Terminator: The Anime Series - Netflix around Aug '24

[ianh]

Hi All,

I'm a huge fan of the Terminator film/TV franchise, and have been gutted by the way Hollywood has, to me at least, almost killed it with 4 back to back "bad" (to some) films. So initially, when I first saw the news of "another Terminator TV Show", I was less than enthusiastic until I saw the crew behind this as Production I.G. were the team behind the original Ghost in the Shell anime (not the live action remake), which is my favourite anime ever, alongside dozens more anime they've made and, more recognisably to a Western audience, the animated section of Kill Bill 1 covering O-Ren Ishii's backstory.

The teaser trailer shows nothing but a few lines of text but I'll pop it on here anyway -

‘Terminator: The Anime Series’ Is Set to Time Travel to Netflix

There is no fate but what we make.

www.netflix.com

The synopsis is as follows -

2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.

Which gives this a slight twist on the canon "Miles Dyson/Cyberdyne" angle we've seen before, meaning it'll have to stray into new territory covered by "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" with an alternative AI fighting Skynet through time but whose side is it actually on, which sounds really exciting.

 

[ianh]

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[ianh]

Was the series good?

50/50 I think, and I'm saying that as a huge Terminator fan TBF - lots of filler, some good stuff, some bad stuff, lots of new things added into the Lore, great casting for Sarah Conner and "Cameron" (female Terminator), Meh casting for the main male actors (John Conner & "a Brother I won't spoil") and, finally, some good casting for the ancillary roles overall I though.

It was definitely something hardcore fans would enjoy more than the general public yet without that public support it was always doomed to fail I think. I generally enjoyed it, even when it was only filler, but it definitely dipped hard in places and the ending was very rushed as I think they found out they'd be cancelled and tried to knock something together quickly so it was a sort of cliffhanger/non-cliffhanger/start of something new, and that just didn't work that well.