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with audiences is how mundane the 'future' where everybody is connected to each other actually ended up being.

20-30 years ago, Terminator had a legitimately scary forewarning edge to it. I remember thinking the world building was crazy when I was a kid, the idea that we could just sleepwalk into this technological nightmare. This is all pre extremely widespread online-ness but it still hit home and I think to many, the hook of it all was that it seemed like something that wasn't too far outside the realms of possibility. Or that at the very least it was grounded in reality on some level.

Fast forward to 2019 and we all essentially embraced the Skynet type figures but there was no robot apocalypse, instead it's just a non stop avalanche of awful but fairly mundane in the grand scheme of things stuff.

I think this totally removes the stinger from the series. It's no longer 'a terrifying view into a not too distant future' but just another post apocalyptic science fiction universe, almost undistinguishable from the rest. I think Genisys actually tried to give a more modern feel to some of the origin elements but the film wasn't particularly good either sooo...

Oh and as an aside, the T models basically peaked with the 1000 and its very hard to top that without going too silly or just copying bits from it. I think the Dark Fate antagonist has a pretty clever gimmick that naturally follows from the 1000 but otherwise...

Oh and the sending a robot back in time concept was terrifying too before they did it like 100 times more. Oh and all of these films have at least two fights/chases on a road or in a like lab type setting.