Salvation I never found bad. Flawed, but I actually ended up enjoying it more than 3 mostly. Genesys I saw with my family, and for some reason they liked it, but they more than likely forgot it even exists at this point. None of us saw Dark Fate. Neither film exists for me. The kindest thing I can say about DF is that I like this one fan artist that did artwork of the two lead characters, and that's it.
I've always had a weird crush on the goth elf, even as a little kid. That spikey black hair and the sad face did something to me, I don't know.
The only problems with Salvation were the utter lack of the future war weapons and them wussing out on the originally planned ending. Otherwise its a perfectly good movie.
Honestly, the lack of the plasma weapons didn't bother me much, and original ending I never cared about. It would have been something different, but it was not worth bitching about, even back then. Glad I never did.
Out of interest, did you see The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Only saw the first couple of eps of that.
I did. For some reason, I was compelled to see every episode.
I remember that show got fucking weird because it was super in love with having Summer Glau as the 'good' Terminator - herself riding high on Firefly nerd cred - and doing all manner of relationship teasing between Cameron and John. And then of course after a while it wasn't about Sarah. Which is a pity because I liked Lena Headey as the character.
Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that as well, wasn't that mainly a singular episode that jumps around in time like over decades or something?
Perhaps it could have been set at another holiday, but there isn't another where the themes of love, generosity, and good will to all men are quite so prevalent. Maybe Scrooge could have run around handing out Easter presents, but I don't think it would have landed so well. Ghost stories are also a tradition of Christmas, though it's pretty much fallen off in modern times.
