Yes - they TERMINATED the series with: "...3: Rise of the Machines". What we see now is just a failed attempt to resuscitate the corpse.
First of all, they should read Rachel Ballon, Syd Field and Robert McKee. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD UP A SEQUEL! Genres, franchises and series do have their rules: one should be original within the formula. But this rudimentary show departs completely the essence of the Terminator movies, floundering into a cheap blockbuster.
The script is stuffy and messy - devoid of the stark elegance of those created by James Cameron. Hard to follow (read: tiresome and boring), and full of logical flaws. Just imagine: in "Terminator 1", "...2" and "...3", the machines send back in time various cyber-assassins to kill either John Connor, or his mom. Now they have HIS DAD (still a teenager!) in the Skynet grip - and they let him live!) The cyborg coming from the past (so to speak) is from another story.
The huge machines (harvesters, motorminators, hydrobotos, hunters/killers - or what were their names) are from another story too: from "Transformers", friends and neighbors! Just enough to name this sad work "Transforminators"! But the worst is the scene when the first T-800 comes to life... bearing, of course, Arnie's face - ripped off from some olden goldie and digitally patched-up here (just for a few instants, to ingloriously die about as many seconds later). Preposterous! Plainly ridiculous!
First of all, they should read Rachel Ballon, Syd Field and Robert McKee. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD UP A SEQUEL! Genres, franchises and series do have their rules: one should be original within the formula. But this rudimentary show departs completely the essence of the Terminator movies, floundering into a cheap blockbuster.
The script is stuffy and messy - devoid of the stark elegance of those created by James Cameron. Hard to follow (read: tiresome and boring), and full of logical flaws. Just imagine: in "Terminator 1", "...2" and "...3", the machines send back in time various cyber-assassins to kill either John Connor, or his mom. Now they have HIS DAD (still a teenager!) in the Skynet grip - and they let him live!) The cyborg coming from the past (so to speak) is from another story.
The huge machines (harvesters, motorminators, hydrobotos, hunters/killers - or what were their names) are from another story too: from "Transformers", friends and neighbors! Just enough to name this sad work "Transforminators"! But the worst is the scene when the first T-800 comes to life... bearing, of course, Arnie's face - ripped off from some olden goldie and digitally patched-up here (just for a few instants, to ingloriously die about as many seconds later). Preposterous! Plainly ridiculous!