While Terminator: Dark Fate got a lot of creative choices wrong, the Terminator franchise installment did nail one important detail that Terminator 7 should keep. Terminator: Dark Fate was not the Terminator franchise revival that fans had hoped for before its 2019 release. Another attempt to reboot the convoluted timeline of the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate once again killed off John Connor, introduced new Terminator models, and generally repeated numerous mistakes that earlier attempted franchise reboots had also enacted.
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