Saw T3 last night, and I can’t say I really liked it, mainly because it practically screamed, “T4 – coming soon!”<\/p>\n
\nFirst of all, really downer ending. At the end of T2, we could cheer “We stopped Judgment Day!” This one says, “No, you just delayed it, neener neener. We have a franchise to maintain, here.”<\/p>\n
The T-X violated the laws of physics constantly throughout the movie, performing feats of mass and leverage unseen even in Marvel Comics. I guess if we’ve got time travel, we can throw out anything else, but it was just one more little thing.<\/p>\n
John Connor goes on at the end about how were we fools to think we could change history. What he doesn’t realize is that we *have* done so once. We changed the date of Judgment Day several years, which isn’t a piddling difference.<\/p>\n
And let him not forget that all three Terminators have failed. The T-800, T-1000, and T-X were never intended to start, stop, delay, or rush Judgment Day. They were sent to kill him, and they all failed. What has Skynet done every time? Sent another.<\/p>\n
Consider, also, that the time-travel in this universe doesn’t respect causality in any detail. John Connor is his own father. Skynet hates humanity because the Skynet of the future which infected it hates humanity. There’s no reason why the machines couldn’t try again to kill Sarah Connor before she gives birth, or kill John as a pre-teen, just becasue they’ve blown it once. With the time-travel mechanics we’ve seen, they can just keep sending Terminators until one gets it right.<\/p>\n
(P.S. From what we’ve seen of the future, it’s hard to understand why the machines even care about him. The Earth is a blasted wasteland. How much trouble are the ragged remnants of humanity, who must quickly be running out of food, ammunition, and numbers, really going to be to those mechanical armies?)<\/p>\n
Just like the Alien movies, the Terminator series should have stopped with the John Cameron film and settled into a happy existence of Dark Horse comics and PC shooter games.<\/p>\n