"I’ll be back" isn’t just a catchphrase, it’s an inevitable truth. 30 years since he first traveled back in time and landed in our present day to deal with the Connors, Arnold Schwarzenegger will return for another crack at the franchise in next summer’s "Terminator: Genisys." But clearly, the former Governator has aged, and he isn’t the unfeeling killing machine he used to be. So how will the filmmakers explain the wrinkles around his eyes? Well, none other than James Cameron himself met with producers and gave them the ingredients they needed to push on with another Terminator adventure that could include Arnie.
“I pointed out that the outer covering [of the Terminator] was actually not synthetic, that it was organic and therefore could age," he told the audience LA’s Egyptian Theatre following a recent screening of "The Terminator" (via Deadline). "You could theoretically have a Terminator that was sent back in time, missed his target, and ended up just kind of living on in society. Because he is a learning computer and has a brain as a central processor he could actually become more human as he went along without getting discovered.”
We guess that’s the explanation we’ll have to live with, though we wonder if you were building a cyborg killing machine, why would you care if it had the ability to age or not. But anyway, this is a franchise whose whole time travel concept doesn’t always make the most sense. Is this explanation satisfying enough to look past and see where the story goes next? Find out on July 1st.
I\’ve always thought that Arnold should reappear in the franchise as a human character. He would be a part of the resistance who was captured by the machines and used as a model for them to build their prototypes of the T800 (or whatever that model was). It would make perfect sense and give them a chance to really bring things full circle.
I guess he\’ll always be best as a robot in this series but I like the other way.
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Yea that\’s actually some solid movie logic. I think anything James Cameron says is immediately taken as utter dumbassery to The Playlist.
Honestly it\’s not even that far-fetched of an explanation and actually fits. In fact, it\’s what I first assumed when I heard he\’s coming back – it\’s always been said in the film that the outsides are organic. Usually explanations like this are just weird retcons but this one doesn\’t feel like a stretch at all.