![]() ![]() Dani, this film’s “John Connor”, future leader of the resistance - or “militia” (because she’s Mexican I guess?) - is keen to point out that we made these things so we can take them down. This is not just history repeating itself but the future too.īut there’s still hope. This is driven home in Dark Fate in a scene where the saviour-from-the-future character, Grace, explains that Sarah Connor may have stopped Skynet from taking over but humans ended up building something else instead: Legion - yet another rogue AI that has its Oedipal and military-industrial complexes murderously entangled, threatening the entire human race after it decides to hunt it for sport. ![]() Individual fate may be fluid but repeatedly it falls foul of a much bigger plan. It’s meant to be a hopeful motto for most of the franchise’s characters but it betrays a weird templexity that is as integral to the franchise’s continuing existence as to that of the universe in which it takes place. “There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves” is one of the most famous lines from the Terminator franchise but it’s also the least effective and discussed. I don’t think there’s a way to say why I think this exactly without spoiling just about all of it so come back later if you’ve got plans to check it out. ![]() As an action blockbuster, I enjoyed it, but as the latest offering in a franchise so tied up with theoretical readings, it raises a lot of questions - questions that both strengthen the film as entertainment and undermine it as politicised media. TL DR: I thought it was really interesting. I went to see Terminator: Dark Fate this evening and have thoughts. ![]()
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