I feel that Rise and Salvation, mixed together, make one great movie and one horrible movie. What this series really needs to do is just dial back the scope a bit. A Terminator (both as a movie and as a killer robot) has not been scary since 1991. We need to feel like we're being hunted again.
@Marq: I think both Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dark Horse's Terminator: 2029 and Terminator: 1984 comic series did that.* Movie-wise, though, I suspect we're stuck with un-scary, PG-13 Terminators from here on out.
(That's not glistening perspiration, it's flop sweat!)
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