Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The American television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ( abbreviated as Terminator: SCC, translated: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ) is based on the first two films of the Terminator series: Terminator and Terminator 2 - Judgment Day and leads the story of Sarah Connor and her son John, the future leader of the resistance movement to continue. The actions of the third movie Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines and the fourth movie Terminator Salvation play no role.

The series started on January 13, 2008 on Fox. On German television, the first season of the series was first broadcast on the pay-TV channel Premiere. In the free TV she was on view from January 12 to March 9, 2009 on ProSieben. The second season was aired from September 2009 to November 2009 on Sky Cinema Hits. In the free TV she runs on ProSieben Maxx since 11 February 2014.

Due to the relatively low ratings in the United States put the Fox series after only two seasons in May 2009, officially starting.

Action

Sarah Connor and her son John in 1999 to try to lead a normal life under an assumed name after it ( the second movie ), the computer company Cyberdyne destroyed, and believe they have thus averted the Day of Judgment. They must not only be from the authorities on the alert, they pursue as psychopathic terrorists, but also against other machines beings from the future.

Despite a change in location, a T -888 terminator named Cromartie is on the trail of John and tries to kill him at his new school. Here, John's classmate Cameron Phillips emerges also as a terminator model, which has been tasked to protect John. They manage to escape the T -888. They join together with Sarah in a bank vault one in which a time machine is ready as a means of escape.

Arrived in 2007, try the three, together with John's from the future eingetroffenem uncle Derek Reese, to prevent the seizure of the machines by the computer network Skynet, thereby averting the expected day of judgment. The FBI agent James Ellison and Sarah's former fiancé Charley Dixon attention despite the time jump to the three. Also, the T -888 ( Triple Eight ) continues the prosecution of John.

Episodes

Actors and roles

  • Lena Headey as Sarah Connor: Sarah is one of the main characters in the Terminator series. She is the mother of John Connor, who will be the future leader of the resistance movement. She is wanted by the authorities as insane fugitive. - Series creator Josh Friedman saw over 300 actresses for the role. He was looking for one that " embodies the spirit of the role and credibility comes over, and not just as a Hollywood star ." After a friend had recommended the English actress Lena Headey for the role, Friedman looked at her sample video and thought she was a very tough woman. Headey was worried if she could take in this series, the iconic Linda Hamilton from the Terminator movies. She said Linda Hamilton will always be the original Sarah Connor to be, and it is very unfortunate that it is not there. She showed concern as to whether the public will accept it as Sarah Connor. Headeys Sarah Connor was criticized as not as muscular as Linda Hamilton in "T2".
  • Thomas Dekker as John Connor: John is Sarah's son and the future leader of the resistance movement against Skynet. The figure was 15 years old when the series started and was in the finale of the first season 16 During the series, John struggles with his feelings for Cameron, who is a Terminator. - Dekker was first cast as the role of Headey Sarah Connor was safe. His manager threatened him from his role as Zach take out in the NBC series Heroes, as the authors of the series initially planned to let him be a homosexual. A homosexual role had Fox to reduce ' interest in Dekker. The Terminator films Dekker said: " These were my favorite movies when I was younger. It is so ironic that I'm doing that now. " Dekker describes his role as" the continuation of Eddie Furlong role " but " darker and more adult. "
  • Summer Glau as Cameron Phillips: Cameron is a terminator that was sent back from the year 2027 by General John Connor to protect his younger self. The model and the exact capabilities are not known. However, it has greatly improved human facial expressions compared to the T-800 model. She is also the first Terminator who can take food as humans. Could be " The Hand of God " see in the pilot, as well as in the episode This ability. During the series it is revealed that Cameron is a stolen identity of the resistance fighter Allison Young. - Glau had seen up to her casting as Cameron Phillips any of the Terminator movies. Friedman wanted faith first for a pilot, which he spent four years before Terminator: SCC planned, but she was already for Serenity - committed escape into new worlds. Glau almost did not speak because of their prejudices character Cameron for the role and believed that they would not have this certain " Terminator " look. While she played the role of Cameron, Glau said that she was " intimidated " by the role because it was a challenge for them to find the balance between human and machine characteristics.
  • Richard T. Jones as James Ellison: Ellison is an FBI Special Agent in search of Sarah Connor. At first amused by Sarah's hair-raising story, he later finds inexplicable pieces of evidence for the existence of terminators, to the body Cromarties. Ultimately, he realizes the whole truth. In the second season, he works for Catherine Weaver, the director of the high-tech company ZeiraCorp. - Jones describes his role as " man of faith ". For him it is even permitted to improvise a few lines of his role to lend a little humor to loosen up to the series.
  • Garret Dillahunt as Cromartie: Cromartie is a Terminator model T -888, who was sent back from the future to kill John Connor. The role was in the pilot, still played by Owain Yeoman. He retired to serious damage to its biological envelope, leaving only its metal endoskeleton remained. After serving in the episode The Turk came to a new biological envelope, which is the actor George Lazlo modeled, he continued his hunt continues after John Connor. After he followed John and Riley to Mexico, Cromaties was destroyed chip and buried his body in the desert. When John went to get the body later to destroy him for good, he had disappeared: Ellison saved this body for Catherine Weaver, who connects it with the artificial intelligence named Babylon and gives him the name John Henry. - Dillahunt is only a recurring character in the second season he gets a recurring role as George Lazlo, Cromartie and John Henry in the first season.

Others

The pilot has achieved in the U.S., according to filmstarts.de record levels. With 18.3 million viewers it was the best start for a series of the transmitter in the last eight years. Among other things, a weakened competitors are mentioned are due to the former Writer strikes and the previous broadcast of a football game with high ratings as causes. The odds of subsequent episodes fell off significantly, so that after a short time turn-on there only less than half of the viewers of the launch episode. Although the rates continued to decline in the second season, but the season has been extended to a full 22 episodes.

In Germany ProSieben moved the broadcast of the series after the first six episodes of the first season in the night program because the ratings were lower than the expectations of the transmitter.

The name of the character Cameron is a tribute to James Cameron, the director of the first two Terminator films.

In the second season singer Shirley Manson as Catherine Weaver was the head of a high-tech company, her acting debut.

ProSieben decided not to keep the original title to avoid confusion with the singer Sarah Connor, of which the station broadcast several docu-soaps. In Premiere, where the series has been previously shown, the series ( only the preceding article 'the' is omitted ) ran under its original U.S. title.

The soundtrack to the series was released in October 2008 under the title Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Composer Bear McCreary was.

Synchronization

The German -language dubbed version was produced by Arena sync with the dialogue directed by Martin Kessler after the dialogue book by Martina Marx. Martin Kessler took over next and the synchronization of several supporting characters.

DVD and Blu -ray release

  • Season 1 was released on DVD on 20 March 2009 and 27 March 2009 on Blu -ray.
  • Season 2 was released on 12 February 2010 on DVD and Blu -ray.
  • Season 1 was released on 19 August 2008 on DVD and Blu -ray.
  • Season 2 was released on September 22, 2009 on DVD and Blu -ray.
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