Terminator: Dark Fate SPOILER Discussion Thread

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by kylor

Was just watching this:

Terminator Dark Fate review - Yes, it really is that bad - YouTube

Whilst he leaves out quite a few criticisms I have with Dark Fate, he raises an interesting point:

Carl reveals that he was sending Sarah the locations of where terminators are being sent back in time in order for her to destroy them, to give her some sort of purpose in life after he killed John.

It never explains how or why Carl knows this information of exactly where AND when Legion will send back a terminator, especially because he came from a completely different timeline and would literally have zero knowledge of the future of this new timeline with Legion.

Again, shit writing.

As said, in the film he mentions a temporal shockwave that pre-empts any time incursion which, him being all future robot-like, he's able to detect. So it doesn't matter when or where the time traveller is from, they will still create this chronal displacement which he can sense. (Reminds me a little of the comics and how the Terminators all had tracking sensors that could triangulate other Terminators, like a mini-GPS. Not the same thing of course, but there are plenty of ways to tech the tech.)

Again, people not paying attention. Is it a bit too close to them replacing sense with technobabble? Sure. But every new Terminator movie gradually reveals abilities or technical properties which the other movies neglected to mention, all in the name of servicing that particular story, so in the storytelling realm of DF itself it works just fine for me. Even the question of where they got Carl's co-ordinates to tattoo onto Grace's washboard abs is answered because Dani has now been there in the past.