What Happened to the Terminator Series P7 Terminator Dark Fate

Part 7 of a multi-part series of reviews of the Terminator series.
I told you I'll be back.
Little Jimmy is back with a new review of a beloved movie franchise. So what happened to the Terminator series? I'm here to find out.
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[@gavinmyatt5589]

To Quote Count Dooku "I've been looking forward to this."

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

To Quote the Great Emperor, "GOOD, GOOOOOOOOOOOOD".

[@MrBjanders]

Ah, the only thing that makes me happy whenever another Terminator/Alien/Predator sequel comes out 😁

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

Fingers Crossed for the Next Robocop Movie to NOT SUCK

[@bananaempijama]

Indeed brother

[@Krooksbane]

Happy to see you’re still around little Jimmy

[@Jaklas1979]

surprised you didnt mention the "Only way to kill the REV 9 is a EMP Bomb" "Where the hell we get one? We're doomed" and then Sarah whose wanted by the FBI calls the Military and they're like "Yeah we have a spare one, ill drop it by" WTF WTF WTF WTF

[@VVV953]

Unlike the Terminator we actually want you back, in other words you can say I'll be back

[@WhiteJeezus]

So I just watched Terminator 2, and I just couldn't help but laugh at Arnold's speech at the end about how "It needs to end here." Oh how right he was

[@Hewylewis]

Glad you decided to review this movie. But I wanna see more. Maybe What Happened to the Jurassic Park Series?

[@cinemaskull9886]

I’d love that so much

[@swimswimmergaming7767]

same

[@JessicaChastainFan]

Would like that. Because after III, things went straight to the garbage dump.

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

I'd love to see a "What Happened to The Jurassic Park Series". My first two favorites are "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park".

[@cinemaskull9886]

Honestly I look forward to your reviews more than the actual alien, predator, and terminator movies

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

Depressing

[@grimm_destroyer5566]

I hope little jimmy read the Alien 3 Comics and how it didn’t say screw you 😆

[@connorwood9211]

Did no one during production thought to speak out and say "Hey don't you think killing John piss of and alienate most of the audience"? The bright side, this movie gave me more appreciation for Salvation

[@TechCom101]

I don't feel the Terminator series should be terminated. More like, Hollywood needs to be terminated for hiring bad people to continue a great series. With just the first two movies, there's already so much lore in this franchise that could be explored and Hollywood ignores it to tell some generic mass-produced story that's been told before, changing everything we know and not caring about what's been established. So many ideas for Future War stories or even new stories in the "present" like the man who Skynet models the T-800 after confronting his T-800 doppelganger. So many possibilities and yet no-one in Hollywood employs honest die-hard fans of the franchise to tell these stories on the big-screen.

[@LUCKO2022]

Terminator is NOT the story of Sarah Connor. It was always about John. God people are just dumb. Next T2 can work with Reese's story. In the beginning Sarah says Skynet sent 2 Terminators back through time. The only major contradiction is T-1000 arriving but it still arrived naked so maybe it can generate living skin enough to get through the time travel machine. They should have stopped at T2 though.

[@hip-hopcrypt3046]

Actually it's about Sarah because of the first movie it's her story always has always will be facts sorry

[@thejoeyd9207]

Nothing will compared to T1. By far the best movie in this series.

[@prodigy1445]

The Messiah has returned!!!! I've been waiting for this review for ages!

[@DirectorWestfield]

T2 doesn’t necessarily contradict T1. Setting aside everything after T2, we can presume that Skynet sent two Terminators back at the same time to 1984 and 1995 respectively. Perhaps from Reese’s perspective, they had only discovered that Skynet’s 1984 time incursion and only discovered the 1995 incursion after Reese had already went back in time and acted accordingly.

[@grimm_destroyer5566]

Like a last ditch attempt

[@get_emld]

If you think about it, skynet sent back the first terminator to create itself, as it remembers how it was created with the chip. The T-1000 was the real attempt to kill John

[@blaringsea8923]

Funny enough the original ending for Terminator 2 was supposed to have Sarah becoming a old woman, John having a family, and Skynet permanently destroyed.

[@_Tovar_]

Well. I almost forgot you'd upload another video. Ive been here for years.

[@bagsikdangal]

This franchise got terminated💀

[@grimm_destroyer5566]

bagsikdangal all thanks to Tim Schiller but I’ll stick with the first 2 I have hope we might get a good video game 🎮

[@FacelessShepherd]

The myth, the legend! Jimmy is back!

[@giorgialadashvili4771]

Killing John Connor is way worse than killing Newt, Bishop and Hicks in Alien 3, because they were not the main characters, Ripley was. But in Terminator, it is clearly John Connor, the savior of mankind, who is the central character of the entire series. Without him there is no Terminator. Period.

[@shellshock638]

Exactly. The whole point and goal of the terminator series was making sure of John Conners survival. Of course other things happen in the movies but the end goal is always the same. Keep john alive so he can lead the future war. Kind of like how the whole point of the back to the future series is getting Marty home to 1985. Again other stuff happens in those movies but ultimately the whole goal is making sure Marty gets home with the timeline in tact. Killing John Conner at the start of dark fate and then saying some random other company called legion was just going to take over anyway totaly makes the first 2 movies seem pointless. It's insulting. It's like if they made a back to the future 4 and had Marty killed in the first few minutes by biff and then had the timeline fall apart again by some random other time traveler. It's just awful.

[@DemonDethchase]

As I usually say about Legion and how it makes the same old Terminators, and same old time displacement devices, it feels like that The Who song Won't Get Fooled Again with the lyric "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Or, I can't believe it's not Skynet, can you?

[@QueerlyBeloved386]

Thank you so much for doing this dude. I loved your series on this and Alien

[@DannyShades80s]

OMG about damn time you did another “What Happened video Little Jimmy 🙌🏻

[@hopelessent.1700]

So many years Jimmy so many fuckin years. I’ve been stuck watching your channel the start of my admiration for listening to people talk about movies. Thank you for existing in my life Jim. I don’t know what my 12 year old self would be doing instead of watching films. Surprising enough your mic still sounds the same ;)

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

The reason Sarah Connor wasn’t in T3 was because Linda Hamilton wasn’t interested in reprising her role for the film

[@Gojira439]

One of my favorite reviewers back at it again, always a treat to see a video from you!

[@TitoReni]

The main reason I like T3 is because it went back to what was said in T1 (which was contradicted in T2): that you cannot stop the future. Well, that and the action, it was very good both in T3 and Salvation. I honestly think that they should have never cancelled the secuels to Salvation, that they should have stayed with the Future War instead of repeating the plot of T1 and T2 over and over again. I don't remember who said it, but it's like if the secuels to Back to the Future were the same plot as in the first movie, with Marty McFly going back to 1965 and 1975 to make sure that his parents stay together. Instead of that, in each of the Back to the Future movies they give us a different plot, and that's why the trilogy is so good. Also, seriously, everyone wants to see the Future War of Terminator (with plasma guns, and not the first stages of the war as in Salvation), just like everyone wants to see the Colonial Marines back into the Alien franchise (or into an AVP movie). Why the hell don't they do that? Similar things could be said about Predator, for example. I think everyone would love a Predator 3, just like in the same spirit of Predator 2 (changing the setting, from a jungle to a city, and the protagonist, from a militar to a cop; but this time, instead of a jungle or a city we get something else and instead of a militar or a cop with get someone else). But instead they give us garbage like the last predator movie. They could also go to the past and have a predator fighting samurais or pirates or whatever. Anyway, Little Jimmy, is good to see you back.

[@VVV953]

About damn time, yo bro , i been waiting on you to make this video , so thank you and I'll sit back and enjoy

[@ryshed4365]

Literally been waiting for this video

[@thehalobrony9050]

Its Always great to see you. If you ever feel like it, you can do more videos, becouse how you bring these topics forward is realy good.

[@grimm_destroyer5566]

It’s beyond over at this point The Terminator and Terminator 2 are the best and will never be beaten 😆

[@EhvinnTee]

WHOA!!! YOU'RE BACK!!

[@jeremyhuang13]

You're so ON POINT, it's kinda scary how you're not a real movie critic people take seriously. I saw your Salvation review and that was on point as well. I am a huge Terminator fan, especially T2... each subsequent sequel, I had hoped it would somehow "make sense". Each one failed, but I still saw it because despite the bad reviews, I gave the benefit of the doubt. This one included... I really want it to work! Since they were supposed to make 3 films out of it. However, with a 100M+ loss at the box office, you can say GOODBYE to it for GOOD or at least for a few years before someone try to REBOOT IT. It's such a shame!

[@joshuaandrews8622]

It's always great to see another "What Happened" video. Cheers!

[@Shinigamimon434]

LittleJimmy835: the man who reviews specifically 3 movie franchises. Btw, I’ve been watching your content since 2011, glad to see you still upload!

[@youtubereact_v1]

You return, thank you, big fan of yours

[@VenusHeadTrap2]

“Welcome back” more like “here we go again”

[@Optimegatrongodzilla]

How can anybody possibly think that the predetermination paradox concept makes any sense?!

[@Godzilla-tu2cd]

Welcome back man

[@Zealolicious]

Very good, welcome back

[@CronksNewBrothel]

COME BACK LITTLEJIMMMYY!!!!!!

[@Agent-Kestrel]

Glad to see you again, man

[@SarcofagoBlackThrash]

Glad to see you back.

[@BPLOL]

Great vídeo as always. See you next Alien / Predator / Terminator sequel.

[@TheSAMC97]

Its nice to see you still here jimmy :)

[@TheBeird]

Glad you’re still making vids 🤟🏻

[@biggus6633]

Dude, I miss watching your videos. I’ve been watching you since What Happened to The Thing series

[@Warriorx269]

Terminator 2 made sense because parts of the terminator were left behind which advanced technology faster than it should have.

[@SlashRfnR]

Been waiting for your review

[@outermeowven]

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

[@daxammight]

This channel is a hidden gem 👍

[@MAFDOMiNUS]

You're back!

[@katey1dog]

I've been commenting on your videos since I discovered them. T1,T2, Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Predator, Predator 2, I could hear and feel how well you enjoyed these films and the pure hilarity as the later abominations were produced. But this Dark Fate, I sense your trepidation.

[@BruckSav]

YOUR BACK

[@Niaggro]

Yeeeeeeeeeees I have been looking for this vid 😊

[@bradcha5413]

The terminators models are so advanced you wonder. How did the human resistance even win at all

[@MuadDiiib]

PREY, another predator movie is coming out this year! ANOTHER VIDEO FROM JIMMY! YAY!!!!

[@KatarnCrusader]

Yo Jimmy! Prey is out - the world waits for your review!

[@LittleJimmy835]

Writing it now mate!

[@elguitarTom]

Wow! You're back! Welcome you shall be! T1 > T2 > T4 > T3 ...and that's all I have watched :p the last ones just seems to weird

[@lucasgeorge2900]

I missed you so much

[@8158bolga]

People giving a movie a pass because of the technical accomplishments, instead of both the story and technical accomplishments, means that it is a bad movie. If a movie’s only saving grace is the effects, the acting, the music, and the editing…and not the story, which is badly written, and plot holes, contrivances, and logic gaps means that it us a bad movie. You gave the Sarah Connor Chronicles props and cons for their positives and negatives. Don’t feel bad that you did the same here.

[@trashbasset]

Oh thank god you made another video

[@willthomas2310]

I missed this guy! Good to see u jim

[@RetroFan2.0]

It's been too long, been waiting to see you once more, hopefully you'll get around THE PREDATOR next time.

[@robinanwaldt]

About the Terminator growing a conscience and feeling bad about killing John; It makes sense for Kyle Reese to only know terminators as these mindless killing machines. He only ever fought them, never really interacted with one or anything of that matter. And Terminator 2 shows that he’s kind of wrong. The theatrical cut of Terminator 2 explains, that the more a T-800 has contact with humans, the more he learns. And given the fact they have an actual AI inside their heads, it’s not illogical to assume they would grow something like a conscience eventually, even though it will never be exactly like a human, which is actually stated in Dark Fate. After "Carl" had killed his target, he had no purpose anymore. But since terminators apparently can’t "self-terminate" or rather commit suicide, he had to find something to do, which led him to Alicia and her family. I found Carl as a character to be one the most interesting and engaging ever since Terminator 2.

[@thomascoxe7545]

Dude. It is easily worst Terminator ever. Just to set things straight.

[@cameronbaker97]

yep.

[@NeoConnor1]

No.

[@Horrormaster13]

Yup.

[@michaelking8483]

I still really liked this movie.

[@johncwooten6595]

Have they ever considered this: have the bad guys sent back to prevent someone’s death to change the future that favor their chances of winning and the good guys sent back to undermine the bad guy’s plans?

[@cameronbaker97]

or maybe a reprogrammed terminator is sent back by the resistance to kill the creator of Skynet, and another terminator is sent back by Skynet to protect their creator, and that revelation is only revealed at the end of the movie.

[@nton8057]

they couldve explained the second terminator simply by saying it was teleported to the wrong location, such as inside a wall or under the floor (in the original script humans sent multiple resistance fighters which died in time travel accidents) , they could claim Sarah connor reprogrammed the terminator rather then it gaining a conscience , they could even create a plot twist where it turns out the john connor that died wasn't the real one and Sarah would have another kid afterwards. which would make the time travel paradox of john supposedly sending his dad back in time to birth him make more sense .

[@DeepEye1994]

I think the sequels to T2 (...god, it's depressing we have a _TRILOGY_ of failed Terminator 3s now...) is that they're trying to be "bigger and better" than T2 and it just will never work. T2 was already bigger and better and spectacular while being realized in the most grounded way as possible, you will never top the things it still makes it hold up to this day. And besides, people have seen other action films with memorable and impressive stunts, so when you're failing to top T2, you're also being lame and mediocre next to the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, John Wick, The Raid or the Mission: Impossible films. It's kinda like how "Independence Day: Resurgence" was such a wet sandwich, the first movie was already bombastic and over the top, the disaster movies aren't impressive anymore and by 2016 people already saw plenty superhero films that show a lot of large scale CGI destruction, "Resurgence" brought NOTHING new to the table, the only thing it elevated was taking the worst aspects of the first movie and making them worse. My solution, again, for a Terminator sequel is to just leave John and Sarah Connor alone, and just make a new conflict set in the same universe, and have it be more personal, small-scaled and horroresque like the first Terminator film. Don't fucking try to top T2, they failed three fucking times. Just let it go. Same way I firmly believe you can make great Star Wars media without touching the Skywalkers, you CAN make great characters and stories, it's a fucking delusion to believe you can only do remakes and deconstructions.

[@marcushart4445]

HE HAS RETURNED!!! IM SO HAPPY

[@LAZZAMCPE]

That time of the year 🙌😃

[@jesselaskowski3193]

Yes!!! Little Jimmy is back!

[@TheCharlesJackson]

IVE BEEN LITERALLY SNIFFING FOR THIS, YES YES YES! EVEN LEFT A COMMENT WAITING ON THE LAST VIDEO

[@jonathanvaldez2121]

HE’S BACK!

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Aawwwww yeah, it's good to have you back, even on a blue moon like this. Okay, so.... some thoughts. The whole plane scene was the low point of the film for me, too. Up until then, it had stayed JUUUUUUST grounded enough, even with the Rev-9 hacking all our surveillance systems an' whatnot that I was thoroughly engaged. But too much action made me tune out for a bit, and once they were in the dam and things were happening at a small scale again I was pulled back into it. Ugh. As for everything else... I found myself not nearly as upset by John's death as I was by Alien 3 because that left nowhere to go with those characters. At least in this case, John and Sarah were spared a good few years to repair their troubled relationship and live something of a normal life, however short. And personally, I find it darkly poetic that John Connor and Skynet, these eternal enemies, ultimately obliterated each other. The moment that really cut me was Sarah confiding that she didn't have any pictures of John, cause she figured the machines might not find him if they didn't know what he looked like, but it's been so long, she's starting to forget his face. Ugh, I relate to that a little bit... I've forgotten the sound of my late dog crying, and I loved her so much I never thought that would happen. But there you go. I hate how easy it is to just.... forget those you love without some recording. One of my favorite running themes in the movie is purpose. Mainly characters gaining a sense of purpose and fulfillment by having someone to protect. I'm a sucker for the bodyguard archetype, someone directionless with no goals of their own, nothing to live for, but they find someone who inspires them so much they go, "I will dedicate myself to ensuring they live to see THEIR dream fulfilled." People might find that kind of character bland, but I don't. I find it incredibly moving if done right, just that level of devotion to another person. Done poorly, the protector could be manipulated by the person they protect, or grow some perverse sense of ownership over them. I think it's done right in this case, though. Dani saying "I'm sorry" and Grace saying "I'm not," aw man, that shit just kills me. Grace has this subtle but powerful warmth to her that's hard to pick up on but it is there, and you see this theme of purpose expressed through the other characters as well. Without John, Sarah loses her purpose until she starts to see some of John in Dani. Without a target to kill, without skynet feeding him orders, "Carl" defaults to being an infiltrator unit, studying our behavior and copying it to better blend in until he finds himself protecting someone too. The biggest message I got out of this movie? No matter how fucked up the future gets, SOMEONE will step up to save it. Doesn't have to be a John or a Sarah. It could be a Dani. They could come out of nowhere. Point is, there's always somebody, every age has its hero, and humanity only loses when it gives up. That's awesome. I honestly hope they don't make another Terminator film after this, unless they make it REEEALLY different. This one left things pretty open ended, but implied that Sarah and Dani are going to stop this bad future from happening much like they killed Skynet in T2. And.... well you can see how this series has gotten repetitive. There's always gonna be some other evil AI, but at least it's not a loop, more like a game of tug of war. They can always stave off Judgement day a few more decades, and again, as long as they can, they just can't give up.

[@stantsstunts5671]

Prey just came out, I hope you review it

[@HunterPrimeYT]

Do what happened to the: Nightmare on elm street and Friday the 13th series Jurassic park/world series Jaws series Star wars series Transformers series Pacific rim series Indiana Jones series Rambo series

[@PrinceofFreshia]

This time he's back, for good

[@George_Fl0yd]

Please come back Man I miss you

[@badger.phipps]

So nice to see you back, Jimmy. For the love of god - DO MORE VIDS!! You can seriously make a career out of these vids :)

[@jonathanbennet2580]

You ever gonna do another series...pls, pretty pls?

[@robinanwaldt]

Concerning the time travel being confusing since Terminator 2; Try thinking about these films in separate timelines. When the reprogrammed Arniebot and the T-1000 are sent back, that very event causes the creation of another timeline that branches off of the established timeloop from Terminator 1. So in Kyle Reese’s mind, there only were him and the T-800 that were sent back, because that was the case in his timeline. In the Terminator 2 / Dark Fate timeline more terminators were sent back. That’s why even though Skynet was eliminated before 1997, the Terminators it sent back in the other future still arrive in the changed past.

[@ZontarDow]

The problem is that the police in T2 recognize him as the one who shot up an LA police station and killed dozens a decade earlier, so living a civilian life is absurd

[@robinanwaldt]

Zontar What does that have to do with time travel? Also, Carl is living in a forrest in Texas. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be found immediately, if ever, just because of his appearance.

[@ZontarDow]

@@robinanwaldt there's no realistic way someone could kill dozens of cops, have his appearance in the public and manage to settle down without going to a different country. He'd be found in days, weeks at the most.

[@azaelhernandez5936]

Please make more videos!! I love your opinion!!

[@Darthlazer3]

OUR HERO IS BACK :DDDD

[@jackyboi8044]

Review the Terminator: Resistance game!

[@DinoDave150]

Funny how the same people who made that awful Rambo game pulled a 180 and made a pretty good Terminator game.

[@commanderg7650]

It’s time for you to come back and do a review on the terminator resistance game!!

[@ALUCARD-us3il]

theres already a ton of reviews on it though, ill just wait for tech com 2029

[@ShaneFullerYT]

Lol I'm 4 months late on watching this....oh well, I'm here now!

[@Defileros]

I agree that nowadays plot and overall consistency are not respected at all, only milking a dead cow is what seems to matter

[@Hewylewis]

Here's one. What Happened to the Ghostbusters series?

[@darkamulet5768]

What about the next part of What Happened to the Alien and Predator series with Predator: Hunting Grounds aka Predator: Colonial Marines or Call of Duty: Predator Edition?

[@silverscreenreviews8521]

Ahhh yes!!!! He’s done it!!

[@joehernandez5328]

Patiently waiting on the next whatever happened to the predator series with the new movie called PREY on Hulu 😊

[@spoopboe3046]

He alive

[@Lucasfan375]

Can you do a what happened to the star wars series?

[@zanjose9806]

a surprise (kinda) but a welcome one

[@radraf1227]

You should do what happened to the Jurassic park series

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

Hey jimmy you thought about reviewing the game Terminator Resistance? Its actually set in the old future war and actually has more fanservice and connections to t1 and t2.

[@leejones8582]

just feels like been there and done that.

[@Dim4323]

Also what about The Terminator video games can you cover them?

[@renzo4756]

I don’t know if you know about it but what you think of the video game that came out in 2019 called terminator resistance. I played it and it’s real good