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![James Cameron, the genius who made The Terminator & Terminator 2 figured out the whole secret to the 80s & 90s, the ultimate fantasy for Americans, and it can be summed up like this:
"I have to blow you away now because I feel strongly that it's in both our best interests."
You see the beauty here? What happens in both movies? A bodybuilder guy drops buck nekkid out of the sky sent from the future to waste our savior. So we have to KILL the Terminator before HE kills John Connor the man who will save the world from nuclear destruction in 1997.
So what kind of story does this set up? A story where, no matter WHAT you do no matter WHO you step on and no matter HOW MANY people you kill you can NEVER BE WRONG. Because if you don't do what you have to do THE WORLD WILL END. Because there's one person more important than The Terminator and that's the person TRYING TO KILL The Terminator.
This covers all situations. Divorce? Sorry babe gotta save the world. Slow service at Denny's? You're delaying my mission so I think I'll grab you by the throat turn you upside down and grind your skull into a Potato Mexicana Plate. Oh you need to see my ID? Here it's in the form of 200 shotgun pellets in your STOMACH. It's the ultimate way to say, "Your existence doesn't fit in with my career goals right now so please act like you never existed."
The Terminator is like [redacted.] You don't really LIKE him but you know EXACTLY what he'll do at all times. He has a goal. He mows down anybody between himself and that goal. And he'll keep repeating that same pattern until something drastic happens like getting shot through the head with a Cruise missile and dumped into a vat of molten steel. After that he MIGHT stop.
With "Terminator 2," Jimbo Cameron figured out how to live out the Terminator Fantasy AND the Anti-Terminator Fantasy. You get to KILL the Terminator and BE the Terminator at the SAME TIME. It's GREAT. Ultra-super-mega-violence in order to create world peace. My kinda flick!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rdrcf2s4soqaslsikwcp627c/bafkreie6nxtwri2eeypvwyjizadvd4afble7llb76obzej5lii3w2qzlsm)
