Hours of Never-Before-Seen

Bonus Features and an Extra Hour of Blu-ray Exclusive Content

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def September 22, 2009

BURBANK, CA (June 9, 2009) - The ultimate tale of man-vs-machine continues as a mother becomes a warrior, a son becomes a hero, and their only ally is a robot from the future when Warner Home Video releases Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete Second Season on DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def September 22, 2009. Fans can own this adrenaline-pumping series in a six-disc collector's set containing all 22 one-hour episodes and four hours of amazing extras with never-before-seen special features including an eight-part featurette with the cast and crew, a gag reel, commentaries, and deleted scenes. Additionally, the Blu-ray version includes an exclusive multi-part featurette that allows fans to explore the dynamic final stunt sequence from Season Two in a way that can only be achieved by Blu-ray.

Timed to coincide with the home video release of the summer blockbuster Terminator Salvation, the series stars Lena Headey (300), Thomas Dekker ("Heroes"), Summer Glau ("The 4400," "The Unit," "Firefly"), Brian Austin Green (Domino, "Beverly Hills, 90210"), Garret Dillahunt (No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, "Deadwood"), Shirley Manson (of the band Garbage), Leven Rambin ("All My Children," "The Book of Daniel," "Lipstick Jungle") and Richard T. Jones (Vantage Point, "Judging Amy"), and is priced to own on DVD at $59.98 SRP and on Blu-ray for $79.98 SRP.

The time : today. The stakes : all our tomorrows. A nascent AI, assisted by droids, 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 head of the 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 called The Turk ?) - Season 2's six-disc action arsenal is locked, loaded, and ready to amaze.

From Bartleby Company and The Halcyon Company in association with Warner Bros. Television, the series is executive produced by Josh Friedman, John Wirth, James Middleton, Mario Kassar, Andrew Vajna and Joel Michaels.

DVD and BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

* The Continuing Chronicles featurettes
* Write the Future - An inside look at creator Josh Friedman and the writing process and how it guides the creative decisions for each episode.
* Conceptualization - Visual Effects supervisor James Lima and others discuss the production challenges of bringing the sci-fi world of Terminator to television.
* Blood and Metal - Go behind the scenes with special makeup effects artist Rob Hall and the cast as they reveal the process of creating realistic cybernetic organisms.
* Designing Destruction - Production Designer Marek Dobrowolski and others discuss the challenges of combining real locations with futuristic sets to create a world in which the present fights to avoid a horrific future.
* Choreographing Chaos - See how Stunt Coordinator and 2nd Unit Director Joel Kramer and Special Effects Supervisor Steve Galich work closely to create the stunts and on set effects that add an undeniably kinetic quality to each episode.
* War Stories - From an unexpected earthquake on the jam-packed Santa Monica pier to the intricacies of filming underwater sequences, the producers and cast reflect on some of the most memorable production challenges from Season Two.
* Setting the Tempo - Composer Bear McCreary and the producers explain the process of taking cues from the Terminator mythology and incorporating them into the score. Bear, Josh Friedman and Shirley Manson also talk about the process of recording the season opening song "Samson and Delilah."
* Motivations - The producers and cast discuss the themes of Season Two and how these informed both the writing and acting.
* Terminated Scenes
* Cameron vs. Rosie : Fight Rehearsal - The raw fight rehearsal and choreography session between Summer Glau and a contortionist is interwoven with storyboards and interviews explaining this intricate battle sequence.
* The Storyboard Process : Cameron Goes Bad - The production team outlines the process for mapping key sequences from the show in Storyboard format.
* Audio Commentary with Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau and Shirley Manson and Executive Producers Josh Friedman, James Middleton and John Wirth.
* Gag Reel

BLU-RAY ONLY SPECIAL FEATURES

* Collision with the Future : Deconstructing the HUNTER KILLER Attack - Interactive exploration of the climactic Hunter Killer attack featured in the Season Two finale. Four simultaneous points of view show all elements of the filmmaking of Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles from Production, Direction, Visual Effects, and Special Effects. Additional focus points allow the viewer to explore even more elements of what it took to create this dramatic stunt sequence.

EPISODES FEATURED

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. Self Made Man
11. Strange Things Happen at the One-Two Point
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. Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter (Part 2)
20. To the Lighthouse
21. Adam Raised a Cain
22. Born to Run

BASICS
Street Date : September 22, 2009
Running time : Approximately 1,012 minutes

DVD
Price : $59.98 SRP
Language : English, Portuguese
Subtitles : ESDH, French, Thai, Portuguese, Spanish
5.1 Audio

Blu-ray
Price : $79.98 SRP
Language : English, Japanese
Subtitles : ESDH, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Japanese
5.1 Audio

Summer Glau - "Terminator SCC" Tv Series - Season 2 DVD & Blu-Ray - Available for pre-order !

Webmaster — 2009-06-10T19:38:59Z

The ultimate tale of man-vs-machine continues as a mother becomes a warrior, a son becomes a hero, and their only ally is a robot from the future when Warner Home Video releases Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete Second Season on DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def September 22, 2009. Fans can own this adrenaline-pumping series in a six-disc collector's set containing all 22 one-hour episodes and four hours of amazing extras with never-before-seen special features including an eight-part featurette with the cast and crew, a gag reel, commentaries, and deleted scenes. Additionally, the Blu-ray version includes an exclusive multi-part featurette that allows fans to explore the dynamic final stunt sequence from Season Two in a way that can only be achieved by Blu-ray.

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Summer Glau - "Terminator : SCC" Tv Series - Io9.com Review

Webmaster — 2009-05-27T09:10:45Z

Terminator Salvation and the Sarah Connor Chronicles both ended the same way : in a post-apocalyptic future, with John Connor lost and confused. But there's only one Terminator story I want to see continued, and it's not connected to McG. Here's why Salvation made me miss Sarah Connor more than ever.

Oh, and this rant has spoilers, although I'll try to keep the Terminator Salvation spoilers as vague as possible. If you haven't watched all of Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles and want to stay unspoiled, now's a good time to stop reading.

Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles had an admittedly uneven run over one and a half seasons, but its last six episodes were among the strongest hours of television I've ever watched. The show ended so strongly, it elevated everything that had come before. Most of all, T:SCC made a powerful argument that after 25 years, Terminator still had plenty of compelling stories to tell, and fascinating places to go. It might have been based on a couple of chase movies about time traveling killer robots, but T:SCC crafted a narrative that's stuck in my head since the show ended.

By contrast, Terminator Salvation was making a strong statement that the Terminator franchise is played out, and there are no new stories to tell about it. You can have more killer robots, and bigger killer robots — much, much bigger killer robots, in fact — but you can't really tell a different story, or reveal more about why John Connor is the chosen leader of the Resistance and what those killer robots are really about.

But I'm not going to spend a lot of time trashing T4 — I've already done that plenty, and it only makes me feel depressed. Instead, here are some reasons why I miss Sarah Connor Chronicles more than ever, after watching Terminator Salvation.

First of all, I missed Sarah Connor Chronicles' smart portrayal of artificial intelligence, and whether a machine that passes the Turing Test is actually human, or something different. The basic premise of Terminator, after all, is that Skynet has to create robots that can pass for human, so that they can infiltrate the Resistance and kill targets like Sarah and John Connor. But because the robots are sophisticated enough to pass for human, they're also capable of learning and taking on some human characteristics — and Terminator 2 delves into this, as John Connor changes the T-800's chip from read-only to writeable, so the T-800 can start learning to be "less of a dork."

In Sarah Connor Chronicles, we drill down into this idea a lot more deeply, as Summer Glau's Terminator, Cameron, tries to learn to imitate a human as John Connor's bodyguard — and becomes a bit of a seductress, experimenting with nail polish and kicky leopard-print tops... and even trying to seduce John Connor on a couple occasions. The scene in the final episode, where she gets John Connor to lay on top of her, so he can help her open up her insides and do a self-test, is incredibly creepy and sexual and mindblowing. And then there's John Henry, the baby A.I. that's learning by leaps and bounds, becoming obsessed with Bionicles action figures and then learning to play Dungeons and Dragons. In the season finale, John Henry escapes to the future, after Skynet apparently tries to destroy him. I would have loved to see the childlike John Henry wandering around the post-apocalyptic landscape, surveying his "brother's" handiwork and taking in all the scope of human suffering for the first time.

Even more than asking if a robot could be human, or if a person with metal parts could still be human, Sarah Connor Chronicles had the guts to ask other questions, like whether machines that could pass for human might still have their own type of intelligence. Their own kinds of emotions, and even their own kinds of secrets.

I also miss Sarah Connor's take on the future apocalypse. It's a war, but it's also an organized atrocity and a descent into hell. The show didn't have the budget to show us endless scenes of people blowing up machines, so instead it creeped us out with tons of images of torture and weirdness, including the house where everyone was dragged, one by one, into the basement with the weird piano music. Or the weird tortures Charlie Fischer imposed on Derek Reese, or the torments that Cameron committed against the human she was based on, Alison from Palmdale.

Whenever we meet someone from the future, they always seem haunted — almost literally — by horrendous spectres. I just rewatched "Ourselves Alone," the final episode featuring Riley, the girl from the future, and there's a great bit where she picks up a tube of floor-bleach and stares at its warning label : "Deadly To Humans And Animals," and you can just tell she's thinking about mass-produced horrors and things that we've built but which then turn out to kill us. Most of all, Brian Austin Green is just haunting to watch as Derek Reese, John Connor's uncle from the future. He puts so much into every line of dialog, and every random facial expression, that he's like a big-budget splodefest by himself.

Which brings me to the third thing I really miss about Sarah Connor Chronicles : the performances. I came away from Terminator Salvation with a renewed appreciation for the deep characterization that T:SCC served up every week. Besides Green, Summer Glau and Garret Dillahunt managed to bring an amazing range of expression to their robotic characters, without ever becoming too human or leaving behind the original Schwarzenegger impassiveness. Lena Headey was utterly compulsive as the "is she really crazy," hard-assed, sarcastic Sarah Connor — rewatch her scenes when she's in jail and the FBI agent is baiting her, from the season finale : she's just totally in control of herself, and yet at the same time not at all in control of herself. She doesn't give the predatory FBI agent the slightest opening, even as she's revealing all sorts of flashes of vulnerability and humor and doubt to us, the viewers. Even Thomas Dekker's John Connor, who took a long time to grow on me, was selling me on his future-resistance-leader persona by the end.

These were real, complicated, messed up people, making mistakes but also being brave and generous, in the face of the probably inevitable end of the world. You couldn't help but root for them.

And then the last thing I find myself missing a lot about Sarah Connor Chronicles is the complexity. The show kept the basic Skynet=evil premise, but added a million grey areas and crazy twists on top of that. You had the other faction of A.I.s, represented by Shirley Manson's Catherine Weaver, who seemed to be at odds with Skynet, or at least to have their own agenda. You had the whole quesion of whether the future version of John Connor has become too dependent on machines to do his fighting for him, and whether he's been compromised as a result. (Or whether Connor is really even Connor any more.) You also had the constant question of how far our heroes will go to win — will they kill other humans ? Will they betray people ? How machine-like will the resistance against the machines become ?

Terminator Salvation was never going to be as deep as the television series : that's just the nature of a movie. Movies get two hours, give or take, to pose a single scenario and play it out, with a definite ending. At the same time, Terminator 2 managed to take the premise of the first movie and expand it outwards, like an aerial camera panning back, to show us the bigger picture. It took us inside the head of the Terminator and also explained more about how Skynet came about and why it ends everything. And it got a lot deeper into the character of Sarah Connor and her relationship with her son. So it's definitely possible for a two-hour-ish movie to go to some interesting places.

Of the Terminator iterations that have come about since T2, only Sarah Connor Chronicles picked up the metal robotic gauntlet that T2 threw down, and ran with it. Only the television show justified its existence as a followup to that classic sequel, by taking its ideas further and delving deeper into its world. If, as seems pretty likely, the Terminator franchise goes back into deep freeze for a long time until we get some new remake or reboot a dozen years from now, the only thing I'll miss is Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Summer Glau - "Terminator SCC" Tv Series - 2x20 "To The Lighthouse" - On The Set - Good Quality Photos

Webmaster — 2009-05-23T19:10:59Z

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Summer glau - "Terminator : SCC" Tv Series - Denofgeek.com Review

Webmaster — 2009-05-22T20:00:50Z

Sarah Connor fan Stuart looks at the cancellation of the show, why it happened, and if the Terminator name proved to be a hindrance...

The news that Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been axed is about as shocking as finding blood on a slaughterhouse floor. The ratings were poor, and only got worse and when fans finally get done bombarding the Fox offices with ball bearings, or whatever other doomed scheme they come up with to keep the series going, the finger pointing will undoubtedly begin.

I always look forward to this stage. The fans write letters, flood forums and march on studios, while the execs peer out of their windows and wonder where all these people were on Friday nights. In the case of Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the apologists and accusers will both have a case.

I'd be interested in seeing how many hardcore fans the series picked up over the course of its run, because I suspect the majority caught the first episode, loved it and stuck around. If you caught it midway through and still managed to fall in love with it, then God bless you, because at that point the series really didn't give a damn about you. Three episodes in and it was immediately obvious that Terminator had lived up to its name by infiltrating a network on which it quite clearly didn't belong.

Sarah Connor was a non-populist, meditative, complex piece of television on a smash-bang, show-me-the-ratings kind of network. The two were never going to get on, but kudos to Fox for giving it two seasons to prove itself, especially when it was obvious after the first, unsuccessful season, that showrunner Josh Friedman had no intentions of changing the formula.

He and his writers set out to tell a terribly complex story with a clearly defined beginning, middle and end. That's commendable but it means anybody joining after the first episode would soon find themselves choking on loose plot threads and crushed beneath snowdrift-heavy relationships. This is something that needs to be managed. Terminator never bothered. Beyond a terse "last time on..." message there were no concessions made to ease in newbies, and absolutely no attempt to appease disgruntled existing viewers. Throughout, Friedman showed a ruthless, single-minded devotion to his story worthy of the show's gleaming antagonists. This works if, like Lost, you pick up 16 million viewers off the bat or, like Battlestar Galactica, you fool your audience for an entire series into believing it's actually a shooty, space opera, rather than a talky, submarine series that just happens to be set in space.

But surely the Terminator name alone should have been worth 16 million regular viewers ? Possibly, but somehow, it always seemed more hindrance than aid. The name brought a budget, but it also brought expectation. The Terminator franchise suggests explosions, robot fights and balls-out, backs against the wall carnage. The series offered these things grudgingly, and quite often as the culmination of five episodes worth of navel gazing. God, Terminator loved a bit of navel gazing. This is not a criticism, though it was for those millions who stopped watching. Personally, I thought it was superb. Wrapped in a tight script full of brilliant lines and observation, top heavy with philosophical ponderings that were wonderfully acted by a group that will walk away from this train wreck with a great deal of pride.

The name also did it a disservice in that this was never Sarah Connor's story, at least not for me. The series shone brightest when a light was trained on John Connor's transformation from whiny teen to reluctant leader. It was in relation to John that the other characters made sense. Despite the title, Sarah Connor doesn't really deserve chronicling - she isn't that interesting a character. Obsessed people very rarely are, especially when the cause of that obsession has been explained. Sarah's obsessed with protecting her son, because he's going to save the world. This means that her attitude to everybody is always exactly the same : aggressive, surly and suspicious. She doesn't change. It's her moulding of her son that strikes a note. Her attempts to protect him increasingly push him away, turning him into the man he needs to become, even as she's trying to connect. It was this journey that was at the centre of the series - watching John grow into the role he didn't want. Watching how the other characters shaped him, and he them. Watching a mythology being spun.

This rule holds throughout the cast. Cameron was a wonderful character, creepy and cute, forever at odds with her own nature. It was, however, her knowledge of present and future John that made her special. When she observed that future John would not have done what present John just had, it was never entirely clear whether she was praising or rebuking. What was her relationship to her, why had he sent her back, what's between them, was John actually having sex with a robot ?

These are among the dozens of question I still want answered, and yet I won't mourn the passing of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was brilliant, but wilfully impenetrable. Extremely clever, but remarkably dumb in its treatment of its audience. Terminator without all the bits that most people love Terminator for. Josh Friedman reckons it will still be remembered in ten years time. I don't doubt it, I'm just not sure what it will be remembered for.

Summer Glau - "Terminator : SCC" Tv Series - She thanks the fans

Webmaster — 2009-05-20T15:52:45Z

Dear Friends,

Here is my long overdue thank you note to anyone and every person who has watched our pride and joy Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles… Now that our season is done and I somehow feel far away, I want to say that it wouldn't have been possible without faithful viewers ; and it wouldn't have been fun to make without such sincere interest from you…

I choose to post my note on Cristelle's website so that I could also thank her for the beautiful work she has done, on my behalf, for this site. I come here to reminisce from time to time because she has posted so many of my best memories. Thank you Cristelle…

Anyway, I just want to say that acting for anyone who enjoys it is a privilege. Thank you all for helping make that possible. I am devastated that our show will not be back (Jameron forever !!!), but I can't say that I'm ungrateful for the opportunity to be part of something so special. I'm really proud of what our team put together and eternally thankful to all of you for embracing what we were trying to do…

I love Josh very much and thank him. He pushed to make me part of this cast and created a series that was unique and beautiful. James Middleton held us together, staying with us everyday on set and talking us through every step… John Wirth and Jill Danton are all- stars that I pray I work with again….ALL of our writers. Toni, thank you for giving me Allison from Palmdale…

I was just going through my scripts this morning… (I thought it was time). I picked up-

“Born To Run”

written by Josh Friedman

I'm going to miss that so much. I'm really sad…

You know I'm not good at posting things but this is my effort. I'm not very brilliant, witty or poetic like my mentors (you know who they are) but I love you, S

Summer Glau - "Terminator : SCC" Tv Series - Thomas Dekker thanks fans - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2009-05-16T21:55:03Z

Summer Glau - "Terminator : SCC" Tv Series - The third Season direct to DVD ?

Webmaster — 2009-05-16T16:55:02Z

The fate of Terminator's TV franchise seems sadly bleak for fans of the series, however there exists a possibility nobody has mentioned publicly yet : DVD movies. So don't cry yet Summer Glau, here's our pitch.

Warner Bros have been trying to move into the area of DVD first features for many years. DVD features have always been a tricky area — Hollywood has an atmosphere where nobody likes to feel they are slipping down the spectum, and DVD premieres still have a stigma in the industry (”Direct to video”). However, many companies believe significant revenue exists in this area, with companies such as Fox and Disney moving in.

Warner Bros itself has established an arm called “Warner Premiere”, who look purely at DVD projects. If Warners fail to find a network to continue the show into a third season, it seems fans should look towards Warner Premiere. They are looking for several things for their projects : a strong brand, a strong fan base or interest group, and a story.

A strong brand

One word answer to this one : Terminator. More words : it's a worldwide brand.

A strong fan base

The fans are currently busy filling up the inbox of FOX's Kevin Reilly. They're pretty vocal they want the show to continue. Again, they're also all over the world, and they're invested right now - not years ago.

A story

The TV concluded in the future, with a very confused John Connor looking with confused lustfulness at Summer Glau's character (whoever that may be at the time).

Warner's tried to resurrect oldtime geek series Babylon 5 in DVD format and failed. End Of Show believes there's another more deserving franchise around waiting to be tapped. That franchise has killer robots in it.

Summer Glau - "Terminator SCC" Tv Series - 2x21 "Adam Raised A Cain" - On The Set - Good Quality Photos

Webmaster — 2009-04-30T17:22:21Z

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Webmaster — 2009-04-23T09:30:26Z

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