Wait, but having the T-800 reaching the sort of age that it would start to resemble the 67-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger would mean that it hung around for a good old while, right? And if memory serves the Terminator films usually end with the robot being destroyed - willingly or otherwise - in order to tie up any time paradox loose ends or else stop the technology falling into the wrong hands. So how come there's been a Terminator that's hung around long enough to age a good couple of decades? The other big bombshell of Terminator: Genisys is that, not only will audiences be introduced to a younger Sarah Connor, but she'll have been raised by the T-800. Having been orphaned at age nine (by some much less friendly killer robots), she then spends the rest of her life being guarded by the older Arnie model, whom she calls "Pops", who parents Sarah to be a "highly trained antisocial recluse who's great with a sniper rifle but not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion." Which sounds more like a whacky sitcom than a movie but whatever.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
