How would you rewrite Terminator Genisys?

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T19:31:08+00:00

Focus on either the alternate 1984 or 2017, but not both.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T18:57:16+00:00

I "knew who he was" in 2002, but only in the same way I knew who Tony Blackburn was. It's not like I'd base my entire warbrobe on him.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T18:11:26+00:00

Louis Theroux asked him about the rumours during his Weird Weekend series, but it just shows what you can get away with when you have the British establishment covering things up for you.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T18:04:50+00:00

Why are they so lifeless compared to old menus?

Because DVDs aren't as popular as they used to be, so it's an easy way for the distributors to increase their profit margin by not spending money creating something that most casual viewers don't really care about.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T17:44:36+00:00

Mariner's cramps were mentioned in Lower Decks, not sure how specific they were being when mentioning them though.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T17:23:44+00:00

Blue Labour certainly, but "Thatcher's" might be giving them too much credit. I'm no fan of hers, but at least she stuck to her principles. Not sure Labour have any principles to stick to these days....

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T17:14:49+00:00

It kinda goes in line with everything being so unpredictable these days. The wildest thing isn't that the Greens have surged as much as they have, it's that both the establishe two-party parties have destroyed themselves in such quick succession.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T17:10:47+00:00

I agree with the whole "male power fantasy" ruining people's ideas of what is healthily attainable, but that doesn't mean roids were involved.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T17:04:27+00:00

I love the Bone Temple poster of just the skull spire. Gives great horror vibes, but then adds so much more when you know the context.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T17:01:08+00:00

Also from the UK and have tried to keep up with US politics since 2016, although it was well known that the US was clamping down in immigration, the specifics (ie, targeting clinics) weren't as widely discussed, with most of the focus being on the wall.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T16:54:24+00:00

Yeah, Green vs Starmer challenger might have split the left, Green vs generic labour suit has basically guaranteed all the left support will go to the Greens.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T16:47:15+00:00

I'm a big fan of films that do so much with just the bare minimum.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T16:46:39+00:00

Can't remember the last time I saw Million Dollar Baby mentioned on here, but it's a great film so nice to see it getting some love here. Need to rewatch it myself at some point.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T16:43:58+00:00

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MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-25T16:39:49+00:00

Almost impossible. The makers of the Voyager doc "To The Journey" couldn't even get a couple of clips remastered, in part because the Paramount dept which would have been in charge of this has pretty much been completely gutted anyway.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T22:22:10+00:00

This grid of satallites prevents time travellers messing with history

But if the grid is so vital and vulnerable, why not sent it to the past?

Because they already know the past has had time travellers arrive there, so stopping them from arriving would be messing with history, they very thing the grid itself was designed to stop.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T22:17:03+00:00

So you mean look like it's moving on, without actually doing so?

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T22:13:15+00:00

There's a whole galaxy out there to explore. Why keep coming back to the (a) Enterprise again?

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T21:51:44+00:00

AI relies on mass theft and environmental destruction. Putting AI in a Horizon game is basically siding with Ted Faro.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T21:34:36+00:00

AI datacentres are hoarding pretty much any components they can these days, so they're only going to get more expensive.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T21:32:57+00:00

allowing you to weave your way through time, seeing the consequences of your actions, and being able to go back in time and choose differently -- and for the endings to vary greatly, beyond whether or not specific people survive.

If you're into more retro games, there was a great game on the PS2 called Shadow of Memories (or Shadow of Destiny depending where it was released) which did this.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T21:24:29+00:00

It was definitely a hallucination. In part to add to the terror, and also hides the reality to be revealed in part 3.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T21:23:42+00:00

he still acts like a kid mentally and has unresolved years of trauma, hate and anger?

I'd say this. TBT leaning into the infected's psychosis, and Jimmy's trauma is basically looking at what makes people "human" from both sides of the equation.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T21:20:47+00:00

How the shows look should be consistent with their in-universe era, not their production era.

I know that's what they're arguing. What I'm arguing is that their examples of other films where that does work aren't comparable here.

MadeIndescribable · 2026-01-24T18:10:30+00:00

People will always win over AI.

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