Rather, the emotional epicenter of the franchises greatest heights has also been resurrected in a new context.
Sarah Connor has returned.
The Ellen Ripleys were few and far between.
And in terms of physicality, she now has that trump card in spades too.
The movie then ends neither on the T-800s noble sacrifice or young John Connors mourning for his metallic BFF.
Its also with that blackness that Sarah Connor has been lost to moviegoers for the last two decades.
But as it turned out, fans were not nearly as crazy about this approach.
AndSalvationbrought the franchise much closer to the apocalypse than Skynet or any stealth cyborg could ever calculate.
As Sarah vanished, so too did audience adoration for the series.
All of which is perhaps whyTerminator Genisyshas handled its conceptual premise so astutely.
Terminator Genisysis in theaters on July 1, 2015, but you could venture to terminate me nowon Twitter.
