The Terminator franchise has been on a downward spiral for a while now and shockingly has only spawned one TV series which i have the pleasure of owning the great first season of on DVD so here is my review of the pilot episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
The story of the pilot see's Sarah and John living in 1999 until more Terminators arrive and they have to team up with a female student to find out what's going on. Since this is a pilot episode i really can't go into to much detail but i can say that the story for the pilot episode was really good and was very action packed.
The pilot stars a young Cersei Lannister pretending to be a hero as well as Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau. Honestly all three of them work well together i wasn't expecting them to have the best chemistry from the get go so i wasn't exactly shocked about that the acting was overall pretty good from the main cast.
I thought the CGI effects held up really well i wasn't expecting great CGI especially from a TV show that aired in 2008 but to me the effects looked really good back then and they still do there not movie quality but there passable.
There's a lot of action in this pilot and i'm guessing that most of it took up the budget for the show because all of the action scenes in this episode look really good and are fun to watch but even so it's people punching and kicking.
The score for the episode was done by Bear McCreary who's work includes Agents Of Shield Battlestar and it's prequel plus many many more and i have to say i'm a bit of a fan of his work so i really liked his score here and as a side note i'm glad they used the Terminator theme song for the opening theme that was just so freaking cool.
Overall i hope i've reminded you all that this show once existed because it's a good pilot to a great first season and for me is the best thing about modern Terminator i won't ever rate pilot episodes since there the start of the journey and not the destination.