5 Reasons Why They’ve Never Recaptured The Magic Of Terminator

Of course, with a sci-fi series based around time travel, the temptation to weave ever more complex loop-the-loop intricacies is all too great, especially when it's done in such a way that the audience feel clever for keeping on board with it

But the creation of overlapping time paradoxes swiftly became narrative waffle which burdened the later films and derailed the point of what made the first 2 Terminators so special. The proposed destruction of Skynet in the past was a deleted plot point from the original Terminator which was re-used in Terminator 2 to amply fulfill the story of the first two films.

Yet Terminators one and two were simply chase movies with the overbearing fate of humanity allowing the cat and mouse game to be that much more consequential and gripping. And they were exactly that, with not a misguided Hawkings/Einstein thesis in sight.

In the case of all the other Terminator sequels, there is an even greater reason why continuously rewriting the history was a bad idea, which leads to the final point...