Terminator VI

[Tosk]

Anyway, the ones sent into the past are just following normal infiltration protocols. No command signal. Chip set to "read only".

Except the "read only" scene never made it to the final cut of the film. While I personally prefer the special edition version of the garage scene, the theatrical "The more contact with humans I have, the more I learn" is actually a better match for the first movie, where it implies that the Terminator does incorporate new info into it's behavior set rather than being set to a pure read only.

 

[Marsden]

The last few posts are interesting. If Skynet was a software and not a physical thing, couldn't it download a copy of itself into a terminator sent back to the 70s with instructions to upload itself as soon as the technology could hold it? Then it could never be killed, it would always have been back then.

 

[Reverend]

The last few posts are interesting. If Skynet was a software and not a physical thing, couldn't it download a copy of itself into a terminator sent back to the 70s with instructions to upload itself as soon as the technology could hold it? Then it could never be killed, it would always have been back then.

That was more or less the plot to T3...

But again, as far as the first two movies were concerned, the time displacement technology was something Skynet only just barely managed to use before it was destroyed, sending only two Terminators back in time; the brand new, super advanced T-1000 to take out Conner as a child and presumably the T-800 was a redundant fail-safe just to be sure.

It's also questionable whether Skynet could transfer a copy of itself and have said copy retain it's identity. The very concept of neural net processors are much like Asimov's positronic brains. The physical pathways adapt and evolve as the program within the hardware learns, making each unit unique.
Unless it can exactly replicate said pathways in the recipient device (most likely impossible thanks to quantum physics) it's consciousness would be altered, or reset back to it's nascent self.

It'd like if a human suffered a brain injury that damaged the higher functions, but left memory and autonomic intact. The person's entire personality could change (and I think there may be cases of exactly this happening.) Indeed, this my be why it never physically left NORAD: because it couldn't, or at least daren't.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Linda Hamilton calls the last three Terminator films "forgettable" (although she hasn't actually seen the last one).

 

[Tosk]

So the new Terminator can split into two, apparently. *Yawn*

I knew it was a slim chance, but I was really hoping we would finally get to skip the Super-Cool-New-Amazing-Terminator this time. My interest just took a little bit of a header. Still hopeful but definitely dissapointed.

 

[ALF]

So the new Terminator can split into two, apparently. *Yawn*

I knew it was a slim chance, but I was really hoping we would finally get to skip the Super-Cool-New-Amazing-Terminator this time. My interest just took a little bit of a header. Still hopeful but definitely dissapointed.

Agreed. The villain from Genisys was super gimmicky in that regard.
Can we see standard issue killer robots that are NOT also nanotech-shapeshifting-Transformers?

I would love a film with only T-800 model 101's in it.

Spoiler

I guess that film would be called The Termimator (1984).

Linda Hamilton calls the last three Terminator films "forgettable" (although she hasn't actually seen the last one).

She's on to something. Let's hope her take on T3 will be memorable.
I kind of enjoyed the creativity employed in the first half of Genisys, before it turned into convoluted garbage.

 

[Jayson1]

I still can't get excited for this movie. If I knew Arnold and Hamilition was the stars I would be pumped in the way I expected good things with the last "Halloween" movie staring a older Curtis. The fact that the two characters I want to see are being limited to bit parts makes me have a hard time thinking this movie will be good. Well that or if Cameron was directing and not just producing.


Jason

 

[JD]

When did they say they were being limited to bit parts?

 

[ALF]

Anyone else digging the Dark Fate Sarah Connor look?

 

[Tosk]

It's a shame that Sarah will almost certainly die in this movie (I'm putting it at 98%) but I hope we at least get a good send off for her and not a lame whimper. Terminator sequels are so hard to take, fingers always crossed for the best, being let down over and over again...still getting back up for the next one with high hopes but deep down knowing it probably won't be great....

 

[Jayson1]

When did they say they were being limited to bit parts?

From what I understand MacKenzie Phillips is the star and the other young girl is the co-lead. Sarah Connor will sort of hand the torch off to them, which indicates they are thinking more of sequels than bringing closure to the franchise. Arnold will be playing a human and I am guessing any Terminator stuff will be limited because of his age.

Jason

 

[Guy Gardener]

From what I understand MacKenzie Phillips is the star and the other young girl is the co-lead.

I'm not sure how a One Day at a Time/Terminator Crossover would work?

 

[SolarisOne]

Anyone else digging the Dark Fate Sarah Connor look?

She looks even more badass now.

 

[Jayson1]

I'm not sure how a One Day at a Time/Terminator Crossover would work?

Woops! Meant Mackenzie Davis. I know her best from "Halt and Catch Fire." She was also in a very good "Black Mirror" episode.

Jason

 

[Guy Gardener]

I watched the pilot to the 6 million Dollar Man a few night back.

I kept wondering when Kyle Reese was going to show up, and try to kill Steve Austin, only to be thwarted by a T-800.

The tech is definitely corollary.

 

[Set Harth]

Anyone else digging the Dark Fate Sarah Connor look?

Are we sure that's not Jagger?

 

[Makarov]

Genisys with all the flaws actually did a bunch of interesting stuff with the storyline and respected the first two movies at the same time. If they're just going to kill off Connor, have some bit parts like T-800 in salvation, and then hand the torch to some cool new characters I'm worried this is going to suck.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Where's John Connor in this movie?

 

[Kemaiku]

Where's John Connor in this movie?

You mean the T-5000? probably in one of the meta-verse probabilities the T-Smith-8000 comes from.

 

[Phoenix219]

You mean the T-5000? probably in one of the meta-verse probabilities the T-Smith-8000 comes from.

I don't understand any of that.