The T has been programmed to assassinate her, so that she never gives birth to John Connor, the leader of the human resistance that destroyed Skynet. It sends the T through time as a last-ditch effort to try to undo its own defeat. Reese is killed, Sarah destroys the T, and the movie ends with her making a series of recordings to her unborn son John. Did I mention Reese is John's father?
Because he totally is. So, John engineers his own existence by sending his dad back in time to hook up with his mom. A fuckadox, if you will. So technically it takes place at the same time as the first movie, kind of. Skynet sends the T to , setting the events of the first movie in motion, and sends the super-advanced T to in the same instant. Maybe they only had one. It looks crazy expensive. The T is trying to track down a year-old John in Los Angeles and hyper-murder him with its bodacious sword hands.
Future John sends a reprogrammed T to to protect his younger self. The T intercepts John, and they bust Sarah out of a mental institution where she got locked up trying to blow up the factory where she destroyed the original Terminator at the end of the first film. Dyson sort of reverse-engineers the smashed Terminator and uses it to build what becomes Skynet. Ok, so, at the end of the movie, the T gets cast into a vat of molten steel, and the T willingly dips himself into the steel like fondue to make sure none of his parts can be salvaged and used to create Skynet.
Dyson is killed, and John and Sarah fling the chip and arm he was studying into the steel after the two Terminators. Skynet prevented, Judgment Day averted. That is, until Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Set ten years after Terminator 2 roughly , a now-adult John Connor has gone completely off the grid. As it turns out, he was totally right, and Skynet has sent yet another robot back in time to kill its enemies - the T-X, a ladybot programmed to kill not just John Connor, but every member of his inner resistance circle, including his future wife Kate Brewster. Yet another reprogrammed T has also been sent back to to protect John and Kate, except this one was sent by Kate rather than John.
That's because in the future, John has been killed by this very T, which is then hacked by Kate and sent back in time. The first Terminator was a relentlessly bleak and fatalistic experience, foretelling the eventual end of humanity. Curiously, even though it's titled "Dark Fate," this movie ends with a more positive vision of the future. It's true the war with the machines now seems to be an inevitable part of history; human society appears predestined to come to a point where it constructs sophisticated artificial intelligence, which then go rogue.
But it's crucial to note that, in both timelines, a human resistance fights back. What's more, on both occasions the resistance is so successful that the AI is forced to resort to the nuclear option of trying to change history.
A logic-driven artificial intelligence would be aware of the risks associated with that strategy, so this sounds like a last resort. Meanwhile, the very fact that John Connor can be replaced by Dani Ramos gives another reason to hope. It suggests that, however hard the AIs may try, there will always be another resistance leader, another savior who steps up to lead the humans in the war against the machines. John Connor may be dead , but Dani Ramos can now fill his shoes; and it seems likely that, should future Terminators succeed in killing Dani, she'll simply be replaced by someone else.
Both John and Dani stand as symbols of human nature itself, resilient and unconquerable, and able to resist the machines' best efforts to destroy it. That, fundamentally, is why Sarah and Dani can face the future with hope at the end of Terminator: Dark Fate. James Cameron doesn't intend Dark Fate to stand as a separate entity; rather, his goal is for this to relaunch the franchise, to be the beginning of a Terminator trilogy.
Interestingly, there are conceptual similarities between Cameron's approach and the one deployed by J. In both cases, the legendary directors have created movies that are essentially a mirror of a classic film, and they've brought back the original cast in order to pass the baton to some new, more diverse stars. While this has led some critics to criticize both relaunches for their lack of originality, in theory it's a smart way to get nostalgic buy-in.
Terminator: Dark Fate is probably the more original of the two relaunches; like the best mirrors, while there are similarities, there are also inversions - such as the ending that's redolent of hope rather than bleak and fatalistic. This does not, however, mean James Cameron will continue the mirror themes on into the inevitable Terminator: Dark Fate sequel. As excellent as Terminator 2: Judgment Day is as a stand-alone movie, there's a sense in which it was a misstep as a franchise-builder, just because its ending was too satisfying and wrapped everything up far too neatly.
This time round, James Cameron intends to make a trilogy - which means he inevitably has to deviate from that particular pattern, should Dark Fate's box office merit a sequel. Tom Bacon is one of Screen Rant's staff writers, as well as a Peer Mentor for new writers and a member of the Care Team, offering support and a listening ear to members of the Comics group.
A lifelong fan of major franchises including Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Marvel, Tom is delighted his childhood is back - and this time it's cool. You can find him on Twitter TomABacon. A graduate of Edge Hill University, Tom remains strongly connected with his alma mater as a volunteer chaplain. He's heavily involved with his local church, and anyone who checks him out on Twitter will swiftly learn he's into British politics too.
By Thomas Bacon Published Nov 01, In the Rev-9 final battle, each crush and get crushed. The injured Grace sacrifices any chance of living by giving up her personal power source, the only weapon strong enough to stop the Rev Ramos steps up into her future leader role by overcoming her fear and pulling the power source out of Grace's human guts.
It's Sarah who rouses the injured Carl to aid Dani in the final battle moments. But, like any true emerging hero, Dani faces off with the Rev-9 exoskeleton solo, dealing a lights-out shot with Grace's power source. Arnold is part of it. But it has to be Dani killing that thing. Schwarzenegger's Terminator grabs the still-lethal Rev-9 and pulls him into a deep pit, which mortally wounds him as the fall pushes spikes through his chest.
But he holds down the Rev-9, which tries to escape to complete its kill mission — even gruesomely ripping off Carl's skin in an attempt to remove the hold. It's gnarly. But Miller says he had originally filmed more explicit skin-ripping shots.
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