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I have to be honest and feel like the franchise is ruined again for me. I kind of felt like that with T3. Then out of nowhere T:SCC came along and rekindled it for me.
Of all the themes that show touched on the biggest for me was the whole Weaver thread and in a nutshell her comment that "You can't stop progress".
Skynet was not a cause it was a symptom. If people want to do something badly enough they will find a way. If a key player is taken out of the picture, the demand will still exist and someone or something else will fill the vacuum. None of the films dealt with this, not even T2, as much as I do love that film.
From that premise, that technology will always advance to the point where creating an AI is possible and humans will always have a desire to it, the HOWS of doing it become important. Instead of running around trying to stop an inevitable event you allow it to happen but mold a more favorable outcome.
Likewise I don't think John is nearly as important as Sarah seemed to think. I think the human desire to have a figurehead, a strong leader to rally under as they faced a very real threat of extinction would always be there. The very end of T:SCC seemed to touch on this.
I'm really sad to see the show go. I would have much preferred that thread of Terminator to perpetuate to the special effects dumbed down Transformers style with a Final Fantasy Spirits within lookining Arnie crap show that we got.
*heavy sigh*
/rant
08/14/09
I've always held that ideas will persist no matter what person thinks of it. It'd be like saying: take out Oppenheimer, Einstein, etc and POOF no more nukes. But it doesn't kill the idea of nuclear energy, oh it may delay it a little, but it would never truly stop it.
Also, I kind of agree to an extent on the John note. I mean, John is the epitome of the pre-destination paradox. He is the leader of mankind because Sarah told him it would be so because Kyle traveled back in time to tell her it'd be so.
I didn't absolutely hate T4 (though my like of it has severely waned since May the more I think about it) and I did like moments of it and for the most part the casting. (I actually DID like Bale as Connor and Yelchin as Reese I thought was the highlight) It just was not the hard-core desperate future dystopia we deserved to finally see.
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This extra scene stuff would of been really cool.
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