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Instead, he lives as an impoverished drifter off the grid, working construction jobs.
Hes a literal nobody partly by design, but also because his heroic moment never arrived.
For much of its running time,T3is a fairly pro forma sequel, albeit a rather desolate one.
Its easy to understand why some consideredT3a disappointment at the time.
So much so that at times, the director seems happier among the machines than among the people.
All throughout, John and Kate pretty much interact solely with each other and Arnolds T-101.
Its as if much of humanity has already died off.
They are the only ones there.
The nukes are launched.
Skynet has taken over the world and is attempting to kill humanity.
Its all-out nuclear war, and, basically, the death of civilization.
Back in 2003, wed never quite seen anything like this before, at least not on this scale.
But it was also, in its own way, in keeping with the ethos of theTerminatorseries.
In 2003, two years after September 11th, we had entered the realm of the unthinkable again.
Recent events had reinforced our vulnerability.
But very few actually show us how we got there.
The first twoTerminatorfilms, to their credit, made the future look like a genuine nightmare.
The thirdTerminatorfilm actually made the nightmare real.
Maybe thats why everybodys now trying so hard to pretend it never happened.
