Terminator TV Series Overview

Introduction Terminator is an American media franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. The franchise encompasses a series of science fiction action films, comics, novels, and additional media, concerning battles between Skynet’s synthetic intelligent machine network and John Connor’s Resistance forces with the rest of the human race. Skynet’s most famous products in…

Andrew Marshall

02/08/2020

2–3 minutes

Action, Military TV Series, Science Fiction

Introduction

Terminator is an American media franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.

The franchise encompasses a series of science fiction action films, comics, novels, and additional media, concerning battles between Skynet’s synthetic intelligent machine network and John Connor’s Resistance forces with the rest of the human race.

Skynet’s most famous products in its genocidal goals are the various terminator models, such as the T-800, who was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger from the original Terminator film in 1984.

Outline

The central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet.

Skynet is replaced by an artificial intelligence known as Legion in the Terminator: Dark Fate film timeline.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles follows Sarah (Lena Headey) and John Connor (Thomas Dekker) as they try to “live under the radar” after destroying Cyberdyne in Terminator 02.

Summer Glau plays a Terminator named Cameron and Brian Austin Green plays Derek Reese, the brother of Kyle Reese, both sent back in time to protect the Connors and prevent another Judgement Day.

Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series (2009)

Set in 2016, years after Judgement Day, Blair Williams (voiced by Moon Bloodgood) is fighting the war against the machines in downtown Los Angeles, while tracking down the computer hacker named Laz Howard (voiced by Cam Clarke) and trying to persuade him to join sides with the resistance.

Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles (2015)

Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles, produced by Heresy, was released in three parts on 22 June 2015 to promote the fifth film.

The web series was directed by Charles Paek and written by Jay Bushman.

It features several popular YouTube stars appearing with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, as they stand together to against the T-360 (played by fellow YouTube personality, Toby Turner).

Terminator Series