Terminator: Genisys = WTF?!

Well, I have to write about something real quick. Today, plot details of the upcoming reboot to the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Genisys, were revealed in Entertainment Weekly. Rather than try to give you my perspective, I'm going to paste exactly what was said down below for you to read:

"Sarah Connor isn't the innocent she was when Linda Hamilton first sported feathered hair and acid-washed jeans in the role. Nor is she Hamilton's steely zero body-fat warrior in 1991's T2. Rather, the mother of humanity's messiah was orphaned by a Terminator at age 9. Since then, she's been raised by (brace yourself) Schwarzenegger's Terminator—an older T-800 she calls "Pops"—who is programmed to guard rather than to kill. As a result, Sarah is a highly trained antisocial recluse who's great with a sniper rifle but not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion."

I hope you got that. Take a moment to breathe that in. Let it roll around in your mind like a tin can on a wobbly table.

Because I plan to do a more detailed review sometime in the future, I'll attempt to keep this brief. Basically, in 1984's sci-fi classic The Terminator, Sarah Connor was your average 20-something living day-to-day for corporate gain. Now a mysterious robot shows up from the future to kill her. Plot ensues.

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator

Now, us Terminator fans (that is fans of James Cameron's films and haters of everything that came later), know that John Connor is the savior of humankind in the films. So, when you say that Sarah Connor, the mother of the savior, is now supposedly being cared for by fucking T-800s, which leads us to realize that now she knows about the Terminators all along, downright hoses all over the mythology of the original films. In the first film, Sarah is astounded to learn of the horrific events coming in the near future. Kyle Reese, the soldier sent to protect her, tells her of everything bad that's going to happen. It's genuinely like "Woah, shit. This is bad..."

Now, Sarah already knows of and is accepting of the cyborgs from the future. Now instead of a fun-loving, hard working girl, she's been downgraded to a nutcase recluse with a sniper-rifle. I guess they're trying to recreate Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgment Day but even she showed some compassion then, even as a battle-hardened mother of the future. Now she emulates after the behavior of her Terminator "father". Ugh, fuck! I hate saying that, but yeah, says right up in the quote that she's "not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion". So they've turned her into an emotionless drone...fuck off? I don't know. It'll be "interesting" to see that train wreck when it comes out.

In conclusion, what do I think? I think it is an awful idea to change the entire canon of the franchise, especially when it alters the entire premise of the original movie. Basically, the franchise, in my eyes, is pulling a Star Trek. Erasing what has been done to make way for this fresh load of bullshit. Whereas the new Star Trek movies are great, enjoyable movies, this one I feel is going to crash and burn.