Spoilers Terminator: Dark Fate Review and Discussion

[Gepard]

J.K. Simmons was a highlight of the film, as he usually is, but his role was too small. I would've rather spent more time with him than with the much blander and less talented leads.

That would be an interesting take on how to do a Terminator sequel – tell it almost entirely from the perspective of a peripheral character whose life is affected by all the time war BS but who isn't directly involved. The implications of Skynet and the Terminators are terrifying, but none of the sequels have really been able to show that because the central characters just have too much knowledge and influence for it to be really effective.

 

[Saul]

Didn't Michael Biehn indicate way back in Film One that he and the T-800 were the only ones who were ever capable of going back, or was that swept under the rug once the flick surpassed $50 million?

It was "supposedly" destroyed after he went back in time but he didn't see it with his own eyes and if we take into account Terminator Genisys then the T-800s can build a time machine out of scrap.Then if you watch Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles we see that they find a time machine built in the past by someone who was from the future and the resistance fighters in the future were actually able to build their own time machine to send people back. So it's pretty much Time Machines"R"Us. I actually love the fact that people who knew each other from future remember things differently because the timeline was changed before they left.