Fox is back with this amazing bridge between the first two movies and the next few in line starring Christian Bale. Taking off a couple of years after the end of T2, John and Sarah, living off the grid mostly are being pursued once again by a whole bunch of Terminators, this time a significantly more advanced T-888 model taking the cake. The T-888, steering clear of its technical Skynet-given nomenclature, identifying itself as Cromartie at the onset and later as FBI Agent Kester, with an ability to learn and mimic human behavior due to its 'Read-Only' programming in its CPU being over-written by Skynet itself. Other T-888s, namely Vick impersonating the husband of a certain Barbara Chamberlain, project manager of an integrated traffic signals system in the city are thrown into the mix as a nemesis to John. Their ability to integrate into the human environment almost seamlessly adding to the lethal punch of these Terminators.
And we have the protector of John, of course sent by the future Connor himself to thwart any attempts on the life of his younger self, in the way of Cameron. An interesting twist really, for this happens to be a petite, 'teenaged', gynoid, first appearing as Connor's classmate. This cyborg model being unidentified throughout the series and displaying rather quirky traits throughout. And of course, we have the young boy stepping slowly into the shoes of his manhood under the tutelage of his rather overbearing (and largely irritating) mom, who'd probably be paranoid enough over a dead rat in her backyard to flee to the next town. Episode 2 has Lena Headley reprising her role as Sarah, Thomas Dekker once again as John and Summer Glau as Cameron. The fate of Cameron being one hanging in the balance since we see her getting incinerated in a car-bomb blast.
But of course she's supposed to be a Terminator chick isn't she? So she gets temporarily deactivated rather instead of being declared flatline forever. And she reverts to her default Skynet settings as soon as she reboots, with just one mission and target this time round.............
Episodes 1 & 2 see John grappling with this new threat, taking matters into his own hands and relying primarily on his own instincts. John with blood on his hands, and a new found drive and aggression which completely overshadowed his mom's rather overdone domineering persona. John who wouldn't hesitate for a second before pointing a gun at his own uncle, Derek Reese, just to drive a point across. John steadily headed towards the path of being a world leader.
Time to move over momma!! U r an obsolete model!!
New Termies are thrown into the mix. We have the T-1001, a slightly upgraded version of the same character essayed by Robert Patrick in the second film. I don't see much of a difference though. Except that this one too has a default gynoid appearance and tends to be more verbose, almost philosophical in some places. Skynet has certainly progressed.
The Termies do impress largely. To a point where u'd be tempted to say 'Kill John, screw humanity, liquidate mankind and replace it with cutsie gynoids and menacing endos'.
'Mousetrap' is the 3rd in the series and I'm definitely gonna catch it ASAP.
*peace*
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