Sarah Connor Chronicles Premieres Today!

With the big premiere running tonight and a new episode tomorrow, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is set to make an impact in a big way.Executive Producer James Middleton and lead actress Lena Headey spoke earlier this week about the series and touched upon it’s eventual tie-in to both the next big-screen Terminator film and a series of direct-to-DVD animated shorts.

The first two episodes continuing the big-budget “Terminator” blockbusters present a richly reimagined life for Sarah Connor and her teenaged son John, destined one day to lead humanity’s resistance fighters against relentless cybernetic enemies.The series opens in 1999, approximately two years after the events depicted in the 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” Hey, this is a story that hinges on time travel and if you can’t make allowances for that, you’ll fry your own circuits. (I can already hear purists grumbling about why they should bother investing in the series since we know from the 2003 film “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” that Sarah died of cancer some time before that film.)