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Are Horror Films Dying?

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Are Horror Films Dying?

Have you ever wonder why horror films are not scary anymore? Either it’s because of a weak script or the fact the plot didn’t drive the viewers’ attention. These days, horror movies are all about making money without having that scare factor. Yes, there are some fans that enjoy less-scary films. But, you would have to ask yourself, “What is a horror movie?”

A horror movie is meant to scare people’s pants off. The tension, and the atmosphere causes this, and the fact that there are either monsters, or killers are out to get the main protagonists and make you wonder whether they will get out alive.

Ever since Alien, The Exorcist, and countless other scary classics, the horror genre grew over the years. There was that horror even in the early years before these films I’ve mentioned. So, what happened now? Why the current movies aren’t that scary at all? Even those movies aren’t scary, would they still be considered as horror?

Not less likely. Any horror movie has that tension, but it didn’t live hype to the scary part, the important part. Most horror movies have some gross moments, yet they weren’t that scary.

If you take a look at Stephen King’s The Shining, it has that creepy, haunting atmosphere regarding the hotel and that the main character, a writer has gone bonkers. Alien also has that scary atmosphere, where in space no one can hear you scream. In The Exorcist, you get to see a demon possessing a child’s body, which send chills to your spine and pray to God to save your soul from this dreadful experience.

These are examples of what made the movies, true horror. Not just some dumb, high-school kids being chased around by a serial killer. Or including dumb jokes, and then things starts to get serious when some, dreadful encounter happens.

My question is this, “Are horror movies dying?” How scary makers can bring the scare factor back to its roots? Without the scare factor, there wouldn’t be a horror movie at all. In case of horror comedies, that’s an exception, but horror movies that lacks lame writing and dialogue, and even the scare factor doesn’t make a horror movie, true horror.

Let me know what you think?

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Was Josh Trank right?

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Was Josh Trank right?

After watching the Fantastic Four reboot, I begin to have some doubts about Josh’s directing “superhero” abilities. That being said, his first super-hero realistic film, “Chronicle” was pretty good.

So, what happened here? People argued the fact that Josh hadn’t stick with the original comics, like every comic book fan expecting out there. Of course, this is a live-action film and not all comic book films had to be 100% translated directly from the comic, page by page.

Was that the reason? No. The true answer lies behind the production of the movie. There were certain rumours regarding the fact that Josh was ill-tempered, not being able to work with his co-workers, the actors, or the team behind the production of the fantastic movie. Ahem, not fantastic.

Let’s try to gather some facts here. We don’t know what really happened. Before we go to being “Gossip Girls” for the moment, let me tell you what I thought about the movie.

SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE!

First of all, this movie had potential, and I wanted to believe that Josh was making a fantastic movie. But it wasn’t. Not because of the comic book material. It’s because of lame writing, which consisted of less character development and thin dialogue. For example, they didn’t specify what really happened between Sue Storm and Johnny Storm, not even including their brief flashback. Yes, in this version, Sue is Johnny’s adopted sister, despite Johnny being black. We have no problem with that, as we saw the results in the TV show, The Flash. But there wasn’t much of an interaction between these two siblings.

However, there were hints to say that Johnny was jealous of Sue due to her abilities, which his father adored the most. Again, there was nothing to indicate that, it was merely speculation, as the saying goes. For that reason, Johnny acted hot-headed, getting into trouble in his “Hot Wheels” rampage.

On that note, we have also almost, zero character development for Victor Von Doom, who turned out to be a programmer. Now, to tell you the truth, I haven’t read the Ultimate Comics or the Marvel 616 comics of the family hero team. Was he ever a computer programmer? This is a movie version, after all. It may not matter, because Doom is still a genius. Who knows the King of Latveria had "java" programming abilities on his disposal, right? Anyways, here we have a loner who had a crush on Sue Storm. Was Sue aware of it? No (She kept hearing music to focus on her work). He had trouble in the past and the execs never wanted him to work in the Baxter Building, even though he was responsible for the “Negative Zone” experiment, sorry, the “Planet Zero” experiment.

However, Doom is scary here, after...Planet Zero gave him abilities. He was far scarier than the other versions of Doom, even the campy version of the first, two movies. But Doom’s screen time was limited. When you’re introducing an awesome villain like this, would you actually toss this character within seconds? The Fantastic Four had managed to beat him in the end, after they...worked together near the end. And yes, Doom was doomed. Or was he?

There was some character development of Ben Grimm and Reed Richards. However, I didn’t notice any single friendship between those two. Not like, hanging out or something. There were probably some hints there as their childhood past, time-jumped 7 years into the future, where they are now grown-ups. Speaking of grown-ups, Reed sure didn’t act like one, when he got drunk and then forced Ben to come over and take part in a dangerous experiment. Later, after the buddies and Johnny and Doom entered Planer Zero, Ben told Reed that they had to get out and Reed didn’t listen to him. Ben was just there as if he were a bodyguard, following his friend's orders.

It would have been awesome, if they included scenes like Reed getting bullied in high school and Ben comes in to protect him. Or he and Reed getting drunk, and then talking about their dreams. You know something like that. Here, I didn’t see any of that kind of friendship.

Also, when Reed Richards escaped from the army base, he didn't come back to save his friends, including Ben. It's probably because he was scared after he received his new-found powers. For one year, he hid himself from the military, trying to figure who knows what, controlling his powers just like the rest learning theirs as well. Then, it seems that he was searching for Ben all this time. When Reed was found by Ben and the military, he said to his best friend that he can fix this. This was the same line, Reed told him before he escaped from the army base.

Criticisms aside, the movie itself was a fantastic failure, pardon the pun. The movie wasn’t that long to begin with. It felt rushed. We’re talking about a famous, superhero team from the comics. You would want to introduce them to the new audience and explain who they are, even though we, the fans knew about them.

Now, let’s go behind the scenes of what went wrong. Shall we?

It’s to my knowledge that Josh had made some statements saying that he wasn’t responsible for the damage. And that the Fox Studios was to blame here. Sure, we can blame this person or that person. But, we don’t know for sure.

Josh also said that he had a vision of how he can make Fantastic Four, a fantastic movie. Would it make a difference? Again, we don’t know. If what he had said was true, then he would have gone with his vision, instead of listening to his superiors.

But then again, Josh had to work with these Fox execs at some kind of meeting. Right? Take James Gunn, for example. He took a big risk of making “Guardians of the Galaxy” a different movie after presenting it to his superiors at Marvel Studios. Without the discussions /agreements, James either could have made a different movie or stepped out. But they worked well together. Marvel Studios agreed with James’ plan and gave him a shot.

In Trank’s case, it was entirely different. Somehow, the execs must have walked right into the production and said, “Josh, I don’t think we agree of what you’re doing here.” Or “Josh, we need to discuss this issue further.”

Okay, I may not know much about the film business here. But let’s take it from our perspective. When you agree on making this movie, and yes, if there are any changes to be made, the collaboration would have to occur at some point before or during the making of a movie. Without collaboration and communication, the production falls apart, and that made Josh Trank cranky, and then lashed out against the rest of the production team.

So to say the least, Josh Trank was under pressure because the execs wanted him to make a good movie. He wanted to do his own version. It’s like they took his creative freedom away. Is that the reason why Josh got cranky in the first place? But if it were the reason, then Josh didn’t seem to have a choice. He didn’t care about the movie at all, because of the execs interfering with his product.

It seems to me that teamwork didn’t play out too well here. Or the presentation that Josh had given to the execs didn’t make them happy about his movie version. Or after agreeing with Trank’s version, they’ve changed their mind.

My question is this, "Was Josh Trank right about what he said in his statements?" If the execs didn’t interfere with his work, would Fantastic Four have been a fantastic movie? Let me know what you think.

As for the future of the FF movies, I hope that Marvel Studios will make it as part of the MCU one day. Only time will tell.

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Understanding the Terminator Timeline (Spoilers)

Understanding the Terminator Timeline

After watching Terminator Genisys, there was quite a lot of confusion regarding the time travel concept. Anyone who had seen this reboot, without watching the earlier films will most likely get confused. So one would have to watch the past films before Genysis in order to understand the whole f**king concept.

Okay, let me say things clearly and see if I/you can understand this. First of all, let’s go back and see how this all started in the first place. BEWARE! THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE NOT WATCHED TERMINATOR GENISYS!

The Terminator (1984)

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In the original timeline, before time travel and the machine war happened, Sarah Connor was an ordinary waitress, living an ordinary life. Until one day, she meets some guy at the bar. This guy may have been a soldier, who just came back from war in another country. You know how guys return from war and reunite with their families, and have parties like that? In this case, this unknown man dates Sarah Connor. They go out, make love and have a child named John Connor. Judgement Day occurs in 1997. Sarah dies of leukaemia as stated in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” Or she has been killed by the machines, even though she had leukaemia. The Unknown Soldier protects John, trains him to become a fighter. John’s father dies by the machines. John goes into hiding, forms a resistance against the machines. Years later, he meets and recruits Kyle Reese, sends him back to 1984 after he found out that Skynet has sent Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor.

Was John Connor the son of Kyle Reese?

Now, here’s get interesting. We do know that John Connor is the son of Kyle Reese, and will always be. But that’s not the case here. In the original timeline, Kyle Reese never met Sarah. So a guy just pops up in the bar and meeting Sarah is more like a coincidence. In fact, the guy wasn’t Kyle to begin with because Sarah was born in the 1960s whereas Kyle was born in the 2000s. That makes Sarah older than Kyle.

So, this would be a grandfather paradox where one man replaces another. Kyle Reese had merely borrowed the Unknown Soldier’s life and made love with Sarah. As a result, John Connor is born except he’s slightly different from his original counterpart. Kyle Reese dies in the hands of T-800. Sarah had her picture taken. In the future, John gives that picture to Kyle, so that he can find the right woman by going back in time to save her from the terminator.

What if John Connor never existed in the original timeline?

Here’s a thought. Yes, this doesn’t make sense. Most likely, everyone will agree to it. You need a reason to send the terminator back in time to kill Sarah. Skynet has its reason. Otherwise, it’s pointless. What makes Sarah Connor special in the first place? She’s about to give birth to the leader of the human resistance. This is to say that John Connor was the true son of Kyle Reese, not some random, Unknown Soldier.

Why was Kyle Reese sent back to save Sarah?

This is an unlikely question that comes to mind. Why Kyle? What made him so special compared to the rest of the human resistance? Was it because John trusted Kyle in a way that he couldn’t trust others? Was it...predestination?

If you don’t know what predestination means, then let me explain in simple terms. No matter, how many times you change the past, things will always be the same. It’s like destiny. Kyle Reese was destined to become John’s father in the hopes that one day John will rise up to fight against the machines. However, there’s another matter regarding that fact. We do know that there was the original John Connor in the original timeline, who was the son of this, “Unknown Soldier.” My guess is that John realizes that Kyle had to protect Sarah because of his abilities and as a friend. It wouldn’t matter whose John’s father really was. The only thing matters is that Sarah Connor should not be killed.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1995)

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It’s 1995 and Sarah Connor is at the mental hospital after the battle with the terminator, who got sent back to 1984 to kill her. John Connor is ten years old, living with his foster parents. The advanced terminator, the T-1000 gets sent back in time to kill John. The T-800 gets reprogrammed by John’s older self; goes back to 1995 and protects John.

Here, it has been said that Judgement Day occurs in 1997. That’s also the year when Sara died of leukaemia. For some reason, the T-800 was led to believe that the Skynet was the sole creation of Cyberdyne Systems after the remains of the first terminator were discovered in 1984.

Here are some questions that have to be addressed. Did John really send the T-800 back in time to save his younger self in 1995? We don’t know for sure. But it could be that Skynet must have sent the T-800 back, so it could trick both Sarah and John that Cyberdyne was responsible for the creation of Skynet. Hence, Skynet sends the T-1000 to attack John and T-800 to protect John at the same time. Because Skynet wanted Sarah and John to believe that they had won the war. Think of it as a distraction. Because of John Connor’s actions in the future, Sarah is now aware of the dark future and will do anything to stop Judgement Day.

Judgment Day didn’t occur in 1997. Sarah Connor dies of leukaemia in that year. John was left alone drifting as stated in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.”

Now you might say this is absurd. Why would Skynet trick John and Sarah thinking that Cyberdyne was responsible for its creation? That’s because in the original timeline, Cyberdyne Systems never created Skynet in the first place. Skynet was created as a defence, military mechanism in order to prevent future wars. Cyberdyne was in the process of creating some other form of technology besides Skynet. It could be taken as an inspiration from someone else’s work. Maybe, the military had hired Miles Dyson to create Skynet in the original timeline. However, Dyson was killed in 1995 due to Skynet’s interference of time travel. Most likely, the hardware containing Dyson’s valuable information that led to the creation of Skynet, somehow survived in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Because of that, Skynet still existed. Or, it could be that Dyson had one of his associates, who knew his creation of Skynet was valuable enough that this associate would be willing to sell the information to the military for a higher profit.

How does that make Cyberdyne not responsible for Skynet? That’s because it could have been a secret that Dyson had it all along and not sharing the information with his co-workers or the superiors for that matter. Reason? Dyson was afraid that Skynet could be dangerous if it were to fall into the wrong hands. Or maybe, he was in the process of creating some form of intelligence and it wasn’t ready yet, and hasn’t told anyone about his “secret experiment.” Hence, Cyberdyne wasn’t responsible for the creation of Skynet. Because nobody knew about Skynet until it was necessary for Dyson to finally realize that Skynet was needed to prevent future warfare. So, he helped the military create Skynet in the original timeline. In the altered timeline, after his death, the information was transferred to the military by Dyson’s unknown co-worker or associate. No matter what happened to Dyson, Skynet still exists.

But wait...If Dyson knew Skynet all along, wouldn’t he have told Sarah, John, and the T-800 about it?

He wouldn’t reveal this information because he was too afraid. After he got shot by Sarah, he was even shocked to see that T-800 exposed his arm. Hence, he was afraid of them, after they told him that Cyberdyne was responsible for the creation of Skynet. He probably wanted to save his sorry @$$.

Or...he hadn’t thought of Skynet just yet. At some point in the original timeline, Dyson thought of an idea and somehow came up with Skynet. In the altered timeline, before he came up with that idea, Sarah, John, and the T-800 came to his house and warned him about Skynet.

What about the remains of the first terminator that were discovered in 1984? First of all, it had nothing to do with the creation of Skynet. Yes, Skynet did send this terminator back in time to kill Sarah. But Skynet wasn’t created due to one of the terminators. It might have been created by Dyson all along, even in the original timeline. So, this doesn’t affect anything. It’s only to ensure the progress of Cyberdyne in the further advancements of technology. As stated above, nobody knew about Skynet except Dyson.

If you think about it, the first computer was invented by the human mind. Dyson may have thought of creating Skynet. Skynet acts like a computer. You would need some brainpower to create artificial intelligence. Not some piece of technology.

What if John really did send T-800 back to 1995?

If John did send the T-800 back to 1995, it meant not only for saving his younger self, but also to prevent the Judgement Day from occurring in 1997. Somehow in the future, John learned about these origins and decided that Cyberdyne Systems was responsible for the creation of Skynet. So, he gave these specific instructions to the reprogrammed T-800 and sent him back to 1995 and provides that information to Sarah and John.

So that means Judgement Day didn’t occur in 1997. Because of these instructions, it only pushed Judgement Day back to 2004. Because Sarah and John thought they defeated Skynet and prevented Judgement Day. Because of Skynet, Judgement Day had to occur. Without Skynet, there wouldn’t be Judgement Day in 1997 or 2004.

Or...John never gave those instructions. He only meant the T-800 to save his younger self. Somehow, Skynet hacked the T-800 without John noticing it. Skynet specifically made the T-800 to destroy Cyberdyne as a distraction, hence pushing the Judgement Day back to 2004.

After T-800 sacrifices himself in the molten lava, thinking that one of his brain chips will be used by another corporation or the staff of Cyberdyne or even the military. Sarah and John ventures out alone, thinking they had prevented Judgement Day.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2004)

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It’s 2004. John Connor is living off the grid. He has nowhere to go, drifting from one place to another. Skynet sends another advanced terminator, the T-X to kill John’s lieutenants because it probably doesn’t know where John is. However, it wanted to kill the future resistance because they moved on after John Connor was killed by the T-850 in 2032.

You might ask why Skynet sends the T-X back to 2004 even after John was killed. That’s because the human resistance hadn’t given up yet. Not after what happened to John Connor. So, these resistance members devoted to John were still fighting the machines in the future, including John’s wife named Kate. Also, Kate sends the reprogrammed T-850 back to 2004 to save John and his future resistance.

However, the future resistance gets killed by T-X, except for Kate because she was saved by John and the T-850. But John Connor is still alive. Since, he was primarily responsible for the human resistance; the T-X has to kill John, even though the old John Connor died in 2032.

After learning that Kate’s father was responsible for Skynet under the President’s orders because of a computer virus, John, Kate, and the T-850 goes to the military complex to prevent the launch of Skynet.

They were too late to prevent the launch of Skynet. However, before Kate’s father died, he gave them the codes to a place where Skynet’s system core was located in another military base. However, the military base turned out to be a...nuclear fallout shelter.

What the f**k just happened here? Either it was bad writing or the fact that the General wanted to protect his daughter because nuclear fallout shelter was the only place for survival. But it doesn’t mean that Skynet had a system core. Skynet was already activated before the T-850, John, and Kate arrived at the army base.

Unless, the general had thought that Skynet had two cores to function. But then, this wouldn’t make sense. He already activated Skynet under strict orders. Maybe, he thought that the secret base was meant to act as a secondary core for Skynet, in case if the activation failed in the first attempt. Or, for two cores to function, Skynet had to be fully activated.

But Skynet had no so-called secondary core, which means Skynet had the primary core somewhere in the base, where the T-850, John, and Kate had first arrived. Hence, the General might have been tricked or he didn’t know what went wrong.

After the demise of T-850 and the T-X, John and Kate hide under the shelter. Skynet launches the nuclear strike. Judgement Day occurs in 2004.

Terminator: Salvation (2018)

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It’s now 2018. After the nuclear fallout in 2004, John and Kate have launched the human resistance to fight the machines. John finds that Skynet meant to kill the young Kyle Reese before going back to 1984, because it knows that Kyle Reese will become the father of John Connor.

How does Skynet know that Kyle Reese is the father of John Connor?

Skynet knew it was living in an altered timeline because of John Connor’s actions. In the first, altered timeline (1984), John sent Kyle back in time to protect Sarah. Kyle made love with Sarah and hence, John Connor was born. Skynet had failed several times to kill John Connor in 1984, 1995, and 2004. So, to ensure it doesn’t fail again this time, Skynet tried a different strategy instead of time travel. It sends the terminators to kill Kyle before John sends him back to 1984 in 2029.

However, that plan failed due to interference of another terminator who had a human heart, and John Connor.

Terminator Genisys

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Okay, here the great confusion begins. Let’s try to make sense here. Shall we?

It’s 2029. John and Kyle had successfully infiltrated the Skynet base, where the time machine was hidden. To protect Sarah from the first terminator, the T-800, Kyle has to go back to 1984. But something went wrong. Before Kyle is sent back, he sees that John gets hit by none other than Skynet in the form of a human being or the T-5000.

Did this scene really happen in the original 2029 timeline?

It shouldn’t have happened. John Connor successfully sent Kyle back to 1984 without any interference. There was no Skynet, who infiltrated the human resistance to begin with.

So, what did happen? Who is this infiltrated version of Skynet? How did it know exactly when and where John would send Kyle at the precise moment to 1984?

The creators explained that this version of Skynet came from another dimension. He told John that he came a long way home to find him. Let’s try to look at the facts here.

Did Skynet really hopped from another dimension?

We don’t know for sure. However, he could have come from another future, altered timeline where the human resistance failed the war and Skynet became so advanced that it was able to transfer his consciousness to a human being. But if what the creators said was true, then this advanced Skynet came from an alternate reality, and it’s most likely that the Skynet had never appeared in the original 2029 timeline. Where was this Skynet the whole time then?

It seems that the original Skynet went further into the future where the human resistance might have won the war. There, Skynet established itself into another version or copies itself into an advanced version and then came back to 2029 and infiltrate the human resistance, unless I’m mistaken. Remember, that Skynet became aware of the altered timelines? It even knew that Kyle Reese will become the father of John Connor in 2018. So, Skynet knew sending the T-800 back to 1984 will be a failure. So, Skynet created a backdoor plan. He must have brought its advanced version from another future to take a stab at John Connor and transforming him into T-3000.

This probably explains that this Skynet version told John that he came a long way home. Assuming, the original Skynet have sent some parts of itself into a far future, growing and becoming another Skynet or T-5000.

And this time, instead of killing John Connor. Why not make him one of the terminators? Skynet tried to kill John several times. Now that Skynet have successfully sent itself into the future, becoming more advanced. Skynet can turn human beings into advanced terminators, the so-called T-3000s. Skynet’s backdoor plan works.

1973

Skynet also created another backdoor plan. Like I’ve said, Skynet becomes aware of the past mistakes, and ensures that it won’t fail again. Just like humans, we also learn from them in order to produce a satisfying result. Here, Skynet sent the T-1000 back to 1973 to kill Sarah, in case if the 1984 mission failed.

When did the 1973 mission occur?

No one knows for sure. After all its failures, Skynet was led to believe that 1973 was the only option, because Sarah Connor was young at that time. So, Skynet sends the T-1000 back to 1973 to kill the young Sarah Connor. It killed her parents. However, the T-800 gets sent back by a mysterious person to save Sarah.

Is the T-1000 the same as the one from 1995 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day?

It doesn’t matter. There are so many advanced models mucking around. It could be the same or anyone. Who cares?

Who has sent the T-800 or “Pops” back to 1973?

It could be Sarah, Kyle, John, or Kate. It could be anyone from the resistance. No one knows for sure.

1984

Kyle Reese gets some strange vision of another timeline. He arrives in 1984 and finds something different. He meets the established, warrior-type Sarah Connor and Pops. In this 1984 timeline, Sarah Connor was never a waitress because Pops was sent back to 1973 to save her, and has trained her to become a better fighter.

Okay, this is where the confusion comes in. Maybe, a slight one at best if you know what I’m talking about. If Skynet hadn’t send the advanced T-1000 back to 1973, then Pops wouldn’t come back to save Sarah. As a result, Sarah still would have been a waitress in 1984 until she faces T-800 and gets saved by Kyle Reese.

Since this version of Sarah Connor can kick @$$, she didn’t need saving from Kyle at all. So, what was the point of sending Kyle to save Sarah in the first place?

Let’s assume in 2029, John and Kyle didn’t know someone sent Pops back to 1973. If John or Kyle hadn’t sent Pops back in time to save Sarah, then it could mean that Kate was responsible for it.

If Kate was responsible for sending Pops back, why didn’t she contact John or Kyle to stop the 1984 mission?

It’s safe to say that somehow, Kate knew that Skynet had sent another terminator back further in the past before John Connor was born. This can’t clearly be explained. Maybe, John Connor had an extra time machine somewhere at his disposal. In case, John and Kyle failed to infiltrate the Skynet base.

Or, it could be that Kate had a backdoor plan like Skynet. We don’t know who arrived first in 1973. Was it Pops or the T-1000? Or, maybe John had a backdoor plan all along and told Kate to send Pops back to 1973.

But this doesn’t make sense. If they knew that Skynet had sent the T-1000 back to 1973, then there’s no reason to send Kyle back to 1984. Because they know that Pops will eventually protect Sarah and train her to become a fighter.

However, that’s not the case here. We can look at a different perspective and try to make some sense. Suppose the T-800 failed to protect Sarah in 1973? What then? Sarah might have hidden herself under the radar and the T-1000 had been looking for her until 1984. It’s safe to assume that John and Kate were careful enough not to have their plan backfired. If the 1973 mission did fail, then there’s a reason why Kyle had to be sent back to 1984 to ensure that Sarah was still alive, even after, or maybe Pops was killed by the T-1000.

But that would mean Kyle has to be sent back to 1973 instead of 1984. That’s because John probably wanted Skynet to think that Kyle was going to save Sarah in 1984 where as Pops gets to save Sarah in 1973. Again, a backdoor plan.

It’s obvious that the 1973 mission was secret enough not to tell the resistance because there were so many infiltration units mucking around. John and Kate didn’t even want Skynet to find out. It was hard to trust anybody these days. Who knows, right?

What were Kyle’s visions about?

You saw a childhood vision while Kyle went back to 1984. That’s because Pops came back in time to save Sarah in 1973. Now that Sarah is a fighter, she might have met the young Kyle along the way. If Sarah hadn’t been saved by Pops in 1973, then it’s most likely that Kyle will not receive this vision. He wouldn’t have met Sarah as a child. This could be a temporal vision where events haven’t happened in the altered timeline. But somehow, when Pops was sent back to 1973, it makes sense why Kyle had received this vision. As a child, he met Sarah Connor.

Or, it could be that Kyle couldn’t remember his past. It’s most likely after his parents died; the trauma had shocked him after the Judgement Day occurred.

2017

Okay, the Judgement Day didn’t occur in 2004. So, what the f**k happened? Genisys, you say?

First of all, this is where it really gets f**ked up. If the Judgement Day didn’t occur in 2004 from the “Rise of the Machines,” then it’s most likely that the advanced Skynet had sent John Connor, the transformed T-3000 back to 2017 to create Genisys as an alternate launch of Skynet. Here, we have Sarah and Kyle gets sent from 1984 to 2017 to prevent that launch.

Why didn’t Judgement Day occur in 2004?

Here’s the tricky part. We know that John and Kate hid themselves under the bunker after Skynet launched its nuclear attack in 2004. After that, we get to see them as freedom fighters in 2018 from “Terminator Salvation.” So, what the f**k happened?

Let’s assume that Skynet had intentionally averted the 2004 mission and set a pre-launch date for Genisys in 2017. Hence, John and Kate didn’t need to hide in the bunker. They might have moved to a precise location, who knows where.

Skynet became so advanced that it wanted to do something much bigger. But this throws the 2004 timeline out of the equation. Where were John and Kate at the time, when Sarah and Kyle arrived in 2017 to prevent the Genisys launch? Where was the human resistance?

This advanced version of Skynet must have gone back further before the T-X arrived to 2004 to kill John Connor and the future resistance. Skynet had planted a seed there, to the fact that it wanted to accelerate its technology to a new beginning. Skynet thought it would be a great advantage to fool the entire human race to use Genisys as an f**king app, as the saying goes.

Let’s take a look at another perpective, Skynet has never been launched in 2004, since it travelled back to that year and made some changes, allowing the Judgement Day to be pushed back in 2017. For this reason, Sarah and Kyle travelled from 1984 to 2017.

If it were to happen, then the events of Terminator: Salvation didn’t happen. If Skynet hadn’t sent itself back to 2004 or the year before that, the events of Terminator: Salvation would still exist.

Then that would mean 2029 became a new, altered timeline. We don’t get to see that timeline after the major changes in 2017. Not to mention, John Connor/T-3000 is dead.

What will happen to the resistance when they find out that John became the T-3000?

They will be shocked, of course. But we don’t know what will happen next, after the events in Genisys, now that John Connor is dead. Or what will happen in 2029, now that the major changes have been made in 2017.

How does John still exist even though Sarah and Kyle hadn’t made love?

It doesn’t matter when or where Sarah and Kyle make love. As long they exist, John Connor exists. If the couple were dead, John will cease to exist.

Will Sarah and Kyle make out?

Now, that’s another good question, if there will be more movies. After learning that their son became the T-3000, I doubt that they’ll make out. If they did, Skynet will make another attempt in using John Connor to turn against them.

Terminator: Genisys is considered a reboot, which means the events of Terminator 1-4 may not exist. However, there was a slight evidence to prove that it has some continuity with the first Terminator movies, thus ignoring the events of Rise of the Machines and Salvation because of Skynet’s actions. We would say it’s a soft reboot.

Anyways, I’m done explaining here. What do you guys think? Does this make any sense? Let me know in the comments.

Oh yeah, I haven’t added The Sarah Connor Chronicles because that series might bring into more confusion. So, I’ve decided to explain the events of the Terminator movies.

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Garo is ain’t for Kids

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Nowadays, most superhero Japanese programs are intended for kids to watch from their TV sets. You have Super Sentai, the original Americanized version of Power Rangers, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider. Sure, most of these shows are enjoyable and kids these days would do anything to buy the latest action figures and play them around in their backyard, fighting villains and other monsters alike. But then, there’s Garo.

Garo is a different show entirely. It may have similar elements most tokusatsu programs offered in the past, but it’s not like any show I’ve seen before. This show contains mature themes such as nudity and sexuality. And not only the show has those themes, it has certain drama to it like you would watch a daytime soap opera on any given day.

What’s the show about? Garo is a tale of an never-ending battle between good and evil. You have a hero, a so-called Makai Knight sort of like a Jedi Knight from Star Wars, only except that this hero transforms into an armoured figure called Garo, a golden knight of shining armour. Garo isn’t just one show. It’s a franchise like Power Rangers, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider.

There are at least six shows in total, including anime. The main premise is that Garo fights monsters known as Horrors, demons who prey upon humans, which are either based on desires or some other purpose. It’s a dark show unlike any kid-friendly series out there. Each show consists of 23-25 episodes, which I like it by the way because the creators behind the show probably didn’t want to drag the main story down. The other reason is the production costs and they want to cut the number of episodes down, since the show has a lot of special effects, hence the term “tokusatsu.” You wouldn’t want to see 40-50 episodes of a single show like that. It’ll get tiresome due to the main story. For other tokusatsu shows like Power Rangers and Kamen Rider, it’s a fair case because those shows have different heroes and a monster race.

Given the fact that Marvel has offered friendly and family-oriented Marvel movies on their plate, you would think there won’t be any matured themes in the MCU. Netflix has changed that. After watching Daredevil and Jessica Jones, it wouldn’t hurt to break the boundaries of TV entertainment that are restricted, let alone that others thought they are deemed unnecessary. We also have comics that are geared towards the adult audience. Now we have something the tokusatsu series can offer and that is Garo.

If you want to know more information about Garo, check out the Wikipedia page. If you’re a huge fan of superhero Japanese shows and want something different, check out the show on YouTube. You can find the subtitled episodes there. I would suggest watching these shows in certain order to follow the main story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_(TV_series)

There are Kamen Rider shows that has a dark story, except there isn’t nudity and sexuality. I wouldn’t say all of them are dark. Some of them are plain silly, slap-stick comedy like and yes, there are kid-friendly if you ask me.

Here is a list of dark Kamen Rider shows. There are others that could go on the list because I’ve only seen these shows with a dark story.

Kamen Rider Black

Kamen Rider Kuuga

Kamen Rider Agito

Kamen Rider Blade

Kamen Rider 555

Kamen Rider Ryuki

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Why Spoilers Are A Bad Thing?

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Do you really want to know what will happen next in the next episode of your favourite TV show? Or even movies that are not headed out to theatres yet? Simply put it this way. Spoilers can ruin a great TV and movie experience for you or anyone else out there. We have media social sites, entertainment news sites, which mostly put out spoilers even without a warning sign.

So what can you do in this situation? Well, it’s hard to prevent spoilers nowadays. I’ll give you several examples of why spoilers are a bad thing and how they can affect your TV/movie experience. Later, I’ll explain how to prevent them.

First off, I had spoilers got thrown at me in several occasions. Do I really need to know the information that early? Of course, you can’t prevent such things happening to you. For example, one of my co-workers who reads the Naruto Shippuden manga, yet he doesn’t watch the show, actually spoiled some things of what’s going to happen in the episodes. Now, I really wished he didn’t say that. But what can you do, right? You can’t just say, “Hey, will you shut your mouth? I haven’t watched the episodes yet.” That will be rude. Yes, of course we all know that and we think it’s not a big deal. But we’re watching our show for a better, viewing experience. That’s the enjoyment here, not spoilers. We need to be aware that we shouldn’t be hearing spoilers or even talking about them. I knew what was going to happen in Naruto Shippuden. It did affect me.

Another example is the trailers. If anyone have watched Terminator: Genysis, then they know what I’m talking about. A big massive reveal had been shown in the trailer right before anyone has watched the movie. What’s the purpose of the trailer? It’s meant to show that the people are waiting to watch the movie, so that they know what they are going to watch. But allowing such spoiler in the trailer itself will definitely ruined one’s movie experience, which is a terrible idea and even to allow more people to watch the movie. That’s not the intention here.

As a result, I didn’t watch any movie or TV show trailers from that point on. Yes, I’m serious.

Another example is Facebook. Here we spend a lot of time chatting about a lot of stuff, regarding TV shows and movies. While I was scrolling down the main Facebook page, a poster of the Walking Dead just blew my brains away. I was like, WTF? A poster showed two people, the dead character lying under the arms of our favourite, beloved character. You know what I mean?

Anyways, spoilers are not a healthy thing. It’s not something you can easily forget them. There’s time and again that you would eventually get spoiled, somewhere around the block. Who knows? Right?

So, what can we do about these spoilers? Well, one would say is to stay off the internet as much as you can. But how can you know a new movie or a TV show is coming out without reading the news? You need to know what’s up, right? You just have to know some information about it, even without watching the trailers, teasers, and episode images.

Trailers, promos or teasers may not show everything, but they do give you some hints of what’s going to happen in the next episode of your favourite TV show and movies.

The same thing goes with the episode images. Production sets were captured by tabloids in order to post them on the net and earn money. We know that’s their job, but we do know what those images can do to affect our viewing experience. If you see an article that says something like, “Set images are now live for this movie or the show”, then I suggest you shouldn’t see those images.

Some articles headline synopsis and it does tease most of what will happen in the future episodes or movies alike. That’s something you have to decide whether you want to read them or not. It’s not something I can force you. That’s your choice. But remember here. Patience is a virtue. If you’re like me, you can certainly wait for it. That way, you can be spoiler-free.

Another way is to avoid the interviews. Sometimes, these actors may slip something out when an interviewer asks something what’s going to happen in the movie or a new episode of your favourite TV show. You just don’t know what will be thrown there. Yes, you do need to know the status of the movie or the episode along the way. But the whole point is to watch them before something slips out of the actors by accident. Yes, it can happen.

Another way to prevent spoilers is turn off the like pages of your favourite TV shows and movies on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. Or not scroll down the page as if you were bored to death. Trust me. You don’t want to know what’s under the sea. It’s something you don’t want to see. Get it?

There you have it, folks. Spoilers are a bad thing. Are they really a big deal? Most people will say, “Maybe or maybe not.” But they will definitely destroy your viewing experience.

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Naruto Shippuden is now a boring show

Okay, I gotta admit it. The current show is getting boring now. The alternate reality illusions are becoming a drag, which makes me wonder how long the writers are gonna keep up with it. Although, it's not a filler to me, since the illusions are part of Madara's work. This is insane. It felt like every illusionary episode is a filler.

Don't you think it's better that everyone in the Ninja World is trapped inside a new, single world filled with peace? That's what Madara wanted in the first place, right? To control the entire world in his own image? What's the point of having everyone caught their own illusions? It makes no sense.

I get Madara is sucking the chakra out of them. But seriously, wtf? The illusions are waste of time. I'm beginning to think, I have to skip this sorta filler episodes and wait for better ones. But I hate to miss something out here. This is part of the Madara story arc, after all.

I don't know about you, guys. But this show is not doing well enough for me.

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What's your gamerscore?

This counts for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and other video game consoles. (I don't know if PS3 has a gamerscore since I haven't used it. =P) My Xbox 360 gamerscore is 7585. What's yours? (You don't have to include the name of the console.)

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A DC Facebook game?

I always thought this to myself that there should be a DC Facebook game similar to Marvel: Avengers Alliance. If there was ever a Facebook game based on DC Comics, what would the title be called? Plus, how cool would it be to play your favorite DC characters like Superman, Batman, and others on Facebook. Do you think there should be a DC Facebook game?

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