A friend made it through 4 episodes before he bailed. It's 100% Netflix girlboss shit. The men are stupid and expendable, hero woman can kill terminators without breaking a sweat. It's just more trash for the pile.
Rooms full of armed men are killed by the Terminator with ease. I'm talking 50-100 men dying on screen. The only female fighter we see is able to keep the same Terminator at bay and, IIRC, she significantly disables it. She's the one who gets sent back in time, and I didn't want to watch from that point on.
Even more criminal than the obvious girlbossing was that it was boring. The like Castlevania (s1) esque gory action is soulless in the sense that it’s just checking a box. The 100 men killed is just the robot like walking around with a chain gun. It’s obviously on brand for the originals but they made zero effort in doing something fun and interesting with the action scenes… at least in the 2 episodes I made it through before dropping it. Way too much effort in making a cartoon about the terminator into a tense drama to the detriment of everything else
When did he become a faggot? I couldn’t stand him over doing the “I’m drunk with a thickkkkkkk accent” act before hand but then his faggot levels increased at some point.
And Terminator Resistance. It takes place in the weeks leading up to the fabled end of the war where the machines frantically send back terminators before their defeat.
It gives closure to everyone who was ever told about the war and victory but never got to see it.
Well worth playing; Teyon actually cares (because they're an Eastern Euro dev so they aren't riddled with diversity hires).
My only suggestion is to get the T1 - T2 soundtrack mod. It enhances the experience a thousand fold, as the music is appropriately placed throughout the levels to really bring home the original tension and musical impact that the first two movies had.
I really hope Teyon can make a Robocop vs Terminator game at some point.
The T2 arcade game where you have to protect that black van from the T-1000-piloted helicopter trying to crash into it to kill Sarah and John Connor?
The T2 arcade game where that helicopter appears onscreen way too quickly to reasonably react to it, and its location is random so you can't predict it?
Maybe it's just because I always was a sucker for light gun and positional gun games, but playing it on the actual hardware was a blast. Even if it kept stealing my quarters.
You have to position your cursor at the top left centermost part of the corner, because the helicopter typically only comes from the top or the left side of the screen.
Once you hear it you start holding down your fire button and move to wherever you first see the pixel of the helicopter. Once you understand the pattern and maintain that position, it's pretty easy. Though, admittedly due to its randomness it's still harder than the truck sequence where you can at least memorise the position of the HKs that come into the screen.
I found it easier on the original Genesis due to the low framerate. The original arcade machines were a heck of a lot harder because they played faster and it was just a lot more difficult in some sense (but being able to freely move the light gun around did make it a LOT easier to react when the helicopter came into the screen).
It's woke feminist trash. The first 10 minutes of the first episode is a yawn fest and enough to turn me off completely. Strongly disagree with Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, Terminator: Zero is a terrible show and should be thrown on the heap of woke crap.
They are so wary of being labeled irrational haters that they are compelled to glom on to some product, any product at all. Problem for them is the people in control of virtually all media production are literally incapable of making something good. At the very, very best, you’re dealing with insufferable girl boss stories, and I’m 100% done with those regardless. I’m straight-up no longer consuming media in which women feature prominently in the cast list.
Watched all of it, and it's terrible, like everyone else has said. I'll go through a couple of bullet points to highlight the most egregious things (will contain spoilers):
As everyone pointed out, the first episode sees the main wench out-dodging and out-manoeuvering the Terminator with ease after he just mowed down a hundred armed men. She's doing acrobatics and dodging his bullets, which is pretty dumb because if she were more tactical or had help from a team it could have been more grounded and believable, but it was typical anime girlboss plot-armour that she even survived that barrage of hail fire.
Everyone and their mum seems to be able to build time machines in the future. Skynet has one. The rebels have their own time machine. And somehow a random black guy managed to capture a terminator and build his own time machine in his dorm. Not even kidding.
The action scenes are extremely boring because they're too over-the-top and Eiko is depicted as invincible throughout most of it, just until the plot calls for her to conveniently be injured. The scene where she's holding the terminator and he's repeatedly axe-handle smashing her back and she just tanks the shots is ridiculous. The only almost decent action scene is in the police station, where they at least had some of the cops act sort of competent for a little while. But that was short-lived.
The whole thing about Marcus creating an AI out of Skynet's CPU to combat Skynet is ridiculous. And the low-brow philosophical debate about the AI achieving consciousness was groan-inducing and just outright bad. The AI deciding it "wants to do better" in the end by being more than just a destructive tool was ridiculous. The more realistic scenario would have been like Ex Machina where the machine recognises its most prominent course of action leading to the highest potential success rate and going that route. That made sense from a machine's perspective because machines don't feel. Having an AI have an emotional epiphany was just beyond words, and obviously just horrible writing.
The female terminator that Marcus brought back with him that somehow didn't know it was a terminator was outright stupid. And it also made zero sense how it had a John Wick mode built in under certain threats of violence. Where did they get any of this from? The fact she was somehow acrobatic and did martial arts just made no sense -- she was still running the same logic as the main antagonist terminator, so why was she different?
There were a ton of other logical inconsistencies and huge plot holes, but I can't be bother to go over them again. The whole thing was just dumb.
A friend made it through 4 episodes before he bailed. It's 100% Netflix girlboss shit. The men are stupid and expendable, hero woman can kill terminators without breaking a sweat. It's just more trash for the pile.
I did one episode and that's exactly right.
Rooms full of armed men are killed by the Terminator with ease. I'm talking 50-100 men dying on screen. The only female fighter we see is able to keep the same Terminator at bay and, IIRC, she significantly disables it. She's the one who gets sent back in time, and I didn't want to watch from that point on.
Even more criminal than the obvious girlbossing was that it was boring. The like Castlevania (s1) esque gory action is soulless in the sense that it’s just checking a box. The 100 men killed is just the robot like walking around with a chain gun. It’s obviously on brand for the originals but they made zero effort in doing something fun and interesting with the action scenes… at least in the 2 episodes I made it through before dropping it. Way too much effort in making a cartoon about the terminator into a tense drama to the detriment of everything else
Critical Drinker liked it, so it’s probably complete garbage.
When did he become a faggot? I couldn’t stand him over doing the “I’m drunk with a thickkkkkkk accent” act before hand but then his faggot levels increased at some point.
I think he’s still aspiring to have a career as a writer in Hollywood, so he’s trying to position himself as the solution to the woke problem.
It's a classic case of people becoming successful and then losing that emotional drive and creative edge that made them good in the first place.
Critical Drinker is the Drudge of critics
I haven’t seen it but am confident that there is a 0% chance of it being good.
Terminated 0
“I won’t be back.”
The only terminators worth your time are Terminator, Terminator 2, and the T2 arcade game.
And Terminator Resistance. It takes place in the weeks leading up to the fabled end of the war where the machines frantically send back terminators before their defeat.
It gives closure to everyone who was ever told about the war and victory but never got to see it.
I second the vote for the game. Played it recently, and quite liked it.
Agreed.
Well worth playing; Teyon actually cares (because they're an Eastern Euro dev so they aren't riddled with diversity hires).
My only suggestion is to get the T1 - T2 soundtrack mod. It enhances the experience a thousand fold, as the music is appropriately placed throughout the levels to really bring home the original tension and musical impact that the first two movies had.
I really hope Teyon can make a Robocop vs Terminator game at some point.
The T2 arcade game?
The T2 arcade game where you have to protect that black van from the T-1000-piloted helicopter trying to crash into it to kill Sarah and John Connor?
The T2 arcade game where that helicopter appears onscreen way too quickly to reasonably react to it, and its location is random so you can't predict it?
That T2 arcade game?
Someone unlocked some PTSD.
Not exactly.
I'm old enough to have played the arcade machine, yes, but this was in MAME, with cheats on, and I STILL couldn't get past that level.
I recall barely surviving the earlier similar level with the truck!
What the hell did I miss? I feel like I'm missing something glaringly obvious about this level here!
Maybe it's just because I always was a sucker for light gun and positional gun games, but playing it on the actual hardware was a blast. Even if it kept stealing my quarters.
You have to position your cursor at the top left centermost part of the corner, because the helicopter typically only comes from the top or the left side of the screen.
Once you hear it you start holding down your fire button and move to wherever you first see the pixel of the helicopter. Once you understand the pattern and maintain that position, it's pretty easy. Though, admittedly due to its randomness it's still harder than the truck sequence where you can at least memorise the position of the HKs that come into the screen.
I found it easier on the original Genesis due to the low framerate. The original arcade machines were a heck of a lot harder because they played faster and it was just a lot more difficult in some sense (but being able to freely move the light gun around did make it a LOT easier to react when the helicopter came into the screen).
James "testosterone is a toxin" Cameron liked it, so...
It's woke feminist trash. The first 10 minutes of the first episode is a yawn fest and enough to turn me off completely. Strongly disagree with Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, Terminator: Zero is a terrible show and should be thrown on the heap of woke crap.
They are so wary of being labeled irrational haters that they are compelled to glom on to some product, any product at all. Problem for them is the people in control of virtually all media production are literally incapable of making something good. At the very, very best, you’re dealing with insufferable girl boss stories, and I’m 100% done with those regardless. I’m straight-up no longer consuming media in which women feature prominently in the cast list.
It's content for the sake of being content.
The New York Times/Pravda gave it a glowing review, which means it's insufferable girlboss slop.
You're a member of KiA and you think the latest installment of Terminator is going to be anything but a dumpster fire?
No harm in asking
Watched all of it, and it's terrible, like everyone else has said. I'll go through a couple of bullet points to highlight the most egregious things (will contain spoilers):
As everyone pointed out, the first episode sees the main wench out-dodging and out-manoeuvering the Terminator with ease after he just mowed down a hundred armed men. She's doing acrobatics and dodging his bullets, which is pretty dumb because if she were more tactical or had help from a team it could have been more grounded and believable, but it was typical anime girlboss plot-armour that she even survived that barrage of hail fire.
Everyone and their mum seems to be able to build time machines in the future. Skynet has one. The rebels have their own time machine. And somehow a random black guy managed to capture a terminator and build his own time machine in his dorm. Not even kidding.
The action scenes are extremely boring because they're too over-the-top and Eiko is depicted as invincible throughout most of it, just until the plot calls for her to conveniently be injured. The scene where she's holding the terminator and he's repeatedly axe-handle smashing her back and she just tanks the shots is ridiculous. The only almost decent action scene is in the police station, where they at least had some of the cops act sort of competent for a little while. But that was short-lived.
The whole thing about Marcus creating an AI out of Skynet's CPU to combat Skynet is ridiculous. And the low-brow philosophical debate about the AI achieving consciousness was groan-inducing and just outright bad. The AI deciding it "wants to do better" in the end by being more than just a destructive tool was ridiculous. The more realistic scenario would have been like Ex Machina where the machine recognises its most prominent course of action leading to the highest potential success rate and going that route. That made sense from a machine's perspective because machines don't feel. Having an AI have an emotional epiphany was just beyond words, and obviously just horrible writing.
The female terminator that Marcus brought back with him that somehow didn't know it was a terminator was outright stupid. And it also made zero sense how it had a John Wick mode built in under certain threats of violence. Where did they get any of this from? The fact she was somehow acrobatic and did martial arts just made no sense -- she was still running the same logic as the main antagonist terminator, so why was she different?
There were a ton of other logical inconsistencies and huge plot holes, but I can't be bother to go over them again. The whole thing was just dumb.