Terminator: Dark Fate: 6 Things It MUST Do To Be A Good Sequel
2. Quit Re-writing The Timeline
Smart-arse time travel plots... Why oh why? Yes the element of time travel was an important factor of the originals, but the failed follow-ups truly milked theoretical time science for all it was worth, and ended up looking rather silly as a result.
Obviously, time rewriting is the ultimate tool for narrative reboots in science fiction. It heralds the chance to tell a new story on a fresh canvass and still manage to stay faithful to the source-material. But in Terminator's case, it didn't pay off. It actually represented an inherent inability to conjure up any new ideas. In attempting to unravel the original time-changing resolve of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, they truly missed the point of what made the first two movies cool.
The story details of Dark Fate are yet unclear. But it would benefit sincerely from leaving sacred ground just that, and establishing a narrative challenge that doesn't involve supposedly clever loop-holing. All the better that it would seal all of that in a box and come up with something fresh for a potentially new young audience.