One of the biggest "gets" for Genisys is the confirmed casting of the Governator, who's been absent from the franchise since 2003. Well, there were those Terminators with his faced grafted onto them CGI-style in Salvation, but that A) doesn't really count, and B) looked super creepy and was firmly rooted in the Uncanny Valley. One of the first announcements about the new film, however, was that series icon Arnold Schwarzenegger was on board, as evidenced by that cute photo of the iron pumping Austrian chilling in a fold-out chair on set. Schwarzenegger's return to the films is certainly a welcome one, but it also opens a whole new can of worms. The timeline is confusing enough as it is. What happens when you introduce the classic T-850, again modelled on Arnold Schwarzenegger, except now noticeably older than he was the last few times he appeared? Why would Skynet bother updating their pretend people robots? Are they sticklers for realism? Probably not, since they spent more time churning out those shiny skeleton machines. Apparently James Cameron is on Genisys in an "advisory" capacity, and has come up with the idea that the outer covering was actually not synthetic, that it was organic and therefore could age. You could theoretically have a Terminator that was sent back in time, missed his target, and ended up just kind of living on in society." Which is actually...kinda cool?
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