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Futuristic cityscape at night, dominated by a massive, glowing hologram of an AI brain

Terminator 3, Parting Thoughts: A Father’s Lie Dooms the World

When John and Kate get to Crystal Peak, they find that it is really a fallout shelter for the country’s leaders, but the leaders never made it. And yet...
It’s fine to play with the idea of fate in a time travel tale, but the writer must work within the set-up given by the prior stories. Read More ›
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Terminator 3 Review Part 3: Are We Looking At a New Sarah Connor?

What made Sarah’s character work was her start as a simple waitress who turns into a strong, resourceful warrior. Can John pick up where she left off?
The problem with time travel stories is that dropped plot points and forgotten predictions add up and new additions to the story forget the older ones. Read More ›
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A scene of a roadway littered with debris from a vehicle wreck, with visible damage to multiple trucks, emphasizing the severity of a multi-vehicle accident on an icy road.

Terminator 3: Was It Fate or Contrivance?

It turns out that the T-X isn’t looking for John, as we might expect, but for Kate
Despite puzzling sequences, there is a thread of logic that keeps the franchise from becoming too complicated as the story continues. Read More ›
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Terminator 3: A Troubled Movie That’s Hard to Find

Here’s an odd little problem I encountered while preparing for this review: Difficulty even finding the movie in order to review it
Portraying John as a sort of nomad was overall a good plot device because the T-X can’t find him. So, she begins killing apparently random people. Read More ›