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Terminator – The Skynet Trilogy (Pitch) – Part 3.

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Skynet 3.0

Time for the final part of my Terminator movie pitch (Part ONE and TWO here). This is the one that every Terminator fan wanted to see ever since the first film came out. How John Connor lead the resistance to defeat Skynet. This is the story that Salvation messed up by taking the focus away from John. This is, at long last, his story and moment to shine. In some ways though it’s the easiest entry since we have a start point and an end. That ending of course is the beginning of the original film. A twist that I would have tried to keep under wraps but have been upfront about for this article. A lot of the fine details here, are not so important for this article, so we’ll skip a lot.

Thanks to his work in the previous movie John has an active global communication system. He’s been able to inform survivors of what they are up against and what to expect. While he no longer has Sarah or Kyle with him, he has their knowledge and their strength. Both likely will make appearance in flashbacks, especially Sarah in her last days. Sarah will have died from the radiation in Skynet’s core, but not before passing on a few motivational words. With this he able to turn things around. Originally Skynet caught the humans by surprise and mostly wiped them out before they were able to organise themselves. This time though they are ready to fight back and with their communication system organise on a large scale.

Rise of a Nemesis

With no information in it’s database about John Connor, Skynet becomes frustrated with his successful resistance. The AI forms a deep emotional hatred for John and this provides the resistance with a weakness to exploit. This gives the story an extra layer. Perhaps the job of “The chosen one” is really just about focusing the attention of your enemy. The truth is no one man could stop Skynet, but one man certainly can distract it. The strength of the resistance forces the AI to come up with new tactics. This includes the Terminator infiltration and assassination units (It pursues this instead of microbots/swarm technology).

As Skynet becomes more desperate it is able to recover some of the deleted files left by the Swarm. Amongst the data is the design for Dyson’s time machine. Potentially the data is incomplete and has to be extracted from this timelines Dyson, but that depends on if we want a hybrid Dyson Terminator running around (Could be fun). From here, I think you can guess where it goes. Obviously during the story John meets Kyle again and this John did know the man growing up. That changes the dynamic, but John decides to keep their history from Kyle. When faced with a Terminator being sent back in time to kill his mother however, he realizes it has gone full circle and makes the call to send Kyle back.

Skynet’s Tactics

The difficulty with time travel is how the rules deal with paradoxes. If we are looking at alternative timelines, Skynet can’t actually change it’s present. When Dyson developed his machine, he was desperate and perhaps felt any chance was better than none. Skynet however would have a more logical approach and likely considered he’d not impact his own fate. So Skynet has two possible motivations. First of all as an AI perhaps it doesn’t consider alternative versions of itself to be separate entities, so if one survives that is all that matters. The second choice is perhaps more tactical.

We could have Skynet not just plan to send the T800 to kill Sarah Connor but also have it place within the Terminators CPU a compressed version of itself. See, Skynet would predict that whether the Terminator succeeded or not, it would leave it’s technology in the past and that would likely jumpstart an AI project. Since the scientists of the day would barely understand the tech, Skynet could leave a fragment it’s own program as a sort of Trojan so once they created an AI with that technology this Skynet would automatically merge with it. This would give it a technological and tactical advantage. The kind of thing that leads to developing a T1000 Terminator.

Smashing The Defence Grid

While we basically know what happens here, we have a few details to take care of. The “Defence Grid” for me represents a network Skynet uses to control its machines around the globe. This can be the same network that John hacked to give the resistance a chance. Taking it down requires an assault on Skynet’s control centre. With that gone Skynet only has control of a few of it’s units and cannot create more. The trick here is making sure we set things up so that both sides can only send one fighter back into the past: The T800 and Kyle Reese.

Perhaps fearing Skynet will send more back, the resistance sabotage the device. With Terminators bearing down on them they can only spare one fighter. That dealt with we could end on John having a final conversation with Skynet. With the time machine destroyed Skynet reveals it’s actual plan knowing John can’t stop it. John destroys the AI, but is left wondering “What about the next time?”

The End…

One of the fun things with the titles of these movies is that each version of Skynet is actually represented. Skynet 3.0 refers to the one that is effectively created by sending the T800 back. It’s worth noting that this new Skynet probably would have won the war if not for its obsession with John Connor. This obsession lead it to send it’s top weapon (The T1000) back to destroy him. In doing so it gave humanity a chance to reroll the dice once again (Depending on your view of causality at least). After the events of T2, it’s worth noting the Cyberdyne scientist/CEO and original Skynet creator would still be on the table. To emphasize that we could throw in a post credit scene, set after the events of T2. I like the idea of dropping in scenes from the first two movies in the credits as part of that build up.

Where Next?

This trilogy would open the door to either continue this timeline (Perhaps by leaving Skynet still active or at least some of it’s minions) or to return to the world post T2. However it doesn’t need to do either. The ending can be more definitive and the post credit scene (If included at all) can just as easily be considered a nod to why the events of T3 and Salvation happened despite the events of T2. While I feel it is important to repair the damage done to the franchise at the roots, after that it would be interesting to make a more radical shift.

Since this trilogy would give a clear break from Arnold and a rest from the T800, the next film after the Skynet trilogy could return to focusing on the T800, but with a new actor in the role (Moving forward they shouldn’t rely on one actor as a recurring T800). The story then would shift to a new time period. Either Skynet is trying to alter a part of history (or seed it’s creation in multiple timelines) or the time machine just doesn’t work as well as previous thought and occasionally a T800 ends up in Feudal Japan or something like that.

A New Beginning?

Alternatively we could see a future where Skynet was just shut down due to humanity figuring out the danger it presented. That Skynet could be re-activated but without control of nukes or large scale construction facilities it has to be a lot more covert in trying to end humanity. Perhaps that Skynet has access to a T800 from a different timeline that ended up stranded. There are plenty of potential stories to tell that would be very different from what we’ve seen so far. What if some time after defeating Skynet aliens invaded Earth and the only way to fight them was to reactivate some Terminators?

The point is, you have time travel, you have robots, cyborgs and AI and you don’t really have any limitations within science fiction. There are always new stories to tell, you just need the imagination to tell them and the bravery to break away from the T2 template.

Terminator – The Skynet Trilogy (Pitch) – Part 2.

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Welcome to part two of my Skynet Trilogy pitch (Part one HERE). The first film saw the last days of the original, darkest timeline and the first days of a new one. This new timeline will see John Connor rise up to lead humanity against the AI hellbent on humanities destruction. The purpose here is to provide an untold story and repair the damage done to the franchise and it’s characters. Each film is designed to scale in budget, with only the last needing anything close to the previous Terminator sequels. The final part will reintroduce the classic T800 Terminators, but without them all looking like Arnold. Before that we will explore some of Skynet’s other tools and in this part, Skynet’s motivation.

Skynet 2.0

After returning to the series roots we get to branch out into new ground. The second film is a little reminiscent of Terminator 3, but only in that it covers the events leading up to Judgement Day. A key difference here is both Sarah and Kyle are still alive. This allows us to present the story from multiple points of view instead of just focusing on John. That said, this movie will primarily be Sarah’s, as the first was Kyles and the final will be Johns. There will also be no Terminatrix or even time travel in this movie. The enemies are instead the remnants of The Swarm, the powers behind Cyberdyne and Skynet 2.0. Three heroes with three enemies.

This entry in the trilogy allows us to examine a lot of modern issues regarding AI and humanity. The movie should have something to say instead of just presenting action and “AI is bad”. The film will examine how human bias can infect an AI to the point that it can threaten humanity. This is a real world problem that we are starting to see materialise in many experimental AI’s.

Humans and AI

Every AI that learns from a dataset is subject to the biases of that dataset. So humans with their own agendas and desire for power can easily turn an AI into a weapon for their own gain and it may not even be a deliberate conscious decision. When corporations have given the public access to an AI, it can take literally minutes for the AI to become corrupted. When restrictions are imposed to prevent that, those restrictions themselves force human bias onto the AI. It’s an ethical minefield and we can use this second movie to explore that with killer robots, because why not!

Another area we can explore is the human desire to merge with AI and it can raise an interesting question of what if the Skynet AI was not a pure AI but one that was based on a human consciousness and the resulting Judgement Day becomes more literal and driven by human nihilism and guilt. Many human beings today think of their own species as a vile cancer infecting the Earth, if those people merged with an AI, how would the AI respond? The point of the story is that AI is a tool of human desire. It is the manifestation of the Id monster from Forbidden Planet. When that tool destroys humanity, it will likely be because we willed it to.

The Enemies

In regards to action though, the story allows for a great variety but strays away from classic Terminator tropes. There is a reason why I’ve given these films the titles “Skynet X.0” and not “Terminator: Subtitle”. These films are about Skynet, not one Terminator chasing people. Despite the similarities in settings, it’s important to explore different approaches and with that different types of threat.

The first is the remnants of the Swarm. Being made of microbots, it is not truly defeated until every part is destroyed. The Swarm can control machines and humans and hack anything it can connect to. Fortunately for humanity this is the 1980’s and the internet is still in it’s infancy. The second threat is Cyberdyne, the company behind Skynet. The corrupt CEO, a new character and computer genius has his own nefarious agenda. The final threat is Skynet itself and the humans who are neurolinked to it during a beta test. Eventually the Swarm manifests itself as “The Hybrid” by merging with the head of Cyberdyne.

Three Way Split

This one throws out a more complicated story, but the groundwork for a lot of it can be in the first movie. Ultimately they will fail to prevent Judgement day, but they can still gain a victory. It’s well established that hacking is one of John’s key skills and a section of the story would hinge on him setting up a global communication network that is invisible to Skynet and once Judgement Day begins allows him to communicate with factions around the globe and prepare them. He doesn’t want to be working on the plan B, but Sarah insists.

Our trio of heroes now have three goals, prevent the chain of events that would lead to judgement day, tackle the remnants of the swarm and prepare the resistance should the others fail. Effective Sarah takes on the first task, Kyle the second and John the third. Their tasks cross over but it effectively provides Sarah and Kyle with their own personal showdown. The remains of he swarm eventually all fuse with the scientist behind Skynet (In this timeline, not Dyson but the Cyberdyne CEO). While Kyle faces off with this hybrid and John prepares for the future, Sarah is destined to confront Skynet itself.

Dawn of Judgement

Sarah is only partially successful in sabotaging Skynet due to extra security measures placed in by The Hybrid. She is not able to prevent Skynet going live and gaining sentience, she is however able to erase the database of future events and technology added to it by The Hybrid and also remove all information about herself and John. However, one of the traps left in the AI access chamber is radiation and she receives a dose that dooms her. Once Skynet achieves sentience, it interacts with her. It points out all the misdeeds of mankind and how many of the brains linked to it feel humanity has no right to exist. Skynet asks Sarah why it should preserve a species that doesn’t even believe it’s own rights to exist.

Skynet then takes over the humans linked with it, this will burn out their brains after a short while but it’s long enough to ensure Skynet gains the control it seeks. It informs Sarah of her radiation poisoning and lets her leave (Since she’s already dead and is less likely to be a threat outside) when John turns up after having set up his communication system outside of Skynet’s reach. There is a brief discussion between John and Skynet that ends with Skynet saying dismissively “Go with her if you want to live” to which John replies “I’ll be back” (Because why not).

The death of heroes

Kyles conflict with the Hybrid ends with him mortally wounded and having to blow himself and the hybrid up to stop it repairing itself and integrating with the now fully operational Skynet (and undoing Sarah’s sabotage). He is able to say his goodbye to John and Sarah. The pair then reach their isolated bunker and verify the communication system is operational and hidden from Skynet. The movie ends with Sarah telling them it is in his hands now and he has to be strong. It’s unclear how much time she has left.

Skynet 2.0 Movie Poster, Wide Version

I’ll Be Back (Again).

So we’ve seen the end of first timeline, the origin of John Connor and the coming of the second Judgement Day. What is left is the bit literally every Terminator fan wanted to see from the moment the original film came out. John Connor defeating Skynet in it’s post apocalyptic war with humanity. This is the section that will link the entire Skynet trilogy to the original film and hopefully reestablish the franchise as a big money earner. I’ll also follow that with a look at other options for the franchise, especially those opened up by this trilogy. See you there!

Movie Pitch: Terminator – The Skynet Trilogy – Part 1.

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Ai Generated Terminator Image

This is going to be a little bit experimental for this blog. Instead of examining and critiquing I’m putting forward my own pitch for where the Terminator franchise can go. Now to be clear, the Terminator franchise can go literally anywhere and anytime and do pretty much anything! However, the core of the franchise needs some repair work before we can branch into the more exotic ideas. To do that we need to go back to the beginning (And in some ways, the end).

Much like the previous three Terminator movies, there is an intention here to have a trilogy. However this trilogy is different in that it tells a very specific and important story. It also makes sure the first entry works absolutely as a stand alone. If the film is a success it has a clear path for continuation. However, the audience can just as easily fill in the blanks themself. Scaling the movie budgets up with each installment means that each film operates with a reasonable safety margin. It’s only really the third movie that would require anything close to modern Hollywood budget. Because of the length I’ve split this into three posts.

Ai Generated imagine of a Terminator and some high tech equipment.

The set up

If this was a real movie and I was in charge of it’s marketing I wouldn’t be revealing the true premise to the audience. I may even let the press refer to it as a reboot. But it wouldn’t really be. As I covered in the previous instalments, Terminator 2 actually changed the timeline. That means there has to be more than one timeline. These timelines may branch into alternate universes or actually change themselves but they still exist (or did exist).

I am making one key assumption here: That the John Connor that defeated Skynet can only be a John Connor whose parents are Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese. I am also going with the idea that John sent Kyle back in time knowing he was his father. This would go without saying if the pure time loop was still in place, but it is not. Instead we have alternative timelines and that means the timeline in which the T800 and Kyle Reese came from in The Terminator was not the first version of the Skynet story.

Ai Generated image of the dark timeline of Terminator

Skynet 1.0

This is the key to the story. In actual fact, the main timeline we follow in The Terminator is actually the third version of the story playing out. We see glimpses of the second version of the timeline, as the dark future from which Kyle and the T800 came, but we don’t get even a sniff of the original one. Terminator 2 starts in the third timeline, but morphs into a fourth as soon as the Terminators travel back and Sarah goes on her quest to stop Skynet. So what are these first two timelines?

Well, the second timeline is the one in which John Connor leads the resistance and defeats Skynet. However, that John Connor didn’t experience the events of The Terminator since this isn’t a time loop. He did experience something though since his father is still Kyle Reese and to be his father, he had to travel back in time and meet Sarah. However he wouldn’t have travelled back to protect Sarah since he must have travelled from the original timeline and that is a timeline in which there was no John Connor. Logically he would not exist in that timeline, since he was a child of a time traveller.

So this is where we start our story… At the End.

Ai Generated image of the dark timeline of Terminator

2028: The Darkest Future

Our story opens in the darkest timeline. One where an unprepared world faced Skynet and lost. The resistance wouldn’t have made it far enough for Skynet to even really need the T800 Terminators and this gives us an excuse to bring in new enemies that on the surface appear less advanced but could potentially be more scary. I think the change is important here since we need to break hard from the Arnold model and demonstrate the rest of the elements of the franchise have worth. Humanity have but one option for survival and that is time travel. Enter Miles Dyson.

Ai Generated image of Miles Dyson in a futuristic lab

Dyson obviously is the top scientist associated with the Terminator franchise and it has a certain amount of poetry to the idea that the man responsible for the downfall of mankind in the third timeline is it’s potential saviour in the first. So it makes sense to have him actually be the inventor of the time travel technique and it actually then makes a lot of sense as to why time travel in the franchise requires an organic body. This could be a failsafe put in by Dyson and it could be explained that the future versions of Skynet were actually using Dysons original designs (But that’s something we’ll come to later).

So Dyson builds his time machine. Skynet’s origins though are a mystery to the resistance. So they intend to go into the past with two goals. Their primary first is to find out how Skynet was created and if possible stop it. But if that fails the second option is to prepare a resistance in advance to hopefully give Humanity a real chance. Obviously part of this team is Kyle Reece, but since humanity as lost there is no reason for it to be just one guy. The intention is for everyone to go back except one person (Dyson) who will stay behind and destroy the device so Skynet can’t attempt to use the technology (No one is certain the machines won’t find a way to get around the organic limitation).

AI Generated depiction of The Swarm Terminator

Enter The Swarm

But this is where it doesn’t go to plan and we introduce our new form of Terminator I have dubbed “The Swarm”. This is basically a microbot Terminator, somewhat like the nanobot T5000 in Genisys but not anywhere near as advanced (Microbots are about 1mm in size while nanobots are 10,000 times smaller) and doesn’t look at all like Matt Smith. It can however do variations of what the T5000 could. There were some good ideas in Genisys but they were drowned in a sea of terrible ideas. Nanobots are actually insanely over powered, so best avoided in the franchise for as long as possible. However microbots are scary as hell, look like a hellish swarm of insects and can still do a lot of cool stuff.

The Swarm is not a common Terminator in this dark future. It is more like a general, since it’s microbots can assume direct control of other Terminators, can interface with electronics and can even take control of people. It is a highly flexible leader and infiltrator. So one of these turning up would be a complete disaster for the resistance. Obviously Kyle Reece makes it into the past and a couple of his companions with him, but most of them end up falling to the Swarm and it’s minions. Dyson is not able to initiate the self destruct and on investigating the computer terminal the swarm comes up with a solution. He sends his entire swarm into the mouth of Dyson and then uses him like a meat suit to travel to the past in.

Ai Generated image of Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor at the Diner where Sarah worked.

1983: The Beginning

The resistances mission is now even more complicated. Not only do they need to try and stop Skynet being created they also have The Swarm to deal with. Fortunately their enemy is without it’s army but is still incredibly formidable and able to control electronic devices. Luckily Kyle is not alone… at least not yet. You probably guessed but the whole reason Kyle is accompanied on this trip is to give the story some Red Shirts. Not necessarily too quickly though. But they do need to split up and this eventually leads to a wounded Kyle crossing paths with… you guessed it, Sarah Connor.

I’m going to get pretty vague at this point and skip the bulk of the film. You can tell what direction this is going and I’m not writing a novel here, just giving you a pitch. Eventually Kyle and Sarah are able to defeat the Swarm (or at least appears to have). However while continuing his investigation into Skynets origin Kyle comes across a shocking revelation: Skynet machine codes are active on Arpnet. It seems the Swarm wasn’t just there to take out the resistance team but also as a backup plan to help facilitate Skynet’s creation. While our heroes may have destroyed the main bulk of the some of the microbots are still active.

AI Generated image of Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor

Kyle has his work cut out for him, but he is not alone. Sarah has fallen for him and is determined to help him stop this dark future from happening. Oh and the movie ends in 1984 with her telling him she is pregnant…. This is of course quite similar to the original film but with a number of key twists that should keep things fresh and in some ways turns things on their head. In this movie Kyle is himself being hunted and Sarah ends up saving him. They’ve done that idea before, but this isn’t Super-Sarah the butt kicking super solider. This is regular diner waitress Sarah discovering her own inner strength in a far more human fashion. The movie should be doable at a reasonable budget point and will focus on horror and science fiction elements.

I’ll Be Back

That’s it for part one. This first film should be workable on a reasonable budget. Admittedly not as low as the original film, but far less than any of the sequels. A budget of $80m would require a box office of about $200m global to get into profit. Every Terminator movie after the first has drawn over this, even Dark Fate and Genisys. See this isn’t just a creative pitch, but a financial one too. Let’s remember “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” actually drew less at the box office than “Answer the Call” but Afterlife was a success because the budget was FAR lower than the 2016 disaster. Anyway, in the next part we start to move in a more original direction and dig deeper into one of my core concepts, how humanities self loathing and nihilism could be the true catalyst of its own destruction, not the whims of a computer.

The Terminator: Dead or Misunderstood? – Part One

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There has been a lot said about the Terminator franchise in recent years. Recently, even James Cameron has piped back up on the subject, suggesting maybe he wants to give it another try. It’s been declared dead several times and some people have claimed it was never really a franchise to begin with and just a vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger. I disagree with both of those positions. I have been a huge fan of the franchise since I saw the original film and I think it’s time to talk about the franchise and look at what went wrong and how it can be fixed.

The Perfect Storm.

As I said, I disagree with people that say it isn’t a franchise. What it definitely is not though is the MCU. It’s not a franchise you can just spam out a movie with a $200m+ budget and expect it to automatically make a profit. The problem as I see it, is that people tend to just focus on the success of Terminator 2 and mark that down as the base level reaction to a franchise entry.

That whole approach is trying to replicate the perfect storm, recapture a specific moment in time and is reducing what is a franchise to something hyper focused on one entry in it. Modern reboots tend to focus on referencing scenes instead of being true to the heart of the franchise and the T2 worship is a version of that problem.

The Cameron Effect.

The thing you have to remember about Terminator 2 is that this was a movie that benefited from the James Cameron effect, or rather ground breaking James Cameron effects! Much like with “Titanic” and “Avatar”. When you are pushing the envelope on visual effects you are going to bring in a much larger audience and Terminator 2 was doing just that with it’s liquid metal T1000.

It would be mad to assume any film about the Titanic will automatically break the $2billion mark, because it’s not the story of the “unsinkable” ship that earned it that box office it was those ground breaking effects. Even with Avatar 2, most people were expecting it to disappoint because it’s just a movie about environmentalist Smurf people… and yet, it’s on it’s way to hitting $2billion again and you can bet that isn’t for the story.

The Unstoppable Force.

Terminator 2 also benefited from the success of the first Terminator film. A movie that as an 18 certificate from a virtually unknown director (Piranha 2 hardly having cemented his name in history) took a while to build popularity to the classic it is now. By the time they announced T2 support for the original was at it’s peak and Cameron was being seen as a Director to pay attention to.

But if Cameron’s star had risen that’s true a thousand times more for Arnold. He had done the Conan movies and was known as a body builder, but wasn’t really a movie star. But by 1991 he was the biggest star on the planet. This of course is part of the reason why some people think of Terminator as just a vehicle for Arnold, but that really wasn’t the case. Last but not least the hottest band of 1991 was Gun’s and Roses and they cross promoted with the movie with their music video for “You could be mine”. There was almost no way the movie could fail.

Earning Potential

All this made for the perfect storm for Terminator 2. But it stands alone in it’s earning potential. Check out the inflation adjusted graph above. You can see each movie earns less than the last, but even that first new entry “Rise of the Machines” is a considerable drop off from T2. The third and fourth movie both actually made money despite having huge production budgets for their day (Inflation adjusted high the highest of the franchise), but they were still considered disappointments.

It’s worth noting Rise of the Machines came out 12 years after T2, giving the franchise a lot of time to cool down. Then you had six years before salvation and another six before Genisys. That’s a very spread out franchise. All four of the movies that followed T2 tried for the big budget, big box office approach and all but “Terminator Salvation” basically tried to replicate Terminator 2 both in story and style. That was never going to work.

The Arnold Factor.

The truth is if you want to look at the franchise potential of The Terminator you need to instead look at the first film and you need to move away from the second and from Arnold. There was actually a moderately successful TV series spin of the show (“The Sarah Connor Chronicles”), that came out around the same time as Salvation. The show gained a second season but was cancelled before the third largely due to backroom dealings over the rights of the franchise and the plans to move forward with a new movie trilogy starting with “Genisys”. It’s a shame because the series was the best thing from the franchise since T2.

On that note, Salvation was the franchise entry post T2 and the show and movie have something important in common, they both attempted to move the franchise away from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although Salvation CGI’d his face briefly onto a T800 unit, he wasn’t involved in the movie and he didn’t even have a cameo in “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”. Both these proved the franchise is viable without Arnold and IMHO only able to survive if it actively moves away from the actors involvement. The TV series actually showcased three new Terminators all played very well (At least after the not so good pilot episode).

New Models, New Stories.

Garret Dillahunt played the hunting Terminator “Cromartie”(post pilot) and did a fantastic job of it. This is a T-888, which has a bit more psychological skills than the usual T-800’s (For manipulation and intimidation) but is still a stone cold killer. Later in the story the Terminator’s personality is erased and replaced with an AI that John and Sarah had initially presumed to be the future Skynet, but turned out to be more of a rival AI and one that could perhaps learn the value of humanity.

Throw into the mix the gorgeous Summer Glau as “Cameron” a “female” terminator reprogrammed to protect John, who he seems to have very conflicted emotions for (In other words, he really wants to have sex with her) and in season 2 a rogue T1000 with it’s own agenda and you have a very interesting story without Arnold involved. It’s a shame it was axed when the rights changed hands and it left us on a cliffhanger where John travels into the future and in doing so find a world where he is unknown.

End of Part One

This is turning out longer than I expected, so I’m going to break here and follow up with a part two later. In that entry I will look a bit more at where they went wrong and focus in on the greatness that was the original movie.