Terminator: A Complete TV Reboot Is The Only Thing Left For The Franchise
Since movie reboots keep failing, it's time for Terminator to return to the land of TV for a complete reinvention. In the Hollywood system of today, there's nothing more precious than an established franchise, a piece of IP that can be drawn on again and again in the hopes of bringing back an existing fanbase. That's not in itself a bad thing, as hit franchises like the MCU and James Bond prove. Still, few franchises have fallen farther than Terminator.
Director James Cameron's 1984 original Terminator movie, and its 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day, are widely regarded as all-time classics. They're excellent blends of sci-fi, action, and sometimes horror, and they're films that hold up extremely well decades after release, even if the stop-motion effects in the first movie are a bit underwhelming by modern standards. Unfortunately, there have been four Terminator movies and a TV series made since, and while some have their devotees, none come close to Cameron's classics.
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What's worse, 2009's Terminator Salvation, 2015's Terminator Genisys, and 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate were all designed ahead of time not only to serve as reboots of the flagging Terminator franchise, but to kick off new trilogies. Needless to say, all three failed to become hits critically, commercially, or both, leaving their accompanying trilogies dead in the water. Yet, Terminator will return. The first two movies just have too much cultural cache. After three failed reboots though, it's time to reboot Terminator for real, and this time have the action unfold on the small screen, and not in theaters.
After the failures of Terminator Salvation and Terminator
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