TheTerminatorfranchise has suffered through three failed reboots, with even series icon Arnold Schwarzenegger swearing off any future return.

Hopefully, the response toDark Fatewill result in some meaningful changes, but that remains to be seen.

Terminator 7needs to figure out what the saga has to say about the state of humanity and technologynow.

Director James Cameron and the T-800 Terminator

Hopefully,Terminator 7can do the same.

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The Terminator with his missing eye from the 1984 original with Arnold smiling in Terminator Genisys

Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator 1984

Arnold Schwarzenegger stands in front of the inner robotics to the T-800 he plays in The Terminator.

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The Terminator, directed by James Cameron and released in 1984, features a cyborg assassin sent back in time to eliminate Sarah Connor, the mother of a future resistance leader. As the relentless machine pursues its mission, a human warrior is sent to protect her and secure humanity’s survival.

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