Fitting somewhere in to the Terminator timeline (which is ever changing thanks to time travel and alternate realities), Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) is on the run with her son, John Connor (Thomas Dekker). John is destined to be the leader of the human race in the upcoming war against the robots (aka metal), if Sarah can keep him alive. Sarah is aided by John’s uncle from the future, Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green), a robot from the future, Cameron (Summer Glau from Firefly), and Sarah’s paramedic ex-boyfriend, Charley Dixon (Dean Winters). On their trail is another robot from the future (Garret Dillahunt as Cromartie), an FBI agent (Richard T Jones as James Ellison), and law enforcement agencies as they shoot and blow up wherever they are.
It’s a brave idea to take a big budget film and turn it in to a tv series with a much smaller budget. It means you have to rely less on effects and more on story and character. It’s lucky then that Terminator is a concept that has plenty of options for exploration amongst the action, and that the cast has appeal (with the possible exception of Green). Season 1 is short (9 episodes) and heavily caught up in the terminator mythos, with time travel, and terminators featuring prominently. And that is all good.
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