Comments | roxybisquaint: I blame Linda Hamilton

roxybisquaint

I blame Linda Hamilton

Jul 04, 2015 19:18

"T3 without me." That was the supposed mantra uttered by Linda Hamilton on the set of T2. It was probably in jest and in response to exhausting days and nights on T2, but it became the reality once there really was a Terminator 3 on the table. She declined to reprise Sarah Connor and T3 took a new track that was, well, notoriously bad. Maybe it ( Read more... )

#terminator, review, terminator, sarah connor, #genisys, time travel, judge and jury, things i've seen

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And they stole from the best, too... ext_3215129 July 5 2015, 13:17:33 UTC

Hi Roxy!

Thanks for the review - great stuff, as usual.

I haven't been able to bring myself to see TG yet, and probably will wait until it's On Demand (because OD has that necessary FF feature), but I've seen enough previews to know that the TG writers were TSSC watchers... and TSCC thieves.

Examples: Terminator head through the car window, followed by droll terminator comment. Energy bubble that appears on a busy highway. Alternate timelines. A future John Connor who's actually a terminator. Gee, where was that concept raised before?

Cameron: "Telling me is the same as telling John."
Jesse: "What the hell are we fighting for if telling you is the same thing as telling Connor?"

And those are just the thefts I picked up from the previews.

Too bad that TG's writers and producers didn't steal, you know, any of the good stuff. All they missed was the soul of TSCC. And, the perfect casting. And, the smarts. And ( ... )

Re: And they stole from the best, too... roxybisquaint July 5 2015, 17:35:06 UTC

Hi Jayne!

Yeah, I'd wait for Netlfix or something. I'll see it again on the small screen just to see if I still feel the same about it.

More TSCC bits I'm thinking of:
- A power cable got used against a terminator in a fight (didn't cause it to short out and have to reboot, though)
- One T-800 Arnie scanned the other T-800 Arnie and saw his endoskeleton (like Vick seeing Cameron's before their chase)

If Genisys had spent half as much time on its own story as it did on nods to past work it maybe could've been a better film. But probably not because they just didn't *get* Terminator.

With the the apparently disappointing box office, the new TV show is very unlikely to happen. The next movie in the planned trilogy might not even happen. Terminator might really be dead this time.