I've talked on this in the past but good to revisit opinions sometimes. I wished they would have just continued with more future wars taking place after Salvation. It took 4 films to get to that point so why not go ahead and do it.
The ONLY Terminator films I consider canon is Ternimator, T2, T3 & Salvation.
Genisys was simply ok. I enjoyed the retread of Terminator and T2 in it but I dont consider it canon. Simply a alternate timeline like a multiverse type deal.
I couldnt even finish watching Dark Fate...... film was complete trash in my opinion. Even having Sarah Connor return couldn't save it. Plus..... SCREW THEM! John Connor is The Resistance.
The issue I had with Sarah, is the fact the LH aged gracefully (or not) realistically in the real world away from Hollywood...
So on screen she didn't look like other mature women her age, she looked old.. which is fine. But they tried to give her this 'cool' ptsd angle, but still glorified her.. I would have made her look rough, sleeping the streets, with a shopping cart, she looks insane to anyone else... she goes back to her tent... there is a light switched on, inside, she likes the persona so people leave her alone, but the drink and drugs sooth the pain and ptsd - she is def messed up. Think T2 in the psych ward but on steroids. She can't handle the real world, but she has to wait to try and redeem John. Would have been bold to have made her a typical bat**** crazy cat lady that the new generation feel for, but can't relate too. Here's the cool part, she captured the t800 that killed John, he's basically in a hole, a water tank or something, he can't get out and she is torturign daily, watching him die - obviously the torture part is for her own self satisfaction, but here's the thing, the t800 over years changed... evolved AI to be self aware, at times he's like a growling zombie, bloodies hands and teeth, scratching to get out, at other times, he's compassionate, begging to be released.. Sarah doesn't fall for it..
She drops a rat in daily, the t800 destroys it, lets it go, whatever... the rat attacks the flesh to eat... one gruesome scene is where she drops a barrel full in, t800 just stands there staring at her as the rats stacks and eat his flesh... ripping it from his skeleton, the machine looks down and then destroys them throwing the carcasses up.. Sarah closes the lid for another day.
That's the subplot.
A new terminator arrives, looking for the t800 and Sarah, the team in the facility chase this terminator as it hunts Sarah.. it finds Sarah, they play cat and mouse, one of the others falls inside the tank, after lifting the lid to hide in.. the t800 lies to the person and gets them to help them out, Sarah screams as she sees the t800 out of the tank, holding the severed head of the kid that got him out, she looks behind her, the other terminator is there, she sighs in resignation... the new terminator pushes Sarah away and blasts the old t800 they battle it out, you see the old t800 is the key to the resistance finging his arm and using it to learn how to defeat sky net of the future.
both terminators get destroyed. the end.
