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Terminator: Genisys was the monkey paw version of that film, and at its release was by far the worst Terminator film, by a very large margin. And Terminator 3 wasn't even particularly good. I don't know if that's changed now with Dark Fate, since I didn't watch that one.
Personally, I think the Terminator franchise ought to remain as is, rather than exploring the origin and takeover of Skynet. The original film was a slasher horror film with the AI takeover time travel premise as almost just a framing device, and the 2nd film was almost a remake of the 1st film in that same basic structure. They succeeded because the execution of the horror and action scenes were incredibly good, and the emotional plot and character arcs were good as well. The scifi premise wasn't there to be taken seriously or explored in depth.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was an excellent in-depth look at the immanence of SAGI takeover. The protagonists were scared shitless about SAGI foom not because the particular SAGI was military in origin, but because any SAGI who foomed could become Skynet with the right access.
Dark Fate was a delight to me because it showed that Skynet wasn’t the only threat; in a universe where time travel is possible, any anti-human super artificial general intelligence just needs enough forward time to figure out how to gain backward time.
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Yes. But also you could read some point about stable time loops and their inevitability once they start. That's by accident deeper than what was probably intended.
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