Since this is about the(more specifically, this one portion of the) season 2 finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it spoils that episode and so will this review so that I can talk about it in more detail.
This 58 minute and 23 second Blu-Ray special feature uses a branching system where you can jump between the four different aspects: production, direction, special effects, and VFX. There's also the audio only multi-view one. Regardless of which you are watching, the progress bar at the bottom will show you where you are, as well as allow you to jump to the start of any section: Planning, pre, shoot prep, shoot day, and Post Mortem. At any time you can immediately switch to any of the three others, which play out in a thumbnail format. So if you suddenly see something that you feel compelled to check out, you can do so. If you want to make sure that watch everything obviously the easiest way is to simply watch all of one, then start over to watch all of the next, so on and so forth.
The show creator compared the event to 9/11. The suddenness of it. It really is an absolutely huge sequence, which took a ton of work in different areas. And it came together incredibly well. They ended up having to do more than one take, and they discuss exactly why that is. The actors, of course, had to be on green screens, since they were literally crashing a moving physical object against one that was still. It would have been far too dangerous to have anyone in there. Some of the fire you see was real! As well as some of the explosions! Instead of two months, as on a movie, they had to do it in two weeks! They didn't have the luxury of testing so they had to try to figure out as best they could. In addition to being destructive and impressive looking, it also had to be something that could be easily reset.
I recommend this to any fan of the show. 9/10
This 58 minute and 23 second Blu-Ray special feature uses a branching system where you can jump between the four different aspects: production, direction, special effects, and VFX. There's also the audio only multi-view one. Regardless of which you are watching, the progress bar at the bottom will show you where you are, as well as allow you to jump to the start of any section: Planning, pre, shoot prep, shoot day, and Post Mortem. At any time you can immediately switch to any of the three others, which play out in a thumbnail format. So if you suddenly see something that you feel compelled to check out, you can do so. If you want to make sure that watch everything obviously the easiest way is to simply watch all of one, then start over to watch all of the next, so on and so forth.
The show creator compared the event to 9/11. The suddenness of it. It really is an absolutely huge sequence, which took a ton of work in different areas. And it came together incredibly well. They ended up having to do more than one take, and they discuss exactly why that is. The actors, of course, had to be on green screens, since they were literally crashing a moving physical object against one that was still. It would have been far too dangerous to have anyone in there. Some of the fire you see was real! As well as some of the explosions! Instead of two months, as on a movie, they had to do it in two weeks! They didn't have the luxury of testing so they had to try to figure out as best they could. In addition to being destructive and impressive looking, it also had to be something that could be easily reset.
I recommend this to any fan of the show. 9/10
