The biggest obstacle to IP development is IP fatigue. The innovations that were amazing ten years ago may have long been rotten, especially for science fiction works, the original settings will become more and more outdated as the times change. If a sci-fi series cannot keep pace with the times, it will sooner or later be swept into the dust of history and forgotten.
When I was a child, I watched a lot of science fiction movies, and the two series "Alien" and "Devil Terminator" were the ones that impressed me the most. Unlike "Alien", which focuses on alien creatures in the vast starry sky, "Devil Terminator" shows the audience a future apocalypse destroyed by artificial intelligence.
The rise of artificial intelligence is a timeless topic in science fiction literature. Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot", James Hogan's "Two Sides of Tomorrow", and Fred Szabohagen's "Berzy Warrior" all attempt to explore the possible future relationship between humans and artificial intelligence With the development of science and technology, the intelligence of machines is no longer out of reach. Faced with machines whose learning ability is much better than one's own, human's inner fear is infinitely magnified. Whether artificial intelligence will replace human beings and become the master of the earth, no one dares to give a definite answer.
In 1984, James Cameron's "Terminator" turned out to push people's fear of artificial intelligence to the extreme. The T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the nightmare of a generation, and Skynet has also become a benchmark for countless artificial intelligence villains. It's a pity that the glory cannot last. After Cameron let go of the series after "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", from "Terminator 3: The Awakening of the Robot" to "Terminator 5: Genesis", the Terminator series went from bad to worse. Every director wants to continue the glory of the past, but in the end, he cannot escape the fate of the dog's tail.
18 years after the release of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", Cameron came out again and served as the screenwriter and producer of "Terminator: Dark Fate", skipping the timeline of 3, 4, and 5 works and continuing directly Writing the story of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Judgment Day was successfully prevented, and Sarah Connor and son John Connor were finally able to relax. It's a pity that a T-800 sent by Skynet in advance became a fish that slipped through the net and solved the savior John. John's death brought a series of chain reactions, Skynet was replaced by another artificial intelligence army, and a new round of pursuit and protection kicked off...
As Cameron's return, "Terminator: Dark Fate" can only be said to be unsatisfactory, above the passing line but not enough.
The return of Sarah Connor played by Linda Hamilton and the phrase "I won't come back" said when the elderly governor picked up his sunglasses and put them down, filled his feelings and brought back many fans for this work; Originally, John Connor was the soul of this series. It can be said that without his struggle with Skynet, there would be no Terminator series, but at the beginning of the movie, John was killed by the Terminator gun, which was really shocking. many spectators. Although "Terminator 5: Genesis" has also tried to softly restart the entire story line, it has never dared to completely overturn the settings of the previous works and let several directors go to waste and cut "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" all at once. The story of the next three works. The offset between this feeling and innovation has caused the old fans of the series not to buy it, and the new fans are also confused. According to the director himself, during the filming of the film, he had many disagreements with Cameron, and it is not surprising that this kind of slap in the face occurred.
The failure of "Terminator 5: Genesis" forced the Terminator series, which was originally intended to be restarted, to return to its original track. In fact, for most audiences, what they care about is not the more and more cool new Terminator, nor is it exciting to the bones What I really want to see is the continuation of Lian Po's youthful governor and childhood story. So when the propaganda mentioned Schwarzenegger's last Terminator movie, quite a few viewers chose to turn on their mobile phones and began to choose seats. However, the role of the governor in this work is really poor, and the newly emerged Legion did not. It can create a despair that makes people unable to resist like Skynet. Grace's description makes people feel that in the end times, the most terrifying thing is not the legion, but the human heart.
The advancement of science and technology should not only stop at the development of special effects. Thirty years ago, mobile phones were not as smart as mobile phones today. There are many modern science and technology that can be covered in this work. However, we see The use of technology in Terminator: Dark Fate is almost indistinguishable from that in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The use of drones and the appearance of mobile phones are just a passing. To put it bluntly, the scientific development presented in this work is not even as good as "Terminator 2018", which is set in 2018. After all, in that work, Skynet's Penetrating robots and digital screens are far more interesting than simple surveillance drones and cellphones in tinfoil bags to block signals.
"I saved 3 billion people, but I couldn't save my son." Fearing that Skynet could analyze the position of the mother and son, in order to protect John, he didn't leave a photo. As a result, even his son's face was covered in his own face when he entered old age. Can't remember. For an uncertain future war, his lover and his own flesh and blood have sacrificed their precious lives. Sarah Connor has lived her whole life in grief. A woman who has lost hope has made hunting the Terminator her ultimate goal in this life, but what else can she do. Especially when she saw that the murderer actually opened up a family and lived a happy life, pain, anger, and depression were all emotions that occupied Sarah's heart. But she couldn't kill the T-800, whose pseudonym was Karl, because it was the only hope to save Dany, the future leader of the new generation of resistance forces who was still young. In Dany's body, she saw her own shadow, as if I saw Aiko's future that was cut off by a single shot.
I remember in the earliest days, Cameron had a setting that dogs could distinguish Terminators in human skins, so for the Terminators sent by Skynet, the rebels raised dogs. When a Terminator appeared, the dog would Will bark loudly. But in this movie, the T-800, who goes by the pseudonym Karl, has a dog, but that dog doesn't turn hostile to Karl. Perhaps just as the Terminator had to have an organic skin when it was first set to travel through time, this dispensable setting has long since been abandoned. But I prefer this detail to convey to the audience a point that Carl has transformed from a Terminator to a sentient being and that he is no longer a cold machine.
The Terminator series has accompanied generations of people through their youth. More than 30 years later, this series is still surrounded by tens of thousands of fans, but Cameron is tired, and Schwarzenegger is also old. Whether the sequel to the T-800 figure is still the terminator in people's minds, no one dares to say it to death. I hope that the small loss of this work can make Cameron feel the pain and let this series go silent for a while.
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