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Terminator favorite quotes4/6/2024 Carl might look like a human and mimic a person’s behavior, but he still isn’t one-a recurring theme of the Terminator franchise is how, after a certain point, people get weirded out by interacting with one of them. What’s It Like to Be Married to a Terminator?Īlicia and Carl have been going strong for some time-good for them! But even though Alicia’s got no idea she’s actually married to an enhanced robot from the future-to be fair: because the T-800 has living tissue over his metal endoskeleton, he ages like a human does-you’d have to figure she realizes something is a little off about her dear husband. Then again, given how watching Westworld often feels like squirting lime juice into your retinas, perhaps that was for the best. That’s dope for Alicia and Matteo, but I still don’t get how my dude made the jump from child murder to “Honey, do you need anything from CVS?” Did he simply spend so much time around humans that he was eventually charmed by our idiosyncrasies? Did he experience a period of robo-self-loathing for killing a child, and choose to do some good in the world? Did he binge This Is Us? Dark Fate fails to properly establish how this robot gained autonomy, assuming we’d accept this change of heart-er, wiring-on its face. During this period of listlessness, the Terminator didn’t just integrate himself into society: He willfully chose to protect and care for a family. How Does a Terminator Develop a Conscience?ĭark Fate is far from the first film or TV show that presupposes that a machine could learn to care about humans, but the reason this T-800 decides to change his ways seems largely a product of … ennui? After killing John, the Terminator had completed its mission on Earth-but had no way to return to its own timeline because Skynet has been successfully destroyed. But despite the film’s best efforts to explain Carl’s years of dadhood, the reveal of a Domesticated Terminator leads to more questions than answers. ( That’s his wife!) These moments aren’t just played for laughs, however, as the Terminator explains that he saved Alicia from an abusive relationship, and helped raise her son, Matteo-in the chaos of Dark Fate, it’s Schwarzenegger’s reformed robot who registers as the most human. The exposition of the Domesticated Terminator is exceptionally strange and extremely funny, punctuated by “Carl” monologuing the number of guns he can own in Texas and getting annoyed that Sarah shoots him because he doesn’t know how he’ll explain the bullet marks to Alicia. Of all the developments in Dark Fate, a formerly murderous Terminator turning into a certifiable Wife Guy who goes by “Carl” is among the most unexpected. And the women are aided against the Rev-9 by the same T-800 who killed John Connor, who has grown a conscience after his killing ways, found a wife and stepson, and opened up a drapery business in Texas-yes, you read that correctly.Ĭhanging Fates: Plotting the Shapeshifting, Timeline-Jumping ‘Terminator’ Franchise Can ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Give Its Characters the Ending They Deserve? In the present day, a new Terminator model, the Rev-9, has been sent back in time to kill a young woman named Dani Ramos, who once again holds the key to saving humanity’s future-and who receives protection from an “augmented” human soldier from the future named Grace along with a grizzled, resentful Sarah Connor. As Dark Fate’s devastating prologue shows, saving a young John Connor in Judgment Day only delayed the inevitable, as another T-800-not the one who protected him from the T-1000, but another model who also happens to look like a de-aged CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger-goes back in time to finish the job shortly after the events of that film. Nevertheless, Dark Fate has the makings of a quintessential Terminator movie, with a few notable changes. Considering that the post– Judgment Day sequels were varying degrees of awful, and the most entertaining thing to come out of any of them might be an iconic Christian Bale meltdown on the set of Salvation, that decision is definitely a good thing. Not just content with changing the past to save the future (again), Terminator: Dark Fate also asks that you wipe clean any memories of the past three movies from the series- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, and Terminator Genisys-and treat it as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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